Saras India

The amount of bad luck I have had for the last few days is countless. Usually my life just "is", but now something has happend. So much of bad luck that I was actually little scared of driving my scooty today, although nothing happend. A few things that happend; my atm card was blocked, then it was double blocked, then my daily limit was exceeded without me using the card, then my card was stuck in the atm machine and no one was there to help me, then I couldnt get any money, the last thing that happend today was I broke my nail. It is now so short that it is hurtful.


I hope my bad luck will turn into luck soon, it is no fun with so many bad things happen all the time.

My lovely roommate kind of woke me up today with the news that Bangalore International Airport is shutdown for weeks! I got a smaller chock, until I realised that it cant be closed for that long, what will happen with all the flights? I googled it, and there it said, Bangalore int. airport is being closed for maintainance. During 8 weeks it will effect all the international flights between 10.30 am to 5.30 pm. I am lucky enough to have a very early morning flight! I will reach home as scheduled, hopefully!

Besides that, I am having bad sleepingproblems. I cant fall asleep in the nights! Yesterday I was awake till 5am. I am just twisting and turning in bed, until I get so bored that I turn on the TV or watch some movie on my laptop. Due to this, I have also become a midnightsnacker. I eat stuff in the middle of the night, when I am supposed to be sleeping. All I can hope for, is that I will put on some weight, but not only on my stomach. 

Like most of my friends here in India already know, I have become quite anti-social the last 2 months. I spend most of my time at home, and I meet very few people. This also means I go for very few parties. I select the best ones, those who are worth going on. Well, after a long time in Bangalore all the parties are more or less the same. Same DJ´s, same people, same kind of music etc, etc.. But a few weeks ago, I got tired of just sitting at home, so I decided to go out. It was a good decision. I left the party with 5 pair of sunglasses! White, red, orange, blue and yellow. I came home with only these two.

Someone stole the white ones, the ones I liked the most. I gave away the yellow and the blue ones.

Like you all remember, I am going to Sweden next week. The sad part is, I am going to miss my favourite holiday Holi. Last year I spent Holi in Bangalore and got very dissapointed becuase there was no celebration what so ever. Hopefully next year I can spend Holi in Mumbai. Its supposed to be very good there.. In Delhi aswell but it is not very safe to be there.

Anyway, like I said, I am going to Sweden next week. I am preparing myself by eating Swedish sweets - Negerbollar, although without pärlsocker. and being on Swedish time. Today for example I woke up at 1pm which I have never done before. I feel very guilty for sleeping half the day, but I blame it on my fan. My fan has gone mad. It is making so much noice, if it is on I cant fall asleep. So when it is off, it is very hot in my room, and when it is so hot I get very tired.

Swedish sweets. I promise they are very tasty, eventhough it doesnt look like it.

I have almost stopped eating outside. One reason is because my immunesystem has been pretty bad, so I decided that it will be much better if I have homecooked food. I say almost because once in a while there might be an emergency, like you get really, really hungry when you are stuck outside for some time.

Yesterday I got hungry when I was out with a friend. So I suggested we could go for lunch. We went for a new restaurant called Smoked out, in Koramangala. A very nice place, it is very small, but the food is really tasty! American style grilled food. I ordered one grilled chicken breast, it came along with garlic bread, salad and french fries tossed in something that tasted like sourcream and onion potatochips. Very, very nice food. The only thing that I missed was fish on the menu. Grilled fish would have made it perfect. I hope they will extend their menu soon. So, If you are in or around Koramangala, do try this restaurant. And its not very costly either, approx. 200rs per dish.

Different fresh herbs on each table.

I really like my maid and her daughters. The youngest (6 years) has a lot of energy and you sometimes do need a break from her. Her sister, she will turn 20 in June, is really sweet. I always talk to her when she comes and helps her mom clean our house.  She told me that she left school when her sister was born, to take care of her and help her mom. So since the age of 14 she hasnt been to a proper school. She has some homework sometimes but I dont know from where she gets them. She comes to our house every day to clean the house and she works in the beauty saloon on the second floor of our building. The other day we were talking about marriage and I asked her when she would get married.

She told me that her mom is searching for a boy she can marry, but that she has not found one yet. Her mom came inside my room and also wanted to talk with us. She spoke in Kannada so her daughter translated for me. Her mom told me that she was looking for a boy but she had not found one yet. And she also mentioned how could she find one, she doesnt have any money, she works as a maid. Her daughter asked me if I knew anyone and I said I will see if I find someone. Again her mother said that she doesnt have money so she cant pay for it. When I said I would try to find someone that had money and could pay himself they both laughed. So I guess that is not how it will work here..

Sometimes you meet people, or families, that you really like and you want them to get a good life. I wish I could help them with money and pay for everything around the wedding so the daughter will get a good husband. But unfortunately right now, I am not able to help out. But since the maid herself got a pretty bad husband, I am sure she will find a nice man for her daughter.

There are various reasons why I havent written in my blog in a long time. But when my friends asks me why are you not writing anything? And when some random guy goes through all the work finding out my number to call and say that he has read my blog for a long time and really, really likes it, then I feel guilty for not writing anything for those who actually enjoy it.

It kind of made my day, when that random person called me to say how much he liked my blog, and tried to convince me he wasnt one of those weird guys that I have been writing about in my blog before. He also, before we ended the conversation asked me to not write this in my blog. Oops, sorry about that!

Anyway, I am leaving India next week to meet two new familymembers! I am so happy to go back home and see them. I have lots of regards to give to my family and the new ones and specially to the lovely I. She is very, very popular here.. How lovely indians are. Even though they have never met, seen (in real life) or talked to my family they still want me to send their regards, love and best wishes.

This is my view of it all. It might not be correct, but this is how I see it.

I live in a country where marriage is one of the most important things in a girls life. Families have to find a good husband (when it comes to character, finance, family etc) for their daughter. The standards are different depending if you are from a high class, middle class or a low class society, and it might also work differently on how they find the husband for their daughter. Sometimes love marraiges are allowed, but I think that mostly is accepted in high class and sometimes middle class families. One thing that is very tabu, and almost not accepted in any part of society, is divorce.

For me it is a big mystery how you can agree on (okay, many times you might not have a choice) marrying someone that you have met only for a few times, and then expect to be with that person for life. In the west, we do have relationships, we "try" our partner for a long time, to see if we want to spend the rest of our life with that person. Here in India, you most of the time dont have that "luxury". So, how can you expect to be married to a stranger, and spend the rest of your life with that person? So many times a person is nice in the initial part, but later on changes.

My main question when it comes to arranged marriages is; How can you know you want to spend your life with this person? The answers I get from various indians is that you listen to relatives and friends, how that person is, and you also see if his family is good, then he will be good. But my question always remains; How can you know?

