Day 11 - Deepavali Day 2 (Grandma's revenge)

Today started off insanely early, with mom propping me up on a chair, while i was half asleep and pouring nalla yennai on my head ( They could sign a contract for 25 years to extract oil from my head you know? ) and nagging me constantly to have bath soon (Kind of difficult when she keeps knocking on the bathroom door ten times a minute, simply because the neighbors started bursting crackers).

To my greatest disappointment, she had my saree waiting when I came out, and I stuggled for around 1 hour to drape it properly. Then came the duty of distributing sweets to the neighbours. Half of them could not recognize me immediately because of the saree - AWKWARD!
(The aunty folk fell laughing saying "drishti suthi podu" and "oh! unaku maapla paarkanum" , I mean wtf? I wear saree one day and they are ready to get me married!!! )

The torture did not end there. My mom would not hand me my new jeans, because it was black .( "No Black during festival. You can wear in the evening" :P)

I had to roam half of Chennai, visiting every athai and mama and paati, with the saree on! (Thankfully it was held up by two dozen safety pins. Bless the man who invented them!). And everyone seemed to have made only gulab jaamuns (If I see another jaamun today, I swear to god.....!!!!!!)

I was having a tough time walking around!

By the time I came back home, I had sworn several times, in extremely filthy language may I mention, like a thousand times ( to myself ofcourse, my mom would have me hung). But every oncoming 100 buck note with the vethala paaku, kept me quiet :)

Back home, I retired to a simple meal of mom-made dosas and sambar, and after watching Dashavataram for like the umpteenth time, I'm here blogging :) (Beasuse ma specifically told me not to sit online and get to bed early :D Blogging secretly, knowing mom is right in the next room and she will scream herself hoarse if she catches me, is so cool in a weird way :)...


Hope you guys had a great time too :)


PS : I stoppped bursting crackers a couple of years back, for no reason. Its so much fun even without them :)
PPS: Paati, I hope you are extremely happy now! I have roamed around with a constantly pink face!!!!