Day 167 - Movie Marathon

Today was a slow day, which is nice sometimes. I spent the morning doing a little mending for M and Cz. While I was stitching, the boys saw to it that my eighties movie education was expanded by watching Transformers: The Movie (The 1986 animated one - the good one). It may be the first movie I have seen in which the good guys have bad-guy aim. A whole base can't defeat 5 measly Decepticons. Sheesh!

After our movie morning, we went out to lunch at Koshy's. Mostly chosen to aggravate V, though I have to say, it was the finest dining experience we have had so far in India. The chicken Tikka Masala was especially nice. Though I wish we could have had a mango lassi.

BTW, one (among many) reasons V loathes, hates, and despises Koshy's is because they serve not-food. I.E. chicken tikka masala - they serve it under the banner of Indian, but it was really invented in London. Same for mango lassis - real lassis are sweet or salty, none of this foufy fruity malarky. The waiter agreed with V on the mango lassi count - we got the stare of doom when we tried ordering one.

We followed up lunch with a few errands including buying ou bus tickets to Pondicherry. The KSRTC bus ticketing office was by far the fastest, simplest, most efficient ticketing counter we have encountered so far. Too bad the bus stand isn't similarly run (more on that tomorrow).

As mentioned in an earlier post, Bangalore is a swiftly growing/changing city. On our way to the ticketing office, we passed by this old building and car. In its heyday it was probably quite the estate. Today we think it might be a good candidate for the Bollywood set of Threepenny Opera.

We spent the rest of the afternoon catching up on the blog, watching Tango and Cash (Cz and M only. Some of us were busy blogging.) and playing ferocious Scrabble.

In the evening, it was time fo M to have the first fitting of his delux, custom-made tux. I didn't give the tailor too much trouble.