Settling down

Its been a week now. Every thing is good. It was super hot when I 1st arrive. The weather here is super weird, it was hot for 6days then on the 7th day it turn winter. Now its super cold at nite. I had a super huge single bed in my room. Everything is creapy in my room. Lots of bugs around, slept with geako and spiders everynight but they are good as they keeps the mosqitoes away.

Bought myself nice bedsheets, warm blanket, table cloth, bath room slippers...etc. Now its pretty cosy. We found someone to prepare lunch and dinner for us everyday except sat(off day) so we can go out n have some junk food during ur off days. We have tea party and chats everynight. We drank camomile tea everynight and it helps alot with sleeping. Meet a new fren from america, he's gt the biggest feet and hands I've ever seen. His shoe size is 14(i'm only 6) took some funny pics of me wearing his shoes and comparing our hands n feet. Super fun. We have in house dogs who just gave birth 3 puppies. They are so cute. Will upload some pics of them next time.

My fren bought me dark chocolate all the way from belgium. Today I finally got the chance to bring it out and share with everyone, then i found there is only 1 left in the pack. Someone stole the chocolates, ate all and left 1 for us to see. I was very pissed off. So we ate the last chocolate, then took an used dirty tissue and stuff it back into the wrapper. You all know me, I'll make it look really real. I put the chocolate back in the bag for the theif. Hehe... think it be fun.

Didn't upload pics now cos I'm too lazy to do it. I'll try to upload some next time. I've not got the india number so you can only contact me thru email of facebook for now. Its troublesome to get one. You need passport and photographs and fill in some forms.... etc Will try to get it soon.

Bye for now!

with metta
royis

Finally in Rishikesh

I'm finally here. After all the travelling and sweating, I'm finally here. Everything is fine here. Been eating alot of nice food. Made new friends and they brought me to very nice restaurant. The room that I'm staying not super fantastic but basic. Gonna stay there for the next 3 months so I'm trying to make my room nice and cosy.

It is still very hot here I dunno why but everysays its gonna be completely different in the next 2 weeks and I maybe freezing cold. Not too afraid of that since I've been to much colder country before. A little scared of the course afterall I've not taken any full time course that last more then 1month but the yogi says to me that its gonna be ok just enjoy. And 1good news is, he says I'll gain weight after the course. Hopefully i still can fit into my clothes :)

Many of you may have heard the news that there are bombing in delhi. I'm in delhi but pretty far away from the bombing place (abt 5hours train journey) so pals not to worry about me. I haven't get any new india line so hopefully the next time I come to the internet i'll be able to have a new num.

I'll stop here. Take care pals!

with metta
royis

Night before india

I've been away many times. Not just a short trip but normally they last for 3 months. This trip is one of my weird trip. I remember my very 1st trip to europe. I have no idea why I went, I even thought of turnning back home and just forget about everything but in the end I still continue. I had the same feeling now again. Very excited but felt like turnning back. Perhaps I'm having one of my anxiety depression again. :) Just hope that I'll come back in a piece and gain more wisdom. I really would like to be a clever 'mei nu'. ;)

Well, just 1 more day to go. Let see if my vision has lead me to nothing or something special.

India, I'm back...

Perhaps its alittle too late to inform people thru this blog that I'm goin to india again. Leaving on september 11th. Going to Rishikesh this time for a 3 months course. This time I've really no idea why I'm goin back again. Maybe its the calling that I'm answering, afterall its really a very spirtual place and i'm super excited to be there again. So now this royisinindia blog is officially open again. Thank you for your support! :)

with metta
royis

Singapore

I'm back to singapore once again. I've really learn lot from this amazing trip. Somehow I felt like I've never been away before. It felt like a dream. A really long and detailed dream. So many things happen in such a short period of time.

Thank you for giving me this opportunity. This is not the end my trip. It only the begining.

Back to the Ashram

Finally back to my home in India. Everything is fine so far. Had serious skin rashfor the past whole week due to the super hot weather. But not to worried pals I'm ok now. I'll be back in 2 weeks time. My off day is every sat so if any of you wanna chat with me online, you can catch me on next sat. Came early today to see you all but 'boohoo' nobody is there. :)

Anyway I'm super excited to go home now. I've found what I wanted in India so I guess I should be ready to go home in 2 weeks time. FYI I won't be staying long in singapore, cos I'm planning to go for another course 2 months course in Thailand. Woo... I'm so excited about it now. I love Thailand.

