6:15 p.m. Chennai airport, waiting to board the flight for Mumbai – a one way ticket just like the one I had 2 months back in November 2009. :)
So here comes an end to the shortest and sweetest stint. I moved to Chennai 2 months back as a part of my rotation – and was prepared and loaded with at least 50 books to read to survive what was supposed to be a 10 month long stint. However, like we all say, ‘you never know where life takes you’, here I am on my way back to Mumbai in 2 months.
Chennai was nothing like I expected; in fact I didn’t expect much and it turned out to be a lot more than just some south Indian conservative city that sleeps at 10 every night. Chennai (if you read my previous posts) is a lot of fun! A new city is a lot about the kind of people you end up meeting and of course a lot about deciding to have fun. A city cannot really be good or bad, boring or fun, slow or fast. It’s the people that matter and how you accept the place that matters. So well, I guess I realized this while I was here. Yea 2 months could be too short to say – and at the same time I feel 2 months were too short for me to have all the fun and do everything I wanted to in Chennai.
So here comes an end to the shortest and sweetest stint. I moved to Chennai 2 months back as a part of my rotation – and was prepared and loaded with at least 50 books to read to survive what was supposed to be a 10 month long stint. However, like we all say, ‘you never know where life takes you’, here I am on my way back to Mumbai in 2 months.
Chennai was nothing like I expected; in fact I didn’t expect much and it turned out to be a lot more than just some south Indian conservative city that sleeps at 10 every night. Chennai (if you read my previous posts) is a lot of fun! A new city is a lot about the kind of people you end up meeting and of course a lot about deciding to have fun. A city cannot really be good or bad, boring or fun, slow or fast. It’s the people that matter and how you accept the place that matters. So well, I guess I realized this while I was here. Yea 2 months could be too short to say – and at the same time I feel 2 months were too short for me to have all the fun and do everything I wanted to in Chennai.
So I spent my last 2 weeks in Chennai in revisiting the best things to do in the city and traveling to Pondi the little town around 3.5 hours from Chennai with some amazing beaches and FOOD. It’s a quaint little French town – and amazing to see how in a so culturally strong a country like ours the Frenchmen left their imprint behind. Right from food, language to the feel of the place, Pondi represents the luxurious and content life of the people of France.
Here are a few more pictures of the city capturing some fun moments of a good life!
I will definitely be missing Chennai – but nothing is ever as good as coming back home. As they say, home is where heart is!! Im back everyone! Good times again!! :)
PS: Post supposed to be published on 14th Jan 2010. Delay regretted owing to various reasons - Reliance datacard is the root cause :) Thanks to MTNL that comes to my rescue now.
