It was noon when we got up and getting up late was obivious. We got up ready and straightaway went for lunch at Punjabi Dhabba. It wasnt the old Punjabi Dhabba but more specious this time and wasnt there at its old place. Though the place was new but the food was equally pathetic. Rest of the afternoon we spent in college. College was closed coz of vacation and it had deserted look.
We started revisiting different joints, starting from the tennis court and DC(short form for down cops). SAC (student activity center) was in the most pathetic condition. It was still having the old look and we got the feeling as if no one came here since long. The movie screen was torn at places. This was the most adoring places for me but at looking its condition i got real senti. We carried on to basketball court, swimming pool, CCC (central computer center... called as tripC), Auditorium,dispensary, mech block and then ATB.
We went to the classroom in ATB where we spent a whole year in section B. The classroom is the same but the long benches are nowhere, instead replaced by nice chairs and tables for more comfort. The most important for me was to go into college library but unfortunately it was closed. so i had to make myself happy by just clicking a snap outside it. We spent some time on the lawn and then on the red bench. Red bench was a famous bench where only couples used to sit. I walked on the lawn of the main bulding, i got reminded of my old college days when me and sandi used to walk on the lawn just to get a break from studies. The college main building has been painted with light shed of green. I quite liked it coz it seemed like college got submerged with the greenary around it. We all roamed there around the main building and then went to DC for a juice. We came back to hostels and saw a peacock near the final year block. We went inside the final block and with out doubt this is the only hostel block everyone admires.
After finishing our trip we came back to hotel and packed our stuff. We had to go to M'lore to catch the bus to B'lore. Again i was uncontious by having avomin tablet and slept as soon as the bus started. We reached B'lore at 5 am next day.
This was more of an emotional blog rather than usual travelogue but i can't help it. I put here what i thought and saw. Old places really brings back emotions and this was one of the best examples of it.
Sunday, January 07, 2007
M'lore - Day 2
It was 6:30am when i got up. I didnt wake up others as they were in sound sleep so i decided to go to beach alone. S'kal beach is just 10 mins walk from hotel. It was a great feeling as i was visiting beach after a long time, probably after i left chennai. There was a fishermen crew busy in their daily activities. They already spread the fishing net inside the sea and were praying to get as many fishes as possible. I went there and clicked some snaps. Sat there for almost half an hour staring into the infinite sea and thinking about good old college days. I was almost jumping with joy after seeing the light house of our college beach. But localites there have spoilt beach, all waste was on the beach making it dirty. Anyways i paid less attention to the surrounding and was busy in looking at the sea, am not crazy, but i feel like sitting there on the beach staring into sea for long long hours. Just cant express myself how happy i was to come back to the nicest place i ever been to.
I was back to hotel by 8 or so and we all were ready to visit st Mary's island. I have been to this palce probably 4 times before, believe its one of the glorious places to visit. We started at around 10 am from s'kal and reached Malpe beach around 12. Luckily we got a boat waiting for us which takes us to the island. The island is about 3km inside the sea and it takes 20 mins by the boat to reach there. This island is made up of lovely hexagonal rocks and came into existence after a volcanic erruption in the Arabian sea few centuries back. We roamed around the beach and clicked as many snaps as possible. Me and balli tried to swim but had to come back as the water wasnt that great. We spent time gossiping and playing around and it was real fun. Compared to last time, i found water level little bit reduced, dont know reasons. We came back to Malpe after spending nice 2-3 hours on the island. The island is secluded kinds and people are not allowed to stay there overnight.
We came back to college bach by 5:30pm and straight away visited the temple on the beach. I prayed to god and got prasadam, very much unlike me. We all sat down at the rocks behind the mandir and happiness was at it peak. I cant really express myslef to pen down feelings at this place. It was like "i am in heaven". We all sat there, talking to close friends, telling the importance of the moment. I just not able to pen it down, really. We clicked so many snaps of our dear college beach and praised it like anything. I looked at the ads rocks (this name is given by vikram, to the favourite rocks of mine, where i used to sit for hours) and was so glad. All old memories were running through my mind.