Anyway, what I want to come back to is the tabu, divorce. In high and middle class society it is still accepted, in some cases I guess. But you dont want to be divorced. My guess is that you try very hard and stay with your spouse, because it is easier than being a divorcee. In low class my guess is that it is almost a crime. This is why I really look up to my maid.

My maid is a really cool lady, and I wish I could communicate with her more. She knows very less english; Hi, Lunch? Finish. Bye. And my Kannada (local language) is even more limited; illa, which means something like nothing or no.  

She has 2 daughters, they both speak english and goes to school. The oldest (around 20 of age I think) sometimes asks me for help regarding her homework, and I gladly help her. My maid takes very good care of her kids and feed them and buy things for them as much as she can. She has a husband. A small, slim thing. He is an alcoholic and he is abusive. He has hit her repetedly, I guess mostly when he is drunk, and her small daughter (6 years) has tried to go in between when he is hitting her.

My maid has kicked him out. He is not living with them anymore. Once in a while he comes here, standing outside our gate and scream at her and the kids. Last time he said he would come back in the night and kill one of the daughters (he talks a lot, but he doesnt dare to do anything here).

He might still be her husband, but I really admire her for kicking him out, protecting not only her but her two kids from an abusive father. This must have been a very hard decision for her to make. I know that there are so many families where the husband is abusive, but the wife is still with him because of the shame of being alone/getting a divorce and because it is hard for a single woman to take care of herself and kids. And she is working hard to get money to take care of her small family. She is loving and caring and she even sometimes comes to our house and give us food, when she should give that for her family instead.

My maid is really an awesome woman.

One day for purchasing
One day for delivery
One day for putting it together for me.

Three days before having it ready in my room. Worth it? Absolutely!

I have got a new piece of furniture for my room. It is apparently something that all the women in India has. I bought it yesterday, got it delivered today and tomorrow it will be put together. I say thanks for IKEA, where you buy it, take it home yourself and put it together yourself. So it will be ready and done when you want it to be.. 

Here, it takes me numerous of phonecalls to ask where the serviceguy is,  the one who has to put it together for me. I got one promise that he would be here today, 5ish. Now I have a promise that he will be here tomorrow morning 11ish. So lets see whenever he comes..

When these things happen (not that I buy furnitures so often) I really miss IKEA. Here in India you pay for anything, people dont seem to do things themselves. I remember when I lived with my old roommate, there was a bed in my room that needed to be sold. My roommate complained that she was waiting for some guy. I asked which guy, and she said, the guy who will dismantle the bed. I started laughing and wondered why she couldnt do it herself. It was like three screws! But like I said, you dont do these things yourself here. Why get your own hands dirty when it will only cost you a few rupees for someone else to dirty their hands for you. I doubt that the concept of IKEA would work here, where you get all the tools, screws and instructions to do it yourself.

I cant stop thinking about my friend. What happened? I want to know what exactly happened. And why did it happen? I am pretty sure why, but how? How can someone be murdered? Did my friend know what was going to happen? Was it a surprise? Did my friend suffer? Did my friend struggle? Was my friend in pain? Was it over fast? Was my friend tortured? Was my friend kidnapped? Was my friend scared? Did my friend know the person/people who did it? What was going through my friends mind? Who threw my friend on the side of the road like garbage? Who could do something like this? Does the murderer feel guilty? Did the murderer enjoy it? Was the murderer paid to do it by someone else? Will the murderer get caught?

I remember all the times me and my friends were hanging out. We were like the three musketeers. Every single day we were hanging out. We had a lot of fun, and I look back at these memories with warmth. Roadtrips, parties, eating out, eating at home, just hanging, sleeping, talking... I didnt meet my friend for almost six months when this happened. My friend had left Bangalore and gone home so we didnt meet in a long time. I could never imagine this would happen.

I remember the first time I saw my friend, and I remember the first time we spent some time together. I dont often do that, but with this friend of mine I do. It all started with a glas of white wine and a shared pancake with chocolate in the mall close to our house. After that, it was always us. The person I could always trust and count on.  

So I went for the CCL Afterparty last night. It was really an amazing party! I had so much fun, and the party was looong. I was home 6am in the morning.. It stared with me and my friend coming to the party, arriving in a very fancy BMW. We entered the hotel and lots of people were hanging around in the lobby. We went inside the club and met a friend of mine. We were hanging out for some time and before I knew it the place was completely packed. We could not even go outside, so many people were fighting, trying to enter without an invitation. My friend came to our rescue and took us to the second floor, where the secret afterparty happened.

It was in a huge hall, a big bar and after some time, lots and lots of people. I met a few of my friends and I met a lot of celebrities. They invited us for an afterparty in one of the suites, and of course we couldnt say no to that. Salman Khans brother was there, Bobby Deol was there, Vatsal Seth was there, just to mention a few..

Being a celeb and having lots of money doesnt mean that they always dress up and look good in parties. Salman Khans brother, for example, was wearing sweatpants from Abercrombi and Fitch and crooks on his feet! Atleast dress up a little...

Anyway, the party was awesome, I had such a fun night.....

Tonight I am going for THE party. Its not even the party of the year, but the party of the century! The Celebrity Cricket league After Party at ITC Gardenia. I got two VVIP invitations from my friend that is arranging this party, thank you very much for that!

Celebrities will come, cricketers will come, strictly invitations only. Salman Khan is apparently coming, so you will find me, with Salman Khan, dancing on the bar! It will be the wildest, craziest, weirdest most fun party ever! I have very high expectations of this party..

For all you invited; I will see you tonight, and we will dance the whoooooole night away ♥

I was visiting a zoo Bannerghatta National Park and saw a few animals. Just after this I met my friend who had just been back home in Kenya. She saw all the wild animals, and the coolest story she told me was; I was driving on the highway, I told my mom to tell me to stop in case she saw any giraffes. She saw a few and I was slowing down. Then, a few hundred meters infront of us, there were 5-6 giraffes that were crossing the highway. I had to stop, and they just crossed the street right infront of me.

Can you imagine! That is just so cool. I have to go with my friend to Kenya one day. She said August would be the best time to go, som maybe I could afford going there in August... I also want to see wild giraffes that close!

Me and my sweet friend at my second home in Bangalore, Loveshack ♥

So even after the most horrific news, life goes on. For some, better than others. I can not even imagine the pain my friends family must go through. Life was not nice to my friend in the end, I know that. I wish I could have helped more, but no one could. I hope my friends last days, and hours, in life wasnt too painful. It hurts me a lot to think about what could have happened in the end. I hope my friend has found peace, where ever he/she might be.

