Chronicles of a lone blogger - 1

As I was listening to one of my all time favourite song "Malai En Vethanai"- from Sethu - it made me retrospect nostalgically about my past - a trip down the memory lane. There are certain moments in life, that I always cherish. These moments would always be close to my heart and whenever I contemplate on those moments, I feel an unprecedented vigor suddenly impregnating my feeble veins. Thus, I have decided to write a series of posts describing some of my happy moments in life, with some interesting facts.

The journey begins...

Some of my happy moments were with Muthu- while doing my BE at REC Trichy. Muthu is a name that is synonymous with happiness. Short in stature, Muthu is one of the most friendliest person I had ever come across. He is a great speaker and describes things passionately. Although being lazy, he could pass the exams by just studying hours (or is it minutes?) before the exams. Me being more lazy, would learn from Muthu while walking to the exam hall. Dont ask me whether I passed the exams or not :P - a tough question to answer! So end of the day both of us never studied - simple as that! We used to be the typical back benchers - and probably the ones who invented the paper chat! Our chat discussions were mainly focussed on what to eat for break/lunch, kulathadi pillayar and the bible- its a secret code (something similar to da vinci code :P) which only muthu and I know (but my fellow bloggers who have read my previous blogs can easily decipher it :) ) and our passion - visiting the great Tiruvanaikaval temple.

Thiruvanaikaval is around 3 Kms away from the heart of Trichy and adjacent to Srirangam. Thiruvanaikaval and Srirangam are in the banks of river Kavery. Literally these two places form an island, surrounded by river Kavery and river Coleroon. As many of you would know, Tiruvanaikaval temple is one of the pancha bhoothas. It symbolizes Water. The other four temples are Kalahasti for wind, the mighty Tiruvanamalai for fire, Kanchipuram for earth and Chidambaram for space. As this temple represents water this is also called as 'Appu sthalam' and the Linga here is called as 'Appu Linga'. Even today you can see water oozing out near the Shivalinga idol in the temple. The goddess of this temple is 'Akilandeswari' and also known as Akilandanyaki. Akilandeswari is pronounced as 'Akilam - Aanda – Eswari' (Akilam – Universe, Aanda – Ruler, Eswari – Goddess) - so basically denoting the Goddess who rules this Universe.

Every saturday evening usually at 4:00 pm, we made it a point to visit Tiruvanaikaval. We used to take the bus from REC to the Chathiram bus stand. Chathiram bus stop is considered to be one of the main bus stops in Trichy. It is the main stop for the famous Uchi Pillayar temple and the main Trichy market. The not so pleasant journey (goes through the market, which is worse than the Koyambedu market) to Chathiram bus stand from REC usually takes 45 minutes. As we get down the Chathiram bus stand, we usually head of to a very important destination. A destination which could give McDonalds, KFCs, Burger Kings a run for their money in terms of the number of branches/franchises/shops! Yes, our first destination is to the famous Bangalore Iyengar bakery!

(The journey continues..)