Thursday, September 01, 2005

SOS call from the "Black Paradise"


I stepped foot at Bangalore International Airport at bout 11.45pm (india time; 2 hours later than that of M'sia), and the 1st thing which shocked me was a stray dog lingering around the air port, and the air port is old n dusty( 1st impression n the starting of dissapointment).. However, i really thank God that my whole hourney was very fluent, thanx for all the prayers (some of my frens' luggage delayed and they can only get them few days later)..We stayed a night at a 4-star hotel (a major boost instead), and the next morning flew to Mangalore, and there's where nightmare started!!!!

Let me 1st lead you for some visual imagination of India:
COLOR - brown (every corner of the streets, the walls of buildings, and the air, are yellowish, damn!!!!
SIZE - small (the taxis, buses, local cars, roads,shops, and houses are very compact, and of course, very uncomfortable!!!
SCENT - "indian-plus-dust-smell" (it's very uncomfortable for me, from the clean and clear air of M'sia, sux man!!!
SKIN - black, thoroughly, even the campus has less than 1% international student, oh my God!!!
SOUND - "honk, honk!!!" - every single driver horn like crazy, the frequency is bout 5 horns per min each driver, crazy!!!

Ok, let me start to describe my personal experiences... The main office of the college, foremostly, is situated at the centre of the hustle-bustle town, n wat i mean husle here is really really noisy with horns, and dusty... the whole campus is seperated around the town, and the main office( the only 1 building i'd been since) is extremely small; super old; all local student; and not even a sport facility!! The campus bus is the size of 'BAS-MINI' in M'sia - open-windowed, no AC; i wonder how dirty will our shirts get for each trip..those 4 seaters buses like the UiTM bus is very rare, and 3 seaters VIP bus is out-of-the-world here..
Now to the hostel... For the 1st year student's, it is situated half way inside a jungle, have to pass by those 'kampung-like-boulevard' and it's damn damn damn old, like those flats of the 80's...The furniture is ancient (but thank God mine are all well conditioned), and the whole block has only locals, exept us..There's no Internet point at all in our hostel...But the weather in Mangalore is not as hot, heard that this is the coolest place in the whole of south india, the climate are similar to M'sia.. When we reached the hostel, everyone was looking at us from above, eyeing our lap-tops and stuffs, damn scary!!! We have a dining room which serve only indian food, which is so much diff from M'sian, every single thing is red and orange in color...And oso, this is the 1st time we, m'sian, experienced the feeling of being stared at, like aliens, but they are very friendly to us, though there's always a very very hard problem in communicating, their indian accent is too strong, so as our M'sian slang...Luckily there's a tv room which serves bout 40 channels including ESPN, HBO, CARTOON NETWORK, National Geographic, AXN...The shops here closes at 9pm, and there's no night life here..Everything is cheap here, except electronic stuffs and papers, (Harry Potter is only RM80)...The girls' hostel is even worse, there're many corpse lying just there around the stair-case, super scary...I dunno how about Manipal, but from wat i heard, township wise, we win; facility wise, them (they even have Starbucks in the campus!!!, and we have nothing)

I feel like crying in the first night here, and i really feel like flying back to the heaven-like Malaysia immediately, where there everything seems just so fine... Prayers are much needed...I'm now staying with another crisitan from Sereman, which is very good...This is my 1st post from india, at the college library, and i'll definitely update constantly bout my current situation... :(

3 comments:

  1. hey.. sad to hear bout the situation there. anyway i hope u can cope with it coz u have to. be strong ok! u have a group of friends here who support u no matter how bad the situation is. take this as a challenge and an opporturnity to gain experience. be grateful that u r lucky to have the chance to get JPA and do medicine. keep in touch and take care ok. all the best!!!

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  2. hey cc, rebecca from new life here... the one who alwys send van to u... don't know how come i got your blog so im reading it... glad to hear that u are already in india... ya, be strong... remember that there is a purpose that God send u there....... in everything, just be positive and find things to give thanks to Him and the days will look brighter...

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  3. Anonymous12:29 PM

    yo dude! sos call answered!!!
    help going to ur place now! just be patient bro! look at the bright side... we'll be supporting u all the time...won't 4get wat a great footballer player u r! msg me if u sien or anything....i'll be there! dun worry....it'll get better! :)
    royyeejh@hotmail.com

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