Date : Dec 3, 2005
Stormy, cloudy and rainy is how I would have described yesterday. Bright and sunny is how it was today. All in all, a good day to go to work innit? One would think so… After an uneventful journey to Somu’s place, both of us set out on the same water logged path that flooded the roads yesterday. Quite surprisingly the roads had cleared for Somu’s raging red Corsa to zip through. We were coasting along! Until we reached the entrance to tidel park that is..
We were joined by three other colleagues who car-‘pool’ed at the entrance (ofcourse by car pool I meant a bunch of guys jumping into the back seat). What lay ahead was a sea of water. There were waves too (reverse osmosis probably). Knee-deep water, a stalled car, a floating bike and some frustrated guards were among some of the obstacles that were between us and the building.
After a slightly turbulent but successful voyage, we made it thro’ to the makeshift car park at film city (the outskirts of the tidel building). Here, fortunately the water levels were restricted to 4-5 inches. The journey ahead was to be completed on foot (and I mean literally foot. ‘Cause nobody in their right mind would subject their footwear to this). We sported a new look (which is now catching on at Tidel) - rolled up pants, laptop slung over the shoulder, shoes in one hand and phones out in the other hand to take snaps. With all that baggage we waded thro’ the water and finally made it to the main car park (which was immaculately dry btw).
There were some unfortunate souls who had attempted to drive through the full way and were in the process of bailing out water with tea cups borrowed from the kitchen. Good luck to them! They’re prolly still at it. The journey culminates in us reaching our respective desks trying to figure out how we’re gonna blog this. What resulted.. is what you’re reading…
nice title.
ReplyDeleteyou can probably call some fishermen from tiruvanmiyur to drop passengers to other side.
it can be more fun if u can get a "parisal" and sing songs like "aathukkule elelo athimaram...amukkithallu"
No no they should sing that song from Indra ;) Oddakaara Maarimuthu
ReplyDeletesuperah iruhkum ;)
lol i was reminded of the times my school was flooded n we had so much fun though going to work doesnt seem so - pity the cars
somu and others can try some fishing...lolzz
ReplyDeleteYaay! A post finally!
ReplyDeletePity the cars, but look @ the +ve side. If u get bored, paper boat vidalaam...or maybe a real boat for navigation??
Man, may be you should make your vehicle amphibious.
ReplyDelete@Balaji
ReplyDeleteThe fishermen and boatsmen are busy. I had to come through Koturpuram today in the morning, and the sight was not all that pleasing... People are being ferried in ano out of their homes :o(((
@Visithra
Athukku officekulla vayasu ponnunga irukanum... Only the Tidal premises were flooded, inside the building it's all "dry" ma... So, this song is not relevant ;o)))
@Sophie
Yeah... Fish for fish is a good idea ;o)))
@Ramya
yaay ! A post finally, though I did not write it :o)))
Paper boats ? Interesting... Next time around, will keep ur suggestion in mind ;o)))
@Muthu
Ambhibious vehicle ? That's an ambitious thought ! Maybe if I cud afford a hovercraft... then I shud not be having a problem
don't worry guys....everything will be cleaned up bcoz Bill Gates is coming.
ReplyDelete@kaps
ReplyDeleteCleaned up ? Everything has only dried up and things are back to normal... The cleaning up needs to be done outside Tidel in affected areas :o)