CHENNAI Tour Dairy - Day 1

I had to visit Chennai for some work on Monday and returned back on Tuesday. It turned out to be a very interesting tour of 2 days for me...
So come along and join me in recollecting my very interesting 2 days...
I had to leave home early on Monday morning... caught a BMTC bus after a long time and boarded the train at the station. Well i had not traveled in a train for a longish journey for more than 5 years or more... It was very exciting. Train journeys always excite me. It is like I am back to being a small kid exploring every bit of the railways station and the train will my very much observatory eyes, just to see what is new at the station and the train from the last time i saw it. I really loved it being in that train on Monday.
Once the train started and half an our into the journey, there was an argument of sorts between a couple of college students and the luggage inspector. This got things going in our cabin. As people in our country do, try to be very much interested as to what is happening. This small argument was put to an end with the luggage inspector saying that the college students have to pay for the luggage they are carrying (which they are not supposed to carry without a proper document). Everyone was just getting back to settling down in the train that we stopped at a station - I think it was KR puram - and a family got into the train and had seats booked in the same cabin as the college students... Here things got heated up a bit and in no time the college students vented all their anger of the luggage inspector on the family. They fought for who should keep their luggage where and what not. They fought with so much ferocity and disturbed a lot of people...
That day our particular compartment had quite a few kiddos who were basically infants (less than a year old). The fight got the mothers of these babies so worried and they too were trying to calm things down to avoid their kids from waking up from their sleep or they worked that little harder to comfort their babies, praying that their kid will not wake up and anticipating that the kid would wake any moment.
The look on a guy - who was sleeping as soon as he got into the train - was worth looking at. I just couldn't stop laughing. Then some elderly people had to give their views to the college students and stop their fight.
The college students in all probability had some bad exam i guess.
The journey continued will all the vendors making very frequent trips to sell their stuff. Also since i woke up early, i very happily took the seat in the top berth and sleep. This was too good a moment. You would always want to take the top berth in a 2 tier or 3 tier train if you were a kid.

Well the journey continued and by late after noon the train chugged towards Chennai central station. I was visiting chennai after 7 years. There had to be some new experience, interesting one of course...
To continue from where I landed in chennai central...
I took a pre-paid auto and met another Infy guy going towards the guest house, we both hopped into the same auto and reached the guest house. we got into the same room and settled down by evening.
We had anticipated the weather to be hot and humid, but it turned to almost the opposite. It was chilly, raining and not so humid. That was a surprise.

Me and my roomie then went out to explore the surrounding area and couldn't resist the hot cup of Chaai and a few hot pakodas in that amazing weather... We then returned to our guest house to hear that India has done really well in the test match. Went to the drawing room and watched tv and we were joined by a couple of other Infy guys...
It seemed so strange cos I instantly realized that I had seen them somewhere, where I do not know. When they joined us and started conversing we found out that they too were from Bangalore. We chatted a bit, got to know each other and then went back to our rooms.
Post dinner, me and my roomie wanted to plan for the next days work and prepare ourselves, but were very often distracted and kept cracking jokes and spent almost an hour laughing about and chilling. We had enough of it and decided it was time to sleep.
We had arranged for taxis to travel the next day and My travel was early at 6:15 am. Had to wake up very early...
Keeping this in mind hoped for a good sound sleep...

Will keep you posted on Day 2, more fun and more interesting things happen...