Couch Potato

Life is peaceful. While I make no efforts to cook them all, a 2 week break results in this. Same for the ginger.

On an average, I cook one sabji en masse, and eat it in 3-4 portions.

I also realized that adding tomato and chilli powder gives wonderful taste. And keeping cooked food in fridge for 2 weeks can result in a lot of unpleasant stuff. Has its effect on the neighbouring cheese, and the surrounding broccoli.

Every time I try to write something descriptive in my blog, it sounds cliched. So what, every year countless numbers do the same wow- ooo- aaaa in Europe. They travel to Swiss, Austria, Paris and Amsterdam and make the same exclamations. Vienna, Munich, Zurich, Bern to Laussanne. Same streets. Same castles, same palaces and same rivers. And ya there are fundoo castles, like the funddo palaces in India. Ya there are fundoo mountains like the Himalayas. Ok trains are faster, roads are cleaner, and the air is fresh, but we arent dying due to lack of them in India. The towers are higher, the cars sueder, and lots of wine, (winer)?

So whats new.

You pay through your nose for a 3 hour return journey in train. €120. Smokers: beware, this place can strip you of your habit. Alcoholics: beware, you have an endless collection to choose from. Teetotalers: same, you might start drinking just for the heck of digesting your pork portion and as a social etiquette.

Yeah, never thought of sleeping on streets in India. Or getting caricatures painted. Or walking all the way up to the mountains. Or boating. Or paragliding (its one-third as costly as in India!). Or waiting for the F1 race right from the previous evening. And freezing to death at 3 am, somewhere half way up the castle.

The week and the weekend are two totally unrelated time periods, to be spent with totally unrelated people. People walk all the way from their seats to say hello to everyone around. Or look into each others eyes to say cheers to drinks. Oh btw, if you don’t look into each others eyes, you are supposed to have a bad sex life for 7 years. For the innocent those who make this mistake:bad sex is better than no sex.

Why do we feel so great about being here? Because of the freedom I guess. I havent made a 4 day weekend plan within an hour of returning home, and booked tkts accordingly. Or hopped 4 trains to make a 12 hour journey. Or changed trains at gaps of 5 min. Or drove at 200 kph in a BMW.

So. If you have a job, heaploads of money, good company and know German, nice place to settle in.