Here Comes India, again!

Have been back from this "filthily annoying yet ridiculously incredible" country for almost 3 months, but I am just like many of the people who suffered from intensive nostalgia, this time it's India-wise. Randomly viewing FB and found an interesting note from Maria, so I have decided to posted it here. It's still unknown why people can be so annoyed in India yet they still love it, but it is sure that whoever survive in that country can easily survive in 90% of other countries, yay!!

Here comes the note:

When I came to India, I never thought I would:

1. Lose two debit cards in less than six months and have to make friends with Western Union
2. Realise that ‘What’s up?’ is one of the most nonsensical ways of greeting anyone ever
3. Develop an intense dislike for the word ‘random’
4. Not iron any of my clothes even once
5. Wee in the desert or in fact…
6. Go for a one or a two anywhere that didn’t classify as a ‘Western style’ toilet and definitely that didn’t involve toilet paper
7. Become even more addicted to tea than I was in England
8. Up my sugar intake per cup from 1.5 to 3.5 teaspoons (uh oh...)
9. Not learn to cook anything Indian (unless ginger tea counts)
10. Suffer for non-too-extensive but testing periods without running water, light, gas and a working fridge (luckily not all at once)
11. Only blow-dry and straighten my hair once in five months
12. Break my camera and be able to blame it on a camel
13. Have to melt buckets and risk mild electrocution just to heat water for a bath
14. Have to shower in the company of cockroaches (hardly 'Joe's Apartment')
15. Miss plastic bags so much (they are banned in Chandigarh) – the thrill I get when I see one now may cause problems when I get back home…
16. Actually feel happy when it starts to rain
17. Have to live in a house where things ‘go bump in the night’
18. Come to know a club with a cheesy name like ‘Score’ – makes for lots of one-liners (Are you going to score tonight etc…)
19. Be preached at to convert to Christianity by an Indian whilst traveling in a rickshaw (or indeed at all!)
20. Find out that it’s possible to have fantastic arguments with rickshaw drivers, even when they don’t speak English and my Hindi is pitiful – largely with the help of mime and dramatic tones of voice – and WIN
21. Live in a house that had a genuine cat burglar

But I’m so glad that I did:


1. Name and love a stray dog that now lives on our doorstep (I’d bring her home but Dad told me if I did he’d call me ‘Rabies Girl’)
2. Manage to have a full leg wax for only 120 rupees (less than two pounds!)
3. Find the best cakes and pancakes and tasty stuff in a café run by an Indian who studied European pastry-making methods in Australia and consequently…
4. Discover Nik’s ‘Special Power Breakfast’
5. Ride a camel
6. Start a personal project I’ve been wanting to do for a long time
7. Actually realize I could interact with and actually be loved by small children (small children were previously a phobia – I could often be heard saying, ‘I’d rather have a puppy any day’)
8. Meet more than one person who is similar to and understands me, regardless of age and the British/Indian difference
9. Realize that being British and especially having a British accent may not actually be that bad :D
10. Eat lots of chicken but also realize that vegetables can be quite tasty (and this from the girl who once said a meal could not be complete unless it contained meat!)
11. Manage (thanks Facebook!) to keep in regular enough contact with my best friend, who despite the distance, was still able to make me laugh and feel loved and comfort me on a bad day
12. Find out that I’m a lot tougher than I thought I was
13. Go to the cinema for about one twelfth of the price of the cinema in England
14. Finally throw my Converse away and get new ones! I think everyone I know in England will cheer if they’d seen the state they were in even before I left…
15. Realize what I want and what makes me happy
16. Have a dream and make it come true and…
17. Celebrate the New Year on a rooftop in Jodhpur realizing just this – that I was in my dream… and knowing now that maybe my other dreams are not as out of reach as I think…

我可以含笑而走了 I can leave with a smile

I am happy to see this. Thank you everyone for supporting!!
Thank you AIESEC Chandigarh!!

Yesterday we froze Chandigarh in the shopping area, the first ever Freeze in India! Happy to be part of this amazing event.

Chandigarh Freeze

Tomorrow is the big day, since we are doing Chandigarh Freeze. What is Freeze? Check this out.



明天是一个大日子，因为Chandigarh Freeze终于可以按期进行。从看到GZ FREEZE开始，到一手一脚策划了印度第一个Freeze，花了一个月不到，还得到了警察当局的支持，谁说印度没有效率呢？有时是慢了一点。

大家等着看更新吧

Happy Diwali

The streets are full of Diwali decoration, sweet shops loaded with dry nuts and colorful sweets, people are bustling on the road rushing to do their last shopping, yes, Diwali is coming!

