hi all i am back!

yup.. went to India.. some updates k

k... so my plane left singapore at 9pm with a delay... suppose to transit in bangkok to kolkata.. this was interesting... coz we were suppose reach at 10pm(thai time) and change plane which takes off at 11.... but our plane arrived at 1025! and moreover, the plane stopped outsid the terminal and we still had to take a bus in.. by this time our other flight as on final call already... with my mum and sis, we ran! and to onli find that our connecting flight was at the other end of the airport! we ran on the slippery floor and reached the check in counter 10 mins b4 take off... i rememebr swearing to myself that all this was just reidiculous.

k so we arrived in kolkata at around 1am(inda time) and we were worried that ourluggage dint come due to the short time connecting flights in bangkok.. but it came.. and finally i met Uncle Swapon and Aunty Anu(my grandfather's cousin and her husband) for the first time. and we took the car to our hotel...hotel was alright but for some strange reason we dint feel comfortable and i hurt my back...

Morning came and uncle swapon, uncle Shamal(my mum's direct uncle)and Rupa(his daughter) were waiting outside our room to pick us up... and we headed for our house(y our house.. coz it was bulit and co-owned by my late grandfather) haha.. it was awesome man! 2 story house with a open roof terrace on the 3rd floor.. really nice... 2 kitchens on each floor. 5 bed rooms downstairs and 7 rooms upstairs! that means there were 13 rooms!haha

yup and the vacity of the house is not that spectacular..not very clean either.. but there are 5 big houses in the district and my family's place is the mose reknown..wohooo..and have the nicest living space...

so we spent the day there and stuff... so we spent 4 days in Calcutta shopping and spending time with my family getting to know names and stuff..well in India, everyone has family names which are different for their real names.. so i address my family with their fam name. calcutta was really nice with temperatures around 12-14 degress... surprised? haha.. India is cold ppl!
Some photos of us

(picture on the roof frm left- Rupa, uncle Debol, (some neighbour), my mum, Sriya, Guddu, Auntie Millie and me)


(addition of my sis, subtraction of my mum)


(yup so see the surroundings.. not well maintained but the trees make it feel really resort. the interior of the house is much better though..)



yah so on the 18th we took a train accompanied by uncle swapon and aunty Anu to Dehli by the prestious Rajastani train... everything was fine except that it was 17 hours long... darn it was super long... and so we reached Dehli on the 19th morning.. were brought to a hotel to stay and we went sight-seeing.. got a private diver to take us around...

(first stop: Bahai Temple...its in shape of a lotus and its for all religion to g in and meditate. yup.. we couldnt take pics inseide..but there were heavy marble benches inside to sit and pray)


(evening night view)


After tat, we went to this place called Asrumdum! it was totally spectacular! and there was super tight security, u cant even bring in ur wallet! so let alone we could not bring anything inside to take pictures.. but it was the most amazing thing on earth! even better than the taj mahal man!

during this time in Dehli it was about 6-8 degrees and we hand to wear thicker clothes ..

after that, we were brought to the India Gate.
(my unglam pic at the India gate)


then we procceded to this mountain place to stay for 3 days, a 9 hour ride to the peaks of the indai border fro New Dehli.. we went to a town call Nanital. "Nani" the nam of a person, and "tal" meaning lake. yup.. stayed in a small boutique hotel...
this a place almost untouched by tourists...

(hotel balcony view)


(another 'suai" pic of me)


(just so picturistic)


(start of a novel: As i sat by the sparling lake, with the smell of tobacco....)


(beautiful eh!?)


yup.. and guess wad if u climb up one of those mountains, u can see the Himalayas! yup! and thats wad we did... we took a cable car up.

(up at the peak of the mountain)


(simply breathtaking- himalayas- behind that is China/Tibet)


when we came down, we decided to do Boating in the lake
(yup one of these boats)


(like a postcard hor.haha...)


(we stayed at the round balcony biulding.. we took the two rooms on the left on the ground floor)

As u can see it was freezing and we had to use Parkas coz it was 3degrees to negative! during our boating ride, my sis put her hand in the freezing water for the full 45mins. and after the ride, she couldnt feel har hand! haha

After the few days, we went back to Dehli.. we took a day to travel to Agra with a private driver.
First we went to this fort place....





and after, behold! the Taj mahal!
(there was like millions of ppl there)


(walls of the taj)


(around the taj)


(building opp taj)


(family photo)



ok so that was the end of Dehli and we took the long train ride back to Calcutta... reached back on Christmas morning...
So that evening, my mum proposed to have a christmas party on the roof terrace... and so a tentage was mde and decorationa and lights put up...my mum and some others went to buy food..

and just as the party was to start... BLACKOUT! ah!!! the town was using too much electricity that evening and some places when out! i suspected that Zouk, which was nearby was the cause of it.. coz in the papers the next day, they reported 65,000 people went to Zouk..haha

so we had a candle light party insead...so my uncle took out his harmonium(an indian version of the keyboard) and everyone sat close and had our really great party..

(uncle Ramu(mum's cousin) playing the harmonium)


(i attempted on it.. but was reayy funny.. difficut)


--finally the lights came on...

(am i glowing..lol)


and we and our last few days there....and took many pictures with the family..
well, i made a really good friend(relative) Guddu.. we hanged out practically througout,, he is 14 and but he happens to be my uncle! haha(mum's second-cousin) but he wanted us to be brothers instead..haha.. so u will see him in quite a number of photos here..

(Guddu and i on the roof terrace)


(mum and "mini-dida")[dida-grandmother] we gave her that name coz she is so small and mini.. she reminds me of sophia from howls moving castle! haha)


(pic with "Mini-Dida")


(the young ones! haha..from left- Guddu[14],Me, Sriya[17], sis, Papu[20]) technically all 3 of them are my uncles and aunties(second-cousins to my mum) but oh well.. we call each other by name..haha..)


(Guddu giving the strang grin)



ok so that was india, we left with family with tears behind.. and i literaly mean tears... they kept calling us every day after we left and one went into Imsomnia and my uncle Shamal was a bit depressed to see us go.

yup.. after the trip we went to Thailand for 4 days and met my Dad there... sent one of the days at pattaya and the others in bangkok.....

finally we came back on the 31st night....