When I was in MAY~~

This is going to be the last May, I , May staying in Manipal~


As what i remember, my first labour day holiday in india was on sunday; last year, i went to mysore and ooty for 4 to 5 days trip which returned at 4.30am in the morning and had classes started at 9am~!



This year, i have 2 choices!


Hampi or Kerala?!


Hampi is a World herritage area, at which The Myth was filmed (if you can remember the scene that an indian was floating in the air at the beginning of the movie.) Kerala is famous with boat house which is honored as a place you must go in your entire life. The worst part for this 2 places is that w eneed to take 12- 14 hours non ac bus if the train is not available and we don't want to take a more costly private car. DUe to the holiday and the government voting going on, we had to take a superb expensive non ac van there--meaning its going to be dusty trip!!


Kerala is a big state and we managed to go for 2-3 places only as we lack time to arrange!


The first place we went is an island--Kochin Fort. There is not many hotel as such but guest house. the guest house we stayed is described as a place in the jungle--man made jungle. The owner has a big garden which is fulled with big trees and quite messy plantations making the place looked like a 'jungle'Roof top is a restaurant with 2 cottage rooms. There is this net hagging for you to liee down and relax, calon and chess set as entertainment. So, while waiting for 10 peoples to bath, we played calon and took as many photos as we want seeing that we have too many cameara in our group already.
After the lunch (not to mention how expensive it was), we went to see the chinese fishing net.

Its extremely huge!!!! and guess, how much time we spent for the nets?!

around 2 hours!!!

We spent more than one hour for photos at the place which i was exactly standing in the photo!
too many posing kings and queens le! ;)

then, in the evening, We wasted a lot of time lookign for a cheese cake house recommended by our friends. Plus it was raining, so basically, i wasn't enjoy the day much~~

The next day, we left the island and went to allopey which has nothing but boat house!! 3 of us took the ac train, the rest of us took the general compartment---you have to squeeze yourself with the locals and god knows how bad the condition will be!! but, we actually curi curi entered the non ac sleeper class as there were not many passengers..luckily no one check tickets:D

The boat house is really very beautiful! 2 rooms, 2 bathrooms, a living hall and a kitchen. We can eat (we bought many snacks, soft drinks), play chor dai di, watch movie (crazy yentsen brought his laptop there) and take photos! siao eh..everyone is doing all sorts of posting with the natural wind and sunlight..you can imagine that you are at the beach; or you are in titanic; or superman going to fly and save people~! Who cares how childish we looked?!

the captain stopped here for us to buy seafood..thought is a market, but it was actually a house with 2 frigde outside storing some fishes and prawns. WHile waiting for our friends, photo.....
sleeping in the boat is indeed a good experience! haha...luckily i brought the mosquitoes repellent, if not, i would probably die in toxicity!!!! i tink i was the first one who woke up among our friends and its nice to enjoy the silentness and the sea...hehe...

getting out from the boat house, we have to take the train to go back to Ernakulum. this time, we were in general compartment..wah..many uncles..yer... and see the mask i prepared?! this is to protect me from swing flu, tuberculosis, or any droplet borne infections while im expericencing the real railway in india..how can i not to see in general compartment aftter being here for 2 and a half years?!

we went back to Kochin for the Kathakali cultural show. its at a very big art gallery which has few theathe and martial arts training, museum and coffee shop as well as book shops.
in the museum...i was pretty worry about the chair i was sitting...a bit fragile...;p

i was given a chance to see how they make up, dressed up and prepared for the show. this man is going to wear the costume in the left of the photo below
heavy leh?! and the right hand side one is a ah pak acting as the lover of the king..oh, before that, he was demonstating all sorts of facial expression and eyes rollings following the music~ wah it was fantastic!! but don't know his eyes will poo out one day or not?!

the 2 lady..the sitting one performed solo as a mother in Kochin taking care of her baby and protect him from mosquitoes ar..ghost ar...thief ar.....you named it!

group photo with the preformers..the one who was standing behind me was the one i 'make up' for him~ so funny, i was frightenned by him when he suddenly run down from stage to me...

in the ferry back to ernakulum to meet our van driver. we took almost 10 times for this photo having all our faces in!lol... look at the red mark on billy forehead, hehe..the red man was blessing for him when he ran down from stage!~ quite nice huh!?

Our last meal in Kerala--MARRYBROWN!! my friends are always very excited when they see this kind of fast food... what were i doing in the photo? hehe...acting as the Kathakali performers..jien yeen is angry with me...im very pity and is going to cry.. (but actually, if the photo is not taken at that second, i would have laughing on the next sec already!!:D)

oh... in this month, i watched this--painted skin for 5 or 6 times already..all my friends here don't really like it but i actually fall for it, it touches me sooooo much! I couldn't tell why i like it so much at first but now, i can. I like the movie, the scene, the music, the actor and actresses, the most important is the script. i was so touched when the actor says: ' 可是，作为丈夫，我又怎么能离弃她？！' seems that i still belief, there is love which will last forever despite of death and everything! shit..am i in 20th century?!!?

Today, the last day of May,

Im very sad, im not happy....

May..hugz^^