Diwali (Festival of Light), also called Deepavali, is a really really important festival for Hindus, Jains and Sikhs, but it is celebrated nearly by everyone in India now. It's a day of lights and fire, to celebrate that human beings overcome the evils in their hearts.

Sindhi Sweet is packed with people and nuts (real nuts!), people are paying a lot for cookies, ladus, gulab jamuns, cashew nuts, rasins, happily and willingly. You can tell Diwali is different from all other holidays. Cops work harder, shops open later, people wear less(I hope, but fact is opposite) and the day become shorter. You don't see the effect of economic crisis here since people have been saving their bucks for a whole year for it. Everything just becomes more lively.

This is my first Diwali (how I wish I could be here for more Diwalis), but I am not going to be able to stay with my friends and enjoy the fireworks in Chandigarh. Tomorrow I am going on a 1 week trip in Rajasthan where it is SAID to have less celebration. Having worked for nearly a year without any long travel, I am so eager to make a trip like this, though it will be a trip all by myself.

I start to like my house again, with good friends, good drinks and good games. Pity we have only a couple weeks left. ok I am writing something completely random again. shit. Anyways, happy Diwali, people! I will def go to KFC with someone before leaving.

yes I am lazy now

Still a month to go and I am already feeling laziness has conquered some parts of my body and diminishing the desire to do a big travel. I was supposed to be in Amritsar taking photos of the Golden Temple, but ended up idled in Chandigarh walking a lot on Sunday and had a invisible hair cut. Feeling so strange having to accept the fact that I will be vanished from this city in which I have so many happiness, melancholy, good friends, and so much more. What more to offer is to be in such a different world compared to home. To whole year is just like a dream, and now the dreamer is afraid to wake himself up.

Idled as me, I still made up my mind to do a long trip during Diwali as my goodbye trip for India. I am going to celebrate Diwali in Rajasthan (namely Jodhpur, Udaipur and Pushkar) from next Saturday to next next Saturday. It would be great to see some really sharp contrast on colors, customs and environments (in the desert). I am used to travelling alone and quite enjoy the freedom it gives me.

The house is getting better and better, with more serious conversations and happy drinks at the chilly dry nights. Felt really good after sharing my experience and feeling with Noortje, it's like a heavily armed soldier can finally take off the armour and go home to have a nice sleep without being worried the somebody would come to hurt me at night. I am developing a really well-rounded seld-protection system in India, and I think as my departure approaches, I should abandon it now/.

非常气愤 （March 26， 2008）

今天非常非常气愤!!
看了印度媒体每天对西藏局势的"跟踪报道",今天终于忍不住要骂出来.你丫自己喀什米尔局势都搞不好还在咱们国土上面指手画脚,这么不厚道的事情真让人想抽你丫的.
印 度媒体对中国可谓是关照有加,每天必定有一大个专栏关于中国,我看了这么多个月报纸没发现多少篇是正面的.虽然一面说中国发展很快,经济发展如何如何飞 速,一面"提醒"政府要小心中国,要重建印度的地缘政治力量,不要忘记中印边境的耻辱!!!本来我来印度是为了求和平求发展,还自己出钱出力帮你们这帮吃 饱了撑的政治家改善你们人民的生活,不知恩图报还要落井下石.我不想谈论政治的什么,但是道义上,公理上,还是事实上,印度媒体确实确实有失公允.有例为 证,今天印度时报上面中国专栏标题是
"Dragon On Hot Roof",内容节选:
1.China's Tibet Policy is also based on a myth, an imagined historicity that Tibet has been its part in the past...China has been guilty of imperial overreach against the dictates of geography. Beijing-Lhasa rail distance is 4064 km. Moscow is 4358 km from Delhi. Geographically and culturally, Tibet and China are poles apart.我的理解是,这位仁兄认为只要距离有德里和莫斯科那么远这两个地方就应该是不同的国家了,那么印度南部是不是也应该考虑一下脱离印度版图呢? 毕竟他们说不同的方言,有不同的文化,而且也差不多有这个距离了.这样的报道就是根据想象出来的标准,没有任何国际科学标准可言.
文章中还提 到为什么印度会对西藏地区这么有兴趣,因为西藏一直是中印的缓冲地带(buffer area),如果印度失去对西藏的话语权,中国就会在这段外交关系中占有主导地位,这也是印度政府所不远看到的.印度政府为什么之前一直对西藏问题采取软 弱态度是因为对GEOPOLITICS不够重视,现在重视了就应该"雄起"了.文章最后的主旨把作者的态度淡化为希望印度这个大国可以在军事上在经济上真 正勃起,要在国际社会上有一定的话语权.
可笑的态度,如果一个国家的崛起是建立在中伤另一个国家和干涉其内政的基础上那是典型的弱国寡民的市井骂 街泼妇的行为,我在国际社会上得不到尊重就要在背后踹你两脚,显出我雄壮之势和紧跟所谓"国际潮流".这样的外交态度让我觉得一个字"贱",两个字"很 贱",五个字"真他妈的贱".
我本人是绝少谈论政治的,因为我相信无论政府间的关系怎么样,两国人民的交流总是和平的,以发展为主题的,但是如果有任何人没有任何根据地中伤我心爱的国家,我是绝对不会做缩头乌龟的!!
附上一个非常非常好的网站,看看西方媒体怎么扭曲事实,以偏概全地报道西藏局势的.
http://www.anti-cnn.com/

