Madurai Trip – Part 2

The second part of us would start from Saturday (June 20, 2009) morning. We all had our turns of morning chores before Bruce turned up “as promised” with a delay of
abt 1 hr. He took us to a hotel by walking up for another 1.5 kms with a plan to get rid of us to Azhagar Temple/Pazhamudir chozhai for some devotional trip.

So Bruce took us for a hotel and asked us to have a good Bfast – and stuff ourselves as much as possible. Little did we know abt the real reasons on this trip – Steve always got this right when deciphering Bruce’s intentions. We headed out after Bfast & Bruce almost did a sandiyar thanam by stopping a speeding bus and stuffed us inside the crowd for a 45 minutes travel. Once we reached there we had dharshans & we were again forcefully planned to go for another temple above the hill (Pazha mudir chozhai). Somehow we grew suspicious that there was a mole within us put up by Bruce (Satellite Mama). The trip would not be complete by 4.00 PM which would effectively mean there is no lunch for the tired souls (the finance guy showing his cost control skills).

We wanted to call Bruce and have a truce deal – nopes this was’nt possible as Bruce/ the Mole had already put us in a hill/mountain which had no signals to reach the other part of world. Nicely worked out plan- had to appreciate people who did this perfectly. With all the survival techniques of our ancestors we gorged on mangoes/berries/water/
Miranda/frooti etc and came back to Madurai – some hopeful souls were expecting lunch at the destined place to be ready – as usual abt 4-5 of us were having fun laughing at those disillusioned people.

The disappointment was at Steve expense the night; he never knew the trick of other non regular activities that happened the night with his Room-mates including me/Raghavan. He was cursing through the night becoming a victim of the events. The next day was even worse watching “Masilamani” and spending Rs 164 for the initial plan of having tea. Had fun watching things other than the movie like: couples/Girls laughing at the stupid jokes and Nakul. Finally our moment of realizing the ticket value arrived during the end of the film “Dora Dora” just in a moment of 25 seconds we collected all that and escaped being victims of the Subramaniapuram look alike gang members. Decided to spend more time outside the hotel and had some eating out and our first time in Madurai streets by Cycle-rickshaw, almost destroying Raghavan/Steve’s $$$$#####.
Reached Hotel and spent some time at the hotel and we headed back to chennai. I was lucky and thanks to Bruce for the seat-allocation. It was a well spent weekend with friends and having enjoyable memories.

Madurai Trip – Part 1

It’s been good news for us as one of our friends was getting married with his one & only “Late Adulthood” love interest (I didn’t get that wrong – it would be childhood love interest from his wife’s side). Balaji would be angry for the above description of his love – take it sportively “enaiku thaan namaluku mariyathai irundhiruku” – naaama eppavume comedy piece thaan!!!! lets accept the fact.

We had abt 10 people who were ready to go to Madurai for this occasion with some “EXCESS BAGGAGE” which we didn’t thought they were going to weigh us much. Had lots of catching up during the late hours in train (you know who was the topic of discussion) and were warned by the RPF to take our seats. Bruce came up with a peculiar reply of saying” Naanga ellam decent”. Somehow the RPF guy was convinced with his words and left us untouched. Might be this has to do with “sigappa irukaravan poi solla mattan”.

There were even some realizations in that late night discussions “satellite mama” had been enlightened with his first nick name. He never thgt we had something up like this and the background on his name was revealed & was convinced on the naming reasons.

We also went through some make over “Gilli”:

The main character of vijay will be played by “Satellite mama” – he would have a sweat-T-shirt and an extended pullover cap. He would do a jogging session in the morning hours in Madurai mela masi veedhi with stray dogs trying to hunt him. The background score would be by – “Humms guums, humms – tadaaa tan-tada-tadaaan”

He would forcefully rescue an already married girl from her husband; the role of Prakashraj would be played by Bruce. I was assigned (forcefully) the role of Otteri nari – thanks Satellite for the revenge. Steve would play the role of the heroine’s MBA brother with spects (he is good at this). This story was abruptly stopped by unknown reasons & we went for a small nap.

We reached Madurai during the early hours of Breakfast & all pretty hungry and as expected we had to walk abt 1.5 kms to reach the hotel. Steve did warn us that Bruce would never show us the sight of food on the way and avoid taking us through any of those views. This was indeed true, Jabbi twist !!!!

…………………………………………………………………..To be continued in Part II