Merry Christmas to all....

Le palais des vents / The wind palace / Istana Angin

Un petit parcour en chameau / Camel ride / Menunggang unta

We wish to all friends and family a Merry Christmas and enjoy the FOOD but don't get fat.....hahaha.
We just arrived from Jaipur but I guess we still have enough time to celebrate. Lamb leg serve with mash potatoes and the VEGETABLES.....!!! That's all for our Christmas dinner!! But it is so bad.

So, about the trip to Jaipur.......it was great and it was differant than Agra and Amritsar. People are differant. For the first time we could walk freely....finally without any annoying people around who always disturbing and asking for something. It was cool!!!

Pour la famille et tous nos amis, nous vous souhaitons JOYEUX NOEL et bon appetit mais ne soyez pas gros......hahaha.
Nous sommes juste rentre de Jaipur mais nous avons encore du temps pour feter notre noel. Un Gigot d'agneau avec puree de pomme de terre et des LEGUMES.......!! Ce sera tout pour notre souper de noel mais c'est suffisant apres avoir mange des legumes pendant trois jours a Jaipur.

Alors, nos sejours a Jaipur, etait bien....fantastique....magnifique....ne sais pas encore ce que je peux trouver comme mot. C'etait differant que Agra et Amritsar. Les gens sont tellement differents aussi. C'est la premiere fois que nous avons pu marcher tranquillement sans etre derange. C'etait vraiment cool!!!

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Indian Administration....

Few tips to handle the problems with the administration in India. Well, just don't think that you can solve your problem in one hour or one day, sometime it can take a week. Even how many supporting document that you provide, it won't be enough as they won't read the whole thing and most of the time they don't read at all as they don't understand English. If you are lucky, they will ask you to read for them and after that, they will ask you what is your name and where you are staying.....even it is already stated clearly in the letter. Or if they do understand English, sometime you will need to explain in english....or I can say that....in your own version. Wish you good luck for that. And that is the end of my story for today.

Quelques conseils pour resoudre les problemes administratifs en Inde. Voila, ne pas penser que vous pouvez resoudre le probleme en une heure, ou en un jour, des fois cela peut prendre jusqu'a une semaine. Meme si vous avez tous les documents necessaires, ceci n'est souvent pas assez car ils ne vont pas lire tous les papiers et la plupart du temps ils ne les lisent pas car ils ne savent pas l'anglais. Si vous avez de la chance, ils vont vous demander de les lire pour eux et apres cela, ils vont vous demander votre nom et ou vous habitez.....meme si cela est ecrit noir sur blanc sur les papiers que vous leur avez donne. Ou si ils comprennent l'anglais, ils vont quand meme vous demander de leur expliquer en anglais.....ou je peux dire.....dans leur propre version. Je vous souhaite bonne chance si vous devez passer par la. Et c'est la fin de mon histoire aujourd'hui.

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Makan.....eat.....manger!!!!

Sunday, 17 Dec 2006. Dimanche, 17 Dec 2006

Cheese raclettes in the garden. The weather was nice to sit outside and having the cheese raclettes....it was just something else. We invited the Seiler family who welcomed their newborn baby recently and Radhika's mother just arrived from Brisbane, Australia. I believed that I won't even stand on the garden during the summer because it would be hot.

La raclettes dans le jardin! Le climat etait parfait pout rester a l'exterieure de la maison et nous mangions de la raclette.....c'est autre chose. Nous avons invite la famille Seiler qui a accueilli un nouveau ne recemment et la maman a Radhika qui est arrivee de Brisbane, Australie. Je crois que je ne resterai pas dans notre jardin en ete car il va surement faire vraiment chaud.

Saturday, 09 Dec 2006. Samedi, 09 Dec 2006.

Makan....makan and makan lagi!! We were invited at Malaysian High Commission just to eat and eat and eat. There were a lots of foods and we were really enjoying the Malaysian taste. It was delicious. At the same time, we could meet more people as in Delhi, it is hard to get near to one person and when we can...we really appreciate it. Perhaps it takes more time then other place. We just wait and see!!