正餐

今天好忙啊，一直在做aS的一些测评和报告，不过facebook没少荒废还是做了不少事的。把很多照片整理和上传了，给很久不见的朋友留了一些言，改自己status时发现了自己时日无多，在chd的日子只剩下1个月了。NND

昨晚得知Mrs.Lobo要请吃饭，于是今早马上把已经揉得像烂纸一样的衬衣西裤拿去给人烫了。 我发现自己完全不是穿正装的料，一穿就觉得自己更像一个打公仔，想当年我曾经以上班不用衬衣西裤为豪。今天穿起来连个白领都算不上，像个民工。NND

周四放假，打算天气允许就到处走走，可能去SHIMLA随拍。好像要一个广角镜啊～～～

为什么要来印度? (Mar 21, 2008)

来印之前,一心只是想去国外看看,无论去什么国家都好.来到印度以后才真正开始想为什么会选择印度.今天有幸看到广州日报2位记者的一篇报道,正好让我彻底而系统地找到了来这个"神秘的邻居"的理由!!
如果大家想对印度有更多了解,不妨花点时间看看.
以下转自执信论坛

http://www.zx96.net/cgi-bin/bbs3000/bbs.cgi?menu=show&slttitle=20080213085709&id=200405301927&see=3&page=0

印度的菜 (Mar 15, 2008)

最近看回之前OPHENIA在印度的日志，才发现很多东西是要等我真正在这个国度生活以后才感受得出来的。从印度人的被统治情结，到骗外国人情结，再到生活大大小小各个方面，真是感同身受。

印度实在是一个很有趣的国家，这里实在是很多国家的综合体。如果你去一个超过半小时车程的地方你会发现当地人说的是另外一种语言了，可惜他们吃的还是一样的东西，煮到烂的菜，红红黄黄，印度飞饼，超便宜（6毫纸到1蚊人民币一个）。这里大街小巷都是卖现榨果汁的车，但是他们用来用去都是那5，6个杯，一个人饮完就随便冲下水再给你用，所以如果要干净一定要带自己的杯。可惜我已经习惯这样不干不净吃了没病的状况，经常在帮衬他们，15卢比1大杯橙汁，5卢比的蔗汁，20卢比混合果汁，绝对是来印度不得不试的饮品。到夏天还有拉西！LASSI不是神犬拉西的拉西，我觉得更像奶昔，牛奶煮好调味加上果汁和冰打碎混在一起，正！！！这里大部分都是VEGTETARIAN餐厅，因为印度教不杀生，所以很多人都是VEG，但是味道特浓和加很多牛油所以一样可以吃到你很腻。NON-VEG，也就是肉，一般都会比VEG贵一倍以上，所以这里的人不会每天都吃肉，除了我们这些外国人。但是由于长期吃VEG，我的肠胃已经不能承受3天连续吃肉了，而且只是鸡肉。所以大部分人来印度都轻了，小弟现在比高考时轻了5KG，搞到别人一般猜我63KG。

在北印度有很多尼泊尔人和西藏人，他们会做一些比较接近中国菜的东西，而且吃饭，所以每次去北部山区旅游我都会选择NEPOLI或者TIBETAN，换换口味。美国DAVE最喜欢的MOMO，在咱们国家叫素饺子，或者锅贴，只是这里一般油炸或者拌浓汤喝，味道很不错。我没有去过南部，但是最出名的DOSA还是吃了很多次。 DOSA是咱们常见的煎饼果子的皮摊得很薄张得很大，然后卷起来做一个桶状或者斗笠状，配上辣土豆浓汤和薄荷酱和一些其他东西吃，味道不错，可惜第一次在中国吃的时候因为太饱所以留下了阴影，在这边也没有多吃，但是那次吃的超过1米长DOSA还是吃得我很开心，有得看有得吃。

