How is everyone doing?
I am good - the long weekend passed by without anything significant happening. I had planned to go to Blue Mountains with my OEC friend - but he had some other plans. Saturday was a good day for outing as well - sunshine and pleasant weather all throughout the day. My roomies did not want to go out - so the less I write about them the better. Finally I managed to convince them to atleast come with me to the Opera house and Harbour Bridge (I had been there - but I had a vested interest - I wanted my snaps with the Opera House in the backdrop). They agreed and we went there and took a lot of snaps.
I am good - the long weekend passed by without anything significant happening. I had planned to go to Blue Mountains with my OEC friend - but he had some other plans. Saturday was a good day for outing as well - sunshine and pleasant weather all throughout the day. My roomies did not want to go out - so the less I write about them the better. Finally I managed to convince them to atleast come with me to the Opera house and Harbour Bridge (I had been there - but I had a vested interest - I wanted my snaps with the Opera House in the backdrop). They agreed and we went there and took a lot of snaps.
We then went to the casino - and I gambled :) I have managed to learn only one game (and like everything else - it is entirely luck based). It is a big wheel with multiple number slots. You have to guess which number will come and there are odds for winning. I played for 100 dollars - and after about 2.5 hours, I ended up with no profit no loss. It was fun - but yes, I learnt that you needed a lot of patience to play in a casino. The more cash you carry the more chances of winning - but equally big chances of loosing. I had pre-decided I will play for 100 dollars and will not bother even if I loose the money. And probably that is why I managed to even out at the end. The Senior Software Engineer, Suresh lost money after having won a lot initially.
I did not go anywhere in Sunday. There were two reasons - it rained almost all throughout the day - and there was another software engineer, Anand, coming to Sydney in the evening. Nobody had come to pick us up when we landed - nor did anyone assist us in our accomodation seach. I did not want anyone else to face the same set of problems. I picked him up in the evening - the others did not come. Monday was again gloomy and dark - though it rained less. We went to the casino (again). This time we had done a lot of calculations with respect to our safe bets for the game. We were accompanied by Anand as well. Again we played for about 1-1.5 hours. This time I won 150 dollars and backed out of the game after making profits. Suresh kept playing and again lost money. When we left the place, it was raining heavily. We somehow managed to come back home.
Though the long weekend was damp and gloomy for most part, the best thing was the manager was not around :) He had left for India on Friday and will join us only in the coming Sunday. It is such a relief that he is not around. And yes - I have started cooking on my own and am not eating the ready-to-eat stuff the others prefer to eat. The mushroom curry I prepared was fairly nice - though my experimentation with fried brinjals bombed. Actually I tried to add some curd with haldi, salt, and chilly powder (since we didn't have anything else to make the paste like coating). It would have been good except for the part that the curd was veryyyyyyyyyyyy sour :(. The vegetables here are very fresh - though a touch expensive.
All in all - I am surviving still. The manager will inform me about my return date once he comes back. Do send me a mail or two whenever you feel like it.
Regards,
Sumit
I did not go anywhere in Sunday. There were two reasons - it rained almost all throughout the day - and there was another software engineer, Anand, coming to Sydney in the evening. Nobody had come to pick us up when we landed - nor did anyone assist us in our accomodation seach. I did not want anyone else to face the same set of problems. I picked him up in the evening - the others did not come. Monday was again gloomy and dark - though it rained less. We went to the casino (again). This time we had done a lot of calculations with respect to our safe bets for the game. We were accompanied by Anand as well. Again we played for about 1-1.5 hours. This time I won 150 dollars and backed out of the game after making profits. Suresh kept playing and again lost money. When we left the place, it was raining heavily. We somehow managed to come back home.
Though the long weekend was damp and gloomy for most part, the best thing was the manager was not around :) He had left for India on Friday and will join us only in the coming Sunday. It is such a relief that he is not around. And yes - I have started cooking on my own and am not eating the ready-to-eat stuff the others prefer to eat. The mushroom curry I prepared was fairly nice - though my experimentation with fried brinjals bombed. Actually I tried to add some curd with haldi, salt, and chilly powder (since we didn't have anything else to make the paste like coating). It would have been good except for the part that the curd was veryyyyyyyyyyyy sour :(. The vegetables here are very fresh - though a touch expensive.
All in all - I am surviving still. The manager will inform me about my return date once he comes back. Do send me a mail or two whenever you feel like it.
Regards,
Sumit
2 comments:
Bhaina..well the letters u r writin r addressed 2 home..me intrudin :)
Nice story tellin..Hmm ..It must b tuff without a car N it seems u r not havin the right enthu crowd..anyways u can have fun in ur own way ..
wat happens ur roomies n manager gets 2 read this stuff :)
Bloody hell - they realize they are boring me to death! Maybe that is the reason the letters are in a public forum :-P
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