Beach Beach Beach Part 2

Snehpreetam Beach

In morning, I got a wakeup call from a friend, since she thought I would be the first to wake and awake others. I got up fast and ran towards washroom, took shower and got ready to rock. Few of us were ready so we went to temple of Lord Krishna; it was a very big temple with long queue. Soon we got to know that only gents wearing Lungi and ladies wearing salwar suit/sarees are allowed inside. So we dropped the idea of going inside. Some person told us that we can go from the other side and worship from outside only. We tried that, but idol was not at all visible.

Cherai Beach

One more interesting thing about that Temple, we saw a newly married couple, in which bride was full of Gold jewelry. She was looking like a shop. After all this we went to hotel and got ready for Beach. Now I am gonna tell you why I named this post as “Beach Beach Beach”. We all first decided to visit Chavakkad Beach and we booked our hotel near that beach only. We reached Chavakkad Beach, but no one liked that beach, so we turned our vehicle towards another beach named SnehPreetam, but again no one agreed on that. After all this, we visited the best beach Cherrai Beach. It was the third beach, hence the name… “Beach Beach Beach“. I must say, it was the most awesome beach, we visited. All entered into beach and remained there for almost 2 hours. It was my first time in an ocean, so I felt like it’s too salty. Every time water enters my mouth, it felt salty… too salty. We played football and sand fight, must say njoyed a lot. Some friends also learnt swimming. One friend lost his goggle on beach, and others thought that they will do underwater and find that goggle. Of course we were not able to get that back. After this, we took bath in normal water. Now we took some sunset pics and then marched towards Coimbatore.

Sunset at Cherai Beach

En the route, we thought to have dinner, hence we stopped at a big restaurant. We checked menu, it was complete Non-Veg, few items were veg, but not available. Then too we ordered something veg, I had some, then I thought it is not enough for dinner, so I stepped out and had an icecream(it has lot of calories hence it was best fast food available there) and Mazaa (best healthy drink).  Finally we reached Coimbatore. This was the last trip of Training of Coimbatore, but I think it was not the least, there may be much more awaiting for us at our base locations.

Note:

All my dear readers, this is the last post of 2012. In New Year, I’ll write blog in a totally new address, new interface, and new flavor. I hope I’ll get the same responses from you.

Thank You

Beach Beach Beach

Last trip of training was a blast. All planning was cancelled, we had nothing in our mind till Friday night and suddenly on Saturday morning, we decided to visit Chavakkad Beach. We left our hostel at 4pm. Picked girls from their hostel, now we had 4 couples with us and rest singles, in all 14 were there. We reached Kerala late and booked a hotel (a luxurious one) after exploring 5. Now we were heading towards a restaurant, en the route some stranger might have touched one girl of our group, she reached restaurant and created a big scene there. She blamed her partner for all the mess, he apologized for the mistake and even did sit ups. But girl was not ready to accept any apology, now boy turned red and went out without dinner. Four went after him, First I thought I should also wait for the air to settle, but then I got the picture, that all this is just a drama and I should better be concentrating on matar paneer. I had dinner, and then I tried to cool down the girl and gave her a frank advice “you should have your diner; boy must have had dinner outside”. But she won’t understand, well whole dinner was spoiled because of this couple, finally boy returned and we all headed back to our hostel.

After all this, we all decided to visit Beach after midnight, but hotel owner stopped us and gave clear instructions that police will catch us and its not safe to roam in that area and that too with girls is not at all safe. So we started watching movie. After some time one friend came in our room and asked is anyone coming for night walk at 1pm. I whispered “They are going Beach” in one friend ear, she said “No they are not”. I said Let us see. HIT, I also joined night walk, soon after getting out we planned to visit beach, I opened mobile navigator and got the route. We were following map, but there was a turn in the map at a point, so we thought we should ask the security guard standing in a shop.

Well at first look, he didn’t seem like a real sec guard, he was more like a zombie. He was actually walking in sleep. It was the only second; he woke up when I confirmed the route to beach. The route he told us was actually after passing Police Station, in order to avoid the problems we had to change our route and follow the route as given in navigator. Storm came….after walking a certain distance, a Police van came towards us, we stopped, and they stopped, and started questioning us. We told them innocently that, we are tourists and we didn’t know that it is not at all safe roaming there at 3am. First they were slightly strict and then they become soft, they showed us beach and after that dropped us at a safe point. They also asked us if we would like to have a rickshaw. We also took few pictures with them.

