Things to know about India

1. I can’t find body shampoo in liquid form here, I could only found soap bar.

2. I can’t find book-end here

3. I can’t find test pad here, I could only found long notebooks (like our buku biru that kind)

4. I can’t find green tea here.

5. Plastic stuff is super expensive, eg: one waste-paper-basket-size pail cost Rs 100, a medium size pail cost Rs130 ; clothes hanger in 6 cost about Rs45-75.

6. Clothes hanger rack, a metal one(but get rusty easily) cost Rs600-700, a stainless steel one can cost up to Rs1350, I choose a hollow stainless steel kind which cost Rs1100..

7. There’ll be all kind of “admission fee” that we need to pay…

8. Ask from your senior how much is the hostel fee, hostel fee tends to increase every year.

9. Your senior will be your “saviour” in foreign country, ask for info about lecturers, exam style, recommended books, where to find food, where to buy stuff, where to buy books, how to call auto, how to bargain, how much is the normal rate of transportation, and about tempe and pisang goreng (you will know what this means)

10. When you guys arrived here, the climate is quite cooling and kinda chilling at night..bring tracksuits, jackets..wear socks while sleeping..better don’t get sick first few days, it’s gonna make you more miserable and make you homesick miserably…

11. Personally I feel that cash is quite important when you come to a foreign country, but do not bring too much cash with you too.

12. Help out each other is important.

13. Learn some Hindi and Kannada will be really helpful. Your local friends in campus can speak English without problem, but when you go outside the campus…that’s when you really need them.

14. Get used to “ke-tidak-stabil-an voltage” seriously.

15. Things in India is NOT CHEAP at all..Cost of living in India is NOT THAT LOW…Most of the stuff is almost the same price or even more expensive than our country..moreover, most of the things that you usually use in our country is difficult to find here…People back in Malaysia, your perception about India is TOTALLY WRONG.

16. Get used to the way they drive and they horn..

17. Get used to the cows crossing road and their “Gold”

18. Fruits here is expensive,eg: apples 120/125/130 per kg, oranges 110 per kg…

19. Get used to the spices they use to cook. No green leafy vege so far…normally you’ll see some dunno what bean, or some dunno what brinjal-like vege…even if it’s brinjal, it looks either yellow/red/orange…However, I personally feel that their dahl is good.

20. Be careful of what you eat and drink..Most of the guys of my batch already down with diarrhoea…Girls still very very healthy~!! LOLOL (just few of us caught a cold)

21. There is no case meragut here~ so, your handbag is SAFE here~!!!

22. Be alert all the times, don't get cheated~!!! This is important...

That’s all I can think of so far~

gonna update you people soon~!!!