A Haste To The Wedding

I could vaguely make out the voice from my father, and the distant ringing of the phone. And then it struck me like a bolt of lightning I was supposed to get up and get ready to catch the train for Duttan's Wedding and good heavens I am already one hour late and to give me company Frantic was late too.

After a quick brush of my tooth and jumped into my jeans and put on my T-Shirt took my scooter and made off to Frantic's home, the time was 4:50 AM and I had to catch a train at 5:00 A.M, on reaching his home, he was waiting outside with his car, I quickly parked my scooter in his house and went over to the car. His father had agreed to drop us near the next stop of the Train, we reached the platform just in time to catch the train.

We found our seats in the general compartment it was saved by our friends. Reminded me of the old times when used to hang out together like the night outs we had during the LAN Party setup, the times we hung out together in the beaches in the weekends after the college days. But this time the occasion was a bit different, one more among us was getting married.

We were discussing a lot of things in the train, but one very interesting conversation was regarding lecturers in my former college and I had made some nasty remarks only to know later that one of the person sitting opposite to me was a Professor in the Electrical department in that train. But I did not give a fuck about that since that is the place where I lost myself.

We all reached Mavelikara by 7:30 AM, decided to walk to the near by Lodge to get another friend who had come from Chennai to join the Wedding. That was a walk for about 15 to 20 minutes and after that we reached the specificed lodge, we had breakfast from there and then set off on foot to the Auditorium that is about 5 KM away.

Even though it was a supposed to be a walk most of the people bailed out before reaching mid point and then all that was left was me frantic and GP. I never had a walk along the areas outside the City regions around the south. And the experience was the most wonderful ever. We were on a road that could not be straighter, mostly residential average to big size houses on either side, town that is still quiet in the late morning, it felt like it was a holiday even though it was a Monday, it was very different from the Rat race I was facing in Chennai.

For a moment I thought I should give up everything in life and just settle in this place and lead a quiet life far far away from the daily mad rush in life. It seems that that time has slowed down for this place and it seemed like a place in 2008 even though the run looked like it was from the 1980's.

All the walking gave me a glipmse of how the Freedom Walkers might have gone through their ordeal. After walking about 1.5 hour we reached the wedding auditorium, where we met the rest of the group and hung around until Duttan came by and then went down to greet him took a couple of photos and then it was back to the auditorium. Well not much interesting happened except the fact that I was speaking in too much DotA lingo, need to get a hold of that by the way. And then Spawn came by long time since I saw this gamer, a very nice person and a good Quake 3 / UT Gamer. Had a small chat with him and then it was time to tie the knot. The groom came on the podium Frantic grabbed a couple of photos and then the bride came on, and I couldn't make out the red Saree beneath the yellow gold plate of ornamets around her neck and waist.

Then we had a photosession with the no longer bachelor Duttan :P, and we all went for lunch and as usual I just sat outside made calls to some old friends. I always tend to loose my appetite around a crowd. While sitting there making calls I saw people of all shapes and sizes go past me. Then it was time to bid farewell and we were on our way back. We took a bus ride from there to the Kayankulam Bus Depot. Where we stood waiting for the next bus to Trivandrum. And in the midst of all the rush to get into the bus, we got to see Greenhorn do a quick sprint very mucn unexpected of him due to his growing size to catch a seat in the bus.

On our way back for some moments Frantic and I felt that we were sitting in the old back bench of our school, especially when he mentioned about the days we used to spend arguing on topics way in the back bench in our class :).

Frantic, GP and myself got out near technopark where his wife came to pick him up. Frantic took the car back to Technopark to drop her off. Then he made me take the car and for the 1st I drove a Spark from Technopark to Frantic's home, due to his expert guidance we all reached there in one piece and of course the car was also in one piece, of course like all n00bs I had my fareshare of n00bish incidents along the way, but that did not stop me from reaching the target point i.e his home.

I guess that would pretty much sum up the day, may be my title was not appropriate and the entry did not have any interesting incidents but I thought I should scribble this one down as it had attachments to my past :), a past which is lost...or may be not...