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A girl in a white t shirt,cotton shorts.. a pair o funky shades.. blue nail color and a bandana is probably not accepted by the Mylapore public. oopz! i shud've known better before i stepped out wit a flowery umbrella,yellow shoes and a stupid brother!
My Chennai trip wasn't planned very well. Happened in a big hurry.15 days for a crash course! well I was supposed to travel all the way from anna nagar to mylapore for 15 days in that wretched heat! no.. not fun!! not one bit.
I never liked Chennai too much, so I didn't expect this (long) stay to affect that preconceived notion. Guess I was wrong. just a little.
As i walked into Maddy's "penthouse" I couldn't help but giggle. what a lovely place.So tiny even my G.I.Jo's wouldn't pay any rent!The funniest part was when my mom asked ME not to dirty that mansion!
But come on, whom am i kidding. that place had everything - a bed(with everythin possible on it), a refrigerator with 2 month old kaaju barfi and one hershey kisses, a tv which was always on, mosquitoes(ah those loyals losers), cigarette butts all over the terrace(thanks to that new yr party) and a direct view to my cousin's balcony! :D
All this plus this place was a 2 minute walk from every possible eatout in that area-Balajee bhavan,vasantha bhavan,lipz! haha.. everyday was like a saturday.
Classes weren't too bad. The journey was fun- 29C,41D,share auto,bargain n fight with rick guys.. "yenna anna.. everyday pora edam- ambathu tharein" , "aiyo aravathu kudu ma" "mudiyaadhu" "seri vanthu thole"
all that!! and much much more!

Maddy would sit every night and read some lame cricket article(yes that room had wi-fi),a pathetically boring match would be on just then,mosquitoes feeding on poor me(unable to study) watching garry sobbers or something bout the bodyline series... and suddenly at 830 kublu'd call and we'd run to have podi idly at balagee.. aah some routine!

Maddy'd sit across the table and ask kublu n i real mean questions-cricket,chemistry and sanskrit. the 3 most amazing things in one's life...NOT! We would fight and patch up over chocolate ice-cream(jamaai to be precise) :D but then there were also the "Die hard" quizzes that we played.. rest assured I was awesome at it :D!

Kublu had his big 1st date coming up and we were all excited cuz that little squirrel was finally growing up! we kept advicing him..little did he need it.

Then one fine sunday morning Maddy went to play Tennis with a certain Shiva who was his long lost Kansas buddy. Nope'd never heard of him before. They got bak at half past 10 sweating like pigs.
Maddy-"maanu this is shiva,shiva maanu"
Shiva-"hi,Manoo!! what's up? Damn sama vezhil..! can i take my shirt off?? (with a straight face) "
Me- thinking (welllll.. ) "uh yea sure,do u have a nice chest?? " :D :D

Maddy had warned me. Be nice. He is not the easiest person to get along with. We have lotsa things in common but i don think u wil like him too much. OUCH!
and then when Nadal had taken his shirt off and sampras had washed up a little they gave me a post match analysis - "superb match manoo,we played a lot. gosh im tired as hell.
i need a smoke.. and orange juice. i took a million breaks. i cant handle this heat!
what a day!"
i giggled n kicked him out.
We then went to eden for lunch (kublu joined us) - yea all we did was fight. bout 20 year old's being immature,no sense of committment,The US and Indians there, my gen being the one with the wanna-be's! and 'bout Shiva being cool.. :P
I drove Shiva's car.. his eyes filled with fear. eiy manoo license irruka? :D
ice cream on the streets!

"what next people?"
Shiva-"im here for a short trip da. too much work. loan,frnds meet pannanam......."
Manu-"ok shut up,lets play cricket"
Maddy,kublu and shiva (Chorus_ - "WHAT"

and the rest of the evening we played gully cric! no maddy didn't write bout my lovely game after he joined cricinfo ( I wonder why) :D
Why did Maddy say that it would b tough for me to like shiv.
it really wasn't. Was super amazing actually!
He sure made that trip worth remembering!his funny way of being super serious.judging people,being rude,not knowing any street in Santhome, his driving, his hair problems! and his never dying self-love!why why why wouldnt i love that darling! :)
and then one day after a million calls from shiva he and maddy landed in Bangalore,
where the awesomeness continued..

more to come.

later.

love all you fools.. kublu shivi and mad! :D oh and ammamma! :P

Roar.

Its a pity, to imagine that one day my kids might run to me and say, "Mamma have u ever seen a tiger? We have it here in our books as an extinct animal,have u? have u?"
Imagine that day,in a few years when our national animal will be extinct.
This is my blog, my little bit to help these tigers.

Poaching and other related activities have brought down the tiger population by nearly 60%. Today we have only 1411 tigers left. In just 2009 over 68 tigers have been killed and out of those 68 around 32 of them have been poached.

And what have we all done to help nature? we use every little bit of her and don't take care of her at all. These tigers and their absence might seem like something that does not affect our daily lives but on a large scale we will realise that it is a cycle and the absence of such a huge animal will make a huge difference. We are going to run out of fuels in less than 60 years from now. We humans are such selfish people who want to use every possible thing available and we don't really care about the consequences or what we leave for our future generations.Well.. when we don't care about other humans how can i fight here for a cause that is about animals!

Let us all hold hands today and spread the word. Starting with this tiger project we can prove it to the world that i am strong..i am the common man.. this country is filled with people like me who are ready to fight and support.

2010 is the year of the tiger. Let us do our little bit to save the big cats!!!



All those interested in this cause can spread this message through their blogs and articles.

www.saveourtigers.com

baatsha!

ya today was funny.
I got up early and rushed to the Bangalore University with appa. We reached by 930 to stand in a queue of around 700 people in order to submit my correspondence forms. Appa said, "hmm.. thats a crowd.. do u need my help??". Being the usual jerk i said,"no pops,thanks but i don't want to take the easy way out, I will wait and get things done."
He chuckled and left. as the sun began to cheer up i began to lose it.. I was tanning in order to get a DD verified. wit people around me discussing about how their friends stood for 6 or 7 hours the previous day and a few others verifying their filled forms, i began to text everyone possible! I was building sand castles with my white shoes. I stood for an hour and finally asked my stupid ego to shut up. I picked my phone and called papa.

"papaaa, where're u?.. this is so bad. its hot. i don't like it. this line hasn't moved at all. its HOT. pl pa help me.."

i could hear him giggle and cut the call.. I found him next to me in the next few minutes. He said ok give me tht form and the DD. I was confused. I gave it to him. He disappeared into that crazy crowd as i waited there cursing my old sunscreen lotion. He came back in exactly 6 mins and said seri come out of that queue. I said papa no no its finally moving.. are u sure you want me to jump out.
He said ya ya I got it done. Come out.

And with dirty cursing glares from the others in the line i ran happily towards my dad.. Thank you papa.. you are the BEST... but how? what did you say..
and then came the two words... "unmaiya sonnein" :P