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NGM News
As I promised you just the last minute before you left, here is some news of NGM Mansion, and about life in Chennai, in general.


-We failed to find one (or two) new roommates. We tried to make the spare room looks attractive, I cooked, we were trying to look as nice as possible, but we failed. 3 times.

-Levent and Nicolas found a other job: for…money reasons, they are now, during their free time, translating stuff from Dutch or Turkish
-Farah had to wear a sari at work, for one day

-Levent, Nicolas and I, went to a “rock concert” in a girls college. I tried to seduce the “dream girl” from our office, sitting next to me. Levent was, as he said, “counting the points”. I reached “+15”, and then, I entered into a bad loop: “-200”, and I finished the night with “-500 000”. Between two roars of laugher, Levent managed to tell me “You know, you cannot necessarily make the same jokes as you did for Jiayee”. It was not working. She is not REAL !

-One evening, we were quietly eating, when 25 Indians, coming from nowhere, rushed into OUR garden, shouting “FIRRRRRRE ! FIRRRE !” The house of the wardens was burning. Errr, in fact, some tyres in their house were burning. We all had a different reaction: Yattan walked very slowly and kept his hands in his pocket, and finally sit down while watching, motionless, the flames. “It’s not a big issue” said he. Levent runned to find enough buckets and water, shouted in Turkish and managed to extinguish the flames. I thought “I must shut down all the electricity in our house, from the big box, outside, but first, I must put shoes, because I do not want to put dirt in all the whole house”.

-We had a nice party in Pondicherry for Pasha’s departure. We were sleeping in a fishermen village, in a kind of hut. Farah said “What’s the fuck ? There is no bathroom !” Ibtissam said “Are boys gonna sleep in the same room as women?”, and I said “cool! There is a wooden hamac in this hut”. Later, as Oliver said, “the French connection was fucking drunk”. Nico spend 15 minutes to sing (alone) songs from Belgium, he went in the sea, I followed him, and I decided to wash my boxer short (sand in it…) but a fucking wave washed away the drunk guy and…a Turkish saved my life. Nico slept totally naked on his mattress and he almost pee on Farah. (Drunk) boys will be (drunk) boys…

-Apparently, two days ago, somebody tried to enter in our house. The little guard 12 years old, told me that he kicked him 4 times and break his nose. As I was laughing, and not believing him, he showed me… In fact, he is REALLY studying karate and kick boxing, and he was not joking…

-We are all going to Goa for new year’s eve. Except Yattan, going to Dehli.

-We never eat lunch at home: too silent.

-Farah and Ibtissam are learning Yoga each morning with Nathan

-Travelling is THE way