It’s been a long time since I had a great time on the weekend. I enjoyed my first bank holiday of 2008 recently. Friday and saturday were boring days for me as i didn’t have much to do. Sunday wasn’t that bad as i had to go to my cousin’s place for some sort of sermon. I am glad I didn’t go earlier (mainly because i didn’t know where to go). The sermon was halfway through when we reached there. The funny thing was that the whole thing was in french-creole so i didn’t understand anything. I had to pinch myself to prevent myself from nodding off to sleep. I have never seen so many Mauritian enthusiasts. It’s a good thing that some people are really into religion but i found it a it startling at times when some guy kept saying “SubhaAllah” in a loud voice. I felt like a heathen at that time (this is surprising cause i pray as much as I can and try to follow the tenets of Islam) because i did not feel like i was part of the whole thing. My cousin’s hubby was taping the whole thing and there was a part where he was trying to find some free space on his dv-cam. He accidentally switched over to some song/dance routine taped on it and everyone started smirking coz the music was really loud. The best part of the evening was when my cousin’s father in law recited a naat. it was quite moving as i had never heard someone recite it with so much passion. It should be noted that Urdu isn’t their mother tongue and it was a really good effort on his part. We had a really heavy dinner after the sermon was over. I hung around a bit and watched some of my cousin in law’s cousins play pool in the game room. The night was nice and cold coz of the weather. It had rained all sunday so the weather was a bit damp.
Monday wasn’t that bad at all as i had to wake up early to make it to sherry’s place down south. It took me 1.5 hours to get there. I had an interesting journey on the Jubliee Line from Stratford. There was this old Black Lady who sat next to me during the journey. As soon as the train made it’s way from Stratford, she started delivering a sermon about Jesus and repenting our sins at the top of her voice. I think she had the whole carriage’s attention with her loud voice. Her efforts were sincere but i doubt anyone was interested. I didn’t mind what she had to say as we all have similar beliefs. Anyway it was just the fact that she was really loud which was annoying me. It’s a good thing i was listening to music on my mp3 player (though it wasn’t loud enough to drown her voice out). Fortunately she left after a couple of stops and there was peace in the carriage. As soon as she left everyone started either laughing or smirking as it was more like a freak show for them hehe.
Anyway I reached my destination on time. I had to reach there before 1 as we had planned to go for lunch at some place in Kingston Upon Thames. The weather was terrible on monday as it was raining heavily. Fortunately it let up a bit when we were on the road. It took us forever to find parking as everyone had gone out for the day. It was a good thing there was a parking slot near the church. Unfortunately it took us forever to walk to the venue. Sherry’s spouse gave me a cake to carry with me (it was sherry’s birthday the following day). It wasn’t tough to hide the cake from sherry. I sneaked off towards one of the busgirls and asked her to bring the cake after we had our meal. Marty and his son were there as expected. There were four other friends present at the lunch as well. The busgirl or let’s just call her waitress brought the cake after we had our meal. Then we went off to the bowling alley downstairs while the ladies went off to shop. After an hour and a half worth of waiting downstairs (with loud music blaring in the background) we decided to go out. There were no slots for bowling available so the kids were unable to go bowling. We then decided to go to tk-maxx as sherry wanted to get something. The women joined us there later as they also had to get some stuff. We had a great time over there as marty was full of tricks. He managed to switch labels on a few items in the store. I think i must have bugged him a lot as i had nothing better to do. He was a good target as he was wearing red shoes. They reminded me of dorothy’s shoes from “The Wizard of Oz”. I kept asking him if he wanted to go back to oz or stay in kansas. haha. I also asked him if he would like to go back home if he were to tap his shoes three times 
Anyway i managed to get home really late coz i had an early dinner at sherry’s place.
