It is my fifth day in macha land, end of the first week, full of adventures, emotions, joys and sorrows. (Bunny has finished making 10238464289271618393 girl friends in 5 days, aur shayad main bhi kiskiko dil de baitha hu – HaILaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa)
Last four days have been quite a journey – full of Chennai night life, Tidel park food outings, hotel room phobias, etc etc…, The day after the first day started with a great deal of enthusiasm, though it was not the first day in macha-land., it was definely the first sunrise. Jai and viru were ready for their first Tihar jail in MAcha Land – TIDEL PARK. Having spent 2 months in Hyderabad without a workstation – me and bunny were very much habituated with spending more time in library and pantry (and LST terrace – awesome view of Hussain Sagar) ., so we never really had the habit of sitting on a machine and working 9 hrs straight .. It was quite a new experience, it was hard to actually make note of the time as it FLEW by, a full working day passing by as if it was just an hour.
Evening we took a few broker numbers and set off for looking for a house on RENT. This was the first time we really set off by ourself in Macha Land on my beloved BIKE!! Our first sample was a man called YASSIN!! This was a thin little baldi guy, with quite a weird body frame and a very different accent which was definitely not Madrasi. We had to call him 3-4 times before we could actually find him in that busy corner near Thiruvanmiyur Bus stand and RTO. Yassin confidingly said hello and told us that he would get us one of the best places in town within no time. Respecting his eagerness to find us a good house (which later on turned out to be sumthng worse than a shandy), we finally set off behind him. Like a local Macho Man, he sat on a two wheeler (which looked like a bike cum Luna cum cycle – something with the brand name of BYKE – the engine looked less that 100cc in volume). Looking him get on that small little tardy thing, I told bunny that it’s going to be a very slow journey!! Before I could end by last sentence, Yassin zoomed ahead like a shooting star breaking 2 signals and zooming into pevening traffic. “OHHH SHITTTT” was the only word that we both uttered simultaneously, got on my bike and pressed hard on the start button and gear simultaneously to try and catch up with this local street hawk. (back in Mumbai ia m well known for making smooth turns and smart moves between traffic even at 80km/hr, but following this character in the Chennai traffic seemed like a mighty task, even after being on a bike which goes 0 – 60 on 4.5 seconds),. Our first house to be, was located sumwher behind the small lanes in thiruvanmiyur itself and was to be given for 6k per month. We had eagerly said yes to see it merely for the cheap deal tht it seemed to be.. Barely managing to follow yassin and his 90cc superbike, we finally reached sum very TADIPAR looking area in the interiors of thiruvanmiyur. We could see burly guys walking around, short brawny faces looking at us with that “welcome to the neighborhood – asshole” look,.. we got down next to some shady looking shanty which was looking like a slightly better version of a brick and mortar SLUM House. The land lady came down walking with a contemptuous look on her face. Her first sentence in tamil was “ask them to remove their dirty shos before the enter” .. me and bunny jus looked at each othrs face. The house was decently clean but def not our TYPE of a resting haven, plus the land lady’s remarks of NO LATE NIGHTS/ NO FRIENDS and SPECIALLY NO GIRLS made us perceive tht place like a sick slum hostel…. So we told Yassin bhai tht we wanted to look at other places. He dialed a few numbers and made a few quick calls to his other – bhai-bandhu- and started off on his super bike yet again. By the evening we saw around 4-5 “bad,worse and remorseful” in and around thiruvanmiyur. All the flats were only between 10 – 15k with a minimum deposit of 60k to 100k ..
So we finally got tired and called up rammeee and ruthless to join us for d eve.. Ramee picked us up with ruth and told us that there was a surprise for the evening.. She said she is taking us to Chennai’s swankiest joint (lounge bar) called Bikes N Barrels. The place (which seemed wquite an inspiration from Hard Rock Café (with a bike hanging from the ceiling, a swaggering bar, posh old foreigners with their hired young chinki escorts) .. it was a scene which I had least expected in Macha Land. Had been craving to be in a lounge bar since a long time (had not cum across any in Hyd) .. Gulping down multiple beer mugs (lots count after 5) with endless chicken tikka (Disclaimer – bunny doesn’t eat non-veg or drink alcohol; yes u heard that right – not even a Breezer. He was stuck to his orange juice throughout the night), we ended the day with a drunken jive (me, ruthless, ramee, bunny, and kaushik – ramee’s frnd)..
Rameee finally dropped us back, in a loudly banging blaster speaker ride throughout the city, past IIT and to our hotel in thiruvanmiyur… we wer back in bed, already thinking (with a beer sizzled mind) abt the next days HUNT FOR A SHELTER !!
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