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My first reaction was “Its freakin Hot n Humid here!”. I felt like I was inside a microwave! 
Theres nothing much to talk about the place. I mean, its the same as Bangalore. But yeah, the traffic is soo much better! 
( It took me 2 hours to reach home from Bangalore. That was half of the journey time ).
I also learnt a few Tamil words! Venakkam! Vaango, Pongo, ille, Ukaarungo 
I can now relate to some areas as well…like The Mount Road, Nungambaakam (Loong name?!), T Nagar, Puunammalli Road (!!)
Madras Filter Coffee ( or kaapi ) is also called as Metre coffe as they pour it from 3 feet high! You must really see them do it! Its awe-inspiring! It smells good too! Other than Coffee…theres always Idli, Vada and the really spicy chutney that can burn your tongue!
Can anyone tell me, why does the City Center Mall look like an ancient Roman building ?! 
Just a thought.
Marina beach was filled with homosapiens and Canis lupus familiaris’
Mahabalipuram is the dream world of Tamil arts (world heritage site). The beach was really peaceful. We were at the beach at around 5.30 am in the morning to watch the sunrise. The Shore temple is really beautiful. We were lucky ‘coz it was early in the morning and not many people were around (actually, no one was around). So we got the whole place fo ourselves!!
Sunrise! Mahabalipuram.
Dad and Me =)
Getting self-obsessed at the beach !
Shore Temple…. Copy Rights Reserved !!
We drove back along the east coast. All the connecting roads to Bangalore are neat. The ride was amazing! Dad drove at 120 km/hr !! 
It started to drizzle once we were near the Bangalore border. See, thats when you realise that you’re near Bangalore!! Its cloudy and freaking cold since then! We were stuck in traffic for 2 hours. But that really doesn’t matter when its raining and you have Rohit Barker on the radio with you!
P.S. – Forgive me for having used so many smileys everywhere. I’m just excited, having missed school for 3 days!
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42 Comments
22 June, 2008 at 4:48 pm
stupid! you didn’t tell me you came to chennai
And i have never gone to the beach for the sunrise 
anyway as for city center,they just went a little crazy…and mahabs isn’t the only place 
22 June, 2008 at 4:52 pm
@ Vishesh : It was a reflex action of my dad that we go to Chennai by road!
No way! You should go!!
I got up on thursday morning to get ready for school and he told me that we’re going to chennai!!
You’ve never gone to the beach for sunrise ?
They went a ‘LITTLE’ crazy?? I really thought that was a museum first you know !!
I’ve already been to Kodai. So Mahab WAS the only place !
22 June, 2008 at 5:06 pm
The only exciting thing about the whole post was your dad driving at 120km/hr
Kiddin buds, I like the pics “I Rock” & “Shore temple” too! Seems somebody enjoyed under the sun
22 June, 2008 at 5:09 pm
Hey, I know those Tamil words too, they were in that Bingo ad they used to shw, hai na?
Looks like a cool place yaar, and must have been a bliss, specially when u get to miss school
22 June, 2008 at 5:50 pm
Nice header!! Its fun missing school for such a nice impulsive trip!!
22 June, 2008 at 6:01 pm
Well, i was in Calcuta around the same time, and talk about hot & humid! But we had fun! Your images & your post kind of made me home sick again.
By the way, I love travel pictures esp those that come with a narration. You have a great post here.
Cheers!
Jay
http://www.photoduniya.com/
http://www.journalimage.com/
22 June, 2008 at 10:00 pm
how come i see a smiley flood in the whole post
those pics and header looks cool
23 June, 2008 at 5:36 am
hmmm…..looks good!….if ur snap were more closer it would have been better:)…
23 June, 2008 at 7:03 am
Cool…you missed school! that’s the best part. I felt like bunking office after reading your post!
The sunrise and you walking at the shore (header) are awesome photographs!
And in Ahmedabad also its like being in microwave! too himid and hot
we need some respite form this scorching weather!
