Our bus is a deluxe bus and all the passengers were told by the travel agent that the bus is air-conditioned, but the air-cond was not on at all. I wasn't so fussy about it and I managed to fall asleep but I heard some people complained about the air-cond, the bus staff said the air-cond is not working, and the passenger demanded a fraction of money to be paid back because the bus has no air-cond. Everntually after a few arguments and yelling, the air-cond was turned on. What a cheater huh. Me and Elena originally sat together, but because there were many empty seats on the bus, Elena moved to other seats, thus we each has our own spacious seats. We reached Delhi at 6.30am, the journey was surprisingly on time. We had anticipated ... read more

As usual, we had our breakfast at 8, this time at Snow Lion. I had cheese tomato sandwich. After lunch I went to meditation at Tushita while Elena went back hotel for conversation session with Sangmo. I felt asleep for a moment during the meditation and decided it would be my last meditation session because I need to do packing and shopping the next day (last day in McLeod). Tushita is very close to the little village of Dharamkot, thus I decided to give it a visit since it was my last time at Tushita. I read somewhere that you can go to Dharamkot, turn to Bhagsu, and eventually find your way back to McLeod. So I asked the people along the way how to go to Bhagsu. The path to Bhagsu was not clearly indicated, ... read more

We had our fruits as breakfast in our own room. While Elena taught Sangmo, the nun, I went to internet café to research about flights from Varanasi-Delhi and found that Spicejet has interesting price: Rs 3000. But I didn't book it because I need to discuss with Elena first. Then we went to Nick’s for lunch with Sangmo before going to her house. Her house is somewhere near Tipa Road. It was a simple 1 room house, with a few modern electrical appliances like rice cooker and stove. No fridge, no tv, no fan though. She’s the happy-go-lucky type of woman. I promised to send her postcards when I’m back in Singapore. After the visit, we went looking for souvenirs and tried to book flight ticket but the internet connection was terrible at the place we ... read more

We had breakfast at 8 at Café Budan. I had banana crepe and black tea. Elena told me that Taj Mahal is closed on Friday, thus we need to shift our trip 1 day ahead so that we'll get to see Taj Mahal on Thursday. Thus our revised plan is: Wed Amritsar, Thu Agra, Fri & Sat Varanasi, Sun Delhi. We got caught up using the free wifi at the café that we left the place quite late. I was 5 mins late at the meditation center, I reached when it was about 9.20am. After meditation I went back hotel to rest. Today I didn’t have lunch with Elena as she had to meet Neil (LHA’s president) for some tasks. I changed some money before having my lunch at Nick’s. I ordered Pasta Alfredo, the kind ... read more

We had breakfast at Snow Lion because the Oogo's wasn’t opened yet. The banana pancake that I ordered came so late that Elena had to leave before my order even came. After breakfast, I went to LHA to meet Rabsel while Elena went back to hotel room to meet the nun for the conversation class. They’ve fixed the meeting time to be morning. Rabsel brought me to Men Tsee Kang clinic near the main street. It was a pretty busy clinic. The doctor didn’t speak much English, thus Rabsel had to be translator. The doctor and rabsel agreed that my anxiety and insomnia were due to the strong medicine from Delek Hospital. Thus this doctor asked me to stop taking Delek Hospital’s medicine, he gave me traditional medicine instead. It cost me Rs 280 for consultation ... read more