My last night in Bangalore

A long day of work, but afterwards a little shopping. I bought some shirts for myself at a place called Anohki as well as some gifts for family and friends. We stopped in a jewelery store where the proprietor showed us a huge, bejeweled box. There are real rubies and diamonds in there – he said it took two years to build and that the last person to buy something like this from him was Vladmir Putin! I don't doubt him, either, because the hotel where the shop is located is the place for foreign dignitaries to stay. In all likelihood, this would be where Vladmir shops.

Then drinks with Sukanya, Deepak and some other nice folks from IBM. We went to an English Pub-style place at the Leela hotel. It was fun to have some drinks, but I was pretty tired at that point. And I'm unaccostmed to cigarette smoke after all this time of being a non-smoker in a non-smoking city. Then dinner at the Chinese place in the same building which was excellent.

I think I'd like to come back to South India again – there are a bunch of places I'd like to see yet – Goa and Kerala for example. Who knows, maybe I'll even come back to India for IBM again.