We reached our hotel and had a little chit-chat, while in that chat; one friend sat on a glass table and broke it. Then we finally went to sleep, so as to avoid any more damage. Ab aap bhi sojaaao, iske aage ka kal subah padhna….Gud Night 

Going Ahead

Kodaikanal

I was watching a movie in my room. Enjoying the weekend on Saturday night 10 pm. suddenly a friend called me and asked “would you like to come on a trip to Kodaikanal now”. I asked “right now!!!” he said “yes right now, may be after after 2 hours”. I thought for a second, that’s it’s a cool place and I would never get second chance to visit it. I said “yes, why not??”

Just after an hour girls came to our hostel, without taking permission from their hostel. Its not allowed at 11 o clock, to take any permission. So they just fooled the security guard and came out running to our hostel. I must say they have guts to do such task. Well visitors are not allowed to go upstairs in our hostel, so they stayed at reception, till our Bus came. 

Wow, whaaat a bus it was, we were 8 students and bus was 20 seater. I just thought, wats goin on yaar. We left our hostel at 12 o clock. We plugged our pen drive in the bus and soon after some time, bus turned into Disco theque. All of us were dancing like hell, what I felt there was out of the world. I also had some low feelings in my mind, since I was missing my old friend(s). Still I managed to dance with all the energy I had.

After some time we stopped at a temple. The check post of kodaikanal opens at 5 am, so we had no other option to stop at some place, we chose that temple. It was 3 am, no one was feeling sleepy, so we thought to roam around temple for some time. We were walking in night at 3 am in a totally new place. It was all really fun, not to mention missing part.

We reached our bus after round, and decided to sleep for some time. But all wanted to sleep in jungle near check post, so we took our bus there. All of us were sleeping except two; others were talking whole night on the roof of our bus in the moonlight, kinds Romantic!

 Finally we reached Kodaikanal, checked in a hotel. The temperature was 12 degree Celsius, so you can imagine how cool the climate was. It was totally different environment round the scene, it was awesome. Soon we got ready in not so hot water.

We were hungry now, I mean really hungry, so we went to a restaurant named Rasoi. Owner was a Punjabi aunty, who knew to talk only in rude manner, but the items made by her were delicious. We all ate a lot, the bill was around 1700 for 8 students. After that we visited a forest like area, where we were actually walking in between clouds. The whole nature was looking like a movie set. Forest, trees mountains and to add sugar to that, we had clouds everywhere around us. Then we visited one more place, it was also cool. Most funny part of this place was a monkey climbed over a friend, to get corn from her hand. She gave him immediately; I heard that news in a minute and hid my corn in back pocket. When I was busy In taking pics, one monkey came towards me, since he saw my back pocket, I just hid myself for a second and another second re appeared, now the monkey became confused. That was comedy part of the trip. Now the girls proved themselves and started shopping, I had to push them after regular intervals so that they keep on moving.

After watching this one point, we headed back to Coimbatore. I was bit tired so I slept in the return journey. In Coimbatore we had dinner and finally came back to our hostel.  

Athirapalli Waterfalls Kerala

Last Saturday we visited Athirapalli Waterfalls in Kerala. Story starts with a text message from a friend, asking about the fall. I gave my confirmation soon as I am fond of Nature. Complete planning was done by two friends. I had no clue of the venue type, arrangements and members so just a night before I visited my friends room to enquire about the arrangements at that time, he gave me the responsibility for the rest of the journey, now I was sort of administrator. Our vehicle started from hostel to girls one, they came on board. Now the Journey begins, I collected trip amount from everyone. We were listening music lil dancing and having fun. After some time, we stopped at the petrol pump and had breakfast in a nearby restaurant. Most of us started feeling boredom now, except me as I was talking to all of them on an interesting topic or other.

Finally we reached Athirapalli and I stepped down for tickets, the total ticket amount was Rs445, I gave ticket collector a note of Rs500, and he gave me RS 250 as change, I didn’t moved from the window, to clarify my doubt about the change, but the queue behind me were in hurry. I got out from the queue and I called him twice, to return the money back, he didn’t listen.I came back in cab, all clapped, I thanked them for the applause.(Although I don’t know why they did that). Finally we changed our costumes and entered into the fall, it was awesome, we played in the fall for a long time, and it was really fun. There were some pits in the fall, so few friends fall in those and got hurt. I also fell in one but was safe. Thanks to God. There was a foreign couple also in the fall, not to mention it was not dressed as it should not be in India. In my thinking, wherever we go, we should try to abide by their culture. Like I eat Dosa, Kurma, Sambhar on daily basis in Tamil Nadu.

