2 wks onli
Thursday, September 08, 2005
its been 2 weeks since i've reached tis place.
things are doing alrite here. i'll make tis entry an informative one for those who dunno about indian culture.
1. indians generally have thier dinner at 930pm in the night, they eat so much that my apetite is equal or smaller den that of a female indian. not all indians eat rice, some take chapati as rice. btw, chapati is wat we in singapore call prata but its not fried with oil. the chapati have 2 ingredients, wheat flour and water. upon mixing in into dough form, they roll if round and pan fry it without any oil. the first time i saw them cook chapati, i was shocked. after pan roasting it, they put it on the stove without the pan right about the fire on the black black hold pan thing.
2. when taking, they generally shake their heads. not nodding, not sideways, but 45degrees to the left den to the right. so when ur talking to them, we might feel that they dun understand when they shake their head, which is not the case. but when they realli do not understand, they also shake thier heads, that is to acknowledge that they heard wat u have said. (arn the indians clever, came out with a way to hide their knowledge or stupidity. lol)
3. theres is actually arranged marraige here. when means when they reach the suitable age, they just get married to whoever. they dunno the person but just get married with him/her (they say tt if u marry the one u love u have a certain expectation and will expect more. but when u have arranged marriage with someone, u have to make do with wat u have and den go on and live on with it. to them it, it seems like the latter is the often chosen one even till now.)
i feel that they treat it like a job, as long as u perform wat u need to perform, u'll get ur pay(in the case of a job, maybe to them, its staying married) but i dunno about the happily ever after part.
posted by ikaira @ 3:48 PM,
