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....