East West Resort (1st Aug 2009)

Guys, here we go...

Bright sunny day, a wonderful trip, with some stunning close cricket matches, and some breathtaking swimming performances from our guys...
Ennada konjam overa buruda vidraanae nu paakriya...
indha alavuku illanaalum, machis, really it was a fantastic trip...

After a week long planning, more than 35 mail follow ups, suggestions, change in plan, whether to go with family or without family, finally we decided to go without family..
The idea of resort trip popped up on 27th July, during Parthy's son (Ajay) 1st year birthday. While we were planning for the location, Mrs. Gary (Bharathi), Mrs. Deepak (Aarthi) and Mrs. Parthy (Vidhya) showed their interest to get along with us for the trip, they were keen to come with us.. So, at that moment we decided to go for a first ever Family get togther...

Soon, the plan was demolished by Ganesh, he didnt show any interest, and finally when Deepak said that his wife Aarthi is unwell, and it was a blessing in disguise for Gary, so we finally decided to go as FRIENDS ALONE trip.

After that, the discussion was about the venue, our Karthik (Cellman) suggested a place in Sriperambadur, he sent us the website link of the resort, named as East West Resort/ Coromendal Resort. The website looked international facility... we were all mesmerized by that website, soon Karthik and Gary spoke to the Marketing Manager of the Resort, he told us to come directly as they have everything in the resort... Whereas Parthy suggested Thada falls.. (but we decided to go next week)

We planned our trip initially on Sunday, Aug 2nd (Friendship day), but then finally it was preponed on Saturday, Aug 1st. (Thanks to Cheenu), it was a wonderful move as everybody were comfortable on Saturday rather than Sunday, so that we can have a rest day!

We decided to leave early this time, so planned to leave Gary's place by 11am. Deepak, Lux, Aazhaku, myself and Gary, we all left by 11am by Gary's Car (Hyundai Santro). Thanks to Deepak, he brought a fantastic collection of MJ songs. We started with the 'Beat It' song with thundering volume... the sound effect was excellent inside the car.. and Gary did some MJ steps while driving.. We reached Karthik's place, he resides at KK Nagar, picked him up (Recently Karthik has been suffering from severe back pain, Get well soon Karthik), i know that there wont be enough space, so i took his Pulsar 180CC bike and we all reached Parthy's place (Nesapakam), where Cheenu was waiting for us...

Without delaying further, we decided to start, we took 2 vehicles to be more comfortable, Parthy drove his Tata Sumo, we 5, Parthy, Lux, Cheenu, Karthik, Myself, we all went in Parthy's Sumo (the same group went for the forest trip, so we were recollecting our forest trip, cracking jokes...) and the KUDIKARAN group comprises of Gary, Deepak and Aazhaku went with Gary's Car.

On the way near Sriperambadur, we had our lunch at Sangam Chettinad Restuarant, (anga oru super figure paathom). Then we reached the destination at around 2pm. Gary, Karthik and Deepak went for negotiation, but later on we came to know, that the resort has nothing except for Swimming pool, rest all humbug. No Tennis Court, No Badminton Court, No Table Tennis Board, No Carrom.. rather they had Camels, Horses, Emu (a large non flying bird similar to Ostrich, there were around 23 Emus)

The Manager told us to pay 200 Rs per head and to use whatever facilities they have (though they have nothing), we finally negotiated for 100 Rs per head (Really, it was a good deal), but we saw an almost nice cricket ground... we brought our own stumps, bat and tennis ball (apart from that we brought 4 badminton racquets, 4 tennis racquets, 4 TT racquets, but we didnt use either of these..)

So, the team was decided..
Team 1: Parthy, Lux, Joe, Karthik (relatively unfit, but still he attempted to play)
Team 2: Gary, Deepak, Cheenu, Aazhaku

Match 1: Team 1 played first, we set a target of 23, but we lost, Deepak played well in that match.
Match 2: Team 2 played first (Winners first), they set a target 14, Team 1 surpassed in 1.4 overs.. (2 sixes and 1 four), Parthy 1 six & 1 four/ Joe 1 six.
Match 3: few were exhausted, but still we continued to play, Team 1 scored just 7 runs (one stage it was o for 3), Team 2 easily finished the match..
So, finally Team 2 captured the series 2-1, but it was interesting, there were some nice transfer of good words between Deepak and Lux, but we all enjoyed it...
It reminded our IC matches...

Soon we decided to plunge in, so we rushed to the swimming pool, we had some nice games inside the swimming pool, Parthy and Gary were the Goal Keeper, rest of the guys had to overcome their block... these biggies emerged as the winner... it was fun, meantime we ordered snacks, within seconds the plates were empty...

We were almost there in the pool for 1 hr and 15 mins, at around 6pm, we came out from the swimming pool.. clicked some photos, left from the Resort at around 7pm, though it wasnt a complete enjoyment, but still it was enough for us to enjoy...

On the way, we had our dinner at Kumarakom (nice Kerala Restuarant), chumma pasanga poonthu vilayadinanga... the bill was 1430 Rs. (but it was not that expensive)

We reached Parthy's place, Cheenu left from Parthy's place as he parked his bike there, Karthik left in his bike, and the rest of 5 guys went by Gary's car, with again thundering volume of 'Beat It' song and few other MJ songs.... (Paavam Lux, thala vali oda andha kodumaiya sagichitu irundhan)

Thats the end of our yet another wonderful trip... I would like to thank each and everyone for showing their interest upon this trip..

We miss the rest of the guys like Manik, Naina & Dhadi..

My dream is to go for a great trip with our entire set of guys...

Hope you enjoyed my narration, i will be happy if you can mark some comments on this narration, and anyone would like to add more on this, you are always welcome...