Makan...makan et makan lagi!! Nous etions invite a l'ambassade de Malaisie tout simplement pour manger. Il y avait beaucoup de nourriture et cela fait plaisir d'avoir le gout de la Malaisie. C'etait delicieux. En meme temps, nous avons rencontrer du monde. A Delhi, c'est difficile de rencontrer des gens et quand on peut...on apprecie beaucoup. Peut-etre qu'il faudra plus de temps qu' ailleure. Nous attendons seulement....et verrons!!

Big kiss from Ndh.

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My happiest day since I arrived in India

I went to the governement office today to get one paper that we needed to move our things to Malaysia. Since not everyone knows English, I brought my driver along to translate whatever I needed. But he himself does not understand English as well. That was funny!! The building is 5 stories high and at the beginning they sent us left and right up and down for 45 minutes. They took the letter that I had in my hand and look at it for a few minutes and then they told us to go there....there and left....right....up and down. Nothing is written on the wall, the name of the person, the room no., just nothing and yet when we asked nobody knows where was it. But this time, I was happy with myself or I made a progress of being calm to handle this type of thing. I wasn't angry at all even after they sent me left and right....up and down for 45 minutes and sometime they said a nasty word to me but I just don't care. Being angry with the people here, considered a normal thing. So, we aren't suprise if you are here and screw up everyone who's trying to get something from you but anyway GOOD LUCK.

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Happy Birthday to all!!

In Delhi, the weather became colder then few weeks ago and somehow it will become more cold in the next coming week. It is nice to go and see thing while we aren't sweating like in the summer time. The flowers are also started to bloom and they make Delhi looks like celebrating the spring. We are enjoying the beauty of Delhi with so many flowers all over the places.

May be some of them celebrated early this month and some of them will celebrate in few days...but we just want to wish you all a Happy....Happy Birthday.

This wish goes to Mizam (03 Dec), Stephanie Lagattu (08 Dec), Sylvie Monod (09 Dec) Bernhard Schurch (12 Dec), Nadir Abibo (24 Dec) and Chi Meei (25 Dec). Happy Birthday to all of you.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY AND BIG KISS
Laurent and Meenz (NDH)

A Delhi, le climat a beaucoup change depuis quelques jours. Il fait froid et il va faire de plus en plus froid dans les jours a venir. C'est sympa d'aller a gauche a droit et de pouvoir voir les choses sans transpirer comme c'est le cas en ete. Les fleurs sont en train de fleurir et cela fait penser que Delhi fete deja le printemps et c'est magnifique de voir toutes ces fleurs partout dans la ville. C'est vraiment agreable!!

Il y a peut-etre certains qui ont deja fete plutot ce mois et certains qui vont feter un peu plus tard mais nous vous souhaitons BON ANNIVERSAIRE a ce qui fete leur anniversaire au mois de Decembre.

BON ANNIVERSAIRE a Mizam (03 Dec), Stephanie Lagattu (08 Dec), Sylvie Monod (09 Dec), Bernhard Schurch (12 Dec), Nadir Abibo (24 Dec) et Chi Meei (25 Dec). Bon anniversaire a tous.

BON ANNIVERSAIRE ET GROS BECS
Laurent et Meenz.

Carpets....but not the flying carpets

We visited a carpet shop. The owner came at home to pick up Laurent because to find the way to get there wish you good luck. The owner of this shop is coming from Kashmir and doing business with the kashmiri people, we just can't get....not even 0.0001% off the price. But the problem is, we only can get nice carpets from this people. No doubt that the carpets are also in good quality and with very nice design. Who ever likes this kind of staff, definately he will fall in love when he see them. We are wondering how much it will cost us, if we buy straight away from Kashmir. Here, in Delhi....if you want thing, you just need to pay the price no matter how much does it cost. The eyes felt down on the floor when we saw the carpets that made in silk, silk and cotton and also cotton but they are too......too....too expensive.......without any 0.0001% discount. Huhuhu.......