Dun think I'll be blogging much since I'll be home soon (anyway no one sent me any comment maybe noboday is viewing my blog :( ) Too lazy to blog n I've got quite any important project I wanna finish before I leave the ashram. Dun think I'll finish it on time but I'll try my best.

So once again, take care my frens and see you all in 2 weeks time.

Leaving Rishikesh

I LOVE RISHIKESH!!! So many things to shop, cheap n good food, cheap internet, cheap hotel, lots of cheap massage n yoga classes to attend. Everything is cheap here. Just went to the book shop, spent about 5300RS(abt SGD$203) , bought abt 15 books. Also bought a huge bag of clothes (approx 11kg) I'm super happy now (guess I'll worry the total amount of $$$$ I've spent in india when i go home). I think I'll come again. Everything is so cheap here. Its almost like hongkong just shop n eat, shope n eat. Btw pals, many things are for you all. So be patient to wait for me to come back. Small piece of good news, I'll most probably come back on 1st june( think its a sunday if I'm not wrong). So if you guys wants to pick me up at the airport, be prepared to come to my place to open the presents. Alright nothing to much write this time. Tomolo I'll be on my way back to the ashram n will have less time to log on. So take pals.

44degrees

Dear pals, just wanna to let you all know that pls appreciate all the out door pics I took n upload on facebook or in this blog. It 44 degrees outside n everytime I take a picture, I risk to get heat stroke which will get me end up like this,

Well I'm kidding pals. It is very very very..... hot here. I was told it 44 degrees outside. So wondering how I get to blog so offen these days? Cos we are hidding at the internet cafe from 12noon - 5pm. Mc Donalds became our international good fren. We are looking for Mc Donalds every time we arrived at a new destination. HBO is a must in our hotel choice cos many times we'll hid in the room watching HBO. I knopw some of you will think I'm lame, but I'm a princess in Singapore(bishan) so I can't stand the heat. I tried my best n every time I'll end up getting heat stroke n become sick. Even my fren is afraid of me standing in the sun.

Delhi is fun, we manage to find a good travel agency booked a couple of A.C ( air conditioning)tour. So you'll be able to see me finally looked like a tourist with myself standing n posing the photos. I'm so happy. There is Mc Donalds, pizza hut n a restarant which sells good fried rice (I've been eating it everyday since I reach Delhi). Gonna eat it again 1 last time before I leave for Rishikesh.

The only thing that I have to crack my brain is my luaggage. I brought too much with me, didn't expect to buy that much clothings. Anyway I've decided to donate some clothings aways and will freight some back. So Pals not to worried I'll try my best to make sure everyone has a present from india.

Going to Rishikesh tonite by coach. Really looking forward to it. Been wanted to get some cool yoga outfit n I heard I could get it cheap there. Also wanted to find some palm or angel reader, guess it'll be fun. Mite try rafting hopefully the water is not too cold. Will buy lots of yoga books clothes....etc Last but not least I'll try to be thrifty I didn't left much $$ with me.

Recently I came across this place in India call Manali. It looks nice, so Pals any of you wanna join me for my next trip to manali let me know earlier.

Manali I'm coming to visit you soon....

20th april - Food poison

Good news, I can post photos up now (check out face book for more photos). I had food poisoning a few days ago in mumbai. No idea wat I ate but I won't be surprise to have food poison, its india. A very nice lady dress us up in saree n put make up for us. Everyone look at us like Miss India. Hehe...

I think I look more like Air India model. Well anyway its was a surprise make over, I tot I'll look like 'ru hua' cos I hardly look good with thick makeup. So I'm quite happy with the out come. Thanx Sujata!




Got to off now, will blog more next time.

Indian Feet

Before I start, apologies for no updates on photos cos the cafe here is ful of virus so i didn't want to take any risk, will try to upload them when I go to mumbai.

