The day had begun at a half past 5, thanks to Lekha's cellphone alarm. Went through our chores and we were ready in time. Sreekumar had come with his autorickshaw by a half past 6 and Lekha went for a 'darshan' of the Sri Thrikkonnamarkottu Devi. We, then, left for Pidavoor to meet up with Padmakumar's mother and have breakfast with all off them. Meanwhile our packing was done and I bid farewell to my parents and told them that we'd be back by the first week of March. The time was a quarter past 8.
Rema had prepared a lovely breakfast of puri masala. Over conversation with Pidavoor Amma and the others, didn't realise that we'd spent over half an hour, there.
From Pidavoor, we had returned to Raj Nivas, collected our baggage and then, went to Suresh's new house. It's swanky and the best thing about it is, that, about 10 years back, we could never believe that Suresh would ever turn around as he used to hit the bottle hard and lived a very tardy life. Mind you, he's, now, a teetotaler. Further, it was nice seeing Rajamma chechi, his mother, who'd seen abject poverty during her earlier days with the late Manian Pillai, drinking himself silly, seated on an elegant sofa and inviting us for lunch during our next visit during the first week of March, I was very happy to see this lovely transformation!
We set off for Sheeja's house at Kadavoor, soon after, at a trifle past 10. Though I was going there for the first time, I could drive without any errors and reached the place, maneuver the Chevy and park it within the confined space on the narrow stretch of road, in front of her house. It's beside the Vembanad lake and at a nice location. From the JSS, Kollam it was the Chairman who had visited her last, to offer condolences. Her sisters, Shyla and Sheela along with Sajeev, her uncle, were also present.
When I'd gone round the corner, I realised that it was the same toilet where her mother was found lifeless, exactly a fortnight back. Tomorrow will be the 16th day 'adiyanthiram' ceremony and I quietly heaved a sigh of relief to have dropped by within the official period of mourning. After dropping Rema and Padmakumar short of the bypass, we set course for Guruvayur.
Lunch was at the Motel Araam short of the Kayankulam bus station, around 1300 hrs. Yesterday, around the same time, we were on our temple tour! The journey was uneventful as we crossed through Alappuzha, the choke points of Ernakulam viz. Kundannoor, Vyttila, Palarivattom, Edappalli and Aluva. The evening tea was at Hotel Abhirami, near Kalamasserry. Took fuel at Angamali and continued with our journey; passed through Thrissur town when the traffic was maddening due to the commencement of the evening peak hours!
Lekha did some shopping from the super market and we reached our house around 2000 hrs. The opening up of all the windows, unpacking the bags and putting back the things at their proper places took a good amount of time though we, both, kept track of our favourite television programmes along with it.
Dinner was on the dot and soon, it was winding up time.
Tailpiece.
It was a short, quick trip and we could achieve doing everything that we'd to. The unique thing was that much of the drive was during dark hours that I abhorred. But it had to be resorted to for doing everything that we'd wanted to do. At the end of the day, I was dog tired...age catching up?
Rema had prepared a lovely breakfast of puri masala. Over conversation with Pidavoor Amma and the others, didn't realise that we'd spent over half an hour, there.
From Pidavoor, we had returned to Raj Nivas, collected our baggage and then, went to Suresh's new house. It's swanky and the best thing about it is, that, about 10 years back, we could never believe that Suresh would ever turn around as he used to hit the bottle hard and lived a very tardy life. Mind you, he's, now, a teetotaler. Further, it was nice seeing Rajamma chechi, his mother, who'd seen abject poverty during her earlier days with the late Manian Pillai, drinking himself silly, seated on an elegant sofa and inviting us for lunch during our next visit during the first week of March, I was very happy to see this lovely transformation!
We set off for Sheeja's house at Kadavoor, soon after, at a trifle past 10. Though I was going there for the first time, I could drive without any errors and reached the place, maneuver the Chevy and park it within the confined space on the narrow stretch of road, in front of her house. It's beside the Vembanad lake and at a nice location. From the JSS, Kollam it was the Chairman who had visited her last, to offer condolences. Her sisters, Shyla and Sheela along with Sajeev, her uncle, were also present.
When I'd gone round the corner, I realised that it was the same toilet where her mother was found lifeless, exactly a fortnight back. Tomorrow will be the 16th day 'adiyanthiram' ceremony and I quietly heaved a sigh of relief to have dropped by within the official period of mourning. After dropping Rema and Padmakumar short of the bypass, we set course for Guruvayur.
Lunch was at the Motel Araam short of the Kayankulam bus station, around 1300 hrs. Yesterday, around the same time, we were on our temple tour! The journey was uneventful as we crossed through Alappuzha, the choke points of Ernakulam viz. Kundannoor, Vyttila, Palarivattom, Edappalli and Aluva. The evening tea was at Hotel Abhirami, near Kalamasserry. Took fuel at Angamali and continued with our journey; passed through Thrissur town when the traffic was maddening due to the commencement of the evening peak hours!
Lekha did some shopping from the super market and we reached our house around 2000 hrs. The opening up of all the windows, unpacking the bags and putting back the things at their proper places took a good amount of time though we, both, kept track of our favourite television programmes along with it.
Dinner was on the dot and soon, it was winding up time.
Tailpiece.
It was a short, quick trip and we could achieve doing everything that we'd to. The unique thing was that much of the drive was during dark hours that I abhorred. But it had to be resorted to for doing everything that we'd wanted to do. At the end of the day, I was dog tired...age catching up?
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