It was on the 2nd of June.. my friend and I decided to go to Tirupati..a long time due appointment that BOSS had given me, and I as usual failed to keep. Quite an interesting venture. Gotta let you know this, that I have a "machham" somewhere which mm yet to figure out....I have the good luck of driving New cars to Tirupati. The last time was in Feb 07, my colleague gave me the opportunity of driving a brand new Alto, not so comfy.. but I better not crib..who gets the op to drive a brand new vehicle, with not even the plastic removed from the seats..that too such a long dist....
Ya, am quite proud of myself, I have let in others to believe that I am a good driver of cars...and my friends do trust me before they hand over the keys to me, quite ignorant about my past driving skills...;)
Coming back to my trip... A brand new Santro clad in a wine red suite, shining and standing proud was waing for me to ride her on...we started at about 12pm, after having bought sweets for our man..Mr Prasath. We took the Tada route, thru Red Hills and the road was simply superb! Not an "e-kaka" to stop us..We sped by, with just one elaneer break in the middle, where the owner of the car actually wanted to drive in the highway for about 10 kms. We reached Hotel Bhimas and stuffed ourslves with a rava dosai and a "south indian kaapi"..Left the car at Alipiri bus stand- my friend wasnt again sure if his new possession would be safe, but my assurance did give hime an aorta of confidence.
We started to climb up the hills..Ghosh! the first hill indded was quite an ordeal..I had a kind of a "black out" but my mate's instincts worked well (for a change) and the "choda" was very very relieving. Humid and raining. There were people from al over the country, some reading the Vishnu Sahasranaman, some bending down all the way smeating the stair case with manjal and kungumam, some enjoying the "picnic" and some having the army spirit-their only motive was to clear the 1st hill-quite an uphill task. We reached the end of the 1t hillWhat a relief..We knew the next 5 hills is going to be easy...we went on, prayed to hanuman to provide us the "glicon-d" when we wanted it, and just sped. My friend managed to have the "cool" look in him and managed to impress fellow "golti comp freaks", with his "I work for CTS" dialogue in the most professional manner, as if he was the the critical man to the COO...;)
We climed up, with our feet yearning for rest... and at last reached our room with much an enquiry. Here was Mr Prasath-our hero welcoming us with the room keys. Had dinner and my friend had this second spot decision..mottai. Prasath was an action hero indded. Got the first place for him in the "to be mottai" queue and all was over in 10 flat minutes. Our friend came our victorious..like Bruce Willis in the Jackal...It suited him wee enough though! Next, tickets were ready for the "roll over"-Angapradarshanam.. and now my friend decided to make it a triathlon.. got a veshti and Ready..
At about 1 am we got up, in our pyjamas and so called veshti, had a couple of buckets of water on us and sped to the queue. By the time the whole thing got over it was 315 am. Ran back to the room, and all decked up joined the q for the AAD. Finished that , Only God knows wht went ove us when we reached the room...At 9 Am we realised that we had to go back from where we came..Madras--Nall Madras....Came down in the roller coaster jeep and finally, at Alipiri took the car, stuffed ourselves with "full meals" at Bhimas, and drove back.. The drive wasnt that bad
as I thought, with just a few sleepy sudden breaks, it was otherwise quite OK! Reached home at abt 4pm....and dont ask me what we did after that,,,,,,,,,,,I promise, I dont remember till I heards the cockoo next morning....Good Morning..Time for"TATA Indicom..I booked a line last
friday and am yet to recieve the connection....!!!!!"
Cheers!
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