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The party of the century

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.....








Me and Salman Khan

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 ♥


Bannerghatta National Park

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!











A new picture

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


Lazy Fridaynight

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..


Happy Republic day


Is this for real?

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 ♥


Homemade food

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!


Lalbagh

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.



Dont tell anyone

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


Now what?

I went for a medical checkup today. I am so sad now, I thought I was done with my medications and my diet (the doctor put me on a stupid diet, no spicy food, no hot food, no hard food, 3 liters of water etc) but he gave me even more medicines today. For another TEN (10!) days I have to continue not only medications but the diet. I have never been on a diet before, and I hate it! My friends are on me like hawks, they dont allow me to eat anything I want.. And on top of everything, I have to rest. For another TEN (10!) days! Please save me from this boring life of mine!

For this, I hate India!


I want, I want, I want.....

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.


Mysore

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".


New adventures awaits

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.  


Food

One way of making paratha in India..


Dance

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






Be happy with what you have

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


When in Goa

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.




Heaven

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...


Back to normal

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.


I missed my bus

Okay, so my trip to Mumbai didnt start very well. I missed the bus when I was standing in an alley throwing up. I had felt crappy for some time, but didnt expect feeling that bad. I was considering if I would go or not, but decided, after the help of getting medecine and food, that I would go. The staff in the busstand was ver helpful and they rescheduled my ticket.. The only bad part now is that I will reach in the afternoon. I really hope I will have the time to attend the Sangeeth.. Now I am hoping for better days, I cant be sick when I have so much to look forward too

I love travelling

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..












Waste-day

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...


Sad, sad, sad


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.


My family is growing

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..




Bangalore Palace

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...


Im in love

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


First time in Temple







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..


Leaving Bangalore

Soon I am going on vacation. And I cant wait. As soon as my colleague is back I will start relaxing for some time. I still havent booked my tickets. I am such a last-minute-booker. The reason is mainly because I havent decided how to go. But I think I have made up my mind now. I should go from here to Mumbai. From Mumbai to Goa and then back home to Bangalore after I am done with my tanning in Goa. So Christmas will be spent in.... Bangalore, I think. See I still havent made up my mind.

Tomorrow I am off. I have some work to do, which can not be done on a Sunday so therefore I changed my off. I will start the day with sleeping in. It feels like forever I slept without waking up to an alarm.


Life is wonderful

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.


I am sick

I went for a colleagues birthday party the other day. I was home 5 am in the morning. Then I woke up at 7 am to go to work. Strangely enough I was not that tired. The only problem was that my cold had become worse. I was coughing, had a blocked nose, a soar throat, headache and a little fever. I worked almost the whole day, but at 3 pm I felt that I needed to go home. My friend was nice to drop me at my home and bought me some medicine.. I was home resting, and then watched some Gossip Girl. Or so I thought. Before I knew it, it was 3 am in the morning and I did not even realise that I had fallen asleep. The fever was gone, but the cold was still there.

No issues, I went to office, another of my colleague came to pick me up and now, here I am. Waiting for my lunch to be ready for me.. Hopefully I can leave on time today, Saturday and Sunday I am off. I need that after I have been working for 12 days straight.

Long, long day

I hate having a job that never ends. My job is going on 24/7. Obviously I dont work that much, but my phone is always there for any kind of questions. I kind of started to hate when my phone rings because I know it is someone from office calling me, regarding something I dont know what! Well of course it is only office calling me, it is my office phone. And I guess I have myself to blame, I asked for one officephone!

Well, I am still in office at 10pm, not because of work but because I am waiting for a drop. My colleague will take me home and he is working this late. Luckily I came to office late today.. And then I am waiting for my other colleague to come down to my office and bring me dinner. He is ignoring my calls, I guess he is to lazy to cook dinner for me tonight.. Its not really an issue, I bought candy worth 300rs last night so I wont go to bed hungry today!


Sunshine

Okay now I know why I have been feeling a little low for the last few days, or has it been weeks? We havent had any sun in a long, long time. Or atleast no sun when I have been out. It has been a little depressing for me. Today when my colleague came to pick me up, it was sunny and I imediately got a smile on my face. It was so nice to be outside today. While I was very happy, my colleague complained about the sun!

It is not very warm in the mornings though, eventhough it is kind of winter here, I got springfeelings this morning. You know how the typical springweather in Sweden is in April, May or maybe even June, thats the exact weather we had this morning. The perfect weather to prepare you for the nice summer. The perfect temperature when it is a little to cold for a top or a t-shirt, but to warm to wear anything thicker than a thin sweater. Its interesting how the weather can have such an impact on your mood, or more likely, my mood.

