Another Whirlwind Tour

Back to chennai to drop viks back and this time too, stuck in a day train. Can't say if India's population exploded manifold over the week, but the crowd in the train surely did. Can't believe a day train on a saturday afternoon to chennai can be that crowded. People sure have funny hobbies.

Chennai was so overcast that even dodda ganesh could have bowled outswingers. Cloudy, drizzly and eternally cool. To think of how shortlived this whole spell would be, sigh. Met monex and folks on saturday night at the besant nagar dhabba. They had a ransacked poultry on their table by the time i went and thank god for that. Chicken in all assorted forms that could be thought of, in all fancy names, but still smelling the same. All set for ajay's marriage and looks like the whole trip to chennai was courtesy the soon-to-be groom. Surprising what a hint of marriage can do to your generosity.

Met pangs and seagull shiva on sunday. Visited kwiky's at gn chetty road after almost 4 years and the place sure looks ancient now. One of the first coffee pubs in chennai, it used to be __the__ hangout one point of time. Now the place is so empty that you have couple of desperadoes necking their way to glory at 11am on a sunday morning when their parents are busy watching arattai arangam. Coffee pubs in bangalore are a different story though. Another day, Another Blog.

Met the twisters and since that would cover an entire blog network in itself, am dropping it from here.

Got down at bangalore in the morning and it was so darned cold. Now that i seem to have gotten back to this inseparable romance with wheezing, i just wrapped myself in my shawl and walked down. When i crossed the mirror, i suddenly looked like someone familiar. After a while, when a really kind-hearted auto-driver almost threatened me to get into his auto, eyes glinting with pity, promising that he would charge only what the meter says, i realised whom i resembled. It had to be Mike Mohan singing/coughing "maniyosai kettu ezhundhu" or Nagarjuna singing "kaaviyam paada vaa thendrale". In other words, terminally ill.