Humming the "HAPPY SUNSHINE"- Chennai

 I was in my 9th standard, and my father thought that i needed better education and better opportunity and as well my brother who is 4 years younger to me and thus he took his transfer to Chennai. All throughout my life i studied in CBSE board schools, and i wanted to continue in same, we were transfered a little late and by then admissions were almost ending and yes finally i got admissions one of the good CBSE school in Chennai.
All my 6 years we stayed in an flat five minutes away from the sea beach, it were those early days i use to visit the beach with my mom everyday. New school new place, new heat after a change in climate from monsoon to moist heat, i started finding good times in Chennai.
During the school days i made very few friends as i was new, and all were from Chennai. Our sections were divided according to our second language preferences, i took hindi, the others were Sanskrit and Tamil. During my school days, like within 3 or 4 months i started learning and understanding the language, tamil, now that adds upto, one, two, three, four and now five, by then i learnt 5 including tamil with bengali, hindi, assamese and gujrati. The school also took us to various school trips those were rejoice full and that helped me get to know about the people. During my school days i really didn't explore much of Chennai, i knew, the Besant Nagar beach or the Elliots beach, then the Spencers Plaza, the Satayam cinemas, the Marina Beach, T-Nagar and thats all I hardly went out with friends, we just went sometime to the beach and to see some movies, parents took me for shopping to the spencer's plaza. Chennai, is also famous for its music most of the families motivate their child to be realted to music always. During the durga puja festival, which use to be conducted by various bengali associations in Chennai, i use to perform during my school days for the functions held. The movie culture is also famous in chennai, everyone is crazy about movies, the stars and the stories, the music and the dance, movies revolve around people and everybody enjoys it.

But as i passed out my twelfth standard, i explored as much Chennai as it was never before, starting from shopping malls, to kovallam beach ahead in East Coast Road (ECR), to all the famous coffee joints, the Music the chennai plays, the dance they swing to, the places for shopping, the golden beach, the rocking drives on the ECR, the Beaches looked happy like never before, the bus rides, the flyover trains, the discos, the clubs and the pubs, the big restaurant joints etc. Everything about in Chennai, the art, the culture, the people, the lifestyle, the rituals, the temples, churches, beach etc i would share everything one by one say that its not a place we imagine to be but what we see is something which is real and loads of fun.


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