Wednesday, December 07, 2005

ceRAMic

The effect of Bharath's fibonacci, if it has to be undone, is achievable only by releasing my trump card - Peengan. Lakshmanaswami Mudaliar Salai is home to many a middleclass families and the one in discussion (henceforth refered to as Peengan) is no different.

A joint family of two brothers, Vishwanathan & Ramamoorthy (or whatever) live in a house at the centre of Lakshmanaswamy Salai - exactly the midpoint between Alagiriswamy Salai and RK. Shanmugam Salai. The house had a huge frontyard with fully grown trees and a decent building where the two families were living happily for several years. But there was some mystery to the house.

No, I am not talking about the malhandling of the Pamban Kuzhu finances that were dwindled while Mr Ramamoorthy was Treasurer for buying the house. That is a totally different subject. We don't want to touch that. We shall leave it to the son of the Kuzhu's president (Ragoo Ramaswamy) to investigate.

The mystery was something different. It was not obvious to onlookers. From outside it was yet another bungalow.

All of us had to cross Peengan to get to Star. Even those who lived far away frequented the route after a game in the 8th sector Maidhan. Once in a while we would stop at Peengan to speah with him. For many years, nobody was allowed beyond the gate. Not even close friends. The Peengan remained a secret. Whoever wanted to meet Ram was dealt with at the gate. Even water was provided only at the gate. The security was so tight that White House used it as a proof of concept.

Finally, one fine day, I was able to breach all the security and get inside Peengan. Whe I came out, I was stunned with astonishment. I was just witness to the 8th Wonder of the World.

Every room was aesthetically designed. But that was not what caught my eye. (I am having goosebumps as I write it.) Each room had an attached bath. In all there were three bedrooms but seven bathrooms. There were only six people in the house. It beats me why there were seven bathrooms. Raman later told me that his periyappa had future in mind when he designed the house.

Each bathroom had a different colour and style of commode. But the common ground was ceramic (peengan in tamil). If I am not mistaken, one enters the house through the bathroom. The entry bathroom had a traditional Indian style Kakoos - nevertheless made of ceramic.

If Taj Mahal was made of marble, this one was made of the highest quality ceramic. Why not, I thought and appealed to the Guiness Records. They recently have added Peengan into two categories.
1. Wonders of the world.
2. Maximum number of bathrooms in 2400 sqft including commercial public toilets.

PS:- Parryware also awarded the most valued customer award to the family.

1 Comments:

Blogger APAM NAPAT said...

So its a tie between Bharath and Ram

6:56 PM  

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