July 31st, 2007 - Chapter One (RE-EDIT)

I have no idea why I am writing about this. But it is something I wanted to tell the whole world about!!

July 31st 2007 marked a disastrous event in my life that I simply cannot forget or something that I cant stop talking about. So many turn of events happened which could have been avoided but as everyone would say "Fate is without a sense of Irony".

I will narrate this D-Day like a story/journal-entry (with 3-4 chapters). Though I vaguely remember some of the stuff which happened, I have tried my utmost level to present the happenings in detail.


CHAPTER ONE

WE HAD NO OPTIONS

June 30,2007

6:00 A.M.

I was heading to the railway station (Coimbatore) accompanied by my dad. I find Arun, my friend who also like me wanted to pursue his career in the big CHENNAI city. Me,Arun and Arun Lee were the ones who planned to go to Chennai and make a mark in our lives. But due to some reasons, Arun lee didn't join us. So it was just me and Arun starting off from Coimbatore. Arun's friend Mithin Raj who was from Salem was also due to join us in our journey. I bumped in to Krishnamoorthy who was my college-mate and he too was heading to chennai. So we had a great time in train, talking about stuffs and planning on what to do after reaching chennai. On the way, Mithin joined us at Salem. On the first look itself i had a feeling that we are not going to get along but I remained mum and was just responding to his queries.

2:00 P.M.

We reached Chennai. I was all smiles to head start a new chapter in my life. After a long walk to get out of the station, we hired a call taxi and we were on our way to meet our apartment owner. After negotiating with the owner, we headed straight to the apartment.

4:00 P.M.

After reaching the place (Vadapalani), we were waiting for one of my friend Nishant who was willing to join us in the apartment. We checked out the apartment and it was pretty decent one. We had to quarrel little bit with the broker who asked one month rent as his commission but nothing worked out so we paid him.

4:30 P.M.

We went to a restaurant for food since we skipped lunch. We had to pay for those idiot broker and co-owner for their food. We were already finding chennai to be expensive. But we had no choice.

5:30 P.M.

My friend Karthik and his cousin Raja came to see us. They were pretty happy to see us. Immediately I said to Karthik that I wanted to see City centre, watch a movie at Satyam theatre or hang out in the marina or thiruvanmyur beach. Karthik assured that he will take us on the next day. Then came a question of, where to get the bare necessities for the apartment. Raja told us he could arrange for that and everything will delivered to the apartment (if needed). Arun and Mithin stared at each other and it looked like they were not trusting Raja's words (i may be wrong but its just my view). They said "We will call you if we need anything".

7:00 P.M.

Next stop was meeting the owner and paying the advance for the apartment. We had to wait for more than an hour for the owner to show up. Then suddenly there was a huge quarrel between us and the co-owner. He started using foul-language and spoke as if we were not fitting in to their demands. After a lot of heated exchanges, we had to compromise because we had nowhere to go. It felt like we just were in the wrong place at the wrong time. After carefully discussing with all my roomies we came to a conclusion and paid the advance. I told Arun "Looks like we had come to chennai at wrong time". He told "We had no other option and we have to get used to it". Nishanth left off with his friend since he had some unfinished work, so it was just the 3 of us.

9:50 P.M.

We got out and we were searching for a place to have our dinner. Most of the restaurants were closing and we had to rush. They served only dosa. We had no option. We had 2 dosas each, and while having Arun and Mithin were going about it, they were arguing about the incident that happened and there was even talks about controlling the expenses because we had lost 75% of the cash we had brought in advance and rent. I said "We have to control our apetite for some more days" and Mithin was quite unhappy with my decision.Arun said "I can live by eating just dosas". Again, they started arguing. I was so frustrated but had to be calm in getting used to their fights. The bill was around 80 bucks, and Mithin started all over again. I said " I will pay the bill.. I have no problem."

10:30 P.M.

After all those bad events, we still remained cool and we seemed happy to be at chennai. Had a nice chat with Mithin and Arun for about 15-20 minutes, then Nishanth came back from work. Mithin and Arun shared a room where as Me and Nishant were shared the other. Before going to hit the sack, I said to myself "Today might have been a bad start, lets just leave everything for tomorrow.. ".

(to be continued...)