With all the freetime I know have in my hands, it gives me lots of opportunities to do things I never could. Today, for example, I went for a furniture exhibition. Today more than ever, I want to have my own house, and decorate it myself, fill it with the furnitures of my choice. I want a huge terrace, where I can have my barbeque and sunchairs, where I can relax, tan and have a barbequeparty with my friends once in a while. Anyway, I have been looking for a dressing table, and I found one today. I will most probably buy it in a few days. Lately I have got the urge to decorate my room, make it little more homely. I think with this dressing table, my room will be complete.

Tonight I am staying at home. No party for me these days, I guess I have become too lazy to even leave my house in the nights. Its just too cold, I only want to lie under my blanket in my bed all day long..

You know how you read about all those bad things in the papers, or see it on the news and think "That will never happen to me". I am always thinking like that, nothing really bad has ever happend in my life. Until now. It hasnt happend to me, really, but it happend around me.

A dear friend of mine has been missing since around Christmas. No one knew where my friend was and no one could reach the person either since the phone was switched off. I was scared that my friend would do something stupid because of different reasons in my friends personal life. Today I found out. My friend was found dead. A picture was posted in the newspaper, a picture of the dead body. Since it was in an indian language I couldnt understand what was written, so I just assumed that it was suicide.

I asked a friend of mine to translate, and it seems like it was not suicide. It might have been a murder. My friend murdered? It is just so absured. And what is more absured, if my friend was actually murdered, well I cant write it here. It feels like its a movie. When I see that picture of the dead body, it is just so unreal!

Im so sad for my friend and my friends family. May my friend rest in peace.

You know I love you, my dear friend ♥

My diet stops me from eating food from outside (no more nice dinners in nice restaurants with friends for the moment) so I have got myself a personal cook. And it is not any cook, it is a cook who is an expert in continental food. Guess if I am happy!

This one might not look so tasty, but it was soooo good! fish, with the most delicious sauce, with fried potatoes and veggies. A taste of heaven!

I went to Lalbagh Sunday, and please remind me to not do these things on Sundays, when everyone is off and are doing things... There was a flowershow that I went to see, it was inside a glasshouse. Inside this glasshouse it was so many people and complained that it was so many people and so crowded. One older man heard me and said; Too many people?! Hahaha!

I guess he didnt agree with me on that one. Well I couldnt take the crowd so I left the glasshouse in a hurry and didnt really enjoy the show.

I love the fact that it is January and that I can be dressed like this. All you people from cold countries know what I mean.

Im sneaking out tonight. My friends should not know. I am going for a party, I cant help it. It is time now, I havent been out in a long, long time. Of course, I will take good care of myself, no outside food (already ate) and no alcohol (I dont need alcohol to enjoy a good party). I will just go out and meet some people. Known as well as unknown..

Because I am the

 of Bangalore

My new life has one positive side and one negative side. It is actually the same thing - time. I have all the time in the world to do anything I want to, which I really want to have. But I also have so much time to kill, which I know I will spend shopping. And how can I do so much shopping when the cash is not as constant as before? I should hold hard to my money for some time, until I know a steady flow is coming in again..

But these things I couldnt resist buying today. I actually needed it. Well okay, I only needed the mascara, the others I just wanted.



I was out with a friend of mine today and I was looking at bags. He asked me if I really needed a bag, since I have a brand new. I told him; A girl can never have to many bags, shoes, dresses or any other accessories. Of course I dont NEED a bag. I have so many bags, shoes, dresses etc. I dont need anything. I buy something because I want it, because I like it. Thats the difference between how girls and guys shop.

So finally, after 1 year and 2 months of people telling me to go, I have gone to see Mysore! It was nice, no doubt, but I am not sure if it was aaaall thaaaat, that people have told me. But apparently it is a must see while living in Bangalore. And now I have done it!

Me and my friend, we started early around 7 am in the morning. I was so tired and I slept most of the time. The drive was around 3 hours. We came to Mysore palace and walked around in area before we went inside. Well, when we wanted to go inside the palace, they told us to leave the camera at the entrance, so my friend had to walk all the way back just to leave my camera. Irritation number 1. When we came to the gate to enter, we showed the ticket to the guard, he stoped me and asked; Where are you from? With no hesitation I said; Kashmir.

He didnt believe me, and told us to by a ticket for a foreginer. Again my friend had to go all the way to the entrance to buy a new ticket. Irritation number 2. I could have left just because of that! But I kept my anger inside..

The price for indians: 20 rupees
The price for foreigners: 200 rupees, buuut it included an auditour (wow, thanks! no one wants that one)

After the palace we went to see the view of Mysore and after that lunch at another palace before we went back home. I was deadtired after the trip and I fell asleep.












We chased this car, so I could get a close up picture. How often do you see a car in India with Swedish flags. Obviously a "must-have-picture".

A new chapther in my life has begun. After a long time I am back again. I do apologise. One major decision and illness came between me and my blogwriting. Now hopefully everything will be back to normal. What have I been up to? Well, I left the country for a week for my new visa. As a welcomeback gift from India, I got sick. After medicine I am now recovered, but I should still take it easy, to get my immunesystem back to normal.

I dont really like resting that much, and I feel left out of the world. I havent been out and socialised for a long time now, and I can feel it. I need to meet new people, or I will go bananas! So, time for me to get dressed and leave the house.  

Dancing to my new favourite Swedish song Det gåtfulla folket by Carola with my babydoll ♥

I am so happy and satisfied with myself for realising that I dont need anyone else to live my life. I am not dependent on one specific person to do all the things I want to do in life. I have myself and that is enough. I am so glad that I know that I am independent and that I can take care of myself. I can be alone, and I know I will be happy alone as well. Previous in life I have been scared of being alone, and I have been with someone just because I thought I needed that person to live my life. It was a to big change to take to end it and be alone. I didnt think I could do it.

I am so glad that everything in my life has happend. Everything happens for a reason and I wouldnt have been where I am today without these events. I never thought I would be or could be, single. And I never thought I would be a very happy single. But I am so happy. I love my life and what I have. My life is almost perfect.

And when you find that special one that you want to spend your life with, it will help you both if you are already this satisfied in your life, with yourself.

Tonight my sweet friend Juliti is coming to visit me, and that makes me so happy. My first visitor in Bangalore. Apparently everything in my blog sounds like fun, so she wants me to show her "My Bangalore". And that I will do, gladly.. ♥

Welcome to my weird but oh so beautiful life, Juliti

I have been in countless of pictures in Goa. Not by choice, absolutely not. If someone would have asked me I would have said no without hesitating. I mean, come on, Im in my bikini. I dont want indian boys to have those pictures in their album to show all their friends. But since there is an invention called cameraphones, many boys dont have to ask anymore. They take pictures without anyone noticing (or so they think) walking around with their phone very casually, taking pictures of women in bikinis...

