delhi trip

NOTe: I wrote half of this yesterday and the remaining tody -- so tense clashes are all over. adjust maadi

Jus got back after a long and tiring trip to delhi to meet a cpl of artistes regarding sangamam work. Have never been on a more unplanned trip al my life. N will never be on one again ;) was kinda scary - but was great experience nevertheless. standing outside saravana bhavan at janpath, when he was jus abt to close - trying desperately to use the tamizh senti to make him get us some food at close to 11.30 in the night..... this was awesome fun.
well, pat on our backs... we did manage to. the adi maavu dosai,14-idly basundhi, n coffee... (yeah we realised it was a bad combi of assorted dishes -- but who cares - it was good food after an incredibly long wait)
Mr.sundaram and Mr.vijaykumar -- 2 ppl whom i know very well now, managers/supervisors at saravana bhavan - really helpful ppl who resembled visu and my dad respectively. made us feel comfortable, wanted and cared for. helped us out in enquirin abt hotels where we could stay for the night... and well helped us thru the queue for lunch the next afternoon. yup fixed thaali - it was. i still feel full jus thinking abt it. the place and the food -- ROCK!
thanks :)

that apart - the auto hunt n money constraint n the "no credit" card at coffee day will forever be in our memories i guess. for once i had to accept my dad was right abt me and my money managing capabilities! :(( that explains the Rs. - 34/- on my hutch pre-paid. wonder how roaming could possibly be so expensive. freaking 10 bucks for a minute of incoming or what?

anyways, the money saving plans were more to get tickets at PVR for the ONE n only RANG DE BASANTHI/./. sadly --- we were there on a weekend n they were sold out. pretty much expected.. so the cribbin part there after got gusd!

we went around hunting all over KAROL bagh, cnot place, sadar bazaar,chandni chowk and finally came to prathap bagh -- which was after shit loads of contemplation.... cos until then we were dragging around the mridhangam that we got from mr.shreeganesh.

oh that reminds me.. the vist to mr.shreeganesh house was good fun. until then yb n ganesh were constantly giglling.. u guys can imagine how --- the sathal and the siripu combnation was almost successful in makin us go crazy ... and aprom thankfull we guys managed to reach ganesh's house. apparently he has his own band called dhwani. its like a percussion group. n he even played us a cpl of songs from their recent concert.. it sounded real good. so we gen put some more contis and lots of lacha and had a cup of coffee and left his place with the mridhangam - first thing in the morning.

then we tracelled almost across town to go to rama's house. the guys were puttin gaja buja enthu -- the rest of u know why :P well there we got a lot more to eat. that was great incentive... and we were doin gaja buja counselling for her daughter wrt acads n college admissions :)) i know... i know! but engalaiyum madhichu kekaraangale gara enthu la non stop for close to an hr all of us were lachaaing.

we managed to get 2 articles for our dhwani the same way. chak -- shall pass it on to u soon.

so yeah .. back to prathap bagh... we managed to fne a saraaswathi bommai like how we wanted out there on the roads. not jus that --- we also got another pullaiyaar vigraham and another pullaiyaar silai -- which is like a wall hanger. ganam aa gaathramaa iruku ... all three. those are 2 of the 3. shall take a pic at raag room soon n post that as well

later we took an auto straight to isbt... and walked in semicircles along the perimeter of isbt .. trying to find the entrance gate... with all the extra fittngs and the mridhangam. finally we did reach a whole 3 hrs before 10.. and managed to book our tickets. then after a cpl of calls back home and to ppl at pilani.. we went to McDonalds hoping we could eat EAT EAT. we did... but we were runnin a lil short on cash at hand -- so kinda decided we wud pay by card and then collect the money after getting back to campus. so the order list went on n on for like 5 minutes after loads of deciding n re-deciding.. and the damage for 341! we hand over teh card and the guy at the counter snaps back sayin..."we dont accept cards ma'am". gaja buja SHAAWKING. ;)

anyways... ntn we cud do. so we managed to pay it up... with perfect change.. and ate all of it. we were entertained by a waiter who claimed to be the greatest fan of A.R.Rahman... and he finally thuppified on us unintentionally. he sad he was a break dancer as part of some troupe and that he earned close to 35k per month. and he also added on sayin that was nothing.. and he cud make so muh more than jus 35k and thats why he was workin part time at McD's! anyways... konjam rombave gaanda kalapinaan..

anyways i guess end of trip -- shanky improved his hindi skills. and all of us gained close 4 kg weight! :P

the smell of rust and dust n the sound of the baby wailing n the stupid pink saree female pukin all thru the journey .. and vague screams of the word "ulti" disgust me.

everytime i say - no more ISBT. but well economical constraints don leave u with an option do they?

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:
dakshina dakshina dakshina :P (kari - yb's pisd with you)