Thursday, October 30, 2003
Diwali at Corbett
Spent the best Diwali of my life at Corbett last Saturday with the folks, the darling hubby and our dear family friend Sunaina.
Papa and Mamma arrived from Kolkata on Friday morning, didn't let them unpack. Sunaina slept over at our place on Friday night. Finished packing & went to sleep at 12.00, got up at 3.00 am. Our target was to hit the road by 4.00 on Saturaday morning, finally managed it by 4.30. (Not bad I'd say for a typical Indian family with everyone needing to take a bath and all before they left, thank God for the three bathrooms, they finally came in handy for the first time!)
Delhi looked lovely on Diwali morning, empty stretches lined with lighted houses. Lovely stretch till the Noida Toll Bridge & Ghaziabad. Then took the Hapur Road via Muradabad and all. Terrible pot holes around that area, especially after the rains. Had breakfast at a "Shudh Shakahari Bhojanalay" by the road, which professed to cook with "shudh ghee & ganga jal"! Great aloo ka paranthas and disgusting tea. Took to the road again, fortified with all the "shudh" stuff. Uneventful journey till we got near Ramnagar. The road is so bad
Papa and Mamma arrived from Kolkata on Friday morning, didn't let them unpack. Sunaina slept over at our place on Friday night. Finished packing & went to sleep at 12.00, got up at 3.00 am. Our target was to hit the road by 4.00 on Saturaday morning, finally managed it by 4.30. (Not bad I'd say for a typical Indian family with everyone needing to take a bath and all before they left, thank God for the three bathrooms, they finally came in handy for the first time!)
Delhi looked lovely on Diwali morning, empty stretches lined with lighted houses. Lovely stretch till the Noida Toll Bridge & Ghaziabad. Then took the Hapur Road via Muradabad and all. Terrible pot holes around that area, especially after the rains. Had breakfast at a "Shudh Shakahari Bhojanalay" by the road, which professed to cook with "shudh ghee & ganga jal"! Great aloo ka paranthas and disgusting tea. Took to the road again, fortified with all the "shudh" stuff. Uneventful journey till we got near Ramnagar. The road is so bad
Friday, October 10, 2003
Can truck rides become addictive?!?? me thinks I'm completely losing it, just got to go & enroll myself at a driving school first thing this weekend. Resolution of the day. So there!
Thursday, October 09, 2003
Driving
Took yet another truck ride to work today. Each new stomach-churning/bone-jarring/nerve-jangling journey strengthens my resolve to learn driving.
It's not just the fear of not being able to manipulate a machine bigger than myself (with me in it!) but the added irritations of changing tyres and pushing cars that puts me off. The good thing about not driving is that you can pay people to do such unpleasant things for you. On the other hand, driving yourself comes with a much more customized travelling package. It's my own time & my own route. On the other hand, nah...I've held out for as long as I possibly could, this is it, I've got to learn it.
So wish me luck, as I march ahead to join my sisters. Yet another road hazard joins the pile. Here's to hoping I'll turn out to be a better specimen. What pressure man!
It's not just the fear of not being able to manipulate a machine bigger than myself (with me in it!) but the added irritations of changing tyres and pushing cars that puts me off. The good thing about not driving is that you can pay people to do such unpleasant things for you. On the other hand, driving yourself comes with a much more customized travelling package. It's my own time & my own route. On the other hand, nah...I've held out for as long as I possibly could, this is it, I've got to learn it.
So wish me luck, as I march ahead to join my sisters. Yet another road hazard joins the pile. Here's to hoping I'll turn out to be a better specimen. What pressure man!
Pet Pythons & Crazy Brits
There's this Brit (not from Ye Olde Ingelonde but from Fiji) in Gurgaon, who owns a pet python. And if you thought this 10 feet reptile stays safely encased in a glass box, you've got another thing coming—it slithers all over its Edenic flat! Guys, it takes all kinds to make this world!!
Tuesday, October 07, 2003
Am I A De-Sensitized Monster?
What's wrong with me? Why can't I feel anything? Why am I not devastated? Why am I feeling like a fraud when people are sympathizing with me & generally treating me gently?
My mom's had a heart attack for heaven's sake! Why can't I feel anything? What's wrong with me? Or can't I actually believe it, somewhere deep inside of me? Feeling that it's all going to turn out fine, that nothing's really wrong? That I don't really believe them?
What's wrong with me, why can't I react to this?
My mom's had a heart attack for heaven's sake! Why can't I feel anything? What's wrong with me? Or can't I actually believe it, somewhere deep inside of me? Feeling that it's all going to turn out fine, that nothing's really wrong? That I don't really believe them?
What's wrong with me, why can't I react to this?