Today I am happy. Very, very happy ♥

Party




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


WTK

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..


Im alive

I have almost given up my blogwriting these days. There is no energy for writing and I dont feel I have anything to write about anymore. I am just living my life right now like anyone else, working, meeting friends, going for dinners and parties, sitting at home and watching TV, eating, sleeping... You know how it is. Previously there were tons of things to write about, everything was different and weird and new. Maybe I have just become used to everything right now so it doesnt seem interesting anymore.. Well, lets see. Maybe my energy will come back one day soon..

Lovely Sunday

My Sunday was not at all what I had planned it to be. My girlsday/night did not happen, since the third girl was lost somewhere on the road. Instead of a nice day out in the sun with a glass of wine and some girltalk, there was a long day filled with laundry, cleaning and being inside since it was raining. Oh yes, I was also outside to look for a scooty, I found one that I liked, but apparently it wasnt good.. Well lets see when I will find one!

In the night I had dinner with the third girl, she was finally found. I had awesome food. I actually ordered paneer bhurji, but I ate mostly of my friends chicken. The gravy was so good. I had to get a doggybag with all the leftovers. I forgot the best part that happend last night. My roomie came by my house, finally after like weeks, and she helped me to drape my saree. It took forever, and its quite complicated until you learn it properly, but it looked amazing. I have one more saree in my house, I need to give it to the tailor and get it ready to wear. It is pink. With lots of glitter. It is really nice. I was walking around in the house with my saree for some time. Not only do you have to learn how to drape it, you need to learn how to walk in a saree as well. It is not a piece of cake, my saree almost fell of a few times!

Saturday party

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...


People, come out and party!



Always fun to be in the newspaper

My first Thanksgiving

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 miss Wednesdays




It feels like I havent been out in a long time now. These pictures are from 2 weeks ago I think. What happend to my Loveshack-every-Wednesday? From now on I am getting off on Sundays so I guess that I will have to give up my Loveshack now. Instead there will be great parties on Saturdays..

I have a new roomie

Sweet Juliya has moved in with me, in my small room, and it is actually nice to have some company. Its like having a slumber party everyday now. She will only stay for one month. My room has become much nicer now, it was really empty before she came. Now I have two beds, lots of bags on the floor, one lamp, and soon one TV. I bought one yesterday, and I am so happy to get one. Although I dont know if I will ever have the time to watch it, but it will be nice for the few times I actually do have the time.

I was actually supposed to buy my scooty yesterday, my friend had found one for me. After work we went to the bikeshop, but to my dissapointment the shop was closed. I got so sad, so I decided to buy a TV instead. It made me a little happy. But since it is a second hand one, they needed to fix it up, and most important, clean it for me. When I came home I told my roommate that I bought one. He told me that we already have a TV connection, eventhough we dont have a TV, so I dont have to bother about calling these TV connection people and wait for like 5 years, I will have the connection right away.

After Juliya came to my place yesterday we went out for dinner. I wanted to go to mine and Sams favourite restaurant, Chandni Chowk, but since it was Sundayevening, it was fully booked. We went to another Punjabi restaurant and had lovely food. Some paneer tikka, and then finely shredded chicken in a lovely gravy with butter naan. In the middle of the night we got some company and we were sitting outside on my terrace. I was sitting with my blanket around me, Bangalore is cold these days, and it was so nice to have company and just enjoy life. ♥

Have I become nice?

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..


A swedish night

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.


I am back in the virtual world

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 ♥


Cravings

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!

 


Blog working again

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 am tired

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.



Dont stop the party

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...


Sunday parties

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


Im in love. I am always in love, I know

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? ♥


Goodmorning

So more than one week has passed since I gave my saree for stitching. It was ready yesterday but I completely forgot to pick it up. Or actually, I stayed little longer in office to get a bikedrop, so when I came home and remembered the saree the shop was already closed. Today I will go and pick it up. But I already know that my blouse wont fit me. The way they take messurements it can impossibly fit me. So I will go there today, I will tell them to make it in my size again, I will be angry and tell them to make it happen while I am there, and then 10 minutes later I will get it. I hope thats the way it will happen atleast. Or even better, the blouse will fit me right away. Then they also promised me to help me drape it, I hope they do.
Okay, the whole day I will just wait till I can get my saree.. Im very excited, being my first and all.. I hope it will look as amazing as I have imagined it. Well saree is a very flattering dress, so it should!

