In a flash of anger, my mind turned to the Red Dingo Australian restaurant in Patan that serves the most amazing thickshakes you will ever eat in your life. There's nothing like making yourself fat to deal with emotional problems. Following that I stopped in at Puri Sabji place. So I followed up my thickshake that is so disgustingly unhealthy for you that you need a spoon to eat it by chewing on oily bread, fried potatoes and what is mostly oil.
I thought it wouldn't hurt to stop by Rosy's to see if I could get my stereo back for the barbeque we had planned the following day. Bad decision. Rosy was not home. In the time it took to eat my two meals, and stop at Rosy's the weather had turning into something from a movie like the Perfect Storm. At one point I rode through a mini willy-willy without realising it. There was so much dust and wind I had to just shut my eytes and hope that I came out of it the other side. It was so rough on the inside of that thing that I'm surprised I even stayed upright.
That's when the delude began. The rain was so heavy that I started thinking back to that Myth Busters episode where they tried to work out whether you get more wet by sprinting through the rain or by walking. Conclusion? I was out there way too long for it to make a difference. As I pondered whether the water slowly seeping into my mouth was rainwater or gutterwater I realised that it probably didn't really make much of a difference. The streets cleared and many people were caught out by the mini-cyclone that seemed to have gripped Kathmandu with only about one in every 100 people carrying an umbrella. Everyone and everything was out to get me. I even started to wonder if the world was doing it on purpose.
Of course, I made it home safely and realised that I owe myself a lot of money. You see due to me negativity of late, I have instigated a system that Nunny referred to as my "Karmic rupe system" where I owe myself 100 rupees for each negative thought. I think I better even out.
I had the most gorgeous chocloate thickshake at the Red Dingo. O.....M.....G!
Following that, remember Puri Sabji? The food so good that it prompted Brendan and Mike to develop a new system of currency? Where every single item one buys can be broken down into PSU's. Puri Sabji Units. "Are you sure that you want to buy those brand spanking new awesome and gorgeously attractive spectacles? You know, they're worth 100 PSU's. You could feed a family Rob, do you want that on your conscience?" Puri Sabji is also good for other reasons. It takes them no time to prepare and it leaves you completely satisfied! How could one not be satisfied? Its oily bread, potato, oily soya beans all wrapped up in a nice little spicy oil sauce. Pretty much, its like being in heaven. And did I mention? Puri Sabji has created its own currency!!!!
Unfortunately I missed Rosy, but as I struggled through the wind and dust to find my way out from her house I provided endless entertainment for the kids and dogs all well sheltered inside the shops from the storm. Dustkciked up by the insane wind licked at my heels as I desperately tried to get home before the rain began. I was too late, but the pleasing cool - that always comes with rain that was building all day - was such a relief. The roads became mine as cars, tuk tuks and motorbikes disappeared in an instant. I finally got the rain that I have been waiting for for weeks. It has been so hot and dusty it was such a relief to get a drop of rain. It brought back some memories of monsoon when I first arrived and was such a novice around here.
I made it home drenched, but full, content and could hear the pitter patter of rain on my roof. ahhhhhh
Someone pedantic, work out how much I owe myself will you?
Ta.
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