21.06.08
The day i faced my worst fears. A friend of mine asked me to play for his team in a Flood light tournament in royapuram.Never been to north madras before this day, found out the location of the ground courtesy Yahoo maps. I reached this ground at arnd 6 in the evening,my match was supposed to start at 7.But my fate it got postponed a number of times and finally was scheduled to start at 11 30.Just about 11 20,it started raining.The shower was heavy and it continued for more than an hour , during which we were standing under a small sun shade.The rain never was gonna stop so finally i decided to start home along with mani and ashok anna.There was no power supply in tat area so there were no street lights and it was pitch black. Adding to this we could not remember our route back .Just think,in a pitch black road under heavy showers and no clue abt the route, we were doomed.Adding to this, there was heavy thunder and lightning.Every lighting brightened up the entire place and sent a chill down my spine.Then a new problem, heavy water logging on the north madras roads had started affecting my bike, it started choking and stopped.
I just couldnt have had a more terrible night, somehow i managed to start my bike and ride back home in the scariest of nights.But still we had a problem, we had no clue where we were and there was noone to ask at 1 am.I just couldn't stop praying to god , i so badly wanted to be home.
Finally we saw Nehru stadium, atlast we knew we could reach home. But still the fear of lightning kept on frightening me and water logging on almost every road. I reached home at around 2 am , where mom was waiting to give me a bashing.The relief of reaching home safely was too much that i didn't even listen to what she was talkin......!
A Night i wud never forget in my life.........!
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