Rejuvenation...

“Do you write blogs?”
“Yes, sometimes”
“Can you write about this trip, it was fun. isn’t it?”
Surely it was! 320 Kms from Bangalore, on the sea side, an Old city with French architecture, dirt cheap liquor, fantastic beaches and couple of day’s bike ride. This trip to Pondicherry at-least worth a blog, I thought.

Let me start from the beginning.

Earth was created 4.5 billion years ago from Universe which is apparently 11.2 Billion years old and created after a phenomenon called Big Bang. Earth was split from Sun and since then revolving around it with a speed of 29.8 kilometers/second. 29 thousand years back humans evolved and since then (I believe) they have a tendency to roam around, especially when they are bachelors; have powerful bikes and enough money to sustain.

It took approximately to 3 weeks to implement the plan of this trip. Since India won its first match with West Indies on the same day (though they lost the second one terribly when we were coming back) and weather couldn't be any better; 8 young men, on 4 bikes started on May 27th 2009 at 0430 Hrs.

It was fun till first 50 Kms and then we realized that sitting on bike creates some unbearable pain in lower parts of body specially those parts which you use in the morning to relieve yourself. Anyway, there’s no going back and we realized that the “pain problem” is just a mere start and somewhere around 120 Kms from Bangalore, we had a Flat Tire. Luckily it was a village with puncture shop as well as small south Indian dhaba; obviously, we had (yummy and cheap) breakfast there and in the mean time Mechanic operated on the bike. When we were ready to roll again, one of our esteemed colleague notice another flat tire (in his bike), and in total this entire “Flat tire” episode cost us 1.5 Hrs. Well, rest of the route was all right, and since none of us were accustomed to the heat and humidity of that part of India, all were visibly tired and frustrated. We reached Pondi around 1230 Hrs (after suffering from one more Flat Tire just before the gate of Pondicherry) and first things we sought for were AC room and one chilled beer which we got without much effort (from my side) and finally Lunch. In the evening most of us (except two lazy bones) went to Aurobindo beach which is famous for flat beach and you can go in the sea to take bath (and ogle on girls who are taking bath). Well we were lucky to have good weather, some beauties and no nonsense at the beach, but lasted for only one hour, after that it started raining and beauties lost somewhere in the huts nearby.

We made a commitment to ourselves that we will take at least a (or couple of) beer whenever get a chance, and un-disputably did so. That make 2 beers just before dinner with capacity of at least one more but since market was closing and there were two poor souls (one was me) who don’t kill others to feed themselves (vegetarian), we headed for the search of restaurant. It took us two hours to have dinner (No, we don’t eat that much, but it’s difficult to find a restaurant in Pondi which doesn’t smell like fishermen paradise). After dinner there were usual songs, gazals, girlfriends, ex-girlfriends, ex-ex girlfriends, hot-neighbor discussions and finally we doze off by midnight.

Morning was cool and relax (we slept at-least 6 Hours and it was cold inside room), and we immediately rushed to the beach (again, to find some eye tonic). Well, undesirably we didn’t get any but view was awesome, had long sessions of modeling and photographs (Kingfisher calendar rival) and decided to leave for breakfast. Breakfast was usual, idly, vada, poori and beer. By the time we were back in the room, rest of the mates was waiting for us and then the discussion of going back was started. After long heated discussion, another set of beer was called out and it was not before two more beers, we finally packed our bags, had lunch and bid adieu to Pondicherry at 1700 Hrs on May 28th 2009.

Rest of the journey was boring, had no flat tire, bottom was aching like an old wife and Monday blue was already there. Everyone was thinking about Beer, Beaches, Babes and of-course Bikes. One important thing in the trip was one big mistake (call catastrophe) which my colleagues committed; they made me Finance in charge. Guess they didn’t learn anything from the Satyam episode and were very confused when I sent them the final settlement account (I heard they are sitting on this weekend to figure out what exactly has happened in the finance during the trip, without me).

See you soon Pondicherry.. again!