Dehli is prime, wedding blues

Delhi is a hot spot, nice clothes, great subway system, loads and loads of nice export quality clothes and the fact that no one can drive.

i thought the metro system was amazing. it was cheap, easy to get around and not to mention takes you straight into the city, and hit the far away suburbs i was staying in.
delhi has really changed a lot and it made me kind of sad since india as a whole is chaning, but somehow communist west bengal is stuck in a time warp. Not only do the young kids think this but also my grandfather, and he's no stranger to time.

My days in delhi were nice and calm, shopping here, some eating there. Until i was asked if i wanted to go to a wedding. I was like "WAY COOL A WEDDING"! So i woke up early got all my stuff together and went on an excursion. we took an autoriskshaw (my aunti and i ) and then a bus, and then a bicycle. We came to the house we were going to stay at and also my aunti's cousins house. I met this cute 10 year old who was really good at dancing, so she entertained up with her bollywood style dancing, with the whole butt shaking and thang. i was sort of kind of embarresed, jsut cause she was so young and the dance moves were comming out of something on a rap video... but she was good. She was acutally an all delhi dance winner, and her teacher is a famous bollywood choreographer.

after some time we went out to try some gol-gapas, they are these dilisious puffy little balls that re fried and are hollow and you fill them with potato mixture and then gets dunked in some liquids of varying flavor. so tasty.

DELHI DETAIL:
delhi is becoming filled with what are known as sectors in the suburbs, they are alsmost sqaures of land that are filed with these huge condos all in a row. Each sector can contain numerous pockets, that are the indivisual condo buildings themselves. So a sector can have some 18 pockets. each sector has a different look and style. So the place in was in was actually in Noida, which is part of UP(Uttar Pradesh) but delhi is similar. This is the new trend in indian residential living. It's very mystical and extremly scary. It reminded me of a futuristic movie where you like in blocks and you no longer have a name but a number, is India becoming a Borg ship?

anyway so we got ready and i was sporting a brite green sari and some dangly earings, and we were on our way. I was so excited to attend my first indian(bengali) wedding. Only to come to dissapointment. Like most americans the only wedding i sadly have seen is in monsoon wedding and bend it like beckham. So i was expecting all this danceing and fun and brite colors. nope. nothing. the bride and groom just sit there and people come and say stuff. the food was allright and nothing spectacular. They did have an assortment of choices like a fruit place, and tandoori grill. Maybe it was because we arrived too late, or maybe bengali weddings are boring thing. no one was dancing at all, there was music but it was more like just a backround music. i wanted some chair lifiting, sweaty saris, crazy dancing, people falling and getting back up. maybe atleast one hand in the air ponting at the sky thing, nothing........so dissaapointed. i've got another wedding to go to in april, my cousin's so maybe that will be more entertaining, i'm keeping an open mind.

traveling to kolkata on sunday.