This morning, my father and myself returned from Manipal - the primary purpose of going there was so that I could attend my Group Discussion and other procedures at T. A. Pai Management Institute (TAPMI).  About that specifically, I'll write in another post - this one will focus on the trip itself.

We left Hyderabad on 30th March 7 PM, by train, and reached Bangalore on 31st morning at 7 AM.  From here, we had a long bus ride to Mangalore, which we reached at about 4 PM.  Then, we took buses to Udupi and from there finally reached Manipal at 6:15 PM.

Manipal is a very nice town, with many educational institutions.  It's peaceful, and the first thing we saw as we reached the main bus station was the TAPMI building.  We stayed at Hotel Lake View, which is just about 1 km. from TAPMI.  Nice place.

My Interview date at TAPMI was 2nd April.  But my father and myself went there on 1st, just to have a look around the campus, etc.  I also got a new tie because I hadn't brought that with me.  That afternoon and evening was spent in getting all the photocopies of my various certificates (academic, other achievements) in order.  Night, we watched Desperado on STAR Movies.

2nd April morning and afternoon was totally occupied with the entire process at TAPMI, which I will talk about in another post.  That night we saw K-911 on HBO.  Fortunately, the entire process at TAPMI got over for me on 2nd itself.  That left some free time for my father and me on 3rd.  So that morning, we went to the Krishna Temple at Udupi, and later I got the following books (all published by Gotham Comics):

• MAD Magazine #29: special feature on Episode II: Attack of the Clones and a Panic Room spoof
• Dexter's Laboratory #9: featuring Teacher's Pet, and
• Marvel Comics Presents Super Special #1: a 200 page edition featuring stories of various Marvel characters, like the Thing, the Hulk, Daredevil, Dr. Strange, the mangaverse version of Spider-Man, and X-Men Evolution.

3rd night, we had booked a bus that would take us directly to Bangalore.  That bus left at 9 PM, but before that on HBO we saw Max Knight: Ultra Spy.  As you might make out from the title, it's a pretty silly movie.

Anyway, we reached Bangalore the next morning at about 6 AM, and checked into a hotel.  In the afternoon we went to Gangarams - the bookstore is divided into 4 floors, the first being exclusively for greeting cards and stuff, second for general books, third for special books (computer related, academic), and the fourth floor for multimedia.  We did not buy anything though.

At around 4:15 PM, we went to Bangalore City Station to board the train back to Hyderabad, which left at 5 PM there and got here at 6 in the morning.