Of course it gets very annoying after some time, and I told a few people to delete my pictures, showed my finger to a few and were just rude to others.. But I felt that I had to give back. So I also took a few pictures of them, bathing in their underwear. But they seem to enjoy it a lot, so I dont think we are even yet.

After Mumbai I went to heaven. I think any calm place would be called heaven after chaotic Mumbai. This time heaven was Goa. So I went to Goa, Anjuna, where my friend Maria lives. She stayed in a house just a few minutes walk from the famous Wednesday market and the beach. My 2 other swedish friends had already reached when I came. The first thing I did was (obvioulsy) to run down to the beach and in to the water. Aaah, heaven! After more than one year in India, this was the first time I had a real vacation.

Like everytime I go for these kind of vacations I work a lot. On my tan. Everyday I was lying on the beach, in the sun, tanning, tanning, tanning. My friends gave up, and spent most of their time under the umbrella. But not me. Me and the sun had a very intese relationship during these few days. One day we went to another beach, Aswim, other than that, I stayed in the same small beach. I hardly changed sunbed. Why change a good concept?!

I wanted a break from Bangalore. After one year, you need that. But everyday I met people I know from Bangalore. It was little too much, I thought maybe it was a joke. But really, so many Bangaloreans had the same thought as me...








Oh, I forgot to say that my friend has a parrot. I was shitscared of this thing when he decided to climb up my arm. Luckily you can not hear me scream in pictures...

After a long time I have Internet that doesnt keep disconnecting after every five minutes. After that bad start to Mumbai, where I was standing in an alley throwing up, it all went better. Atleast for one day. I reached Mumbai on time, I had around 2 hours before the Roce ceremony started. I came to the hotelroom where my friends were waiting. The hotel was in an awesome area, I had seaview and view over Gateway of India, so just imagine (for you who have been there, atleast). We got ready and then met up a few others and took the car to the ceremony.

In the ceremony all the relatives and friends poured coconutmilk over the groom and his company consisting of best man and nephew. After all that there were lots of food and dancing. I ate so many mini jalebis, and before leaving the party, i took 10 more, for the road! Jalebi is my favourite sweet here..
 


In the night I started feeling a little bad. In my dream I had the worst stomach ache and I ran around town to find a pharmacy that would sell medicine. I woke up, and I had the worst stomach pain. Again, sick! I waited for my friends to wake up so they could buy me medicine. But since they were on Swedish time, I decided it would be much better if I could manage to find a pharmacy myself. I did, bought medicine and went back home to rest.

When it was finally time for the wedding, I was so weak. I managed to go down to the reception, the staff complimented me on wearing my saree. I asked if I had draped it correctly, they said no. So they took me inside a room and helped me.. After that we went to the church. I was still so weak, I couldnt even stand up in the church when we had to. I hope no one was offended because of that.

My friend was so beautiful when she entered the church, so, so beautiful. Her dress looked amazing and she looked so happy. After church we went to a clubhouse, a huge outside they had decorated with lights and tables, and lots of food was served.



The wedding was very nice, and I hope my friend had the time to see that and enjoy her weddingday also.

When I am out of my routinelife it is really hard to maintain the blog regularly. And specially when you decide to go for a spontanious villagetrip, where there is no internet! Christmas was supposed to be spent at home, a surprise christmasparty was planned in my house, but I decided to go elsewhere, in the last minute. I had lots of fun, but after this little trip I can easily say that I am not made for Indianvillage life. If you want to know how it is to be a celebrity, go to a small village. People love you and they just want to be around you, to have a look at you, talk to you, take pictures with you. Thank God I am not a celebrity, I could not do with all the attention all the time.

I came back home 7am this morning, I slept for a few hours and then I started packing for my 2 next trips. Not only packing, I had some laundry to be done, and other small things.. Now it is 2 hours til my bus will leave and I am still not done. Packing is one of those things that I really hate doing, it always takes me forever, or just one minute and then I have forgotten most of the things..

Being home and sick is the worst thing I know. I get super bored when I do nothing. And who wants to come and hang out with someone who is sick?! Well I guess both my body and mind need some relaxation, why it couldnt wait for a few more days when my leave starts, I dont know.. Half of the day I have spent in bed sleeping, oh how I hate waisting my days like this.

Well I also had time to watch TV today. I have hardly used it at all, but today it has been on almost the whole day, with and without sound.. Even after sleeping so much today, I am still feeling tired. Now I can hardly keep my eyes open, so I will go and sleep now...

How easy it is for someone to make you feel so unappreciated. A few words, a look, someone elses word.. No matter how hard you try, or think you are trying, it is never enough because it is not perfect.

I just want to be in my bed, and not move for a week. I dont want to go to work and I dont want to meet anyone.

I want to switch off my mobiles. I dont want to take any calls, I dont want to text anyone, I basically dont want to be around people right now. I had a really bad day, I never expected it to be such a crappy day.

Hopefully I can change my life pretty soon. What I have now is not what I want in life! But still, I am too much in love with this bloody country to make the one change I want to happen.

I am little of a dramaqueen, a few people know that. So it might not be as bad as I have made it sound. I am just having a bad day, thats all. In a few days everything will be forgotten and back to normal.

Both my family in Sweden and my family in India. ♥

My indian family (consisting of me, my mobile, my laptop and my shoes) has now got one more member. And we all love him a lot. He is awesome, and I know we will have so much fun. Although I spent a lot of money, more than I planned on doing, I am happy with this little baby of mine..

This place was one of those stupid places where it is not good to be a foreigner. The price to enter?
Indians: 200rs
Foreigners: 400rs


Entry of the palace

Listening to the Auditour for the Bangalore Palace


Even when I am off I am working...

Me and the palace in the background.

I wish I could drive this bike, its really good one. But it is so heavy for me. I couldnt even balance it without the stand...

Oh, how badly I want to have my own horse now. Or atleast go for riding everyday.. I miss it these days...

I went to a temple in Indira Nagar some time back. It was really nice. I have been inside temples before but not like this. I was doing all the rituals like everyone else, and walking around in this lovely temple. The statue was really nice, and huge like you can see in the picture.. When I left this place, I found a bracelet that I have been wanting to have for so long and I also bought some of these bubbles made of water and soap, I dont know what you call it in english, for my maids daughter. She got so happy that I bought her a gift, and she kept playing with it the whole day, and finished it in one day also..

