The Chennai Trip

I was wondering why I was not writing even a tini-tiny little post when i have soo many topic and so much of time...Anyways, without boring, i 'll let you know the latest topic in my mind.
It's about the chennai visit i had. To IIT Madras, for Saarang '09.
It was from Uni-y, and it was a last-minute plan. Well, i reached the railway station almost 1 hour before the departure. But the gang started coming just 15 minutes before the train started. In the meantime i was trying to make my dad advise me...like "Don't you think achaa(dad) that you should give me some advise regarding the trip...something". But i guess he thought i knew everything i should need to know. He looked at me and simply smiled. We had enough time so we chit chatted about how the railway system should be, and all. My friends(college-mates) came to say a "good-bye....and buy something for us too" :)... So when it was time, me and akhilesh(A) got into one compartment, and gayathri(G) and binnie(B) in another, according to the seating arrangement. We were waiting for paul(P) and rahul harish(RH). P reached just on time and RH was a half min late. A and P saw him running behind the train, but he missed it. That was a small set back for all of us. A who wrote the script for the street play(which was the only event that we participated with preparation, though the minimum level of preparation) was a little sad about it.
The train journey was good. We memorized the script, added life to the characters. G was doing the negative character in it, which was very important, because we portrait our idea through this. We also had a relief because RH was going to make it by bus (till madurai) and by train(till chennai), and also by auto(till IIT campus). Rahul Sanal (RS) joined us from ernakulam after his pilgrimage 8).....
So cutting it short, we reached Chennai. The moment we set foot on that soil, A and B put their goggles(black cooling glass). We took a darn picture and i like it! RS's pinky uncle( don't think i m making fun of him, its his pet name, i m ignorant of his real name) took us to the campus. I must say he is one person who knows how to modify a car's interior....When we got inside and understood that our accommodation is not gonna happen. All of us were worried. Boy! You should have seen A's face. He was so worried for us( me and G) that for a moment i thought he was about to cry. We tried in every way possible to get a proper accommodation... Then i felt it wont happen that easily. So i called my iit-retired uncle. Then, it was lot much easier... All of us got a place, by night.
That day evening itself, we had the street play. Me and G went to the street play venue and felt if we should really do this. Most of them were pros! Just when we were about enter the stage, RH appeared. So we had our galeo's binocular! We also realized that we have not rehearsed the play even for once. But we practiced on stage, yea we tried for once. It was not that bad.... if i have to write about that it wont be a big post, but a mega post... In short, All of us did good and script was real good thing. Hats off to A....
A was random when it came to his elocution competition, while G was saying why we should go for happiness in her speech. A and RH did a good performance in JAM. B had a spectacular performance in the mono act competition which described his curiosity for "safety measures". Many such things happened. Yea, we participated in many like JAM, elocution, ad zap, mono act... We didn't clear into the finals. I accept that. But all of us were darn good. How could i forget the dinner sponsored by pinky uncle, shopping in Pondy Bazaar, the DJ nite, the magic and the salsa-jive workshops. I loved it when i was trying to relearn 'ass' in front of the ladies hostel at 2am. I loved when a big stag accompanied me. I loved it all.
Though it may seem cliche when i say ' i won't forget this trip', i really mean it. We all were worried when RS got food poisoned, P caught up with a fever, and G had to travel alone. I missed the last day with the guys, they went for outing in the city. I had to travel back alone because i was to be picked up by my relatives (whom i have never seen before, but very warm people).
Explaining everything wont be possible in this 'Lil world', but I enjoyed it all and i dont think another set of uni-yians 'll have the same experience....