Why we need a nightlife

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Why we need a nightlife

Need to show off your latest handset? You and your Significant Other need to be seen together even though you've stopped talking to each other? Get a life with nighlife, urges HEMANGINI GUPTA

BANGALORE ROCKS. Everyone tells us this. Go to any other metro and on introducing yourself as a "Bangalorean" you will inevitably be greeted with an envious `Oh, we've heard it's so cool. There are so many pubs, people party so much... ' Which is true, you have to admit as you smile smugly.

But a niggling thought in your head reminds you that Bangalore's party animals resemble Cinderella who knows her wild night in town will be cut short by an unforgiving deadline, but it's best not to let the rest of the world know you have a serious grievance here. There's a platform for everything, and the proper platform for airing grievances on your city's (flagging) nightlife is, of course, Page One of the city supplement.

Our hot tips

So here we are, one Bangalorean to the other on Page One of the city supplement. The appropriate time and place to ask our collective beer-swigging selves: does Bangalore need a nightlife? Aw, c'mon, say the 16-year old high-school seniors: where will we race our new bikes to if there's no nightlife? Seriously, say the 20-year-old college kids: where will we try the new zoots look if there's no nightlife? Get a life, say the 25-year-old young professionals: when will we show off the latest handset if there's no nightlife? The 30-year-olds will discuss VCs, 40-somethings mergers, and 50-somethings golf. All over a drink of course. I rest my case.

Five reasons

We do need a nightlife, of course. Here are top five reasons why:

*So you can make inane conversation over a beer about the latest MMS technology

When, if not over a beer, can boys be boys and girls look adoringly on, while their man shows off his sharp mind, superior intellect, formidable memory and vast network while displaying his new Nokia he sourced from Dubai through a travelling friend?

*So you can walk in late to work muttering about how hammered you got last night

This crafty reason doubles as a great excuse for being late and also serves the dual purpose of elevating your status amongst bright-eyed and bushy tailed colleagues who will now assume do have a life after all. Never mind you were at home, snuggling into your new Japanese arm-pillow, watching your new Austin Powers DVD and the only life you really have is routine trips to National Market to buy other Austin Powers-type DVD's. What's important about a city with nightlife is that losers can pretend to be taking part in it.

*So you can blow up all your money on friends and save yourself the trouble of following the stock market and investing wisely

Seriously, who reads the pink papers beyond corporate gossip and the cartoons? So why even pretend to be investing in blue chips and mutuals, stocks, and shares? Party places are increasingly becoming expensive and the lounge culture has swiftly replaced cheap beers with expensive wines (think ND). So with your rocking nightlife, you can be rest assured that you won't have any money to worry about where to invest it.

*So you and your significant other (S.O.) don't have to be bored with each other at home, you can slap on the Maybelline and the hair gel and be bored amongst hundreds of others perspiring clubbers

S.O. and you ran out of conversation months ago, but there are other great things (like anti-ageing creams) holding you together. So a nightlife is the best way to stint on any significant silences. Just join the masses to "unwind" at a packed nightclub with high-decibel trance (Ed note: MetroPlus has not been clubbing for a while. Please replace outdated trends with current fads.) pounding at you from every corner. No need for conversation, but you and S.O. still seen together, are a "couple" and have "been" to the right places.

*So you can show up late at a popular nightclub in your new Maybach (Papa paid!) while other party-hoppers gawp

It's that scene from The Mask all over again. You know, the one where the hot limo rolls up and the big shots slink out in their designer clothes and the respectful bouncers bow them in to party spot number one. The same effect just cannot be repeated when out bowling in the afternoon.

Besides when you valet park at a five-star, we are told that chances are your car (or whatever's in it) will most likely be stolen soon after, giving you the unbelievable opportunity of making it to Page Three all over again! (And remember you heard it first from us!)

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Penri

I'm finding it hard to read Indian humour/sincerity. Is this article serious?? If so, then all hope is lost.

gypsichief

y we need a night life????humm..
coz life consists of day n night..so if we have a life during day we need a life at night too else it woukd be unfair towars da night...

New-South-Welshman

I'm a bartender at the moment, so I wake up at 3pm every day and go to work, and usually work the busy nights like Friday and Saturday nights. But there is nothing more I enjoy than going out with friends on Sunday evening and having a beer or ten and talking about life, people and everything in between. I think a nightlife is necessary for the young to fight boredom. Or the young at heart. Also, the more people talk to other people, the more the world would be a better place.

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dzibead

Plainly ironic. I thought all you Aussies had built-in irony detectors! You disappoint me, N-S-W!

New-South-Welshman

I'm confused? Are you talking to me or Penri?

dzibead

Oh, duh, sorry. I meant to address Penri. Am relieved that my confidence in the Aussie "irony detector" can now remain fully intact! So I guess it's those REAL Welshmen who are irony-challenged!

batistuta

I have read other articles of similar nature and dont think it
is an indian attempt at humour.This maybe from times of India
supplement .As you say all hope is lost.