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.