Monday, the start of another week! Didn't get to celebrate Halloween this year. It's not that popular in India ('slightly' overshadowed by the giant festival that is Diwali). Not even a whisper of a mention anywhere. It's strange but I was wondering, is it religious festival? It's not even a festival. It's just a day when it's socially acceptable to wear wierd dresses and threaten people for sweets. Anyway, with guys like above, who needs halloween!

So got my computer back from repairs, it seems in perfect order. The Motherboard was replaced and it cost me 3,500rupees, quite expensive but now my computer is back and working. Plus the guy is the computer service guy for Gayle's company and he's now on a contract to maintin my comp. Sweet.

So lesson in India #3 (i think)        - In India they use a very interesting system to count lots of money, the lakh and the crore. The lakh is 100,000 ruppees - that's 1500 euro. Basically the lakh is our 'grand'. But then we have the crore, a crore is a 100 lakhs i.e. 159,000euro. A lot of money. If you earn in crores you are wealthy. The word is used in the Indian title of the popular Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? game show, Kaun Banega Crorepati - literally "Who will be a ten-millionaire?".  And for you who India is a poor country, the price of a flat in Bombay city centre would set you back around 15(average) crore -  2,393,859 euros. For a flat. Also interesting is that they use lakh and crore in normal counting terms. We say millions of people were there, they say crores of people were there (and in India a crore of people is not that difficult to find!)

Bellow is the Queen's Necklace - the most exclusive road on Bombay. It's a 20 minute drive away from Gayle's house

Bye for now.

Will blog later.