I am in love


Santa, this is what I want for Christmas.
Michael Kors Watch in Rose Gold ♥

I hate you India

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.


Green, Purple, White



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..


Plans for Christmas

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...


VS


My new love

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


Wednesday

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...


I ♥ my life





Honesty VS being polite



Is there such thing as being too honest?


I must say that most of the indians are very honest. Countless of times I have heard that I dont look good, I am too white, Im black under my eyes etc. If I had some fat on my body I would sure hear that I am too fat, or that I have gained weight. When do you ever hear these things in Sweden? If you ask someone, you never look fat, and yes that dress suits you, and no you dont look ugly today. Why do we want to be polite? Isnt it better to tell the truth? If that pimple you have on your nose is very visible, why dont you just say that, instead of trying to make your friend feel good by saying that you can hardly see it. Honesty or making someone feel good? Which one is better?

Do I like this honesty? Yes, I think I do. Because then when you hear something nice about yourself you can be damn sure that people really mean it!

I am addicted


Okay, it is a fact. I am addicted to my baby, my phone. If I am not having a drink in my hand (which happens rarely these days) my phone is there in my hand. I keep texting, texting, texting all the time, lucky for me its free...

By the way, I have a new favourite compliment.  I have now heard  that I have a million dollar smile. How sweet is that compliment?

You want some coke?



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.


Sunday

I havent been to Loveshack in so long. Actually I havent been out for a very long time. Waking up at 5.30 every morning has made me very sleepy in the evenings. But I am glad I went yesterday, I had a lot of fun, I met some nice people that could be helpful in the future, and some of my friends that I havent seen in a long time as well. I impressed everyone (okay, not everyone, a few) with my new hindi skills. Apparently I speak very well..

There was a Metallica concert yesterday, apparently 50.000 people were there, so no wonder the crowd was little less last night, but it was fun anyway. 50.000 people! I cant believe it, its so many! I am glad I was not there, I hate going for concerts, all you do is stand for hours and hours... But I heard it was good, so maybe I will watch it on tv instead.. Anyways, nothing new is happening here, the days are just passing, life goes on, nothing interesting going on right now.

Me and my saree

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!


My day of shopping

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.


Enjoy this

She is so sweet. And a very good dancer.


I love shopping

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!



Early morning

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 are not friends

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!


Puppy VS Man

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.


My sweet babygirl

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..




Mumbai in pictures


The fight before the flight

My old city


I wish you could see this picture clearly. It is a slumarea. All the huts are having TV antenna, which is little funny when you think about it. All these huts have a TV!

Mad over donuts ♥

Diwali

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.


Sweet Harper

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 ♥


Home sweet home

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!


Busy day



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 ♥


He is boobs lover...



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


Work, work, work

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.


How is it possible?

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..


You never know what you will find in India

I went shopping the other day, and then I found this. I didnt know they had Gina Tricot here (Swedish brand), but it made me happy, eventhough I didnt buy this thing..


Pictures



Spot the white chick!


The party pictures never ends!
Now I am off for a long day full of fun, will keep you updated and posted when I have the time.. Have a great day, I know I will.. In my Beloved MUMBAI♥

Healthy Breakfast?

I think not. But I was really hungry and in a rush as well.. My friend was nice enough to give me atleast something!


Me and my cutiepie ♥



This kid is just too cute. Her name is Khirtina (dont know the spelling, but it is pronounced like this atleast) and she is the daughter of the maid we have. She is five, will turn six in a few weeks. Me and her had some nice time together on last Saturday when I was home.. We took a lot of pictures, made some movies and played a little. She wore my high heels and my Gucci bag and my mobilephone and pretended she was an office girl. She was walking around in my shoes and made a lot of calls, saying things like "No I cant come, I am in office" "Oh, I dont want to be in office, I will come home soon" Soo cute!


Why my flight was delayed

What can I say? Incredible India, I guess is a good expression...


I am so sorry

To all of you how is following my Indian adventure, I am sorry for not writing as much as I should. I have had a few very hectic days, and yesterday I was so tired that I actually didnt go to Loveshack, I stayed home and slept for 11 hours. I fell asleep at 8pm. Well I needed that. And now can you all guess where I am?