Indian feet is what everyone will have if you're to around in India. You feet will alway be dirty, black will cracks on your heels. I am no exception. Been staying in the Therapy centre since 11th april (I have no idea wat's today's date n day) seems very long to me. We woke up at 5am everyday to wash up then go see the patients how they do their asanas, but normally we woke up at 6am (overslept). Then at 7am we have to go to the massage room to help them to prepare for steambath n massage. Never seen so many naked bodies at one go and continuously for so many days. No one seems to mind to be seen naked and to be touch n massage by the therpist. We have to put oil on them and their Indian feet. The room (somehow remind me of prison cell) is rather gross cos its full of massage oil everywhere and the ppl seems to have no idea about hygiene. All their equipments are dirty and oily but no one seems to mind. So I built my courage and tried their massage for my lower back problem. Got onto the oily massage table still got my bra n panty on (too shy). Everyone was surprise tat I did the massage. Amazingly the massage was really good, with the infra red lamp the my lower back was so relieve. No wonder no patient ever miss the massage session despite of the gross condition of the room.

Basically we have 2 massage sessions daily(no off day) and most of the time we are sleeping in the room when we are not needed. Never sleep so much during the day in my life. Rather bored at 1st. As days goes by we got attached to the patients and now they are happy to see us and we can see that they are recovering fast. Some patients had very serious slipped disc which they were told by their doctor to go for operation immediately, but now they had recover almost 50%.

Its been a tough but meaningful experience in the centre. Learn alot, morally, mentally practically.... Its getting warmer here. Woke up with sweat almost every nite, Mosquitoes bite me almost everyday. Never been thru so much with such big acceptance before. Guess if this were to happen in singapore, I'll go crazy but when you really face it, its actually nothing. I didn't say feel this becos I'm stuck here, I always can choose to go home or stay. I guess i'm just testing my limits.

Well i have too much to tell about the therapy centre will talk more when I get back. For my overseas pals if you wan to know any other info regarding my stay in the centre, drop me a message here I try to reply asap.

Bye for now

Take care everyone!

End of my course

Finally I've reach the end of my course, A little sad cos I have to see my friends leaving but I'm happy too cos i get to continue my other journey. Well I finish my exam on tue, got my results yesterday I passed, infact every did so well that we all got 1st class results (there are 1st class with distinction, 1st class, 2nd class and failed). Did my presentation on the disease topic Sciatica, I was the last one to present on that day so I was expecting everyone to be tired n pray hard that i'll finish within seconds. Surprisingly they find my presentation really good, I took about 7min to finish my presentation and recieved my good comments from my frens.

Thank you pals!!

2 nights ago i had lots of guest in my room. Think there are abt 3 - 4 thousands of them. It was raining that day(2nd time raining since I'm in india) The huge black ants were moving house, but not just their unit seems like 3 -4 other villages are also moving away. They were crawling in from my bathroom and I had no idea to where. There so many of them that it looks almost like horror movies maybe 'Ants Attack'. I dun even dare to look at it, my brave roomate decided to killed them as we are afraid it mite take over our room. It took her more then 30min n still she couldn't finish clearing them. Not only there were ants but in all different sizes and other bugs too. I was so sad that night, I regrat to vote for the decision to kill them. I think all these years of being a vegetarian is a waste of my time, eventually I'm still selfish. Killing thousand of innocent insects where they didn't even harm us at all. So I punish myself the do chanting non stop for 90mins and not allow myself to go outing with my coursemates. Guess some of you mite think I'm crazy.

Tomorrow I'm goin to the therapy centre for attachment. Oh i almost forgot, I went to the dentist just now to remove my wisdom tooth. Haha... what an exprience. It was so cheap here, you cannot believe they charge only SGD$40 to remove 1 wisdom tooth. And the surgery was pretty smooth and quick. I kept my tooth, will take a picture and upload next time. I also had my new fillings on 1 of my tooth, but tis is more expensive, it cos about SGD$30.

I left my thumb drive with my frens so I can't post any pics now. Will try to log on asap next time.Guess that all for today. Bye for now, and do email or reply my blog to update my whats happening around.

Cheers!!

2nd April 2008

Finally got to blog again after 2 weeks. These 2 weeks are really long but enjoying. I have classes everyday, almost 4 lecturers a day, but I slept throughout half of the time. Luckily we've got a course mate who films all the lecturers down for us, so I can sleep better. I didn't mean to sleep, but waking up at 5am in the morning everyday sure needs lots of practice.

The weather here has been weird these couple of days, its was very hot in the afternoon (abt 35 degress) and very cold in the nite (abt 10degress) many ppl got sick. I'm the lucky one. We all have moquitoes net over the bed but somehow the mos just seems to find its way into my net to bite me. I'll wake up in the middle of the nite to search for it, and always end up empty handed. Perhaps its my mind the thinks mos is with me.

