@UB City......

Pic courtesy Hubbs
This is a click of Mallya towers from top of UB City. Am a sucker for open air dining - n tht alone is reason enuf for me to frequent this place thou the dent it creates in my pocket is significant enuf for me to not to make it a regular affair...

Lemme admit thou that today after 6 years in Bangalore I am almost anti-mall. Simply cause entering a mall over a weekend will mean jostling for space with people, literally stepping over their toes! N that exactly is my shopping-mall pet peeve - the fact that at least for Bangaloreans, hanging out at shopping malls is a form of entertainment'! No, am no talking of teenagers - am referring to Families(Complete with parents n kids). For quite a few of my colleagues, a family day-out means packing the entire family off to a mall - the kids run amok in the unimaginative "play areas" crowded with silly video games, mother-father do their share of retail therapy n then the entire happy-family troop into the food court to treat themselves to some staid boring food!

I agree Bangalore is a city that has more than its share of these usually obnoxious - ugly shopping malls n not many options when it comes to other forms of entrainment! But then a a stroll in lalbagh, jumping into the apartment pool, cooking up a meal together or jus simply catching a movie together - reading out a story to the child - aren't these better form of entertainment than hanging out at these malls!! Maybe its jus that driving out to the mall needs much less planning - much less work than these other activities.....

Linking this to AtoZ Challenge - U is for UB City...


9 comments:

  1. If Mallya had any more money he could have tried constructing the building in the form of a beer bottle :D

    PhenoMenon

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  2. I can so relate to the mall culture you mentioned in this post! Just roaming around in the mall and kids running amok is an entertainment or a family outing now-a-days and am yet to see a food court with heavenly food!

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  3. Bangalore has certainly changed from the time I visited last - that was many many moons ago.

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  4. Looks like a nice place to be...Never been to Bangalore :(

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  5. It seems if we wanna some lively atmosphere, there's no space other than malls.

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  6. I have been to UB City and it totally rocks.

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  7. I'm pretty anti-mall myself, Meena. I find everyone becomes zombie like after a while!

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  8. Well I was amazed with the mall culture too. Also what I have seen is people are ready to spend a lot too. When I visited India, I was having tough time purchasing few items because it looked very expensive to me and not worth for the price. Where as people around me was shopping left and right..I felt out of place..

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