The Two Brothers - Welcome Home (Sanitarium)!!!

Background :- You have been introduced to who the freaks are in the post "The Freaks" and then the tale starts with the first installment - "Brotherhood of the Freaks" where Brothers, Step Brothers, Leeches, Paparazzi's, Tapeworm's and Ammas were introduced. We will now move ahead to the second installment in the tale "The Two Brothers".

This tale starts from the fag end of the Brotherhood of Freaks, where as the Freaks were parting ways, Two Brothers, Balls and Yatin decided to call the brotherhood for a reunion and house warming party at their new house. Aup was returning back to the cherished land so he would not be able to join the brotherhood pilgrimage but all the other Brothers decided to be a part of the pilgrimage. Brothers on the West Coast would understandably not be able to join while Balls dream of catfight between two ammas were not to be realized this time around.

The Two Brothers wanted the Brotherhood to join them before the new year to help them shift but brothers being intelligent themselves decided to join only after the entire shifting to the new house was complete. Still afraid of helping the Twins, vcd decided to dropout at the last moment so only Bhaiyya, Srikant and KK made the pilgrimage to Raleigh from Baltimore where the Twin Brothers were waiting.

The Festival (Plan of Action as scripted by Balls)

30th December
Brothers from Baltimore reach Raleigh as early as possible (by 6pm atmost), get rest for the mind with some music, stomach with some home cooked Pav Bhaji (courtesy Balls), some drinks to go with it and innumerable Beedis to sooth the fraying nerves. Keep talking late into the nite before we sleep.

31st December
Lunch at Tower of India a desi place in Raleigh. Go for shopping to prepare for the New Year Eve Feast and then prepare the feast. Celebrate the new year with Beedis, Drinks and food. Yeti playing the Base guitar on

1st January
Relaaaaaax after a overcoming the huge hangover. Talk/ Chat/ Listen to Music/ Watch Movies.

2nd January
End of the pilgrimage. Wake up late, have lunch, pack up and return back to Baltimore.

What Actually Happened

30th December :-
I am trying to reach Bhaiyya and Srikant from 9am. No response until 10.30 am when finally Bhaiyya wakes up. Srikant is still sleeping or dazed. We discuss on leaving at around 12 after which Bhaiyya with such heavy planning feels tired and takes a power nap. Finally, eveybody rose around 12 where they pick me up, Srikant packs his stuff. After that we all go to Bhaiyya's place for Bhaiyya to get ready and pack his stuff. We also stop over at Vcd's place to carry Balls last remains from Baltimore.

Balls informs us his the confirmation of getting the job. So now the trip had 3 main purposes:- New Year Party, Housewarming Party and Balls Job Celebrations

When all this is completed it is already 2.30pm and we head to Chippotle's for lunch. After around 3.30 Srikant sees that his cell is in the house and we go for the pickup. Balls calls around 4pm where we are having beedi and we decide to tell him that we have already covered 70 miles on road and stuck in slow moving holiday traffic. Balls being the persistent kind wants more info and Bhaiyya with amzing dexterity gives non-existent information and factually incorrect. (Balls unaware of it until he reads it on the blog)

Finally, leaving at 4.30pm from Baltimore, we are on the road and we do get a good paced holiday traffic and no delays until Raleigh where we finally reach 9.30pm.

When we were at the outskirts of Raleigh, we hear a horrible news. Balls was still at work. There went our dreams of reaching and having hot Pav Bhaji. Now we knew food would be a distant dream. We brace ourselves for it as we reach the Sanitarium.

Entering the fabulous house and having a tour of it Srikant's first comment which sums up the description :-

" You guys have got a very good setup. Good Jobs, Good place, Home theatre System, Patio & a nice View, Good Rooms, attached Bathrooms, cheap rent and to top it all .... A Bai* ...."

After sometime Amma decides to encourage the Two Brothers to finally cook as she was famished and the brothers take a cue and around midnight we finally have an awesome dal from Yeti and Aloo ka sabzi from Balls and Ras Malai as dessert.

We retire late in the nite to have Balls initiates a discussion. When we were discussing we hear the sounds from the other room ... Srikant snoring away to glory. Actually he was suffering from cold and that amplified the snores.

Balls makes a comment on my and Bhaiyyas snoring and says he never snores. Late in the nite, I and Bhaiyya are still continuing our discussion when we hear another snoring sound in the room. Balls asleep and snoring loudly.

31st December
We wake up early in the day (1pm) and by the time we rise and shine Tower of India decides to close its shutter. Undeterred, Bhaiyya decides to cook Egg Bhurji while Srikant makes tea and we eat Lunch.

Yeti arrives with ingredients for the feast. Main Course was Pulav(Balls), Gobi Manchurian(KK), Chikken Tikka (Bhaiyya), Mutton Nihari (Yeti), Raita (KK). While drinks included Beer and Brandy. Not to Mention Amma did most of the cutting and cleaning of vegetables and rice.

The new year was heralded with smoking a couple of Cigars and after that we started with Heavy Metal session with Yeti playing the Base Guitar for most of the songs. It was really awesome. The brotherhood also sang to songs and did a pretty decent job.

1st January
National Hangover Day. The brotherhood rose after 2pm. Amma rose at 1pm to fall asleep again after talking to Balls, until 5pm. Lunch was yesterday's leftovers. After that a Shtaarbucks trip for fresh air and Balls deciding to make the Pav Bhaaji. Yeti decides to make Turkey Kababs and brandy to go with it. We also started watching movies from Balls DVD collection as we had dinner. I also got my ROCK 101 lesson.

We all went to sleep and I started snoring so loudly, that Srikant infact had to go to a different room to sleep. It was that bad but when he changed rooms he heard Bhaiyya and Balls discussing about Voltage Transformers ... he just could'nt believe it .... Was this a dream ? He still asks himself till this day.

2nd January
Gorging on the fabulous Kababs from yesterday and Pav Bhaaji we give the Twin Brothers Housewarming gifts before we head back for our karma-bhoomi. On the way we do have serious discussions on patriotism before we stop at waffle house for dinner and we realize the dream-trip was over.

I hope the third installment of the tale would soon be out. The Return of the Baba.

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*Bai :- Also referred to as Amma-II. She was arranging Yeti's closet when we met her this time. Apparently, she did most of the moving of the Twin Brothers stuff to the new place. We did hear the incident of Balls unable to pick up the TV and infact getting crushed by the sheer weight of it before Amma non-chalantly picks it up to move it. Also, were several similar incidents about the sofa etc.