Back to my Home Town

Yesterday being another Friday,it was a really happy day for me. Start of yet another weekend..

I am back to where I belong,my apna Calicut. The kind of happiness that I get when I'm here, I don't get from any other place. For me its a night travel from Trivandrum to Calicut. These two places are approximately 425kms apart. The distance might not be that high for a person living in US or Europe where trains might take only 2-3 hrs to travel this distance. But in our part, train normally takes around 9.5hrs to reach Calicut from Trivandrum. So I plan my travel well in advance and book a ticket for Train No 6347- Trivandrum-Mangalore Express. The train leaves Trivandrum at 8.45 pm and reaches Calicut at 6.15am. Normally they reach on time and are seldom late.So this is my plan for most of the Friday's. Main incentive of coming to Calicut these days in spending time with my new born baby Adithya. My wifey is also here now along with my parents. So that makes my travels very special.

So I reached here today morning around 6.15am in the station.Took a bus to my place in Calicut which is around 5kms away from railway station. Getting into a bus and getting a seat was not that difficult at that time. But that's not the case if the time is 8.30am or afterwards. Made a call to my dad, just to make sure that he will be there to pick me up from bus stop. My house is around 1km away from bus stop. Such a lazy fellow I'm, that I ask my dad to pick me up the bus stop.

My Saturday mornings are for spending time with my Adi. My mom and wife constantly remind me to brush me teeth and have bath before playing with my 2-month old Adi. But i don't it do it that way. The moment I am at home, I will keep my bag somewhere and go to Adi. Before he used to welcome me with his crying, but he has started to welcome me with his charming smile.All girls beware- smiling assassin is on his way!!

Then normally, being a foodie, I will be heading towards fish market. We malabaris (people living in Northern part of Kerala) just love have fish for lunch along with rice. I am no different.But not this time as I'm following a strict diet for a piligrimage. For going to Sabarimala (Famous Hindu Piligrimage place of Lord Ayyappa in Kerala) all are supposed to follow certain special diet and follow vritham. For details of vritham, please check the site- http://www.sabarimala.org/pilgrimagesteps.htm. As far as my food is considered, I'm supposed to a strict vegeterian. So no fish or meat this time for me. We are planning to go to Sabarimala on 18th-Sep-2009. Few of my friends will also be with me for going to Sabarimala.

Adi is growing up really fast. Though I'm at home for almost every weekend, every time I see him, I can see some change in him. But that's how babies are,right? How was I when I was a baby?I don't remember much of it and so I have to go by what my Achan (Dad) and Amma (Mom) says.:-)They say I was not the easiest of the baby to handle like my sister. I used to trouble them a lot and I was really a stubborn kid. Even now, I'm like that only though people who are very close to me knows that.So my boy's supposed to be like that only,right? Only other chance of him being very easy going baby (I meant not being stubborn) is, my wife should not stubborn at all. But,,,we both are actually really stubborn.Does it mean that we both fight a lot??Very true but they don't last long..That's why we are a very happy family..