Mysore - Dussara

Tuesday afternoon I took the train to mysore to visit my sister who's studying at the Regional Insititute of Education (an aspiring teacher). I reached the place at 8:45pm. Since it was closing time at her hostel i was unable to stay there that night, but another friend of mine was kind enough to make alternate arrangements for my stay. The next day I met up with my sis and her friends and we all took a trip to the Mysore zoo. The zoo was awesome. we saw some of the rarest animals there. we spent around 5 hours at the zoo and then took a tonga (horse cart) to the Food Exhibition. the 5 of us were famished with all the walking thru' the zoo, that we pigged out at the food mela. then we walked over to the palace for the lighting and saw the vintage car show too. Boy those cars were a beauty. We saw the old fords, mercs, jaguars, austins, etc all well maintained and in good condition. then we headed back to the hostel for the night. the next day. My friend took me over to see Infosys' new 130 acres campus....wat a sight! I fell in love with the multiplex - shaped like a Globe. For lunch we went over to the only hip-n-happening road called Kalidas Road or KD Road. I had the typical mysore 'thali' (meal) .....yummy it was awesome. After that we decided to go for the procession (when the Mysore raja would take a 'walk' thru' the city along with some decorated elephants, and other dignitaries....) we missed the 'yatra'......(i stayed back on Thrusday so that i could se the 'yatra') my bad luck i guess. Then when we reached the palace, we roamed around searching for my sis' other friends and classmates. We then decided to go to Karanji Lake & Nature Park. Boy it's a freakin' beautiful place....absolutely clean, no pollution, rare birds, .....all in all i had an awesome time there. We went boating as well (paddle boating). We needed to reached the hostel by 8.30pm, before that we had to have our dinner outside (coz the hostel mess was closed that day). So we left the park around 6.30pm. There were hardly any buses that went from that area towards the city. we managed to flag down one and ran to catch it , in the process i fell into a ditch (infront of the whole traffic) and bruised myself quite badly. by then it began to pour. we had dinner at the only Nilgiris in town and some how reached the hostel by 8.35pm. the watchman was kind enough to let us in without reporting to the warden....pwhew!

I slept soundly and woke up at 5am next morning to catch the 6.30 train. I was supposed to reach B'lore at 9.30 and be able to attend class at 11am but i reached home only at 11.30 and was darn exhausted to do anything.....I managed to attend the German class at 3pm (Guten Tag!) and came back home to rest my aching body.

In conclusion, I had an awesome time at Mysore and i totally love the place. I think i'll buy some land there, build a house and settle down some time at the sunset of my life.

Cheers!