WILLKOMMEN ZU MEINER WELT!!!!: All Flights fly to HYD!!!!

The trip to HYD(Hyderabad) started on a lazy day in Chennai (30th). Already having applied for the leave and more over missing the Away Day party with the project people, I started along with Bala n Satheesh for HYD. The cab reached airport just in time. We were almost the last to check in for the HYD flight. Being the first flight for Satheesh n Bala, they were excited and Bala was expecting some fun in the flight!!!

After the routine security checks (I had an extra loooooooooong one, not coz I look like a terrorist, but coz of the metal rods inside my leg. It took some time for me to convince the Officer that I have a metal rod inside!!!) we rushed to Gate-4, which is in the first floor. Singara Chennai Airport escalators and elevators don’t work !! !!! So had to do a trek up the stairs and reached the Gate 4 just in time with Bala n Me sweating all over!!!

I expected the flight to be a smaller one.. but it was the normal Airbus A320. So finally we were all set for take off and ready to rock HYD with others who had already reached and who had not!!! After a rather dull one hour, we reached HYD and the pilot kept circling the city thrice before landing. Bala’s comment – I expected some fun during the flight!!! – meaning he wanted the jet to turn like the fighter planes!!! 180 degree Cobra maneuver is not possible with two mediocre turbo fans Bala!! You need a thrust vector controlled engine and nozzle to do that!!!

After a grueling 15 min drive reached at Baseraa!!! This hotel was awesome!!! The rooms were good, and the room service – even better!!! Except for the nagging Lady at the front desk who cheated us on discounts worth some 3 grand!!! Slowly the guys started arriving and finally at around 5.30 all gathered except Saby n Neo.

Day -1 :

The Hyderabad Central – not so good as the Bengaluru Central. No collections and not so good. I did not like it. I saw MnS there at Central and was surprised!!! I was thinking that MnS had opened shops only at Delhi n Chennai in India! I’ve never seen any records about HYD store.

CLUB 8 – Nice place. Though it was nowhere near to some of the premium bars(Westminister,BnB,StarRock,Zara’s) in Chennai, the gang of 15 meeting after 1.5 years set the place on fire(ofcourse with the help of spirits!!!) Even StarRock would win hands down when compared with CLUB-8. The service was bad. I simply hung on to scotch n beer.

PARADISE – The famous hotel in HYD for the famous HYD Biryani. If a chicken commits a crime, it would be sent to HYD.The paradise is CHICKEN's HELL.I guess no chicken would be alive in HYD. This place Paradise is of 4 floors – each floor is of about 2500 sq.ft. and can comfortably seat around 200 to 300 people one floor. All 4 floors serve Chicken Biryani!!!! They have only 3 variations in Biryani. SMALL,LARGE and PREMIUM.And the hotel is packed to the max. We waited 15 mins to get our table. Just imagine the amount of chickens used for that!!! Though the Biryani was real tasty, me and Bala were counting the possible no of chickens killed per day and we couldn’t come to a proper number at the end as the food we had ordered distracted us!!!

All set for the food in Paradise

Day -2 :

Half Day wasted in the hotel trying to wake people up and also waiting for Saby n Neo. Finally, they showed up around noon after a real long n tiring bus journey. Kudos to you two... if you two hadnt come... there would've been something missing.And you guys know what it was!!!

PRASAD’s – This place was awesome. The mall has an IMAX screen (in which we watched HP-4 without understanding what was going on. I hate HP!!!) With some li’l help from Bala (crazy fan of HP) I could understand and patch it up.

The Prasadz...

Yours Truly... trying in vain to join The Hogwarts

The IMAX is nothing but a forward inclined screen of gigantic size. Almost twice or thrice the size of a normal movie screen. It does cause dizziness for weak hearted people!!! It was fun time after the movie. Saby and Neo tried their hand at rock-climbing. To our astonishment, Saby was much more efficient and faster than Neo at climbing (guess this is a common trait with people from Dadhagapatti!!!) He almost touched the top before his weight let him down. It was fun for all of us to see our dear Saby (Hero – Zero- Hero) back in action, along with his all time contender Neo!!

The EAT STREET – This is the place I loved the most in my trip to HYD. This place roxx!!! Its got all – Idli,Chutney to Pizza to frankies to everything… I know this sounds similar to TRANSIT at Forum but trust me u get much more options than you get in Transit. So bad that Chennai does not have such a place to eat out!!!

Me n Bala at the EAT STREET - happy after two pizzas..

Then back to the HOTEL… for the Bash… to welcome 2006. Since we were a big group and all Stags (Royal Stags are not allowed into most of the clubs in India!!) we decided to keep the party personally in the room and it would give us some time to sit and talk too. Since Saby (Our Main Target) had come late in the afternoon, the focus was on him and his Malaysian Sweetheart!! It was fun… I can remember only till 1130 on the 365th day of 2005. After that I was on a total high… don’t remember cutting the cake… talking to Miths n Vinu over the phone… and lots of other stuff… even now… (I was shell shocked when I heard that I did all this from Vinu!!!)