I had seen this in enough prisoner movies. The prisoners were kept locked in dark prison cells without even a ray of light. And when they were let out in the sun or shown any kind of light, they screamed. They screamed as if concentrated hydrochloric acid was being sprinkled upon their bare bodies. This happened because the body had forgotten that something called light even exists, and hence could not take so much of it.
Now, if you replace the human body with taste buds, the dark cell with the restaurants and mess in the KGP campus and the light with good food, you will get a fair idea of how I responded when I had my first meal in Mumbai. What I ate that day was nothing exotic or fancy, it was just a chicken burger at McDonald's, but my taste buds just refused to accept that something like that is not extinct.
This is the thing about Mumbai. I have not seen another city with such a competitive food industry in my entire life. The rivalry is so strong that is makes all the restaurant owner's try to be one step ahead of others, be it in quantity, quality or service. Even small restaurants near my brother's place serve awesome food at very reasonable price. Be it the McD burger or the lemon sizzler chicken at sheisha or the chicken 65 at public restaurant (near CST) or even the butter chicken at a small restaurant nearby, I have enjoyed everything so far like anything.
All my mumbaikar friends actually had told me similar things but I had to see this for myself before believing. Another thing that they had told me was about the gals in Mumbai. You may call it another instance of the sour-grape theory being proven correct, but I really do not agree so much with them in this case. True, There are a lot of girls moving around, which in itself is a shocking and rather scary site for any KGPian (If you don't understand why, read the first paragraph and then replace the prisoner with a regular KGPian and light with girls), and I agree that many of them are hot, but most of them try to look hotter than they actually are, and the artificiality just takes away the charm.
Still, I agree that the girls seem really considerate and good by nature. There have been no instances of a girl puking on seeing me. There were even no "What's that walking thing?" or "Are they allowed in here?" or "Look, Look, a basketball with feet" , so I was really feeling confident that I was doing considerably better around girls this time. I thought that maybe this is because I kept hiding in my bro's friend group, but later on something happened that made me realise that I was actually doing well. I was roaming in a mall alone, while a group of girls passed by me. I noticed a really cute looking one among them, and as she went, i noticed that she did not even 'eew' or 'yuck' at me. I think she was flirting with me :)
(Here I need to make one thing very clear. Some days ago, I was talking to a girl when she said, "You always keep making fun of the way you look. Do you have some huge complex about being overweight?". Well, for the records, the answer is 'No'. It's just my nature to make fun of myself. If I was so concerned about my weight, I'd be working days and nights to make myself slim. But I know for a fact that a major part of human brain is made up of fats. If I go on a diet or an exercise regime, I might burn the fats constituting those parts of my brain which store all the knowledge that I have gained in my life (ok, that sums up to my gmail and blogger passwords). If I forget that, I might be in a pickle. So I think it's better to stay how I am. Right?)
