Ceci est ma Vie

"When u want something really bad, the whole world conspires that u achieve it" says Paulo Coelho.

So true I thought....indeed...we are some 15 odd mallus in this years batch at our college and needless to say most of us bond well. So the gang was all gung ho about celebrating Onam in the college but for some reason the whole thing did not work out....too bad...but atleast a sadya (the traditional feast on Onam day)....class schedule made even that look distant:-(

but as things were...all of us did work it out and made a mad run to the only place in Pune serving an Onam Sadya that we knew off...aha...Souhern Spice..run by a christian mallu...some 45 minutes from our college...in the heart of the city. The place is otherwise famous for the awesome beef that they server....but today was different. Sriram was thoughtfull enuf to give the restaurant a call and tell them that we all will be coming....and boy o boy...was that the turning point.

reaching there...my eyes filled with amazement...never knew Pune had so many mallus....it was a mad rush...some 100 ppl already waiting.....that was when we had to get into the cajoling tune...and boy..were we good at it.

the fact is u can start a conversation with any mallu by asking him where in kerala he is from and coupling it with some absurd that connection that u may or may not have with it....dunno if it is specific only to mallus....but it works with us for sure !!

so the buttering and the fact that we had called up together and we did manage to get seats for all 14 of us....pity that we could not sit together....but dude...that sadya was awesome....

all the effort was truly worth it....

proud to be a mallu !!!