说起印度的吃不能不谈咱们的中国菜，我还真没发现哪个国家的人没吃过中国菜的。初来印度的时候当和别人说起我从中国来的时候他们一般做出夸张的表情，并且说：oh, I adore Chinese food. I go to Chinese restaurant every week!! 后来我发现这里真的遍地都是中餐，印度100%被中国菜覆盖了。但是与其说是中餐不如说是中式快餐，最最常见的中餐就是炒面和炒饭，斋的！！每个餐厅你都能找到中餐，但是小弟目前为止还没有吃过比我自己煮好吃的中餐，如果有人知道麻烦通知一下。还要费点文字说明一下这里的中国菜名，居然是广州话！！！赞！！CHOWMEIN就是炒面拉，还有诸如MANCHURIAN（杂菜丸子），SCHEZWAN（四川？）是炒杂菜加上怪味酱油，还有CHICKEN HONGKONG就是甜酸鸡块，可惜还是怪味。想真当中国菜吃就不要了，不过偶尔吃吃也算是换换口味。
印度菜的精华在于调料的多样性而不在菜式的繁杂。这里起锅是用各种五颜六色的调料，但是都是先炒后乱炖，煮到烂了就可以上桌了，通常都是又浓又多汁，刚好用来吃大饼，所以一般2个人就点一个菜然后就可以吃很多大饼，经济实惠。

虽然我已经知道回国后我还是会怀念印度的菜，但怎么说中国菜还是我的最爱，谢谢老妈给我寄来的一大把材料让我可以想家的时候尝到那熟悉的味道。

终于给我遇上了 (March 11. 2008)

俗话说上得山多终遇虎，本来我相信只要我对人好，终究不会吃亏的，但是最近终于在印度让我见识到人们奸诈的一面了。
1. 今天在办公室抱着宝贝手提发呆的时候猛然发现电脑后盖上有个洞，开始以为是什么散热口，后来才发现原来是有个螺丝没上，大吃一惊之下马上就想到为什么自从上次把电脑拿去重装之后就一直找不到蓝牙了，9成是被那混蛋商店给偷了，偷我蓝牙不单止还不帮我把盖子合上，死罪！！
2. 前2个星期一帮人坐摩托3轮回家，每人摊分10卢比，我没有散钱就把100卢比递给司机，谁知三转两转之下他居然说我没给钱，不但没收了我100大元还追加我10卢比，气得我大叫：fuck off!! You bitch!!

虽然印度有很多很奸诈的人，但是总体来说还是对外国人很尊重的，经常SIR前SIR后，我这种虚荣心特别强的人很是受落，经常不知不觉就教训起人来，希望回国以后不要染上这资本主义的坏习俗就好了

新年很快乐！！(Feb 07, 2008)

在国内的时候，这年好像一年不如一年了。无论是街上的人，还是花市的花，还是新买的鞋，无论是新沟的女还是多年的女朋友好像都不能让我们的神经有些许勃起的冲动，当我们大声抱怨这年不好过的时候，我们家很明智地选择了在外地旅行过年，并且将这项创新演变成传统，虽然今年的目的地只是从化，不过我相信应该也会带来很多的惊喜。
但是我在谈过年的时候也想提醒各位，国外的年也不好过啊！因为小弟还是要工作，没人会说：噢，今天是你们中国新年，那放你一天假吧！！所以我的工作照就繁忙。这些天一直都在想念一些人一些事，想在国内就算怎么无聊起码还有朋友还有家人还有热腾腾的食物，想起这些就觉得特别心酸。我们都是在路上的人，在路上过年的人其实也很孤单。
昨晚是SALTUK，GERMAN DAVID，TOBIAS，JAKUB的GOODBYE PARTY，但是大家都知道是中国新年，纷纷向我说新年快乐，很温暖。最后本来应该有点感伤的PARTY变成又唱歌又跳舞的狂欢，LIEKE照就as drunk as a cookie(荷兰俚语)，DAVEs照旧大谈美国加拿大的区别和互相嘲笑对方，SALTUK和我照旧穿梭于PARTY各处，见人说人话，见鬼说鬼话（不过我在印度好像只能说鬼话，哈哈）。最后大家不醉无归，扫掉VODKA，BARCARDI，RUM，WINE若干，自创各种饮品大声谈笑，见人就搂见人就抱，最后...大家都各自回房间睡觉.
哈哈，这不挺好的么？
最后祝大家新年快乐

