Prelude........of the Visa, Cancellations, Davang Patel....and Agent Smith!!!!!!!

What a life I have!!!!!!I actually can boast about it. The start of this year had being a joyride!!!!! Complete with the darshan of GOD himself. And to think that just a few days ago I was thinking that missing the first day of the New Year would be a miserable thing to happen!!!!!!!!!

How wrong I was!!!! If only I had known………………hehehehheehehh……..


(Btw this post is made so that many of my friends would simply leave me alone when I get da chance to meet them!!!! Coz then, they would already no the details of my trip!!!!
I almost lost my voice talking about my vacation with my office people. But it still doesn’t mean that I will shut up abt meeting the GOD himself!!!! Hehehehehehe…)

So here is a detailed post about my trip…but before I start the real post…. please note one point of disclosure.

Through out the trip and even before it started I was the butt of everyone’s jokes, which eventually followed by incredible amount of leg-pulling. The only reason being that all-possible problems in the world were related to me. But none of the problems were result of my actions. Will write abt it as the post goes on. Only then the real reason of my frustration will be understood!!!!!



Just 2 -3 weeks before our departure, we discovered that MY visa had holes punched in them. And if that visa page was held up in the mirror…u could actually read it as CANCELLED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

THIS WAS NOT MY MISTAKE!!!!!

But I was subjected to immense leg pulling. Finally to sort out the problem we had to apply for a fresh American visa. This set back my shopping budget by $120…………………..and I WAS MAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hence for a new visa, I had to give an interview at the embassy………….but it was again a hilarious incident!!!!!!!

The entire embassy was filled with people (obviously…. what da hell was I expecting????? dinosaurs???) But the entire embassy was filled with Gujjus.

I had never seen so many Gujjus gathered in one space!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And they came in all shapes and sizes……….but here is the best part…………. they all seem to have the same name and that is ………………DEVANG PATEL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


When they first called out for a certain DEVANG PATEL………….I was laughing my ass-off…wht kind of a name is it????

Which parents in their right minds would name their child DEVANG PATEL. As if that video albumwalla DEVANG PATEL was not enough…. they have just 1 new DEVANG PATEL in here. So damn funny!!!! And so I thought………..

But a few seconds later…another Devang Patel was called and this time he was called along with his family!!!!!

Few minutes later…another of that Devang Patel was called!!!!!! Actually, it was funny in da beginning, but as the number of Devang Patels increased I started getting freaked out!!!!! I didn’t no that our country has soooo many Devang Patels who are desperate to go to USA. At the end of it, I even lost the count of how many Devang Patels were actually called for the interview!!!!!!

And imagine my surprise that in an AMERICAN Embassy…………..they started making announcements for the Gujju people in gujju!!!!!! Man…. I had a hell of a time in da embassy………


Then came the part about my interview………………I could see 4 different American people taking interviews and out of them there was only 1 guy. For some very weird reason this guy seemed very familiar. Now I am fairly sure that I have never met this but then there was always this irritation that I have seen this guy!!!!!!!! BuT WER???? That question was killing me…………….

So as luck would have it………..this guy calls my number and he is now the one who would take my interview.

Theek hai………………I will answer his question patiently and try not to be arrogant to him. I actually had little patience left coz this goof up was not my fault and me and my whole family had to so through unnecessary trouble of applying for a new visa. Not to forget the $ 120 ka daan, which we had to do!!!!!!!

(My parents were very scared that I might say something that would ruin my chances of getting back my visa……….again they made fun of me by imaging what kind of question I would be asked and how arrogantly I would answer them…hmmmmmph…)

I answered the question fairly OK. They were not really questions though, just a very stupid conversation. But still at the back of my mind…I couldn’t figure it… wer have I seen this guy???????

Interview over. I got my visa. (Big deal….I was as it is gonna get it so whts da big deal…..) But still no recollection of that face………wer did I see it????


Then while going home on the express highway……….I saw this cute little girl in a rickshaw. She seemed to be talking to me and doing some action with her hands. I simply looked over and tried to check if my dupatta was stuck outside or something like that. But everything seemed fine. So I looked up at her.

Still the same reactions. Pointing and wording something, which I was unable to understand. So I thought ki forget it…………..and happily went back to thinking about the face…kidhar dekha tha usko?????? It’s so irritating if u can’t place a face that u think is vaguely familiar.

But then the girl started again…talking and pointing. But this time I realized that this girl was probably talking to herself. So told my dad about this and we both laughed at it.

Moments later I simply thought that if u see certain scenes of Matrix without the sound……….it would be the same experience as I had right now. Like when they have to speak with people in their craft…. they simply mouth the words…..only if u have seen the movie from beginning that u understand ki they have an ear piece which connects them………………..so on and so forth…………..

And that’s when it hit me………………I NOW THAT FACE!!!!!!!!!!!

It was the face of Agent Smith!!!!!!!!!!!

No wonder it was sooooo familiar…. as if I had met the guy!!!!

Yup !!!! Thts him !!!! Thts agent Smith from Matrix, only this Agent Smith was not christened as Agent Smith, he was a much kinder and cuter looking agent and he had the most freakily brushed hair possible. Not a single hair out of place.

Finally a happy end to my trail of thoughts!!! I could now proceed to think about other non-sense things. Relieved finally!!!!!!

So my trip to the American Embassy was very fruitful one indeed. I saw sooo many DEVANG PATELs that I don’t ever wish to meet one ever in my entire lifetime. And then again I met Agent Smith ka duplicate.

Wah……..wah………. what a rocking day !!!!!!

And such was the prelude to my wonderful trip!!!!!

Updates about the trip would be coming up ahead!!!!! Keep reading!!!!!

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