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Nous avons visite un magasin de tapis. Le proprietaire est venu a la maison pour chercher Laurent car ce n'est pas evident de trouver ce magasin et il vient du Kashmir. Pour faire du business avec les Kashmiris, nous ne pouvons meme pas demander pour 0.0001% de rabais. Mais le probleme, c'est qu'avec eux nous pouvons avoir que des beaux tapis. Pour ceux qui aiment ces choses la, sans aucun doute ils vont en tomber amoureux. Nous nous posons des questions combien cela nous coute si nous achetons les tapis directement du Kashmir. Ici, a Delhi.....si on veut vraiment quelque chose, on doit payer le prix meme si le prix est incroyablement chere!! Les yeux sont tombe par terre quand nous avons vu les tapis qui sont fabrique en soie, en soie cotton et aussi en cotton mais cela coute tres.....tres....tres chers.............sans 0.0001% de rabais. Huhuhu......

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Old Delhi....Old Door....Old Jain Temple....Old...Old

This is an Old Delhi. It is almost 45 minutes from New Delhi, where we are staying. Everything look OLD in Old Delhi but with the young generation who is trying to find the way to continue their life's. At Old Delhi, we can find a lots of thing but of course it depends on what we need too.
We visited the oldest Jain Temple in Delhi which is situated in Old Delhi. It is one of the tourist spot too but beware of the PICK POCKETS!

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Ceci est Old Delhi. C'est a peu pres a 45 minutes d'ou nous habitons. Tous les choses semblent vielles a Old Delhi mais les jeunes generations qui essaient de trouver quelque choses pour continuer leur vie quotidien. A Old Delhi, nous pouvons trouver beaucoup de choses mais bien sur ce dont nous avons besoin seulement. Nous avons aussi visite le Jain Temple qui est le plus vieux temple de Delhi et c'est situe a Old Delhi. C'est aussi un lieux touristique mais faites attention aux PICK POCKETS!

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St Nicolas etait chez nous!!

He came to Delhi by foots hahaha. May be he parked his transport in Nepal while no snow in Delhi. And he came quite early here and apparently he comes every year on 02nd Dec in at the Embassy of Switzerland. It's cool.

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Il est venu a pied....hahaha. Peut-etre il a laisse son traineau au Nepal ou a Himachal Pradesh car c'est seulement la bas, qu'il y a de la neige actuellement. Il est venu aussi tot ici et apparement il vient toutes les annees le 2 Decembre a l'ambassade de Suisse. C'est cool!!

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Des legumes du jardin....c'est delicieux!!

We visited the garden today and took few pictures of Meenz's mother....actually not only visited but also collected some of the vegetables. We have so many of them and we can't finish them all. This season is also good for them to grow and we spend less money for having our own garden. Hahaha......don't be jealous!!!

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Nous avons visite le jardin auourd'hui et nous avons pris des photos de la maman de Meenz. Actuellement, ce n'etait pas seulement une visite, nous avons aussi cueilli des legumes. Nous en avons beaucoup et croyons que nous ne les finirons jamais. La saison est aussi bonne pour la recolte de ces legumes et nous n'avons pas besoin de depenser plus pour les avoir car nous avons notre propre jardin. Hahaha......ne soyez pas jaloux!!!

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The beauty of Agra.

Last weekend we went to Agra to visit Taj Mahal and other places which are also nice. Even it was only a weekend, we felt that we did a lots of thing in 2 days perhaps because of to visit India isn't easy at all. If you want to test how ZEN you are then try India. You will see!! We went to see Taj Mahal, Agra Fort and Fatehpur Sikri. All these places are so beautiful and it was nice if we could sit there and enjoy the view with the ancien monuments around us but there is always people who called themselves as a guide came and disturbed or sometime forced us to do thing that we didn't really want to do. That is only disadvantage of visiting India. Sometime we have to show them that we are angry, so that they can stop but they will try again and again!! We haven't been so rude in our life until we reached here, just to make them understand what is all about. We know that this thing won't stop but at least we prepare for the next voyage.

Agra is synonymous with Emperor Shah Jahan's monument to love, the Taj Mahal, which draws a huge number of tourists from India and the rest of the world. In the mere three generations during which city retained regal favour, it was embellished with the best of the Mughal architectural legacy, crowned by the Taj. Close by is Emperor Akbar's city, Fatehpur Sikri.

