From Chendi

This is a guest post from Chendi, whom I hope will soon be writing here direct.

Its my debut and about 90 Sivananda colony.
That means I am on home turf.
Home away from home for all of the family.
Teaming with friends and relatives.
A perfect stranger can stay for days together without
getting detected.
A host of people doing washing cooking and cleaning.

And a towering figure doing all the earning and never
bothering to find where it was going. The bookshelves
kept full with very interesting books. How many times
I have read the psychology books I don't remember.

From my college in Salem I used to come to play
cricket, table tennis and athletics. I used to drop by.
I was chided by periyamma for not bringing my friends
along. At my 25th college anniversary my friends
remembered and asked me how everyone was.

Karthi told me recently that Surya asked her how
many boyfriends she had. I know Kappu had one.
Unfortunately she married him. I had only Kalyanis
friends as friends from the opposite sex. Shanthi
Sastri was my favourite. "Oollu palama blanka
Im just a bird in the sky" I cant forget her
singing and playing the guitar.

Once I borrowed Kappu's bicycle to go to GCT to
attend an athletic meet. I saw a white dog overtake
me at full speed. It was Robby. Try however I could
not shake it. I felt like MARY. Every where that I
went the dog was sure to go.Finally my friends
took care of him as I ran the 110m hurdles.

Excursions to jungles with creeks. Ramesh as a
ninth standard boy sang a pop version of a
patriotic song and was scolded by a malayaalee.
That guy harrassed us throughout our way back.
Kalai said that the guys should have thrashed him.
We said we had to look for the welfare of the
women folk first.