The week of 6th to 12th November:

The week was qutie dull did not much from Monday to Friday.

Friday 10th Nov: Tried out khaana at an Italian resturant, for lunch. Was ok :) Then went down to Pretoria, had to do some Indian grocery shopping. We were too late though. The shops were all closed. Came back to gallo manor and pati made some yumm mutton curry, first time in Joburg.

Sat 11th Nov: Went down to "GAME" the store at FourwaysMall. Its like costco - Makro here. Hugeee! Fourways Mall itself is huge with all the stores and also the cinemas. Then went to Montecasino. My first visit to a Casino, ever. The buildin itself was beautiful and the roof had the look of a blue sky with clouds :) Had lunch there and tried to watch the movie "Grudge -2" horrible thing. I could not stay there beyond 10 mins. Oh the first part is the original on which the hindi movie "Bhoot" was based on. Got out of the movie and got back home. I made real horrible chicken curry that night :)

Sun 12th Nov: Went to Rhino park which is near Kruger's drop. This park had Rhinos (2 of them we could see), deers, Tigers - Siberian and Bengal tigers, Hippos :), Lions - oh we got to see them at lunch time, when food was dropped off for them, some process it is. These Lions were perched at a certian spot and were facing the path which came from the entrance. Everyday they get lunch at 1pm. When it was close to 1pm, they seemed to be gettin restless. There were a lot of cars parked right in front of them at a lil distance. A couple of them actually got up and went towards the path, bang next to the cars. That must've been some scare for those people in those cars. Then the food car arrived. Infact there were 2. One was quite far away (1st car) and the other drove on this path (2nd car). The 2nd car infact seemed to be drivin the lions away from where they were sitting. It was a circular kinda space. Then the 1st car came down that way, super fast and the lions were runnin almost along side it. Suddenly, it dropped the food it had at the back of the car and then sped off. The lions were all over the food. Seemed to be a dead buffolo or something... not sure!
Phew! that was something. Quite an experience.

Week of 29th to Nov 5th: This week kept me quite occupied. Nolita (sukanta's co-worker) was away so I got to use her machine for the whole week. She's back on the 6th so lets see how it goes.

Ok... so Monday and Tuesday I spent away my time catching up on chats and email... and orkut and not to forget Harry Potter :) Been reading the books all over again :) I seem to discver new stuff that I somehow never endedp reading earlier. Unless I find a job soon I might as well get membership at the Rivonia library.

Wednesday I stayed home, was to go for my driving class but did not. It also rained quite a bit on that day. Was a good thing.. or maybe bad thing that I did not go. Might have gotten the hang of drivin in the rain too :) Oh I made chicken pulav... it came out the best of all the times I tried here but due to the lack of a pressure cooker I had to make it in a regular steel bowl and the bottom was burnt quite bad. Luckily, my pati salvaged the top part and once the burnt smell was out of the window.. :) it tasted quite good :)

Thursday and Friday I went to the office. Friday, around 2.3pm we walked down to Rvonia Square from the office. It was a 10-15min walk. Pretty cool. Grabbed some lunch...at KFC and spent time walking around the stores there. They had woolworths, PicknPay, HealtPharma...clicks and other stores.
The guys came back quite late and picked us up from there. Came home, freshened up and went to Village Walk for a movie. Some diaster movie about some race car stuff. Phew! had dinner at an Indian resturant there - New Delhi it is called. The food was not really good. The resturant Raj, at Rivonia junction, had too much garlic and this place had no spice. They put black lentils in the Biryani :) It looks like setting up an Indian resturant here would be good business.

Saturday, the guys came over home for lunch and then we went to Makro to pick up a few things. I picked up a pair of slippers and now regret it :) they hurt and I really cant walk very well on them :) We then went to the airport and picked up our tickets to Cape Town (goin in December). Oh yea.. the JNB airport is now called "O Tambo airport" (Oliver Tambo) after the Vice President :)
Then we wanted to go to the OttoAfrica show. We drove towards it - N1 South. Nice long drive. :)Lost the way and went ahead :) Then the car broke down :) we had to call for a Taxi and the tow truck :) First time experience :) Was a lil scary but interesting too. We got back home from there (din get to see the show...sad!).

Sunday, we went to our drivin class.. missed mentioning this before.. the drive was awesome... very beautiful scenary. Saw a couple of horses grazing away on what seemed to be a horse farm.. :) Was nice. Saw great cars too. Our instructor is going to take me to drive on the regular streets this wednesday..and also on the highway.. All the best to the rest of the drivers around :).

Ok... so what else has been on....

* Oh yea! We bought a 4L pressure cooker here and the damn gasket is gone and now we dun seem to be finding one to replace it. Phew! I keep burnin many a dinner... like last night.. made chicken pulav but the damn thing was burnt a the botton... for once I was happy that the masala was allright... anyways.. pati managed to save some of it and it was ok.

* Went over to Pretoria a couple of times. Once to go to Laudium (pronounced Lodium). This is a very desi place. All desi stuff we get out there. Pati got a haircut ! Phew! Atlast. It was a small place run by a Bangladeshi and had a few Pakistani haricutters :) cool eh!
Then we went to this resturant - a desi place ofcourse - and had food packed and got it to Gallo manor.

* Oh yea! we started takin drivin lessons out here. Been pretty cool. Just got to complete a few more to get the hang of all the rules around here.

* Randburg Waterfront - this place was recommemded to my Pati by someone who told him there are water games and what not. Well ! the place had shopping, food courts and some kiddie entertainment. Oh yea! It also had a water fountain... I guess standing in front of that water made it a "Waterfront!!!" lol.

* Oh yea! Pati and I have gotten pretty decent at makin some stir fried mushroom :) He made it the other day too with some sauces and the red, yellow and green peppers :) I am gettin the hang of experimenting too :) When the requried stuff to make Indian curries is not there then how to manipulate :) hehe

* Been makin plans to go to the Rino Park... doesnn seem to be workin out at all :) Oh yea.. we saw that movie "Jaaneman" coz we din get tickets for "Don!" I heard we should thank our stars that we did not get tickets for Don ;)