Recently 7 of us went to vijayawada to attend our friend's thread ceremony. We took a train at 7 in the morning. Unbelievably the train was quite empty. What was even more unbelievable was that the train was really neat. No red colored spit marks. Not a speck of dirt. There were some offensive graffiti done over the wash area walls but lets not get into that. Since the train left really early in the morning (come on, 7 in the morning, have a heart) we had to make our piece with the 'lip msacking' breakfast sold by the pantry car. I had something which was claimed to be Pongal by the seller, but tasted more like hard clay than pongal (not that I have tasted hard clay). We spent time playing cards, listening to music, just plain talking and watching a man sell a wierd kind of a magnet pair that clung to each other (all magnet pairs do, but this was really wierd, i just dont know how to describe). The train reached Vijayawada at 3. My friends dad was there to recieve us. We took two autos to his place. The Vijayawada's autos are ridiculously cheap, charging just half of what our chennai counterparts would.
That evening we went out, sightseeing the Vijayawada city. Krishna Dam was our first stop. It was a huge long dam with so much of water on one side and no water on the other side. I have this very bad phobia for water (is it hydrophobia?) and so it was so tough for me to look at such a huge expanse of water. Something kept threatening me that if i were going to get near the water, the water would rise like a dragon and just eat me up. After taking a few snaps with the krishna as the backdrop we moved towards the Durga temple which is situated atop a hill. Eventhough there were buses to take us up and get us down, we thought it would be fun to just climb the hill (there were steps ofcourse, we didnt rock climb or anything). That night we returned quite early back home. The dinner was weel and done. Four of us sat up to play cards till about 2 in the night.
The next morning we had to attend the function quite early. The function went on well and we had a good time. At 2 in the noon we had our train back to Chennai. We had an early lunch at the function and left for the railway station. Our train was ridiculously small, just 7 or 8 coaches. One less coach and i could have pulled the train myself. The train was a little crowded this time but that didnt stop us from having fun. We were the most noisiest passengers of the train. I spent some nice time standing near the door and letting cool breeze just hit my head. It was wonderful. There was one woman who acted like a eunuch to get us give her some money. She was unneccesarily trying to behave indescently with us. I was disgusted by the way she was dancing (and doing a lot more) and i immediately gave in. She was not even content with 10 bugs. Like as if someone would actually give her more for that dance. One of my friends was quite good at restraining himself from giving money but the minute she said "you would go to hell", he just gave in too. We reached chennai at about 10 in the night. We just had time to grab burgers from Marybrown for dinner. That was one hell of a trip (not that 'you would go to hell' hell).
That evening we went out, sightseeing the Vijayawada city. Krishna Dam was our first stop. It was a huge long dam with so much of water on one side and no water on the other side. I have this very bad phobia for water (is it hydrophobia?) and so it was so tough for me to look at such a huge expanse of water. Something kept threatening me that if i were going to get near the water, the water would rise like a dragon and just eat me up. After taking a few snaps with the krishna as the backdrop we moved towards the Durga temple which is situated atop a hill. Eventhough there were buses to take us up and get us down, we thought it would be fun to just climb the hill (there were steps ofcourse, we didnt rock climb or anything). That night we returned quite early back home. The dinner was weel and done. Four of us sat up to play cards till about 2 in the night.
The next morning we had to attend the function quite early. The function went on well and we had a good time. At 2 in the noon we had our train back to Chennai. We had an early lunch at the function and left for the railway station. Our train was ridiculously small, just 7 or 8 coaches. One less coach and i could have pulled the train myself. The train was a little crowded this time but that didnt stop us from having fun. We were the most noisiest passengers of the train. I spent some nice time standing near the door and letting cool breeze just hit my head. It was wonderful. There was one woman who acted like a eunuch to get us give her some money. She was unneccesarily trying to behave indescently with us. I was disgusted by the way she was dancing (and doing a lot more) and i immediately gave in. She was not even content with 10 bugs. Like as if someone would actually give her more for that dance. One of my friends was quite good at restraining himself from giving money but the minute she said "you would go to hell", he just gave in too. We reached chennai at about 10 in the night. We just had time to grab burgers from Marybrown for dinner. That was one hell of a trip (not that 'you would go to hell' hell).
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Karthik,
Good one. Continue writing, let's see what this blog has to offer!
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