I left for mangalore on the 21st after a great party arranged by our company n one of the reputed hotels...it was huge christmas n new year bash...and it was hard to recognise each n everyone...i happened to see many unknown faces....
Christmas n kinnigoli was fun...as soon as i reached i found our crib director Santhu(Santhosh) slogging hard with it....well he had planned a big one this time...really big one...well then there were two other helping hands then...and he expected me to help as well....but i absconded from his site.....not for more than two days...i really felt sorry for him, seeing him workng alone....Finally the C-eve v finished the crib amidst brisk competition among my uncle's friends to bag the prize...
It was after a long time i went to church in the evening....when people al over the world have midnite masses and return home at the wee hours after the celebrating the birth of christ....v the exceptions hav the mass at 8....i generally avoid evening masses(not the midnite) bcoz v the youth feel v r strong enough that v dont need ne divine power beside us till v really need one....we generally are the last ones to enter the church, that renders us to sit outside n v hav our own sermons going on outside...
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Finally the mass gets over....then v distribute cakes....and then v conduct Housie-Housie....well it was fun to see people playing it....and we auctioned cakes sponsored by some renowned bakers of our townSome of the pictures of the crib n the star of our church
The star was about 20 feet high...My friends have taken a lotta effort just to straighten it up....
Since there was nothing else to do i headed back home...i came back to the crib which was lit brigtly with our eclectic style of lights...I had bought a new mobile phone wit camera..so i took some pictures of the crib at about 11:45...and then was tired for the day...headed straight to my bed...the next day i wake up i get to hear that v escaped a conflagration bcoz of the crib.....one of our fascinating ideas with the crib was to replicate a pot containing charcoal just like a fireplace which in ancient times was used to ward off the chilly nites....v had wrapped a 60W bulb with red plastic sheet which brought the red fury of the fire...soon after i left clicking photos the bulb must have been heated up for a long time since evening, it had a melt down like the chernobyl reactor...the immediate impact was to the cardboard on which it was placed...thanks to our friendly nieghbourhood always awake 24x7....our neighbour(Master!!) wakes up at 12:45 to see the fire when everybody s sound asleep, and then bang our doors to put out the fire...thanks to him watever it is he saved us from a major fire mishap.....
This is the whole crib image..a bit blurred since it was taken from a mobile phone..
I was very exicted with my new mobile...i always longed to have an ipod...with the new sony ericsson i was busy downloading and loading music into it on the christmas day...and watchn the kids dance for the christmas function which was scheduled for the evening...
And then i head back to my place of work....as usual i see many foriegners in our train...i am happy for my country to some extent to hav become globalised...i see foriegners travelling just like us in the sleeper coaches(youngsters generally travel by II class) and indians dont mind being with them....no awkward looks...no stares...etc...bcoz i read a lotta blogs by foriegners who visited kerals telling me that Indian people seemd to act as if they were some untouchables....but as far as i know i havnt seen ne thing like that till naw....may be i gotto explore more......
Thats it for naw till the new year...m bak at my cabin....
