Nice Business !!!

I hesitantly agreed to go for Kempfort with my mum. Going to this place was a good experience and you will have the sense of satisfaction and silence..But that was years ago. Now this place is made as market or a shopping maal..Of course there is a shipping maal besides..And I hope this shiva statue was build by the same guy.

Anyway the next question was the commute...last time I took my mum in my bike..But this time am not planning to, first of all the roads are not same .. Too many humps and bumps , plus she get tired soon and may feel body ache after sting in bike for so long. Mum insisted to go in bus, which I would prefer if I was alone or with somebody else...But it may neither be a good experience. It's Sunday and I don't know the route#. Still I thought it's good to know. Just in case. BMTC & Google combination comes handy..Wasting 20 mts in google, suggested me to take route 441-A and 441-D. "But 441-A thru K is knows for its delay and rare-occurrences.." one of the user's comments warned. Ok point taken.

"I'll get ready in 10 mts and we are taking an auto.." Mum said Koki....but.."Busses are not frequent .. May be we will see while coming back" I cut her next question. sensed my irritation on her bias to BMTC....she said ok..whatever u say. !! This is the sad part, I always wanted to give her a comfortable experience for the shor dration she would be in bangalore. But she think she would be a burden to myy weekends..though I was litreally have nothing todo on weekends !!! Its too diffucult to explain and I didn't try either..

10:45...we took an auto and moved from madiwala. It was Madiwala-st.john's signal and waiting..this..thing ..touched me . I turned and it is this uniche-begger demanding money. I always had a kinda creepy feeling on seeing them and this time she/he is standing next to me...first i said no and this again touched my knee..and this time my mum was about to shout and then I asked if she got some coins...Then send this back with 2 rs. Iam wondering what is wiht this people ? I heared these are more in bombay and seen them in trains and station. But nowadays we started seeing more of them in traffic-signals and distrubing others..can't someone control this..with due respect and compassionate of the problem for them....what they are doing irriatte others and would never make their life better. Atleast when people...say no..they can politely go the next one...but these beggers never leave you and make a seen out of this and humulite you by all possible means..one in train...(TODO:suges story.)


Finally reached kemp-fort and was entering the temple .. well you will not see any signs of temple..but only series of shops selling idols, phots, books music cds...and what not. Trule you will see only this at first..You will never get a feeling of entering a holy-shrine on temple.

We bought this archana-set which costed 25 Rs. I wasn't interested but..didn't say any. Then we were asked to but token for chappan 1 Re per set. hmm...it used to be free..ok. Then we are goign thru a series of queues & lanes which you have to take in any big temple. All this way they have kept a silver bowl which was having some coins..and this bowl bein tighthend by a bold which was projecting inside..and this is hurting everybody walking in the lane. Who the geniues deicded to have this..idiot you have to be carefull or you wwill bleed in you fore-arm. Then we are entering the queue which leads in to the passage where shiva-lingaams collected from different parts of Indai were kept..or atleast it claims.

First we were asked to but an archana ticket. "IS this fro everybody? I asked irritantly.." No sir but for doing this archana- you need buy this ticket. hmm..10 more rs "Swaga..". Then we handed this arhcana ticket and the set to the poojari (ticket counter) who is actaully doing this archana. Intresting point is he has kept a minature of shiva-linga and making offerings to it for the people who needs archana. As always mum started saying the name & star of the family members one by one (this is how archana's are done..if the arhcana is for god wouldn't GOD knew this ? or is this nam & start an indexed-field to makes god's query run faster and identify whom is requesting this archana ? - sometimes i do agree with people like E.V.R Periyar.). Back to the poojari, this guys was so arrogant, careless & negligent started saying the mantra even before my mum finsished tellig all the index-input-fields. these bare bodied ticket-collectors.. I mean poojaris are not even bothering what people are thinking and asking ..May be they are rated by their margins and turn-overs whihc depens on the number-of-archana-tickets sold per day.

Now am cursing openly and my mum feels uncomfortable and Idont want her to ..so kept my critics. Then the next Ticket 10 Rs per head to enter that small path where all the shiv-lingas are kept. This either was free and now it s charged..WIth the due respect the idols and things kept inside are like a kids play...I dont know why people are so mad about this and waste their 10 Rs.

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Not sure if those IIM kids who deliberatly stay away from attending campus interviews (claiming they want to pursue their dreams) do have this idea in mind...I mean starting a temple !!! Why not After all this is THE business which has no recession..infact even if the global econmy sinks down...you can make one more archana for the global economy for the lord..lakshmi who is the god of money !! May be this is already there who knows.