We all said good bye to emotions and went out for hunting , to see some spot close by where we all can spend our new years night. We all made arrangement for liquors and other eating stuff and came back to beach at 9:30pm. A bonfire was made and we all sat around it. This was the best new years celebrations i ever had, on a beach, with bonfire, with friends, with old memories, with vodka. We all enjoyed the clock striking 12 and congratulated each other. It was ultimate fun and we were having the best times of our life. Suddenly, out of the blue, few cops came in and ordered us to vacate the place. Me and balli were still on the beach while the others left us. It was heavenly feeling, sitting on the beach in the middle of the night. Though we had made few campfires during our college days but this was simply the best among all. Could have been better if other guys wudn't have left. As the night was progressing the cold breeze was getting more colder. It was night before the full moon's night. And the moon's reflection on the sea water was absolute beauty, stars were tickling at their own pace, everything aorund seemed to be perfect and beautiful. Around 4:30 we ccouldn't bear the cold and came back to hotel.
This was without doubt, the best ever new years celebrations for me.
I was back to hotel by 8 or so and we all were ready to visit st Mary's island. I have been to this palce probably 4 times before, believe its one of the glorious places to visit. We started at around 10 am from s'kal and reached Malpe beach around 12. Luckily we got a boat waiting for us which takes us to the island. The island is about 3km inside the sea and it takes 20 mins by the boat to reach there. This island is made up of lovely hexagonal rocks and came into existence after a volcanic erruption in the Arabian sea few centuries back. We roamed around the beach and clicked as many snaps as possible. Me and balli tried to swim but had to come back as the water wasnt that great. We spent time gossiping and playing around and it was real fun. Compared to last time, i found water level little bit reduced, dont know reasons. We came back to Malpe after spending nice 2-3 hours on the island. The island is secluded kinds and people are not allowed to stay there overnight.
We came back to college bach by 5:30pm and straight away visited the temple on the beach. I prayed to god and got prasadam, very much unlike me. We all sat down at the rocks behind the mandir and happiness was at it peak. I cant really express myslef to pen down feelings at this place. It was like "i am in heaven". We all sat there, talking to close friends, telling the importance of the moment. I just not able to pen it down, really. We clicked so many snaps of our dear college beach and praised it like anything. I looked at the ads rocks (this name is given by vikram, to the favourite rocks of mine, where i used to sit for hours) and was so glad. All old memories were running through my mind.
We all said good bye to emotions and went out for hunting , to see some spot close by where we all can spend our new years night. We all made arrangement for liquors and other eating stuff and came back to beach at 9:30pm. A bonfire was made and we all sat around it. This was the best new years celebrations i ever had, on a beach, with bonfire, with friends, with old memories, with vodka. We all enjoyed the clock striking 12 and congratulated each other. It was ultimate fun and we were having the best times of our life. Suddenly, out of the blue, few cops came in and ordered us to vacate the place. Me and balli were still on the beach while the others left us. It was heavenly feeling, sitting on the beach in the middle of the night. Though we had made few campfires during our college days but this was simply the best among all. Could have been better if other guys wudn't have left. As the night was progressing the cold breeze was getting more colder. It was night before the full moon's night. And the moon's reflection on the sea water was absolute beauty, stars were tickling at their own pace, everything aorund seemed to be perfect and beautiful. Around 4:30 we ccouldn't bear the cold and came back to hotel.
This was without doubt, the best ever new years celebrations for me.
M'lore - Day 1
As our new year celebration plan at Goa failed, we quickly realised that we can visit Managalore and Surathkal. I have soft corner for these places coz i had spent a lot of time in here during my college days. The tour was of 3 days which included me,balli,bude,rohan,ruchin and pangty.
We started from b'lore on 29th Dec '06 at night 10pm or so. First time we were travelling in sleeper coach buses so the experience was great (ideally it was great for people who had got the front seats). The road was too bad and bumpy altogther. I had an avomin tablet before sleeping so as to avoid any vommiting in bus. The best thing abt the tablet is u get a good nights sleep. I was almost uncontious once i hit bed and got up just before s'kal (from now on s'kal means Surathkal... i like calling it that way... seems stylish.. :)) ).
We had booked rooms in hotel Maharaja at S'kal and being in s'kal was like we are in our loverly home. After refreshing ourselves we went to Sads (dont get it wrong.. it restaurant Sadanand.. in KREC slang its Sads..) for the holy breakfast. Though the food wasn't much so special but feeling of eating at Sads is entirely different... ask KRECians ... ooopss.. NITKians now... !!! We took a short nap before leaving for Mangalore to spend the entire day.
