January 9th, 2012
Today we went to Kandy, which was a disappointment as it sounded like a nice town/city with less crowd. It was so crowded, hot, bad traffic. Although I felt good going to the temple.
January 10th,2012
My friend didn't even bother to call us, to ask what did you guys do? And How was the day? We did pretty good today, but when you invite your friends for wedding, make them fly half way across the world, should have the decency to at least call and ask that much. I can't wait to go back to MSP and have my same routine days.
January 11th, 2012
I was a little worried how things would be and now this turned out worse than I thought. Few more days left and I am now more and more worried. I am so disappointed.
I guess I should have known, the moment, I found out, we have to take a cab to my friend's place, I was a little worried. But, I then thought, it made sense for us to come in cab since its a long drive here during that traffic time. The first day wasn't that bad, second was worse and now every day is getting worse. If we didn't plan our own plans the past two days, it would have been really bad. I want to write so much, but my thoughts are extremely heavily full of disappointment and little bit of hurt feeling that, I can't seem to write it correctly either. Few more days, oh my god. At least right now, you are here with me, you will leave Friday morning, then I am not sure how it will turn out. God help me, if I am a nice person, something nice should happen.
This is one of the worst experiences in life, at least feels that way at the moment. You think the friend is a very good friend, you spend so much money, fly half way across the world, spent 1/3 of your vacation, and what do you get. The friend doesn't even have time to make a call once to ask, how are you guys doing? What did you guys today? I don't think I am expecting too much.
If this was my situation, I know how I would handle things. This is like, we came all the day this far, to get treated as we don't exist. The place, where weather is horribly hot, roads are full of bull shit three wheeler. Sometimes, I reach to a point where I think 'this is a very big mistake I did by coming here' . I know its bad to say, but I can't help. I think Sri Lanka is always going to be a bad memory. Because a good friend belonged to this place and I wanted to visit, but it was one big mistake. I learned a lesson, never fly across the world for a friend's wedding, doesn't matter how good the friend is.
To be continued........
January 10th,2012
My friend didn't even bother to call us, to ask what did you guys do? And How was the day? We did pretty good today, but when you invite your friends for wedding, make them fly half way across the world, should have the decency to at least call and ask that much. I can't wait to go back to MSP and have my same routine days.
January 11th, 2012
I was a little worried how things would be and now this turned out worse than I thought. Few more days left and I am now more and more worried. I am so disappointed.
I guess I should have known, the moment, I found out, we have to take a cab to my friend's place, I was a little worried. But, I then thought, it made sense for us to come in cab since its a long drive here during that traffic time. The first day wasn't that bad, second was worse and now every day is getting worse. If we didn't plan our own plans the past two days, it would have been really bad. I want to write so much, but my thoughts are extremely heavily full of disappointment and little bit of hurt feeling that, I can't seem to write it correctly either. Few more days, oh my god. At least right now, you are here with me, you will leave Friday morning, then I am not sure how it will turn out. God help me, if I am a nice person, something nice should happen.
This is one of the worst experiences in life, at least feels that way at the moment. You think the friend is a very good friend, you spend so much money, fly half way across the world, spent 1/3 of your vacation, and what do you get. The friend doesn't even have time to make a call once to ask, how are you guys doing? What did you guys today? I don't think I am expecting too much.
If this was my situation, I know how I would handle things. This is like, we came all the day this far, to get treated as we don't exist. The place, where weather is horribly hot, roads are full of bull shit three wheeler. Sometimes, I reach to a point where I think 'this is a very big mistake I did by coming here' . I know its bad to say, but I can't help. I think Sri Lanka is always going to be a bad memory. Because a good friend belonged to this place and I wanted to visit, but it was one big mistake. I learned a lesson, never fly across the world for a friend's wedding, doesn't matter how good the friend is.
To be continued........
Our apartment mates, didn't bother to show up and we ended up taking the whole suite. I called so many time to ask what's the situation, no one bothered to return my call nor pick up the call.
We managed to rent a car with a driver and visit Waarana to see the buddhist vihar. Soon the wedding day was coming closer. My so called good friend, didn't bother to call us once to give any wedding details nor to ask, how are you guys doing ? While having lunch at one place, we noticed they were taking other friends around town, they had time for that, but we felt like getting treated like a third class citizen, quite hurtful.
Wedding happened this and that, nothing special in their one hour wedding. Dinner was fabulous in the 5 star hotel. Expected of course when you spend so much money in a 5 star hotel.
Long story short, soon it was time to checkout from the hotel and friend's dad came to pick me up. The hotel bill was over $1000, which shocked me. When I asked my friend about when the hotel mates would come, I never got answer but, just, 'will figure out'. The checkout time was a drama.
Later that evening, they said we are going out for dinner. I asked them about why the people didn't show up. The amount of excuses those two said in front of Nayana, omg. I couldn't believe it. The person I knew as a good friend has changed 360 180, and now had become something else. I don't want to write the words here for them.
Later that night, I was at my friend's place. That's when uncle asked my friend about why he didn't let us stay at the hotel outside. Instead of giving any explanation, I got blamed. I had never asked him to find a place for us. All we asked was, "how far is your place from the guesthouse?". It was hurtful, I couldn't hold myself, I walked to the room, I was staying. That's when they followed me. I locked the door and went inside and cried.
Instead of saying sorry, they told me 'you don't understand'. God dammit, what is there to understand. I flew all the way across the world, using 1/3 of my vacation, paying $1800 for the flight, you don't have the decency to keep us posted about wedding nor any decency to call us or take us anywhere nad have the guts to say 'you don't understand.' I was pretty upset and I told them 'I shouldn't have come to this wedding."
The next morning, uncle and auntie said. 'you handled it well last night and sorry about that". I just simple said, 'not your fault'. Same day, mom dad came to visit with along with Chandima bhantey, it was so nice to see mom dad. They were so happy to see me too. Soon, it was night at the beach, it was nice there. I wish I had more time, only that night.
Then soon after eating some snacks was time to fly back to MSP. I said bye to my parents and came to the airport.
The Sri Lanka trip, which I was looking forward to, became one of the biggest nightmare of my life. That bad experience doesn't want me to ever go back there.