Went shopping today before I start blogging. Bought 4 pants, 2 shawls, an indian top (for my graudation ceremony) and 2 necklets. Guess how much it cost altogether? Only SGD$40. SUPER cheap. Guys n gals, not to worry, i'll try my best to get something for all of you. I also went for the Blood test today cos it cheap. Gonna shop later after lunch. Took more pics today but guess i'll upload another time.

1 more week to go, then it'll be end of our course. But this week is gonna be very tough cos we've just been told that there will be practical n oral exams and we have thesis to do. I'm so used to designing my work but now I have no computer. Really dunno how to finish my thesis. With no print outs no pictures, you can imagine how well i'll score ; )

After the course, I've took up another course for a week, and then I'll be volunteering at the therapy centre for 10 days then its HOLIDAYS all the way to end may.

Well got new pics update. The environment here is super nice, check the pic below. Most pics are uploaded in face book so go check out!

Bye for now....

Days in india

Hi pals,

Sorry for the late post. Never got a chance to go to city to the internet cafe and there is no network in the ashram (school). Well everything is fine here. I've been sick since i got here but i'm getting better. The weather is really hot here in the afternoon. Its about 36degrees and during this time we have no electricity in the ashram. So no fan. And definately no AC. The food here are nice. They dun look good but sure taste fantastic. They dun allow us to eat spicy food so lucky for me.

The ashram exprience is really something. I've got to bathe in brown water. Even my clothes are yellowish becos of it. My feet are never clean. It so dry and dirty now that I no longer bother about have it clean. The weather here is really nice in the evening n early morning. I have to wake up at 5am everyday but still feels good. The fans are not working in the afternoon during the hottest time of the day, so its really testing my patient to keep cool and not to sweat so much. Well i'll stop here well talk more next time.

My next off day is 2 weeks later. So Lian dun get scared if you dun hear from me more then 2 weeks. Meanwhile my cell is switch on at times so you still can texts me to check if I'm alive.

Btw I found a travel mate. We are gonna stay in the therapy centre for a month and then we go travel around India. Hurray.....

Bye for now.

Check out my face book for photos. Didn't upload all cos they charge me per MB upload.

1st day in India

Creepy India airline. No entertainment no radio... Luckly I had my MP3 player. To my surprise the seats seems to be nice, much nicer then KLM. Finally I realise why, most of the seats are spoilt. They could be come up, some were so bad that when the plane took off, the seats went all the way to the back like a bed (the indian man in front of me had to sit up by himself holding the arm rest). Was expecting lots of weird smells, fortunately the plane was only 60% full, so the smell wasn't that strong.

The ride from airport to my school was really far. I got onto the transfer at about 330pm, only reach the school at 830pm. waited at the nasik office and had to take another taxi to the ashram (another 45min journey). Made my 1st indian fren. His name was Harban Sing, a retire scientist. A really nice old man, gave me treats and feed me with lots of snacks on the journey. He says i'm like his daugther, he even invited me to his house if I were to travel to south india.

The rooms were different from the website. Rather dusty and lots of mosquitoes. Just one day, I had already 8 bites on my hand. And there was a crazy dog crying the whole night at the ashram. But the food at the school were fantastic. Meet 3 new frens, they were my room mates. The internet cafe here are really creepy too. Can't read my SD card reader, guess I'll have to look for a better cafe to upload my photos.

Will be starting my course tomolo. Will update you guys soon when I have my off day (still dunno which day is that).

Preparing for India

Tomorrow is the day I'll begin my new life. Super excited n scared. Been taking some pills to prevent malaria. A super powerful pill with alot of side effects. Had a small diarrea for the 1st day and a little mood swing. 2nd day I starts to feel giddy and diarrea too. 3rd day was the worst. Viomitting, diarrea and dizzy. Super depression and anxiety. This is a scary pill. Today is the 4th day and I'm still dizzy every now and then. Oh no... I shouldn't had taken this pill. But there was one really good side effect about this pill. I called my ex and we had a really good conversation.

I'm only 70% packed and I still have lots of things laying outside waiting for a slot. Can't seems to finish my packing. Keep feeling I'll missed out something really important. Guess I just can't bear to leave my shell behind (my nickname is smilingsnail). Not gonna spent too much time blogging after all I not a blogging lover. For the sake of my frens and family to know my well about, this will be the site to check out if I'm still alive.

Cheers for now!