Another Hot and Humid Night

Another hot and humid night!

ooooph! . Another hot and humid night. Its about 11;35 Pm on Tuesday night. Its not really hot but yes it is. Thanks to my staff member, we now have an A/C in the bed room. Can go and sleep in a cool environment. It was really hot last couple of weeks and the heat seems to have come back. I had been to my unc;s place over the weekend. It was a good trip except for the delay in reaching his place. I and all others on the way to Washington were detoured because of some problem close to Silver Spring. Had to go through the interior roads. I got to see Laurel (name of the place) because of this, it was new, it was nice, I passed through the entire town( I assume it is one!). Used a little bit of common sense to take the US 1 south route since I drive from US 1 North. I called my uncle to know I was in the rt direction and would meet the junction where I could connect back to the highway to reach his place. The only thing I did wrong was going into Downtown of Silver Spring which was not needed. But I enjoyed that too, even at 11:45 at night there were a lot of ppl, the city was full of lights. So it was a nice 15 minute drive into the city. So finally reached unc;s place at midnight, had a light and nice home cooked meal, went to bed after a long 4 hour drive. The next day went to one of aunts relatives house for lunch. Lunch was really yummy ! More than that, I liked their house. Lot of greenery around, we had lunch in their back yard on a deck ( shape of a mantapa). Hard to describe but harder to forget!

So after lunch, got to play carrom board! does anybody even remember this ???? It was such a nice break, I simply enjoyed it. Though it took me about 5-6 boards to get back to a lil form, i enjoyed every bit of it, It was fun.

So came back home, took rest and then it was dinner time again...... so we went out to Madras cafe a restaurant nearby. Hmmm after the waiter informing me they did not have mini idly's ( has anyone had those?), i settled for Mysore sada dosa. After a substantial wait, I got to eat my dosa. Even before I took the first bite, the dosa was cold.... and was stuck to the plate . I turn around to see so many ppl around me eating. I was wondering these ppl should have extra money to waste on such a restaurant(including us :( ). Anyways, went back home, got onto my laptop, was able to connect to interenet with a low speed. Was able to browse through my emails, reply to important ones and then went to bed.

This was like a total DROP from where I was before going there. Imagine working for more than 10 hrs per day and even on saturday and sunday and all of a sudden you cannot do anything ! That was a bit of major pull down and was really hard to take. But I used this time to think a little differently on all the issues i was facing, this gave me some new ideas.

So I was at a Birthday party for twins (2 year old) and satyanarayana pooja. It was nice. The best part of it was when I got to let baby boy(1 of the twins) sleep on my lap. Believe me, to watch him sleep was heaven . Nothing to beat that. Man, kids are heavy when they sleep. My legs were going numb. But when i saw the baby's face, I forgot everything. The pooja was over, everyone did namaskaara and took prasad while I was still sitting. I didn;t want the baby to wake up. After sometime, I had to give him to another person for me to take prasad. He woke up once he shifted, but luckily he had already had a nice sleep and was not cranky at at all . So I had a dinner and got to play with both the twins for some more time with balloons before they cut the cake.

Had a cup of coffee and left for home. The only incident which left a bad taste to me was that two of the guests cars were towed for being parked in the VISITOR lot. It was a catch that nobody except the house owner who was busy with the pooja. So 2 of them had to pay $90. I didnt think this was a big amount to brood over for ppl pretty well off. Anyways all I felt was it was meant to happen and it happened and should have just closed there, instead it became the topic of the afternoon. Everyones talking about this, how one should sue, whom?, where? how oh my god ! Did anyone even think about what would have been the case if this was India? The cop would have taken a 100 bucks and then got done with it. Nobody would even care. What happened now? because you are in America, you need to be like this thinking of sueing and things like that. Believe me the entire time through lunch and till everyone left there was just one topic the one about car being towed. And this was not enough we even were having the same discussion at dinner table at night.

My god, I just stayed away from the whole conv and controlled myself. If anyone of them comes to know the way I am spending money, they will be shocked . Anyways... so stayed there on Sunday nite, drove down Monday Morning to philly in 2;30 mins dead. It was an easy drive.

Came back to my world ! sort of relief .

Thats all for now !

Adios

Sandy

08/02/2005