Yes, I have taken a flight to Mumbai. And Oh my GOD it is so humid here! I am glad that I live in Bangalore, the weather is so much better over there.. But I am sure I will change my mind in a few days or so. After all, I do love Mumbai... The ride to Bangalore airport took me 3 hours and 20 minutes! I cant believe it, the traffic was horrible! I think I could have walked faster than that.. But once I reached the airport, my flight was delayed, so I stressed for nothing..

The reason I am in Mumbai is to sort out some issues I have been having with my stay in India. I hope it will be solved fast, I will try to do it tomorrow. But as you all know, I am in India, and India is not know for being fast and effective. So lets see how long it takes. In the meanwhile, I will enjoy everything that Mumbai has to offer. The first thing I will do is to eat! I missed good Dahi Puri sooooo much. And Mad Over Donuts, and Veg rolls in Lokhandwala. And some white thing they sell on the street that I dont know the name of..

I will try to update more frequently. And I am sorry for not being able to write. I know you all love to read whatever I write. Specially Francesco, Gianluca and SAAAAAAAM! They are my biggest fans!


I want tonight

A few crazy days, no sleep and lots of tasty food. Tonight when I come home I will rest! I will not go anywhere, if someone wants to meet me, they have to come to my house. And if I fall asleep, waking me up is not allowed. Monday I was hanging out with my ex-roomie, we had dinner and talked a lot.. Yesterday I went out for dinner with a friend of mine. I think I have had my share of fish now, dont think I need it for a few weeks. Next step will be eating a lot of meat. Funny how I have been craving fish but not meat. Those who know me, knows that I hardly eat fish and am one of the biggest meatlover..

Anyway, I met one of my friends last night when I was out, he is getting married in a few days, so I wish him a happy wedding and married life! The place I went to they played the most awesome music, I cant believe dancing is not allowed here, when the music is soooo good! Not OK!  


And my Saturday

After coming home, on Saturday morning I did all the things I needed to do that I dont have time for otherwise, food shopping, laundry, going to the parlour and other things. I also sat outside in the sun, drinking juice and reading a book - heaven! I ordered lunch from outside, very cheap lunch, and I learned my lesson once again, dont eat in too cheap places. I got some stomach pain afterwards, but it got even worse in the night. Right now I am okay but lets see what happens later on.

I went out with the italian maffia, since they are now back in India again. Not that they want to, all they do is complain about it. They hate being here, kind of atleast, and I am so jealous of them, having good jobs and an opportunity to stay in India for a long time. Well we went to the Ives party in Chancery Pavillion. The Ives party is also known as the expatparties. I actually met 2 swedish people, which like almost never happens. Now I will tell you how small this city is. The girl I meet is the sister of the owner to the company where Juliya is going to work. Juliya is going to live in the same house as this girl.

I meet some long lost friends in the party. What I love about going out is that you get to know all kinds of people that in the future can be very helpful. You never know what kind of people you will meet. And also, since this city is very small, you get to know gossip about people you know. I keep asking everyone about this and this person, and I always get some kind of information that I didnt know before.. After the party I went to a friends house for an afterparty. I dont know why I always go, I dont like afterparties. Well, I went, and I actually did have fun. I meet some more people from Europe (I forgot which country) and kept talking for some time. I was standing outside, on the balcony. From there I saw an autodriver, and I, like I always do, asked if I could drive his auto. We bargained for some time, I dont understand why he wanted me to pay to drive him home? And we didnt agree on the price, since I didnt want to pay anything. So we stoped talking. And then before I knew it, the autodriver was in our afterparty. Haha, like I said before, you never know what kind of people you will meet in parties..

I came home little after one and then had one of those nights from hell, due to the stupid, cheap food. Now it is better, but still not all well...


My Friday

No Internet at home and a non functioning blog otherwise is the reason I havent written for a few days. I had a lovely Friday. I came home early from office and I went straight for some shopping. Although I didnt find anything I liked, it was nice relaxing time.. The best thing I found was a bottle of Rose wine and a Mcflurry. Can you believe that Mcflurry just came to India. Like not even one month old I think. How long have we had it in Sweden? 7 years? 10 years? Anyway, atleast it is here, and it is very tasty!

I spent the evening in Ice-bar situated in Taj hotel on MG Road. I went with some off my friends, one of them who has an internal bleeding and is wearing a cast! I called him a woman since it is only an internal bleeding. Maybe we had some misscommunication there... Well, since Ice-bar has dancing allowed, and so it is very crowded, we had to sit away from all the people because my friend cant jump around on his crutches. So I kind of missed the party, but I still had a good time. And I still meet a few people when I sneaked away to the bathroom.

