Love at First Sight!!!!

Some believe in Eternal Love and some others are not even in a position to fathom what Love is all about. There are people who believe in "Love at First Sight" and there are people who believe in "Systematic Love" as appearances can deceive. I for one have joined the first club recently courtesy my recent transfer of IBUs....You might be wondering if I have accidentally bumped into some damsel in this Tinsel town Hyderabad... Naaaaa... I was mentioning about my recent Junket to "Mangalore - the city of beaches on Mallabar Coast". True my friends it was Mangalore only and nothing else ;) ;)..It was on that eventful evening of 17th Sep that my trip to mangalore for training has been confirmed...
I have never heard about Mangalore before( may be because Mangalore was not part of national news) except for the fact that my Infy has a DC out there...But going by the norm, as I am going there, something strange should happen right.... to add to my already apprehensive brain??? .. Here it is... All throughout that week Mangalore was in the National headlines purely for wrong reasons.. The communal clashes :(:( But what the hell !!! I come from Hyderabad and why should I fear about Mangalore.. Ok All was set to go...The D-day arrived and I had to catch a flight to Bangalore and then to Mangalore.. As usual Bangalore journey was a routine affair and there I boarded the Mangalore flight...Oh !!! I forgot to mention that the Flight was KingFisher Red service....All my "Kingfisher Joy" went into drain when I came to know that KingFisher Red service is nothing but erstwhile Air Deccan..:(:( poor me.... Anyways I consoled myself saying that it doesn't matter yaar as the travel time is only 1 hr....just some 30 Minutes into journey I could see some dense forests beneath and it felt as if I was travelling on a plane over the great forests of Amazon..... The white clouds added to the beauty...It became better and better as we approached Mangalore...Incidentally Mangalore airport is built on a Hill Top.... God knows why :):)... That is when I fell in love with this City....."Love at first sight"... If thats not enough the next day journey to office was mind blowing....To my pleasant surprise my office is located on a Hill top too...Although our journey started on a Pot Holed Road, it never was the same when we crossed Mangalore... All through the journey it was greenery and greenery....We had a to cross netravathi river on the bridge on our way through.. It was definitely a breathtaking sight....Had I been a Nature poet I would have compiled atleast 100 short poems till now :):)... Just imagine going through this greenery, listening to Jalsa songs especially "Sanidapa Magarisa... Karo Karo jara Jalsa" with cool breeze blowing acrosss...Are we going for work or some vacation????? I am not sure how mangaloreans here work with such an ambience but I definitely struggled to concentrate......May be they get bored seeing the same thing day in and day out but it is definitely worth a trip once in a while... How I wish I had my Canon S3IS with me for capturing the Glimpses of Beautiful Nature one can come across...