I (and my family) went to my Uncle's place yesterday to meet my cousin sisters (let's just call them Bells and Bella you'll know why later) and have shashlik. This is what they call BBQ here =P
Now, my Uncle lives in the suburbs and it's a thirty to forty five minutes drive (eeeeek!) from the main city (where we live) depending on the traffic and the traffic here is worse than Karachi. Just imaageeeeen! I was riding with Daadi and Baray Bhaiyya and the ride itself was uneventful, unless you count Daadi's, well umm, comments =P and my brother pointing out different places along the way. Lekin the BESTEST part was the nazaray.. I literally went crazy. My Nikon ended up with my parents in the other car so I had to use Note 2 but I guess the pictures turned out pretty cool except the ones that are blurry because the driver was driving as if there is no tomorrow o_O. Have a look (there is a surprise at the end don't cheat and go there already okay?):
*Warning: There are ALOT of them this time!
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| I thought it was a policeman but I am not sure now :-/ |
Beautiful nai? Lagay na lagay mere liye tau bohat hi awesome trip tha because I hardly ever go out in Karachi and jao bhi tau Ammi Abbu are so worried ke bhaag bhaag ke jao aur fauran wapas ajao pata hi nai chalta kahan gaye, kun gaye aur raastay mai you are only look out for snatchers!
When we reached my Uncle's place we were welcomed by Lisa .. the dog. That's right .. guards ka guard dog or probably a pet dog I don't know.. whatever I just refused to leave the car \o/ I didn't get a chance to take her picture neither was I interested but she looked like this. In case you didn't figure it out yet I don't like dogs. AT ALL!
Now, when we entered the house Leila greeted us. No, not Khochee Leila but this Leila:
Waise I call her Crime Master Gogo, aankhain nikaal ke gotiyan khelti hai =D She blends so well with the surroundings you almost forget she is there. Thori thori dair mai bhai yaad dilata hai "Faasla rakhain warna andhay ho jayen gay!" =^_^=
I mentioned Bells and Bella in this post for the first time but never got around to actually writing about them. Russians/Ukrainians have weird traditions and beliefs when it comes to .. well, almost anything.. but kids in this case. I did hear alot of stories pehle but witnessed it first hand when my cousin had her first child three years back. Humare yehan 10.51 AM pe bacha hota hai tau 10:51:31 AM pe uski photo Facebook pe lag jaati hai aur ye de dhana dhan messages shuru.
But nope not here! They don't share pictures or videos of their babies with just anyone. Nobody is even allowed to look at them unless they are close family members and/or friends. This is the reason I am not disclosing their actual names and I didn't even click their pictures. If I had I wouldn't have shared them anyway. You don't touch them or kiss them or take them outside in public k kahin koi beemari ya germs na lag jayen and ofcourse they have to save them from evil eye as well. My Aunt was going to name them after their grandmothers but apparently, you don't name a child after someone alive :-/ This is weird for me kun ke humare ek jan'ay walay hain who named his daughter after me because mai unko bohat pasand thi bachpan mai =P Also, they don't give bathes to their babies during the day, it has to be at night AND (this is even more weird) they don't get bathes on the day they were born. For instance, if they were born on a Monday no bathes no Monday o_O Aur is baar tau humne kuch bilkul hi anokhi cheez dekhi! The day we arrived we went to meet the babies. The house was all decorated with balloons, different types of hanging decorations, flowers.
Na baba, this is not the weird part. Bachon ke darshan se pehle we were given masks to wear, you know, the surgical face masks. Then they sprayed disinfectant on our hands :-/ Then came their strollers:
I kept thinking ek humare becharay bachay itna chooma chatti hoti hai unki zindagi ke pehle hi ghante mai k Allah ki panah =D Aur is tarhan humare bachon se milna paray tau log ana hi chor dain ya tanay de de ke maar hi dalain =P Waise the babies are cho cho cute mashaAllah se. They are now the youngest girls in the family, the title previously held by me =(
Is bar mai full plan bana ke gayi thi ke I'll take lots of pictures at my Uncle's place, his house is beautiful (inside and outside) but my brothers are too impatient and irritated with my 'camera le ke ghoomne' ki adat so you'll have to just enjoy the following:
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| It wasn't there the last time I visited. Waise asli ghoray bhi hain =P |
Yehan pe log mirch masala bilkul nai khatay but they like Pakistani food esp. our chai =^_^= I mean it's awesome what's not to love? (Farman I am totally ignoring you here!) Khair Ammi jab banati hain tau woh mirchain halki rakhti hain but their shashlik/BBQ was completely pheeka. Also, they don't like meat well done like us, upar se they love skin and charbi in their meat. Ajeeb hi kuch combination hai -_- They get halal meat for us and my Aunt calls it "Allah Meat" =D
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| Usually they eat BBQ here but it was cold and also Daadi can't come here |
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| See those chilis? Bhaiyyas and I ate them all =P |
Aur dekhiye tau jatay jatay bechari Leila ke saath kya zulm hua. I actually thought they put an onion on her head hahaha =D
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| Burka pehno baby, zamana bohat kharab hai =P |
We had to leave early because Daadi was not feeling well and I didn't even get a chance to properly talk to both my bhaiyyas ='( Wapsi mai I tried to do the light trail thingy lekin meri side pe there were no cars aur dosri side pe picture hi sahi nai ayi. Ugh! I even tried to take a picture of my building but Bhai was in a hurry,
Aur ye over-energetic phussadi kutta bhi beech mai agaya tha -_- No no, we were not scared of him he was scared of us. Uska owner paraishaan ho gaya bechara so we had to go warna woh guzar hi nai raha tha:
Aisay kutton pe logon ko pyaar kaise ata hai? Meri tau samajh se bahar hai. Waise I asked Bhai
I wanted to see the circus. They are amazing here!!! I have seen one in
Moscow and one in Ukraine but he said that he might take us for a
dolphin show instead =D YAYYY!! I AM SO EXCITED!
Finally, ye post complete ho gaya!
Until next time. Ciao! ♥
And finally ye raha apka surprise!!!