After the party we went to the one midnight-open restaurant and bought lots of food to take home. Including icecream that I couldnt stop talking about. Of course it wasnt as good as it is in Sweden, but it was still okay. I cant believe it but we stayed up til after 4 am in the morning. We were playing some Swedish games and we just kept talking a lot.


Rise and Shine

My blog has not been working for some time. Well I did kind of not work either, we syncronized that I guess. Now that I am working, the only thing I have to look forward to is the Wednesday party in Loveshack (Well, it is not the only thing of course, but its what I look forward the most atleast). And I was so dissappointed when I went there and there were hardly any people. All these rules with no music and no dancing is making people either stay home or go to other places. Only a few places here in Bangalore actually have dancing allowed. I think it is mostly hotels that have that. For dancing the places need a dancelicense, which cost a lot of money of course.

I feel sorry for all the smaller places, because the license is very costly for them, and most probably they cant afford it, so the business is going very bad these days. The Indian government is actually making them loose business, and it is a legimit business, its nothing illegal. Well, enough said about this.

Today I will be working early and that also means I will get off early. And Saturday I am off, so it will feel like I have a long weekend. Hopefully I can do some tanning, I feel that I need it. But lets see, my days always tends to be very very hectic, even without any plans...


Lovely dinner

Yesterday I was awake for 22 hours. I didnt even realise it was so many hours, but I started feeling very tired in the night and then I understood why. I went out for dinner last night with some friends, we went to UB City and a Italian restaurant there. I had the best food, it was like having food from home. Two glasses of good white wine, grilled Norweigan salmon, and Cheesecake for dessert. Oh, it was so lovely! I even ate half off a king prawn. But I must say prawns are little scary to eat. It tastes like fish but the consistency is like meat. I think it will take some time for me to learn how to eat prawns.

After the dinner we just went home, talked for some time, watched some tv-shows and then I got a drop back home. It was a nice evening, better than just staying at home atleast. My ex-roomie is so busy these days so we hardly have the time to meet anymore.. Anyways, I am off to work, as usual. No staying at home, chilling for me.. And tonight I will go to my Loveshack. Hope it will be a good evening, but lets see..


♥ My Love India

India is not doing what I want her to do. She is messing with me and I do not like it. Right now I am in a place where anything can happen, I will not know until the end. I know you dont know what I am talking about. No one can know right now. The few people that actually do know, please pray for me! You know what I want...


Early night

Tomorrow I have a very, very early shift, so I think it is best for me to go to bed soon. I will watch some movie til I fall asleep.. My day in office was different, will tell you about it in a few days, its something funny! So have a good night everyone, and sweet dreams!



More party pictures

I promised one of my friends not to post these pictures before the 10th, since he was having an exhibition this weekend. He took a lot of pictures from this night, two Sundays ago, and I still havent got them all. I only took the ones where I was present. I guess there are a few more hundreds of them..



Me and my roommate





The photagrapher kept taking my pictures all the time. I got little tired after som time..


I am quite impressed by this guy in white. He is the General Manager by the age of 27 (started when he was 26). Where will he be when he is 35? Some people are just born to have great jobs and careers I guess.. Althought he works very much, so it is not that easy...


Why do I attract so many weirdos?

I met an american guy last night in Ice bar that thought, since I am white and he was also white, we were friends. He passed me and I was talking to someone, when I didnt say hi to him he got a offended, since we were 'buddies". I did not agree to that. Well we started talking, I didnt really have a choice, he kind of forced me to talk to him. I know you cant do that, but since I am a really nice person (yes, that is true. I am not rude, at all), I had to talk to him. It was his last night in India so he wanted me to come to his hotelroom and help him pack.

Well we all know that wasnt what he meant. And he asked me many, many times.. I told him if it was so important to get some help with the packing he could ask some of the staff that was working in the hotel. Then he left. I really dont know how I attract all the weirdos. Roomie tells me that all the time, and she came to the conclusion that weirdos attracts weirdos. But when I enlightend her that I attracted her, she said it didnt apply for her. Because she is not a weirdo, obviously!

Am thinking of going to Loveshack tonight. It would have been an obvious choice, but since something happend in office and I have to stay til late evening, I am not sure if I will be up for it. I do like Sundays there, you just chill and have some nice food, talk a little with cool people and listen to some really good music. I really want to have some nice music. Everyday in office I have to listen to the same bloody CD, over and over and over. I am so tired off it by now, after 2 months I almost know it by heart..


