Time Flies...

When you're having fun, right? Or perhaps when you're studying like crazy on databases and queries =P. I honestly don't remember what happened the entire week after the "safari". There must have been some project finishing...and some RDBMS starting...as far as work went. We had our last couple games of ultimate with the fast trackers and various other seeing-off celebrations involving food and dancing. We finally got a chance to eat at the Lemon Tree restaurant which has BOMB chicken rolls and half-chicken/whole-chicken dishes. YUMMY. So now we're set in this one area of Mysore that has the Lemon Tree, MezzaLuna (currently our favorite restaurant due to cheapness, deliciousness, and Chinese food-ness) and or club of choice, High Octane. On Saturday we vowed to play our last game of ultimate and shortly thereafter we headed out to a place called Planet X where the main highlight is their go-karts. They are suprisingly fun and potentially very addicting. I am going to try my best to master the art of drifting, bwahaha (Tokyo Drift! LOL)

Unfortunately, the day we had to see our friends off to Hyderabad. Of course, the cab didn't come until two hours after it was scheduled to come. But we were able to entertain ourselves in our few precious last moments with all of my favorite games (pika pika tonga tonga! That's right, I've taught a new crowd =P). Later that day me and the girls went on a shopping trip into the city and I bought a kurta! And various other items, hehe... Little did I know that shopping crazyness would ensue later in the week...

This past week has been full of studying. No joke. We had a 7 day module this round and it seemed pretty intense, especially since I have a tendency to zone out during class...haha. But don't worry about me, I got an A (of course!) on the RDMBS exam =D. However, this next instructor of ours is pretty...annoying...in the sense that he is quite attentive to all of the shenanigans that occur in class, haha. So my friend Barry sits in front of me in our classroom. Barry ALWAYS plays games. Hangaroo, in particular, is my favorite game that Barry plays because when our brains work together, we can solve the puzzle. Apparently I didn't realize how blaringly obvious it is that I play this game with Barry because our new instructor definitely called me out for it. DON'T WORRY, I didn't get in trouble, he just asked if there was something interesting on Barry's screen and I just played dumb =P. AND ALSO JUST FOR THE RECORD, I have not downloaded any games onto my own computer until this past Thursday. And also everyone else in class plays games. That is all.

However, my personal favorite highlight of the past couple weeks is playing ULTIMATE EVERYDAY. Yes, me and my friend Alex have made a pact to play ultimate everyday possible. I have to admit, I am completely obsessed with ultimate frisbee. You know how I surf in San Diego and taiko in Berkeley? Well apparently in India I play ultimate. And it is GREAT. Except for the fact that I have a tendency to injure myself a lot. Or collide with people because I can't stop running. STILL AWESOME. We successfully played ultimate everyday for four days in a row and it was so so fun every single time. We're crazy =P

So this Saturday was a working. The reason being? They had given us too many holidays during this quarter so the entire company was coming in on this Saturday. However, nothing was scheduled for us to do on this so-called working Saturday. So during lunch, me and the girls left for the city and shopped till we dropped. I bought a LOT of stuff. And Juni, our Indian friend, was able to come out and help us. She is so sweet and I'm so glad we were able to hang out with her. She helped us pick out saris, salwaars, and kurtas so now I'm stocked. I had fun but I'm pretty shopped out.

And finally todaaaaaaaaaaaay! We took a day trip to Coorg. Woke up at 5:15 AM and piled into a big van. Our first stop was a Tibetan monastery...it was beautiful! Because we got there so early, hardly anybody else was there. The monks were in the process of doing their morning chants and it was so interesting just to watch. This is by far my favorite place that we've visited so far. Afterward we went to a "bird sanctuary" that didn't actually have any birds. The only notable parts of this place was the bridge we had to cross and the river that some of my friends accidently fell into when they tried to cross it to reach some rocks, haha. After this we headed for Abbey Falls which we thought would require a long hike but really only took 5 minutes of walking to reach. They were pretty enough (honestly, not as cool as some of the stuff I saw in China). Our last stop was a garden with an amazing view (we were able to spot the perfect ultimate feel amongst the huge expanse of green fields =D).

Anyway, I can't believe I only got one day off between last week and this week. Siiiigh...off to work I go!