I have a constant flow of readers everyday, that makes me feel quite guilty when I am not writing anything. Like you can see I have almost given up my blog. I dont want to do that, I like writing here, and I love that so many people are reading my blog. But these days I am keeping myself very busy, and I dont even know what to write. A friend of mine was making fun of me the other day when I was out. I got a drink and I kept complaining that the straw was broken. He laughed and said that he would read about that in my blog the very next day. So I guess its those boring things I write about these days. I dont want to bore you with those things. So, instead I am writing nothing, because really nothing fun or exciting is happening these days.

I am so happy. I have had periods in my life where I have not been happy. At all. Like really, really not happy. And it feels so good that I am over that, and I can really feel a huge difference. I enjoy my life so much, I wouldnt wanna change my life with anyone! Okay, the only change I would like to have in my life is more money, but most of us wants that. But small things can make me really happy. Like today, I got a drop in the evening, thanks to my colleague. The I went to a sweetshop to buy my favourite sweet - jalebi. After that I went to the alcoholstore and bought my favourite rosewine - and they had a bottle that was already cold - happiness! Tonight I will sit at home and enjoy my life, along with my roommates. Oh yes, one more thing. As soon as I opened the door to my house today, I saw a Christmastree! Even more happiness ♥

So my dear friends, and whoever you all are, enjoy your life, and have an awesome evening.

The DJ in this place was awesom, I really liked Tuhin Mehta. And he was very cute also..

This song has become very popular in India, and I am one of those who love this also. 16 million people have seen this clip already. I read on facebook the other day, someone had written that the new WTF is WTK - Why this Kolaveri. I suggest you to do one thing, to really know how funny this song is. First you listen to the song, dont look at the lyrics that is there.. Try to listen what he is singing. The second time, do read the lyrics.



It took me many times to realise that this guy is singing almost everything in english. I kept telling my friends to translate this song for me, and they all told me that it is in english, and I should understand it myself. And this is the accent that I have made fun of for a long time, and I know I have tried to explain it in the blog. Like people always say straight-u when they want to go straight, or left-u when they want to go left. And now you will really understand how they talk, although this might be a little exagerated, like holy cow-u is little too funny! Well just listen to the song and enjoy and laugh... I did that the first time I saw what he sang, and I always have a small smile on my face whenever I hear this song..

I went to the awesomest party in Bangalore last night. Everything was just perfect. I went with good people, we went in a nice car (how can I ever travel in something else than Audi and Mercedes now?), I had a lovely drink, I met lots of fun people, I danced a lot, and the DJ was the best till date. His name is Tuhin Mehta, he played the best music and I danced so much, I have never danced that much before. And he was really, really cute also!

I tried to go for an afterparty afterwards, but we got home pretty late anyway, since it was a bit far away, so I just crashed in my bed. 6 missed calls and 5 texts later, I woke up at 9am. Today I am having a girls day and night today, sitting home, drinking a glass of rosé wine, talking, gossiping, eating icecream etc. I might go out to see if I can find a scooter also. Its really hard work trying to find one. But luckily my colleague is trying even harder than me...

Okay, I am sorry again. I havent written for a few days, the reason being lazyness I believe.

I had my first Thanksgiving dinner Thursday night. My american roommate had been cooking for three days, for around 30 people. When I came home from office that Thursday, the house was full of people and food. We had turkey, we had pumpkin pie, sweet potato pie, stuffing, sweetcorn pie with marshmallows on top, chocolate pie, peach pie, and lots and lots of MnM´s. I had MnM´s with peanutbutter, peanuts, coconut, plain ones, crunch ones, and some other that I forgot. I ate so much food, it was all so tasty. I really liked the chocolate pie and the peach pie.

 
Sweetcorn pie with marshmallows

Bluberrypie, Chocolatepie, Cake, Pumkinpie and peachpie
 
After the food I slept off. My colleague has gone home to get married so he has left me with all the responsibility. I am supposed to run my department from now on. I am not used to all this responsibility and to be the boss, it is all new to me, so it is making me a little tired. I always try to leave office on time, at 6pm, but all the job seems to be coming at that time. Its okay, its actually quite fun now. The job is different from what it has been for the last 3 months.

I am usually pretty mean and rude in India. I think that is one big reason I really like it here. I get out a lot of my frustration. But the other day I was really surprised how nice I actually was. I was out doing some shopping, I went to Commercial street, and when it was time for me to go home I decided to take an auto. Outside these shoppingmalls, and other popular places, it is hard to get an auto for a good price. I was ready to bargain hard.

Obviously they started with a very high price which I did not accept. Then they started lower the price a little too much and I understood that they wanted to take me to some other shops, so they could get some benefits. I said, please I am tired, just take me home. But they were insisting in taking me to a few shops. After a few more minutes they said "Okay madam, we will take you to Koramangala (my area) for free, if you stop in two shops;" When I heard the word free, I opened my ears. I had spent so much money in shopping, so getting home for free would be really nice. I told them that I am not going to buy anything, so how would it benefit them. They told me that if I buy something they will get one uniform for free, if I dont buy anything they will get 100rs worth of fuel. I told them that I am tired, I know what kind of shops they will take me to and I am not going to buy anything. So we made a deal, they were okay with me not buying anything, I would just have a look, they would get fuelmoney and I would get a ride back home for free. It was a win-win situation. I was even so nice that I went in to a third shop, so the guy got 300rs worth of fuel thanks to me. I felt like a very nice person after that..

I had a very nice evening last night. I met up my very, very sweet friend Juliya along with some other friends, and we had a swedish evening. I havent been surronded by so many swedish people in a very long time now. It was actually little weird speaking so much of Swedish. We all went to a place called Beer club. And like you can guess, they served a lot of beer there. They actually make their own. But since I dont like it the place was not for me. Three of us then went to Skyyebar instead, the one in UB city, one of my favourite places in Bangalore. We drank, talked and danced the night away. It was a really nice evening!

The only bad thing about hanging out with foreigners is that no one has their own car. So last night I had to go home in an auto. After like 20 minutes or so I got the price I wanted. I think I get such a good price either because I am a lot of fun for the drivers or because I am bugging them to give me a good price so they give up. I am guessing the first option is more correct. When I went to Beer club (very close to UB city) it cost me 80rs, by the meter, and when I went back home from UB city in the middle of the night (23.30) it cost me 100rs. So I think I got a very good price, considering the startingprice was 400rs! 

My lovely Juliya is going home for Christmas by the way. I have already told her to get me Grillchips. And I just realized that Juliti is coming in December, I think I have to tell her as well to bring Grillchips for me.. And maybe some Lösgodis also.

Someone forgot to pay the internet bill at home. And then everyone was to busy to go and pay it. So we didnt have internet at home for almost one week I think. And I have been so busy, working and meeting many of my friends on my free time. I am enjoying my life to the fullest.

