16/12/2008

COACH SAVES THE DAY!!!
We went to drop Mittal early in the morning at 4. Watched FRIENDS all night and on the way to the airport too. After dropping him off, did some timepass at the airport. Mittal msgd that the Chinki from Delhi team was also at the airport and they had a conversation!! We were searching for rikshaw to drop us back at the campus and one of them actually asked for 500 Rs.! Chuunn went nuts hearing this and was telling everyone about this for the next 2 days to come.! “Wo sala 500 maang raha tha! “ On the way back, the rickshaw ran out of fuel and Anish, Chuun and me were left sitting in the middle of nowhere for 20 minutes. Just when we decided it was enough and started getting out of the rickshaw, the driver came running and the rest of the trip passed without any more adventures. Slept around 5:30. It was creepy sleeping in the huge room alone.
Got up at 11 AM with Anish shouting madly. Plan to go to Mahabalipuram. We finished our lunch by 1 and left for the maingate. We were also joined by the TT team. We took an auto upto the Adyar Terminal and were waiting for the bus. Coach and Chuunn were trying to manage everything. Anish and I found out about “Soc Secy“ here (:P). There was a really nice looking food shop right over the wall near the terminal and I went and got some chocolates. Chuunn was making his stupid remarks and as we were “standing” and waiting for the bus, he discovered why the bus stand was called a “Stand” !!! Really makes me wonder how ppl can come up with such stupid jokes! Finally the bus arrived and we got on. On the way to Mahabalipuram, we stopped at crocodile’s park. Saw the laziest of crocodiles in the park. It is the largest croc park in Asia. One of the crocodiles was infinitely huge, there was another one with his upper jaw cut off, then there were gharials, and I don’t remember much more. There were some snakes too and turtles. We actually got to touch a live snake and crocodile and their skin was soo icky.! Coach freaked out!! :P We then left from the Croc Park and replenished our refreshments and got on another bus to proceed to Mahabalipuram. The scenery on the way was really amazing. I personally couldn’t believe that such a scenic drive existed in India. One side sea and the other side greenery. We reached Shore Temple and it was really beautiful there. There were green plains all around and in the middle stood the small Shore Temple. We clicked loads of photos around it. Chuunn suggested various poses as he was bored with the normal standing poses. The temple itself didn’t have much to see. There were some sculptures, and some arbit work. From there, we went to the beach. We sat there for like half an hour and clicked a few photos. It was getting dark and photos bhi utne achche nai aa rahe the. Then we had ice-creams and left. On the way back, we crossed loads of shops and Coach tried her best to irritate us by trying to buy a souvenir. She didn’t have a clue about what she was buying and after looking at the shops for around half an hour finally gave up. Every shop she would go and ask for the price of one particular item, try to bargain without much success and then walk off. Chuunn was particularly in a lot of hurry as he did not want to miss the GALA DINNER at the campus at any costs. On return, we got a really cool AC bus which dropped us right at the gates of the IIT. After delta freshening up, we went to OAT for the gala dinner. It looked to be a very gloomy affair. There was some arbit prize distribution ceremony going on in the background which no one was very interested in. The food was also not very good and the chocolate ice cream was supposedly hopeless. ( I differ on this one). I was wanted to have some fun there so went out seeking S.N.Goyal to get some of his expert comments and went around the OAT following him. I was unsuccessful, but then Chuunn and I went up to him in guise of saying GoodBye and managed to talk to him.  Then we tried making plans for the next day. All of us were very happy with Coach for the wonderful we had bcz of her and so we left everything to her for finalizing the next day. She talked to a few Maddu ppl and all the plans ended in “how do we gat to the main gate at 6 in the morning” or “its too far we wont be able to make it back for the presentation” or “BEACH KYU JANA HAI YAAR?????????” While going back to the hostels, we finally decided that we would be going to the Marina Beach at 6. There was a subtle smile on Studd’s face as this was being decided and as soon as we reached room, he declared that he wasn’t going to get up early in any case and THAT was THAT!