Hello!
It takes many efforts to go through a trip, like I had on Friday.
Yes, a trip, not to Disneyland, but some what the amusements where similar to it.
I visited a long way (for me though) to a strange place, and then came back home, not safe and sound :P Damn! I hate trips :D
Curious? You better be :) Its called "Matli", its my village, it is in Sindh (Province of Pakistan), about 50 Km from Hyderabad (The place where I live, the City of Winds).
Here goes the story, you should have plenty much time to read all this :)
As usual, I was sitting on my computer. My mom asked me to accompany with them to the village, I said hell no! A VILLAGE!! NO!! What I am gonna do there? No, no no! No way.
She really forced me to come. But again I said no. Then there was little light in my coconut, hey! If you go with your dad and mom, you could drive car, you get used to it, and its about 50 KM!! And you could also make your mother happy. And tada! I said, "yeah ok mom, if you insist" :P
I asked my dad, if I could drive. He agreed, and I started the car, and beam! My wish came true, but not for long :P
When I reached the outskirts of Hyderabad, the road to Matli was too narrow, and was two-way, it means cars, buses, trailers driving at 80 Km/h coming from the opposite way and crossing about 1/2 metre. OMG!! I asked my dad, "Is this the road I will be driving on for about 1:30 hours?" He said, "yes". Holy Crap! This is suicide!
When I used to see a car incoming, I used slow down and tried to keep on left as much as possible, my dad said, "What are you doing? Don't slow down, and don't go to the left". I said, "I was gonna hit that car!", he said "No! You weren't, thats called judgement, you need to understand where your car is", all I could think was of me. lol
Then after 30 mins, I was driving perfectly, and I was exclaiming to the other vehicles, "hey give me some room! I need to pass", I was driving at 80 Km/h, that road wasn't for 80+.
After 1 hour, I had extreme pain in my right foot (clutch foot), then I was saying, "plz! just drive in one speed, don't make me change gears, ah it hurts".
As I reached Matli, dad asked me to pull over, and he said, let me drive now, you are tired, I said to myself, what a relief :) As if, a relief fund has come from a foreign country :P Dad drove over bumpy, narrow, dirty, *more bad adjectives :P streets, and then he stopped, and said, I will be back. I was hungry, I went to the shop and bought two chocolates, and one drink, everyone was looking at me, as I was a white guy in a black peoples crowd. There was no label on my face stating "I AM NOT FROM MATLI". Actually, my accent was little different from theirs. I came back to my car, and I saw something right outside of my car, a bird, a rooster. WTF! Where am I? A Zoo maybe? You don't see a rooster everyday, right at your car, do you?
My dad came back, and he asked me to drive the car back to my grandpa's house, I said, "I just forgot where's the house", "Your mom will tell you" my father replied.
Now it was my time to drive back through those narrow, dirty streets :(
I took this as a challenge, the street was too narrow, and only one car at a time can pass. My mom asked me, "What if a car comes from the front?", "Good question, I don't know" I replied, then at that sudden a car came, O FISH!!!
I asked that driver, what should I do, with my hand-olish language :) He replied in the same language with "Go back!", with my snarl look, I reversed my car, and like there was a bud(little space) in the street, my car just fitted in that bud, and that car just passed, and I went all the way to the main road. I drove over to my grandpa's house.
There I met with my relatives, that I have never seen them before, and they really respected me. Fareen, my second cousin's daughter, she showed me her photo album, her doll, and her birthday gift. Then I met Hammad, my cousin's son. For the most of the time, he was on his tricycle, and he was moving with his feet, rather than pushing the pedals, I tried to teach him, but his coconut was too small to fit in.
I turned on my cellphone and checked my email, wow! I just saw Pakistani Spectators asking me for an interview, and a lot of comments. Then I said to myself, obeying parents brings you lot of good things :)
People were really nice, they spoke very lovely accent, it's called "Laar" or "Laari" accent of "Sindhi".
I came back home with cold :( I told ya, I wasn't back in safe and sound :)
The moral of the post is, you try to find something of your interest, but that turns out as your rival, and you meet many other interesting things, that you always feared of.


You can see how much narrow the road is!

You see, that's the shop!

That's the rooster guy! :)


This is Fareen, showing me her doll :)

This is Hammad, having a curious look at my poor cellphone :)

My grandpa, Hammad, and my uncle having dinner :)