You never Know!

   You never know what has been written in your destiny and you never know where your destiny will take you. But if you are as lucky as me, nothing to worry!

   My destiny took me somewhere on this planet which was sooooo far from my country, with people who are very different from my people and speak in a language which I never knew even a word of it! “cooool”, that’s what I said to myself at the time, “let’s have some adventure!”. But you know what scared me a bit? That destiny was taking me somewhere which I had never thought about it, which I had never checked it on the map, which I had never read about it or even heard of its universities! And my cool destiny was taking me there to spend my sabbatical!!! :)))

   “OK! Let’s go there, do experiments 16 hours a day, finish your job successfully and come back with a hand full of data” that’s what I told myself at the airport :D

But you never know! You never know that someday, when you are having your lunch, a girl will smile and wave at you and the other day this girl will become a very good friend of you :D yessss, that’s the way I met Mathi and our friendship formed :) Mathi is kind, cute, fun, caring and chatty ;) LOL

   First time we went out with Mathi, we went to Starbucks! It was Mathi’s suggestion since I didn’t know any fun place in Hsinchu :D After some time, it became a habit of us to go to Starbucks for very private discussions mainly about… ;)))

   For the next “Let’s have fun” plan, Mathi suggested to go to Nanliao according to her friend’s suggestion who I assume was Murali. We went there by bus and Murali, Lavanya, Hemanth, Reddy and Mavis came by scooter and joined us there. It was the first time I met them but of course not the last time :DDD Moreover, it was the first time I met some Indian people and I'm so happy about it :)

   We all rented bicycles and started riding along the 17 km Nanliao coastline. It was a long time I hadn’t done any exercises and I was a bit worried I might not be able to ride for 34 km! But yay! I did it well :))

   The coastline area was really beautiful but it was a bit hot. I felt like I want ice cream but there was no ice cream shop there :( we stopped on the way for several times, had some friendly chat and took photos ;) They were/are all fun people and had/have good sense of humor. So I was really comfortable being with them :)

   After coming back to the bicycle shop, the whole family of the owner was there ;) we were a bit late but they were enough kind not to complain or being angry on us ;) they had a very cute son, I guess less than 2 years old, with whom we spent some time there :)

After that we went to a very good vegetarian restaurant, suggested by Mavis, and had dinner. OOhhhh I enjoyed the cream soup very much. But never had a chance to go there again :(

Time to see some photos :))

two happy girls :) (Mathi and I)

beginning of the journey!!!! :D

another two happy girls :) (Lavanya & Mavis)

Mathi giving a lecture I think :D

Blocking the road and making people pissed off!!! :P

Hoooraaaaaaaaay! end of the road :) but we need to go back :(

four happy girls :D

I like the way Murali is standing here :D

Lavanya with the Cutie Pie :)

Hemanth teaching me how to hold chopsticks!

the delicious cream soup...

   It was a really good day and the beginning of many other fun times....

   As you see Sudhakar was absent in this event ;) I assume he was too lazy to ride bicycle for 34 km and that’s the reason he didn’t come ;) Don’t worry Sudha! You can defend yourself in comments :D :P