From the top : Meenz with her mother at Agra Fort.

Middle : Sunset at Taj Mahal

Bottom : Laurent & Meenz with thousand and thousand of others visiting Taj Mahal.

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HIMACHAL PRADESH

Himachel Pradesh is a land of many splendour: exotic landscapes of mountains, wide verdant valleys, forbidding heights eternally covered in snow and ice, thundering rapids of snow-fed rivers and gently gurgling brooks, ancient temples and historic buildings.....the count is endless.

Kangra Valley. The Kangra Valley lies between the Dhauladhar range and the Shiwalik foothills, spreading northwest from Mandi to Jassur, near Pathankot. Although named after Kangra Town, the largest towns are Dharamsala (1,830 m) and Palampur (1,249 m). The valley is famous for its tea gardens, especially around Palampur, for the Jwalamukhi, Baijnath, Brijeshwari Devi and Chamunda Devi temples, and for the Kangra school of miniature paintings.

Dharamsala is located in the upper reaches of the Kangra Valley, set against the backdrop of the Dhauladhar range. The town is known around the world because it is the home-in-exile of the Dalai lama, Tibet's spiritual head, who lives at McLeodganj (or Upper Dharamsala), popularly known as Little Lhasa. Little Lhasa is enchanting, with its many spinning prayer wheels and fluttering prayer flags spreading the message of peace and universal harmony.

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Do you need a ride.....please choose!!

This is one of the preparation for the winter that we saw on the north of India. It is quite loaded isn't it? We think there is no law for having overloaded lorry. It is quite impressive to see such thing like this and the pictures we took during our way to Dharamsala at Himachal Pradesh. Himachal Pradesh itself is so beautiful with the nature and rice fields are everywhere which makes the place look so peaceful compare with Delhi where the traffic is so congested. But our visit to Amritsar and Dharamsala (Himachal Pradesh) just for one weekend which was too short and the way was so long to reach these two places. This experience we will never forget as Meenz almost missed her flight back to Kuala Lumpur. But she managed to check-in 10 minutes before the gate closed. Thank god.

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Lost and found....friendship!!!

These are the pictures with our friend Fares Al-Fayad from Lebanon. We have met him three years ago in Abuja and thought that we would never met him again. But this time we met him in Kuala Lumpur while he was working there for three months. That was the reason why we could meet there. Laurent arrived to Kuala Lumpur at 6.30 a.m on 21st Oct and Fares took a flight back to Lebanon at the same day but night time. We felt lucky that we still managed to see each other even though it was short. "To Fares" felt good to see you again and hopefully we will meet again soon and perhaps in Lebanon (in your country).

Big kiss to all from NDH

Ce sont des photos avec notre ami Fares Al-Fayad du Liban qui a travaille a Abuja trois ans en arriere et nous avons pense que nous ne nous reverrions plus depuis son depart d'Abuja. Et cette fois ci, nous avons eu la chance de pouvoir le revoir a Kuala Lumpur. Il a travaille a Kuala Lumpur pendant trois mois et malheureusement seulement avant son depart au Liban, nous avons pu le revoir pendant nos vacances. Laurent est arrive a 6.30 du matin le 21 Oct et Fares a pris le vol au meme jour au soir. Alors, nous avons passe la journee entiere a nous raconter les conneries que nous avions fait ensemble au Nigeria. ''Pour Fares'' c'etait sympa de pouvoir te revoir encore et nous esperons que nous nous reverrons bientot et peut-etre au Liban (dans ton pays).

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INDIAN BOOMING!!!!!

Well, it isn't easy to be back to India. Feel like, I've been away for a decade and it is so hard to come back here again. I don't even know why I have this feeling!!! But anyway, this is a reality and I have to get use to it. The apartment is full with the cartons and I don't know from where I should start.......hahaha!! So many thing has to be done. Well, that's it and the vacation is over!! Huhuhuhu!!!!

