Selective Amnesia There was a point to this. But I forgot.

CBZ Chronicles, Redux, Deux

Last heard from you, you were struggling to find your voice over the sound of the engine.

One minute, you are on the (what appears to be smooth and level) road. Next minute, your lost voice comes back in a high-pitched scream as you float 10 feet above ground. You come back to earth a few feet from a speed-breaker that did more than its job description.

But that does not set back you, young Lochinvar, from your quest for fun.

From Tindivanam, you proceed in a north-westerly direction, sights firmly set on Kanceepuram. On the way, you pass Vadavasi, or Wandiwash, as our white brethren put it. Out of nowhere, you spy what seems to you like an old temple. Brakes screech, and dust clouds. You dismount, and walk up to the structure.
Oh yes, it is. Or atleast, a traveller’s bungalow, with tell tale signs of Pallava Archtecture.
Rough hewn granite walls, with solid blocks of granite chisseled into a pillar with the trademark L shaped support at the apex. It’s a gem.

CBZ Chronicles, Redux

It’s a Sunday. You wake up early, and want to do something outside of routine. A movie is boring, and friends are asleep, and would be so till 11, which is 7 hours away. You need fun. You need excitement. What do you do?

Well, you take out your trusted steed, say, a CBZ, and fill it up with fuel. You then proceed in a sou, sou-easterly way till you hit that magnificently straight, improbably smooth stretch of road called the ECR. You keep at the throttle, till the speedometer needle touches 80, and then you let go, and cruise this buttery stretch of road, straight as an arrow, till you reach a place called Pondicherry. Now, you circle this small tissue paper of a city till you can give the local postman directions to a house, and have snapped a couple of pictures to boot.
You look at a watch, and it says 9. All of 9 ‘o clock. Getting back home might at best take an hour, so you still have 2 hours to go before your friends think of you and save you from boredom. What do you do next?

You click the link that says “Continue reading”...