Have been thinking of writing for a few days now.. but just could not get started… the feeling has to come from within to come out with words.. here is what is happening to me in the last few days…
friday april 08….. martina had to come from goa and i was supposed to pick her up from the station…
*flashback*
neha wrote an email saying that some friend of hers was starting on a world tour and india was her first destination…. i was to take care of her when she reaches delhi… and plan her trip around here… martina called from goa on the 6th and told me that she was taking a train that leaves goa at 0500 hrs and reaches delhi at 1700 hrs the next day.. this is where the conversation ended… and i could not find out which train she was taking… finally she called me on the 7th and told me the train number… now i knew which train she was coming in… i still did not know how i will recognise her and how she would know me…

*back to the present in history*
she called me after getting out of the station.. and we met….. i was prepared to use all the accent i learnt in my call centre exp.. roll all the “r”s and let her know thati could speak english well as well 🙂 anyway it was a comfortable introduction.. and we could talk easily… we still had to figure out where she is going to stay… so we moved out of the station… ate raj kachauri at Comesum… and i had a tough time explaining to her what all was there in the dish 🙂 forgot what half of the ingredients are refered to as in angrezi… anyway… from there to Humayun’s tomb.. and found out that she was not really interested in forts or castles.. but was very keen in having a look the city.. get to know india from inside.. and not from a tourist point of view….

over the next two days… we talked about india, its culture.. differences in india and germany… how thoughts differ in the two countries… we talked about the gita, Brahma, Shiva, Vishnu, Pushkar, Ganga, Mahabharata, Pandavas and a lot of other things…we went around the city.. went to dilli haat, india gate, upsc chaat wala, sunday book market at darya ganj, a friend’s reception, metro rail, CP, eatopia, noida etc etc…. and the best part.. she spent two nights at a friend’s place in def col… he and his wife really took care of her, and she was very happy to be there…

sunday evening.. she went to jaipur and would be back to delhi on friday night… so that we can go to rishikesh for river rafting on saturday morning !!! There were a lot of small small things that I have missed out on.. but i guess i would be able to speak about them instead of putting them in printed words…

This burthday was different too… this time i was wondering about the amazing difference in what she was going at an age of 20 and where I was at 26 years…brought me a thoughts of wondering about what all i have done in the past all years of my existance.. and what i really want to do… where do i really want to go… what is it that i am aiming for in my life… there are a lot of questions that are hitting me from everywhere.. and i am trying to figure out how to move ahead on my way to these answers…