This time, i came back with my mother. The 1st impression for her was "horrible" to see the children sleeping along the road without any cloth while it is quite cold during the night. The people heard so much about the INDIAN BOOMING and thought that everything might change with the way of life and my mother was one of them. But when they reached here, what they found is only a disapoinment. Some of them are crying and don't know what to do and some of them just waiting for the next transfer. But for us, we just don't want to think so much about what is happening around us just because we don't want to spoil our stay in India. We think that it is the best thing to do. But we do hope that my mother will enjoy her stay here in INDIA.

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This is part II.....

Like a fashion show......

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Celebrating Idul Fitr....(Part I)

Time to go back to Kampung (village) during the festive season....it is fun. But for us who are coming from Sarawak we didn't go back there. As our dear father was buried in Ipoh, Perak, we decided to go to Ipoh.

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The Golden Temple

The weekend we spent to visit the Golden temple before we left to Malaysia for our vacations. It was saturday when we were there and there was so many people came to pray. It was a beautiful place to see. But to reach this place is another story. From New Delhi to Amritsar is about 460 kms but it took us 10 hours drive with 1 hour break to reach there and we visited the temple only the next day. It was really tiring!! The way they drive in India is really something that we can't compare....not even to the Nigerian's way.

Saturday, we went to visit the famous temple and right after that we drove all the way to the Darmshala at Himachel Predesh. The mountain road was too long for us who just wanted to spend one weekend somewhere else then Delhi. Himachel Pradesh is situated on the north of India and quite on the feet of the Himalaya. The weather is also fresh but there is always the smell of the animal disposal. There is a rice field almost everyway in Himachel Pradesh and it makes the enviroment looks so peaceful and also its remind us to the countryside life in Malaysia. In Darmshala, we stayed at the Tibetien Martial Art and Shoalin Centre.....quite clean. But unfortunately we had to leave early in the morning (about 5.00 a.m) because Meenz had to take a flight back to Kuala Lumpur at the same day. Well the way back was much longer then we accepted because the traffic jam was terrible and more in the city side where the people were so selfish and unpatient. We finally arrived at home about 9.00 p.m.....that was because Laurent managed to drive like he played in the playstation. Even the driver said that he was like a crazy man. We were just like less then 5 minutes at home just to collect the passport and the luggage then left to the airport. We reached at the airport 10 minutes before the check-in counter closed. We made it.....what an adventure, but hopefully it will be the last time. Sometime men need to listen to the women instinct too. We will never forget!

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Swiss Mela 2006

The preparation of Swiss Mela, one way of making charity and it will be held tomorrow 14 Oct at the embassy compound. There will be over 100 stoles to sale foods, handicrafts, from the swiss embassy will be the cheese raclettes and a lots more. Very nice of them to chose just next to our apartment to do the raclettes.I can't imagine the smell of the cheese afterward with hot weather. But it is all right as we won't be here to witness this fiesta of lights. We will have an appoinment at 5.00 o'clock tomorrow morning at Bernhard and Ponie place. Our destination is Amritsar to see a Golden Temple! Out side, people are busy preparing for the Mela and inside the apartment...we are busy to prepare our luggages and sandwiches.

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La preparation de Mela Suisse, c'est une facon de faire de la charite. Il y aura plus de 100 petits stands qui vont vendre de la nourriture, de l'artisanat, et de la part de l'ambassade de Suisse...il y aura de la raclette et encore beaucoup d'autre choses. Le stand raclette se situe juste a cote de notre appartement et on peut imaginer l'odeur du fromage avec le climat qu'il fait ici (36 deg). Mais ca va....nous ne serrons pas la pour temoigner de la fete de la lumiere. Demain, nous avons rendez-vous a 5.00 du matin chez Bernhard et Ponie. Notre destination sera Amritsar dans le nord de l'Inde et nous allons visiter le Temple d'or et le changement de la garde a la frontiere Indo-Pakistanaise. A l'exterieur, les gens sont occupes a preparer la Mela et chez nous, dans notre appartement, nous sommes occupes a faire nos baggages et les sandwiches pour demain.

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Shopping.........

