Spot the irony in the title! I've never actually celebrated Deepavali, or Diwali, before but being in a country with a large Hindu Indian population it was hard not to get into the spirit. The only downside is that pretty much every Indian owned business was closed, more on this later...
The evening before I went round to a friend's who I hadn't seen in a while and was watching some crazy Bollywood film. Seriously, unintentionally funny and trying to get him to explain what was going on was a challenge! His English is perfect so it wasn't a language barrier that meant I didn't have a notion what was going on. The flat is in the middle of town and at midnight I felt like I was in a warzone.... Deepavali is the festival of lights and Asians are obsessed with fireworks so things went crazy! It was nice to watch, after I cracked my head against the wall jumping out of my skin.
Next morning I went to work as normal, Liam came to meet me for brunchner and we realised this was the day that our favourite restaurant was going to be closed. We went to the Malay food court and it was awful. We also tried a couple of more restaurants, all awful in comparison to Kumar's.
In the evening I went to a drum circle with Jess (new friend) and some other guys from the Lodge and it was well cool. A few weeks ago there was some other drumming going on in town but it was on the car park on the main road so people weren't really dancing but this one was off the main road so a bit more lively. Had a good boogy, the beats were amazing and a local drumming group went and got their stuff and a megaphone. Lots of locals about as well as tourists and it felt really authentic and how I should be spending Deepavali.
Later that night we decided it would be fun to get drunk, Stanley (the evil bastard) came back into my life and I was wasted! I became an obnoxious little shit and started lecturing Liam and another American about butchering my language and chatted pure bull to Jess about go knows what, Stanley stole my memory again!
Deepavali 2011 - good times!
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