Behind every cloud there is a silver lining!!!

Home at last!!!!!!! Just came home after a tedious journey..cramped up in a general compartment full of people..I was the only girl but i dint feel lonely..however there were a group of junglees(obviously guys!) who were freakin the hell out..they seemed to have apetite for every kind of food that passed us in the hands of vendors..biriyani, cutlets, sweet meats, soft drinks, tea, coffee, chocolates, biscuits, variety rice, paan, and the list might just go on forever...! I was wondering if there was any mastification that was going on in them...! I was ill cos of the dinner last nite and wondered whether i would reach home alive...I just sat uprite for almost nine hours continuously without changing positions and by the time i got out of the train i felt i dint have a vertebral column! Oh gosh the getting out was another happening thing..as soon as the train reached the station at Chennai men, women and children got into the train like a swarm of bees and we were stuck in between not knowing what to do..I remained unaffected cos i just had to stand with my luggage and i was gloriously carried out of the train and put onto the platform by the maddening crowd..India rocks and of course my dad rocks too! He thinks i am superhuman to board a general compartment full of guys and find my way home!!! Well ... lets face it ...with guys around every gal has to become super human..ooops! lol!
Now lets get into the crux of this blog..I had thought that the rain would spoil the whole trip but fortunately it was raining only within the portals of my good 'ol Chennai! Coimbatore welcomed the four of us very pleasantly who undertook the risk of going there amidst the mad rain.It was 5 in the morning when we reached there and the chill breeze shook every muscle and bone within me...(not the others) That's pleasant enough guys..! We had a timid boy with us in the train who moved his limbs to our friend's whims( obviously cos she looked good) and he took the responsibilty to put us in an auto. We found our way to the place our bus waited for us. Our bus was there..empty and eagerly waiting so we decided to take coffee. We had coffeee from a potti kadai kind of a unit! lol! It was fun..the four of us early in the morning havin coffee in a strange place amidst milkmen and paper boys! We then boarded the bus which had seating for bout forty people and only we four were there! The rest of them who boarded the bus after us were two wrinkled and withered living beings and two big fat bulls..The bus was full with the eight of us! There was a medical shop just a lil ahead and there was a general commotion regarding its name and stuff..shhh girls talk! lol! The bus breezed through the town and i found it to be like Kerala..Broad landscapes..full of greenery, clean air that in one inhale u almost feel refreshed for a lifetime, tile roofed houses and rain like snow every ten mins..(That was no rain at all when compared to Chennai's rain that would be like stones pelted against us)...! We reached Karunya university in 45 mins and i was wrapped in my zebra quilt ( i call it that way) even when i got off the bus! And we went through a lot of embarrassing encounters with the receptionists at the guest house which is not worth mentioning. We got our rooms and got settled..Had a shower,dressed up, had breakfast at the university restaurant which was simply superlative horrible!
The conference began. I liked our chief guest Dr.Chellappan's speech..i sribbled some of his thoughts in my notepad like a spider which ran on my paper after fallin in an inkpot...People were already noticing my attractive friend and i was sooo glad for her and myself...! In fact there was one dumbass ( the convenor of the conf, which i came to know later!) who came to my married friend with an alliance for her...Globalisation i guess!! I was the only junior among all the 275 participants mostly consisting of mphil research scholars, senior profs and lecturers and i came to terms with the fact that i was just a drop in the vast ocean of knowledge that almost sunk me. However i saw that i exhibited more interest than my freinds..They had come to Coimbatore for other reasons than the conf! As for me i had no choice cos i had no business there and i was glad i dint have a choice cos the sessions were very interesting..I like the one bout stylistics and bout computer based teaching methods.
Lunch was also superlative worse and we gulped down whatever was put on our plates. I met a lot of important people..interacted with them bout many issues and learnt a lot..Surprisingly there were famous lawyers and doctors(medical!) who confessed that their first love was literature and that they are still not able to get out of the affair! (pooh! to al those who feel literature is nothing!). There were the blue mountains which showed off its grandeur and put us to shame by its beauty. The mist and the fog were al there but my project was also there rising steadily amidst the fog and the mist in the blue mountains. Blues from the blue mountains..So that dint help. There were different kinds of birds and plants in the campus which offered some assistance in brightening my spirits. Several controversies arose in several occasions and that added to the discomfort. But the certificate at the end of the conference brightened my spirits the most! We had gone for walks in the campus at nite and had ice cremas in the bitter cold! And we freaked when we went outta cash (lol! that was the best part) and at last found home in my relative's place. Bout the part being best... we were deciding what jobs to take up cos of our financial crisis..one would clean toilets..one would wash vessels at the restaurant we had that wonderful food..one would resort to beggin..the best of all..and finally one would loot the bank! lol! From my relative's place we parted..my friend and myself..she to Ooty and myself back home.The other two jumped off the university campus walls early in the morning on the second day of the conference and fund their way to the woods in Ooty. I remember the two of us were stil sound asleep in our beds when they whispered a bye after packing and made good their way! The evening before the day i was to leave Coimbatore i went around exploring the nooks and corners of Coimbatore with my relatives! I could not stick certain things but yeah life is not a bed of roses and so yeah! And then came womanhood reminding me that life is a challenge..and of course the illness that shook my veins in the chillness of the early morning as i boarded the train and the freaks who were in my coupe and the long journey and...... HMMMMM ....! However there was a silver lining behind the dark clouds that seemed to appear and disappear at intervals!
Not a bad trip at all i guess????!!! Chow!