When it rains, it pours
On Saturday, I went to Sadeqabad where I've got two aunts and four cousins. Just spent some time listening to old Hindi music from the '60s and '70s. My brother and sister are staying there, but I came back home to Shantinagar because I have to "go to work" on Monday.
Anyways, yesterday our neighbors, my dad's first cousins whose kids are my second cousins [one of whom is Lubna].. they took us out for dinner to this place outside Nagpur. Dinner was ok and just as we were finishing up, my uncle remarked that it hadn't rained since night had fallen [it had rained cats and dogs twice in the PM]. He spoke too soon because when we were walking back to the car, it began to rain. It was light at first but in a minute or two, the clouds went bananas and it rained really hard.
My uncle was hurriedly searching for his car keys but couldn't find them. He then remembered that he had asked the gatekeeper to lock his car before we had gone into the restaurant. When we asked the gatekeeper, the guy replied that he didn't have them and that he had simply locked the car without the keys. That could mean only one thing - the keys were still inside the dripping car. And we were soaking. I was worried for my brother who said he had the the flu. The five of us who were supposed to go back in that car quickly took cover under a shade and another one of my uncles made arrangements for us to fit into the other two cars. All the while, my uncle was getting irritated and cussing at the gatekeeper. But that didn't really help.
So long story short, 20 people fit into two cars - 13 in the big car with its three sets of seats and seven in the other, regular car. Standing in the rain, we hurriedly folded and turned one seat up in the big car, to let my brother go to the very back of the car. When he had sat down, I turned that same seat down and unfolded it and then heard my brother yell out in pain. I had clumsily brought the seat down on his right leg and though he wasn't injured that badly, his "oww" really curdled my blood.
We reached home in Shantinagar. My brother was visibly ticked off because of his cold and the brand new injury inflicted upon him by me and also by the fact that he had wanted to be dropped back to Sadeqabad [because that's where his stuff is] but instead he'd been brought to Shantinagar. Fantastic end to a fantastic evening.
In other news, I actually did work at work today. Raju asked me to extract some blood from this old lady's vein. I didn't succeed either of the two times she came to have blood extracted because the first time, I didn't know the angle at which to insert the needle and the second time, I didn't pull the syringe with enough force for it to draw blood. Ah well, I'm just a starter.. it's kinda like my Physics practicals - I sucked at them in the beginning but towards the end of the year I was rocking.
One Indian worker has been killed in Lebanon in the ongoing war between Hezbollah and Israel. Syria is threatening to join the war [doh! It's jobless, as usual] and Iran is threatening to wipe Israel off the map. More death, more blood, more suffering and more discomfort brought to you by Mad Semites Inc.® which is now merging with Mad Fundementalists & Bros.®
Anyways, yesterday our neighbors, my dad's first cousins whose kids are my second cousins [one of whom is Lubna].. they took us out for dinner to this place outside Nagpur. Dinner was ok and just as we were finishing up, my uncle remarked that it hadn't rained since night had fallen [it had rained cats and dogs twice in the PM]. He spoke too soon because when we were walking back to the car, it began to rain. It was light at first but in a minute or two, the clouds went bananas and it rained really hard.
My uncle was hurriedly searching for his car keys but couldn't find them. He then remembered that he had asked the gatekeeper to lock his car before we had gone into the restaurant. When we asked the gatekeeper, the guy replied that he didn't have them and that he had simply locked the car without the keys. That could mean only one thing - the keys were still inside the dripping car. And we were soaking. I was worried for my brother who said he had the the flu. The five of us who were supposed to go back in that car quickly took cover under a shade and another one of my uncles made arrangements for us to fit into the other two cars. All the while, my uncle was getting irritated and cussing at the gatekeeper. But that didn't really help.
So long story short, 20 people fit into two cars - 13 in the big car with its three sets of seats and seven in the other, regular car. Standing in the rain, we hurriedly folded and turned one seat up in the big car, to let my brother go to the very back of the car. When he had sat down, I turned that same seat down and unfolded it and then heard my brother yell out in pain. I had clumsily brought the seat down on his right leg and though he wasn't injured that badly, his "oww" really curdled my blood.
We reached home in Shantinagar. My brother was visibly ticked off because of his cold and the brand new injury inflicted upon him by me and also by the fact that he had wanted to be dropped back to Sadeqabad [because that's where his stuff is] but instead he'd been brought to Shantinagar. Fantastic end to a fantastic evening.
In other news, I actually did work at work today. Raju asked me to extract some blood from this old lady's vein. I didn't succeed either of the two times she came to have blood extracted because the first time, I didn't know the angle at which to insert the needle and the second time, I didn't pull the syringe with enough force for it to draw blood. Ah well, I'm just a starter.. it's kinda like my Physics practicals - I sucked at them in the beginning but towards the end of the year I was rocking.
One Indian worker has been killed in Lebanon in the ongoing war between Hezbollah and Israel. Syria is threatening to join the war [doh! It's jobless, as usual] and Iran is threatening to wipe Israel off the map. More death, more blood, more suffering and more discomfort brought to you by Mad Semites Inc.® which is now merging with Mad Fundementalists & Bros.®