Good Times..

It was one of those lazy saturday afternoons, when we were hanging around in 101. We hadnt been up to any madness for a few week's, so I guess everyone was a little edgy.. Santhu show's up smoking a cigarette.. "Edaa Machaanmaare.. let's do something .. Engottengilum Pokaam " .. Tinu as usual had something important to do in office ( which we later found out to be - reading a novel ) .. and Sachin T had one of his million cousin's in town.. Hari had to do something creative once in a while in his office to justify his salary so he too had to go to work.. and George had to go for his "Meet New Girl's practice" a.k.a. "Church Music Practice" in in Koramangala Methodist church... That left me Pills Santhu and Saju. After some deliberation we decided to go on a loong pending trip to Coorg..

By the time we struggled past the bangalore traffic to reach mysore road it was half past seven ... After some time of listening and screaming to " Kehdoo Tumhein , ya chup rahoon - I Just want to be close to you" remix, Pill's was like - "Dudes.. lets hit a Dhaba .. you know ... ". Ya we knew. Pill's had to maintain his 135 Kg Figure, and needed enough food to scare off a waitor in a decent restaurant.. We took the next drive in Dhaba and settled down int one of the many hut's there.. After a lot of Roti's, Chicken, Dal Fry , two bottle's of Rum, and a lot talk about times in PESIT college, the time was 12:30 in the night. Perfect time to start.. we should be reaching coorg by morning .. Then Saju said " Da I will drive" .. Everyone froze.. Saju normally used to drive in MG Road at 100 Kmph in the night. With a few peg's he can very well do 100 mph in Times Square, not to talk of all the collateral damage. Anyways everyone got into car and Pills and santhu slept off.. I pretended to sleep. So like any other world class performer, without an audience, saju decided not to try any of his Schumi trick's and we approached coorg safely ..

We reached Madikeri in the wee hours of the morning , and it was quite misty .. and and we checked into a hotel next to the bus stand. hit the bed, but were up by 8:00... Showered , and went out to a udipi restaurant to have breakfast. Pil's as usual had Three Masala Dosa's and Two Puri Palliya's. After that we went to the nearest Bar and bought outselves our ration's of Rum for the day. " What are the good places around here Dude's." Saju asked. I had been to Coorg before, so I suggested going to Abbey Fall's. We reached the fall's and found ourselves along with quite a few tourists. " Well where to now" Santhu asked. Pill's was reading a sign at the extreme end of the bridge over the base of the waterfall" It read " Tresspassers will be prosecuted". Pill's said, "I know where to go... " .. We started walking into the dense jungle with hardly any space in between and after an hour of trekking landed up at the top of the waterfall. With Rum keeping the cold out, we crossed the water and trekked through the forest till we ended up on a road. Then we followed the road and reached our car, singing "I just want to be close to you " all the way for some mysterious reason. We then drove back to our hotel and hit the Bar.

Four glasses came together in cheer's, and Pill's asked santhu "Whats that on your hand? "...
Santhu: " Looks like a worm"
Pill's: "Edaa thats a leech.. "
Santhu: "Man I feel something in my pants too"
Me: "Me too"

we all ran to the bathroom and stripped down to our underwear. Me Saju and Santhu had10, 12 and 15 leeches on us respectively. The hotel waitors got us salt which we put on the leeches and got rid of them. Somehow Pill's didnt have a single Leech. I guess they got scared ;-) .. Well after this episode we went to our room and Saju had a good time scaring Santhu " Man, those leeches must have laid egg's in your underwear and they will hatch when you wear them again and bite you" Santhu was paranoid and refused to wear anything for the next couple of hours. In the end we got him to be presentable dressed, got into our car's and headed back for home. On the way we dropped in to Cauvery Nisargadham, on the way back to Bangalore. Thus ended our small good time trip ..