Weekend Wonders

While most of our Weekends would pass away lazing around or contemplating the future, our last weekend was quite a unique one. It started with a terrible Thursday night that we had not planned for. I came home around 10:30 pm, and with a bunch of Heine bottles occupying the Fridge since a long time, we thought lets finish them up. So that there will be ample space in the fridge,thereby tempting us for another trip to the supermarket. Its the place we end up buying most of the unwanted stuff just in order to be broke again.

So we planned to have a few rounds of Beer (Heine’s for Heineken for those who aren’t into all this booze business, I mean the sober souls). And we switched on the Laptop to watch some movie. We finally agreed to watch “Meet the parents”. It was an interesting flick and with the weather so hot and the Beer so cold, we were able to gulp down 7 pints even before realizing the count. We were also chewing on some Pringles Smoked Chicken Flavor chips, while our hearts were craving for Nandos Chicken. To dismiss that desire, we opened our very own pack of Desi Masala Lays! We were able to sleep only after 3pm and that led to a tired start to Friday!Somehow I managed to drag to work and landed home, slept and slept!

Saturday was beginning to be quite fresh but the resistance to leave the bed was extreme! Somehow my husband dragged me out of bed as he was dying to attend the Car Auction at Turners Auto. I was least interested to venture out, I just wanted to have a lazy morning. We munched on a heavy breakfast of Bhurji Bread(cant find Pav anywhere here!). We had hearty cups of Chai and rushed towards the highway to reach the Auction. I was amazed with the way so many cars were lined up, the huge hall and so many people test driving. We also sat cozily in the Mazda Familia there.. Sleek and Black and Flamboyant! And the eerie feeling of "My precious"(Lord of the Rings Style creeped on my mind). I hastily dismissed it as I remembered my good old Santro back home in India.. My First Car.. My Really Really Precious One!

We could hear the announcements informing that the Auction would be starting soon. We started searching for the perfect seats but coulnd find any. So we decided to stand at the rear.And then the action and the auction began. The Auctioneer, a Gora had a strong UK Accent. And I could only understand him when he spoke slowly. But he never did! He was there to create the excitement,competition, jealousy and tension so that people could make spontaneous Bids. And he was quite succesul at that. Within a matter of half n hour 21 cars were sold off, with the bang of the hammer at every Sale! One unique thing that I realised was that most of these cars were bought by Asians. By Asians I mean all the Chinese looking people. Until I was in India, I also thought I was an Asian. But for the World, Asians means the fair breed of people with beautiful eyes.. in short all those Chinese looking nations, which also seem to be blessed with Prosperity. My Economist mind woke up suddenly and I started developing a hypothesis.. "The effects of buying power of immigrants on a Nation's Inflation." We will talk about my psycho attacks on the pricing funda in NZ sometime later.

So by the way, I enjoyed the auction which I wasnt earlier keen on going to. Just for one reason! We didnt want to be consumed in the lure for another Car. So that was how saturday began, and we started planning for Sunday. We zeroed in on Waiheke Island, as it is nearer to Auckland and most importantly it could be covered in one day. We decided to go  by Ferry, booked Fullers Waiheke Explorer package for the same. The trip was really wonderful, and I will be writing about it soon. In my next post:Weekend Wonders Waiheke!