Volume 5 - 7 April 2007

It's wonderful to recieve mails from people across the country. Diggy is very enthused about his summers, and I am sure that he and others will do well to earn the colours.

Today's mail is not about the happenings of the day. Rather they are about what happened yestereve.

Since Arpan is leaving Chennai today we had made a pact that the three of us will head to the sea again before parting. So, at 8 in the evening we were there by the beach feasting on corn, and enjoying the cool sea breeze. It is difficult to describe the Sea - it is so huge and magnanimous in it's being, so beautiful and so dangerous...

The moon reflected off it's waves... and the waves broke upon the beach in a rythmic symphony... so enamoured were we by the moments that all of us called up our families and some dear friends... I actually turned my mobile phone to the sound of the Seas while speaking and shared the peace of the seas' music...

Then we did something that we all revel in... got into the sea... only to a certain extent (truth be told) though. There standing in the waves, looking beyond the horizon (attempting to) was a splendid feeling.

As the waves began to rise we started to walk along the beach watching little crabs and other what-do-you-call's scamper around every wave...

We reached a place where where the sand embankment was slightly higher than the beach and stood there looking before the moment caught me once again and I did something that prompted Arpan and Jaswal to say that 'Captain has gone mad'. I coiled backwards from the embankment, and then charged... yes... jumped as high as I could with my arms outstretched in to incoming waves...

Such was the thrill and the excitement that I repeated it - again and again - till Jaswal wanted to do it too, and there we were jumping, climbing, and then jumping - till the time Arpan joined in too...

It was like being kids again... such a wonderful feeling! The Chennai Fellowship parts way today and tomorrow to what comes next...