sillycon wordsmith
Isn’t the lockdown interesting? The hustle and bustle of life gone. Each day, gentle, slow and peaceful. Earth rejuvenating, living shifted to nature’s pace. May we emerge from the lockdown calmer, peaceful and grateful. A much needed refresh this is, a holiday for the entire humanity.
Driving home from work is akin to experiencing life. The hard labour of push to get past the first signal, then a happy jostle like a kid with a bit of rough and tumble over the flyover. Then like a teenager, I squeeze thro’ a narrow stretch with many vehicles attempting to go forward in the moving jam, before I hit the wide roads, speedy and breezy like mid 30s. A botched up traffic signal…
Post a sumptuous breakfast of Butter Masala Dosa and Ghee Kesari Bath after a 45 min brisk walk and 30 minutes of exercises he complained:“Yennu weight loss illa Saar, yee workout ella wastu”(No weight loss happening at all, all these workouts are a waste.) sillycon maya at Namma Bengaluru. #sillyconCity (#144)
An Australian lady impressed by honest auto driver’s work gifted him a 1.6Cr villa and IT raided his house. (*) A few thousand promised high returns by a company lost ~1200Cr and owner absconded from the company. Dharma and Karma in sillycon city. #sillyconCity (#141) (*)http://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/bengaluru/2019/may/02/bengaluru-auto-drivers-rs-16-crore-villa-becomes-talk-of-the-town-1971621.amp)
Cubbon park is a brilliant oasis of nature amidst the noisy and noxious urban central business district. On Sunday mornings it is just lovely, bustling with walkers, bicyclists, skaters, photographers, dog walkers, bird feeders etc.. young and old enjoying the lovely nature away from the digital tether. Now the authorities decided that this was too much and installed large digital screens all over the park to beam images of nature and advertisements. The transformation from…
My good friend took early retirement and moved to a place near a hill station. Every morning as I am busy getting to work, he posts me pictures of his morning jaunts – beautiful streams, lovely forest greenery and majestic mountains. Unable to able do anything, stuck in a gridlock breathing noxious air, I post him pictures of traffic jams, garbage mounds and videos of honking vehicles. Instagram life in sillycon city. #sillyconCity (#138)
Stuck in typical Monday morning traffic on Old Airport Road, the beautiful canopy of trees near HAL police station were lovely. The tentacles like branches seemed to hug me and the streaming sunlight between leaves caressed me. Yes, there are pockets of beauty in the maddening traffic of namma sillycon city. Enjoy them. #sillyconCity (#130)
During my cycle commute I noticed a blind man waiting to cross the wide section of Old Airport Road dear the Command Hospital. An app-based taxi ahead of me stopped close to him, the driver got out and helped the blind man cross the road. Yes, there are good drivers too in sillycon city. #sillyconCity (#129)
On election day, the roads were empty as namma citizens relaxed, going out of town for vacation. On result day, the roads are empty too as namma citizens were working from home, glued to TV. Work-life balance in the sillycon city. #sillyconCity (#124)
Cool breeze, fresh earthy smell, a calm green all round. Road filled with walkers, runners, skateboarders, cyclists, happy dogs, flocks of pigeons. Just bursting with joyous positive energy. A typical Sunday morning at Cubbon Park at namma Bengaluru. An slice of heaven in the sillycon city. #sillyconCity (#121)