I saw a t-shirt the other day when I was out shopping. It said, I love being me. And that is exactly how I feel. I am so happy, and I love my life ♥

It is not very often that I crave Swedish candy (luckily) but today is one of those days. I want all of my favourites today, Daim, Brejk, Grillchips, Krossad Chockladglass, Lösgodis, MIKROKOLA! Of course I have none of these, so instead, Im sitting in my bed, listening to awesome music and eating Djungelvrål and Marabou mjölkchoklad. But today I really miss mikrokola. Oh, how I wish I was in Sweden where I can make it perfectly. I should try to make it here once, maybe I can make it well.. Lets see, I have to go home to roomie for that, but I am sure she will allow me.. 

Mmm, look at these babies ♥

Tonight I am going out to a place called ICE-bar, it is in Taj hotel on MG Road. That place is usually good, and the best part is that dancing is allowed there so people will be very happy. I will not dance though, I dont like it that much.. Have a great night people!

What is there to do when the blog is not working? I have been trying and trying but havent been able to open it. Now it seems like the problem is solved. Atleast for now.

I went out for dinner last night. I cant belive that I did that, I mean, it was Wednesday. And Wednesday always means Loveshack for me. Well, it wasnt that bad, after the dinner I stopped by Loveshack, around 10.45 I guess. It was very late, the party was about to end, but I met lots of people during that short time so I had a lot of fun. After Loveshack I went for an afterparty. We went to some hotel where there was a private birthdayparty. They had the biggest cake I have ever seen! I am sure it must have weighed  10kg, minimum. So I was happy, lots of cake and after all the great music they served food. The party ended late, around 2.30 am. I had an awesome night, and if it was possible I would want to re-visit it again. I am sure not everyone agrees with me!  There were some drama in the party, I guess related to me. But of course it wasnt my fault. Nothing is never my fault here..

Why do I love to be in the center of attention? I am getting myself in to trouble.. Nothing bad or anything, but drama will happen around me eventually. But I like the drama as well.. Sometimes I see my life as a soap opera. I wonder how everything can happen to me, but obviously it will.. Thats what happens when you love the attention and are a drama queen!

I just realised that I have been out of the house for more than 12 hours today. And I still need to go out and do more things, more work. No wonder I am tired after doing so much things in one day! I do sleep a lot these days.. Anyway, here are some photos from Loveshack, where else. Thats the only place I go to almost.

The party went on till late last night, just as I suspected. We were still up when my alarm went off at 6 am in the morning. I had put an alarm just in case we all fell asleep because me and another friend of mine needed to get home early.

The party started at my colleagues fake birthday party, it was also his niece´s 1 year birthday party so a few of us from office went there to celebrate both of them. We had some cake, and food and I enjoyed watching my friends dancing. Luckily no one forced me to dance this time! I could sit and enjoy my dinner at peace. When the party stopped, me and 2 friends went back home. We were sitting three people on a scooter, Oh it was so much fun! I really need to buy a scooter, I just love it. I didnt drive it though. I wanted to, but my friends said they didnt want to die yet, mean I know! So we were sitting in my colleaguse house, listening to some music and talking. Around 1 am one of my friends called me and came to pick me up. I went to their house and we again sat and talked and listened to some music. I had a very nice time, and I think I fell asleep a little after 7 am in the morning. I woke up around 9 and decided it was time for me to go home.

Now there was supposed to be some job for me, but it seemes like it has been postponed. I hope it will happen later today, otherwise I dont know when I will have the time for doing it...

Tomorrow I have taken off. Tonight I am off for a few parties first it is my colleaguse fake birthdayparty. Apparently he has a birthday every 6 months or so, but its okay, I have a birthday every Wednesday ;) After that Im going to a friends place for a second party, it will be a late night, I already know that, but it is okay because I have sleept so much this whole week. And tomorrow I guess will be an early morning and busy day, but I will tell you all later what my plans are. A few people know, and I am very excited! So all the best to myself, and I hope I will have fun..

Halloween in Loveshack last Sunday

I underestimated the tailor today. He did an amazing job, the blouse fits me perfectly and it is so nice. I told them to make it very deep in the back, first they said it couldnt be done becuse there is some design in the back, but I told them it was okay for me to cut through it. So they did what I said. They didnt teach me how to drape it in the shop, I got little disapointed because I was counting on them.. I actually left the store very angry, surprise surprise! Well, when I got home i put on the blouse, I saw that the fit was perfect, and then I draped the saree myself, obviously not how it was supposed to be done, but I just wanted to see myself in a full saree. And wow! I looked amazing. Indian women should wear saree more often because it looks really, really nice If you have a nice fabric and drape it the way I like it, it is really gorgeaous, and very sexy! I want to have it tonight, and every night after this, but I first have to buy the underskirt, and then I need to learn how to drape it! 

I was hanging with my sweet babysis today, she came in to my room and I showed her my saree, she really liked it and wanted me to wear it for her sisters birthday, whenever that is! I told her I dont know how to drape it, but her mom would show me, she said.. After that, we played some office again, she really likes going to office, then she wanted to put on some makeup and dance. I couldnt say no!
 

Sorry for looking ugly, I was in the process of getting ready!

After this her mother came and told her they needed to leave. Obviously she didnt want to. Her mother told me, with bodylanguage, that I should hit her so she would listen. I said no, and told her nicely to go with her mom. She then jumped in to my arms, gave me a biiiiig hug and a kiss, and then she left. Do I need to tell you that I love her? ♥

Me and India had a fight. Not really a fight, it was more like she tested me. Maybe she wanted to see if I can still handle all the bad things about her. Because in a long time, nothing bad has happend to me. She really let me down yesterday. I am so happy here, living like a queen, getting so much love and attention, I think she needed to take me down to earth for a while. Make me understand that even if I get many benefits here, it is also a downside being a white girl. In Bangalore it is not so bad compared to other cities, but bad things still happen once in a while.

I was wearing a dress yesterday when I went for a shoppingmall. Not a short dress, it went almost to my knees. I was also wearing heels (since I go for so few parties these days and I have to wear officeclothes in office, I like dressing up when Im free. And maybe, but only maybe, I like the attention I get too). I went in to Landmark which is one of the bookstores we have here.. I was reading a magazine, and I was in my own little beautiful world.. The guy next to me was kind of sitting on the floor, reading the magazines from the lower shelves. Nothing strange about that.

When I was leaving, I looked at him, I dont now how it happend, where I got the courage from but I stepped on his phone. He looked at me, with very scared eyes. I told him to give me his phone. He didnt say anything. I told him again, to give me his phone or I would tell the guard. He actually gave me the phone, I took it and removed the video he had made of me. That smart asshole was sitting on the floor next to me with his phone in his hand for a reason! He wanted to see what I had under my dress.

