Saturday, 22 Aug 2010
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Woke up around 7 with anils two kids standing and talking in hushed voices. Tried to scare them by saying boooo... hit it off with them kids. very social and high energy. So this is what Anil ment by them coming and waking me up in the morning. hehehe.
Had chicken, egg and chapathi for breakfast. nicee..
then we went out to different shops for his weekly family shopping.
First stop at the post office to send the pair of shorts he got to sell on Ebay. Huge crowd. so we backed out. and went to the malu shop. Wow, all the brands that I use for cooking was there and it felt like partially been back at home.
He brought a huge fish.
I brought some masala powder for the fish and meat, have to get it past airport security. Mostly with the hope of giving it to Eva and her parents when I meet them in Czech republic. Got the Eastern Fish Masalsa for Salmon curry.
Then we went to Target, eyeing all the lovely ladies in barest min showing off their assesets. hehehe.. well it was really hot outside. 100 plus deg F.
And then again back to Post office to and been a saturday it was closed by 12.
so we used the automated vending machine to weigh and post the package.
Back to his house about 2:30 and I was getting a head ach. So went up to my bed and just fell asleep. mistake as Anil and his wife ended up waiting for me to come down and have lunch.
So we all had lunch around 4 to 4:30pm and after that Anil and me decided to try out the bowling alley.
IT was a nice game, we got to play about 3.5 games in 1 hr slot. had a dark beer on the pitcher, it was kind of just water, we did not get any kick.
Anils kids and wife went for a Birthday party in the neighbor hood. So we returned back and started having bloody mary. I was not in a great shape to have more than one.
Then his kids returned back with their gifts and it was nice to see them all as a family trying to live it as a team. Not sure how the situation would have been if he had a non-indian wife. Who was going way beyond and been the tradition indian wife and trying to be the great host. wow! really made me think and appreciate the sacrifices the indian ladies make compared to the western wifes. Who would have probably got angry at my coming and asked him to order a take out or made me stay in a hotel.
And his wife is working too.
Got to see how it was difficult to try a raise a kid who was kind of having his own issues of not been able to sleep cause of dry skin and is learning to communicate as he grows up. Little things like this that put a family to test their patience and their ability to work as a team. And like every family he said they do have huge arguments that blow out, but been more tuned to Indian mentality, they patch up and live it out for the kids and the team as a whole.
ITs a different thing when you have a very sweet and quite kid. but not sure if I would be able to handle the pressure of having wild kids who may be always fighting. reminded me of why Chad did not want to have kids at all.
wonder if eva would ever be able to handle this kind of pressure, she would probably be so angry, might dump alll and just run away to some hike.
and anil said that one of his North indian friends wife just did that same thing, dumped the guy and their two daughters and just went away.
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