am back!

Hi all,
Back after a week long hiatus. Had disappeared in Ahmedabad for 5 days and it was sooooo lovely. I managed to do everything that I had hoped to do and more and am really glad I went. I managed to celebrate the last day of Navratri, and was out till 5 in the morning :D!~!! Just getting ready took me and Komal (my best friend) about an hour and a half, we left the home at about 10.40 pm, reached the YMCA ground at about 11.20 pm and danced there till about 12.30 am. Imagine a very very big ground filled with literally thousands of people dressed up in traditional gujarati outfits dancing away like madness, live cameras, a band on stage with singers and big stadium lights. It was a fun experience, a very short but fun experience nonetheless. At 12.30 once the dance was over, I went out with my friends to just eat food, drink 3 cups of kadak chai (courtesy mitesh) and roam around the streets of Ahmedabad at night in a car with windows rolled down and music blazing away. It was so lovely! I have come to realize just how much I absolutely love Ahmedabad nights. You ride on a motorbike or a scooter or an active or any two wheeler after 8 pm, and that wind is just amazing. All my memories involving riding along at night on a bike (without a helmet) have been yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyy. It leaves me wanting more everytime.
Anyway, over the 5 days, I managed to see two movies, celebrate the last night of Navratri, spend more time with two really lovely friends, buy my big giant tea cup (finally!!), ride around on motorbikes, eat a lot of really really good food, watch a few movies and just have a great time in general.
Now I am back and must get back to work. On the plus point, my room is all set now and functional. Yesterday after work, I went to the market and bought a ceiling fan, a closet, a mattress, a bulb (and no, i didn’t fuse it up this time, i just got the electrician to plug it in :P) and a small table, oh and a bedsheet. I will be posting up the pics of my room soon enough, it’s really bare right now, but still will post up some to give you a glimpse into my home sweet home here in Keshod.
Yesterday something really interesting happened when I had gone to a store to shop for mattress. I was trying to bargain with the guy, and he said that he takes pride in giving the right price to every customer. He said, “last year a few girls from Canada came and I also gave them the same price”, implying he couldn’t tell that I too was technically one of those girls. Him believing that I am infact from here made me so happy. I mean, yes I know technically I am from here, but for years I have felt that people in Canada think I am too brown to be white and people in India think that I am too white to be brown. So it was a really happy thing for me to be not be classified in limboland for a change. For him, I am Indian. And oddly enough, that made me feel quite good.