After some time fall authorities came and said that its time to come out, I quickly got out avoiding cold problem. After some time all others joined me. Then we visited downfall to get the complete picture of the fall. It was amazing, marvelous, and awesome and many other adjectives can be added to beauty of the fall.

When we were coming up, it made us more than exhausted. We decided to have our dinner in some shahi place called as Rajdhani. There were different opinions for the venue. In last it was decided to go in any restaurant that’s available on time (no choice).We started music in our cab and in few minutes, whole bus was rocking. Music was awesome, friends were awesome, and all those factors made the whole bus ROCKING. All of us were exhausted, still we were dancing like hell, and at least I was.

After few hours all settled on their places, hungry….but we were not able to search any good restaurant, till we reached Coimbatore. At the restaurant we all had good dinner. As soon as we get on board, I gave the balance amount to driver. Now I showed complete statement to all the members and said, if you want any clarification regarding money, clear it now. They all believes me, that’s why from starting they gave me the responsibility of money. I returned the balance amount to all my friends. Then we dropped girls at their place and finally reached our place. I must say it was an awesome trip, you can get this idea from pictures too.

Learning Journey

Life is a long journey. It is a learning journey, we spent a lot of time preparing for academic and neglect import things like skill set.

Yes Dear I learnt Garba (or Dandiya, a type of dance performed by Gujratis around Amba Mataji) too in my learning journey. Two of my friends and I (Sourabh and Mohit) visited Gujrati Samaj of Coimbatore (T.N.) on 22nd Oct. Three of us walked to bus stop, took a bus to RSPuram. All of were hungry, so we visited Marwadi Restaurant and had Dinner. Dinner was awesome, since I had fast on that day, I ate a lot.

After that we went to Gujrati Samaj. Soon I found that we were sitting in ladies section. When we reached that section, not a single lady was there. But after few minutes, we were surrounded by lot of girls. We left that section and moved to another.

After watching Graba for some time, we also joined the circle. One kid noticed me struggling with steps and understood that I dont know Garba. He helped me and soon I moved in tune.

Soon it was time for us to leave . We were supposed to reach our hostel by 11:30. We hired a cab and reached our hostel. I must say, I have never played garba in my lifetime on such platform in front of big audience. But I did well. So I can say that I am learning new things. Really life is a Learning Journey.  

Malampujha Dam

Hello Friends

I am back with a new place. Well the most important point about this place is its located in the southernmost end of India. The Malampujha Dam is situated in Kerela in Pallakkad District. I and a Southy friend of mine visited dam last saturday. I felt good after meeting a familiar face after so long time. Although I had  class (office ), but it was half day. we had very less time to go Kerala and return back, therefore I ran towards home as soon as I can. When I reached, I found that I lost my cupboard key. I searched them everywhere, but they were not found. I asked our warden if she has the key, yes the keys were with the warden. Actually I forgot them at the cupboard door only. She took them, when housekeeping staff came in. Now I first reached railway station, as it was decided between me and my friend. But there was no train at that time, so we took a bus to Ukkadam Bus stand. We boarded the bus and went Kerala. En the route towards Kerala, it started raining. We reached Pallakad and boarded another bus for Malampujha Dam. At this time it was raining slowly. I was thinking that the rains will slow down and eventually stop. Now we entered the dam cum garden. The concept behind this place is that, they have created a big garden around dam, really great idea. We were roaming in that garden, with a slight fear, because then place had insufficient lights and less no of people.

 Soon It started raining heavily and we became complete wet. I had tension of my e gadgets- mobiles and cam. Soon we ran towards exit and boarded the bus for railway station. The train was after 45min, now we were waiting at the platform and we were hungry. But we were not able to find any good stuff there, so we just had Biscuits and tea. The train was late 15min and it took more time that usual to reach Coimbatore. We were tired like hell. We parted our ways at the station. I found a veg restaurant infront of station, but it was closed, another 2 restaurants were also closed. In the end I was able to search a good veg restaurant. I had my dinner and boarded a bus to Gandhipuram. From Gandhipuram to Shivananda Colony. Actually I wanted to reach Rathinapuri, but I was not able to explain conductor the stop name. When I reached Shivananda stop, he said me to de board the bus, I said next stop, but such a type of conductor he was, he made me de board the bus there only. Now I was completely exhauted, first office, then rains and now this bus conductor. The clock was showing 11:45pm. As soon as I got down I started requesting for lifts, after walking some distance I got one (Risky business at this time in a new place).

