I have just returned to the UAE from India - and this trip made me a certified NRI (Non-Resident Indian). How, you ask?
My tummy crashed.
The way it does for foreigners who visit India and can't take the spicy food.
I felt ridiculous carrying a mineral water bottle around, like the firangi backpackers you see in India whose tummies can't take our desi water.
The street side stalls called out to the real Bhartiya (Indian) in me. Ah... the paneer-pakoras, the chaat-paaprees, the spicy, oily, mouthwatering stuff that I used to savour without reservation when I lived in India beckoned. And I, with my digestive system in a sorry state, stayed put.
I'm back in the UAE, and my tummy is still trying to get a foothold on slippery ground.
Can't wait to get the system going and then get back to the brown khubz and the shawarmas - oh how I missed thee, ya UAE!
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after being here for so long dis place becomes home strangely for most of us expats
but strangely enough, i only appreciate the u.a.e after being away for long enough for me to forget the icky parts...
May peace be upon your souls, hearts, minds, and bodies... Amen.
"All of life is a coming home. Salesmen, secretaries, coal miners, beekeepers, sword swallowers-- all of us. All the restless hearts of the world... all trying to find a way home. It's hard to describe what I felt like then. Picture yourself walking for days in a driving snow. You don't even know you're walking in circles-- the heaviness of your legs in the drifts; your shouts disappearing into the wind. How small you can feel. How far away home can be. Home. The dictionary defines it as both a place of origin... and a goal or destination. And the storm? The storm was all in my mind. Or, as the poet Dante put it... "In the middle of the journey of my life I found myself in a dark wood... for I had lost the right path." Eventually I would find the right path... but in the most unlikely place."
=PATCH ADAMS=
with respect,
You just gotta love India, its the best place on earth... UAE is great too, its changed a lot though. India's not the same either, at least in the cities.
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