The Weekend when I was broke

4 July 2011

After buying AC train ticket to Agra and Udaipur, I’m really broke... hikzzz...

It’s actually not that expensive, but because of the accummulation of travelling PLUS the foreign tourist price in New Delhi’s world heritage site that I visited last week, I do feel broke.. Hahahaha.

So last Saturday, I left at around 6.30am to Tughluqabad Metro Station. It was a loooonggg journey to the Southern part of Delhi. I didn’t read the guide book carefully, so outide the Metro Station, I had difficulty explaining to the auto-driver that I wanted to go to Tughluqabad Complex. Apparently it was a fort, coz another driver kept mentioning, “Qila” (fort). So I asked, “kitane?” and he said, “300.” I spontaneously showed a disgusted face and walked away. Since they have shown the general direction when they were talking about it, I walked to that direction and kept walking and asking around. At the end, I found another auto that was willing to use meter and I only spent Rs 50.

I’ve explained the experience in Tughluqabad in the previous post, so let me jump to the experience after that. I walked to the bus stop and asked people at the bus stop how to go to the metro. I met two grade-12 girls that took the bus together with me and they stopped one stop before me. They’re very nice. Hehehe. So I arrived safely at the metro with only Rs 5. Hehehehe.

From Tugluqabad, I went to New Delhi Railway Station to book another ticket for the last weekend in New Delhi, but I didn’t have my friend’s passport with me, so at the end I didn’t buy any ticket. I went to Doll’s Museum with my friend and we were amused by the collection in the museum. Actually the interesting part is not the doll per se, but it’s the national costume that the dolls wear. Ohhh interestingly, the founder of the museum is a political cartoonist!!

Photography is not allowed, but I tried to take a few photos :P hahaha. I was soo happy when I saw Indonesian dolls. They were the typical puppets that Batik Keris (the famous shop that sells handicrafts) sells and the dolls in Javanese and Acehnese costume. I was also very amused to see the Thai dolls because the dolls were in ‘khon’ dance (mask dance) gestures so it brought back the memory of watching classical mask dance in Bangkok with my Thai painting class.

On Sunday, I went to National Railway Museum after mass. It’s Rs 80!!! Sobbed. And by the time I bought 3 cups from souvenir shops which costed me Rs 200, I was left with Rs 90 in my pocket. So after going around the museum, I went to a bookshop in Connaught Place and I was browsing interesting books, such as “Poverty and Plastic”, “Castes and Politics” (I forgot the complete title), “Justice for the poor”, and so on and so forth. Talking about Politics, I want to take Human Rights in International Law as my GEK!! Yeah, I was traumatized by my C+ in Government and Politics of Singapore, but I didn’t know that I can S/U my GEK and SS even though they are arts modules (stupid me!!!). Now I’m not afraid of taking another political science module, I believe it’ll be more interesting than other modules that people normally take only-to-pull-up-their-CAP. Hehehe.

Oh FYI, the founder of Conserve HRP, Mdm Anita took her Master’s degree in Political Science. Now I’m not surprised that she’s really into the issues of lifting up the life of the urban poor. Hehehe.

Oh back to my Sunday story... so after spending time in the bookshop, I reached home quite early for the first time. 3pm!!! Hahahaha. Then I spent time writing and writing and writing (actually typing :P). I’m hoping to finish my novel by the end of this vacation, but I’m quite slow coz before I continue writing, I already want to write stuff for my blog. Hahahaha. But the progress is still better than in Singapore, where I didn’t touch the going-to-be-novel at all. Hahahaha. It’s 56 pages now. Hehehe. Loooonnggg way to go.

3 more weeks to go back to Singapore!!! sad........... it’s not that I don’t want to go back to Singapore, but I’ll just miss India. I wonder if I only stay in Singapore for 2-3 months before I go to NUS, will I miss Singapore?

I miss the people in Singapore, not Singapore itself.

I miss Indo and the people.

I’ll miss India and the people.

See the difference? J

doll's museum

national railway museum