Feeling nervous about the competition, excited to soon be exploring the wildly different world and its striking culture that is Incredible !ndia. I'm heading to Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh (India's most populous state) to attend the 1st International Festival of Biotechnology, hosted by the City Montessori School.
I'm going with Nicholas Ngiam, Low Guo Yang, Tong Nhat Duong, Mervyn Lim, Anmol Khurana, Daniel Lim and Mr Goh Yan Yih.
The first person I meet is Nicholas. Eventually, everyone gets here and we check in without hassle but highly amused by the weight of some of our luggage XD. Our art materials alone for the poster and collage was over 7 kg. Someone had a bag almost 40 kg. We were mostly bringing lots of bottled water. And food too. XD
By 9:40 a.m., we were at gate E3 waiting to board. Mervyn, Guo Yang, Nicholas and Daniel were playing bridge out of boredom XD.
We were flying by Air India. Mervyn took a couple of picture on the plane before the stewardess came along and said no electronic devices during takeoff/landing etc. Mervyn was like "everywhere I go I get owned one XP...". Took off at 10:05 a.m. on the dot.
There was this thing that we had on the airplane lunch which looked very much like a soup. Apparently it was sweet, and apparently it was Indian dessert.
Ever seen Ricola in a can? Guo Yang brought...
Arrived in New Delhi 1:35 p.m. India time which is 2.5 hrs behind Singapore. The airport is unmodern, and we got off onto the tarmac. There was a 4 hr transit. The security guards there all have (what is probably and AK-74) automatic rifles slung across their backs. Unnerving.
We met Anmol's parents and his sister, who stay in Delhi. And we spent the transit time talking to them, munching snacks, and playing phone games, e.g. SPORE, Paper toss, Bubble-wrap.
From left: Nicholas, Daniel, Guo Yang :) This was at the airport, waiting for our connecting flight, which was at another terminal. Oh yeah, and the airport seems to have this "prepaid taxi" thingy. Lolz
On the way to the other terminal by the airport shuttle, we saw what is the taxi in India. The thingy behind the two people is the taxi.
We got to ride the airport buggy at the other terminal :D
This is the boarding pass for our domestic flight...
Boarded the flight from Delhi to Lucknow on the tarmac again. Learned a new word from one of Anmol's Indian magazines. The article was talking about how yuppies were over, and how now was the age of the "scuppies", the socially conscious urban professionals. Lolz
We arrived late in the evening, maybe about 7 p.m. The airport is small. We were welcomed very warmly by the people from City Montessori School (and uhh the weather too. Its very hot.) They did the whole Indian bright orange flower garland thingy. Along with a red carpet and a photo taking session. From left: Guo Yang, Anmol.
The school is quite near the airport. Here's what it looks like at night right when we arrived.
Dinner (oh my goodness, so many different kinds of curries in one sitting.) then play a bit of COD4 with Daniel, on my laptop, then sleep :)
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