sayonara. aufwiedersehen. aurevoir. ciao. goodbye.
and i don't know how to say goodbye in nepalese.

my dear (and hefty) nepal+india trip is fast approaching. in fact, before you can ask "oh when are you going to nepal/india?", i will be gone already. to be very precise, it is in a very countable 84hours. and i still don't even know how to speak a single nepalese language.

but i have a feeling i would not need to know so much. first of all, i wouldn't need to use the "where is the toilet" phrase in either nepal or india. the horrible, and extremely unfortunate, truth is that you probably wouldn't want to use it. secondly, i would be ripped off anyway given that i am an asian skin (in a sense, not south asian). so, i wouldn't have to learn any phrases that require me to bargain. And seriously, shopping?

i remember learning an indian phrase "yenge iruke" which means "where are you?". but i guess i wouldn't be needing it any time soon in india/nepal. why the *********** would i be asking anybody yenge iruke? worse come to worse, i'll just start spouting the indian version for the mrt voiceovers. like "wonverde wonverde wonverde" whenever somebody asks me everything; complete with a slight tilt of the head to the right. i'll speak it with so much gusto that a do-you-want-to-go-to-taj-mahal question can be answered with "999".

WONVERDE, WONVERDE, WONVERDE!!!!


God, you've GOT TO be with me.