Today I was going through my childhood pictures and was stuck by severe nostalgia. I know it sounds really lame but that was the moment I realized how fun my weekend used to be in my childhood even though Sunday was the only holiday I had throughout the week.
For me every weekend was a mystery, on Saturday evening I would just rush from school to my house, and then straight away go find my dad and ask him what he has planned for the weekend and this was a time when there was no “Express Avenue”, no “Phoenix Market City”, and no “VR Mall”. But there was a great place where I hanged out a lot with my parents, “Spencer Plaza” in Anna Saalai. It was a great place and the most interesting thing about the place is once you enter the you tend to kind of get lost or it will not be easy for you to find the exit, at least I couldn’t find the exit, I used get confused all the time, May be I am a dimwit.
Whenever we visit the mall we mandatorily go to a shop called “Landmark”. It’s one of my favourite shops where I can spend hours and still won’t get bored. There would be a huge collection of novels which has got nothing to do with me, and then there comes the huge collection of movies (Not Pirated version). My exposure to Bollywood and some of the great animation movies ever made. Many movies like “Pardes”, “Dil Toh Pagal Hai”, “Fanaa”, “Dil Chahtha hai”, “Taare Zaameen Par”, “Kabhi Haan Kabhi Naa”, and of course cringe yet my guilty pleasure “Kuch Kuch Hota Hai” and “K3G”, and many movies gave me some of the great songs which are still in my playlist and I hear them too. Also these taught me what is love and some poor and pathetic pickup lines which I sometimes end up using and get a big “NO” from people. I think probably I will end up alone my whole life. But there also some great animation movies which I still watch whenever I feel low. I had a whole collection of “Popeye”, “Tom and Jerry”, “Aladdin”, “Scooby doo”, “The Ice age” and etc.(PS: I still have these collections with me so if anyone is expecting a baby or has kid with them, please DM me I’m willing give these great animated movie collection”). Every time I watch these is takes me back to those good old days where I had a good 10 hours sleep, there was nothing much to worry, there weren’t any responsibilities, and especially those precious moments when Amma used to give a cuddle when I’m sad.
Now let’s move on to my next hangout spot, Satyam Theatre. Appa used secretly book tickets to one of the finest movies and take us to enjoy. The best thing about watching movies in theatres those days was, no one was using mobile phones as they are today. So there won’t any kind if interruption, people would watch the movie with full attention. The first movie which I watched here was “Madagascar” I suppose if I remember correctly. And what a movie that was. I still remember the song that was played in the end credit of the movie, “I like to move it”. Then there were many good movies that I watched here like “Happy Feet”, “Batman Begins” (But honestly when I saw the movie for the first time I think I was in the second grade and kind of starting sleeping after 20 minutes), “Spider-man 2 and 3”, “Munna Bhai MBBS”, “Lage Raho Munna Bhai”, “Kandanaal Mudhal”, and my all-time favourite “Dhoom-2” (This was the movie because of which I started having a huge crush on Aishwarya Rai, Boy she is damn hot!!).
Then there would be weekends where I would wonder where would we go tomorrow and what would we be eating new. For the foodie weekend we would go to Anna Nagar where we would just start walking from the Thirumangalam signal and would go till Roundtana signal. There would be a tons of restaurants on the way. On the previous day I would like having braingasm thinking about where would we be going tomorrow and what would we eat, is it going to be “Chole bhature” or “Kachori” or “Samosas” or “Paani Poori” or “Masal Dosa” or “Butter Naan with Paneer Butter Masala”. Gives me drools even if I think about it.
Then we would go to a big stationary shop and my parents would buy me new set of pencils, erasers, and pencil box with buttons, new fountain pens and many more items.
The thing is there only a few places we could hangout and only few source of entertainments were only available yet these small but silly things made me really happy. I wish I could go back to those good old days where there were no pimples, no dark circles, no worries of being alone, and no unnecessary horniness.
But it’s okay I guess because these weekends I spent a lot of time watching the biography of a drug lord in Colombia or a story of a mentally sick psychiatrist who is a human cannibal. I guess I’m matured now so “Little things” won’t be making me happy anymore.
