Bangalore
So that following weekend 4 of us (me, Flowers, Alex, and Mike) decided to get out of Mysore again for the weekend. As you can kind of realize there is not much to do in Mysore and we have been exploring to our fullest while still maintaining our outstanding academic standings.
We took a train from the middle of Mysore to the railway station in Bangalore. The ride is exactly 3 hours and costs 55 rupees. Nothing compared to that long ass 14 hour ride to Goa.
So for 1 way transport you are paying about 120 rupees including rickshaw to the Mysore station.
First thing we do when we get there is call for a rickshaw and tell them to take us to "The Forum" which is the biggest mall in India. It houses probably like 50 stores.. and is not impressive compared to America's finest. Non the less our target of visit was not a store for any clothes or other luxury goods, but instead for some essential MCDONALD'S!
The familiar foods that we get in the US was about to be offered to us. Nope... no beef... no big mac... only Maharajah Mac.... So that's what i got and it pretty good for chicken. Tasted similar to the Wendy's spicy chicken sandwich.
So on our walk around we noticed another American splendor. Subway! So we walk around get coffee and shop till we get hungry again and go eat. I bought a couple of t shirts...... everything else was expensive for India. After Subway we decided it was time to find a hotel for the night.
We enter the adidas store and a guy tells us where to go for a hotel and the night life.
We litterly crossed the street and find this gorgeous hotel that costs us $12 each for the night for a 4 person room with 4 beds and the works (except TP). So we just dump our stuff off and go out. While trying to pull a rickshaw for cheap a few local fellas decided to help us bargain and got us down to 60 rupees a rickshaw for 2 people for a 10km drive. Pretty sweet deal. All those rickshaws run on naturally compressed gas so its economic for them too.
We get dropped off and go exploring and go into 1 bar.. it was smokey as hell but the music was good and we were wearing shorts and we got in cause we were white while the rest of the people in there had suits and nice clothes on. We got a few pitchers (which was a first for us in India) and kick them back. So this place closed at 12 and we went to a hotel party afterwards which was OK cause it had more girls and dancing, but ripped you off in the alki department so i only had 1 drink there and that was the rest of the night at about 1 when that place closed.
The next day we went back to the same street to shop (mostly window shop) and we ate at a KFC. I'm convinced our main attractions for Bangalore has been the American fast foods. So KFC was pretty similar to America's except there is no mashed potatoes or mac+cheese. So Flowers and Mike.. one being a prior fat kid and the other is a present fat kid decide to down a whole 12 piece bucket of chicken.. it was fun watching... i ate a chicken sandwich and was stuffed. Afterwards we walked around... and then we had to go catch the train back home.
It was a good weekend.
General Comprehensive Test
If you remember me stating that we constantly go out and still maintain our grades.. well interestingly enough, our General Comprehensive Test was on Monday and Tuesday. The test would comprise of everything we have learned in the modules and Monday was a hands on test where we had to write a program to calculate a bill and then the other part was creating databases and retrieving information depending on the query. Since i figured studying for a hands-on exam would not help me i didn't study when i came back on Sunday. Well after taking the test i know i nailed the program, but i only got 3 out of 6 queries on the database confidently answered. So i was a bit nervous that i was probably going to get a 70 and not my usual A, but i knew i could pull up my grade on the multiple choice test on Tuesday. So i studied a bit (also not much because it was mostly review) and felt pretty good after leaving the test on Tuesday.
FYI i actually read our training books cover to cover prior to every module test so that's why i could breeze through the books the 2nd time for the compre test.
Specific Stream (J2EE)
Straight after the test on Tuesday we were integrated to our new groups for our Specific Stream
of J2EE.. so 4 went there and 4 went to the OS stream. So its pretty much now just me and Bill out of our good friends that are together. Our first module in this stream is Unix. So we learn the basics.. all pretty familiar to me. Easy day.
Since these are our first classes with Indians, it was quite an experience. 1st off they love to clap. They clap if someone drops a cup or anything else on the floor... they clap if someone answers a question (before the teacher approves or disproves the answer) and they clap after each day is over. Weirdos. Next when a question is asked the class.. they all, like children, uncontrollably yell out at once answers. Now it wouldn't bother me if the answered were right, but most of them don't even make sense.. they just remember a cool lingo word and blurt it out there. It appears that in India there were no bullies that would make fun of you when you get an answer wrong like in the US. God bless America for bullies. After work hours, they stay in the labs till 8 chatting online and playing these dumb addictive games like the helicopter one were you make a helicopter go up by clicking and holding the mouse down and make it go down by letting go and using this avoid the barriers. The teachers don't trust any of them and they require the Indians to shut off their monitors as to not get distracted. This required us to do the same but we aren't used to it because we could have ours on in our small class before. Attendance is way more strict as well.. Our old class never took attendance and now we take attendance 4 times a day. Its pretty lame.
Other...
So nothing eventful i would speak of happened for the rest of the week and same for weekend.
Monday we finally got our Generic Compre Test scores back and to my amazement i got a combination of 91! A! I tied for best in class with Mike (and he likes to code on his own spare time.. nerd).. hahaha anyway.
We started a new unit of HTML,CSS,Javascript. We learned all three in 2 days and it all came easy to me again. I will be taking my Unix test on Friday because i missed the 1st one on terms i rather not repeat here. Right now we're working on projects and all the Indians are cheaters and they have old batches projects all done... but i wont cheat and I'm doing my own part myself.
Otherwise the rest of the days are all similar.. ya know the usual laundry here and there.. meals are the same on campus which sucks except I've been eating oatmeal in the morning here in my room mixed with some berry jam... pretty good tasting and for you. I've been playing a lot more cards as well. Weather is still 95 and sunny everyday.
Man that was a long update.. hope you didn't fall asleep reading it. I would have...
Bye
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