Chennai!! All my friends in college say Trichy is a bad place to be in. They like Chennai and feel its very good. Even i did entertain this thought once in a while, thinking Chennai may actually be better because of all the facilities available there. Now here i am, in Chennai and will be for another month. Its been just 4 days since i came here, but i sure can say i don't like the place. May be, it will be like it for people who have never been in such places. But then, i never felt anything like it when i was in Pune or Bangalore. As a matter of fact, i just loved Pune and am craving to go there again.
The first thing which i felt the very minute i started being in Chennai is the crowd. Anywhere, anytime its so very crowded, with no space to move around. Getting crushed where ever i went was a real bad experience. A person like me, who has always been in calm places, who does not even go to crowded shop and never step out of the house during festival seasons, this crowd was really horrible. Never felt like getting out at all, leave alone going in the buses. I am so used to riding a vehicle that i find it difficult to go even in buses where there are only four people apart from the driver.And here!! I stand on just one leg half my traveling time.
The next problem, that i faced was "WATER". Me, being so used to drinking cauvery water which is boiled and filtered at home, this was another big problem. Generally people here use packaged drinking water. But that does seem great in any way. Added to that its raining on and off. I've a got sour throat which hurts pretty badly when i speak. I sound so hoarse. Not to forget all this is in just 2 days.
Coming back to the rains, anywhere you turn you are bound to see stagnated water. May be there are much better places in Chennai, but the places where i have been till now are bad(which is quite many and are supposedly the heart of Chennai) Even in the bus stops, where i see at least 200 people every morning, there is a small pond forming in. One can not even walk there and boarding the bus, with people running madly without minding the water, is a feat in itself.
Not only this, the worst of the problems is the stinking smell that follows you anywhere you go. The amount of mosquitoes and other insects breeding here, once you see this you just cant accept this is a city!! This place is so polluted. Even with masks around your face all the time, you may not be able to prevent yourself from being affected.
With all this, the very thought of staying in Chennai for a month has become irksome. With every passing day, i am becoming more fidgety and i really want to go back home. Even after 2 months of staying in Pune, i never felt so restless. Moreover i felt very sad about leaving Pune and wanted to stay more. But here, just in about four days...! Chennai!!!!
The first thing which i felt the very minute i started being in Chennai is the crowd. Anywhere, anytime its so very crowded, with no space to move around. Getting crushed where ever i went was a real bad experience. A person like me, who has always been in calm places, who does not even go to crowded shop and never step out of the house during festival seasons, this crowd was really horrible. Never felt like getting out at all, leave alone going in the buses. I am so used to riding a vehicle that i find it difficult to go even in buses where there are only four people apart from the driver.And here!! I stand on just one leg half my traveling time.
The next problem, that i faced was "WATER". Me, being so used to drinking cauvery water which is boiled and filtered at home, this was another big problem. Generally people here use packaged drinking water. But that does seem great in any way. Added to that its raining on and off. I've a got sour throat which hurts pretty badly when i speak. I sound so hoarse. Not to forget all this is in just 2 days.
Coming back to the rains, anywhere you turn you are bound to see stagnated water. May be there are much better places in Chennai, but the places where i have been till now are bad(which is quite many and are supposedly the heart of Chennai) Even in the bus stops, where i see at least 200 people every morning, there is a small pond forming in. One can not even walk there and boarding the bus, with people running madly without minding the water, is a feat in itself.
Not only this, the worst of the problems is the stinking smell that follows you anywhere you go. The amount of mosquitoes and other insects breeding here, once you see this you just cant accept this is a city!! This place is so polluted. Even with masks around your face all the time, you may not be able to prevent yourself from being affected.
With all this, the very thought of staying in Chennai for a month has become irksome. With every passing day, i am becoming more fidgety and i really want to go back home. Even after 2 months of staying in Pune, i never felt so restless. Moreover i felt very sad about leaving Pune and wanted to stay more. But here, just in about four days...! Chennai!!!!