23 June, 2008 at 9:41 am
Too many smileys and too much fun!
Good to know you unwound! I’d been there during my US visa process.. Went to the beach, saw the dogs and drank metre kaapi… It was fun!
23 June, 2008 at 9:46 am
WOW!
How I’d love to travel right now……..
I kinda love roads! And if there’s a drizzle, it’s great!
Great pics!
23 June, 2008 at 9:48 am
Oh! and that header rules!
23 June, 2008 at 10:55 am
Hey that’s so cool..
Missing school for 3 days for a holiday when you didn’t even know you would go!
I wonder how amazing would it be if i am getting ready to go to office and someone says ‘chuck it.. we’ll go for a holiday!’
23 June, 2008 at 11:13 am
@ RJ : 120 km/hr was one of the best part of the whole journey! And the highway is beautiful too! Flowering shrubs and cloudy skies!
Shore temple is a nice place. We went there at around 6.30 am so no single soul was around. Just hooohooo !
@ Perx : Lol, yeah man. Bingo add was hilarious! Vaango, Ukaarungo, Pongo!
Yes yes, the place was bliss!! Away from school and all the tension!
@ Reema : Thank you!
Missing school with a valid reason is the ultimate form of enjoying the fact. 
@ Jay! (whatta cool name!) : Calcutta is really hot I know! Its the all coastal atmosphere which ruins the peace around. But we seem to have fun, no matter where!
Your Journal Image is too good! I went through most of it! Interesting!
Cheers to you too Jay!
@ T : Smileys == Over excited and enthu about having got to post something after a really long time!
Thanku!!
23 June, 2008 at 11:23 am
@ Pratap : Oh. I’ll try to edit it on photoshop as soon as I find some time! Thank you!
@ Sakhi : You felt like ‘bunking’ office eh ?? Thats so awesome! You should have, I tell you! Theres nothing like bunking and feeling happy after it!
It seems to be hot everywhere in India except Bangalore !! Its been raining here every evening! I’m totally loving it!!
Well, only way to cool down places is to bring in more greenery I guess
@ Nikhil :
//Good to know you unwound!
I know! Like, FINALLY!!
I did not spend much time at the Marina beach. Too many people spoil the beach! Mahab beach was peaceful and fresh!
Filter coffee!! Yahhayy! I know! It was good! First time in my life I actually liked coffee
@ Raghav : Thank you!
You love to travel too ? Hurray!! Me too!! The broad highway, rain, wind all add to the fun!
Btw, how have you been? No posts? Busy with school huh?? How did the tests go?? All the best!
@ Sandeep : The best part about bunking, I tell you! Just do it man! Get up one day and head towards some close place on the highway! You won’t regret it if you have fun later!
23 June, 2008 at 11:41 am
there are a zillion other places u need to see :d
23 June, 2008 at 12:56 pm
Wow..! That’s was indeed a good experience and the pics are nice BTW..
And missing school for 3 days.. :-O Coooolll! I always used to love it when I missed my school… 
And hey, have you been to Pondicherry? OMG! that place just rocks…Its so damn fun there. No cops would care whatever you do… I mean, you get full liberty there…You can have awesome fun there though.
Anyways, whatever it is, whichever city it is…but BANGALORE ROCKS!!!
23 June, 2008 at 1:14 pm
i had been to mahabalipuram recently,last sem hols
i loved the place ! now,u got a well deserved break eh ? 
23 June, 2008 at 1:51 pm
wish it should rain here too… it seems God is taking revenge by not pouring rains… am eagerly waiting! :/
23 June, 2008 at 2:47 pm
It’s my dream to visit Chennai and TAmil nadu one day. Though I’m a Tamil never been to Tamil Nadu.
Currently living in Colombo.. you made me more curios abt chennai…!!!
OMG I can’t wait..!
23 June, 2008 at 3:05 pm
@ Vishesh : I know! Sigh.
Have you seen Into The Wild ? I’m so inspired by it…I will leave everything behind and travel around the globe. Whoa!
