my 5th day is a tuesday! ok soo. i woke up really early like 8am, to "see neomi off" to school. haha. then i read kiterunner.. all the way til almost 10, stopped for breakfast with uncle nishith. and cont reading til 11. bathed and then aunt lina brought me out to go change money. cos rmb i was only left with S$4 worth of rupees. haha. exchanging money here is a difficult affair man. in singapore, every mall you go to theres a moneychanger. but here you have to go all the way to the business districts, where all the banks are, to get ur money changed. and you'll nd ur passport to carry out the transaction.

yeah then went to the cathedral school to meet the cathedral guys for lunch. reached at like 130 when our arranged meeting time was 12. zomg they waited soooo long. but they were like cool about it. in india.. punctuality's not really a big thing. haha. everybody's perpetually late. seriously. except for school i think, but thats cos they have school buses to fetch them so they have to be on time. yeah then we went to cafe churchill for lunch! nonveg western food! it was yummy cos it was a change from the usual indian spices and stuff. so it was like rich, cheesy, meaty, mushroomy. btw i had thought that mushrooms wld be an impt part of a vegetarian's diet. but aunt lina told me that its a relatively new food item (western/modern too) and not in the traditional cuisine of the indians. so yah, i haven't had mushrooms in the house yet. haha. for awhile i had thought that mushrooms weren't allowed in their diet. (eggs aren't, btw.) so yeah i had chicken at the cafe.

then we went out and walked around.. varun had to go back to school for house meeting i think. proceeded to this place called curio cottage, along colaba road. bought 2 pendants, there were many charms but i haven't started a charm bracelet so i decided not to buy any. even tho i found the concept of creating my very own charm necklace/bracelet then and there really tempting. so yeah we walked ard trying really hard to find rayhan's car and driver. hahaha so funny lah. drivers here have no handphones so we hv to search for the cars. well so we made our way to this corner store selling sugarcane juice. i tried 2 sips cos i didnt dare have too much. um, i'm having diarrhoea now so im wondering if its cos of the sugarcane. hhaha.

well then we finally found the car.. and made our way to moshe's! this italian cafe/restaurant. had gooey chocolate cake and coffee with hints of apple and cinnamon. was really good & unique, cos i havent come across such a concoction in singapore. yet. my battery died somewhere here so i cldnt take any more pics. left the place at around 430-ish, dropped raghav off first and then rayhan dropped me at neo's house, then he had to go back for tuition. had a fun time chilling and talking at moshe's haha.

then i continued devouring kiterunner!! its a reaaallly good book i think. by Khaled Hosseini if i didnt rmb wrongly. like what the reviewers commented. he really has a gift for irony. and you know how sometimes, when writers describe a scene/feelings, they sound so phony or cliched? its so natural for this writer. haha. its good. i think this has been a great holiday thus far.. a rather gd balance between activities like shopping, eating, and passive things like chilling and reading. just that it would have been even better if there was another singaporean here with me. haha. we can go crazy tgt na.

yeah then neo came home from school. she did so well for her papers! congratulations! tho i doubt she'll see this. haha. i think she'll top the class or sth. =) well yeah after she bathed we went to rea's house for dinner! met jahnavi there too! hahah so the 4 of us from SYC reunited. woo. the vivocity gang. hahaha. had sooooooooo much fun talking and laughing and jumping ard. and eating and playing phase 10 and reading someone's inbox. there were like tons of dishes!! paneer, cauliflower (rea pronounces it differently!) special cucumber/zucchini kinda thing, potatoes, roti, fragrant rice, salad, curd... not forgetting the essential dal and roti. hahaha i dont rmb all man. and its like my camera had died so i had to borrow neo's cam to tk photos. so i didnt take everythg. oh wells! oh, aunt parul was there too! =)

yeah then we had to leave at 930 cos they had school tmr. so my day ended there! yup. anw neo's home so i shall blog about today tonight or sth. yup. SEEYA ALL!