I dont know how I noticed what he was doing, or how I dared to do such a thing. I would have totally embaressed myself if he wasnt recording me. Normally I would have just left without saying a word or doing anything about it.

For the first time in so long, I cooked. I made Paneer butter masala and it was kind of awesome. I had to go to the closest restaurant though, to buy Butter Garlic Naan since I dont know how to make it myself.. I have become so lazy these days. I never cook for myself since I eat home made food from my personal chef Sateesh in office everyday. But those days when I am not working, or those few meals I do need to eat at home, Im thinking of getting a cook. My x-roomies cook is very good, should I hire him? If he comes like 2 or 3 times a week it should be enough food for me for one week.. His paneer bhurji is just amazing, and the butter chicken he made once was out of this world. Okay, I have to call x-roomie now and tell her to send him to my house.. Why should I not have a cook if I can afford it? I get awesome food and I give someone a job also, so it is a win-win situation..

I dont know what to do. Should I go to Mumbai in December on 23rd night, stay till 29th and then leave for Goa for a few more days? Or should I go to Goa on 23rd night, Mumbai on 27th morning and then back to Goa on 29th? I was talking to my friends about it yesterday, and it seems like the Goatrip would be sponsored, so if I go to Goa on 23rd or whatever date it might be, it would be cheaper for me... And also my friend has a house and car there, so no need to spend any money at all on those things.. But then I will miss out on some good Mumbai time! But Goa is a better place than Mumbai, specially during Christmas and New years.. Well, I have to think about it for a few days...


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I usually never have any favourite singers. I only like different songs. But now I have found a singer that I really like, Adele. All her songs are amazing. All of them go on repeat in my room, just listen to this one for example

When I was at Loveshack last Sunday and I was about to leave with my friends, some guys started talking to me. Since we were all foreigners we had something in common already. They asked me where I was from, when I told them Sweden they got all excited and said they were from Denmark. Wow, neighbours.. They got so happy so they started talking Danish to me. I didnt understand a word they were saying so I told them its better if we could speak in English.. Hehe, they got little disapointed they couldnt speak their language with me. Well, I am sorry but Danish is very difficult language to understand. I even have a hard time understanding Norweigan sometimes!

Yesterday I went to Loveshack. Havent been there for many Wednesdays now, so the crowd was totally new. I hardly new anyone.. I went with some of my friends so I still had a good time. But the best part was the dinner afterwards. We went to Park Hotel, their restaurant was open till late. I had plans on eating fish, but when I saw the menu I changed my mind. Thai paneng curry with beef tenderloin! I was in heaven. Oh, the food was amazing, I want to go there everyday! It might have been little disrespectful of me, since I was sitting with two hindus, whom had never even tasted beef in their life, but they seemed okay with me eating it anyway. And I must say, at that point I wouldnt have bothered so much anyway. I really needed that meat! I ate so much that I was to full to have the cheesecake I wanted. Me, skipping dessert? That never happens...

Hey beauty whats up? Do you want some coke?

I went for dinner with my roomie, to one of my favourite restaurants Chandni chowk. They have awesome indian food, and it is not that costly also.. We havent seen each other for some time, both have been busy and out of town. After dinner she drove me home, my street is a one way street, so she stoped at one turn so I had to walk for like 50 meters to my house. In that short strech, one weirdo passed me on his scooter, calling; Hey beauty, whats up? Do you want some coke? I know that drugs are very common here, but just screaming it out on the street like that? Anyway, I gave him a weird look, and went inside my house as soon as possible. Not that I was scared, I am just fed up with stupid people. And trust me, I meet stupid people a lot!  

I was so tired when I came home today, I watched a movie and I fell asleep. I woke up when my roomie called me 3 hours later and again I had no idea if it was morning or evening! This waking up really early is really messing with my sleep-habits. Now I am all full after an awesome dinner - the best part in this restaurant is the tiny onions soaked in vinegear - am feeling tired so I guess I will fall asleep very shortly again.

I love working in the mornings! I really, really love it. The only negative part is that I have to wake up very early. But I love being home early also. Yesterday I had so much done just bacause I got home early. Its almost like I didnt work. Which is of course awesome. I gave my saree for stitching yesterday. It will be ready on the 5th, they also promised me they will teach me how to drape it. So it will be worth those extra rupees that I am sure I paid. I think they kind of cheated me, but its okay. I blame it on myself for still not having learnt the numbers in hindi. That will change now, though! I will everyday learn something new in hindi. I work with indians everyday, I should take the opportunity to learn. It is free and they will teach me the proper spoken hindi. Anyways, I hope my saree will look awesome, I told them I wanted the blouse to be deep in the back, I love showing the back, it looks very nice.

Yesterday I was supposed to go out for some Halloween party. But I was actually so tired so I stayed home instead. I fell asleep with the laptop on and lights on. My roommate woke me up at 12.30! I got so scared, because I knew I had fallen asleep without putting my alarm! I asked, what is the time? When he said it was 12.30 I asked if it was 12.30 morning or night! I had no sense of timing. Like I would have slept for more that 12 hours without waking up once, stupid me!

All of you that have been shopping in India, and I am sure many other parts of Asia, knows that it sometimes is a pain to do so. I am talking about the staff that just keeps following you around, and dont let you look on your own. They stand 2 centimeters away from you at all times, as soon as you touch or look at something they are there to say something, show you or give it to you. Sometimes this is very good, I mean you dont have to do anything when you are in the stores. But other times you just want to be left alone. Like Thursday.

I went to Commercial street, I needed to do some shopping. (Okay I didnt need to, I wanted to). I went in to one store and they were little extreme. As soon as I entered they asked me what I wanted. How can I know what I want? I havent even seen what they have! I guess maybe indians shop differently than we do back home. Home we shop because we want something, here you buy things that you need. Of course I dont neeeed another pair of shoes when I have like 15 paris at home, I just want them..

So I told her, please let me look first. If I need your help I will tell you, promise! She said okay and followed me around, very closely. I was not in the mood for that on that day so I told her, please dont follow me, I want to see for myself. If I need something I will tell you. She said okay, and kept following me. I told her, please let me just have a look! I will go upstairs, you wait down here. Two seconds later she was also upstairs. But she was nice and said, I am not following you. I just came upstairs to put this thing here. And she also explained that it is her duty to follow the customers around. But eventually we came to some kind of understanding. She stood in one corner, starring at me, and I could do my shopping without a leech. She laughed at me when I left the store.

