my girls

just today i was looking through some pictures, and then i came across these. i spent the last christmas day in val's house, together with lydia and jianning, and we were attempting to cook ourselves a christmas feast. looking through the christmas pictures increases the homesick feelings, haha! but anyway i had fun looking through them, so i thought i'd put them up anyway.

lydia and val PRETENDING to cook.

what did they say about too many cooks spoiling the broth?

jianning feels bloated

and val finds that very funny

they're very happy girls after opening the christmas presents

and then we got ourselves pretty nails!

gopi, my roommate's favourite dog. she took this picture!

pretty buildings put a colonial era touch to bombay

a little beggar girl who came to ask for some money, but we gave her biscuits instead. check out the streams of mucus running out her nose, haha. so cute.

cow peeing on the road.

chowpatty beach

toiling for the beauty of the landscape in the background.

happy lovebirds by the beach.
happy singaporeans by the beach.

colourful ballons dot the beach

this is call the queen's necklace, because of the pretty string of lights along the beach

i can't make you feel the breeze, but i hope you can see the breeze here, haha.

pretty pretty sunset.

stuff on the road

musa is checking me out. and he's really happy doing it!

look what i found, a happy old man on a swing.

a dog sleeping on the road, nonchalent to traffic.

human powered swing! i found this while walking around the slums.

its a big dog and it wants to chew my fingers off, right?

right.

gateway of india

the famed taj mahal hotel. legend was that this man was rejected entry at a posh hotel during colonel times. and so he build the posh-est hotel ever in india (which is this taj mahal hotel), and then put up a sign outside that says "dogs and white men not allowed in this hotel".

the dean getting harrassed by a ballon seller.

the beautiful port and a lovely sunset, by the gateway of india.

the dean and i and an unidentified indian man, by the gateway of india.

happy birthday, val!

okay

its happy birthday to valarie, my best pal of 8 years, not happy birthday to valerie, my sister of 14 years. hehe. i always thought she had an awesome birthday date, on valentine's day! but that means she'll get only one gift instead of 2. i just gave her a call after work, and the call was really freaking expensive. i spent a 100 rupees for all of 15 minutes on the phone with her and lydia, and that 15 minutes barely fit in all the latest gossip, even if lydia was talking at machine gun speed. haha! you know what the wierd part is? i was really happy talking to these 2 girls, i mean, i haven't seen them in the longest time, and getting in touch with someone from singapore is such a rare and precious experience, considering i don't readily get internet access here. yet just 2 minutes after i hung up on this super-charged and happy telephone call (actually, the phone operator cut the line because there wasn't enough money to continue the call, those mercenary bitches), i felt like the most destitute, most lonely, and most homesick thing in the world. now what the hell is wrong with me?

in any case, i am now at another internet cafe, and i think the time has come for me to post more photos. so! do stay tuned and check out my trigger happy moments. its valentine's day today, and i can see all those indian boys lining up to take me out already. there are still more getting ready behind those coconut trees. and then we are going to sing and dance and do sexy limbo rocks around the coconut tree, haha!

love
van.