The Dashing Diwali Part – Two…

               I know promises are always hard to keep… that too when it is time bound it’s really difficult. I wanted to finish off with this second post but it took more than what I thought this will take. Last post I wrote till I reached home. Nothing much that night or I should say morning as I reached at 2 A.M. Just dozed off and woke up for diwali has bath and was waiting for the whole family to reach home. Then we offered prayers to god and that was the time to wear new dress, I should say I had a surprise. Last two years I didn’t celebrate diwali and this year diwali didn’t want me to celebrate it. The pant which I bought for diwali, had the zip broken so I was unable to wear it. I thought at least I will wear the shirt but to my surprise it was too short. I thought I just wanted a short shirt but all I got was a shirt which was too short. Then I was left celebrating the diwali in old dress only. I had great time with my brothers and sisters. It was a nice family get-together. Then I returned to Erode on Sunday evening. I had to return since I had a get-together with my schoolmates that evening. Myself, Vijayan (SPL), Venkatesh Mani, Subash, Sokkumuthu, Gokula Krishnan and Murugaraj, this was the list of people who was there. Ragavendran missed out as he had to go to Karur.

               We met at Sokkumuthu’s house, and then decided to go to a restaurant. We went to Padmam, one of the good restaurants in the town. It was good look wise and I felt the atmosphere like it was candle light dinner effect. The lighting was dim and was good. Then we went on ordering and chatting about the good old times and the old stories. The lighting had a small impact on food. Venkatesh who mistook salt instead of pepper added more and more and his soup tasted like hot sea water… thanks to the lighting. Then came the climax when we finished our dinner and the bill came. Venkatesh who wanted to pay it by card and the waiter said “No Sir. We don’t accept cards…” Now people looked at me as though I am Nostradamus since I said “Let’s check whether they accept cards” just at the time we were entering the restaurant. Luckily we had some cash left and also the bill was not much we paid and went out to our homes. Then Tuesday I took left and boarded the train in the evening and came back to Bangalore at 8 P.M. It was a nice journey and I had lot of time to spend with friends and people whom I was waiting to see.

 I have also attached the few snaps that we took during the get-together. I feel great for finishing this post… I feel like as though I wrote an epic, every day, every minute and every second was thinking of writing and finishing it off but couldn’t find time to do the same. Finally I have done it… So cheers, hope there are lot more to come like this in my life.

The Dashing Diwali Part – One…

I know I am writing this after so many days. I really wanted to write it on the very day I came back to Bangalore and Even I thought of writing it back in my Lappy and just post it as soon as I come back to my desk on Wednesday 21st of October. But as usual, I am just another lazy guy on this universe so this took me this long. So what’s so special about this diwali, when go back down the memory lane… this is the first diwali for me that I am celebrating after I joined my dream job. Last two years I didn’t go home so no celebrations that’s one important reason but that’s not the only reason I had a get together with my schoolmates though not will all of them but with few guys who were also around the same time and again that’s not just the reason they way I started home for diwali that itself was special. Because I was traveling with Vijayan and Ragavendran, my schoolmates so the journey was guaranteed to have fun.

Let me start it from the beginning, as we already planned we started on 16th October 2009 afternoon. Nagavara was our meeting spot, where we decided to get along. I and Ragavendran have agreed to come along with luggage to office so that we can leave from office directly. Vijayan had to come to Nagavara then we will join and go to Silk board then will board a Salem bus that was the plan. To tell about Vijayan, he is our SPL (School People Leader but actually School Poriki leader fits him most) and Ragavendran was our Budjet padmanaban…. Vijayan reached at the exact time and Ragaven too joined him on time but I was late (As usual J )… then on phone we decided that they will go to Ram Moorthy Nagar signal, where Ragavan will change to slippers from shoes… I had to agree since I had no other choice. Reason one I can get some more time to start from office and the main reason was I cant’ bear the dead rat’s smell or hydrogen sulphide odur from Ragavan’s socks. I started exactly after one hour from my exact time. They were there waiting for me I got many calls from Ragavan. He was sick of waiting for me and was in a verge to leave to silk board but when I spoke to Vijayan he struck a deal with me he said he will wait if I promise him two cigars I liked the deal and agreed to the same.

When I reached Ram Moorthy Nagar Signal where the other two were waiting I had another great laugh after hearing the story. Ragavan had packed his slippers at morning five so he had two different combinations which he kept along in the early morning. So he had to go to his room to find the exact pair of slippers. Then there was a dilemma between us whether to go to silk board or to majestic to catch a bus, we ran towards each bus stop for five minutes and there was another deal which ever has a Volvo we will board it. Ragavan proposed it and I agreed to the same. We found a Volvo coming our way in the outer ring road towards silk board, we boarded the same. Finally we reached silk board around 2.30 P.M. All the buses were crowded like hell so we decided to go to majestic to get a seat for ourselves, without wasting time we ate boiled corn in silk board. Got to the other side of the road, Vijiyan gave an awesome idea… or so he said that we will get into a salem bus and to satellite bus stand then from there to salem again so that we get seats for sure. But the conductors of the buses which came were dumb and they didn’t really appreciate our idea so boarded a ksrtc bus to satellite bus stand. We reached majestic at 4 P.M. My dad called me and asked where I was I said him that am going to Majestic. We started at 12 P.M and even after four hours we were still inside Bangalore. After Majestic there was a diversion route so the bus had to go half the way around Bangalore to reach satellite bus stand. We reached Satellite bus stand at 4.30 P.M. Then we had lunch and boarded a Salem bus at 5 P.M. To my surprise the bus stand was empty and there was no sign of crowd.

The bus started to move and it was crawling I should say, we reached silk board at 7 P.M the place which we left at 3 P.M. Finally when we crossed Bangalore border it was 7.30 P.M. The whole Hosur road was jammed like hell. After 12 hours journey, we finally reached Salem at 12 A.M of 17th October 2009 which was Diwali. We celebrated there together then had to split up. I had to go to Rasipuram and those two had to go to Erode. I boarded a bus at 12.10 A.M which started after one hour and I reached home at 2 A.M. The whole journey we had fun watched movie in my laptop, then had the old stories… the days were before our eyes the day when we planned to burn school, the day when we were caught for copying, the day when our tenth results came without all our numbers on the news papers and many more. We didn’t realize the 12 hours passed just like that. Thanks for the wise cracks by Vijayan and timely help from Ragavan.
Thanks for the wise cracks by Vijayan and timely help from Ragavan. Thanks to you guys for the company and fun. The diwali begun with a dash and it had it through out. Will tell the rest of the story in the next post…