While planning the trip, Arun and I talked on the phone sometimes. He mentioned that Kiruba was the person who suggested my name. I of course knew of his blog but I was not sure how he knew about mine. Anyway, I hopped over and saw the picture of TT table on his blog. So, I wrote a few lines to him, thanking him for including me on this trip and asked if I should carry my TT bat on the trip? He replied quite enthusiastically and said we could definitely try it out.
Kiruba told me during the bus journey (Bangalore to Coorg) itself that no matter what we would play TT once we reached and I should not say I am too tired, etc. Sudhir and Amogha also wanted to play. The three of them played singles with me and to cut a long story short I will quote them about what they said afterwards-
This is what Sudhir wrote to me in an email-
Am also working on my T.T game, so the next time we meet – you should expect a much tougher match 🙂
And this is what Sudhir wrote on his blog-
It was quite clear that she had primarily 2 great interests, Travel and T.T. The latter of which she was so menacing in, that soon enough but for the wall, she had noone to play with.
Amogha told me this while leaving and I am paraphrasing-
You say you can play with your own bat! Next time I will practice, and come with my own band baja, my cheer girls and what not and then let us see what happens!
While I was playing with Kiruba, the ball went quite far away on my side and he offered me to bring it. I said, “No I am used to it. I play daily with my colleagues and they offer me no concessions, in fact they play quite aggressively and I often beat them!” After the game he said, “I perfectly well understand how your colleagues feel.”
OK we were playing games of 21 and they all managed single digit scores, though over 5 🙂
And did I say we bullied Arun into getting the TT hall open after 9.00 and they were sport enough to comply!
Hey Mridula – you no doubt rock at the game!Make no mistake though, I’m enrolling for coaching from next week 🙂
Oh well…I can’t play ping-pong at all! Not that I can play much else…Now, would I have liked to have been invited on such a trip? Well, it should have been good fun, except that it would have revealed my offline identity to a few more people…Not that I am a superhero…But I do tend to write something controversial or the other every once in a while that can raise the hackles of a fairly large number of folks… 😀
Wah TT at Club Mahindra!! One more reason to visit this place. Few weeks back I had a 2 hours long TT session “On the beach” in Jamaica (club was on a beautiful sandy beach of Duncan – 1 hr drive from Montego Bay). This was followed by Jerk Chicken, Jamaican ‘ginger’ wine and chilled Red Stripe (local beer).Can you spot TT table in this photo:http://atulks.myphotoalbum.com/view_photo.php?set_albumName=album65&id=Silver_Sand_Club_03
Enjoyed reading the post…
We need to play..!
Hi Mridula, you must be good TT player.i used to play TT in school days, had played it on “1 feet x 5 feet” table, on floor and regular TT tables. though facility is their in my office, rarely gate chance to play it now a days.hope to play with you someday.
You played it to the “T”, or should I say “TT” :). Good post Mridula
Thanks Sudhir and I would eagerly wait for the rematch :)Sidhu, I know many people would be concerned about the identity issue.Atul, would try to have a look soon.Thanks Shrinidhi.So Arun, any plans of heading towards Delhi?Nilesh, anytime you come this way…Thanks Arun!
Lucky you.
Right Ajeya, I did feel lucky.