It's become a common joke in class now, people call me and say " hey dp, coll is off for 2 FULL days, aren't you going to kerala??" So now you probably know how frequent my visits have been.. Its always something or the other-poojas, marriages, land issues..whatever.. And since amma goes and dad's always on tour i ALWAYS have to accompany her.
HEY don't get me wrong, I'm not whining, its just that even the guy at Higginbothams at Madras Central has started recognizing me thanks to my frequent visits.
So like always, when we got a couple of days off for Diwali, off we were to "God's own country"
Just like any other visit to guruvayoor, we followed the same old itinerary,
* Be woken up at 5 (and I'm supposed to be on "vacation")
* Have a shower (in not-so-hot water.. brrrrrrrrrrrr)
* RUN to the temple (where might i add, my mom conveniently goes into her own world, absolutely abandoning the person accompanying her.. Wat bhakthi i tell you)
* Stand in a really LONG queue with ladies PUSHING yu (ever seen the rush for rajni padam first day first show???) SCREAMING prayers into your ear
* The darshan( trust me after the pushes and the screaming women all I'd be praying for is to get out of the temple)
* The TONS of vazhivadus ( archanas and blah)
* Getting back home HUNGRY and exhausted after the "fight" I'd put up.
and the rest of the day pretty much involves- eating,local gossip, another couple of visits to the temple and of course IDEA STAR SINGER!!!!
But this time mumma took some time off to do herself some shopping and one of the things on her list was those peacock fans!!!!- those hand fan like things made from peacock feathers
(apparently they're supposed to keep insects and lizards away.. don ask)
And those things are delicate so we couldn't keep them in the suitcases, and since i had two bags to carry and mumma had two bags to carry, the only other option was to stick them into my backpack.
So there i was on Thrissur station the next day - a tall lanky girl in a Blue tshirt(trust me to correctly wear blue!) with peacock feathers sticking out from behind her almost as if they were her own plumule..
ALL eyes on ME.. quite a Cinderella story.. sigh!!!
Well wat can I say? you can talk the talk, but can you do the peacock walk?????
7 comments:
ho!!!! a peacock can only fly.....
hey , your story was pretty impressive.
hi go on with ur walks....
Idea Star Singer?!
Did you take pictures of peacock girl?? Actually, why search fr peacock feather stuff in kerala when u can get it in Ranganathan street?!
@clint: thanks for the comment but wat was " peacocks can only fly"?
@vedha: yeah there are pics but i'd rather not do image damage.. nd i don know why we din pick em up from ranganathan street, perhaps cos guruvayoor is known for krishna and krishna had peacock feathers thus making peacock feathers from guruvayor more holy! god knows
ROTFLMAO!!
Whatte post! And I want to see pictures of peacock girl! wont be image damage and all :P
I simply LOVED your last line :D
Keep writing such stuff, you just put a BIIIIG smile on my face :)
awe?? really??? EEEEEEEEEEE
would love to c yu walk into coll dat way... plz do it!!!
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