MISSING BANGALORE-MISSING ATITHI.....

It's been two months since I shifted from bangalore to Seattle.Couple of question that people still keep on asking is "How do you like it here?,what is the diffrence that you find between bangalore and seattle?what is that you miss here?" and on and on it goes...Well apart from my nearest family and ofcourse "Apnu Amdavad" I do miss lot of things about "Namma Bengaluru".To name a few Andhra meals,shared specially with dearest friends Veena,Karpagam,Aparna and Vidya.

Every little professional/personal and joyful/sad occasion for all of us became a reason to visit ATITHI for andhra meals. As much as reasons such as relief over ending a gruelling semester,enormous delight of finishing the much tiresome task of end term paper correction,ending the course on time without any session diffrence,a WICS session delivered well became a reason to celebrate and visit ATITHI so did an MRR meeting gone bad,appraisal letter not arriving,feedback not turning up as hoped,having to put up with non cooperating visiting faculty became a reason to visit ATITHI and drown ourselves in delicious calories loaded andhra meals.


We found overselves chatting away over ATITHI andhra meals at all personal celebrations too like birthdays,anniversries,spouse birthday,kids birthdays,kids passing off with good marks(which happened all the time,with the bunch of talented kids that all had) and even better half getting a promotion or a raise(well some orgnizations do actually give raise :) ,not just conduct appraisal meetings).My allergy to pollens and resulting cough and nose choke/block gave me one more reason to have hot piping Andhra Meals.


One of us arriving late or running off without having a cup of coffee after lunch to reach on time for after lunch class was too common.Half an hour of lunch time at ATITHI sometimes acted as a day saviour and saw us through some of the most tedious and arderous days.Andhra meals at ATITHI saw us to all good times and bad and ofcourse lots of farewell.Lots of time I and veena would simply opt to abandon our much nutritious and in my case diet homemade food in favour of ATITHI just to enjoy a peaceful lunch hour after a particularly hectic "2- session at a go" mornings.Inspite of the fact that I followed a strict no "outside eating" diet for sometime in my crusade to loose weight i made a concession towards ATITHI and happily munched on its papads....without worrying about the extra time i'll have to spend on treadmill to get those calories burned off :) :) .(papads do have calories).


All I want to do now in this cold weather with snow flurries,rain and 5 degree temperature outside is gather my bunch of friends and go off to Andhra meals......


Missing the hot piping spicy food and the warmth of old friends....