Chandigarh City Card

Actually this looks like I am promoting for Chandigarh Tourism, but the fact is I am.
This morning all the trainees went to Hotel MountView for a "breakfast" which is said to be celebrating the World Tourism Day. So there we were in the hotel, just so nice to be in a 5-star hotel and with all the decent looking people around. But the breakfast turned out that we have to be present at a press conference for the "Launch of City Card of Chandigarh", which to me is a good idea of marketing.

The City Card is a pass you can buy in any tourist spots at 100 rupees($2.5). With this card you can take any bus free of charge, go to Rock Garden and all the museums free of charge, and enjoy discounts in many restaurants and shops. Since Chandigarh is not the major tourism city in India, many tourist just come here for 1 day or simply come as the transition of the hill stations in Himalayas, the card can attract more tourists to spend money here and really travel around the city since the validity is for 3 days. It is a smart idea for me and I do believe this will help the tourism economy a lot.

Also on the conference we met the Governor of Punjab, a nice public speaker and wise person, as well the founder of Rock Garden, Nek Chand, whom we all thought has passed away (of course he is still kicking). Anyway, it's just a half day update and this afternoon we will be having a picnic in Leisure Valley with 100 kids from a slum and it would definitely be nice and meaningful.

印度初体验 (Jan 9th, 2008)

不知不觉来到印度差不多1个月了,除了发现印度和中国很相像以外还是能发现一些有趣的事物.

印度的枪:

在印度,边度都有枪.路边警察有枪,银行保安有枪,看守达官贵人府第的军佬也有枪. 最有趣的是,每个银行的ATM机都是独立的,而且都有一个房间,而房间外面就有一个保安拿着枪, 也就是说这里基本是一个保安看守一个ATM机. 我第一次去SECTOR 9换钱时, 还以为这里经常有人打劫, 满街都是配枪的保安. 但是奇的不在于枪的多少,美国枪绝对比这里多,奇的是种类. 如果你见到路边有一班警察站在一起,那他们绝对每个人都在擦不同的枪,手枪,冲锋枪,还有我们中国的招牌--小米加步枪. 旧枪都擦到闪闪发光.

Indian police use old guns of different types. Even security guards have guns of their own.

印度的车:

chandigarh旅游地图上有句话:Driving in Chandigarh is like a breeze. 在这个印度最有规划的城市中,我每天都上演生死时速,觉得已经是像storm了, 很难想象在其他城市会是什么样子. 之前在OPHENIA的BLOG上看过印度司机如何勇猛,印度的车如何破烂,来到这里深有感触. 这里的车,90%是没有倒后镜的, 而有倒后镜的那10%当中有90%的司机都不看倒后镜看车的. 两车相遇,如果有倒后镜只会增加撞车的几率. 每天上班,我们70多岁的同事都来接我, 他开得比较慢,大概就60多公里吧,但是还是会对着迎面而来得车撞过去,在最后0.1秒突然避开,我明白为什么印度人心脏都这么好了. 这里路就是路,没有分道的,什么车都可以开上来, 大车小车牛车马车单车三轮车摩托车小绵羊,每天上下班就是和不同的车霸位抢道, 过瘾无比.不过这里城市规划都是为车准备的,没有一条路有人行道,没有几个人象我一样没事就在路上走路,中心区SECTOR 17虽然说是商业步行区,但是你可以把车开到离商店5,米的地方,有什么区别呢?

You are paying a little to get yourself killed here in India. Better not take any cars when you have heart-attack.

印度人的牙:

不要以为印度人又黑又瘦,或者肥狮大只带个头巾啊,其实印度人真的是这样的!! 不过他们的优势就是, 黑肤色衬托出他们的牙齿超白. 我问他们为什么牙齿都比较好,在得到了诸如天生的,多抽烟,吃多点印度菜等答案以后,终于在营养学硕士APARNA的提醒下得出了答案, 印度人从小就开始喝牛奶,这里牛奶和纯净水的价格差不多,而且很多菜都有牛奶,而牛奶富含钙质,对牙齿很好,所以印度人的牙齿普遍比较好.
I don't know why Indian people have such nice teeth, because they drink lots of milk and eat dairy products?

