Nallathu & Kettathu

This is a long over due post. A while ago, I went on a trip to all the famous Navagraha temples. Although I was not interested in the trip at all and also I was tricked into the trip, I kinda enjoyed the trip. For some unknown reason I was giving a lot of importance to things which generally I wouldn't even care. For example

A lot of interesting things written on the back of the vehicles(நல்லவங்களே இல்லையா!)	The Transport Company that openly accepts rash driving with spelling mistakes
The Blocked pedestrian way	Biggest Lock
The Untidy Pond with funny sign	Warning sign that everybody will neglect

The Quiet Temple
For most of this tour I was bitching non-stop. Finally we arrived at a place where I had to shut up or I will draw the attention of the rest of the temple. Yeah the rule in that temple was to keep quiet when we come around the God. So there I saw the line after which I had to put an end to all my stupid comments.
The Shut Up line
	In this temple I found a puppy that somehow managed to climb the stairs and reach the end of the floor. Now it was about to jump but afraid to. So it started to bark(a cry for help). It took around two and a half minutes for me to reach there and help the puppy. By this time around a hundred to a hundred and fifty people passed by. Given that the temple was a quiet place every one heard (only) it. If all these people were more interested in a pure divine heart and doing "good" deeds, Why not help the puppy. I wish I had a picture of the puppy. But I had a lot of cold stares from my fellow passengers for this little detour from my bakthi rounds.
The Interesting Beggars
This only made me angrier. So I protested to go into the next temple. At the entrance, while I had a lot of free time to kill, I happened to meet the interesting set of beggars. There were six of them and they had a common vault. They made interesting deal with the people there. People coming of the temple need not look for change to give money to each of them. If they give 10 bucks, these interesting people will return four back. I was standing next to them and watching all this. There arrived a pissed off fat lady. She got down from an auto and had a huge fight over the tariff. Some how they settled over Rs.55. Neither her nor the driver had five bucks. While this was going on, our friends ran out of change and asked me if I had any. I happened to have around 25 bucks in

change. I got back 20 and asked them to keep the rest. She looked at this and was confused what was going on here. She walked up to them and handed out 10 bucks and asked for the change in a very rude tone, thinking they ware just giving off change. Then flew a lot of uncensored words. She got scared and embarrassed and ran into the temple and the auto driver chased here inside and I don't know what happened next.

K Man

Of all the cities I visited I remember nothing but Kumbakonam. This was a place where every street has a temple. Surprisingly every one of them were famous. All the people I saw there were all clean, blindly believing in God, etc etc. In short a nice group of idiotic people who spent too much time and money in temple. Then I remembered one of our friends is from Kumbakonam. Mr.K aka Srinivasan K. Considering the place where he came from Mr.K is either சேற்றில் முளைத்த செந்தாமரை or செந்தாமரை குளத்தில் தெறித்த சேறு. I don't know which one is the perfect metaphor but he is definitely the odd man out in the whole city.