"Every two years I come here and go back"

Nineteen years. One place. Only one place. Every two years I come here and go back. I stay only one or two months here, then go back.

When I go to Saudi Arabia, I got only two children. So they were very little, small. Then I come back from there. When I come every two years, second child, he doesn’t come to me (laughs). You know? So I have to practise for two, three days. Then only he comes to me. I felt very sad. I missed my family at that time, you know?

I write letters every week. Every… every month… I write. Always, when I get the chance, I talk. I speak. You know in Saudi Arabia,  there are… that walking phone (laughs). You know what that means? When you want to talk… talk to Sri Lanka, there are some people, they have phone. They say, five rupees… five riyal for one hour like that.

Then he brings the phone on Sunday only. So that Sunday we talk. One hour we can talk like that.

At that time, that telephone operator, he called me. He said, “Come here, there’s a message for you. You come…you have to come”.

I asked, “What? What happened? What happened?” I asked. He said, “You don’t get excited. Your father has passed away”. He said. I was at the room and I was crying like that. (Laughs). When die, one person, you have to bury him before twenty four hours. Within twenty four hours, you have to bury it. This is the system.

I asked to my manager. He said, “No, now you cannot go. Because very difficult to go now. We have to arrange ticket, and everywhere, everything. It will take time, so you can’t see your father. When you go there, everything will be finished. So no point of going”. I couldn’t come. I felt very…you know…very sad. So I helpless.

After that, after some years, again another message. My mother passed away.

Yeah, happy.  And when I went there, I happy. Sad thing is only these two. I lost my parents and I couldn’t participate in the funeral.