Week That Was!!!

Well this is my first blog and this is about the past week (from Feb 28 - Mar 8) I spent at home in chennai, I was on vacation, after the grueling 3 months for my product release.

March 11

Today morning @ 6, as usual, prepared my filter coffee and switched on the television for the pre-match show of the India vs New Zealand 4th ODI at hamilton, while sipping the coffee a plenty of thoughts of crossed my mind as of how life changes quickly!!

Pause!!

rewind a week back, 6 am it was and I was in chennai, in a small 800 square foot apartment in west k.k.nagar. After a long thought i woke up, only to hear my grandmother say, "seekiram pallu thechutu vaa, coffee potu tharen". 6.15 am: with "The Hindu" in one hand and a steaming cup of coffee in the other, comfortably settled down in the balcony to read the headlines. 7 am : Stretched out to snatch the "Dinamalar", from my mother sitting opposite to me, cos by then my younger brother was up and snatched Hindu from me, then my grandmother came, "enna tiffin seiradhu karthala, illa sadham vechudatuma?", and after a long fight between me and my mother, cos i like tiffin and she likes rice, i won and at 8 am, hot dosas with tomato chutney came to the dining table. After devouring on the dosas and i got a large tumbler of tea to wash them down. And it is 8.45 am now.

Back to reality! NZ have won the toss and elected to bat first on a not so flat wicket, thought this decision augured well for India's batting, as they can chase any target!

Back to my thoughts, lazed around the whole morning and at around 11 went with mom to pay property tax and water tax. She took the driver's seat in the car and said she ll never ever give the car to me, after the accident i caused few months ago! Finished the chores and was back at home, just at the right time for some delicious lunch, courtesy grandmother! then a long afternoon nap, just to be woken up my mother for evening tea and tiffin. And then a discussion on where to go out that evening, finally we decided to go to SMS in udhayam complex, only god knows for how many days the theatre will exist, for its up for sale now. The movie was good and back home again, had dinner and slept.

Well, jesse ryder and mcCullum have taken NZ to a good start here now, lets see all india need is to remove those two at the earliest!

Phew, That was a day's work, I thought. The next few days went in cleaning the house, supervising the electrician who came to replace few electrical fittings.

Visited temples, Padmanabhaswamy temple in adayar with my family.

Dined at Saravana Bhavan, Ratna Cafe and Data Udipi hotels. Spent the whole week with my family, did not even venture into any of my friend's house in mambalam for that matter. And the day arrived finally, at 3.30 pm on mar 8 left my home with 5kgs of sugar that my mother had packed in my bag and some more provisions, increasing the luggage count to 2 from 1. My mother dropped me @ central and left at 4.55 when the train finally started.

Here I am now, NZ have lost two wickets, but mcCullum is still at the crease! Now I have to start preparing my breakfast, no I am not taking lunch today, have to manage with horrible lunch @ office or i ll have noodles for lunch, that's better, will sit and see the match and start to office at around 10.45 am.

A Week that was, still lingering in my thoughts, think my next long vacation will be during deepavali.