Chennai sangamam 2008

We had gone to besant nagar to witness the fireworks at the end of a weeklong chennai festival, called chennai sangamam. The roads to the beach were quite clogged, so we stopped by at mom's place.Fireworks will definitely light up the sky so we might as well watch it at a 100 metre safe distance, rather than be on the beachfront and crane our necks and generally get discomforted.

We waited a while and were getting slowly restless, when the sky burst forth in a riot of colour and splendid keleodoscope patterns.It kept up steadily increasing in the range of colours and reach and sound accompaniments.It kept going for over half an hour and after a while, we felt quite satiated with the rich fare dished out by the organisers, as a fitting finale.When something is so beautiful, we can take it only for a while.I remembered amma telling us that her patti used to firmly hold the view, that we should always have little less than satiation, be it in bakshanams or special dishes made during festival times. Amma never believed in that as far as eatables go, thank god. But otherwise there is sense in kollu patti's home truth.
Prashant, amma and athai were with me witnessing the event, while appa stayed in the front balcony and said he had a good view from there.

I remembered all the while the new year fireworks in Singapore and yasas and me staying up to watch it and usher in the new year.