Hyderabad

"Don't you feel any remorse when you are two timing a perfectly nice girl???" - Unbeatable question of the trip and once again she scores a home run!!! ;)

I have the same question on my mind sometimes, How come guys don't feel any regret whatsoever when they know they have a girl who is crazy about them and still end up flirting with one of their ex-flames? Doing such special things for her, making her happy, meeting her, enjoying her company, above all smiling in her presence. If they did half as much as this with their respective girlfriends wouldn't that make them noble men??? Why do they prefer to be such jerks? Why would they want to hurt the one girl who loves them so much, and pursue the girl who is committed to another guy? What do they get out of it? Oh! and I definitely don't know what to say about that girl who, being in a relationship encourages MY guy to flirt with her despite the fact that she has the knowledge of my existence.

With all these questions, tears in my eyes, a heavy heart and a bigger question mark about what i'm gonna do, I left home to the bus stop to join my brother and sister on a trip to hyderabad to visit Vijay, my brother !! :) The protagonist of my first Blog!!!!

I fought with my Dad and yelled at him, thanks to the frustration I had and left halfheartedly to the beautiful place Vj lived in. I spent most of the night bugging Kavitha with my tragic story.

We reached on Saturday morning. We were asked to get off at a place called Paradise, it was the name of a restaurant-Hyderabadi biriyani place- :) Whatta welcome!! Paradise indeed!!

Vijay came in his screwed up vandi, he better do something bout the vehicle. It has no brakes, no shock absorbers, no right idling-nothing! Just engine and two wheels.

We left to his place from paradise, and even though we had traveled the whole night we were ready in no time to oor suthify (bole toh exploring the city). His house was clean and huge, his roommate Mr.Jyotheesh was almost invisible, nice guy made tea for us in big glasses. He mostly kept to himself. Vj had a guest room too where we parked our asses.

First things first, super hungry by the time we reached a kannada hotel on M.G.Road. As usual ordered idly vada dosa and so on. In the mean time Vijay was arranging for a cab over the phone, he was yelling at the driver saying how long do you take to come, if you are not interested you don't come and things like that. But lo and behold the driver turned out to be 'Thareekhji' from the time we saw him coz he must've easily weighed a 120 kilos :)

Vj just wanted to show us everything that stood in Hyderabad, not that he was flaunting it, (he is as much as a proud Bangalorean as I am) just that he wanted us to make the most of the moment. He was more excited than us that we were getting to see so many things.

First place he took us to was Birla temple, It was white and elegant but it was so hot we could not put our foot down, but we managed to run in to pray to Lord Venkateshwara. Bumped into a Marathi family -probably from a tiny village of Maharashtra- You know what happened to me after that.

I must say, I have never seen Vj in this avatar before, I always knew he was a responsible kid but he had evolved so much in these past two years that I dint see any trace of that sotte mooka Vj who use to practice WWF moves on us teaming up with Aj (which is good news btw, our legs and back hurt like crazy every time we visited them). He is as old as I am and I doubt I would handle any situation with the same poise he would.

After Birla temple he took us to Salar Jung Museum, we saw stuff worth for more than what we paid.He wanted us to see the entire museum and we had to drag him out of the place. All we saw there were items used by the kings and queens , their spoons, cups and kitchen set!! And we saw this in just the eastern block, skipped the western block and hauled Vj out of that place.

Oh! and we did see the Veiled Rebecca, that was just mind blowing. Since we weren't allowed to take cameras inside, got this pic from google. Its just brilliant is'nt it?

Then he took us to Hyderabad's identity THE CHARMINAR, the place where this monument stood looked like our very own Shivaji nagar with Russel Market.

This was one place in HYD I saw Vj being extra vigilant than usual, and still ended up arguing with a guy who claimed to be a photographer and charged 5 bucks to click a pic from our own cam. We asked for one only, but the clan that he belonged to proved that he was such an A hole when he clicked the first pic wrong and clicked again and asked for 10 bucks! If I was in Vj's place, I would've ended up giving it. But not him, he belted they guy left and right and asked him to get out!

As usual my wallet was as empty as my head, and I saw this old Indian coin , the one with a hole in it (Like a polo mint). I was looking to add this to my coin collection for the past two years , so Aj got it for me. Thanks Bro :)

After the tiring climb to the top of the Charminar and clicking a zillion pictures Vj had made plans to go to Golkonda and was very specific on having a guide. So before that he took us to FOUR SEASONS for lunch. The food was just amazing and the AC was the best, after Charminar climb and the heat, sitting in an AC room made us very grateful to BLUE STAR :) Hyd restaurants have this concept of platter which obviously costs crazy, its a plate full of the entire variety of chicken on the menu. Unfortunately we don't have pictures of it :(

His idea was "when you having gr8 food, don't fight about the bill" and he made sure we had our stomach's fill of Hyderabadi Biriyani too without worrying about the bill which was 2k. I saw a tinge of my Dad in Vj and was proud to have a Bro like him :) He constantly made sure we were having fun.

Like a movie, we saw a trailor of Golkonda before the main picture-the tombs of Nawabs. Then he took us to Golkonda, hired a guide. More than the guide I think Vj knew stuff about the place, he kept translating wat the guide said and made sure we enjoyed every bit of the place.

(This is my most favourite pic, we left the hard copy for Vj in Hyd :) I dono how all of us just fell into place, two protectors on either side of the Queen, u guys are the pillars of this togetherness! Thanku :) Kannu padapoguthu!!)

