It was a lovely Saturday. As I remember the 12th September, 2009. My friend Yaamini, Chayini (previously blogged as Paavai) and my self visited the books exhibition held at BMICH. Chayini went to BMICH early and my friend and I joined after attending the lectures that morning. We went to BMICH around 11.45 am. Chayini was waiting at the entrance of the main block inside BMICH premises. Until we go there she had had an ice cream and a coca cola. :)
As we went there, we couldn't get inside the main block as there was a huge crowd. Then we went to the next section where there was Expo graphics, Poobalsingham, Jeya book center etc. On the way to that block there were food stalls of Mount Lavenia hotel and another hotel. My both the friends go hungry as they saw that. But since it was a vegetarian day they would only have a look at those foods. :)
As we stepped into the Expo graphics my friend started screaming, saying she can't get into that massive crowd. At last Chayini and I managed to take her in. We were searching for few books and at last couldn't find them. Then we moved from there to another stalls. My friend even didn't step into some shops as it was so crowded. I however managed to buy few lady birds books and stationeries for my brothers and my sister's kids. Chayini managed buy few kavithai books and stationary where other friend bought some cookery recipe books.. :)
Then we came out of that block and went to the bargain shops. A really interesting thing happened there. There we saw a CD shop which had Sinhala movies. Chayini wanted to buy a movie CD. But unfortunately she forgot the name, but remembered the name of the director. Poor sales boy without knowing that Chayini didn't know to read Sinhala gave a lot of CD for her to see whether the one she wants is there. Chayini stood staring at the CDs. Then the guy understood the situation and started reading the names one by one. But what Chayini wanted was not there. :(
The time was around two o'clock as we left that place. My other friend started to complain that she is hungry. We went in search of vegetarian foods and at last only found Maggie noodles :(. With huge long faces we three had to have noodles (Maggie 2 minutes) as our lunch. Then we visited some more stalls in the main block. The book "The boy next Door" by Enid Blyton, was not available in the places where we searched for that and have to leave without the book. :( Then on the way we saw a person selling candy floss and my friend and Chayini wanted to have it very badly. The funniest part was that a 10 year kid saw that and was just passing by, but ladies of 20s wanted candy floss. :P As we bought the candy floss and turned we met our It programming lecturer with her kid. She couldn't stop laughing at us and these two were also embarrassed as we saw her. As she was one of my favorite lecturers I was bit sad that we couldn't have a chat with her. Then they had the candy floss standing under a tree. Then after few more stalls, we left the place around 3.30 in the evening. The most interesting part was that Chayini and my friend enjoyed foods equally to the books at the BOOK FAIR... :)) . Even though only three of us went there, we really had a very nice time there. It is another unforgettable day for me.
