The first's in my life!!!

I was thinking a lot on what to write about, and few days back myself and rakesh were talking of our times at Trivandrum. There were many firsts that we did in life there. They are all memorable experiences, from buying our 1st car to drinking my first beer those moments will always stay in me. It always feels great when you do something different for the first time. 

We had the same feeling then and yes even the long journey from Trivandrum to Palakkad and from there to Ooty in the car with our achu(our puppy). Achu is not with us anymore(we handed him over to Vijaya mama), in this busy Chennai life we were not in a position to bring him here, i do miss him we had a great time playing with him. The black and white looks of his, he was really among the cutest when he was really young. With Australian dad and a Russian mom he wasn't that lucky to be living in India but then even dogs were not spared in this century. We took the best care of him. No he was not our first pet, we had Tobby and he is with my grandmom now.

And the first car, its always nice to be traveling with the family in a car. You tend to attach a lot of emotions to it(the first car), and that is the reason why my dad didn't want to sell it even after buying a new one. We gave it to Ravi mama, and now its like our car, Achu and Tobby all are at the same place and are neighbors. What a coincidence seth ji! The first drive on that car, my dad almost went and hit a transport bus on our way, he wasn't that good a driver and the fear of taking the car out on the road was very much evident on him. And we used to get tensed when some vehicle came close to our car(yes,worried for both the car and that vehicle as well).

And then we made the first long trip on our car from Trivandrum to Palakkad somewhere around 350 km, being our first long journey we had Shabeer ettan accompanying us to help my dad out with driving such a long distance. Shabeer ettan considered himself to be superior driver to my dad. We started sometime after 4 i suppose and Shabeer ettan was giving cues to Pappa on driving in the highway. He is a fast learner. The forward journey was accident free and nice, but in the return journey we were not that lucky, we took the route through Kottayam and a bike fellow came and hit our car while trying to overcome a gutter. Our wheel plate was broken into pieces and that noise gave us the feeling that the bike fellow was severely injured but by God's grace though the bike got damaged he was fine. My dad managed to call one of his friends out there and deal with that bike guy and gave him some compensation for the mistake of his. And then we hustled back but with lot more cautious driving by my dad.

Next is the first drink day, we(my family) were on our way to Kutralam on a Sunday, Kutralam is not that far from Trivandrum and dad wanted to go for an outing then so we chose Kutralam. We had Shabeer ettan and Reji chechi(they are not couples) accompanying us, yeah Shabeer ettan was there not because my dad was not a good driver then, he had mastered the art if driving by then but just accompanied. On our way we saw a cycle wala selling Toddy and we stopped there and even myself and Rakesh had some toddy, it tasted nice. And then we reached Kutralam and got under the water falls, it was an enjoyable experience. On our way back we saw a KTDC(Kerala Tourism Development Council) hotel cum bar and so just went inside and Pappa asked us if we wanted some beer, and we were positive and there we were drinking our first beer with dad giving us company. Its not that my dad wanted us to be drunkards ut just that he wanted us to taste them and he knew that we wouldn't like it. He guessed right, i didn't like its taste, but Rakesh fell for it and since that incident every time we go somewhere he urges Pappa to get him some beer(no he is not an alcoholic, just once in a while), but that was Pappa's deal, he was like if u want to have anything like that i will give you company and don't go with your friends or anyone else. I respect that theory of his very much and that has made sure that we are no alcoholics and will never turn into one.

And thirdly, the life at Malloor Nagar, its a colony of 13 houses and we were lucky enough to be part of that colony for sometime. It gave us some nice memories, and some bad ones too. Among the nice ones were the monthly get-together at a house. There was a get-together in our house as well one day. It comprised of dinner as well. I had a nice time at all the get-together. And then the Annual celebrations out there was also great, Pappa's palada pradhaman became really famous that day. And i even won the Tambola(a number game) game that we had played. I somehow managed to win a lot of Tambola games then.

 The sad memory would be the death of one of the family from inside our colony in a car accident. That is one of the most unexpected incident in my life, we were at Palakkad that morning, just reached from Trivandrum in car and on our Journey at around 2 we saw a car lying upside down under a truck. Ravi mama had accompanied us then, and seeing the accident he was like all the passengers would have died. That day morning mummy woke me up and was like the car that we saw belonged to one uncle in our colony and in the incident their whole family perished. I was shocked, he was the person who asked my dad to buy the car and even they had the same car. They were a sweet family, uncle,aunty and their 2 sons, children were very cute and young. God tends to be bad at times.

There were lot more happenings i would like to share with you, but its being too big a post and you will get bored if i go further. I will continue this later!

Cheers!