After Golkonda he took us to the most beautiful place i have ever seen, Hussain sagar lake! It was such a lovely time when we went, almost 7 in the night, dark and breezy and with the most wonderful people around it was one of the best times of my life :) Wish it lasted longer but we had to be at a place where the temperature was -5 degree Celsius . I know , I know I said right, it was -5 in Hyderabad

Do you see what I meant when I said -5 degrees, it was super cold that after a point I couldn't feel my feet. It was just gr8!! That was Snow world, and that was the place Vj found out how it felt if his pants got wet ;)

There was basket ball, igloo, and a slide. Not just that there was snow fall too :) It was a totally different place all together and thanks to Vj we had the chance to visit places like this.

That was not the end of the day, the most happening place was 'Eat street' and I could see why he was dying to take us there, coz I heard him say it like a gazillion times and it was worth it baby!! It was string of restaurants around the lake and the energy around was just tremendous. Although I saw couples holding hands and coochikooing with each other making me want to go punch them, I was happy I was with family.

After reaching home, he asks us so sweetly if we wanted thanni and gets it too :) He sat with us drank even though he was tired and sleepy. He woke up before all of us the next day, made tea and woke me up sayin "prathi, indha di tea, endhri" even though I dint want the tea and wanted to sleep I couldn't say no to such a sweet offer. Then he went to get breakfast, all he did in those three days was cater to our needs. What did we ever do to share such a beautiful relationship with a wonderful person like him. I had forgotten what it is like to be selfless and live for others. Thanks alot bro for reminding me that there is more to life than just me!!

The following day we lazed around inspite of Vj's pestering about Ramoji, Man he din't want us to miss anything there.

And yes these are my brothers, and thats Vj's house. Clean is'nt it ? :)

According to Vj, Shilparamam is the place to be on the first of every month with your boyfriend. Make sure he withdraws his salary before you go there. It had an ambience of a village and almost 200 stalls. All Vj kept telling was "get what you want and don't talk about the price i'l deal with it " and he did!!!

This is Gvk one mall, us with the background of an aquarium. We went to Shilparamam and these malls on bikes. He got two extra bikes from his friends and managed to ferry all of us :) Tat's when I enjoyed riding on Hyd roads and started falling in love with the city!!

On the last day (unfortunately the last day), as usual he got us breakfast early morning and started planning the entire day including our departure at 9:30. He took us straight to Prasad's Imax. That is the mall with a theatre with the largest screen and Avtar was running there, so we chucked it and went to see Karthik calling Karthik. At the movie, Aj came back with two large popcorn. Looking at the size we got worried if we will be able to finish, Vj was on a call. So we decided we'll make Vj eat the whole thing when he returns, Guess what??? Stupid twin brother thinks like his Aj only and got two more packets of popcorn while coming. We tried finishing 4 packets of popcorn but it didn't happen, got it back home and gave to Mr. Mohan Mudaliar to eat!! :)

Hmmm.. On the way to Karthik calling Karthik he stopped and asked us with a twinkle in his eye if we wanted to go to scary house. And what do you think we greedy , evil things said.. ;) We said NO, we don't wanto go to scary house. Aren't we the nicest kids ever??? We made him take us to...

DEMON JUNGLE!!!

We came out after Vj tried to have a conversation with a Gorilla. He saw the thing sitting there and he actually went and said "Hello, how do you do?" and tried shaking hands with him before he got up to scare us! You would not be able to imagine unless you were there, this is just for the 5 of us :) Oh I forgot to mention thaithaka saying "beda beda, ledhu ledhu to the demon" - WoW!!! Thats one multilingual demon!! ;)

After all that we went to PARADISE finally for Kalmi kabab before leaving to Bangalore, yum is'nt it??

All through the day Vj kept getting calls from work and he actually handled both, us and work. The guy works really really hard, I wish God bestows all his blessings on my bro and gives him a Wonderful life with no more hardships!

This was our Hyderabad trip to visit Vj! I wish we do this again, but brother, you come to the place I live in and you relax like a baby while I make sure you have a gr8 time with no tensions whatsoever :)

We left to Bangalore with tears in our eyes wishing April will come soon so we could see him again.

One thing I learnt is I gottta be grateful for what I have first, before I worry about what I lost. And I'm sure as hell grateful for this :) Thanks ppl. wonder what i'd do without you.

@ Kavitha, Vijay and Jyothi... Thank you so much guys for getting me out of Pune safely. It's not his fault, I shouldn't have gone there in the first place, I knew I was doing something I shouldn't be doing that's why I didn't tell anyone. Not even my friends coz I knew they or you wouldn't approve of it. I went there to sort out things, but complicated everything, got him all the more pisd with me and drove him away!

In spite of the fun and frolic around, every place I went I kept thinking bout him, every shop I entered I kept searching for what I could take back for him. Every morning I woke up wondering what I did to get this punishment, what I could do to beg for forgiveness and try to get things back to normal. Its not everyday that I get to be with someone who saved me you see and I don't want to lose it baby, I just don't!! I walked around with this on my mind the whole time, I came back feeling guilty for not being myself with family around and ruining the fun. I was not appreciative of what I had, but longed for what i didn't!! I know it is wrong, but what am I supposed to do, I couldn't help missing him. I don't expect you or even my 'worst enemy' to understand what I was going through. Nobody can, when he himself couldn't, rather didn't I don't think anybody can. I'm sorry if I have hurt anybody in this process of my emotional lacerate.

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