Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Jumping From the Train....

One of the most tragic event happened in my life on 23rd morning... I was on my way to cbe in Coimbatore express... I had left for the bangalore city railway station directly from my office on 22nd night... I was playing TT in the evening, then had curd rice and left the office around 8 50 PM... It was senthil who dropped me hebbal bus stop... When I was about to get down from the bike, an idiot in a scooter, who was driving forward looking at his back, almost missed to hit my bum by few inches...

I reached railway station around 9 30 PM... Was waiting in platform 3 as usual and train came by 10 30 as it was expected to be half an hour late.... I was speakin on phone to Sinduja, who called me when I was boarding the train.... I was actually telling her tat there were no figures in the train... :( When I found my seat, and still talkin to her, a familiar face crossed me, which was none other than lv... She also saw me... Her seat was in the next coupe... She would have cursed me so badly for having met me on this occasion that might have eventually led to my fall the next day morning.......

I really had a very disturbed sleep not just because I met lv on tat nite, but another idiot in the adjacent coupe (lv's coupe) was shouting like hell while he was sleeping... Everyone around me got up and scolded him for disturbing others... He was not snoring, but he was shouting strangely... I got up around 5 15 AM and had a tea... Despite train being late at bangalore, it reached cbe by 6 AM and myself like a hero tried to jump out of the train while it was still in motion.... At last I ended up risking my very life... There were chances tat I could have fell into the track, however, I managed to put both my legs inside the train, while I was being dragged by the train for a few metres... It was like experiencing Final Destination movie (I watched Final Destination 3 and 4 last week)... And as I cried for help, a chai wala gave his hand and pulled me inside the train... At one point the backpack was pulling me into the track... But tat guy was smart enuf to pull me and also my back pack and I saw God in him while he was rescuing me....

In this tragic event, I lost my slippers, jerkin and T-shirt torn at the back, tore my backpack and hurt my back as well....... :( It took me around a day to restore to normal, and now feeling much better after suffering from severe muscle pain all over the body for past two days... The three words from Actor Sivakumar 'Ithuvum Kadanthu Pogum' when he was speaking in Vijay TV on republic day, gave me enuf spirits to board the train for return journey yesterday..............

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

This Pongal @ Frnds house....

This is the first blog am writing this year... Well, I wanted to write one immediately after the vacation on jan 4th, but then, I spent lot of my time in playing TT and time just had just flown away tat I don't remember exactly what all I did in those 10 day long vacation... So finally decided to post one about this POngal.......

First of all, thanks that I din't get ticket for 17th nite return from home, otherwise I would have gone to cbe.... So I canceled the ticket I had for 13th ongoing journey... I already had plans of spending the previous weekend too in their home.. But Jan 9th we had a treat by my colleagues Senthil and Arun @ Village... However, I went to meet sath and others on jan 10.... After tasting one of the worst biriyani in Village, I thought I shd have biriyani in some good chettinaad hotel.. And it was good tat we went to lunch in Annachi - chettinad spl restaurant in 100 ft road, where we tasted Naatukozhi biriyani and someother dry items... Then, I left promising them, tat I'd be comin again on 13th nite itself.....

And I reached their home around 10 30 PM, and then on started the fun... As koli was away to his native place, I used his bed :) And AD guys had no holiday for pongal... Also Mu Sigma guys had holiday on 15th.. So it was only me and rabbit in home on 14th... I ate breakfast in Pongal mess (It was a long time desire for me eat pongal on Pongal day).. But it never happened... I went so late, tat they had only dosa... Then lunch we went to Nandhini Palace and had Pongal spl meals... It was one good veg lunch I had in times :) It featured Unlimited meals :) ;) Rabbit ate so much, tat he didn't have his dinner and next day breakfast as well :)

However sath and venki accompanied me to Pongal mess again, and we had a Pista milk shake tat was really good in the Juice junction :) The next day I had to go to office... The traffic was much less than expected due to eclipse.. And the fun part was many people din't come to office and many didn't have lunch due to eclipse... But it was for good tat cafe was less crowded in lunch... But at 4 PM the snacks served at cafe(not free of course) was over in no time... All hungry giants attacked the cafe in evening and it crowd was way over the capacity...

It was a good experience for me preparing dosa in their home.... Everyone laughed at my way of turning the dosa :) The non stick tawa helped a lot :) The next day saagar prepared pongal, which was really really a good one.... Then myself, rabbit, sath went to mu sigma - vineeth's office (ofcourse with vineeth) with lot of expectation to play TT, but ended up getting a bun... Interview was goin on in their office and ppl were waiting in tat room were TT court was there... We had Arabian grape juice in his cafe, which was really a good one :)

Evening all six of us went to Forum Value mall in whitefield(first time for me and few others)... We watched Aayirathil Oruvan there... And to describe about this movie, I would copy the status msg of Venki [Aayirathil Oruvan = Great Adventure(from Indiana Jones) + Good Fantasy + Extream Violence (from 300)+ 12th Centuries Tamil + Nudity + Vulgar Words + Unnecessary Andrea - Some Logic]... I bought some T-shirt in MegaMart inside tat mall, which really had attractive prices... Then dinner at KFC deserves a spl mention, as it was the first time tat I ate there.... Chicken @ KFC was really good and liked it very much... Felt I missed it so long.....

The next day we decided to go to EMC^2, the decision came as soon as we got messed up in Mu sigma... The same four of us went to rabbit's office (EMC^2), only to play TT... Our desire to play snooker din't happen, as one them din't have the stick and other was occupied... However his office was damn good but still many areas under construction......

Overall, past couple of weekends + the annual shutdown were all totally enjoyable and I really respect the hospitality shown in my frnds home and ofcourse the 1Mbps net connection kept the wireless router busy all the time :) Watched Harry Potter first two parts along with Sath... I had a feeling tat it was some children stuff, but as I started watchin 'em, it kept me on and I really enjoyed it... Hoping to watch the rest soon..... I stop here, as its already late around 8 30 PM here at office and also the post has quite exceeded the readability :)