Saras India

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...

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.

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..

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...

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!


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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...

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..

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..

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)

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..

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...

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!

There is no other place I rather be.

If you wanna meet me, you know where you will find me.

I cant believe I slept for 12 hours this night. I didnt know I was this tired, but apparently I was. When I woke up, I went outside to sit on the terrace for some time. But I left the door open so our 4 wild puppies came running after me, I didnt have that much relaxation after that. So far I have just taken it easy, not stressed at all. I had my lunch some time back, had a long shower and soon I will go for some shopping. I have found a really nice dress, I hope it is still there.

I have started to hate being alone. When ever I am off I am alone, since no one else is off on a weekday. And I feel like the lonliest person on earth! I know I am not,  but I just hate not having anyone around me. I think I would go crazy if I didnt live in a house with other people now. I cant imagine coming home to an empty house every day. It just doesnt work for me these days.

I had some lovely times with my puppy back home in Sweden. Here we are out for a barbeque. Yes, a barbeque eventhough it is winter. It looks like we are making out in this picture, maybe we were I dont remember...

I wonder,
Which direction should I take?
Should I continue?
Or should I start something new?
Should I listen to my heart?
Or should I listen to my mind?
What do I want to get out of life?
Happiness.
It should be an easy choice.

I miss the days when I was a student. Not that I want to study again, absolutely not! I am completely done with that part of my life. But I had a pretty good life then. I went to school sometimes, I had lots of freetime, I travelled a lot compared to now, and I got money for doing almost nothing. Now I am working a lot and I dont have the time to travel. I saw the pictures from Taj Mahal yesterday, for the first time in long, and I realised how much I miss travelling. I wanna see so many more places here in India, but right now I just cant. I havent had a proper leave for a long time, I mean a paid leave. I have been without work and lots of freetime, but I didnt have the money then.

I want to go somewhere with friends, behave like a tourist again, see lots of places and take a lot of pictures. Experience new things for the first time. I want to sit up late, drink some wine, and not having to worry about work the next day. Why doesnt anyone give me a good job? Yesterday someone wanted to give me a beer bar, a bar that I could run however I wanted to. That was a very generous offer, but I dont think I can do that. I have never run anything in my life before.. All I want to do is have a job that pays me enough and give me enough free time so I can start being a tourist again....