Ramblings from Gurgaon

I never made plans. One can very plainly see that in my outrageously infrequent blog posting. Every time, I really, try to talk to my self. Get up early.Jogging.Exercise.Fitness.Discipline. Sometimes I just feel, am I writing just because it’s the thing to do this year? Or is it the trend of this month? By the time the talk finishes, my alarm will be screaming 8:00 AM at an ear-piercing decibel. I wish ill soon come good through all this. A chance arrived, and I’m here in Gurgaon. A new work assignment for 3 months. I've never really lived outside the Pearl City.

In the view of the fact, it’s been a hair over a month since I’ve landed here. Life here is not quite bad, but I surely miss the warmth of Hyderabad. Weather conditions are really awful here. Burning hot. Exceedingly humid. The heat index as I’m writing this right now is hovering around 40 degrees Celsius. I don’t quite know about people over here, but at least for a guy who’d been in Hyderabad for well over a decade, it would be similar to walking in a hot oven. It’s like I’ll be clad and smiling when I come out of the lift, and just within the time I walk over to the car, I’d be sweating as if I had just ran a 1000 meters. But the good part is, most of my waking hours I’d be in the office or in the apartment house where the AC runs endlessly.

To mention about the place, Gurgoan is a posh and extremely urban suburb of Delhi. What I like is it’s entirely planned with a sense of ecological care.
Particularly the place I live around has plentiful of natural flora and plant life. In fact it’s so much so that one cannot locate the houses absorbed in the greenery while strolling around. One evening when I had a leisurely stroll around my dwelling, I wasn’t really surprised by the kind of urbanization that I was staring at. Massive amount living apartments spread out all over. One thing I had to bring up is, it’s quite an expensive place to live in, and also there’s no public transport at all despite over a million people living around. There are cycle rickshaws here and there, but however can’t travel miles in them.

I haven’t been the most studious now when I talk about exploring the cities around, but I’ve been to a couple of places. Delhi Metro ride was premium. While transiting, I was pleasantly surprised when the pretty girl sitting across me got down the metro at Connaught Place, which was what exactly my cousin told when I purposely mentioned on phone that she was very cute. Visit to Akshardham was high-quality. One of the main attractions was The Exhibitions. There are 3 of this kind. The first is an 80 minute exhibit showcasing short films, life-like animated robotics, puppets which portray the message of peace, harmony, service to others in an impressively entertaining way. The second one is an astonishing 40 minute film pictured on a giant of a screen which features the life of a saintly kid who travels across the holy places of India. The third is a spectacular 14-minute boat ride; the specially designed peacock boat travels on an artificial river journeying us all the way through 10,000 years of fascinating Indian history. We pass along the World’s first university, Ancient Defense systems, early chemical laboratories, art, culture, and plenty more. I should say that this is a must-go place for the Generation-Y.

Of Course the visit to Agra was marvelous with me soaking wet with sweat all the day. At the splendid Agra fort, I liked the way I went up and had a snap with a bunch of huge Spaniards bizarrely (bizarre in the heat) clothed like pants tucked into a cow-boy kind of shoes and huge drapes on shoulders in blazing 40 degree heat. I wasn’t surprised when I felt myself obviously mesmerized while I kept on gaping at the imposing majesty of the TAJ for hours together.