Picture from top : The green cupboard, our living room, dining table for 8 persons and coffee-tea table...enough for 10.

Since at the begining of this week, I was kind of busy with my visit to the furnitures antique shops. A lots.....a lots of them and definately will make your eyes falls on the floor. Looking...serching.....and at the end.....buying! I went to make my survey until I found something and in the afternoon I returned to the shops with Laurent. Of course, he is still my boss and I have to wait for his approval then only I can buy. We found few that we like and actually we bought them already. We just have to wait for the deliveries which may take a few days to arrive. We started to look at the furniture due to our apartment in Kuala Lumpur will be ready soon enough from now. I have been visiting three big antique shops in Delhi and for sure we still can find more of them!! INDIAN CRAFT is one of them and it is quite famous among the foreigners and the locals. They can export the furniture if people order it by internet (www.indiamart.com/indiancrafts/) or by emailing direct to icrafts@mantraonline.com.

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Des le debut de cette semaine, je suis tres occupe avec des visites chez les antiquaires. Il y'en a beaucoup a Delhi....il faut seulement prendre le temps pour bien regarder les choses. Les yeux pourraient tomber par terre quand j'ai vu tous ces meubles. Regarder......chercher.....et a la fin....acheter! Je suis alle le matin pour regarder ce qui me plait et l'apres-midi, avec Laurent nous sommes retourne dans ces magasins. Il faut bien que je demande son opinion car il est toujours le patron chez nous et le plus important c'est qu'il donne l'authorisation avant d'acheter. La livraison pourrait durer quelque jours pour qu'ils puissent nettoyer correctement. Nous avons commence a regarder les meubles car notre appartement a Kuala Lumpur est bientot fini. Je suis allee chez trois antiquaires et j'en suis sure, qu'il y'en a encore beaucoup d'autre et que je n'ai pas encore decouvert. INDIAN CRAFTS est un des trois que j'ai rendu visite cette semaine et c'est assez connu parmi les etrangers ainsi que les locaux. Ils peuvent aussi exporter les meubles s'il y a la demande pas l'internet (www.indiamart.com/indiancrafts/) or par email icrafts@mantraonline.com.

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Parliment House Dlelhi

The sunset is very beautiful in Delhi and we decided to make a tour with the car. There was still a lots of people on the way back to their home. We continued our tour by passing in front of the Delhi Parliment House. We realised that the view was so beautiful and Laurent could take this beautiful picture. This building is situated not far away from where we are staying.

Le couche du soleil est tres joli a Delhi, nous avons decide de faire une promenade avec la voiture. Il y avait encore beaucoup de monde qui etaient stresse de rentrer chez eux. Nous avons continue notre tours et en passant devant le Delhi Parliment House, nous avons realise que le couche du soleil et tres beau et Laurent a reussi de faire cette jolie photo. Cet immeuble est situe pas tres loins de chez nous.

The Indian Gate....

At the center of New Delhi stands the 42 m high Indian gate an "Arc-de-Triomphe" like Archway in the middle of a crossroad. Almost similar to its French Counterpart war memorial. It commermorates the 70,000 Indian soldiers who lost their lives fighting for the British Army during the first world war and bears the names of more than 13,516 British and Indian soldiers killed in the Northwestern frontier in the Afghan war of 1919.

The foundation stone was laid by His Royal Highness, the Duke of Connaught in 1921 and was designed by Edwin Lutyens. The monument was dedicated to the nation 10 years later by Viceroy, Lord Irwim. Another memorial, Amar Jawan Jyoti was added much later, after India got its independence. It is the form of a flame that burns day and night under the arch to remind the nation of soldiers who laid down their lives in the Indo-Pakistan war of december 1971.

The entire arch stands on a low base of red Bharatpur stone and rises in stages to a huge molding, bencath, which are inscribed Imperial sons. Above on both sides is inscribed INDIA, flanked by MCM and to the right, XIX. The shallow domed bowl at the top was intended to be filled with burning oil on anniversaries but this is rarely done.

Surrounding the imposing structure is a large expanse of lush green lawn, which is a popular picnic spot. One can see hoards of people moving about the brightly lit area and on the lawns on summer evening. Situated about few kilometres from where we are staying.

