Trip to Pondicherry

Trip to Pondicherry

It all happened in a chat session, the decision to goto pondicherry for the Pooja weekends. Rajaguru happens to be a native to the place and Manikandan was just a curio looking into the window glass. My granny was in Chennai just before the weekend and with a few last time decisions cum hestitations, I convinced my mom to come with us as well. Having studied the Chennai Traffic I thought of going to High Court and then goto CMBT, but carrying luggages we decided to take an auto all the way. We dropped at CMBT at around 9-25 in the morning. Having started 1/2 an hour before us - Mani was still on the way. Mani joined us in time for the 9-45 Bus, I had no clue that he missed out his morning breakfast. I was getting myself cozy for the travel, we were discussing about the revolutionary changes the metro was witnesing around its face which was very evident in the little journey from Koyambedu to Guindy. Even the six way roads were getting in shape for the alternative for the ECR. In no time we reached Toll Plaza and from then on it was a quite a scenic ride towards Pondicherry. We reached Pondy at around 1-30, had our quickly prepared lunch by around 2 PM.
We had a short sleep and soon we were disturbed by the phone call of Rajaguru and we had to start off to Krishna Guest house which is in RangaPillai street. It is a nice cozy hide out, we had to book a 2*2 bedroom - space for our setting. Soon the pondicherry pooja took off. There was this bar nearby in the Hotel Surya, it was a nice little den and I like that setting in a way, the chicken spring rolls were good and I soon felt the overwhelm of the scent and sprinkle so I decided to take a break and move on, we decided to meet for the movie- "House of the flying daggers" at Rathna kottaai.
I soon called up Ragu and he rushed immediately with his brother Mani jr. He was awed to see me initially and then he moved on gradually.We had a brief chat and I took him to the movies, though the effects were good It felt distraught for bringing in Ragu/Mani amidst a nonsense crowd. The movie had a bad ending as well. The guys were already drenched with whatever in the bar's menu but still wanted to have an overdose. They moved on during the intervals and I was watching the movie with zilu, mani, mani jr and Ragu. After the movie I headed towards Richie rich, we had a brief session there enjoying the icecreams and milkshakes. Then I headed off to the hotel asking ragu to handover some Ice creams to my home. Ragu duely did that along with dropping me in the Hotel.
I had so little a clue what I was about to witness, Rajaguru was in full form and playing full monty. The table was full of biriyani and parottas. I decided to stay with these guys, after a long non-sense sessions which included build,billions, insurance , design, stunts and so on. Then finally it was morning and I decided to head back home, people were watching me with a little bit of suspicion, but I felt O.K whatever were the twists in the dialogues.
I then joined them for a brief session before lunch and I headed back home for my lunch, the guys had some outing in the Auroville, after a calm sleep it was evening and Ragu called me up. We started a walk and I was stumbled to see Rajaguru along with the guys in the beach pani puri /chat pull-vehicle corner. Rajaguru and the other machos departed leaving me, ragu and mani sr. for the big walk. we moved in and out of the beach, had a little stint in the handicrafts center put up, we had a few tender coconuts and we walked back home. The roads have improve drastically and the silence was creeping ever so perenially. The buildings, decorated with ambient light stood at its own medieval best for the gazing souls like me. Soon everything were coming to an end by the stroke of the clock and the chillness of the air.
We three had a silent dinner without much fuss and talking, with a few discussion that started and ceased as it was hightime for Bed, by no time it was 4 30 in the morning, everybody overran the clock by waking up by 4-15 and in fifteen minutes we were off to madras. We were able to catch up a bus by 5 in the morning and rode back to tell this story.