sillycon wordsmith
A massive jam is on the main with frenetic honking. The two people walking on the service road greet each other “Yen Saar, Aarama”. (“All well Sir?”) This is what I love about our namma city. The beautiful greeting in sillycon city. #sillyconCity (#119)
“We have many cables criss crossing the city streets, yet we are so disconnected.”A fabled city once, now a ‘cabled’ city. Loose connections in the #sillycon city. #sillyconCity (#104)
Want to live happily until 100 and beyond? Come to Bengaluru and learn the ultimate philosophy – “Swalpa adjust maadi”. (“please adjust a little”) The simple life philosophy of #sillycon city. #sillyconCity (#100) Inspired by message from Putta (ಬ್ಯಾಲ ಪಿ)—Mohan Subramanyam set me up by publicly stating that he is waiting for ‘blockbuster’ for the 100th one. This was instantly seconded by Aashish Joshi and Raji Nayak. Jeez, this was serious! Having come to Bangalore…
In this sillycon city, people proudly say they multitask. What they really mean is that they do the same tasks multiple times to get it right. The awesome people of sillycon city. #sillyconCity (#95)
We have a yearly ritual in summer. This happens when the KRS dam becomes dry and river flow from Cauvery is constrained to the neighbouring state. A bunch of senior folks from the centre take a big stick and measure the level of water in a remote place to appease the folks from two states. The rituals of sillycon city. #sillyconCity (#89)
The folks in our city are very green. After all we are the garden city. That is why we stick up a bunch of leaves/small branch to a broken down vehicle. That is why we dispose garbage anywhere for it composts. That is why we unzip anywhere to fertilise the soil. The amazing folks of sillycon city. #sillyconCity (#87)
The citizens here are lovely hospitable people. Nowhere in the world does a person graciously give you paper from a toilet roll to dry your hands after you have washed your hands. Visit our namma sillycon city airport to experience this. The amazing sillycon city. #sillyconCity (#81)
He lived in a rented house near his work place. He was happy. After many years of hard work, he built his dream house close by. He was very happy. Very soon he got a dream offer from another company. He switched. Then all he did was to dream in the bus to work and back. It was a long commute. Then he moved to a rented place closer to the new company. He still…
I am convinced that we are a developed city on par with any of the big cities of the world. After all, I hear the shrill sirens of emergency vehicles all through the day & night like in any big city. The shill sirens of sillycon city. #sillyconCity (#72)
In our new age garden city, we have a lot of parks. IT park, hardware park, bio-tech park, aerospace park, just not the ones with trees. The sillycon garden city. #sillyconCity (#71)