Too busy and too much to post

I wanted to post about the flight and arrival in Ireland ,the extreme cold (imo) and landlord issues. But I've had too many things to catch up with and so will post about it "properly" later. For now, here's a partial summary of 15th to 17th ...

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The power sockets here don't match my devices. so got adaptors from a shop nearby.

Got internet and power after more than 24 hours. Phone and laptop batteries were dead. Ippozha onnu ushaar aayathu.

I feel so homesick

So cold I already hate it here

dinner at 6:24 PM ☹️

ivade saippum madammayum okke 10PM inu orangum 😒

now my bad sleeping habits when adjusted by 5.5 hours suddenly makes me a gud boi 😀

I usually sleep at 3 AM in India. Here that is 9:30 PM 😛

Madamma Ammachie making some bland meals ... have to eat fast or it gets cold very soon

at home even if it is not hot anymore we can eat or use the microwave. here it goes from hot to warm to cold to frozen in 10-15 minutes.


I told a friend that I miss even my enemies back home to which he replied "Don't worry, with your temper, will have more there. 😀 ... At least the cold climate will remove some of the hot temper from your head."


Not bringing my Nepali Koirala cap with me and taking a clean shaven head to a cold country in winter is something I should not have done after 2015. Achoo 🤧

My bald head was freezing and i forgot my shawls/scarfs back home. So I just improvised ... Bharat Mata ki Jai




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