I haven't blogged in a long time. Somehow I didn't feel like writing anything. However, now I would like to write about yesterday evening.

Jitu is here in Bangalore on a two-day business trip. Met him at Food World yesterday evening, and then we sat for a long time at Coffee Day. It was great talking to him after a long long time. I have met him not more than a couple of times in last four years or so (how fast time flies!). Even when we met, it was always along with other guys of the group, Rampu, kamiya (not the real one), et al. So there was more of bhankas than any sensible talk. So it was great to talk so many things with Jitu after so many years. There have been new developments in our lives that we were glad to share. Well, there was one really sad thing that he told me about, but I would skip that for the moment. Meeting old friends is a pleasantly different experience!

After a long chat shopped for some sandlewood at Cauvery and then went from shop to shop in search of Haire cell phone. Apparently, it isn't yet available in Bangalore. Finally we had wonderful dinner of appams and some keralite onion preparation. What spoiled the mood after such a wonderful meal was a bill fraud.

The buggers had charged forty ruppees extra in the bill. I can forgive this mistake once, but when it happened twice is as many visits, I smelt rat, that it's happening on purpose. So many customers pay their bills without checking it well. I too do the same most of the time. On my complaint, they tried the second trick - reduce forty ruppees from the final bill amount ... the sales tax being calculated on the same inflated bill value. Again the same trick that they had played on Saturday. This really infuriated me and I let it known to them.

One thing that Jitu regretted a lot was forgetting his digital camera in the hotel. It was a good occasion to take a few snaps. Ten years from now we could have been sitting looking at the snaps over a cup of tea and remembering these wonderful days and the wonderful evening that we had. If only.