Aug 5

It was the most anticipated day from the last week. Yesterday, the 4th of august, birthday of this famous blogger and our best friend Ramanujam alias Babbu.I started early from my home by 8 in the morning and reached T.Nagar by 9. Then Sid and I went to Kapathu’s house where we all planned to meet to make the arrangements for the birthday celebrations. I started fair copying the Tamil poem which I prepared the previous night with tear-filled eyes for my best friend. Kapathu played very good songs from her collections and we were later joined by samba and jayasri (baabi).

We had the cashew nut embedded pongal along with tasty sambar prepared specially for us by mom. Then we all laid in the sofa which along with the song by the side really made us sleep. It was 12 noon… Suddenly Kapathu reminded we were actually there for babbu’s birthday. And baabiji was keeping on insisting that we have to start early for babbu’s birthday. Sid and Kapathu bought the cake and the other requirements for the party. We started by half past twelve in the noon to babbu’s house and reached the spot in five minutes. There babbu and sano were singing the isai kalaignan song in the highest pitch possible. We entered and watched our college variety show for sometime and then few chats about the college activities which ultimately gave us a fulltime comedy show effect.

Then we were joined by the other members kudi, raja, vijay, dhaadhi, ragavanandam and ragavendran. Then we had a game of uno and around 2.45 we had the cake cutting ceremony. Kapathu broke the “2” In the candle “20”by giving her full force. That added to the comedy around. Then we had the birthday song “Rama, inniki un pirandhanaal, nee azhaga porandhuttiye” and Rama unexpectedly handled the first piece of cake to dhaadi…enna koduma sir!! Then the next piece to his mom and then the next piece to “RAMA”. We gave our presentations and then brushed the cake in his face and then around 4 we started to Besant nagar beach. Kapathu couldn’t join us due to mom’s eye checkup. We reached Bessie beach along with the eggs to be showered on the birthday boy.

I was there at the Besant nagar beach for the first time and decided it must be the last time too. Terror fool pairs around doing all nonsense which shouldn’t be done outdoor. Clearing all that of f my mind I moved like a horse with the kadivalam. (I dunno wat it is in English) and then Rama and “rama” joined us after ten minutes. And yes, the great BALA joined us. If I had not specified this in my Blog he would have cursed me. Then we all brushed Rama with the eggs we had hidden in our hands. But another girl who was sitting nearby also got her t-shirt full of egg-splash. We said sorry which was replied by a strong look.

It was time to have our kalasal session where we kalasified all the girls around who were half dressed in the name of fashion and then moved to the traditional beach eatable- BAJJI. Our friends got overjoyed and started jumping and standing upside down and all tricks. It was like a vidhai show there. Then we left the beach and moved to planet yumm and ate for 2000 rupees for 14 of us. A good treat by rama and we all wished rama that he should get birthday every month. Prasi was one of the candidates who missed out the entire celebrations and fun due to her GRE exam on 8th of August.

It was lots of fun the full day and the most surprising and the gunnies event of the day is that my dad showed NO terror even though I came home by half past ten at night. There were my sister’s efforts in putting full fledged bits to maintain my status and make me escape the terror. But no terror is the greatest thing which I have experienced.

This being our last year of college we have decided to celebrate each and every day of this year and each and every event of this year. We conduct regular stays at our sanga room at chrompet and also regular get- together meetings. The birthday was also a celebration for the friendship day which is today. So to end this post…HAPPY FRIENDSHIP DAY TO ALL…