November
Wednesday 17th
The rains have come and washed away all the dirt and rubbish and the air is clean!
I wake in the morning and it is humid I open the doors and windows in comes a lovely cool breeze its so nice not to have the air conditioners on all the time.
What Now!!
We were without power for a while in the night we waited but the generator had not kicked in,Mark calls the manger to see what was going on but his Mobil has been turned off!!......
Our washing machine has broken down for the third time!!
Suresh our driver says he will give the manager a call and let him know
It's now 11 o'clock and no word from Suresh I decide its time to call and find out what's happening
he tells me "No mam the manager has his Mobil off I have tried many times"
At about 11.15 there is a knock on the door and there is the manager standing there
he is very apologetic about the power being off for so long in the night
I tell him about the washing machine he gives me his Mobil number
"Not the same number we had been calling"
he will let me know when someone is coming to fix it.
Hopefully he will answer next time we call.
Mark arrives home I tell him the manager came to see me today
He was very apologetic for the power cut and that he is organizing
someone to come and fix the washing machine.
Mark said that is because he had called the managers boss and told him what happened...hmmm
Mark informed him that our area is having a power shut down
between 9am - 5pm tomorrow and they should make sure they have enough Diesel
to keep the generator going for those 8 hours...
So lets see what happens we might be going out for Dinner tomorrow night.
7:45pm we have lost power no that's o.k it has come back on :)
It's 8:pm we have lost power 4 times in 15 minutes hmmm...
that is not a good sign!!
Thursday18th
It's another very humid day Megan and Mark head out the door for the day.
The truck has turned up with the cans of diesel for the generator.
The manager knocks on the door and tells me the service man will be comeing
to fix the washing machine tomorrow at 2pm.
The day begins with a very good start lets see how it ends!
When I woke up today what was on my mind!!! "I am not feeling the Christmas spirit"
I know its early but I start decorating my house back in Australia for Christmas
in November just cant help myself I love Christmas!!
I decide I would like to go to a place called "Evergreen Christmas center"
sounded like the place to go to find myself a tree and some dec's
Suresh pulls over and asked a security guard sitting outside one of the shops
were the Christmas shop is he told him further down the road
Suresh gets out of the car goes walking down the road "he tends to do that sometimes"
When he comes back I ask "What are you doing"
"Mam I am just looking to see the shop Mam very small mam not good"
"O.k so it's not very good but I want to see it"
so I tell him "Just drive up and go past and I will take a look"
As we drive Suresh "Mam o look there is a shop a big one very nice"...lol
I go into the shop it is very nice and there are a lot of decorations and
Christmas trees....hmmmm no prices so I ask what the price for the small (30inch)
Optical Christmas tree 3800rp = about $95.00 that seems very expensive to me
the decorations seem expensive as well to me the quality I would compare to the $2 shop
back in Oz I stayed looking for a while then decided no I wont be buying anything
Maybe I am out of touch with the price of things I don't know but it all seemed a lot
It took about an hour to get here it was a little disappointing.
Suresh was as well telling me "all this way Mam petrol and nothing"
I said "No not nothing Suresh where is the nearest shopping center"
Suresh "Spencer Plaza or Express Mall Mam"
"O.k Express Mall sounds good and I will have some lunch while I'm there"
Needed some kind of therapy after all we did travel a long way cant waist the day!!
I did end up buying 3 red and 3 green vases to put candles in and 5 apples that are made
of foam and glazed 3 red 2 green That is my Christmas decoration...
I had a nice vegetable puff and a coffee for lunch and walked around window shopping
very nice.
Life here as a women
When I go shopping and use my card a sms is sent to Marks ( My Husband ) mobile with the amount I have spent
The first time it happened I didn't know until mark text me asking what I had brought
to my surprise!!
I asked how did you know he then told me how every time I use my card
or go to the ATM he is sent a sms to let him know the amount....
Talk about keeping tab's on the wife!!!
Friday 19th
We have been invited to -:
Beaujolais Nouveau party & 1st Anniversary Celebrations of Wine academy India
At the Sheraton Park Hotel
Chief Guest : Mr Pierre Fournier ; Consul General of France in Pondicherry
It was a great night we had a lovely smorgasbord of food a collection of ordureve's ,cheese's
and breads and very nice French wine which was being constantly filled.
We met some very nice people a pilot who fly's planes for Jet airways his wife and her freind who had just completed a 1 year course with the Wine academy
A businessman who was into selling boats
A man who's family own a travel agency called Milesworth Travel
Who just so happens to be our new neighbor Aditi's brother the people you meet hu!!
Mark was interviewed by NDTY for his expert opinion on French wine..lol he was very professional
It was time for us to take our leave as most people had left we'd had a fantastic night
I was ready to go home.......
But no Mark was ready to party on so he talked me into going downstairs to the night club
just for one drink he said and then we will go!!
Now anyone who knows my husband will know this will not be the case you think after being
Married to this man for nearly 26years I would know better but no...
off we go to have that one drink before going home for the night!!
We went into the night club it was loud and noisy Mark ordered his beer and a drink
called Blue lagoon for me it was in a very tall glass and it was so nice defiantly will have another
one of them I thought to myself
We ventured over to the dance floor to take a look but when it comes to music I just
start to feel myself moving I couldn't resist any longer and started to dance here I am 49years old looking at all these young ones having a dance so there I go dancing all on my own next thing you know there were girls and guys asking if they could dance with me why not so as it turns out I was not as tired as I thought I danced the night away Mark and I had a waltz....lol.. to night club music!
Good thing our girls weren't around I am sure they would of left of embarrassment...lol
We had a fantastic night.
