The Whirlwind Tour

Keith and I left Namdroling 5 days ago...Not too too sad to be leaving India! We made our way to Bangalore on the Volvo AC and then flew to beautiful Singapore to see Karma Kuchen--yay! We'd gone to Singapore five years ago, but I hadn't remembered how great it is. Really, what a lovely, clean, green (hot!) city--with the best food I've ever ever eaten--although it's not too cheap...And the best part, was Karma Kuchen was there doing a Vajrasattva/Mahakala puja for Holiness' parinirvana anniversary. He also gave a Vajrasattva empowerment and did a Vajrasattva fire puja. Yay! On the night of the last day we were invited to the "Grand Vegetarian Dinner," and it was indeed the grandest dinner ever! The other nice thing was Palmo and Pema and her kids were there and we finally met the infamous Yab and Yum (the Singaporean couple who had lived at Namdroling for five years). Then, yesterday morning we took the most luxurious bus ever (it had lazy boy recliner chairs!) to yucky Kuala Lumpur. Somehow, Kuala Lumpur just did not have a good vibe. We were anxious to leave and eventually managed to make our way to the KL Sentral--the city's transportation hub--where we had delicious tea and from there, take an hour long bus to the crazy expensive airport where they charged 34 ringgit for deoderant! That's a lot of ringgit. Then, we finally flew from there to Bangkok last night and took another hour long bus into the city! Three countries in one day is tiring. Anyway, it's nice to be in a familiar place with delicious cheap food. In a few days we're heading to the islands before going to Nepal...We'll try and post some pictures soon...