Mr. Colonel's Guest house

24 June 2011

Our guest house is owned by a colonel and his wife. They are very nice and friendly and they always convince us that it’s safe to be in Ashirvad (the name of the guest house). Ashirvad literally means ‘blessing’, and for us, it’s really a blessing. It’s very comfortable because even though it’s not air-conditioned, each room has a cooler. When any of us fell sick, the colonel and his wife always make sure that we have everything that we need. The servants are also very nice and friendly, they bring us water once we reach ‘home’, they save our clothes when it suddenly rains while we are in the office, and they help me post my postcards. J

The colonel and his wife also check on weekends whether we have come back safely to Ashirvad because most of the times we reach Bahadurgarh quite late, around 10pm, and according to Mr. Colonel’s wife, this area is not safe after 10pm.

Compared with the buildings surrounding Ashirvad, it looks like a luxurious place and after some weekends when my friend got disturbed by strangers (from an old man who made some obscene gestures to another man who kept touching my friend while we were sitting at the back of the auto facing the road behind), reaching Ashirvad is really a blessing. There’s this feeling “Yeah, we’re safe” once we step into the garden. FYI, my friend is a guy, so until now we do not understand why he always gets disturbed by strangers at night. We hypothesize that the many people are drunk during weekends, that’s why we somehow meet weird people every weekend.

The problem with our guest house is the SUPERHOT kitchen!! The window was locked, there was no ventilation at all. I always perspire a lot when I cook. Initially I did not plan to cook even though my roommate bought cooking oil and salt because the condition is just not suitable for cooking, but cooking can make me save a little bit of money each day, so I bought a frying pan and decided to cook the most possible food in urgent situation: SCRAMBLED EGG! :)

Oh one more thing, the view from the roof top was very nice!!! :) I feel like I’m in Japanese drama which has lots of roof top scenes. Hehehehe.

-FP-