From His Own Country

Monday came and went before I knew it and it’s two weeks past already. Not only is it two weeks already, it’s a new place and a new office environment too!! Yes people I have shifted base-yet again. This time it’s further south-as south in India as you can preferably be- Trivandrum-more complicatedly known as Thiruvananthapuram.

The place is even slower compared to the slow place I came from, but it has its plusses
1) Auto drivers still go by the meter charge
2) No traffic snarls. So it takes you only half an hour to cover 10 kms-not 2 hours.
3) We have ONE Pizza Corner, ONE coffee pub (okie 2-3) , and ONE not too bad pastries/burgers/ what not shop.
4) We also have one Nike and Reebok showroom ( am yet to make a purchase there though…on the other hand, who ever buys anything from there..you just go there and drool at what you could have worn if your wallet was ever heavier..)
5) And..it’s quiet at night..

Still, it’s slow….or is the word ‘monotonous’ more appropriate..all evenings have been similar so far- we start from the office at around 6 pm and end up at the same old vegetarian restaurant at around 9. We reach home by around 10.

Of late though, Musafir and I have taken to playing badminton. It started off as a desperate attempt to attempt to make it past the first round of a competition we had at office. Needless to say, the attempt was in vain. Like the great philosopher said, it was like chasing the wind..we ended up losing quite fast..but that made us take up badminton more regularly..there’s a club nearby and we’ve been going there regularly for the past few days now..in fact, we thinking of taking a membership there. Hidden agenda: atleast next year, we should be able to make it past the next round. And we are not doing all that bad too..yesterday, we managed to meet and beat a hapless team of two. We kept beating them and they kept asking us to play yet another game. In the end we beat them three times in a row! (okie..so THREE isn’t exactly a big number. But considering the number of losses we had before that, it IS.)


Dinner is at the same veg restaurant as earlier. And the menu is usually the same. You cant hope for too much variety when you are dealing in dosas and idlis..and I am trying to keep off meat till Christmas. Hope I stay faithful to PETA.

It’s been a case of so far so good…the bird scene doesn’t look too promising and that’s a bummer..but then like Shakespeare said…Ah! what the hell!..forget it (no that wasn’t Shakespeare, that was me..authentic Everyman)


Shain