Clara's birthday!

Saturday was Clara’s birthday. We celebrated it by going to Lalbagh garden in the morning. It’s one of the many gardens of India, but it can’t be compared with the Botanical gardens in Ooty. Nothing much there I think. Can’t even remember what I saw there already. Haha. We then proceeded to Bull’s temple. It’s has a bull carved out of a single granite and it sits in the middle of the temple. Quite interesting. There was a small playground near the temple and we had tones of fun taking funny photos and playing with the swings, slides and see-saw. Just like the good old days. We ended the day by going to the famous Sunny’s. It’s a nice restaurant that’s recommended by the guide book and other elective students here. I had a really good piece of steak which cost me only abt S$12. Although expensive by india’s standard, it’s quite a reasonable price cf to Singapore.

Saturday was also SWYKE’s day. It’s the day designated by swyke to hang out at some desert place (started with cheesecake at Hilton) and bitch about guys. We had it since JC days and this is the first year we didn’t meet up on 30th april. So sad. It’s partly my fault cos I’m in India, but the rest are also everywhere around the world. Kat is in US and Yuwen is in China. Poor wendy, still stuck in Singapore because of electives.

Sunday was very exciting for us. We went to Nathan’s friend’s sister’s wedding at St. Patrick’s church. It’s kind of like a typical catholic wedding/mass in Singapore except the bride is in a white sari. Quite a cool experience. The hymns and songs of worship are similar to Singapore, it’s like everybody speaking the same language even though we’re so far away from each other. After the wedding, we went to Brigade road for some shopping. Bought a cute little chess set for 90Rs (100Rs about S$4) even though I dunnoe how to play chess! Haha. Lastly, we went to the Jayamahal palace hotel which is still under renovations. It is managed by Pinakin’s grand uncle so we all got a yummy dinner for free. It’ll be opening at the end of the month and room rates are 3000Rs per night. It’s a private palace converted to a hotel. The best thing was, it is owned by a King from Gujurat and he was there yesterday to oversee the renovations and we got to see a glimpse of him. Couldn’t really see his face very clearly cos it was quite dark. Don’t know how many kings are there in India but according to Pinakin, there are many because everybody in India behaves like a king! =)

We had dinner on a lawn next to a fountain with colourful lights. Fireworks was going off in the background. Mosquitoes kissing our feet. It’s quite a romantic place. A perfect place for a wedding.

In case you all start thinking that I’m slacking because I’m supposed to be India to study and not sightsee…you are right! I’m totally slacking and I’m getting good at it. I can lay in bed all afternoon doing nothing and feel really happy and satisfied. Haha. I’m enjoying the moment because I know when I go home, it’s going to be work work work all the way! Today is Monday again and I just started a 2-day posting with cardio-thoracic team. The people are really nice and they are very willing to teach. They made us present chest x-rays to the entire team. So I just said some crap and hope it makes sense. =) They don’t have any surgeries this week because all the big shots are on leave so fortunately unfortunately for us.