@ Joel : Thanks! Yeah, we all love too miss school! I’ve been dying to go to Pondi !! You can explore the whole place by walk! Its so ‘wow’ !! The beaches and the white sand and clear sky and everything just amazing!
I totally agree with you man, Bangalore Rocks!
@ Megh : So you’d been there too!! Thats so cool! Yeah, I finally got my break!
@ Sakhi : Hehehe….it HAS to, ONE FINE DAY !!
@ Mayooresan : Oh!! You must visit your native land someday! People are generous and you can even experience the taste of south India! Have a happy time!
23 June, 2008 at 4:11 pm
hehehe… you don’t like coffee? Damn, i was planning on inviting u to kaapi day… sigh.. now what to do?
23 June, 2008 at 4:16 pm
lol i too want to…especially since the 50/100 in maths
23 June, 2008 at 4:19 pm
is those photos from chennai beach? how come it was so clean?when i went there…good!it was so damn durty!yak!
i knw T-nagar is the place where most of the ppl shop..most of all those auto ppl try to fool us to the core..dam!(thank god we dint get fooled)..in every hotel u go…ur chapathi would have been socked in oil..hehe!
coffee shops on roads r far better than that in hotels..
did u go to crock park n dolphin show?…there is no dolphin but oly lion seal..but it was nice…
i surely loved the trip!
24 June, 2008 at 4:51 am
i don’t hate cars, but 120+ kmph in a bike adds to the fun. the pics are really good and i envy you for the drive on a superb surface. ur dad making u miss school is “WOW”. and yeah, u do rock!
24 June, 2008 at 5:22 am
I did bunk office yesterday!
Though it was not for fun.. had a very bad headache and taking inspiration from you
i went home and did what i like the most …. zzzzzzzzz, slept peacefully for 3 and half hours! 
enjoyed!
and it has still not rained here!
24 June, 2008 at 9:13 am
hey Priya!!!
Must say, as usual a very good post… n yeah as one of ur readers has mentioned, i too was reminded of the Bingo Ad.
24 June, 2008 at 9:23 am
This is one very happy post that I have come across. Near 25 smileys.
Have you created your blog header too out of Chennai pictures. What beach is that in your header?
24 June, 2008 at 10:30 am
first of all…welcome to chennai and thnks for visiting it!!!
and s i agree tht u have used too TOO many smileys in this post!!
so….u saw the elephant statue made of a single rock in mahabalipuram? well…..many questions are running in my mind but am not able to type them rite now….will ask later…..
24 June, 2008 at 12:39 pm
I wanna go to chennai tooo………
Its been almost 4 months since I went there!!
Actually, no!! I went there in March for 3 days!!
And sakkath tamil Pri!!
Pity you didn’t get to meet the auto drivers…
Mahabalipuram is an awesome place… Beautiful!!
And yeah, awesome pics..
The header rocks too!!
Cheers…
24 June, 2008 at 6:33 pm
@Pri – Its beach, so water = H2O then salt also i.e. Na – what does that make up to?
Sorry, just for fun…hehe..You rock Chem girl!
25 June, 2008 at 10:16 am
totally forgot to ask u,did u shop at mahabalipuram
i bought so much when i went thr,bag was loaded with all kinds of shell mirrors,junk jewellery,bags,hats,lampshades n what not !!! everythin 4 frnds n self
btw u guys r better at givin me taglines
urs bout me says “bombat bengalur hudugi” looovin it,flattered ahem 
RJ said “Megyaan” i liked that ,now i like urs too !
25 June, 2008 at 2:30 pm
@Megs – mirrors, jewellery, bags, hats phew!!!!
Study..dont think about shopping!
25 June, 2008 at 2:31 pm
@Megs – Btw forgot to ask – your name doesnt link to yuor page…y????
25 June, 2008 at 4:31 pm
Whoa! somebody is bunking classes and going places…
Actually its good that way… we need to take a break pill and relaxing services….
