Friday, July 9, 2010

What I haven't done over the past year ...

So after my first 4 weeks in India, I posted a list of things that I hadn't done since i arrived in India:
  • driven a car
  • brushed my teeth with tap water
  • watched television
  • salted my food
  • cooked food in my apartment
  • cleaned my apartment
And then at the 6 month mark, I revised the list of things:
  • driven a car
  • brushed my teeth with tap water
  • salted my food
  • cooked food in my apartment
  • cleaned my apartment
And now that I've hit the 1 year mark, decided it's time to review the list. So I have to remove that I haven't "salted my food" -- I don't know if it's because I've become used to the spices used in cooking here, but I do find myself salting my food every once in awhile (although harder to do here since there is almost never a salt/pepper shaker on the table at restaurants). But I do have another item to add to the list -- using a hair dryer -- I recently realized that I always let my hair air dry even when I have access to a hair dryer (which is only when I'm staying in a hotel since I never bought one over here):
  • driven a car
  • brushed my teeth with tap water
  • cooked food in my apartment
  • cleaned my apartment
  • dried my hair with a hair dryer

2 comments:

  1. Not cooked food? Not even a grilled paneer sandwich or a boiled egg?

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  2. I know it's weird / hard to believe -- but I have never turned the stove on (and I don't have an oven). I have used the toaster and the microwave -- but wouldn't call that cooking.

    My grocery shopping amounts to buying fruit and that's about it -- now that I think about it, I can't even remember the last time that I went to a proper grocery store here in Bangalore (must be a couple of months).

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