Saras India

I needed a break for some time, thats why I didnt write til now. Somedays you just have a really bad day and all you want to do is just lie in bed all day. My day wasnt like that. But I still wanted to lie in bed all day.. Working six days a week is kind of killing me! Not that I have that heavy workload, but you never get the time to relax. As soon as you feel a little relaxed it is time to work again. And I try to do so many things after work, that I hardly have the time to rest. I dont want to be such a boring person that all I do is work and sleep. So then I skip my sleep, which of course result in a tired Sara... And you can do that for some time before you just collapse and sleep, sleep, sleep. I dont have the time to go to the gym anymore, I dont have the time to cook my own food, I dont have the time to paint my nails, I dont have the time to meet everyone I want to, I dont have the time to sleep. 

So many times I have heard people saying "I wish there were more hours in one day" and I never understood why! I wanted shorter days because I couldnt fill my days with enough activities. But now I understand completely. I wish the day had 34 hours instead of 24.
 

First we went for one of my favourite restaurants, Chandni Chowk, that is very close to my house. They have really awesome indian food here, I love everything they serve me. I had some really good chicken, I ate til I almost felt like getting it all up again, and still there were food over. So I got myself a doggybag.. After the dinner we went home for some time and just sleept off in the sofa.

We did save the desert for later. We took the car and went to a place where I have wanted to go for so long. This chain has been in a mall very, very far from my place, so I have never gone. But recently they opened one in Koramangala, where I live. So finally I went here. It took me forever to choose something from the menu, it was so much to choose from.. Next time I am going on a date, I could think of going to this place again...










My date for the night was my x-roomie by the way

Today is the famous Mahatma Gandhi's birtday. In India todau is a national holiday, unfortunately I am stuck in office.. But it is okay, not much to do anyway..

Miss Sweden, Sugar, Blondie, Golden, Beta (Hindi word). These are a few of the nicknames I have got here. And I must say.... I just love getting these kind of nicknames. My favourite is Miss Sweden, it sounds like I am a model then, hehe. I like when people are creative. Compliments like I love your eyes, and your smile is so gorgeous people tell me all the time. So whenever I hear that I just respond with a "Thank you, I know" (Haha, I sound so rude. I am not. Really. I mean, I do say thank you!).  When people (okay, guys) tell me something I never heard before or do something unusual, they get my attention. Otherwise, they are just anyone among everyone, and there are so many anyone's here. I wish there were a few more special ones...

Today Juliya is leaving for India ♥. I hope she has a very good flight! She is not coming to Bangalore though, I have to wait some more days to see her.. She is going straight to Goa for some vacation, and I am very jealous.. I also need some relaxing and tanning on the beach, but I know I will go there one day, when I can take some time off from work.

Last night after work, I went to TGIF with some of my colleagues. I drank some lovely chocolate milkshakes, I should always drink that when I go out, I dont know why I never thought of that.. From now on, it will be milkshakes for me.. The best part of the night (sorry, it was fun in TGIF also) was the ride back home. One of my colleagues, Glenn, has a scooter and he was nice enough to let me drive home! Haha, I had so much fun, I love driving it. Although I think Glenn was little scared, he had his hands over mine the whole ride.. He said he would teach me more, and I hope he will.. I think I need some more classes before I buy my own and start driving in rush traffic. Last night there was hardly any cars outside.

My colleagues went for an afterparty, I drove myself home because I had a very early shift today, 8 am in the bloody morning! But its fine, I managed to get up, after snoozing for a loooooong time..

My camera sucks! It is impossible to take good pictures when it is dark. So due to that fact, I will not show any pictures from the fashion party last night. But it was very good. It was a brittish designer Christian Blanken, who had the show and he had very nice clothes. Actually there were a few more shows, but since we had to pick up 3 indian girls before we went (it took a loooooooong time) we missed all of them. The ambiance was also very nice, very brittish in coulors.. After the fashion show, there was a party, of course, and after a very, very long time I had a glass of Rosé vine.. It was so tasty, I have wanted to have it for so long, but wasnt sure they had it here in India. They also served some snack food, and I ate some lovely fish and some lovely paneer.

After the party, we were supposed to go for an afterparty, but then a friends friend called and apparently she had been hit by a guy. So we went to the place where she worked, to pick her up. But then her colleagues didnt want to let her go, so we had a fight, my friends wanted to call both the cops and the media, but after some time they gave in, and we could pick up the friend. So after this incident no one wanted to go for a party, so my friend dropped me home in his Audi TT..

After such a long time, I have had a fight. And I kind of loved it eventhough I act like I am so angry, irritated and hate it. Me and Elin was out yesterday, doing some last minute shopping for her. We went to a mall called Garruda, and after that she wanted to go to a place called Safina Plaza. Once we came out of the mall, we asked the auto people where it was, we thought we could walk. After asking a few of them, we realised it was quite far so we decided to take an auto.

One of them said, I will take you there, for only 20 rupiees. And despite my better judgement, eventhough I know better, I sat in his auto. But in the back of my head, I knew what was going to happen. I have been in this situation before. As soon as I heard his "I will take you there for only 20 rupiees" I knew he was going to take us somewhere else. I knew I was going to have a fight with him. Was that the reason why I chose his auto? I wonder now.

