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!

Big kiss from NDH

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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