I want to talk...:)

I truly believe in Climate Change now....
It's the time of the year when the north-east monsoons hit Chennai...
It first gets delayed by almost a week...breaking centuries old met records
Then it makes the place so unlike what it is...even during this time of the year!!!!
The wind is cold and chilly...that's not something i ve known Chennai for...
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Good Morning Chennai is going to begin THIS very friday...
Does anyone realise what that means for a TV student in ACJ??
NO. Well...its this breakfast show that is supposed to run for 90 minutes...
And...WE STUDENTS PRODUCE IT...

We bring in guests this time...goof-ups wont be funny alone anymore...
People are going to form opinions...
We need to move from one set in the studio to another...WITH THE MIC STILL ON!!!!!!!!

We need to do FIVE MINUTE STORIES....like one minute stories weren't enuf to make us understand!!!! ANd this time...the anchor doesnt even have a teleprompter!!!!!!!!!!! We have to gas on our own...ON THE SPOT!!!!!!!!!!!

Oooo Maiiii Gawddddd....:D

I dunno...I think we'll go mad before it gets done...:D

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Asha went home today...so I too decided to go home...after all I did have to wash my hair...
If i dared washing it in the hostel(...which i have a couple o times out of dire compulsions like anchoring the evening bulletin...) I think ill lose the final four strands o hair left on my head...

Am PARANOID about the water there...:((

I have a bike now at the hostel...but still decided to take a bus....i ve a direct bus bak home from Madhya Kailash..:) In this weather, an empty bus..a window seat and my zune can do wonders to my mood...:)

The wind on my face is one of the finer feelings im capable of...:D
I type this from home now...that makes me traa laaa laaa hapeeee abt it :D

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India is doing pretty well in the match with Australia which s going on now...
I can hear the TV buzz...and the crowd seems happy...the commentator is pretty excited :)

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Our hostel is in Taramani...right at the beginning of the IT corridor in Chennai...
Its a long stretch of well laid road..with really wide, desolate and unlit streets branching off the main road. This is not a residential area...the place is filled with educational and other institutions...which shut by six in the evening...
Ours and the Central Government's Polytechnic college are the only ones with a hostel in that area...

Now....CPT is filled with the cheap and rowdy guys who lech and eve tease ACJ's women...its horrible. Add to that ACJ guys getting mugged, bashed up and robbed. It's pathetic.

But these were incidents to which I wasnt in any way directly connected. There was the distant lack of understanding. But a few days back, when a group of 7 girls were on the very well lit main road, I saw it happen and affect me directly.

As we were standing on the sidelane near the overbridge contemplating if we could jump the median and avoid climbing stairs, a guy on a bike tried snatching Asha's bag...

One moment we were all looking at the crazy speeds in which vehicles moved on that road...and the next we heard Asha's surprised cry....then she fell down...and got dragged on the concrete as that bastard tried till the end to snatch that bag...when he knew he couldnt go any further or when he knew all of us knew what was happening that bastard let go and sped away....

She had deep bruises on her back from being dragged on the concrete and a HUGE lump on her head where it had hit the road.

I was literally shaking...and i was swearing profusely...It didnt really strike me that he was tryin to snatch her bag...but later when the others who were more calm told me it made sense...why would a normal person who s seen that girl fall drive away so FAST??? Im sure human curiosity is better than that.

Anyways...I made my dad come to the hostel and we took her to the hospital...we had to rule out a concussion...the duty doctor said it was nothing to worry. Relief.
By the time all that was done it was around 12...or maybe 1 in the morning...
She had to have something before she cud take her medicines for the night...

So we forced-plead a Dominos guy who was shutting shop to make us a pizza....the damn nice guy that he was agreed and yay!! We were going to have some pizza after all the drama :D

We went to my cousin's place that night...no power in my house alone, thanks to the north-east monsoons in collaboration with Tamilnadu Electricity Board :

We had our pizza sitting on the swings in the park within the flat...and scared ourselves talking abt spooky stuff :D :D

It was GOOD.

She is fine now...walks slowly...extremely uncharacteristic...:(
And everytime we walk from one place to the other it usually used to be me who had to trot next to her...she walks that fast that sometimes i have to complain :D

Now i ve gotten so used to walkin at that pace that half the time i leave her trailing behind me in her slight limp...and after a few minutes of brisk trotting for no reason but habit, I guiltily turn back and wait for her to catch up....today i apologised for that...when i was REALLY limping with my crutches she walked right beside me ALL THE TIME. Never once did she leave me alone...
I owe it to her...

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Pseudo-nerd....hahaha!!