Yeah If i start blogging, I find it a bit difficult to stop =p

Okay I will admit!! i'm BORED. If there's one word that defines my constant state, it's "Bored". I think I'm just incredibly restless. And I'm in the mood to write today (instead of writing cover letters eh? bad Yamini! =p) so I'm just gonna wipe and write on my dusty blog instead.

Sooooooooooo..Singapore has received me well enough, bla bla. It's a nice place, REALLY..and that's all it is, "nice". It really does not have enough (cheap) activities to make you look forward to getting up and going.

I kept myself fully-fully occupied the past two weeks, and dragged my friend Winnie into it as well..I did things in Week 1 like fixing my laptop and acquiring laptop peripherals (USB hub, headset, webcam, another 512MB RAM, and 40GB more) [we'd visited Sim Lim Square 4 times since I returned. That beats my total visits over the past 5 years!]. We then spent Week 2 by going for threading/eyebrow shapening, having out hair cut, and having our hair coloured. Each activity takes a day. So my afternoons were somehow spent that way. Evenings, I met up with my dear ol' fwiends or helped my parents host their multiple dinner parties (annoying, to say the least). I'd also signed up for classes (like driving classes, german classes and Salsa, yes Salsa, classes).

Mind you, my shopping expenditures were almost zero. But meeting people alone can be mighty expensive. "let's go for coffee here, let's eat there, oh, i need to go to Watsons to get something; Yam: yeah i'll come along---ch-ching..my mind always says: Helloooooo, u're jobless here".

Winnie left for Perth last Saturday unfortunately, which pushed me into coming up with a daily schedule to keep myself busy and not brain-dead from perpetual job-hunting. I'm working out in the mornings (or so I claim and you will accept), studying during the day, andddd meeting up with friends at night or online (for those friends who ain't in this tiny island). Singapore TV is absolute shite, so the only program I'm watching now is Oprah and the friking million re-runs of American Idol. I can't watch that shite (American Idol) anymore..talk about OVERDONE.

You know, I've always had THIS problem with S'pore ...that time here FLIES, but it can just fly with one doing nothing at all. I mean, I'm busy the whole day, but I don't know WHAT i'm thhhaat busy with..busy enough for the sunset to come that fast. I'll turn older faster this way, Oh Gawd nooo.

But the people here are really nice, if u give them the magical treat, that of smiling at/with them. It works even in customer-unfriendly Singapore =) You know, I think I just want to meet more people. I miss life in India, where I was meeting people left, right and centre. And at the same time in Singapore, I want to talk, and yet I don't want to talk. I miss listening, people don't talk that much here, I find. Or at least, they don't talk that much sense =p I hope my German and Salsa classes have some nice people to talk to, but I'm not gonna get my hopes up. =p That never works in Singapore anyway. Your hopes? Keep them right close to the ground, no, looweeerr...ahh..tthhhatt's right.

I've got a new pair of glasses!

My eyesight has worsened substaaanntially, she told me..So i HAD to get a new pair of glasses for home. Ain't good to wear contact lenses for too long, anyway.

So i decided to go a BIT bold. Yes, I got THE GEEKY pair. The kind that definitely look toooooo big on my face =D As my friend's bf said, 'On your face, even an ant's ass would look big.' Was a good line though, i must agree!!!

And i LOUVE it!!! yaaaaaaaaaayyy..my latest accessory!! Retail therapy helps FO' SHO'!!




So that's my new face at home, people!! The perfect pair for the so-called "rough use"..i.e. sleeping on the couch with glasses on after watching TV (wouldn't break tthatt easily), and great for travelling!! (when i next travel, that is... sigh), as well as the next 'Geek Party' that i will be attending. Wooptidoo..anybody organizing one anytime soon?!

I'm Home =)

My adventure has ended..India 05/06 officially came to a close last Saturday morning. Arriving into Singapore's amaaazzinnggg Changi Airport (voted as the World's Best Airport as of today, in fact), I almost kissed the manicured carpet once I was got off the aircraft. Such convenience, such efficiency, mmm..smell that discipline!!

I had an exhausting weekend though..meeting up with friends and talking to family..It's been great, i'm enjoying it even more to continue talkin in the Indian slang 'Hey, Boss', 'Please turn right-a' ..it's so fun..hehee

I'm only afraid of one thing: that S'pore would make me soft again. I don't wanna lose the gutsiness I took so long and hard to develop....I doubt one can lose such things anyway, so let's see..But I wanna travel again =( But I doubt I'll be allowed to move my ass out of Singapore again. My passport might get impounded by some people I know, eh Vani? =) But in August, travel will be there itself only!!

In any case, I'm back to reality...and like the movie claimed, it bites. But maybe my adventure is continuing =) I'm just gonna try living like a traveller in Singapore..would be interesting to see how THAT turns out. Should go dreadlock my hair now =p Watch out, Pops =p

Last blog from india, eh?

....it's the Eve of my last day in India, ladies and gentlemen (so drama-mama....)

I figure this is a good time to wrap up, since i'm also reallllyy bored right now..my 'to-do' list is unfortunately a tad short, i'm almost packed.. and i've no other tourist spots to visit in B'lore (more like, i DON'T wanna visit..and i DON'T wanna fight with autoriksha drivers anymore) ..plus i have no more luggage space/weight to shop anymore...take shopping out of my life, and i'm BORED. I'm SO looking forward to my flight tmrw evening =)

Well, what can i say. I'm going to miss India..the spices of india...every corner, there's entertainment (people fighting with riksha driver, cow pissing, dog running, construction workers working, men letching at woman, and so on..)

I spent the last week in Hyderabad and Chennai visiting my relatives. Reasons being: (1) i wanted to meet my cool aunts and grandparents, (2) they have airconditioners at home, (3) food/accomodation is free, and more importantly (4) as of 1May, i didn't have a bed to sleep on in my place at B'lore =p
So i decided to spend 3 nights on trains and move around India. Which brings me to Reason (5): I wanted to travel on the Indian trains for one last time. Love them.

So anyway, India has changed me. As it would change anyone. But I've learnt so much about life, the value of money, indifference, maturity, courage, love, family, friendship, politics (office =p), poverty VS being poor VS being so poor you have nothin to eat, cheating people, adjusting to really bad situations (the toilets!!), being faithful, the serious things in life, the fun things in life, the interesting things in life, MYSELF...the list goes on...but most importantly, i'm learning about Change.

I will not say that i've learnt all that there is to know about Change, but I'm learning how to execute it, how to accept it when others change, how to move on when I and others have changed.

Okay, as the Indians would say, 'that's a lot of "gyan"' ..gyan=knowledge i.e. Bullshite =p

So what else is there to say about India?
1. Its people are genuine...once u get to know them. A smile initiated by u gets u everywhere u want to go =)
2. Life in India is hard. Look out of the train window and take a look at the platform-sleepers, next time u're in India.
3. Life in India is great, if you can afford it. I get a taste of the 'good life' whenever I visit my family...but that's not India-India.
4. Men in India are terrible, if they're strangers on the street. But they make the best friends when you get to know them.
5.Food: Paneer Butter Masala and Jeera Rice. I would recommend this to any traveller to India. AWESOME food.

I dont know when I will be coming back next. Perhaps for another cousin's marriage sometime in the next 2 years...and perhaps for a week at most. But that's more than enough, i reckon =) I STILL wanna see Calcutta though!

At least now I can confidently initiate and win a fight with a rickshaw driver =D
"Courage is there itself!!"