Monday, April 16, 2007

Another weekend away @ Bangalore

Friday we finished up our projects for Java and our group got a 28/30. Today was also our of our batch member's bday so we all decided to go out to Planet X again. Since a kid set up the party we had a huge party hall for us reserved. I didn't expect it but about 20 Indians came who are in the same class as him (not my class). I didn't really know any of them but 1 girl sat next to me and we talked for a while.. It started as a good fun night.. and i guess it ended that way.. but for other reasons. So Sam (bday boy) apparently didn't know many of the Indians and it was fine cause i guess they were bored and wanted to go out. So we're eating and drinking, and this girl that sits next to me.. 5'2 100lbs... probably took 4 shots of vodka in about an hour seems OK and we're talking. I see her take another shot and i decided i need to go to the gents room. I come back and i see this girl yelling and collapsing. Apparently she took another shot and went to dance by the speakers and flipped out. She walked to the table and tried to do another shot but the bottle was empty and she slams the bottle on the table... walk around to the table and proceeds to collapse again. While all of this was happening about 15 Indians were following her trying to hold her up. Since non of them are strong she kept falling. Finally the Americans (who know how to handle a drunk girl) told them to just let her lay there and they did. Then 1 girl decides to take a bottle of water and throw it on her face.. like water will sober them up hahah what were they thinking. So obviously that doesn't work and then this drunk girl starts kicking and screaming her head off like she was possessed.. its was creepy and funny at the same time. I have never seen such a thing and I've seen drunk freshman girls in college that did not do such things. So once again the Indians trying to help are holding her down cause of her kicking while shes on the ground and once again we have to tell them to not do that because she could pull a muscle. Finally they decided they wanted to take her back.. but non of the Indians wanted to so one of the Americans took that responsibility. They didn't wanna come back with her because the Indians are treated here like children and if they were to return noticeably drunk to campus they feared getting fired. So since that killed most of the party 15 of the Indians left ... left w/out paying the bill! WTF!! The other 5 left paid for their share and so the Americans had to cover their portion.
So in the end it was funny and crazy and that made it a good night.
Mostly everyone decided to go to Bangalore this weekend as well. So about 15 of us took the 11am train.

Once we arrived me the 3 of us that had been here before just took off and went to our familiar MG road to get food and walk around. The rest of the people decided to call HR in Bangalore and have 1 of them show them around. Apparently she was 45 min late and took them to 1 mall and MG Road.... Seems like most of these kids are afraid of exploring and fending for themselves. So afraid that even though they brought luggage (yes.. not just backpacks) to stay the night... they decided to leave to go back to Mysore after dinner. Either they are too scared or cannot make decisions for themselves when one of the batch members was sick and knew he was going back before he came. Whatever.. the usual 4 of us who like to have fun stayed overnight.
We ate lunch at KFC which was yummy and then walked around. We decided to get a hotel and drop our stuff off at 5. We find a hotel and decide to go eat around 7. We go to TGIF Fridays and it was delicious. I had Caesar salad and a fillet Mignon. It was all a tasty treat.


After dinner we went out to a couple of clubs. Everything closes here either 12 or at latest 1.
Next day we got lunch at Ruby Tuesdays which sucked.. I have never been there in America and now i know why. Afterwards we walked around again.. went to a mall... bought nothing... then we took the train home.


Today i had my Java test which i got a 25/35 grade... not as well as i wanted and counting in the project i just missed the 'A' grade for the Java module by 2 points. Now we are learning Oracle more in depth and this is a 6 day course.
Pictures added on webshots and 2 movies added!