 

I still had some distance to cover to reach my home. Now I was on foot, as I was passing by the bridge I saw lots of dogs. I was scared, but I kept myself calm and cool and crossed it. Finally I reached Home. Surprise It was locked, so I jumped from the wall and got in, again the stairs door was locked, finally I called my warden, she opened the gate and I reached my flat.   

Mardmalai

Mardmalai Temple

They don’t understand my language, I don’t understand their

They don’t know me, I don’t know them.

Still both of us want to be friends.

I visited Mardmalai Temple today. I boarded bus no. 70 from Gandhipuram. I was standingin the bus, the conductor came to me and shifted me the other side.(Remember this shifting, Ill come to this part later.)

Soon I found a seat near 1 student. I started interacting with him.I asked about his studies and many other things, while interacting I got to know that he is also going to same place with his parents.

After some time, I called conductor and said him I want a ticket, till that time we had already crossed 2 stations, he asked me “where are u coming from (in tamil)”, I didn’t understood a word, what he was talking, my neighbor answered “Gandhipuram”. Suddenly he got angry and was started saying  ”asdasd asdasd asdasdf asdfasdfdkfghirogh”. Ya it seemed to me like this only, after some time my neighbor said “money”. I gave the money and conductor left us. Now my neighbor became my friend, I asked him “why the conductor was shouting”. He said “because I should have taken the ticket before time”. I was just laughing inside, thinking that “first of all it was not my responsibility to take ticket it’s the conductor’s still when I tried to buy one, he shifted me and in last If I could not have taken the ticket or have bluffed other stop, he was not be able to catch me”. It was me who being honest done all the right things and that guy was yelling at me like hell, all other passengers watching this. It was a cool incident, I don’t know what he was shouting but I didn’t understand a word.

Moral: Whenever someone says something bad/wrong to you, just think that you don’t understand a thing what he/she is talking about. It will make that incident awesome.

 We reached Mardmalai Temple. We removed our shoes at the shoe stand and I also kept my shoes with them. We went inside the main temple after covering large no of stairs. In the Temple, there was an idol of God Murugan on which lots of things such as coconut water, milk and few other things were being poured. Personally I don’t like all this stuff, giving money in big temples and pouring lots of things on God’s idol. As an add on to my thinking I had recently watched the movie OMG(Oh my God), which raises the issue of money collecting agents (Pandits, Padri, Father) of each religion. As we all(Me, My new Friend, His Father and Mother) were standing there, my friends father gave the pandit a Rs15 ticket and told the Pandit names of their 3 family members. I was thinking “what is this? They are here, pandit is here, then why give money to pandit, for calling their names in front of God, They can also do that.” Pandit is not a messenger of God or something like that. My friend’s father also gave Coconut to pandit. He divided it in 2 pieces and water was thrown, again wastage.

My New Friend

After all this, we came out of Temple. There were some rituals being performed by friend’s mother on him, she also performed on me. At that time I thought she just treated me like her son, how sweet south Indians are. We just met an hour ago and I didn’t said a word to his mother, because she dont understand me and I don’t understand her (language barrier). Still she treated me like her son.

Now we came down, she insisted me to take something from the shop, where they all were buying. I said “no, I don’t know any of the things in the shop”. But she again insisted, and gave a sweet in my hand; at this time I got the idea that she wants me to have anything from the shop from her side. I tried to say no, a lot of time; suddenly a hindi understanding guy showed up and made me sure about the thinking of mother. I thought, I would be acting rude, if I don’t take something from the shop. I took banana chips, as the sweet was looking too sweet.

Then we boarded the bus. When my stop was near, I just touched the feet of his parents, said by to my friend and came home.

They don’t understand my language, I don’t understand their

They don’t know me, I don’t know them.

Still both of us want to be friends.

Yes that’s true, weather we take my friend’s mother, my mess’s (restaurant’s) uncle and aunty, my office security guard anyone of them.

They don’t know me nor they understand my language, still they understand me, still they help me, still they become my friends.

Must say South Indians are good and helping people.