Kodai-Can-All

Well....its been a long time and out of public demand, I am back with more posts for entertaining at the cost of the gang's humiliation and public embarassment.

We had planned for a trip to Kodaikanal(hill station in Tamil Nadu) after the sem exams and god's grace it worked out!! We were 10 of us: Myself, Rouse, Madhu, B, Rakesh, Ajay, Shekh, Budda, RV and Harish.We drove from chennai to Kodai in B's Innova ('drove' as in the driver drove the car). So hence there were 11 of us in the vehicle!!!!

The drive was the best and the most entertaining part of the trip. We had music, plus, Madhu's and Rouse's live kalaichifying.It all started when Rakesh reasoned his sick self. He said he had an "Output Failure"(for those of you who dont understand what it meant, output is gang slang for "shite"). This choked us all, and off went madhu with his punch dialogues like"Chithhoor thaandina kaatpaadi, rakesh vitta dead body".

Rakesh suddenly spotted a hill at far sight and asked with curiousity,"Adhu endha malai?", and quick came madhu's words,"Kanchana Mala".

And then came a petrol tank and madhu said,"Paathuda rakesh, high presssure naala tank vedikaporadhu".

Rakesh wanted to ignore and avoid madhu's kalaichifying, and so he decided to plug his headfones to his phone and acted as if he wasn't listening to us. But when harish noticed this he silently unplugged the headfones,and he found out that rakesh wasnt listening to any songs, he was just listening to his phone's monophonic ringtones.

After all the frolic in the car, we reached kodai safely and rouse fell sick that night. The rest of us wanted dinner so we left rouse in the room and went to a nearby restaurant. Rouse said he would watch tv and lock the door from inside. So we left and later,after dinner, when we came back to our rooms, we knocked at the door and found no reply. We yelled out frantically as the room keys were with rouse. We tried calling his mobile but unfortunately had no signal. And then heroic rakesh came up with a plan. He went downstairs and climbed on to the sunshade of the room and threw in small stones at rouse trying to wake him him. After a few minutes, rakesh's aerobics worked out and rouse woke up and opened the room, and the 9 of us pounced on him.

It was time for bed and we all slept in our respective beds. In one of the beds lay RV with rakesh. Suddenly from under the blanket RV shouted "AARGH...rakesh thirumbiyum vittaandaa".

The next morning we decided to go for boating in the kodai lake. We were split as follows:
Rouse and Myself; Madhu and RV; Harish and Budda; Ajay and shekh, and finally rakesh, b and driver in a self-row boat. B rowed the boat for sometime and then the driver wanted to try his hand in rowing. So, when they shifted positions, the water kind of splashed on rakesh. Rakesh immediately shouted, "Ankill Ankill, please ankill. Ippidiyae B row pannatum. Thanni addikidhu yen maela. Kulurrdhu Ankil. Ennaku cold vandhidum please."

And then rouse came up with one of his pranks.He asked me to pedal the boat and chase the other boats and then he would climb over to the neighbouring boat to catch hold of their anchor rope and drag their boat behind us. Both of us did this to all the other boats, which got the others pissed. They all got together against us and ganged up to catch hold of our boats's rope and tied it to a branch of a tree on the banks of the lake. They eventually drifted away to the boat house leaving the two of us behind. We waited for half an hour and found than none came to our rescue. Then both of us shouted for help until the boat keeper rowed his boat all the way to our side and untied the knot and shouted at us using the worst of his local tamil vocabulary.

That night rouse got drunk and went high. He started singing "Raaravenu Gopapaala....Ayyayyo lyircs marandhirichae...". It was amazingly funny. He forgot the rest of the song and suddenly started singing "Sreegannanaatha....lakumitharaa", and ajay immediately said"Raavaa addihci ippidithaan aahum...".

He went to the other room and found rakesh sleeping. Rouse hit him hard on his head and shouted, "Thevdiya paiyya, enna da thoongara...". An alarmed rakesh woke up and threw a deo spray which unfortunately missed rouse and hit madhu. Madhu hit rakesh back on his head which put him to sleep.

