hey guys,
good to hear u guys are having fun over there n seeing new stuff. so cool. is Alison the blonde girl? so are u 3 (jeannie bao n mei) roomies? when does school start for u guys?

think when u all come back u'll be real good at Hindi heheh.den can teach us some.

for us here in spore, same old. (well at least for me). our computing tutorials n lectures are up already. n leslie loo said our tutorials start on the first week. nooooo!!!

anyways, above are some picts i took at my friend's bday party. the theme was Indian costumes.. hahaha..how coincidental. we even wore the red dot on our foreheads and bangles hehe..btw u guys shld buy saris n wear them in India. it'll be so cool heheh.

(btw how do u add pict below wat u've already written? everytime i wanna add pict it always goes on top)

Its been like 4 days since I left the comfort zone of my own home and stepped into a different culture. I do miss home, but its fun being here. Its really a mixture of feelings. Cant wait for someone to come and help us (alison, jeannie, pau and mi) set up the msn connection. Its gonna happen only on the 2nd or 3rd of Jan. Guess what... web cam is like so not allowed here, cant remember the reason, but u just cant use it.

We went to the bank yesterday to setup our account, it was quite hassel free as the lady serving us was very helpful and guided us through the steps. All our accounts were set up in less than an hour. The only bad thing was that we couldnt take money out or exchange money as it was a saturday and there is no exchange rate. So we gotta wait till like 2nd or 3rd before we can do so, as its new year.

Learnt that for the new year, students in ittb who live nearby would go home for celebration. It is very common to spend you new year at home with the family..After opening our acct, we went to a nearby shop to buy iitb stuff. I bought 2 T-shirts and postcards (hoping to write home someday) After our little shopping, we met up with the Abinav, he is the student rep in charge of taking us around. We walked to a nearby shopping centre HN, technically if they say its nearby its like at least a fifteen mins walk. HN was very impressive (as in the exterior), we didnt really spend time shopping, as he only brought us to see where HN is and we headed to a supermarket to buy toilet paper and daily neccessities. After buying quite a few items, we took an auto rickshaw back to iitb (which is like the TUK-TUK in Thailand)

Back in campus, we dropped by hall 13, which is a guy's hall, to take a look at Abinav's hall and to visit the little shop there. I got my extension plug from the shop and slippers for bathing. Hall 12 and 13 was magnificant, its like super grand and we called it paradise. Hall 13 had a balcony with a very nice view of powai lake and they have entertainment centre, carrom board and a very big computer room.

After our tour of hall 13, we went back to hall to have tiffin. Over here we have 4 meals a day and we go to the canteen and eat as much as you want. The four meals are- Breakfast, Lunch, Tiffin (Tea) and Dinner. The ggod thing is that the menu changes everyday, so its like a big surprise for us everytime we step in for meals. Am getting accustom to the food here, and I love the chapati (do i spell it this way??) which has replaced rice as my staple.

After tiffin, we went back to our room to clean up ourselves and the room and also to unpack our stuff. Pau went off at bout 7 to meet albert at the airport, and I parked myself in Jeannie's room. We decided to plan for our sunday trip (which is today). So we decided to go for a little shopping and check out if there is any countdown party.

During dinner, we asked the ladies cooking if we could learn how to cook chapati, and they are gonna teach us on monday... yeah!!!!!! Well all this took place with a lot of hand gesture and our broken Hindi. Thus we decided to learn 3 phrases everyday, and hope to be able to converse in Hindi. Thanks to Jeannie, she is really good at catching the language, and have been teaching us. We (alison, jeannie and I) even had a dance to help us say "how much is it". We laughed so hard that we got tired and went to bed.

Oops got to go brush up now... going for breakfast at 8.30.

Picture time !!!!

Have been in India for like 3 days, and my feedback is as follows:

Toilet: Acceptable (like hall 7 standard)
Food: Not use to it
Room: Small but smells nice (has run down walls and comes with bedsheet)
People: Friendly

Food.. for breakfast, we had toasted bread, whereby we had to toast the bread on a stove (liken a big big hotplate) and you throw butter and jam on it. To top it off, you have cucumber and tomato sauce to go with it. Teh tarik was complimentary. For lunch, had rice, cucumber, carrots, curry (with no meat) and pickles. Didnt really like the pickles though, coz its really sour... eeeeeekkkk.

IITB had this cultural festival thing and yesterday is like the last day, so we went for 2 events. First was the folkdance-which was actually dance that you see in the Bollywood movies. It was more like aerobics for me, was really tired after that. Next we went to the kite exhibition, whereby we tried flying kites and admired the pretty designs. Would upload the photos soon, coz going for breakfast.

It's 28 Dec 2006, the day mei and pau will set off to the land of indians. Sorry i wasn't able to send you guys off, but i was spiritually there. I will cry myself ugly if i was at the airport. Sigh... But i will still go if i could make it.

It will be 8 months later when we meet again. I will miss you guys so much!!!! Even now, already start missing you guys!

Do take lots of pics and show us how india is like. Update us online and on this blog ya....

Till we meet again, take care...

With lots of love,
Jud

I have a few proposals (not marriage proposal though)...

1. KTV session (either k lunch or buffet dinner at kbox)
2. suntanning

Please add in suggestions for outing and propose dates for the above outings.

Pictures from our baking session.. hehhee.. thanks to xx mum for opening up her place to us... thanks to pau for helping xx and mi to bake.. hehhehe.. yup we baked brownies and were really tired at the end of the day.. but were happy with the end products...

Hey peeps... these are the picts from our friday outing...

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