It feels like it was so long ago I did some shopping, but I just remembered that Mumbai had some good shopping when I was there.. And I went to Commercial street today and did lots of shopping. I cant even say how much money I accidently spent today! But I needed it all! Clothes, shoes, and the best part - my first Saree! It is so difficult to buy sarees, there are so many pretty and the best part is that you dont have to worry about any sizes. Everyone will fit you. So you just have to choose the ones that you like!

A phonecall woke me up last night, of course people make drunk phonecalls to me on Diwali, what did i expect? Anyway, I knew people would miss me, but this much? I had no idea. After all the phonecalls "Where are you?" "Why didnt you come out?" "We miss you" it was time for me to fall asleep again. Only, now I couldnt sleep. I guess I was to excited with all the boosting I got from my friends. And then I got so hungry, I went up in the middle of the night to get some food. Of course there wasnt anything in the fridge, since I never eat at home these days, so I only had some youghurt. That hardly helped.

Then I started thinking about the phonecall that came to office today. Who was that? He started with asking me normal question like where the office was located, but then it turned personal. Where am I from? I dont sound indian? What is my name? Do I want to go for Metallica with him? How long will I be working for? etc.. I hope it is not a scary stalker guy! His voice sounded familiar, maybe it was one of my friends, but I didnt recoognise his number. Luckily I never work alone. I hope all my guys in office will be protecting me from these weirdos. After all, I am everyones favourite in office ♥ hehe

We just cant get along. I dont know why this is, I am such a nice person, everyone likes me! But there are some serious tention between me and Diwali. Not a single one till date has been good, these are the reasons for this years Diwali being bad;

1. I had to work for 12 hours because someone decided to take off

2. I was angry because I had t work for stupid 12 hours on Diwali

3. Some weirdo called me at work and asked me out to the Metallica consert! I have no idea who he was

4. I got a migrane

5. There is a nice party happening, but I cant go since I have a migrane

6. There are so many crackers outside, and its hurting my head since I have a migrane

So me and Diwali are just not friends. I have to realise it now, this being my forth crappy Diwali in a row. I guess I am kind of the only one just sitting at home doing nothing... Oh, this sucks! Just because of the shift I had today, it ruined my whole week.. I am little sad because of that actually!

Sometimes when I am bored, and my friend is in my place, I let Harper out of her room and let her run around in the house. Why do I do this when I am bored? My friend is really scared of dogs. Actually he claims he is not scared of dogs, he is only scared of puppies! And its not that he is really scared, he just dont like when they run towards him and he is not ready for it. I love watching when he jumps up on the sofa because he is scared of the tiniest little puppy, or when he jumps back in fear when the puppy is running towards him!

Yesterday was one of those days when I was little bored, so I let Harper out. I also tried to make a video out of it, but I think my friend put on his brave mask, you cant see how scared he really is.

She really liked posing infront of the camera. She never wanted to stop taking pictures or making videos. I think she could have kept going the whole night, the sweet kid Kirtina..

Tomorrow the festival Diwali starts, the great festival of lights. It must be one of the most famous festivals in India, for us foregigners atleast. Diwali and Holi are the popular once I think. I had some great plans for tomorrow, since I havent had a good Diwali till date. My first Diwali was celebrated in Jaipur with my friends. We had to go home to the hotel because boys kept stalking us and touching us! My second Diwali was spent all alone in a hotelroom in Delhi, I also had food poisoning and no one could help me get medicine or take me to hospital until morning.. My third Diwali was spent at a friends place, where I actually didnt want to be. I was hoping my forth Diwali would be a good one, celebrated the Delhiway (Delhipeople know how to celebrate festivals) Now there is a slight change in plans, I hope I can get past my grudges and still have a good time..

Houses will be decorated with flowers and lots of lights. A lot of crackers will be sold and used. Some pujas, good food and drinks also I guess... It is very nice being a part of all the Indian festivals, there is so much love and happiness during these times. And look at this sweetbox I got from office today! I will never finish this one, it is too much sweets for me.

What better way to get yourself into a good mood than this?

After a good day gone bad, I think I deserve all of these.

I am such a child! The biggest problem I have in life is seriously my mood. I cant control it and when I get angry I get so angry! I want to say so many bad things, and, to feel even better, slap someone, instead I keep it all inside because I know I will say something that is not acceptable. I left office in a rush and in a state of complete anger! It did not help that it was raining cats and dogs and I got completely drenched. The thing that made me feel slightly better was all this chocolate and this cutie waiting for me at home..
 
Some puppylove is the best love. Our sweet puppy Harper. I think we are going to keep her ♥

Eventhough I had an awesome time in Mumbai, it is so nice to be back home in Bangalore. How can I move from here? I dont think it is possible... As soon as I entered my house, I left my luggage, took a shower and met up with some of my friends. I had a lovely evening with a long lost friend, havent seen him in a long time so it was really nice meeting him again. We were just sitting in a bar chatting the night away, I was home quite early..

So what happend in Mumbai? Well, all my visa issues got sorted out. I dont know why Bangalore gave me so much trouble, it was so easy in Mumbai. Other than that I had meetings with my Swedish friend and I ate a lot of food. The Dahi puri in Mumbai is awesome, and I hade the best roll ever, Paneer bhurji roll with cheese... And me my friend we bought so many donuts for our meetings, lovely!

Now I am off into the extreme heat and humidity that Mumbai has, so that I have lots of time to enjoy Mumbais wonderful adventures. Shopping, eating, ticketbooking, policereports and a long meeting are on the agenda for today. Have a wonderful day, unless I am melting in the sun, I will also be having a wonderful day ♥

I found hundreds of these on the women´s compartment in the train in Mumbai. But people please, dont call, only sms him..

Yesterday after all my work (my visa issues are now solved, yeeey) I met my sweet swedish friend Kathrine. We have big plans for the future. Yesterday we had our first meeting and it looked like this! I would love to have more meetings like this.  

We went to Mad Over Donuts, one of my favourite shops, they sell the best donuts ever. And we decided to buy 5 and get one free (it was their offer). When we had chosen 6 I asked them if we couldnt get one for free. The guy said that we already got one, but I wanted one more for free. I told him that we are so sweet (two cute, white chicks) so we should get one more. He couldnt say no! So 7 donuts we had, and they were all amazing. So far I have eaten Dahi Puri and donuts. Now only rolls from Lokhandwala is pending, and some of the white stuff I dont know the name of, but I dont know if I will find that.

Today I need to book a ticket for Bangalore, but before I leave I have to do some police report over here, and of course some shopping. I am leaving tonight after all my work is done.

I have seen this so many times, and it always surprises me how the kids can fall asleep when someone does this. When someone did it to me ones, it was so irritating, I had to tell the person to stop because I couldnt concentrate on falling asleep.. But this kid he fell asleep, and he slept the whole flight after this..