God it feels shit to be home

Day 1 back at home: washed all the clothes we took overseas (even the ones we never wore), put clothes on the line to dry, took dry clothes off the line while the wet ones went in the car-port, folded dry clothes, stored away all folded clothes, began unpacking the 4 suitcases filled with indian outfits and jewellery, neatly packed them away after clearing out more than half of my old indian outfits and scrubbed all suitcases and shoes worn till clean and free from all signs of dirt or dust picked up during our time in India.
Basically that's all I did today! My back is sore from bending, my knees have locked up from those 3 flights I caught within 2 days when returning home and my head is spinning out. Amongst all this mayhem of cleaning I also squeezed in some time to begin my Legal Studies assignment, which may I add is going surprisingly well, and I also managed to fit in some time to practice my driving in time for my test which is coming soon...

Damn how I wish I were still travelling!

Well anyways while I was reminiscing about the past 10 days I spent overseas, I remembered that I hadn't listed all the many wonderful things I bought while in India and Singapore.
So here we go...
In Singapore I purchased:
- Little souvenirs for my friends and family back home
- A Nikon D3000 DSLR
and pretty much that's about it, considering my mom and sister decided to fill our suitcases with shitloads of shoes from Charles & Keith so not much else could fit!
While I'm at it I'll also give you the lowdown about what we did in Singapore. Well for starters the obvious one is shopping. Singapore's currency is much weaker than our Australian dollar hence we Australian's felt as if we were in paradise when calculating the extremely low prices on all those Gucci bags and Charles & Keith shoes and most importantly that Nikon D3000! We also visited Sentosa Island where the Merlion Tower and Underwater World is. But the most amazing thing we did was visit the Night Safari... entertainment was spectacular and the animals were beautiful at night, even though the lions and tigers were supposedly "sleeping" (*cough* sedated *cough*).
So the time we spent in Singapore was brilliant all in all!

Moving on to India then...
I purchased:
- 3 indian outfits all of which happened to be blue which I hadn't realised until we unloaded all our shopping from the van and unpacked it in the hotel
- 1 yellow designer sari (which may I add happens to be the 1st proper sari I've ever purchased)
- Couple of souvenirs for the family and friends back home
- 3 new suitcases to fit all our shopping in
- A pair of Lee Jeans
- A Lee cardigan
- Levis scarf and beanie which became very handy in India considering the temperature there ranged around 9-12 degrees almost every day!
- Bangles and other matching jewellery for our Indian outfits
And I think that sums up my shopping list. Overall I reckon I didn't buy much, I think I left all the Indian clothes purchasing to my mom considering she bought over 10 saris and 7 other indian outfits for herself alone and somewhere between 6-10 outfits for family and friends!
India was pretty awesome I must say. Even though 5 out of the 7 days we stayed in India was shamelessly spent shopping and haggling with shopkeepers in Karol Bagh and Connaught Place Dehli, the two days we weren't shopping were amazing. One of the days we visited the Lotus Temple in Dehli which was absolutely stunning however since it was a Sunday the Temple was closed so we didn't get to go inside. But outside was just as beautiful seeing all the children and mothers who live on the streets sell handcrafted items. We also saw the ever-famous India Gate in Dehli which is most well known in Indian movies in the ever-so-filmy Hindi line "We shall meet at the India gate at 3:00pm".
Besides sightseeing we visited a day spa to get our "natural Indian glow" on and just relax after spending a week running from one bazaar to another with more than 10 shopping bags in each hand!
Leaving India was sad I must say... I'll never forget the wonderful and the annoying people I got to meet while overseas and those unfortunate kids I saw on the streets of Dehli. I regret my time spent there wasn't long enough, infact I didn't even get to roam around India entirely but I'm sure one day very soon I will visit again hopefully for a much more longer time as well.

Oh and if you were wondering about the sightseeing in terms of male attractions... well that's just another aspect of India altogether! Unfortunately I don't have enough fingers to count the amount of charmers I met while abroad but I'm sure I'll remember each and every one of them... well their faces atleast!

Anyways I think todays blog has dragged out a bit too long so I'm going to sign out now with another ever famous quote.
“I see my path, but I don't know where it leads. Not knowing where I'm going is what inspires me to travel it.” - Unknown Author

Melissa