Hao-ming is one of the most respected and famous Cihenese cuisine restaurant in M'lore. And it was an obivious choice for us to eat there. Mayank and Arun pillali who were in town as the same time joined us at hoa-ming and it was like a small get together. Food was as usual extremely good, we had probably all special items there, cant remember coz they were too many. After having a stomach full lunch we went to Iceberg. Dont get me wrong, its just a ice cream shop. Another famous spot where u get all kinda ice-creams. Probably i should say M'lore is famous for its food, ice-creams and Aishwarya Rai. I had something called Honeymoon which had a slab of pista and vanilla. On top of each slab there was a cone placed. One cone was decorated as a bride and another as a groom. I had to put a lot of efforts to finish it off.
Empire mall was our next target which is located near the Mallya's newly build conventional center. On a saturday afternoon it was almost deserted unlike malls here in b'lore, maybe few shops were yet to come up. We had been to arcade ally and played few games. Adlabs has opened its multiplex in Bharath mall situated next to Saibeen (the old mall where we used to roam during college days). This mall was comparatively better and bigger than the Empire mall. We had a sip of coffee at CCD and went for movie, Museum ke andar phas gaya Sikandar, a Ben Stiller movie, a hindi traslation. It was kinda crap movie but just for experiencing the theatre we had to see something. Theatre was definitely better than B'lore's i-nox. Though i should not compare the 2 cities but its just normal when u travel across cities u tend to compare them.
It was around 8 when the movie got over. We had planned few drinks at liquid laungue but had to give up the idea as we were already late and last bus to s'kal was at 10. We didnt risk going to liquid laungue and instead came back to Sads for dinner and booz. I dont remember how much i drank,probably 3 large vodka. I rarely used to drink when i was in college and i guess it only once i came to have drinks in Sads before this. We were back to Hotel aorund 11 in night and we all slept like mad dogs.
The next day will continue in next blog. :)
We started from b'lore on 29th Dec '06 at night 10pm or so. First time we were travelling in sleeper coach buses so the experience was great (ideally it was great for people who had got the front seats). The road was too bad and bumpy altogther. I had an avomin tablet before sleeping so as to avoid any vommiting in bus. The best thing abt the tablet is u get a good nights sleep. I was almost uncontious once i hit bed and got up just before s'kal (from now on s'kal means Surathkal... i like calling it that way... seems stylish.. :)) ).
We had booked rooms in hotel Maharaja at S'kal and being in s'kal was like we are in our loverly home. After refreshing ourselves we went to Sads (dont get it wrong.. it restaurant Sadanand.. in KREC slang its Sads..) for the holy breakfast. Though the food wasn't much so special but feeling of eating at Sads is entirely different... ask KRECians ... ooopss.. NITKians now... !!! We took a short nap before leaving for Mangalore to spend the entire day.
Hao-ming is one of the most respected and famous Cihenese cuisine restaurant in M'lore. And it was an obivious choice for us to eat there. Mayank and Arun pillali who were in town as the same time joined us at hoa-ming and it was like a small get together. Food was as usual extremely good, we had probably all special items there, cant remember coz they were too many. After having a stomach full lunch we went to Iceberg. Dont get me wrong, its just a ice cream shop. Another famous spot where u get all kinda ice-creams. Probably i should say M'lore is famous for its food, ice-creams and Aishwarya Rai. I had something called Honeymoon which had a slab of pista and vanilla. On top of each slab there was a cone placed. One cone was decorated as a bride and another as a groom. I had to put a lot of efforts to finish it off.
Empire mall was our next target which is located near the Mallya's newly build conventional center. On a saturday afternoon it was almost deserted unlike malls here in b'lore, maybe few shops were yet to come up. We had been to arcade ally and played few games. Adlabs has opened its multiplex in Bharath mall situated next to Saibeen (the old mall where we used to roam during college days). This mall was comparatively better and bigger than the Empire mall. We had a sip of coffee at CCD and went for movie, Museum ke andar phas gaya Sikandar, a Ben Stiller movie, a hindi traslation. It was kinda crap movie but just for experiencing the theatre we had to see something. Theatre was definitely better than B'lore's i-nox. Though i should not compare the 2 cities but its just normal when u travel across cities u tend to compare them.
It was around 8 when the movie got over. We had planned few drinks at liquid laungue but had to give up the idea as we were already late and last bus to s'kal was at 10. We didnt risk going to liquid laungue and instead came back to Sads for dinner and booz. I dont remember how much i drank,probably 3 large vodka. I rarely used to drink when i was in college and i guess it only once i came to have drinks in Sads before this. We were back to Hotel aorund 11 in night and we all slept like mad dogs.
The next day will continue in next blog. :)
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