Back to Cairo

After India and Basata, I've come back home finally. (come and home don't rhyme eh?) (imagine if they did, then come would sound like comb - digressions digressions).



Anyhow, I'm just very restless, as always happens when I have nothing to do, I'm filled with supernervous energy as if I have some really important task at hand, and writing is the last thing I should be doing. On the contrary, writing is the most relaxing thing hehe.



So, well, good things seem to be coming my way. Darn, I was supposed to call this person and I totally forgot, but I have a few job prospects - in teaching and publishing and possibly even NGO work, which would be great. I have tons of stories about India and a few memories of Basata I want to put up on the web.



These days I'm just taking a bit of time to be in my own mental land I guess. But I'll be back with the stories. I will share one for now: its called "Paanwala kidhar hai?"(where is the paanwala? ie the person that sells paan - nice stuff to eat in india)



So one fine day in Mumbai i decided i wanted to eat some paan. I confirmed with Jayu that the place was opposite this restaurant Trafalgar Chowk. I expected it to be some tiny affair, and I saw one of the sort closed, so I went up to this other shop and asked "Where is the paanwala?" in Hindi. The guy just looked at me and went, "Its here". Figuring it was nearby, I peered, "Here where?". The guy looked even more befuddled, and just didn't say anything... so after like a few long seconds, I saw all the paan-making paraphernalia right there, all the leaves and tins. and I was like "OH! Oh hahaha, sorry, I just didn't see". And the guy went, "No matter, (mai bhi confuse ho gaya tha) Even I got confused!"



So, smartass that I am, I went home all laughing and told the story to Jaya, and it hasn't stopped spreading I suspect. And gave people all the more reason to persist in calling me vaaydi (absent-minded in Sindhi).



Not that it stopped there. When I visited Hyderabad, and I took my poor cousin along to net center ... well, to be continued...

Back to Cairo!

Yes, I was gone. I spent a great vacation in India, including a trip to Ajanta-Ellora caves, a brief visit to Nasik (on our trip to the caves), another trip to Hyderabad, and now that I'm back to Cairo, I'll be going to Bassata for the weekend - a trip I've been wanting to take for years.



I'll talk about that trip once I come back (obviously). As for what I did in India: lots of cave gazing, hanging with kids (cousins and nephews/nieces; gosh aren't i old?), watching foreign films with Jayu, wrestling on playstation with Manoj and Sunil (and in a few they were beaten!), going to concert at gateway of India, and using the services of the male restrooms at the Taj hotel facing it!! All these wonders and more I will recall once I come back from Bassata...