A Weblog

Okies...this is ma first attempt at a travelogue...

1.2.06: morning 6 30 am:
Knock..knock..as i had been promised, my frnz woke me up at 6 30(ok ok don blv it...but yeah its true tat i woke up so early :O...)the train was scheduled at 8 am. So we din hve a choice but to leave college asap. All of us(n tat wud include me, dino, harish, vinodh, deepan and shanky) somehow got ready n left by 7 :05. We were runnning late. It took around 45 mins to reach the bus stand n an auto ride from ther 2 the railway station meant we reached station just in time for us to get the tickets and some food. We hurried off to the 3rd platform and to our dismay, a huge crowd of commuters were already waiting for the train. And as luck wud hve had it, the train was running late. By the time the train arrived, we gobbled up half the junk food. The train was running packed and we somehow got into cpl of upper berths.6 of us and a train journey for 5 hours meant wholesum fun n wat a fun we had.
First things first and we had our breakfast. Station food was aweful as usual but no one was in a mood to complain. Dino had brought his discman and we had packed a set of speakers planning 2 rock the train. To our disappointment, the speaker din work(damn us...we nvr tested it bak in the hostel..). This meant that we had to manage wit the headfones and hence took turns to listen 2 music. Next we played cards. Wats a train journey without a game of cards. We din play rummy(is tat the correct spellin??but guess all kno wat it is :D) or asH(sometimes the H is misspelt as S ;). Instead we played "No Kiss". Ok ok its not strip poker or sth. Its the NIT-C's version of the game "Numero Uno". Does it ring a bell?I am sure it does. The rules r simple. U goto empty the set of cards tat u got wit u. And for the NITC flavor, we make use of a Draw 7 instead of Draw 4. By the time the game ended, the rules vr bent n twisted so tat poor shanky was made to Draw 7 thrice :D. After the game ended, we all felt sleepy. Not a bit surprising since we are used to sleeping during class hours. Dino had brought a book "The monk who sold his ferrari" and I had "Atlas Shrugged" for company. Shanky was reading "the monk" and got bored within minutes of reading it. So we exchanged our books and I found him snoring after a page of "Atlas"..(I wudn blame him). I had been looking around for a "How To" book for a long time. The first few pages sounded promising and I started reading it earnestly. Till a particular page where a guy is shocked to learn that "concentration is the key to mastery of mind"...wat the hell...any kid in India wud know tat...So I stopped reading and continued wit Rand for sometime and b4 long, I too dozed off. By the time I woke up the train had reached Cbe.
1.2.2006: noon 1:30 PM:
Aaaahhh....Coimbatore.....the city wit which I have fallen in love....It felt gr8 to be bak in Cbe. We din stay there for long since our train to Salem was scheduled to depart at 1:45. In between tho, we had a look at the score(wher else do u hve live telecast of the cricket match being shown??Long live CBE..:D) and got into the train. I was planning to continue my siesta but my frnz suggested tat we play Rummy. Dino and Harish din kno the rules. So Vinodh carefully explained the rules and the cards were distributed and everyone was ready. This is were the fun started. Harish's face lit up when he saw his cards and not even a round had got over when he put down his cards. To our utter disbelief, the debutant claimed that he had finished the game even b4 some of us had chckd our cards. PPl, its like a batsman scoring 400 on debut. Someone amongst us recovered quickly and chckd his cards and after a minute, we all were rolling on the floor with laughter. One of the sets that Harish had formed contained three 6's. Well that is legally permitted excpt tat cpl of 6's belonged to the same flower :D. The game was wrapped up bcos of his wrong call and he ended the game wit 80 pts(the one wit the min credit wins@ the end). It was the jus the beginning of Harish's misery. He kept piling 80 points every game after game till we reached Salem. He did win a game in between but lost the nxt two to kinda compensate :D. And when we reached Salem, Harish' credit stood at 400+!!!

We then got down at salem at around 4 30. Bala came n picked us up and in no time we were in the mandapam. Sap joined us from Tiruchengode at around 7 pm.... This was my first trip 2 salem and its a nice place..small tho compared 2 other cities in TN(bala....ru listenin?? :P)..the mapillai azhaippu and the kalyanam went off well and we had gr8 food after a very long time:D...our best wishes to Anu and Sivakumar :)...Wishin both a happy married life....

PS:
Do wotch out for the 2nd part of the travelogue :DAll pix vr taken by ma frnd Deepan...