So here I m finally to write abt the topic most expected by many of my frens... My first few hours in Sydney... I landed in Sydney on Feb. 6th 2009, the day in the year which mostly has something special for me, be it good or bad like a small accident (responsible for scar tat is still there in my lips) happened to me wen i was in 5th std on this day of that year... And it is my sister's b'day too... So this time, it was a friday and i landed by 9pm... Obviously people go mad everywhere on friday n saturday nights... After my Quarantine checks and all other checks in the airport, i took a cab to hotel Ibis where my new friend Abhishek booked an accomodation for both of us... Well.., i really don know wat i was feeling while i was in the cab... I didnt feel as if i m not in chennai, but i kept on telling me i m not in india anymore... It was weird... I then tot the roads were similar to the roads u find in nfs ug2 game and as these thoughts were going thro my mind, the cab driver spoke to me... He was an Afganistani, but born and brought up here... Immediately, my thoughts jumped to something like "even Afganistani people are here for more than 20 to 30years eh??? I actually tot that 20 or 30years before, only people from countries like UK, USA, India, China, etc. migrated to australia and recently only people from all over the world are trying to migrate into australia... So, my assumption went wrong there itself..." Well, here u can find people from countries u have'nt even heard off... Thats Australia... By the time the cab reached the hotel, the cab driver gave me some valuable information and advice and the chat went good with him... Well, after getting into the hotel room, I was with a big question mark in my mind... It was beyond 10pm n i wasnt even hungry... The cab driver already told me abt the nearest McDonald restaurant tats open for 24hrs... So i wasnt worried abt the food... But wat next, wat next... Well..., trying to find a solution, I called up my uncle who is here for almost 20yrs... He told me abt some plans for the next day to find a house for rent and so on... I then spoke to Abhishek abt many things and finally v planned to move out to have dinner... It was his b'day and i felt sad for him as he is struck with only me, a boring new person who doesnt even knows Hindi, being an Indian... Lol ... Tats Chennaittes for everyone... The moment v walked some 100m out and away from the hotel.., I saw too many people from various ethnicities in partying moods and suddenly i got reminded abt IDP's predeparture seminar where they told abt cultural shock... Well, i had to accept that i was shocked and i was blinking abt wat was going on there and wondering is this feeling is wat called as Cultural Shock???... I wasnt amazed though as I had seen the same in India, but i don know why i was tat shocked that time... Lol... :D Then we stepped into Mcdonald burger restaurant after passing through various malls and groups of couples and wat not!!! Bought a good burger meal... But it wasnt going inside to my stomach tat well ... I know how i used to eat burgers in chennai... But then, wat happened??? I kept on asking me inside tat "u know that u r gonna be in australia and u were prepared for it, but wat now????" Well, i don know whether i finished my meal or not..., i returned back to the hotel room again passing through all those tat appeared as bull shit cos u maybe jealousy seeing those people as tat mood of those people is great for u wen u r in that situation in ur home country or some secured place which u feel as home but not here... Now tat i was there in the room, those four walls around me in the room gave me some secured feeling... I then tot, "Is this room ur home??? not at all Ninja... errr, wats happening to me???"... Again the same question tat "u know that u r gonna be in australia .... wat now????" ... To kill these tots, i preferred to go out of the room for some good oxygen (u can predict wats it)... I called Abhishek and v both went out of the hotel for having health stick which provides our oxygen... But I ended up seeing more crazy drunk people shouting, kissing their love or watever, n wat not... Well, after returning to my room, again the walls were giving me some secured feeling and again the same question tat "u know that u r gonna be in australia .... wat now????" ... I opened up my laptop then... Ended up watching 2-3 scenes of few tamil movies, naruto, photos of my various trips in india with my best frens and finally read all the messages in the inbox of my phone which then gave me the feeling that i m not in India anymore, my Anna University life is over, my chennai life is no more for atleast some 3 or 4 years... I just didnt study in Anna university, but I lived there and in Chennai as if its going to be my home for rest of my life... Now, it was 1am and i preferred to sleep thinking tat i have to wake up early to go to those places which my uncle said... After getting into the bed, I covered myself fully with the quilt and now, instead of those walls in the room, the quilt gave me the secured feeling... But tis time, not only tat question again, various tots started appearing... Errr..., "wats it man???", i asked myself... I didnt realize time was moving on like hell untill i saw my watch which showed 2:50am... OOOOoooppsss... okie, now i said myself "i got to sleep... meditate.. meditate... meditate... Wtf...., do i know to meditate??? Should i have brought some sleeping pills with me or should i go n booze off??? OOOoopppsss..., more tots.. Errr".. As this was going on, suddenly I realized that i m thirsty and my lips and tongue are totally dry... I got from my bed and searched for water... No water... Abhishek was in deep sleep, so cudnt ask him... I went to bed then... But my thirst was too much for water and so i decided to wake him up... After waking him up..., he said that its not india, here u can drink water from taps and asked me to tak the glass and drink water from the wash basin tap... Hoof..., finally my thirst was over and now, wen i was in the bed..., those tots didnt appear cos that incident of searching for water in some bottles or something else made me understood deeply and instinctly tat Sydney is different from Chennai wherein u cant imagine of drinking water from taps... I realized tat i m missing Chennai already, my best frens (VB, Vvk, Balayogesh, Niwas, Guru, Thiyagu, Karthick Raj, Suna, etc.) in chennai and i know it was just the start... I didnt miss my mech best frens (Piyush, Pandu, Praveen, Prabu , Lupin, and many more) and another guy Deepak Murali of our Velacherry gang as they all departed from Chennai n i didnt depart b4 them... Now here..., i departed from Chennai n i started missing these guys and slowly started missing mech buddies too... I know its a long way to go even if i want to see them for a small vacation... I then abused Chennai, those bloodies-my best frens like " Fuckers, y do i miss u guys this much n abt Chennai, r u a drug or wat??? Y m i this addictive to u... I don even care abt my native trichy.., but y is this missing feeling to u alone???" Finally..., i decided...,watever..., lets study here and enjoy here to the core and return to Chennai with great potential and so on to settle there and then wondered "will this intention of returning to Chennai be there always??? or i will get addicted to Sydney too??? Perhaps, i want to be with those bunch of bloodies only ... So should i bring them here somehow??? No way that few of them will be interested... wats gonna happen??? lets see..." Wondered, wondered, wondered and as i was tired of the travel and the time also should have been 3:30am or 4am (which should have been around 11pm in india), i finally slept off without realizing myself untill i woke up in the morning of Feb 7th 2009... ... ... ... ...
Life's going on still... ... ... Lol :D :P ;)
Life's going on still... ... ... Lol :D :P ;)
