
But in my room we 3 had already planned to see the Argentina VS Ivory Coast first round Football (for US fellas Soccer) match. The match was at 12:30 AM but the time in the clock only showed 11:00 PM. So we went out for a walk. The breeze from the sea shore flowed all over the place and it was a pleasent walk. The whole day's story flew in my mind and believe me, I would have blogged at that time had I been provided with an opportunity. Well, it wasnt there. So we can forget that.
After returning back, the match was on. But my 2 team mates Amjath and Vijay were off by 12:30 and 12:45 respectively. I alone watched the game till halftime and was out by 1:15. Sudden sound of an alarm was all I could hear when Amjath called "Thalai, ezhunthurunga... mani 5:00 aayiduchu. Seekram". Thats it. The sleep was over. But my body pulled me down again and again. With great grit and determination, I managed to pull out from bed and get ready to see the sunrise.
Five of us Vijay, Ashok, Bhavesh, Bala and myself went to a place behind the hotel which would take us some 400 metres inside the sea and caught the beautiful sight of sunrise. I had been to Marina at least a couple of time hoping to catch the sunrise. But it isnt as good or clear as in Kanyakumari. Last time around I had missed out the scenic beauty as there were clouds surrounded. But this time, it wasnt the case. We had a very good view of the same. Thanks to nature. The photo here was taken by Bala.... beautiful isnt it?
After the sunrise, we went directly to Bagavathi Amman temple where we had a very good darshan of the Amman. The speciality here is Amman has a very bright nose ring which is supposed to be made of diamond. Of course the brightness off the nose ring is now being shown with a small oil lamp (thiri vilakku pa, not sure what to write). The story behind this was that there was an arakkan who had more power when sun god was not present i.e. in the night. So the Amman had wore a diamond nose ring and with its power had fought with him and killed him. After darshan everyone's stomach had its call. Breakfast time....
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