Anna rascala ! Mind it!

hey folks,

Finally m feeling so coconutty fresh. Seriously, there are so many coconut trees around me but still it is so damn costly. You will get a coconut for INR 25/-. I mean what is that. When i was leaving for Chennai my friends and family teased me that "wahan toh beta 5Rs me nariyal milta hai, khub peena ab"... and look what i found here. Well this was not my only disappointments in Chennai (to be precise: I got robbed too). A lot of people who move from north-India(shh people don't like them much here) find Chennai being coined as a metro city pretty disappointing. I am not being racist here. Its just that it is still under the alloying stage. Many metals need to be melted and need a hot hammer too.

But once you start accepting your surroundings you do start getting a hang of this place. Lets see:

1)Water water: you visit Marina and say" oh my god, so tacky, so dirty, so conjusted, Why on earth is it this famous", then you visit the besantnagar beach and you say" this is still far better, i can come here every week, it is cool, good people, and nice area too"...finally you visit the ECR road virgin beaches and u gasp" this is what i was looking for, Chennai is such a beautiful city, i wonder why people say u would not like to visit Chennai beaches." Now you see the Dramatic change in yourself.

2)Ipdi Irkinga: Nalla is now what i reply to almost everything. Its either nalla or illiea... apart from the broken English that most people understand (benefit: you can use Hindi as your secret language here), although Tamil as a language might feel another disappointment here, but you do learn a few words and successfully communicate.

and that one word you learn and successfully use gives you a joy making you feel that you have become a space scientist.

  

3)Dosai and vadai: till now you might have been to sankalp and had there unending varieties of Dosai (that's what its known as here). But you land in Chennai and its another let down, All you get is rava, plain, masala.

and then you think why is this called South India. But apart from Dosa, go for a proper Tamil meal and i bet you wont be able to finish half of eat. Not because its bad, but because it is so filling and it is yummy too. you get a whole range of idli, vada, dosa, rice, rasam, sambhar, chutneys, kurma, pongals and what not, that too all served on a single banana leaf (there's a proper way to fold it after using and wash it before using, kindly take a note else you will have 10 eyes staring you)

The bottom line is Chennai is like Sine Curve: many times you are at the bottom of the curve feeling why are you stuck between these people, communicate on sign language, searching for similar faces here, but you always have enough experiences which push you to the top of curve and feel like a queen there.