On April 8, Sat­ur­day, I com­pleted two years in Ban­ga­lore. It’s a mile­stone for me. The two years flew by and I was going through my blog archives for every month since I’ve been here to relive what I’ve gone through and things I’ve done. See, there are some advan­tages of archiv­ing your life, month by month!

When I moved to Ban­ga­lore, I had sev­eral peo­ple who ques­tioned my move from India’s hap­pen­ing city, Mum­bai. I wouldn’t get a suit­able job some­one told me. I wouldn’t sur­vive Bangalore’s lazy pace and ‘tak­ing it slow’ attitude.

I must admit though that it’s suited me just fine. Besides meet­ing some won­der­ful peo­ple, the two years pro­vided me with the time when I could just breathe and do all the things I had on my ‘to-do’ list for many years in Mum­bai : like learn a new lan­guage, learn pho­tog­ra­phy and most of all : travel!

Look­ing back, I’m mighty glad I did what I did.

I cel­e­brated com­plet­ing two years at the Fire­flies Ashram where they put up a night long music fes­ti­val. I had gone last year too. This time, the round-up was even more inter­est­ing. The acts that got the audi­ence clap­ping and singing along was the Baol music group, Oik­i­tran and the quawali music ensem­ble, which sang quite a few pop­u­lar num­bers. It was around 4.30 am in the morn­ing when we left.

So there. Two years and count­ing. I have heaps of things lined up for the year includ­ing a Himalayan trek next month that I am really look­ing for­ward to.

Mean­while, I will be miss­ing in action till this Sat­ur­day because of tons of work. After which I shall resur­face as usual. With loads of pic­tures as I’ve been shoot­ing around the city, includ­ing the flower and veg­etable mar­ket at Malleswaram, and the Bull Tem­ple at Basavangudi.

So like all good things, I shall be back :)