Life Of A Refuge...

April 5th 2008 : A day which is of primary significance in my life.. I landed in Singapore on this very same day after 22 yrs of sheltered existence.Just 2 more days and I will complete a year which marked many a milestones in my life and changed me in ways that I wouldn’t have dreamt of! When I look back at them : Some make me smile,while some make me shudder...

April 5 : ***zzzzz zzzzzz zzzzzzz FLASH BACK zzzzzzz zzzzzz zzzzz***

6:30AM >> Reaching Airport with my luggage along with my parents and friends accompanied. (Just half n hour before was done with all the shedding of tears!)
7:00AM >> Joined the looong queue to enter the departure hall (It was then the HAL Airport) Was hard to make eye-contact with all those moist eyes looking at me :(
8:00AM >> Still waiting for my turn to collect my boarding pass (Praying that my luggage does not exceed the limit!Passport and other docs tightly gripped!)
9:00AM >> Boarding pass in hand (Yelled out saying "My luggage is way below limit,can still carry loadz")
9:50AM >> Stunned by the luxury of Singapore Airlines :)
Later in the evening >> A girl gets out from the plane,looks around and tries to resolve in her heart that she wud not cave in,come what may!!
She gets to spend that nite alone in a hotel room constantly looking at the walls measuring the length and breadth of the room...

Before flying to Singapore, I had my accomodation available..Having done that, I now regret!
On my exodus, in a year's time..Thanks to gubes, I always had some bed to rest my head on..
*Gasp* I should not have taken suggestions so seriously!

Consider I had not booked the footpath space :

~~ Dream ~~

I think first I should make acquaintance with my neighbours and assure that I am just a guest for 2 months. (Hopefully,a new all furnished flat with peanuts for rent and a charming guy for a neighbour is waiting for me to discover it.I strongly believe in miracles ;))

For tonight,I may be invited by one of those big hearted neighbours for dinner.Even if they don’t I’ll manage with some noodles readily available plus a coke and its bed time. I am taking some newspapers from office. I have enough to make a two inch thick bed.And one of my duppattas can serve as a sheet.Wow Wow.. Life is so adventurous!

In the morning I’ll start a little early to office. May be reach there early by 30 mins.Take a luxurious bath,a filling breakfast and be the first in office.

Tomorrow I’ll buy two aluminum dishes, one vim bar, one scrubber and one knife.
I think 2 kg of rice will do for 1 week. One kg daal, 250 gms each of tomato, onion and one vegetable.Oops.. salt, coriander powder and chilli powder… :)

Mehnaath ki kamaayi, ghar ka khana aur apne ghar ka aaram … I am getting goosebumps… I will live the life of a true Indian, among those true Singaporeans. May be one of those Discovery Channel program will show an interview with me – "A Thriving Indian!"

Man, I never thought it can be such a blessed life.

~~ Dream Ends ~~

~~ Reality ~~

Getting accustomed to the new office, new people, new found solitary confinement. But a lease of life never leaves her. Helps her sail through...
Tasting office politics, trying not to grit her teeth at a tyrant’s whims and fancies..The lease of life still there strongly by her side...

I think god has intentionally made me so tiny a creature so that I fit into every small place. I guess I can hide in one of these office shelves tonight.
And after everyone leaves I may come out (provided I am not choked to death in which case tomorrow they will find me in my scariest dead self). That is a less expensive proposition. ;)

All that I have to weigh now is if I want the comfort of my office Air Conditioning or I want the Discovery Interview fame...Such baffling alternatives..... *Sigh again*

Extends her hand to start a new journey. Bliss follows...

A year stares back with the hope of getting a good or a bad certificate.Well she will honour this year with more than a good or a bad comment! She would declare it as a year which changed her life and her way of being..It etched things in stone where sand wud have been preferred...
And she will live to bear its repercussions!!

~~ Reality Bites ~~