New Delhi Railway Station

[raven]

I was bored. So I'm in a net cafe, and it keeps disconnecting me. I have a disquieting feeling that this is one dialup connection shared between a dozen computers.
Anyway.... the flight was smooth, though I was moodswingy. I seem to be oddly calmed by the sensation of a keybpard beneath my fingers - anyway.
Pedar has decided that my purpose in life is to accompany him on errands he runs. Not that I mind, really - he just gave me Rs. 100 (about two pounds) to either find a net cafe or buy some Asterix comics. They asked for Rs. 30 for an hour here - I'm impressed.

India doesn't bear describing in just a few minutes. It's such a strange, familiar, ancient, modern place... there are cows in the streets, spices in the air, and there's never silence, always people talking and laughing and shouting about their wares.

I'm lonely. I spent the day revising, and feeling like I was the last person on earth - everyone else was asleep. Tomorrow Pedar is dragging me out of bed at seven (I got up at two today!) and taking me to New Delhi Railway Station to pick my aunt and cousin, Chicklu. Rohan doesn't get here till next week - and on Friday, Pedar and I are going to the airport to pick up Sunny.

Maybe I won't be as lonely then. In the meantime, I amuse myself, with my books and my CDs and slowly reading Devanagari script at the rate of one word every five minutes...

[Edit: It is not 9.15 am. It's actually 8.55pm. I don't know what the hell is wrong with this computer...]

Comments

[lilka.livejournal.com]

*hugs* Don't get too lonely. We're all thinking of you. Have to agree with eniddy, it's weird having a computer room without you in it. Hope you have fun and your relatives don't bully you too much.

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[loneraven.livejournal.com]

*hugs back*
I'm thinking of you, too. It's kinda nice to know you're there, even thought it's very very far away...

[lilka.livejournal.com]

*grins* Ah, but that's the wonder of the internet. You can be a thousand miles away and I can still talk to you. It's slightly depressing that I won't see you again until New Year's, actually, but I hope you enjoy yourself. And I'm quite prepared to unload my entire Tamora Pierce collection on you next time you're around ;)

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[loneraven.livejournal.com]

Ooh, New Year's! I was forgetting that!
Am looking forward to that muchly.
Okay... must go. Time running out. *waves*

[purplerainbow.livejournal.com]

Yey!
You're here!
*huggles*
So good to hear from you, and India sounds wonderful.
And like Jane, I am reading and willing to lend you every single Tamora Pierce book I have...
Do you like the icon?

[eniddy.livejournal.com]

wh00t. it's you
*non touching huggles you*
i hope you're having fun.
oh and where you said "and taking me to New Delhi Railway Station to pick my aunt and cousin," it sounds like you're going to pick who your aunt and cousin from a big cage of aunts and cousins.
or maybe it's just me.
heh heh anyways. see you at new years.
love meee

[snowdrop24.livejournal.com]

oh and where you said "and taking me to New Delhi Railway Station to pick my aunt and cousin," it sounds like you're going to pick who your aunt and cousin from a big cage of aunts and cousins.

Yeah, it sounded like that to me too! :P

*Huggles Iona*
I miss you already. Everything's all quiet.
Love you!

Em (the cat with no little birdie) :(
xx

[chanandlerbong.livejournal.com]

I am in the computer rom, doing IT and wishing i too was in india, except for christmas.
you are ill in the register and dont know what's wrong with you.
Merry Christmas my friend and you are still invited to mine for new year, moogie might be coming aswell, but not kat.
bev got me pink pyjamas with a heart on them, she gave out everyone's present on monday, because she is bev.
saw a clip for only fools and horses anddel asked how to say duck a la range in french
rodney said canarde (in a cockney accent)
to which del replied it is hard aint it?

hehehe

missing your weird hands and ways




hug
x

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

Heya...
I'm glad to hear from you. Guessed you might be in IT.
Merry Christmas!
Bev is odd.
And you may, you never know, see me at New Year's...

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

I adore it. Really do. Have been listening to Konstantine even more than ever...

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[purplerainbow.livejournal.com]

Good girl.

I'm working on some more icons, but it's slow progress, as can't use program. Will get there in the end, though.

Re: mission sausage

[chanandlerbong.livejournal.com]

and i did, am on internet in my own home, start the new year as you mean to go on and all that, got a diary and calendar and nail varnish remover! whoop.
peace
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