Now its been exactly 2 months and 4 days since I have started working here in Oman.
And of that, its 1 month 2 weeks and 2 days since I am in Sohar, trying and living alone in a house big enough for a small family of two [ except for the weekends... when I rush to my parents :) ].
To be frank, I have no idea about whats happening in and around in Sohar, can you believe this???
But it is true, I hardly get to know anything happening around this place! That too, you wouldn't believe, it is when my Father calls me from Muscat and asks "Are you OK dear? Is everything going fine over there?? " that I get to know if something is happening around here in my place!
My boss, Mr. Sudhan, who actually gave me this job and my senior Engineer Mr. David Howard, two sweet persons. Mr. Dave pics me up every morning for work and drops me back home too. So theres actually no big hazel for me to get to work and for getting back home, all well taken care off ! I never miss a chance to drive back home with Sudhan when ever he comes on site :-P.
Then you might think, don't you have to go out to get your supplies for the week ???
Yeah, see, thats going out to get my supplies for the "week", so that happens when I come back from Muscat.
So going out in the name of buying groceries - well, ruled out ! :-P
And then one might think, what about going for a walk
Here going out for a walk alone isn't a good idea at all. Also the sun is too hot in this area even by 5 in the evening! So to be on the safe side, I don't do that !
I was so much interested in cooking and trying out new dishes and stuff like that, but now since there is no one with me to stand by next to me in the kitchen while I am cooking, to pass some comments about the food, to make any suggestions or even to simply disturb me while I am busy cooking! I have lost all interest in cooking, as for myself, I just make something so that I don't starve myself .
Even the house, it looks so sad, there's nobody to untidy it. Nobody to put the socks in the living room, keep the coffee mug on the TV stand, nobody to misplace my comb, no pillows on the floor, no kitty calling me for his milk, no birdy fighting with me for using my laptop. Nothing, all little things of life are missing !
Everything is in its place where I left them!
In fact I was always eager to live alone in a house.I used to get pissed off when someone makes the room untidy ,or when I don't find what I am searching for. I used to wish that if I were living alone then all these problems wouldn't be there. But now I realize,
These small and tiny imperfections and untidyness is where the fun of life lies in.
Small and senseless shopping, what sometimes would look like an utter waste of time and money!
Walking through the malls, sipping a cup of warm coffee, commenting on everything whether or not they are of any interest to us, that is immaterial. Dad screaming from ahead, "Are you guys coming along"??
Missing them all !
In fact missing life as a whole !
Hmm...
Above all there's Westlife's live stage show in Muscat, coming Wednesday 13th April.
Can you imagine a situation where you decide not to go for it, just because your friends are not here with you? Let alone the cost of the tickets (the minimum is 50 RO. which is costly indeed ).
Still, if I was my friends, may be we would have decided not to go for it because of the high ticket price, but still you know we would have found some other way to engage ourselves during that time so that later we don't feel guilty of not attending the show :-P.
But now,
I sincerely feel lonely !
I miss everyone !
And above all I have started feeling that I am moving away from all my loved ones!
I feel like I am on a journey to the Lost Island!
I just wish like in the fairy tales, I get to meet a Peter Pan, who might take me with him to Never Land instead ! Where we could remain as children forever and never know the pain of the grown up minds !
But, for today, I have a good news!
I have asked Mr. Dave to accept my absence in office tomorrow and my Dad's coming to take me back home tonight !!!
I miss Home !
I miss my Appa n Amma so very badly !!!
Amma ...
"Vava com'n home tonight !!! "