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.