Dreaming of December

I am taking some time off. From work that is. Well not now, but I have a wedding to attend in December in Mumbai, I will stay there for a few days spend Christmas with some of my swedish friends and after that me and my lovely, cute friend Juliya will go to Goa to celebrate New years and just relax in the sun for a few days. Oh I cant wait for it to be December. It will be so nice to be around good friends and not having to work, I miss that.

Some days, when I am out of my mind I guess, I do miss the Swedish winter. It would be nice to have some real cold weather with lots and lots of snow. I am so warm here all the time, I am sweating in office and when I am out during the day. But as soon as it is night here I do complain that it is too cold (maybe around 15 degrees) and that I have to wear a stole or a sweater over my dress... After all I do prefer wearing a dress in the winter over those thick jackets.


Me in the newspaper


I might be going to Ice-bar...

Oh, I am so disapointed. I got off early today, 3pm so I wanted to have a party that started at 4. Just imagine, sitting around friends, outside in the sun, sipping a glas of wine, talking, laughing, listening to music, dancing.... And then, late in the evening go to a nightclub and dance even more. But noooo, I am still home at 7.30 pm, without company because they are apparently doing more important things than hanging out with me in an awesome houseparty. Now, the partynight will be so short again, as usual! Stupid company I have tonight!

If the party is not good tonight, I think I am going to cry! I was so looking forward for a nice, long evening. Now it isnt long, but if it isnt nice either it will kill me. And you people know who I mean! I know you will read this..



Early morning

These days I am waking up at 5ish am. But it is totally worth it because I get off at 3ish pm and it is so nice to get home early, when there is still some sunshine, or rain, and when there is no rush in the traffic. More early mornings for me please, Roushan! The only bad thing is that there is no good bus for me. Today I was lucky, my bus that I usually takes were early, so I could go directly to office, otherwise I have to take 2 buses or one bus and auto. All my problems will be solved if/when I get a scooter... I know I keep writing so much about this scooter, but I really, really want one. I am just waiting for some of my bikerfriends to come back to Bangalore, and then they will help me find a good one..

Last night was spent at home. The night before I only sleept for 4 hours because some of my friends kept calling and texting me so I couldnt fall asleep, so this night I got the sleept that I needed. It was also a sad night, I finished my Grillchips! Now I regret that I didnt brought more from Sweden when I was there.. The only Swedish stuff I have left now is one Marabou milkchocolate, Djungelvral and a little, very litttle losgodis.

Food that I am missing at the moment, in this order:
1. Arlas red milk
2. Krossad chocklad glass (The best Ice cream in the world!)
3. Grillchips
4. Pizza
5. Grilled salmon with potatosalad, creme fraiche dipp med rod lok och dill
6. A good steak
7. Hamburger
8. Tacos (But I have it here, I am just to lazy to cook my own food now that I have a few personal cooks in office)


The ride back home from TGIF

Oh, it is so much fun driving these ones. I want my own now! My colleague and teacher Glenn, was quite scared behind me and he never let me drive it alone. He had his hands over mine just in case something would happen.. Well it was good, because I am not a very good driver yet. I think I need a few classes atleast, before I can drive in this mad indian traffic. The helmet I am wearing is so big, I couldnt drive to fast because then it just blew off my head, hehe..


Dussehra

Today there is a holiday in India called Dussehra. It is the festival of victory of good over evil. Long story short, The good God Rama killed the demon Ravana who kidnapped Rama's wife Sita, and brought her to Lanka (Now known as Sri Lanka). The evil God Ravana had was very intelligent, and had many qualities (if I am not wrong) so he is said to have nine extra heads. If you see pictures of him, you will see all the ten heads. They all represent his different qualities (again, if I am not wrong).

1. Lust
2. Anger
3. Delusion
4. Greed
5. Over pride
6. Jealousy
7. Mind 
8. Intellect
9. Will
10. Ego

So with this said, I want everyone to know that almost everyone in my office is off. Only me and a few others are here, all the other IT companies are off. There is no one in the hotel, a few came for lunch. No phonecalls, no nothing.. On top of this, I have to work for 12 hours, and I had a very bad nights sleep. It feels like I was up all night. I think I was little scared of being alone in the reception today, it was the first day for me...


Time for work

Now I am off for a long shift at work.. I dont have the time to write now, since I kind of overslept.. So I will write more in the evening.. Til then, have a great day!


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