Mere Yaar KI Shaadi-1st episode!

Times of Industrial Systems:
A report by our Special Correspondent :
Mission Solapur
The rumor and talk was there among the team mates for more than a week trying to finalize the list of comrades who will be on the mission.
After some initial setbacks, wherein I was woke up at 23:00 Hrs (I will never forgive Ravikumar M for that) on the night of Saturday and asked for my SSO password, we finally got moving.
Time : 4:45 AM
Date : 28th December 2003
Place : In the middle of nowhere
Lijan (representing Close Looping), Indresh (Audit), Prasanna (Audit), Ravi M (Men of Indsys), Netra (Women of Indsys) and Radhika (newbies) were searching for Ratheesh's (Task Force) house (popularly referred as forest by the GE drivers) who all were rostered to his home since the Sumo in which we were to leave was supposed to leave from there.
After some conflicting directions (even Malayalam was used), we met each other on the road (head on) and the medium of communication were cell phones.
Started off from there at 4:45 AM.
The first impediment (excluding Indresh) was the fog. We had to slow down to 20 KMPH and the visibility was 10 M at some places.
Later we flew at 130 KMPH according to eyewitness and the speedometer was straining to break off.
In the meantime Ratheesh was trying hard to impress Radhika and each time she said that "ooo it is so cold", he offered his jacket.
I later warned him to keep off (regional feelings).
Our first pit stop was at a road side dhaba (what do you expect, a 3 Star restaurant!) where we had chai and the next one was at Hotel Mayura.
We had Upma (Indresh sold it to us) and we watched Rangoli on Doordarshan after a long time.
Indresh spoke in his broken Kannada and the waiter preferred Hindi.
When we were having Tea in glass cups, Radhika called the bewildered waiter and asked for Disposable cups.
This was where we re-christened Radhika as Disposable.
The waiter gave her a weird look and just nodded his head. She got the message.
Disposable cups on a highway motel...Radhika, give us a break.
When we were nearing Solapur, we tried to call Azeem but due to connectivity problems, none of the cell phones were working and the call just remained as Ek Soch thi.
Radhika wanted Sunflower (why?) and then Grapes.
We had to ultimately buckle under the pressure and stopped near a vineyard.
We had chai (not again) and Radhika and Ratheesh had almost shared a tea (cup aur pyali) when I had to use my high offices and intervene and we got a separate cup for her.
We finally reached the outskirts of Solapur...
Wait for the remaining in the next episode.
Yours,
Prasanna G

Coming up...Ratheesh has his pants off as Lijan does not like it!