So Be Good Everyone...

If you ever decide on being Indian in a next life, make sure you have a caste. Trust me, you'll be glad you brought one, cos being without a caste in India is not easy. I'd rather be back in Norway, unemployed and without a life than casteless in India. Since they often have jobs! Lots of 'em. All day long... All day long... And I thought this type of stuff was abolished... Yay...

You know, some say that Ashtanga Yoga is Shiva's gift to mankind. I think its God's plan for the female body. As Yoga in general, it inspires spirituality. Its one of those things that make you go "You know, I think there's a plan going on here...", "This is a next step!", It should be, you know... Mandated... I was at the central palace in Mysore. It was beautiful, guys. It was huge! The Maharaja lived very comfortably, let me assure you. With his, what, nine wives? I tell you, that palace was so huge he could have had nine wives in there without them even knowing about eachother. You know... "Ok, baby, I'm heading out to the west wing to hang with the boys... See you... Wednesday! Love you!" I hope he mandated yoga. (passing thought)
I know he had a bunch of castless people working at the palace! A good thing he fought unemployment!

So, well, tadatada... Sanskrit is fun! I just spent five hours the other day, translating eight short lines of text, great fun there... Count in all the "special characters" and the "exceptions", we're looking at a 64 character alphabet, a grammar system that looks like a mangled gear-box, the word "sanskrit" itself can be translated to "highly elaborated"... I asked at the local book store for a sanskrit dictionary, they gave me two books, one for english-to-sanskrit, the other sanskrit-to-english, each the size of a gothic bible, font size the same as the text that reads "shall not be held liable for anything" in your PC's end-user agreement... Fun!

To whom it may concern, Vijaya says hello. The humble, shy, little sanskrit teacher had himself a new Yamaha, showed off his campus and fluent sanskrit skills and was not shy... Seems he is one of 14-15000 fluent sanskrit speakers in India, and studies at a traditional college where everything is done in the language. (hey what a sentence)

I, ehm... Look forewards to Goa, I think we'll have have a mountain of fun there aswell. So be good everyone. Else on Wednesday you get a lump of coal...

Cheers!