Two months ago, I pestered my boss that I require site experience, so that I can add that to my resume (actually I really want to include something in my resume apart from documentation and MS Office Skills). Im actually doing this so that he could disagree and then I could agree that I hate this job and actually anticipated to quit my current job. Actually God, thought the other way and planned to take me for a ride downhill to the core of the earth where I got BURNED.
I’m sent to a site in Asansol in West Bengal. There I fortunately found a theatre but unfortunately no English movies or Tamil movies but only Hindi movies (still learning Hindi). God partially favored me by keeping Dominos Pizza outlet in that place. THANK YOU GOD!!! That is my only food for the weekend, a large pizza or medium pizza with pasta or calzone would do depending upon my mood. If I had been in Chennai, I would have visited Baker’s Café, Burmese Stall, Hotel Firdouse, Mexican Griller, Dominos Pizza, Subway and if I am depressed, a buffet from Saravana Bhavan, Grill Box or Sangeetha Residency in a week. One more thing that I found out is, one can find chapatti in Chennai everywhere (even the push cart sells chapatti) even though it is not our state dish. But finding idly, dosa or vada in here is very hard like finding a Frankie shop in Chennai. Though the outlets are there, its location are few in a locality. Idly, Dosa or Vada, it has to come with sambhar and three chutneys (coconut, onion and mint) served on banyan leaf on a plastic plate. I would really love to go back to Chennai for eating at Saravana Bhavan, Sangeetha Hotel, Rayar Mess, Mammi Mess etc.,. (my locality, my taste, my food). I’m not asking rows of hotels like that as in Chennai, just one hotel in a region or near my place. See for me, food comes first and I grew up like that. But still, there was this one hotel which sells South Indian food but I rather choose pizza to that.
I enjoyed Katti rolls there and really tastes great when consumed hot. Normally I hate to take chapatti with dhal and unfortunately that’s my breakfast, lunch and dinner. I have to take dhal either with chapatti or with rice. Dominos pizza was the only delight to my taste buds, else I would have had it cremated it long back in Asansol burial ground. I think its better to stop complaining about food, lets start with entertainment and roaming.
I preferred indoor rather than outdoor as I don’t know the language or have nowhere to go other than Dominos pizza. I have my hard disk loaded with series like Friends, Breaking Bad and some other movies. In one month, I have completed ten seasons of Friends. Whenever I watch Friends, I feel like home where I have seen it more than once completely and it is a complete mood shifter. I would like to thank Mattew Perry, Matt Le Blanc and David Schwimmer for their extraordinary performance throughout the series. I actually would spend my whole Sunday sitting in my bed watching movies, series and reading novels. If I were in Chennai, it would be a pizza night at my cousin’s place or ending up watching movies at Sathyam Cinemas, Escape or S2 Theyagaraja. Man!!! I miss coke and sathyam popcorn. I have been in night shows on Friday just to have popcorn with butter and when topped with Kashmiri Chilli, Jalapeno and Sour and cream seasonings…. Seriously I would spend all my cash and fly to Chennai for one large combo.. When had with coke.. that is my stress reliever, along with the seats and the ambience of the theatre, I generally forget whatever the problem might be (huge or gigantic). I almost left briyani nights at my friend’s place where we eat briyani all night long, watch movies till dawn and then go to sleep with full tummy. I literally miss those from Chennai and most of all, I miss my Unicorn bike where I go places and roam like nothing.
I have been in Chennai for about 15 years and I am a person who hates change (OCD – Obsessive Compulsion disorder). I freaked out when my parents decided to move from ground floor to first floor in the same apartment. Me coming out of Chennai, I felt it was a huge mistake but changes are required and I have to learn to adapt. Though, this change was horrible, I actually feel better after this comparison. I would choose Chennai and my current residence to stay and spend the rest of my career and after that may be will change to very remote place where I can be lonely, actually after I have quit working and start something on my own and pass away time.
~ Avinash Saminathan
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