12B

My trip to my friend's place was almost symmetrical. I had to take two buses from my place to reach his. The first one was to Majestic (to which I happened to get 108B) and from there I had to take 12B to reach his place. The bus number brought back memories of the tamil movie 12B that me and my 4 other friends had gone to see back in Engineering days. Although I understood little of tamil back then, the movie was well rated and I could follow it by the sequence rather than by the dialogues. The movie was about the Hero trying to catch the bus 12B to go to an interview. The movie splits at the point he misses the bus - One part of the story shows what would have happened if he did catch the bus and the part if he didn't. The movie was pretty interesting and Shyam did a decent job. I think the heroine was Jyothika who is one of my favorites when it comes to acting. As I sat in the bus, I tried to recollect some moments of when we went to watch that movie. It was 5 of us - 3 guys and 2 gals. We could have been called as the Famous Five back then - but then as circumstances change, the group is no longer a group but we still keep in touch with each other directly or indirectly. 2 of us in the group couldn't understand tamil but still ended up watching the movie by force of the other 3 or 2 rather since one person hardly forces anyone to do anything. So coming back to this trip, I went to his place, met another 3 friends there, we played cricket in his room on second floor. It was fun playing cricket after a loooooooooong time as well as playing with them. We then went out for a walk in the dark (since there was no power), drank tender coconut and then went to Cane-O-La to drink Sugarcane juice. I was surprised to see the cleanliness they maintained in this little shop. It seems this is a new chain of stores that has come up recently providing quality sugar cane juice. There were even choices as in Salt-pepper, ginger, lemon, masala. We all had a glass and then they walked me to the bus stop to get back. All along we spoke of past, present and future and some rubbish too!.. As I waited at the bus stop, there it was again 12B taking me back to Majestic. The bus was pretty empty, took a seat towards the end of the bus, looking outside the window, I was thinking "How quickly time flies by...". I got down at majestic and 108B was ready to leave, hopped in. Midway the bus broke down because of jammed brakes. Waited for a few more minutes for another bus and reached home.. This was my 12B story, no second part to it....