Goodbye Hyderabad

I am leaving Hyderabad, the city of pearls, tonight....actually, the morning of tomorrow, ahahha...am flying out at 1am. Can't wait to get home. Can't wait to hugs and cuddle the kids again. Are they missing me?? hahaha....Not!! According to atang, thirah went about as if nothing happens, but for yaya, everyday she asked atang when I will come home. Haha... Anyway, I will see both of them tomorrow.

5 days in Hyderabad, many interesting happened. New and sweet, painful and scary as well.

New = this is the first time I came to Hyderabad, first time I went overseas alone (without atang or my parents). Hyderabad very interesting place, crowded, dusty, driving here is thrilling (I practically closed my eyes during the ride). Sadly the city looks old, we can see homeless everywhere, though everywhere we can see a lot of development going on, hey they have cyberbad (like cyberjaya) here, but obviously there are many many poor people.

Sweet = the people are friendly, their hospitality can be proud of. But this is in service industry. However, shopkeeper can be arrogant too, especially when you bargain for 50% of the price...hahaha... well, that what you should do here according to local. Just imagine, when we went up Charminar, we have to pay 95 rupees, but the local only pay 5 rupees. But we can't asked for discount at Charminar, I am only giving you an example of what you get if you don't bargain. Another wonderful experience is meeting new people, people I have admired from far ...in research context aaa...bukan bollywood ka apa ka...wakakaka eh but, we enjoyed a classical indian dance show....cantik2 laaa dancers dia..... I am referring to the ladies ok :D

Painful = I have swollen ankle, I missed a step, dan akibat nye, kaki ku bengkak sikit. But I managed to drag my legs going up Charminar. And had bad experience the first night I arrived here. They put me in men hostel. Sib baik la single room, but bathroom are shared. Semalaman tak bleh tido ooo...takutttt...Luckily the next morning the supervisor came and realising their mistake they quickly moved me to the ladies hostel. I thought at first kat sini campur laki pompuan, tapi tak.... phewwwhhh lega alhamdullillah.

Scary = I refer to the ride. Giler scary ooo.... you hardly see traffic lights. Car, tut tut, buses senang cakap, berhimpit2 laaa.... and not forgetting honking, almost every second you will hear it.

All these are experience I will never forget. Not sure I will come here again laaa.... Unless I am being paid to come here....kihkihkih... shopping..... giler2...pearls, bangles, sarees, kurtas... but beggers are everywhere...so kena hati-hati.

OK.... better end this now. Need to pack and check-out. Can't wait to see my little angels :D




yours truly,

Greeting from Hyderabad

Dear friends and Salam to all....

Today is the 3rd day I am in Hyderabad, 2 more days to go. The doctoral consortium was great. I got good feedback and suggestion given both from IS scholars and research colleague. I met and did networking with some people. What an opportunity to meet renowned IS researchers, such as Prof Samba and Prof Ritu, that before this I only knew them from their papers.

There were also some uncomfortable incidents happened, which I will write later. One of it is I have swollen ankle, I missed a step, so I sprained the ankle. But nonetheless, I went up Charminar, kalau tak rugi oooooo.....



The Charminar.... been soo excited to come here and climb the winding stairs. There are 149 steps to the top, but we were only allowed to enter level 1. Can't remember how many steps to go up to level 1, I was carefully arranging my step so not to injure my ankle more. But it was worth it.





So many excitement, both good and scary too. Driving in Hyderabad mmg giler scary. Plus there are many beggers in Charminar. They will follow you, touching you, my friend got her head rubbed by one of the beggers. Giler scary.....

OK.... I have two more papers to present tomorrow and day after. Will write more soon.
yours truly,