Awesome header…Looks very neat…
26 June, 2008 at 10:57 am
@ Nikhil : I like cold coffee!
Not the hot hot ones! 
@ Vishesh : Why the heck do commerce people have to study trigonometry and vectors? Totally sucks! Cheer up Vishesh! There are loads of things that you can look up to!
@ Nikitha : Thats not the chennai beach! Thats the beach at Mahabalipuram! Thats why its all empty and clean
@ Harshasrisri : =)
Thanku!
And yeah, dads are unpredictable at times
@ Sakhi : You bunked office!! Yohoo!! Thats so cool…and sleeping for 3 hours is even cooler ‘coz I hardly get to sleep these days!
Aaarrgh! These assignments, records, projects, tests! BAH!
@ Sam : Thank you! Bingo ad eh?
*innocent face* Really? 
@ Poonam : Happy post sounds sweet!! You even counted the smileys! Yohoooooo!
Yes, the header too is from the Chennai pictures. Thats the Mahabalipuram Beach.
@ Vivek : Thanks for the welcome!
Yes, yes saw everything!
Have fun!
You can ask all your Qs later, its, ok!
26 June, 2008 at 11:05 am
@ Prarthana : Idiot! Teach me more Tamil!
Auto drivers? No, thank you! I’ve had enough with them at Bangalore! 
@ RJ : Dude! Salt is not Na. Its NaCl. Sodium Chloride
Both of them make up to salty water!
@ Megh : Shop?
Hahaha no! I don’t like jewellary nor bags, hats and lampshades 
So shopping is totally ruled out! Besides, girls (read I) don’t shop with dads! 
It would be a huge mess! 
About the tagline – you saw it now?
I’d given that tag from when you were @ blogger! 
Hehe, anyway thanks! 
Oh ya…why doesn’t your name link to your blog? Check it out in your dashboard/profile.
@ Bhavana : Yess!! Someones bunking!! Thanks!
26 June, 2008 at 1:37 pm
hehe!guessed so!…ya i went there also…thats where we enjoyed..hehe!
27 June, 2008 at 3:51 pm
My most uninspired comment ever – Nice.
Yep, that’s it. Comment over. Why so uninspired? Because I’ve never been to a beach in my entire life. Not been to Chennai either, but my brother has once. Not once duh, he did his MBA from a college called Loyola institute in Chennai. And till some years back I used to think that Chennai and Madras were two different places. I wonder why they keep changing names. I find Madras better. What is Bangalore called nowadays? Bengalooru? Bangalore was so much better. I read a Vir Sanghvi article on how the government changed these names just to satisfy their ego. According to them, Madras, Calcutta, Bombay and Bangalore were names kept by the British. And so they became Chennai, Kolkata, Mumbai and Bengaluru. I wonder why they changed the names. The British rule is a part of our history, why try to Indianise the names? I don’t get it. And wow, this is so brilliantly off topic. O.o
Anyway, nice pictures, especially the sunset and the self obsession one. Is that supposed to be ‘I Rock’ or ‘|Rock|’? And had anyone else gone with you too? Who took that picture of you and your dad?
And header picture is really nice. You’re really good when it comes to then. But I’ve got to admit, the guitar one still remains my favorite.
27 June, 2008 at 8:44 pm
@Pri – Dumb me..yea almost forgot abt the Cl in NaCl
Salty water…LOL! You crack my up rockstar! The BESTT!
28 June, 2008 at 8:22 am
ooops i am late..
sorry forgot add u in my reader …will do that now.,..
anyways ..
well,even i am clueless why city center is like that..but i love that place..lots and lots of good looking gals
i have never been to mahabalipuram..i have been,living in chennai for the past 4 years..
2 July, 2008 at 5:15 pm
Hey!!! You have been to Chennai?? I lived there for 2.5 years. I have such beautiful memories of the place. I made such great friends. Happy times.
And nice to know that you enjoyed. Such breaks are very good for “man ki shanti”