Went to New Delhi (India) last Monday, and came back on Thursday. I thought I will be rotting in my room for 3 days, luckily some of my colleagues want to go out, so we managed to go to some flea market places and Taj Mahal! :D
First day of arrival we went to a shopping area called Priyas Complex...something like that, I'm not sure if I've spelt wrongly or what...
There is a cinema, a few eateries/restaurants, pub, bookshops, MacDonalds etc...but don't look like a complex at all...9 of us went together, and we split into 3 different "toot toots". haha.
Oh, and there's a cow walking around at the area..."hey my buddy!"...haha...so cute...and it just walked around nonchalantly...got attitude... :)
Then we went to another flea market place called Janpath...
There sells a lot of Punjabi suits, more of "Indian wear", books, usual clothes we wear like T-shirts, handbags, table cloth etc...many many things...and I feel that the people there, are not very friendly..
The vendors are very "hiong"..(fierce)..haha! But when you are more fierce than them, they wont disturb you anymore..
Vendor: "Hey Madam, come come!!"
I walked away, ignoring the person.
Vendor: "Hello! Hello!!!!"
Me: "NO THANK YOU!!!! (shouting out load)
Vendor: "Ok thank you madam! Welcome to India!" *Smile*
Me: Stunned....
Anyway, the books there are damn cheap. Ok really pretty cheap..
I bought these books, for less than S$60... each story book is about S$7 on average...cheap hor!
The next day we went to visit the Taj Mahal at Agra, 4 hours bus ride from Delhi.
Other than Taj, we also visited the Agra Fort and the palace area, where the family (家族) of the Taj Mahal stayed...(I forgot the surname of the Kings, :S)
On the 11th March, it's the Holi festival of the Hindus..where the people will pour powder and water over you etc, make you very colourful...we avoided that day because we do not want to be "coloured", haha..no lah, we thought it will be very messy and chaotic, especially for girls, it can be quite dangerous...
The kids drew on the floor, including the word "HAPPY". Can imagine how happy they get... :)
Taj Mahal with my colleagues...(above)
I have not watched Slumdog Millionaire. But according to my colleagues who did, they said the scene is really very "slumdog"...the kids begging us for money...when we saw the bottle caps on the water bottles they gave us, we will be thinking if it has been glued...LOL...very funny...
Very exotic experience...
The sky is ALWAYS clear, with no or few clouds, so what we see is blue sky, green patches of grass, yellow muddy grounds/floors, black people, white people, yellow people (like us) and so on...what an interesting colour-combination.
But seriously, looking at the living conditions of the people there, we Singaporeans really should cherish what we have...our living conditions are like HEAVEN to them...
Culture shock.
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