Act 1. Scene1. Enter my masaji( maternal uncle-in-law), masi ( maternal aunt), mom, sis and me.
Oh some background first...this was the summer break at the end of my first year and my masaji and masi were about to leave for Austarlia for good so we had gone to live in chennai with them for a fortnight. This is my favourite masi...one who has pampered me, encouraged me, praised me and has always been more a friend than a masi and it was oh-so-sad that she was going to leave our shores for good.
Okay, enough of being corny... that was the senti part of the play. Now for the drama!!
I really wish i could start with the ' it was a dark and stormy night...' thing...but well...Chennai...huh so it was a hot and sultry mid-day and me was sleeping peacefully listening to Abba or something when everyone troops in and declares that we are about to go to a beach.
me: **blurry** "what??"
they: "and then we'll go eat at the Fisherman's Cove"
Exeunt: all except me
me:**blurry and confused** "yuck! why fisherman's for heaven's sake?? it'll stink!!"
Act 1. Scene 2: Enter me and masaji
So we are packing some clothes and masaji packs a formal half-pant and tee. Oh well...i presumed fisherman's cove really was some chalta-hai type of eatery and packed a stupid pyjama and a stupid tee, sat back on the sofa and said hello to the sandman again!!
May i please bring to your attention the specially tailored and aesthetically designed dress i was wearing at that time... a blue shirt with some stupid patterns and a blue bermuda with no patterns. It was in this dress that i left coz masaji said it was fine...no one has better dressing sense in Chennai anyways...he said!!!! Oh by the way, everyone else was decently dressed and sleepy me didnt care coz we were going to a beach anyways.
Act 2. Scene 2. Chennai highway
Ugh..kaata the acts and scenes...they suck.
Okay so we were going full speed, or as full speed as a zen will allow, on the chennai highway and i think we went to mahabalipuram. saw the temple there but also saw the huge crowd on the beach and kaatafied all plans of getting in the waters. By dusk, we were getting out of that place and i was just taking my first step towards the titanic cauldron of soup i was about to get into.
On the return journey, we took a detour and as we turned in, i saw a merc turn out. Now i love mercs...except in F1!! I strained my neck to follow the merc and see what model it was and as i turned my neck back, bam!...i saw a BMW. Now i love BMWs...except in F1!
So i'm thinking...this fisherman's cove must be a hep place to get mercs and BMWs when the car turns again and i am confronted with a grand shining and imperial structure called...THE TAJ FISHERMAN'S COVE!!!! For the love of God, Fisherman's Cove was a 5-star hotel and not exactly the chalta-hai kinda deli i had imagined.
And then what...was i supposed to go into a 5-star hotel only for the second time in my life and that too in this dress...*sob sob*. And then realisation dawned...this was why i had been asked to pack a dress for myself. Between the devil and the deep blue sea...i chose to stick to the deep blue dress!
Yeah we went in...i tried to coolly pretend as if i was royally unaware of how out of place I looked. Took masaji's mobile and tried fidgeting with it. But u know what...murphy's law...it strikes when u just pray it wont. My sis just had to go the bathroom and so there i was...standing inside The TAJ Fisherman's Cove wishing i was anywhere in the world but there.
By and by it got over, we went to the beach there ...took time out.
Oh the place was pretty...the pool, the out house or out-restaurant or whatever on earth it was. Thank heavens that there was no empty table at the restaurant inside where we wanted to eat. Everyone else was disappointed...and i was over the moon :D
Rest of the story: we went back home, i ran in, changed clothes, we went to some other 5-star...no place there either!! this time i was sad too ..hehe. Finally went to yet another 5-star...and this time there was space...phew!
Moral of the story: look back and laugh!!
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2 comments:
Cool Man....nice stuff...wish i was thr.i would have got all guards and made sure tht u were thrown out of the gates!! neways..tempo se..
:P
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