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Na Fish ooooo!!

I went to the fish market today with my cook and he look more excited than me!! For me I had so many questions in my mind and I just didn't want to have a suprise.

When we reached the place....I just saw a lots of street dogs searching something to eat in the rubbish bin (if they really have one). Augustin led me to the small way which was quite dark and smelly. Right after I entered the place....I smiled straight away when I smelled the smell that are quite familier to me....SPICES...!! Its all over the place with very neat arrangment. We walked futher inside the market, the floor were more wet and at the same time the fish smell went through deep into my nose. The shopkeepers were so busy selling their merchandises and some of them called at me and said "madame, do you want a cashewnuts". And others asked me if I want to buy a curry powder. Everytime I just answered back to them, "may be next time, thank you" and gave them a smile. In my mind, I thought strongly about FISH and asked myself, "where are those fish".

About 10 metres ahead of me...there I saw....FISH.....lots...lots of FISH. Eeee..seronoknye aku (too excited until came out the words in malay). Garoupas, Red Snappers, prawns and a lots of other differant type of fish. I could even find my favourite one. Don't want to tell you all, it is the secret..hehehe. Only Lukman and Laurent know which one I'm talking about. I even called Laurent to tell him that he missed something that he liked to see too. And I called my friend Ponie and told her what I just discovered. Ponie and I were looking for the fish market for quite sometime and people told us that is too dangerous to buy fish in summer time. But now, I saw for myself that the fishes are quite fresh. Lalalalala.... Big kiss from NDH

Je suis alle au marche du poisson aujourd'hui avec notre cuisine Augustin. Il etait plus ecxite que moi. J'avais beaucoup de questions dans ma tete et je ne voulais pas avoir l'air d'etre suprise.

Quand nous sommes arrives, j'ai vu beaucoup de chiens qui etaient en train de chercher des trucs a manger dans les poubles (s'il y en a une). Augustin m'a conduit sur un petit chemin qui etait tres sombre et qui pue. Le moment que je suis rentre dans ce marche, j'ai sourit toute de suite...ces odeurs qui sont entre dans mon nez etait tres familie.....LES EPICES....!!! elles etaient partout et bien arrange. Nous avons marche encore un peu plus et j'ai vu que le sol etait mouille et l'odeur du poisson est entre dans mon nez qui n'avait pas de protection. Les epiciers etaient tres occupe a vendre leur merchandises et de temps en temps, ils m'ont regarde et m'appellaient en disant, "madame, vous voulez des noix de cashew" et les autres ont dit, " madame, curry en poudre"? J'e leur ai repondu avec une grande sourie, "non merci, peut-etre la prochaine fois"! Dans ma tete, c'etait claire que j'etait venu ici seulement pour les poissons.

De 10 metres devant moi....j'ai vu.....DES POISSONS.....beaucoup....beaucoup de POISSONS. Eeee..seronoknye aku (suis trop excite jusqu'a ce que les mots en malais sont sorti). Les Garoupas, Les Red snappers, les crevettes et beaucoup de differants types de poissons etaient la. J'ai meme vu mon poisson favorit. Je ne veux pas vous dire car c'est mon secret......hehehe. C'est seulement Lukman et Laurent qui savent de quoi je parle. Apres avoir choisi les poissons, j'ai vite appelle Laurent et je lui ai dit qu' il avait manque quelque chose, qu'il aimerait surement bien voir ca. Ensuite, j'ai aussi donne un coup de fil a ma copine, Ponie et je lui ai raconte ce que j'ai decouvert et que je regrette de ne pas l'avoir emmener avec moi. Ponie et moi, avons essaye de trouver un marche de poisson depuis que nous sommes arrive ici et beaucoup de monde nous ont dit qu'il ne fallait pas acheter de poisson en ete car c'etait trop dangereux. Mais, nous sommes au mois d'octobre maintenant et l'ete est deja passe depuis un mois. J'ai vu moi meme que les poissons etaient frais. Lalalala.....Gros becs de NDH