golden twine

8.10.14

9am-The Chinese six are well behaved, I’ll say nothing more about them.  Large smatterings of fog above and below fill the landscape.  Today is a festival of sorts where men replace the gold string they wear across their chests.  Laxman and Maya will go to her parent’s home for the ‘ceremony’.  Maya asked me to keep an eye on the place while they are gone but there is the top to visit in a few minutes and a visit to the descendant of the high priest for a chat with his daughter.

I think Suman can do an excellent job managing the guesthouse and he is a good cook.  

2:39pm

I walk by the Mountain View, look up and say hello to Ram ‘Salaam Alaykum’ and he responds in return and then a tourist, and a rather obtruding one he was blurted out I shouldn’t use another religion’s greeting when you’re not a believer and I reminded him quite quickly that it is language not religion we speak, peace be unto you is not a copyrighted phrase in Quranic Arabic is it?  And he wanted to ask another question but there would be none of that and I left him with a masalama. 

Was I rude?  So I’m sitting on the bed in room five when Maya leads this very regrettable to room six and I can’t have done that much wrong, Lord. 

Yesterday Krishna the temple at the top caretaker said come around 9am tomorrow for puja.  I walked past the temple entrance at 9.20am and it was locked.  I saw him later on the road and showed him the gold saffron twine on my right wrist.  From Beem. 

A variety of fog has taken stage so far all day and when the sun did rip through it was nasty hot.  Ram is cleaning my bathroom, it’s been a while so I’m letting him.  I think he is also under Maya’s command to clean my bathroom.  And he is going to clean my floor despite me saying no, though if he can get up that wax near the door that would be good.  

6.08pm

There is a super moon tonight and no one will see it here unless the heavy fog blows outta here.  Ram is showing the rooms.  Is Maya not here?  Laxman hasn’t returned.  Should I go up?  Would Maya really leave the place with Ram?  Well you didn’t tell her you went to the Himalayan View Guesthouse for the afternoon tea. 

I believe all the rooms are full and I am the only one who isn’t Nepalese.  It must be the holidays.  The guests are ordering their dinner now and am I hungry?  I should be.

9.51pm

Suman and I looked at the application process for Harvard College.  You must have ‘special talents’….What are your special talents?  Ans…I built an actual size replica of the spruce goose on the mountain.  Unfortunately my camera broke. 

The young pimpy man sings to his girlfriend on the balcony outside room six.  Best of luck to you.  Suman is sleeping in the large bed because his family are all itching and they don’t know what to do other than isolate him.  He slept in room seven last night.  Yes, I slept in room eight for five months, the green wasn’t as green then as it is now.  They are singing together.  Where’s the rain when you need it?