Naadu, adhai naadu..

Naama ennadhan ooru vittu ooru vandhalum, there are instances where you'd need to turn to your country in its different representations. Last week, enakum adhe madhiri oru situation..I had to send a legal document back to Chennai, and adhuku embassy seal venum as an alternative to 100Rs stamp paper-ntanga..

Naanum surusuruppa net-la thedi, anga inga kettu, Indian embassy-ku madhiyam poi ninna CLOSED-nu oru sign..apparently consular service is only till 12:00! (Adhuku edhuku net-la 1745 hrs-nu lord madhiri podanum? Hmpff!!) And inga irukara velai vaasi-la - train faredhan solren - thirumba thirumba varardhu enna easy-a? kaduppagi next day kaalailaye poiten.

Eppovavadhu TV-la oru disaster-struck village/town/city famine relief-kaga helicopters or NGO aided relief operations varumpodhu adichu pidichu nikkardha pathirukeengala? If you had, you can visualize it, if not, pls visit the Indian Embassy. Inga token system dhan, aana for god-knows-what-reason, ellarum alai modhittu counter-la queue-la nikkaranga! Adhan token vachu koopidarangale, adhuku edhuku Queue? And andha counter-la iruka jeevan, even before someone can reach the counter, calls the next number! En number-a call pannar, and inspite of seeing me stumbling through the crowd, romba eager-a adutha number-a koopidarar andha dheiva piravi!!

Viduvena naan (en lead mugam kanla theriyudhe!) I went up to him only to know that I required a photocopy of doc and passport (idhai net-la pottu tholaicha ennavam?! and I learnt that lot of people had gone for the same reason! Vega vegama poi photocopy eduthutu vandha, melum crowd..and yet another queue for the photocopy-folks had formed :)) Anyways, adichu pidichu counter reach panni pay panna...evening vaa-ntar andha mahanubavar! (Varumpodhu I had denied a day pass which would have costed only 20 pence extra as against £6 it was going to cost me for another trip :( Pennywise and Pound foolish?) So then I returned to work much to the awaiting of the rest for a team lunch..

Adhu oru kodumai, Japanese restaurant kootitu poi everyone had a good lunch except me, ennala sapda kooda mudeela and everyone was teasing me saying their lunch was good..I could only say "very interesting lunch" when the client-manager asked me - Pinna onnume puriyadha oru lunch interesting dhane?!

And like all is well that ends well, I went to the embassy in the evening and got my document - adhu onnudhan last week urupadiya nadandadhu!