Rouse didnt have enough. He found B sleeping on the couch and rouse fell on him shouting "AYYAYYO B....", and fell right on B, with rouse's elbows on B's balls. B shouted in pain and chased rouse with his shoes all around the room.

The next morning, rakesh woke up early to be the first to take bath. But unfortunately for him, there wasnt any water in the bathroom, so the smart rakesh took the bucket to the kitchen and tried to fill it from the washbasin in the kitchen. His clumsiness made him spill some water on the floor. He ignored this and went to take bath. When B woke up, he slipped on the water spilt by rakesh. By that time, rakesh came out of the toilet with his towel. B shouted at rakesh and asked him to wipe the floor immediately. Rakesh asked himself to be excused until he changed into his clothes. B was adamant and forced rakesh to wipe the floor with the towel he had tied around himself. And THERE was a funny scene:"Rakesh wiping the floor in his undies".

We went for trekking and sightseeing that afternoon. In one of the waterfalls we visited, the scenery was excellent and we climbed over the small hills to take a few snaps. In one such occasion, rakesh climbed down one of the steep slippery slopes and said,"Dae,naa azhagaa sirikiraamaadiri orru foto eddudaa..aemaathatheengadaa".

That evening, we went to the game room to check out on the games. Many of us played table tennis and rakesh went to the carroms room. After a few hours, we all quit table tennins to check out on what rakesh was doing. When we entered the carroms room, we found our thala talking to his opponent(who happened to be a girl of around 15yrs),saying, "White here...hit slow...keep striker here...dont touch red".

One day, we went for lunch to a place called "Rasoi's". We ordered for panneer butter masala. The waitress cum owner was a north indian woman. When she served us the rotis, she kept a cup which had some kind of side dish. Rouse mistook it to be the panneer butter masala and was surprised at the small amount we were served for 90RS. He said "Uyyo..enaadhudhu?Ivalothaana panneer butter masala?"Little did we know that the waitress understood tamil well. She suddenly turned to our table and said "Yaar pa andha 'vadivelu'? Oorga va paathu panneer butter masala solradhu?"

And then there was this time, when we went to a restaurant for breakfast. We were kinda late for breakfast and so the place was out of the special dishes. Some of us settled for dosais and idlis whereas madhu's hunger ordered "Butter Roast". When the waiter served us our respective dishes, madhu found that his order was not the way he wanted it to be. The butter roast he ordered was a Dosa with butter in a separate cup. Madhu got pissed and off went his temper. He called for the waiter and asked rudely "Idhu naadhu idhu? Butter enga? Naa enna sonnae nee enna eduthinivandiruka?". The waiter was scared and said, "Sir idhaan neenga kaeta butter roast" to which madhu replied "Butter thaniya, dosa thaniyavaa? Ennaku vaanaa...eduthutu podunga". The rest of us didnt know what to do as we all found madhu overacting for such a small issue. So we paid for the butter roast and apologised to the waiter on behalf of madhu and went back to the hotel. On the way rouse mocked madhu saying "Dae romba overaa therilla? Adduthathu nee mysor bonda kaetu, mysore enga kaepiya?"

On the day of the worldwide release of Dasavataram, we got tickets for the night show in a nearby theatre. We sat through the entire movie, which happened to be from a bad reel and hence a very poor quality. We went back to our rooms and were discussing about the good parts and the bad parts of the movie, when rakesh contributed,"Ellaam purinjidhuda....aanaa yaen ellaarum beach ponaanga?"

The night before our departure we decided to play a game of "Bluff". We all sat on a double bed and there wasnt much space for all of us and it was quite cramped. So, rakesh wanting to hide his cards, went under a blanket, but he didnt know that madhu lifted the blanket from behind to get a peek of rakesh's cards. The game ended with rakesh as the loser with around a hundred cards, most of which was madhu's.