smashing weekends

Well thats what i hv had the last two weekends. While the last weekend i was busy with my cousin's engagement the previous weekend i was off to Bangalore enroute to Tiruchi . Took a bus but due to some massive roadwork around Devanahalli( the new Bangalore airport) reached bang around 10.Met up with a lot of old frnds and went to a couple of nice restaurants.

IndiJoe was reserved for the evening and the other was Saheb Singh Sultan.Those are supposedly the nomenclature by which the first three locomotive engines of the Indian railways were called.See now you have restaurants saying food for thought literally.Lovely ambience with decor of a railway platform and a bogie with ticket collectors being the concierge at the restaurant . Nice images and glasswork.We ate more of the breadsticks dipped with the yummy cheese. Abs smashing me sayeth

Also was great cathcing up with frnds. Mee being the unmariied person i had to hear a lot of talk abt seven year itch, to baby talk to spousial relationships.Smashing info for a guy like me .Insights to y i shld marry and y i shdlnt.

Also went a checked the homes of a couple of these frnds.the one who was plannin to buy was aksing q's and it was interesting to look at decor and interiors as a complex thing and a work of art and effort.

Well all in all a smashing day

Left to Tiruchi by a bus.Reached early morning and went to say hi to an old mentor.Ofcourse i am talking about the Ucchi Pillayar (Lord Ganesh ) at Tiruchi. The temple has not changed for 1000 years so 3 years since college wldnt have changed it.Lovely view of Srirangam and Cauvery from atop the hill.The Siva family sits on one side of cauvery and the Vishnu family on the other. Got a grt news while i was atop.My colleague had just become the father of a baby gal.So after prayers it was back to Vasanta Bhavan an old adda 4 idli sambar.Smashing!!!

Met my would be sis-in-law and then went to college to collect my convo certificate. My college has a ritual of combining the convocations of two batches and making it a informal sort of get together for 4 batches of students.I had no chance of attending my convocation in 2004 so was attending this meet of my juniors and sub-juniors. Wore that funny gown and went and picked my convo on stage and as the batch was not mentioned my sub-sub juniors were left wondering as to who this person was!!. Eitherways we all love this .There is something about going and pciking ur certificate on a podium from a distinguished person. We did not have any hats to throw but we managed with the bows and the apparel worn on the neck.It was smashing
Now next day i was supposed to go to Chennai by train but as i found a junior pal travelling by car i joined in

Next day morning we left for Chennai in a Maruti Esteem. hardly had we crossed Tiruchi and just b4 srirangam we smashed literally. A bus from the footpath veered into the path of the car. The bus on the other side of the road also moved into our path. In an effort to move away from the first bus we moved sideways and the second bus caught the front door of the car and we were asailed with the glss pieces of the window inspite of it being rolled down. the outer side of the car door was literally pulled and dragged along with second bus for half of a kilometre. Thankfully neither of the four of us i.e Dilip, Sandeep, Arun(my juniors) and me were not hurt though we were more than shaken and stirred.We said our thanks to the above mentioned dieties and to Maruti. The large iron rod in the door had saved us from more damage.

After a lot of consulatation travelled on to Chennai and then Hyderabad by train which was rather boring journey compared to the smashing others .

Yet i should say i had never hoped or asked for such a literally smashing experience!!!