Saturday, Jun-12-2010
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Woke up late, hung over from yesterdays vodka and cranberry juice. Needed to get to the hike by 11:15am in New Jersey. (Its a different state/province) neighboring Pennsylvania.
Start organizing the stuff and as Malini suggested may go for having something to eat after the hike and salsa maybe after. So need to pack up a fresh pair of shirts too. And for the salsa in Philly, these guys are getting picky with the shoes too. Ahhh I hate to dance in the leather shoes.
Have break fast, with the remaining chicken curry and rice.
was aiming at starting off at 9:30 but could only start by 10:am. Its about one and half hour drive.
Call up parents and talk to them on the cell while driving hands free. Mom tells me Shaila aunts cancer has got worse even after the chemo-therapy. As she is very weak after the chemo secession and will not be able to take more chemo. So the doctors said they cannot do anything anymore. She now needs assistance to walk and is staying with the other aunt.
Worst part is that with no direction and hope, they have now gone to take some medicine from Malaysia, which is supposed to be a mix of Ayurveda and Homeopathy .... how the hell is that possible that Ayurveda and Homeopathy can mix up. They are so different in approach and concept.
I hate these crooks and rouges who take advantage of helpless people and exploit their sense and want for some kind of hope and relief. And these medicines are so costly too. And I am working for a Big Pharma. And these are not medicines from the the Big Pharma either, its just some random person getting out some funny stuff and exploiting the cancer stricken people with heavy false propaganda.
Helpless people like people who are drowning will latch on to anything that they can get their hands on to.
Feel so helpless and sick not been there to be of any help.
Dad seems to take the opinion of not saying anything. Then he says there is out break of Dengu epidimic. I thought that they had it under control along with the H1N1 and chicken fever. Looks like there are fresh cases getting reported the heavy rain.
One of my aunts neighbors house got stuck by lightening. luckiely no one was there in the house at that time. Burned off one of the side walls. Cost of living in paradise.
Maybe Eva not able to go to Kerala is a good thing now, as its a very bad climate and conditions to go visit especially when there is fresh out break of Dengu. Let me try sending her the msg by mail.
anyways drive to the location of hiking using the GPS on my cell phone. And reach there by 11:20am. See a lot of cars parked but non seem to be from PA, so it was a relief. Check the mail using iphone and see that the hike is only starting at 11:45am. So I was early. :)
That was a relief.
Slowly people start arriving by 11:30am.
Its 11:50am and no Malini. She is the one that lives closest to this hike, as its near to Princeton University. So send her a text msg. She arrives around 12. Ah Nice to see someone who I can talk with and relate to.
Start off the hike and all are so busy talking we forget to keep track of the trail and loose our way. That was wonderful adventure of walking around the mountain side with out knowing where we are supposed to go. After some walking around we get back to the trail. Some of the people were so bitching about this and that. Hey where is your sense of adventure. ahhh some people
Get talking with malini during the latter part of the hike again we are like kids comparing our experience of Indian life style and how things are. Get to know that we both are working for Big Pharma. she is working for Some Bristol Myers as an Internal Auditor.
She keeps traveling all over during the week and only back home during weekends. She seems to have issues with her H1B work visa too. As it will come to an end by one more year. She wants to go to Sydney Australia. I suggest that she go to Vancouver as its got plenty of hiking trails and one of the best cities in the world to live in. With all year round activities.
Then we start discussing about cooking curries and her experience in Kerala. She lives about 60kms from the Kerala border.
Get around to talking about Srilankan food and Hyderabadi biriyani. yuuummm.
Another thing that caught me by surprise was when she mentioned that she loves the Canadian Indian comedian Russel Peter. wow and we keep talking about his jokes for sometime laughing like crazy on the hike and the others are wondering what was happening. hehehehe. Lovely connection. ;)
She seems so nice and down to earth. Does not wear make up. That was a huge surprise for me in an Indian girl.
Very sophisticated, upper class Indian. As she went to one the best Boarding High Schools in India for the Richy-rich people. So I guess she never had to work for minimum wages like me and would not know much about living a financially insecure life. She was speaking of her sister visiting her in US from India and she did not even know how to cook milk. As they have people for cooking at home and taking care of everything.
That was one thing, I always hate about some of my cousin sisters too. They are all so spoilt brats, they don't know what hard work is. How its tough for other people who are not financially sound and how they have to live at the mercy of conditions beyond their control. They don't know how we have to think 10 times before we spend money on some thing and cannot go about throwing our money everywhere.
Sidney the hiking lead. suggests that we all go for lunch after the hike. I said, I am in, malini seemed uncertain, In the end she got in too. yeah girl.
We all go to the little town of Princeton. Filled with lots of people as its a University town and many students from across the world. Ivy League college.
We go to Alchemist restaurant. It seemed pricey to me. The waitress Ana Bela was so very sweet and nice. She was really down to earth too. Was very accommodating to our requests. There was the FIFA match going on, US vs UK. which ended in a draw.
Had Veggie burger with veggie chips. And also had a beer. costed about $23 with tips.
After paying the bills dropped off malini near to her car. She seemed too tired so Salsa was doubtful. Tell her to give me a call and let me know.
I drive around Princeton and take the I95, my fav highway as I worked on my first US-GIS maps project involving I-95 in Jacksonville florida when I was in India in 1993 as team lead. One day will travel the whole i-95 and go visit Jacksonville and drive around that City.
get home feel tired and worn out. after about 20 mins around 7pm Malini calls up and says she is feeling too tired to come out salsa dancing. As she has to drive about 1.5 hrs to reach Philly downtown. And on her own she promises to come out after two weeks when she returns from New Orleans. She is going there to Audit for 2 weeks.
Around 9pm I am tempted to go out dancing or not to. Thought about it, have nothing much to do, as I don't have TV either. Get out into the car, go the gas station and fill up full tank of 13 gallons for about $32 and just start driving towards Philly downtown.
The streets are filled up with lots of young crowd. Some kind of graduation for most colleges. Get into salsa with the door man bitching about my shoes. Next time got to wear the leather shoes. such a turn off.
Dance with a few people there. End up dancing with a very pretty girl non stop for many songs and a sensual bachata with her. Jenny and she started talking with me in spanish. I told her I don't speak Spanish. But it was an awesome connection after such a long time.
Latter when I was just standing by the fan a girl comes by me and starts talking in spanish with me. Again, am I looking that Latino? After I tell her that I am not latin, she starts talking in english, non stop and was been very nice and comforting with her attention. Her friends came a took a few pics of her and me. She started posing with me.. She looked like she was about to kiss me. I turned my face away. They all came together to celebrate her sisters birthday. Well I am currently not available and not looking either.
Funny how you end up getting so much when you really are not interested. And the one person I am interested in is not even interested in talking to me.
Life has its own direction. Waiting and watching where it will take me and who will be my partner for life.
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