Wednesday, March 21, 2007

Five-six years ago, when I was in India, all my family lived together. My dad have three brother and his family and our lived together. I have one brother and I have three cousin sisters two cousin brother. Me and my cousin Krian was going to same college in Raikot near by my town.She is very beautiful girl.One day she went to Canada and married a guy that liked her. His name is Banty.Banty and his family in Canada and his uncle and aunt live in India.Her marriage was on January 8,2002.This marriage was very wonderful for my town and every person talk about her marriage,we have never seen such a wonderful marriage before. Because this time people marriage in home nobody go to restaurant,only rich people go to restaurant.Meany people jealous for my parents because the parents were doing a wonderful job in a very short time.Many people go to see the arrangement and see how the groom looked like because people was thinking her husband was an old man.Many girl go to foreign country marriage with old person and the parents give cash so that their daughter can go to a foreign country and live peacefully. My sister's marriage preparations were done in only eight day.This is very hard time how can all this be done, there are a lot of arrangements to make. Many people was thinking her parents give him cash this by she is engaged. After marriage my brother-law was talking to me and he told me that my friend's parents went to his house,they said that they will give him a lot of cash and a new car if he married their daughter, but my brother in law said that he only wants to marry a girl that has values and can take care of him and his family. He had understood that those people were jealous because their daughter will not be able to go to Canada, and my sister could. After marriage my sister went a relatives house and the lady of the house brought my sister and brother in law tea and some cookies. She had added something to her tea so that she will not be able to go to Canada. When my sister went for her medical to come to Canada she failed three times before she finally passed. People are always jealous or envious of those that are better than them or assume that some people are better than they are. Jealousy is a disease that has affected the hearts and minds of many people. When someone is well off people think the worst of that person and put many accusations on that person. Jealousy can only be avoided if all people think alike and say, so what if he is well of then me, he/she worked harder than I did and if I work hard I can achieve that statue also.

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Wednesday, March 07, 2007

A Most Embarrasing Time in My Life
Ten years ago I was thirteen, and it was a hot summer day. I had to go with parents to my uncle's house in Jalander for a wedding. We were to stay at my uncle's house for one week. But, before we set off for the Uncle's house, my mother had made chapati, an India favorite, a of sort burrito like food, filled with potatoes. We had also packed homemade yogurt and butter for eating at my Uncle's home. The buses and the highways of India are busy with all sorts of vehicles and animals, and the pavement is bumpy, so it takes about four hours to get to my uncle's house from my parent's home in Raikot. Being as we were so filled up with food, the jerky motions of the Indian made Jain sedan soon made me begin to feel nauseated and unstable in the stomach. Half an hour later in the drive, I tried to reach across my mother to roll down the window, but too late I threw up on my mother's lovely tan colored suit. Although it was a disaster for my mother and me, My father and brothers who were sitting behind me laughed out loud and would not stop laughing. The horrible stench of the vomit caused by the chapti not absent from my stomach was overwhelming, and by the heat of the car made it worse. In India, decent places to pull over and shower are hard to find, but eventually, our driver found a stop. This horribly embarrassing not only because of what had just transpired, but because I also had take a bath in a public restroom and throw away my otherwise nice clothes. This experience was so embarrassing for me that I decided never to eat so much before I am driving somewhere, and I always try to sit at a window seat. To this day, whenver the family gathers for a roadtrip, my brother laugh and remind me of this horrible experience.