Twas the Night before Diwali,
And all through the house,
Were people bursting crackers,
While I hid like a mouse.
Just a couple random pics from around Udupi the day before Diwali. Apparently today’s called “Choti Diwali” or “Mini Diwali“.
Btw…
Does this Indian outfit make me look fat ?
Had to do a bit of shopping to find one for the Diwali Celebrations tomorrow. Eesh I suck at finding a decent Indian outfit.
Take today for instance. There I was, fast asleep at 5:30am, dreaming of driving a Mustang down the Autobahn, when suddenly BAMP! my day starts.
My dog jumps on my bed and barks her little tail off trying to wake me up. I wake up at first going “WTF?” and then realizing my fan is spinning at about three times the speed it normally does. Then I see Sparks fly out of my Modem and several plug points in my room.
My brain switches to emergency mode and i run all around my room switching everything off.
But ofcourse, it was too late. My Modem was fried, my Computer UPS was fried, a plug point extension was screwed, and worst of all, WORST OF ALL, my precious Creative 5.1 speakers were fried. Sigh.
I mean they werent the best speakers in the world, but dammit they survived 5 years with me here in India and now they dont work.
Gah.
So apparently my neighbour’s tree fell on the bunch of wires between two electric poles, and that send a nice solid jolt of current to my house which was the thing that destroyed everything.
Freakkin neighbours. They’re nice people though, and they’ve really helped me out a ton of times. But still, dammit people, keep your trees from falling on electric wires !
The worst part about today was not just the unusual and frightening start to it, but the fact that I spent the whole day waiting. Waiting for people to come fix things so I can get on my way to resuming my regular routine. Eessh.
Called up Airtel Broadband for a new modem at 9am. They got a new one in at 1pm.
Called up my local Computer shop for a new UPS at 9:30am. They got a new one in at 4pm.
Gah.
At this rate, I’ll never save up any money at all.
I’m in a very bad mood now. One that’s being increasingly worse because of the stupidity of people around me.
I so need to move.
Yesterday was a Fun, Interesting day. One of my bestest pal’s Yashaswi was getting Engaged and she was pretty sure I’d totally forget about the event 
But HA ! I didnt. I made it there right on time lol. Managed to take a couple pictures too. I wasnt sure what was/wasnt allowed and I didnt want to offend anyone by standing up and taking pictures randomly lol. Can you tell this was my first Indian Engagement that I attended ? Hehe.
Click the image below to view the collection y’all.
Egads. So I walk into my kitchen to start cooking up some lunch when I see this.
Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek ! Giant Evil Spider ! Trying to kill me ! Look at those shifty gleeming eyes. Egads.
Got rid of it with cockroach spray.
Cj : 1 Evil Giant Spider : 0
Fack I hope he didnt have buddies. They might be plotting revenge.
Also my whole kitchen now smells like bug spray. Sigh.
Ha ! I could hardly believe my Eyes. Apparently there’s a newly (4 months old) opened Adventure Gear shop here in Udupi.
Their location couldnt be worse (Its deep in, somewhat near to the Woodlands Restaurant) so they didnt really have many customers in there. They had everything from Adventure backpacks, to gear like ropes, etc. Not too much stuff but good enough.
I looked all over for a proper Adventure gear shop when I was backpacking around India last year. Nice to see a shop like this. Dont think it’ll last long though, because of their bad location.
Here’s the latest in “Strange deals from Big Bazaar Udupi”. Buy one tube of Fairness Cream, get a free coke.
Srsly, Wtf ? Who thought that up lol.
“Oh Fair people must drink coke so they’ll love to get one free !”
Lifestyles of the Cj and the Famous. Clinton Jeff tries to confuzzle you with his mind tricks, while appearing cool and in control of the situation.
