am goin home finally!!!

Hey man i'm goin home.Finally.



My exams finished on the 7th of June,n after that a friend n i went to a place called Shirdi.It's supposed to be a holy place of a man called Sai Baba.The temple to him was HUGE, n the Queue out there was unbelievable!!!!!I mean we reached there at 4 in the morning,after having taken a luxury bus from the station at 11:30 PM. We reached there around 4 in the morning, then were shuttled to the temple.And, at 5 in the morning,the queue (if it was straightened out) would have measured at least a mile or two long!!!!!!I was wondering for how long the people at the front of the line were waiting!!!







Anyway,the line started moving(atlast!!!!,i thought),and the Aarti(the ceremonies that are performed upon opening the temple for the day)was performed.It was an awe inspiring sight!!!



I mean the statue to Sai baba was at least 6feet tall,in a sitting pos'n.The priests first took of the cloth draped around it, then washed the statue,the sanctum sanctorum around it,all the time chanting prayers(they sounded like gibberish to me,but i suppose that it has a meaning,or they wouldn't do it,would they?) Anyway after that we went outside to look for our shoes,but found that we had come out from some other gate than the one we went in.So we started lookin for it,



n found it around half an hour later.







time is now around 7AM,and i was feeling very sleepy,but my friend was wide awake.



He suggested that we go to Shani Signapuri, another holy place about 50 to 60 kilometers


away.I assented, so we went to see if we cud get a bus there.Turned out that a family was goin there,so we we asked them for a lift.





One of the most amazing things about the place is that None of the houses, shops and the other places have doors or shutters!!!! I mean that's so amazin!!in this day n age,wen thieves are breaking into every place, thee places hav no doors!!!!!!!!





It's said that anyone who steals there will go mad and not be able to go out of the village!!!!


Over there, before going into the temple, we had to have a compulsory bath,n only then cud we go into the temple!!!!




Anyway this one was also impressive,but nowhere near the Shirdi Sai baba temple.

The thing in this temple is that there are n priests in there, so u hav to do the ceremonies yourself!!!!!!

A big change from the other temples,I must say!!

Now after that we went back to Shirdi,reaching there around 3 in the afternoon.Then we went to see if there was a bus to take us back to Pune. Found one n bought a ticket for close to 200 bucks!!!

We reached Pune around in the night.At this point we had been on the road for around 24 hours!!!!

Wen we reached Pune,i went to my room in the hostel,somehow took off my clothes, had a bath,
then went off to sleep as soon as my head touched the pillow.

I was woken up by a phone call by the bloody idiots in the phone company at six in the morning the next day,calling me up to see if i wanted to download ringtones.I gave them all the choicest abuse i cud think of,n told'em to call up at a decent time,like around 12:30PM.

From then on,i partied the night away!!!!
Bye