MY VACATIONS
“But what are you going to do?” “I
don’t know, let it be as random as it can be” I definitely could have given my
friend a better response and a safer one at that, but come vacations and all I
want to do is switch-off and relax. ‘These ones were not going to be different’
I thought. Pretty much resonating with my thoughts the summer vacations, which
started soon after our end terms got over, were my time to lay back and unwind.
In a week’s time, I had my maternal
uncle’s marriage coming up, so I had to gear up to help him getting organized
for his marriage. We went to Chandni-Chowk in old Delhi to assemble all the
practical details required for the wedding. Though shopping is something I
least prefer to do on holidays as these but the time required me to be a man
and help him organize for his big day.
It was not the first time that I was
visiting Chandni-Chowk. I have earlier visited the place quite a few times, but
all those times I was here with my mother. The simple difference on coming with
my mother is that until she finds things that suit her taste she leaves no
stone unturned to bring the poor shopkeepers on their knees. All this makes me
pity the shopkeeper rather than enjoying the sheer shopping pleasure. However,
things are different with my uncle. He is a fun person to be with; you know the
‘full-of-life’ types.
We visited some showrooms for bridal
wear, and finalled a striking cream and red coloured sherwani adorned with
beautiful handmade work. We also had to shop for other fabrics for gifting
purposes, so the shopping went on for a while. Chandni-Chowk has some different
aura to it. The narrow lanes, the often-bearable commotion, the countless
variety of stuff ranging from anything to everything-all this give it a
different sensation of its own.
Well I always feel that though Delhi
might have aged, but Chandni-Chowk is growing at its own pace and not aging
like everything else. The shopping had finished and my mother was seemingly
pleased at everything we had bought. The wedding was fun, though I didn’t enjoy
much as all my uncle were busy doing something or the other and I didn’t had
any of my friends to attend the wedding, so I shoved off to sleep even before
all the rites were performed.
After the wedding, I was back again,
with being the couch potato I am. One fine weekend my father decided to pay a
visit to Mathura at lord Krishna’s temple. Though my dormant mind resisted for
a while, but I decided to visit the temple. My family was ready early morning
to leave for Mathura. We took the Yamuna expressway to reach our destination.
The expressway though is famous for major road accidents however has a very
international feel to it. I chose to go behind the wheel and drove the car for
a good two hundred kilometres. The only thing that I didn’t like about the
highway was that it was cemented, which made our ride a little bumpy.
It gives me immense pleasure to drive
cars. The mere thought of working with cars brings me on my edges. This train
of thought led me to think about doing my masters in automobile engineering. As
we reached Mathura, there was a long, tiring day awaiting us. As it was Sunday,
it seemed whole Mathura had come out to greet the lord in large numbers. As we
stood at the last end of the queue, I could see myriad colours all holding
baskets of flowers and a puja thali. Large
loudspeakers sang the glory of lord and his Rasleela.
The view was mesmerising and it sent
me thinking about the unbelievable devotion and faith that rests with these people.
Though they might have mammoth problems to deal with in their lives they still
come out and display an unwavering faith in their deities. We did our darshan and had our dinner at one of the
eateries they have set up at the Yamuna expressway. Our family had after a long
time set out to eat. As always, my sister got to order her favourite dishes.
She always gets away with her crabby behaviour because she is the youngest. I
have stopped resenting that for a long time now.
Meanwhile the monsoons took over the
city and the weather had become pleasing. I enjoyed the days with my friends
and of course not forgetting the computer games. I am already in love with the
people who make these games. I also enjoyed surfing through the net for various
new technologies that have taken the world by storm, one among them being ‘The
shape memory alloys’. They seem to be the next big thing in the machine world.
There were also some fun filled
moments like the one in which we were playing football and suddenly it started
raining and our game was turned into rugby. It was an amazing experience, a
truly wet one. These vacations were delighting ones because I got to do
something which I am best at- doing nothing. There was some serious gaming with
my friends and some sweat breaking at the lovely rugby matches.
Though I didn’t do anything
productive in these holidays , I enjoyed it to the fullest.
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