Have you read “Did I catch the train?”
14-June-2009
It had been a long time nearly 7 months; I met my friends and relatives, tasted my mom’s food and heard my dad’s advice. Besides my busy schedule, as well as UAT of my application, I came down to Madurai to attend my friend’s marriage. She is Preethy, one of the 5 members in Microsoft Project. I met some of my class mates there.
Next day, I travelled to Tirunelveli to my uncle’s house to meet my cousin and her children. My brother and sister-in-law, who returned from their kanyakumari trip, joined us. After having lunch, we started towards my village “Sambavar Vadakarai”. Even today, we are paying Rs. 40/- as electrical charge, no water pump, no television, red stone flooring, etc., quite enjoyable. My sister-in-law, who visited for the first time, felt happy about our heritage. The interesting scene was there in our group 2 mothers-in-law and 2 daughters-in-law. My Sister-in-law — My Mom — My Grand Mother (my dad’s mom).
During our second day, we travelled to Kutralum, showered in five falls and visited my dad’s paternal aunt’s house and had lunch (feast) in my mom’s maternal aunt’s house. I snored for few minutes, latter we packed for Madurai.
Wednesday, my brother’s parents-in-law arrived to our house. We visited Meenakshi Amman Temple, which looked elegant after renovated for ‘Kumba Abishegam’.
Following day, I woke up around 3 AM on Thursday and dressed up with my new T-shirt for ‘homam’ (Ganapathy homam and Sudersana Homam). All 9 types of grains and herbal sticks had been kindling the agni. That day evening, everybody left for their home town except me, my parents and my granny.
Friday, I visited IMS and my guru, Balsu sir. More changes reflected in that office. On the first weekend, the day I had to leave for Kolkata. I felt very sad, missing something and afraid about my parents that do feel the same. While I was waving hands through the window, I saw my mom’s smiling face and drenching heart with waving hands.
In the hot Chennai, my sister-in-law prepared vadai, adai, idli, dosai, 2 varieties of chutney and sambar. It was a huge breakfast. Between my break fast and my heavy lunch, she provided a glass full of juice as well. Around 4 PM, we picked 70D to our uncle’s house at Koratoor. We left at 9:30 PM after dinner.
22-June-2009
We had a very sound sleep, woke up around 7 AM. My brother was having his second shift and my sister-in-law got permission from her leader to reach office by 1 PM. My flight time was 2:25 PM. We reached airport at 1:35 PM and boarded into the flight around 2:15 PM. I thought it might take another 6 months to come there.
