Wedding @ Bangalore: Memories Galore II

We were woken up by the massive honking of vehicles and the endless barking from the stray dogs. Wow, it's day 2 already! We were suppose to be at the wedding hall at around 7am, however plans changed and we were there at 11am. When we arrived, there was a crowd around the groom, apparently they were performing one of those required rituals. The bride's parents were suppose to stop the groom from becoming a sage and one of the procedures was to wash the groom's feet. IKR! I think my pops will just faint upon seeing this, but I guess washing of the feet has other symbolic significance too. 

Oh ya! I forgot to add, we were all dress in indian ethnic wear that day! Look how dashing both Berton and Kent looked!

Wedding Day 5: Afternoon

Lunch was a feast! Back to canteen style once again, this time round more food and and a separate plate of dessert! :) From top left to bottom right: Salt, some sour tasting gravy, crispy fried patty, some shredded vegetable salad, some coconuty gravy, pomegranate cucumber salad, some yoghurty gravy, vegetable curry, chick peas! and dahl curry, egg plant curry, papadum and fried crispy flat bread. Once again, the last guy came with some curry rice and threw a whole load of rice krispies on top on it but that's not all.... after a few seconds, another guy approached with a can filled with ghee and spammed my rice before I could say NOOOoooooo. Apparently the ghee is suppose to bring down the spice and add to the flavour. Dessert comprised of fried crsipy bee hoon topped with sweet coconut milk and a fried sweet ball. I'm not kidding when I say this ball is made up of sugar and nothing else; it was soooo SOOOOO sweet, I couldn't bare to swallow even a tiny bite. The crispy noodles went pretty well with the sweet coconut milk but once again it was a tad too sweet for my liking. Nonetheless, the rest of the lunch was awesomely tasty!

Last Meal at the Wedding.

After the wedding, Kent, Berton, mummy and I went to commercial street to do some shopping. Mum has been awesomely accommodating, accompanying throughout the wedding and so I reciprocated by being her shopping slave for 2 days. Straight after the wedding, we took a ride to commercial street where mum bought more than 20 metres of cloth! Mum went gaga over the materials as the quality was good and the price was cheap. And what was I doing? being her calculator -_-, nonetheless I did not mind as there wasn't anything interesting for me to shop around. Most of the stalls at commercial street sold ethnic clothes and materials and honestly I was bored stiff. 

Fast forward to day 3, we headed out to visit some places of attraction after an awesome breakfast at Meena's place. Meena's family were amazing host and invited us over for meals. Coffee was served before breakfast and OH MY the coffee was fantastic. It was so milky yet strong. The breakfast was some wheat cereals that tasted like a fusion of our chinese porrridge and ang moh quaker oats- I loved it! Paired with chutney powder, this dish is sooooo good! 

After breakfast, we headed to the Iskcon Temple before heading over to the Bangalore Palace. As we wanted to be together, we all squeezed into 1 auto (which resembles Bangkok's tuk tuk), guess who's leg died after the ride?

One hella bumpy ride.

We spent almost an hour searching for the palace after the stupid auto driver dropped us at the palace ground which wasn't the palace but a income tax filing office. After walking what seemed like a thousand miles, we gave up and headed over to MG street. All those walking made us hungry and we pop over to Nando's for a hearty lunch. It might have been the 3 day deprivation of meat (Meena's a vegetarian) but the chicken at Nando's tasted really good as compared to the one in Singapore. Mum went crazy and ordered a chicken steak and a pita wrap. I think she's so afraid that her darling daughter would die of hunger, so much so she literally shaft food right into my mouth.

Nando's at Bangalore :)

Everything seems cooler when you're on a holiday! Check out this slim can of diet coke :)

Needed more coffee to last through the day so Kent and I hopped over to the Cafe beside for some coffee fix. We both ordered a latte which tasted pretty average; I preferred Meena's home made coffee :)

Latte

Kent did not dissuade me from buying a chocolate tart and so I did. Unfortunately, the chocolate tart tasted better than it looked, partly due to the fact that it was filled with chocolate cream instead of chocolate ganache :( The chocolate base was crunchy but tasted very cocoa-y as compared to chocolatey, if you know what I mean.

After lunch, it was shopping time and mummy bought more clothes for both dad and jo as most of the sports shops were having 42-50% discount, followed by more cloth, bangles and finally mangoes! lol

We headed to Meena's place for, once again, an awesome meal. Dinner was fun as we managed to steal Meena away from Suhas; we talked about everything that happened in USA- the good and the bad. Oh how I missed those days....Those Walmart grocery shopping days where Meena and I would buy loads of grocery and lugged it back to our accommodation. Those potluck days where I would cook sucky can soup while Meena would whip up awesome curry. Those movie nights and free food nights at Coffman Union. Those nights at Kent's, at St Paul's Campus, at cold stone creamery, at chipotle, at downtown etc. We were re-living those days as we talked and talked....

But goodbyes are inevitable and we had to bid her farewell. Despite all the whining about tickets, visa, transport etc, I was glad I made it for Meena's big day. It was an eye opener at Bangalore, farewell Silicon valley of India, may we meet again.