Nirenjan’s Space

As we have MoM’s in our respective places of work, so do we have a MoM here - the Minutes of the Meeting (for those not so much in the know). Or should it be the MoCBM - for Chennai Bloggers’ Meeting? Whatever it may be, here it is, for both those who were there, and those who weren’t.

Sudhir and I landed up at the target venue, the Halt & Shop shopping mall opposite St. Dominic’s school, a good half hour early. We went to the restaurant opposite and made small talk while waiting for the rest of the gang. Suraj messaged me asking me if it was too late to come, but as I tried calling him, there was no response, and I pretty much gave up. Soon, the first suspects turned up - Magix & Curses, Sandhya and Arvind. Following them were Ravi and Shiva. More culprits turned up quite quickly after that - Praveen, Shekar, Sophia, and Ravages.

Eleven’s not a bad count for a meeting in a remote location (relatively speaking…). So after a quick round of intros, we made a beeline for the top of the mount. Parking our vehicles a little way down, we walked the rest of the way to the top. The view from the top of the mount is amazing. The rest of the folks have some good snapshots of both the view and the inside of the church. We made our way around the place, chatting and generally having a good time. Unconventional - that is the single word that would describe this meeting. The only thing missing was the plates of steaming hot bajji’s like we had last time…

There was a pretty funny incident going on over at the airport pretty nearby. A United Express plane was circling the area. We initially thought it was a convoy of planes, or the same plane was circling the area. It later turned out that he was circling the area, but in a manner that we didn’t think was quite… sane. He kept circling, landing on the runway, and after taxiing a few hundred meters, he’d take off again and resume the process. He did this atleast a dozen times in the one and a half hours that we were there. Either it was some kind of training process, or some kind of a stress test, or the pilot’s kid going “Appa, appa, innoru round polaam pa…” We still haven’t figured out why.

Sandhya was continuously rambling on throughout the meeting that she had to leave by 6.30, apparently the set curfew time by her mother. The frequency of these ramblings slowly increased, and as the clock approached 7, the frequency became high enough that it could be considered as a panic alarm. We soon broke up, and Sudhir, Sandhya, Arvind & I left before Sandhya’s voice frequency became a siren, while the others stayed back to continue the chat, and the eats…

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