Thursday, 25 December 2008

Chenai Trip.

So I came to chennai on the morning of 25 December with the train running 20 mts late and we reached home at 10 in the morning.we felt that it would be better to take a taxi instead of haggling with the rowdy chennai auto walas. its the same anyway with a hole of 250 early in the morning.
There is some relief in being with Hd alone far from every ones eyes and we getting the privacy we need ;). Ask me and i would say that all married couples should be left alone in the first year and if they lucky then they might be getting the time needed for everything.
Hd was running late to work so had to rush up in a hurry. The house was in a big mess and needed 3 hours of cleaning , with washing the dishes, clothes, sweeping the house , cleaning bathrooms . I don't know if white flooring is a boon or curse as we can see the smallest hair so clearly that one can't rest in peace until it is cleared .I almost was tired and expected to get the much needed sleep after almost no sleep in the side upper berth but no luck . There was a time when train journeys were much awaited and fun to take , but after the the side middle berths in trains it has kind of become like a cubby hole where 9 people are forced to sit and look at each other faces , even though you avoid it a 100 times . I had a stupid women's era in hand and didn't know whether to call the stories written in them as stories , they stop so abruptly . and for the first time i thought i missed some thing and checked if the story has been continued some where but no. I stood in the shop for 15 mts on deciding to buy some book for the journey but i just could not decide on any thing and came back sending mom to get some thing and she bought Women's era. :) She is still in the era when Womens era was a good book , and i remember the time when we as kids went to Bellary for a visit to some aunts place , mom painfully copied all the recipes from the magazine into a book in neat hand writing . She till refers to that book for doing aloo capsicum curry , a specialty of hers .

After the dinner when i got into the upper side berth there was no place to lift the water bottle and drink leave alone sit for some time. I some times think laloo with his entire family should be made to travel in side upper berths and made to feel the pain and mind you it does not come cheap , its a good 500 rs .

I think i wll never like chennai , tried truly to find out one good point but found actually none . The attitude of the people or rather say recruiters is really appaling .How do you expect some one to work for quite a less amount for what they are getting already ? and why the talk about 'what would happen if you are layed off from the current company ? If he was not an old man , god swearing i would have really blasted him right there ? You guys want the work , and then you want the 'Quality work' , and then you want new products idea from us and you miserly idiots dont care for the employee right? Ok sir we will see the end of this all!!! ..and more than all this i have been kind of used to luxurious life style before marriage .Taking a cab from one place to another , and using the car when going with the family , ..and now finally i told hd that i cannot sit on the back of the bike in the chennai traffic. the day we tried to go out , we were stuck in some rally by communist party and the way the cab fellow honked at us was enough to wake the dead up.My temp increased by another 5 degrees. and the house we have taken is quite faar from the main road and even to get medicines we need to go a 15 mts drive on a muddy road ..and the rent for the flat , even though we are staying so away from main road is 8,000. .comparing the same to hyd , the flat rent is 8000 in the center of the city , where you have to just walk a furlong to reach a medical shop.Tried to check for a flat near egmore and the rent amt sent us into a heart attack mode--it was a whooping 28000..:/.

All the travelling , sleeping on uneven bed , change in the water , climate has taken a toll on me and 2 days have been spent in dragging myself from the kitchen to the the painful bed.It has left me exhausted ..so went to the doctor finally today and he advised me to take an injection for speed recovery .its like that dialogue from movie ' maine injection dediya hain, ab saab kuch theek hojayega'..anyways ..taking the bus again at 8 today..

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