听老妈说寄了几斤的东西给我,10天后到,兴奋中,希望能赶在春节前收到吧.

打完,收工!!

A week in India (Dec 23, 2008)

Hey guys, as I always said, if you can survive in Guangzhou, you can survive in any part of the world. I have been surviving in Guangzhou for 23 years, so I am alive and well in India.

Hve been here for a week and found myself getting used to the setting here. Found out that actually prices here are same as Guangzhou so I am not living a rich guy here. Hve been working for a week,and got to know much about Indian thinking, Indian culture so I feel life pretty fruitful here.

Right now I am designing the questionnare for the young people project abd I need the advice from you.

What methods do you think we can adopt to change their attitude towards hardworking?

I am feeling tired, but will update more in a few days time.

Wish all you guys Merry Christmas

My first day (Dec 18, 2007)

Today is the first day to work in DIR. I went directly to Janta Colony, which is a slum for poor people near the city of Chandigarh. DIR has been working in this area for 2 years and made certain contributions especially to small kids and pregnant women. To change the poor situation of a area it is better to teach people how to find a solution than giving them solutions. So we trainees are mainly responsible for changing the people's attittude. Tough job it is, all the team is confident because we believe that if we dont do anything the situation can be worse. So I decided to do sth with young men here who have been very lazy and not willing to work.

Tomorrow I am going to work with Lieke, a Dutch girl who had been here for 3 months on this project.

Things are new here yet similar as in China, I think I can do my best as a Chinese here.

God, everyday is new to me, how can I have enough time talking with all of you? Wish I had 3 heads and 6 arms.

In Incredible India-2 (Dec 16, 2007)

Today I visited a few famous places around Chandigarh like Rock Garden which is made of junks and waste but is so innovotive. Chilled out in a cafe in Punjab University and had tea and coffee for just 12 Rupees(2 RMB) in total. Weather is lovely with a good sunshine and breeze but still feeling cold. Dare not eat so much since I will be stuffed with vegetables here and my tooth ached a bit.

The most brilliant part turned out to be the General Body Meeting (GBM) of AIESEC Chandigarh that I was introduced to the crew as the newest trainee in town. AIESEC members in Chandigarh are so passionate and well organized, meanwhile, they are proactive and care much about the development about the LC like fix asset or how to raise fund for the coming National Congress of India. I was amazed to find that compared to Chinese AIESECers, Indian AIESECers are more smart in work and party.

Much to be shared but I am too tired now so please wait for my next travelogue:)

In Incredible India-1 (Dec 15th, 2007)

Have so much to share with you, the first day in India was like I have never left China since except for languages and the skin complexion, we people seem to be the same.

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Delhi is old and foggy, cold in the dim light with a bustling of cars on the narrow streets. I mistook it as some medium size towns in central China at first sight, nothing too vivid. Then I saw the people, the crowd awaiting outside the airport(which is pretty old), the drivers who wave heads when they wanted to confirm their idea, the huge Devanagari ads outside a small stores, I realized I am, finally, here in India.

The first night is quite peaceful, little bit tired (2 and a half hours later then China) after 6 hours and a half on the plane so I took a quick shower and went to bed. My watch points at 2:04 am (4:34 am BJ Time).

Next day, Ankur's mum knocked at my door at 8 sharp, serving me with hot tea and biscuit, felt so warm. Finished it quickly (I really did some preparation before coming to India so I know some rituals and the fact that tea is a daily need here) I took a walk with Ankur's dad in the small playground near the mansion. Delhi again welcomed me with thick fog and dry weather, but the cold air completely woke me up. My first Indian breakfast was bread, orange juice, onion salad with cooked tomato thick sauce, started to feel a little ache on my teeth. Anur's family was so kind that they even provided me the food on my way to Chandigarh. Suffered from a stomache, I only MISSY some fruits. Again, everyone drank tea when the bus stopped over at a resort for toilet.

Reached Chandigarh at 5:15pm local time and met with Tusharp, so nice to have an AIESECer recieved you because you can easly find a topic to chat. But we chatted too excitedly that he nearly crashed the car into another. His house is one of the typical dettached mansions in this City of Beautiful, 2 floors with a courtyard in a tranquil community named MANI MAJARA. At 9 pm I had another homemade India vegi dinner.

Toothache woke me up this morning and gave me the chance to write down my story in India, haha. Hope our Chinese medicine can cure Indian toothache. I feel too much heat in my body!!! You guys know what I mean lar!

Take care of yourself my dear friends.