weekend blues - part 2

Somewhere near Arakkonam
8.34 AM
13/02/07

Pondicherry is an awesome union territory, if you know what to look for. The area bordering Tamilnadu was quite the same as the rest of Tamilnadu. But as you go deeper into this place, the landscape and the feel changes drastically. Particularly, as you move towards the beach, the layout is typical non-indian. A crisscross of roads which are filled with intersections and long lengths. The names are pretty funny to read with 'Rue' (Road in french) prefixed to the tamil names - Rue Muthumariamman kovil, Rue Dupoy, for examples. The beach side is pretty fascinating and as I sat in La Cafe that morning on the 10th of feb, for a coffee, overlooking the beach, I felt the same way I always feel when I see water - an internal uprising - to be one with the waves and move along the flowing ripples.

The whole day in pondy was spent moving around and making sure stuffs are fine for the evening show. The music show is named 'Sec Sat Pondy' - a fusion musical show conducted for free in collaboration with the tourism department. This show brings together to the audience, a wide range of music - ranging from carnatic to rock. Ajay Nithyanandham played some of his original tracks while neverek rocked the audience with a stunning performance.

The bus travel to chennai was uneventful. Thankfully, I wasnt bored. Slept till mahabs and saw kaakha kaakha til Chennai. Sunday was the same, watched Deepavali, the movie was very bad. Let's not even talk about it. On my way back to Bangalore now. Monday was quite productive - I have leads for both the unknown issues I had last week in the project. Hoping things will be solved this week.

Tomorrow is Valentine's day and am not looking forward to it.

keep smilin,
sravan