Back to Square ONE...

Hey, I am back…Apologies…as I had said earlier that I would try joting down once a while during my vacation…but trust me friends, I dint even get time to spend with my loved ones…that busy was I in this vacation…this was one vacation where 90% of the time went on travelling…crossing borders and boundaries and states…uhmmm…Anyways…now I am back..all tired and sick…Oh yes…the return flight was more like sitting inside a Roller coaster with too much turbulence and pressure variation that my ears are still hissing out the air every now and then…and the head ache hasn’t decided to subside till now…

So, as for my vacation..as I told you…I have been travelling…not for sight seeing…the whole travelling was like Pilgrimage…from one temple to another…to another and another...I think I covered almost all the southern states this time…lol!!! Happenings during my vacation, I would surely share when I am in good moods…but some points that I would surely tell you now are…

1. One thing I learnt is that always see to it that you don’t feel to piss while travelling (unless you are in a decent Hotel)…God!!! Apart at the Hotel apartments where we stayed (paying heavy rents) we found not a single clean toilet…even the Pay and Use was horrible beyond imagination…There was one point when my 10 year old cousin had to run around for more than half hour while rest of us were frantically looking for atleast a 10% clean toilet…and Trust me, finally he had to manage at a place where even the Pigs might not enter…God help those souls who use those toilets on a daily basis…


2. Temples have become the Best Business Investment for many…feels bad when I saw anti-elements literally ripping or robbing off people in the name of God…Shame on the priests who tap on their Pooja Thali and ask the devotees to drop in money…It was more like an order than a request…and the Height of Robbing was when a guy just stuck to us and started guiding us through the temple even when we dint want…and then asking us to pay some amount (not less than Rs10-20) to even the Security who is standing at the entrance and even the guy who opens the gate for the special entrance (Remember: already an amount has been paid to use the special entrance)… That was one temple where I saw Vendors asking for some Dakshina after we pay for the goods we bought…For example: We bought 41 Ghee Lamps to be lit at the temple…we paid the amount and then the guy very openly asked me… “Are you going to give me something or NOT”…I was shocked…but acted dumb…and just walked off from there…I could guess what all swearing he might have showered me with behind me…lol!!!To end the case, finally when we came out the “Un-asked for” Guide (who did nothing but asking us to pay every single person we crossed by) asked us to give him some amount…I took out a Rs 50…he said Minimum is Rs 100…lol!!! When we gave an 100; he said, he wants Rs 150…we walked out…he too might have showered us with his BLESSINGS…uhmm…


3. The religious “Anna Daanam” no longer seemed religious when I had to fight with one of the guy who was serving WATER….lol…[Ok, now for people who doesn’t understand what is Anna Danam…Annam= Rice/Food and Danam=Donate…Many of these temples provide free food to every devotees who visit the temple and this is being done on a daily basis as from the Financial donations by devotees…We too were donating decent amounts to the temples we visited…We too took part in the Anna Danam considering it as God’s food…every person with no bars or caste or creed..poor or rich sit together and have these food…
   
   During one such Anna-Danam, they brought some glasses and gave to alternate people…we are supposed to take a gulp of water and return the glass immediately…but due biting into some chilly my son was choking and we were slowly trying to give him water…My mom requested him that she will give the glass back, just let the kid drink the water…In a second he harshly shouted “THIS IS NOT A HOTEL…”…the hall had some 800-1000 people…still people around us started turning around to see who was shouting so…We too were shocked…The Guy snatched the glass from my son and walked off…Even the religious thoughts in me couldn’t control my anger…we slowly finished our food and as we walked out I waited near the staff area and asked for the guy…Another Gentleman came and asked what was the issue…I explained to him the case…I told him how rude was it for a Servant of God to shout like that to the Devotees and that too for a mere glass of water given to a 2 year old boy…As he was apologizing on behalf of the other staff, the Villain came to the scene..and started shouting again…And NOW, you guys know me well, right…I can Withstand Ignorance but not Arrogance…I just started a lecture… “Brother, I know, this is not a HOTEL...Nor this is a Theatre…We come here to pray and have this food considering this is God’s blessings…So you don’t have to teach us where are we…But what you should learn is HOW TO BEHAVE…IF you can’t spare a glass, there is a way to explain it…afterall, it was for a small child…you could have calmly requested us to hand over the glass… Remember Brother, at this sacred place don’t talk as if you are at your home…and next time remember…BEHAVE….”…uhmm…By this point, he just wished if I had disappeared as many others also started agreeing to what I was saying…Anyways, I made my point clear and left…uhmm..again, I could feel that I was getting his Showers of Swearings…haha!!!


4. Never buy Baskin Robbins Ice cream from India if you are calculating the prices in Indian Rupees…Lol, I bought an icecream which costed Rs 30 but I had to pay some Rs300…and they said, it’s the VAT, TAX and what note…


5. One thing I found out is If you are years past your school/college days…and if you are too stressed out…with work, family and life…just take a day all for urself…just U and go somewhere far off from your home and meet some old friends…Yeah, this time I did that…I took off on an Adventurous trip…yes, it is adventurous for me in my life time, this is the first time, I have been allowed to travel alone and that too, to meet friends…Hurray…I did that this time…Thanks to you dear for helping me in relishing some of those lost moments…and thanks to you dear for making me feel like a Teenager…something that I couldn’t enjoy during my real Teenage days…lol!!!Only thing is that his parents shouldn’t know that he roamed around in his Bike in the midnight with a friend, a woman who has a husband and a son…haha…My husband knew it…so I am fine…lol!!! A joke in between is…When my friend was giving me company on that evening…he was getting continuous calls from his office…It seems, he had left office saying he will come back JUST NOW and it was hours already…I asked then why didn’t you tell them that you are with a friend…and his immediate reply was… “Ha, then they will kill me…if they know I am with a girl…and that too with a woman who is married and have a kid…”….hahahaa!!!


6. Never volunteer to help your MiL in the Kitchen..lol!!!…You never know when you would be left alone… ALL ALONE…to do every single chores…from cooking to cleaning…from washing to brooming…hahah!!!Yeah, this happened to me…it wasn’t that I was a DiL who don’t do anything…I always see to it that I do every possible work and help her in every single way I could during my vacations…but this time my MiL played smart…Smarter than me…thus, the days I was at home with no travelling, I was spending 90% of the time in doing house chores…Demands were too high that I had no time to even say a NO… My hubby dear knew, it was a bit too much…still his words were… “It’s OK, You ADJUST…After all, its just for few days…” grrr….But then to be frank, I felt good…at the end of the day, I felt proud that I did all that work myself…and nobody else gonna take the credit…Still, even though there were no exchange of harsh words still my MiL did try to Bowl some taunts and kicks once a while, which I very clearly kicked back to her…In my hubby’s words… “You both are Tit for Tat MiL-DiL...”…
   
   But then, the outcome was…for the first time during my 5 years of married life…my MiL said, She doesn’t want me to go…as she had to do NO WORK and she hugged and kissed me a goodbye when I boarded the flight…uhmm…Unusual, uh????

In this way, my points would go on and on and on….But guys, I am at office and my favorite colleague has been staring at me for quite some time…not that I am keeping any of my work pending…but that she wants me to do hers too, so that she can continue Surfing on Net as usual…and this brings me back to reality…

The reality that The Vacation is Over and finally I am “Back to Square One…”