It didnt take many minutes before he said "On the parallel road, my friend has a very nice handicraft shop". I said "Okay, dont take the parallel road, just take us straight to Safina Plaza". He kept quiet. I didnt. I said "If you take us to any other shop, I am not going out of the auto. I will sit here til you take me to Safina Plaza". He chose not to listen to me. After some time, he took out a map and asked if we wanted to do some sightseeing. We said no! And after some time again, he said "this is my friends shop, please come and have a look". I said "NO! Take me to Safina Plaza!" I saw how he got little sad. He kept driving, and he kept talking. He still wanted us to go to another of his friends shop and we still said no.

He now started saying that Safina Plaza is an expensive place, we should go somewhere else instead. And before we knew it, he had stopped outside a mall, and said "This is Safina Plaza". I looked at it, and on the roof it said "Gems Plaza". I looked at him and said "I am not stupid, take me to where I want to go" He kept insisting that it was the same "Gems plaza, Safina Plaza, it is the same". I ran out of the auto, asked the guards if it was the same place, of course he said no and pointed the location of the other mall. I told the autoguy and by now I was angry. I yelled at him, I told him to take me to my destination! "If I want to go to Safina, I will go to Safina and not Gems Plaza. If I want to go to Delhi, I will go to Delhi, not to Goa. If I want to go to Sweden I will go to Sweden and not to India"! He was angry back and said that there is nothing in Safina Plaza and I dont understand that! We argued for some minutes before he took us again. But it took a lot of effort!

He refused to take us to the entrance of the mall, and when I turned my back on him to walk inside, he said something to me in Kannada (local language), I turned to him and yelled at him that he doesnt have to abuse me in his language because I can understand him perfectly fine (lie) and I can also abuse him in my own language (true)! We left, gave him the 20 rupiees (the route he took would have cost us atleast 40 rupiees, we didnt go to any of the shops he wanted us to go. I am pretty sure he hated our guts! I hope he learned a lesson, dont mess with the foreigners).

Eventhough I was so angry with him, inside I was smiling and jumping of joy! After such a long time, I had a big fight with someone! I loved it ♥

I was out with my friend Elin today. Its her last day in India, tomorrow she is leaving for Thailand so we were out doing some shopping and eating. She doesnt like Indian food that much, so for her last dinner she wanted..... PIZZA HUT! Haha, she is little weird. We were out the whole day I tried on a beautiful sari, I fell in love with it! It was really, really awesome! I wanted to have it for my friends wedding in December, but it was little too costly, it was even more costly than the budget I have for my scooter, hehe.. So I guess I have to find another one.. But it will be hard to find one better than this..

We went in to a store today where you could make your own parfume! Or not really make your own, all you could do was to choose a fragrance, like saffron or musk or something like that, and then get it in a small bottle. We tried on a lot of different parfumes, later on we went to another store to find me a normal perfume, so now I have so many fragrances on me, but I sure do smell lovely! In the same store where we could make our own perfume, we thought we saw some scarfs. Elin asked if they had it, they looked at her and said; "For you? No. Only for Arabic people."

Hehe, apparently it was this kind of scarf the women wear to cover their head. It was not for us, according to the men in the shop...

Birthdayboy

The Indian way






Hihi, my hands...



I had an awesome night, thanks Rahul for a very lovely party

One day when I came home I realised that we didnt have only one puppy anymore, we had 7! And they had been there for quite some time. I think it is time for me to stay home sometime, and not be this busy. I dont even know what happens in my own house anymore.

So tonight is Loveshack again, tomorrow is my day off and I will meet up Elin to have some last time shopping with her before she leaves for her next adventure on Friday - Thailand! I am little jealous, but only a little. I do love living in India, and right now I dont think I want to move anywhere.. Well it depends on which kind of job it would be and in which country.. Like if it was taking care of dolphins with a great salary in Mauritius (Is there any dolphins there) I would not say no.

I had a very bad morning. I woke up, and I was so sweaty. The fan was off, which means there was a powercut. Again. You have no idea how many powercuts it has been for the last couple of days. Apparently there is not enough chole to produce power to out state. The whole Bangalore suffers from these powercuts. So for one hour there was no power and I couldnt have my shower because of that.

When the power finally was back, I was little irritated because I didnt have time to do what I always do in the mornings. Facebook, blog, newspaper etc. So once I was ready I left the house, listened to some music to get in a happier mood. It helped a little. I came to the bus stop, saw my bus, waved for it to stop - and he ignored me! Sometimes when the buses are really crowded it happens, but this one was completely empty. The next bus was just right behind so I thought that he would stop for me. But he ignored me also! I got super pissed! The buses always stops for me! I got so angry that I felt like throwing a stone at the bus. I really need to take an anger management course.. These small things irritate me so much..

When the third bus came I was standing in the middle of the road so it was impossible for him to ignore me, or he would have ran over me. When I jumped on to the bus I got an angry look from the driver and I gave an even angrier look back! We have a huge communication gap, so thats why I stoped by just giving him an angry look.

Why am I not getting letters like this anymore? Some random guy threw this letter inside my auto once when I was in Mumbai. Poor guy, I never called him. Eventhough he said pls, pls, pls call me once...