Siva’s wedding

Siva was the sixth wicket to fall in our wing getting clean bowled by Swetha. His marriage was held in a village called Thekkur (don’t ask me the whereabouts of this place; I am still as ignorant as you!! Its not there in any form of Tamil Nadu map) It was a pleasant evening when I along with Raji, M and P set our journey to Trichy by train. There was a cute little baby in our bay who was the center of attraction to everyone in the train and of course along with M. To be very precise, M's actions are so robotic and slower than Rahul Dravid's batting in tests. All the passengers were amused to see the baby because they would not have seen such a cutest baby and similarly they were awestruck about M because they wouldn’t have seen such a weirdest creature. The baby thought M to be its Robot toy and started pressing his nose expecting the robot to make some sound and was looking for battery on his back. Poor baby, she doesnt know that God used seven sigma technique coupled with Chinamatic Japanese Technology to manufacture that Robot which operates without battery.

We reached Trichy at 4 45am and Chennai guys joined us at 6 am. All of us started our journey to Nerkuppai (Siva's native place - another non-existing village in TN map). The journey was about 2 hours and we reached his Nerkuppai. We saw the board "Nerkuppai Welcomes You" and was enquiring where his house was and after 2 buildings we saw the board "Thank you for visiting Nerkuppai". One of the two buildings happened to be his house and we got ready there and proceeded to Thekkur which was about 10 minutes drive from there. Thekkur can give a stiff competition to Nerkuppai for its immense size. By mistake if you drop your hand kerchief on the road, it would become a carpet for the entire village. There was a huge house decorated with flowers and lights welcomed us to the village.

When we stepped in, Siva was tying the knot. He was such a KNOTTY boy that he took 5 minutes to complete three knots. The couple were looking great together. It was the first time we attended a Chettinad wedding and it was so different from others. The number of formalities in the wedding were so much that it merely outnumbered the number of tamilians living in Bangalore. Swetha's friends who were present there added colour to the wedding and our man A didnt miss that opportunity to flirt with them just to live up to his BITS reputation and to his bitsian name. We wished the couple, had lunch and proceeded to Madurai.

My visit to Madurai was my second, the first being when i was very young. All of us became so religious after reaching Madurai we wanted to visit Meenakshi temple. The cab driver warned us that it would take about 3 hours to complete the temple visit. But when we entered, i found that it was a blatant lie, infact it would take more than 4 hours to complete it. The temple was so vast that if someone gets lost, it would be difficult even for Google searches to find him out. We finished the Goddess darshan and were going around the temple. In our gang, J is so huge that once we mistook him to be the 1001st pillar of the 1000 pillar hall of the temple. There was an elephant and A was scared to go near and get its blessings, so he gave a rotten banana to J who happily blessed him with all prosperity. After 2 1/2 hrs we came out of the temple and got to know that we completed only 50% of the temple - only tem and ple would be completed when we visit Madurai again in Feb for P's marriage.