Tuesday, February 20, 2007

Vision net

some of my church members n friends from Malaysia had come to Bangalore on d 14th of Feb...n they were here till d 18th nite.....n i stayed with them too....

i had so much of fun with them....(there were 8 men n i was d only girl...only on friday nite d other lady in d group reached bangalore)...we went out during d day n at nites there were meetings in different places.....i played d keyboard with d rest of d team....

by d way, they were my dates for Valentines day..... :)

on friday we went to a christian bookshop n we spent abour 3 or 4 hours there.....everyone was standing in one corner of d shop looking at either books, or cards, or cds.....as usual i was looking at d books n cds. i bought a few cds n a keychain that mum wanted. d others bought things worth thousands of ruppees....hahahha...

after that we went looking for a place to have lunch....on d way we stopped at a bakery n bought lots of egg puffs. those ppl liked it so much! we had lunch in a vegetarian restaurant,unfortunately. we actually didnt realize that it was a vege place. d reastaurant next to it was too crowed n we were all starving n couldnt wait....so, we just settled for d vege meals....but it was really good....

on saturday we went to a place called Brigade road....that's supposed to be one of d famous spots for tourists n shopping spot...

it was just rocking there that afternoon!! hahaha!! we spent d first one hour looking for each other...cos there were 12 of us all together n we had to take different transports....so, some of them sort of lost their way....n thanks to d airtel mobile service which was down d whole of that day...we couldnt even call d lost ones....

after we finally found everyone....we waited for another half an hour for some of them to change d US dollars. while waiting outside d shop.....a few of us were talking n looking around, when i saw one of my college friends. she's a sweet girl....she makes sure she talks eveytime we c each other during break times n classes....so, she saw me standing there n she came to talk to me.....she just said "hie Lakshmi....how r u wat r u doing here..." n before i could ans....all these fellows who were around me started grouping me n my friend!! ( there were 2 of them on my left n another 2 on my right n 1 was standing in front of me. there we all tall, dark, n big size...n all of them were wearing balck shades....in short they looked kind of scary...ahahaha!! ) so when my friend was talking to me...they we just fooling around n teasing...thats y they sort of cornered us.....n my friend got dead scared!! she said ok i got to go...n ran for her life!!! ahahah!!!!! n these guys were all married n had children!! ahaha...i keep recalling how my friend's face changed when she saw all these guys...i didnt have a chance to tell her that i was with them....she ran so fast!! ahahaa...hehehe....

after that d number 9s came.....this friend of mine called Ebi was busy talking to another friend, Kevin....i was standing behind Kevin, n Claudine was stading next to me. i warned ebi saying that there were number 9s coming towards him...but he was too into his conversation with Kevin, that he didnt hear me..... one of d number 9 patted Ebi on his shoulder. Ebi thought it was one of d team members ...so he coolly turned behind n he almost died!!! d number 9 sort of sayang-ed him. 'It' pinched Ebi's cheeks n went on talking to him saying that he was so handsome n all that. Ebi was so so shocked!! he leaned on Kevin n said "PLS HELP ME!!!" ( in Tamil...it was vey funny d way he said that!!) i was standing behind Kevin....so, i could easily hide behind him!! n Claudine was happily laughing her heart out!! so was i...but no one could see me...hahahaha!!!! then d number 9s moved to d side n they were commenting on Ebi n Kevin n Claudine. they said Ebi was handsome like a pig...n they got angry cos Claudine was laughing at them ( normally number 9s dont like girls at all...n theses number 9s in India dress up in sarees n wear make up...n they ask money from whoever they come across....if we dont give them money...they'll curse u ...n ppl here believe that their curses will supposedly effect u ) . they looked at Claudine n said "look at ur face...u look so ugly....look at us...we are so pretty n we look like tomatos..." ( in tamil it sounds like this " aiyae...munchiya paaru....yengala paaru...thakali maathiri yirukkoam" ...hahaha!!!!)

we were all just laughing n laughing for God knows how long!!( all d 10 of us except for Ebi!! he was simply terrified!!! ahahah) Ebi kept looking back every few steps to make sure the number 9s were not following us...ahaha poor guy!!

after we split into 3 groups n went on our own ways for shopping.... my group was d biggest...there were 6 of us...n we ended up sitting in Pizza hut instaed of shopping... :p.... on friday when they asked me wat i wanted for lunch, i said i wanted pizza...but we didnt have time then...so, on saturday they took me to Pizza hut. since i was d youngest girl n since i've been away from home...all of them were very caring on concern towards me. everytime we go out to eat....all of them will make sure i get watever i want, n all of them will always keep looking out for me when we r out. i felt so royal when we out shopping in Brigade road n other places. 2 men will walk in front of me, 2 men behind me, 2 on my left n another 2 on my right...n d others will follow behind...ahahah!!! i was so honoured!!!1 ahahha.

in Pizza hut i ordered watever i wanted. d others wanted something else...i said " no..i want this or that only..." hehehe....they obviously ordered watever i wanted.... :p we were sitting there for almost 2 hours. they picked a perfect spot where they can look at everyone who were there...so that tehy can cuci mata la....me also happily cuci mata...hehehe...

after Pizza...they finally decided to do a little bit of shopping....Ebi wanted to buy some earrings for his gf n sisters back at home n asked me to choose for him...i ahppily did d honour for him...hehehe...n he even bought earrings for me even when i said i dont want anything...( i chose it for myself in d end cos he threatened to pick d ugliest one for me!!..hahaha )

we waited for d others for more than half an hour. d deal was that d late ones were supposed to pay for d taxi back home...so, d other 5 who were late had to pay for d taxi..hehehe...

we finally reached home at about 4.. thats when i forced kevin to take me to d music shop n buy me d keyboard...;)

d 5 days with them was really really nice...not only d shopping n fun part....even d meetings n prayers were really good.....

they made a name tag specially for me ( cos everyone in d team has to wear a name tag ), n they bought a soveniour sort of thing for me ( which is a frame with words on it ), Ebi bought earrings for me, Kevin bought d keyboard for me n paid for everything else for me( taxi, food....)

when they were leaving for another state on sunday nite...they wanted me to follow them too....they were very keen on me going with them...but i couldnt...cos i'll be missing too many classes...

it was really an emotional torture for me when i was leavng them....i said i wanted to go back ealier n didnt want to join them for dinner...but they forced me to stay....i tried not to cry but couldnt control myself during dinner already...cos everyone was saying that they were gonna miss me...n they so wished i could follow them to d other state in india...n be with them...i myself so wished i could go with them....i'll even follow them back to Malaysia!!!

they wanted to send me back home...but i said it'll make things even worse for me....so, i quickly said bye to everyone n ran off....

when i reached home...i called my mum up to tell her that i had come back home... i tried not to tell her that i was upset...but she knew form my voice. i just couldnt control myself at all....

a lot of things were running in my mind...a lot of confusion..... i've sort of become a cry baby ever since i came to india n especially this past two days. everytime i think of sunday nite, n d vision net team leaving....immediately there'll be tears in my eyes......i just cant wait to finish my studies in 1 n half a year n go back home!!!


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