A Lady in Red

Ventured out to Maratahalli for clothes and shoes shopping with couple friends. First stop was a branded factory outlet, before that we parked and as we were early birds we could get a parking few meters ahead of this shop. It was cool to shop as we three were the only customers and a few came in later. Thought the crowd was less due to being early in the day and it being a Gowri festival, later thought may be the prices too. Realized that honest shirts too cost a packet compared to what is available in other shops.

There next two shoppers were a lady and her mom, the lady tried out a red trouser and then a top and looked wow! Her saree clad mom was all smiles to see her daughter in the red attrire, that made us look and she was indeed looking great. This just to get the lady in red in title.

Then we trooped across to a shoe and cloth mart across the street, the branded shoe shop was on ground floor and cloth mart on first. The shoe shop had a new shoe on display, it looked good, I liked it, but one cannot buy that. One had to buy something for a similar price and they would get this free, fell for that.

My two friends in the meantime had shopped for shirts and when I went up, one of them was able to find trousers that fit him, he normally doesn't buy ready to wear trousers as it doesn't fit him. My other friend had liked a shirt, but had to buy two to get the price, I found something I liked and we split the cost. We gave trousers for altering the length and head out for lunch.

Decide to do Golconda Chimney, not popular for it being dry normally. We crossed ring road and hit a small traffic jam on the railway over bridge. My friend commented "just imagine the traffic when all the flats are ready", and that got me. Flats to the right of you, flats to the left of you, towering may floors and packed pretty close to each other, terrible. As we drove we saw a number of flats had come up on both sides of the road, it was amazing, we do not frequent this road but the development had changed the land scape. It induced a sense of claustrophbia, as if the concrete jungle was closing in on us. Whats happening to Bangalore?

We had a nice veggie lunch, my friend ordered stuffed capsicum, he was dissappointed that it came with gravy as normally it doesn't. Otherwise the food was good as it is one of the reasonable priced places that server good north indian food.