Fun in Jhanjoti

February 25

Nearly a year later I finally plan to finish this post and publish it! Life has been hectic and I hope to get back into blogging this year! So this post was from March 2015 when I went back to Punajb as Happy was having visa issues and I hadn’t seen him for 5 months, […]

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Diwali

November 09

When we got back from our amazing honeymoon,  Jaskaran was calling and calling “come to my farm I am having a birthday party for Steph!!!”, we had to go to Happy’s parents house first for a night to see his mumy and then we went on to Jaskarans house the next day, his mum why saying why are you […]

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Our Honeymoon

November 04

The few days after the wedding was a mad rush trying to show my family around as many places in Amritsar as we could as well as relatives constantly calling wanting my family to eat at their houses! I had promised Jaskaran we would come to his farm so we did that one day and went […]

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Our Wedding – 21 Sep 2014

October 24

The day started with alarms going off at 5am!! Kath quickly ordered us some toast we scoffed it down grabbed our stuff together and Sonu (Happy’s eldest brother) called at 5.15am to say he was outside the hotel to pick us up! I was SO TIRED already only 3-4 hours sleep, but Sonu told me […]

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The lead up to our Wedding

October 11

Finally got together the time & strength to write about what was an extremely stressful time – our big fat punjabi wedding!!! I will do it over two posts as it has taken me days to write this one alone! I arrived back in Amritsar after a very long uncomfortable flight after having only just […]

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Finally departing Perth!

August 29

After planning to return to Amritsar on 10th August, then changing it to the 17th August, then to the 22nd, all due to checking Amritsar weather and seeing it was STILL in the 40s and not being able to mentally bare that heat again with the power cuts & bad cooling systems, also I had a few chat’s to […]

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Perth shenanigans

August 08

Whilst hating summer in Punjab I realised I would be missing a few events in Perth over winter and was not too happy about it! Happy and his Dad said if you want to go back for a while then go you are not stuck here!!  I thought yes why not! I called Natasha and […]

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Bits & Bobs

May 26

Normal day to day life going on here… Summer is SO HOT I do not know how I have even survived the last 6 weeks without aircon, or how Happy has put up with my constant daily complaints since summer began, I don’t know how he does it, in one ear out the other I […]

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Dalhousie

May 05

Summer has begun in Amritsar and it is HELL ON EARTH! It has been 42 daily for the past 3 weeks and to make it worse we spent a few days at the farm which included heat, flies, Mosquitos, thick dust from wheat being cut and that’s about it! I actually was going insane and […]

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Delhi & Agra

April 16

Most of Happy’s family have never been to Taj Mahal or even out of the state! So talking them into going to Agra to see the Taj Mahal was a 3 month mission for me!! Jaskaran kept saying to me “why do you want to go there? my house is a Taj Mahal!”, it’s a […]

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Jagroop’s Wedding

April 08

Parts of this post were missing when I originally published it so I have done it again. Last week we spent the week in Madu Chhanga attending Jagroop’s village wedding, it was SO MUCH FUN and went for 3 – 4 days.. Jagroop is Jaskarans cousin (their Dad’s are brothers) all three brothers of his […]

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Holi Festival & The Golden Temple

March 21

Leading up to Holi festival the streets have been filled with kids throwing water bombs at each other and kids on all the rooves flying kites. We went to the Golden Temple with Amarjit & Heather who had come to Amritsar for the day and it was sooooo busy packed with people everywhere!!!  It was […]

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Site seeing in Amritsar & a few parties!

March 17

We have been to quite a few places around Amritsar in the last week or so, the best by far was the India & Pakistan border closing ceremony (Wagah Border). It was so entertaining I loved it!!! Men & Women had to sit in separate areas so I was so glad we went with his […]

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Now living in Amritsar!

March 05

I haven’t blogged in 3 weeks starting to get lazy and so much has happened I don’t even know where to start!!! First of all we decided to move to Amritsar after we have spent a lot of time travelling back and forth and we have done and seen everything we wanted to do in […]

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Amritsar & back at Madu Chhanga

February 14

We spent a few days in Amritsar and went shopping at Trillium Mall which was huge probably twice the size of garden city! And it had big waterfalls that lit up, I bought a few tops, tissues and nail polish remover! One night happy & his cousins and a few friends told me we were […]

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Happy’s birthday

February 08

On Sat 1st Feb we left Chandigarh on the bike and travelled to Madu Chhanga again as we were having a party for Happys Birthday there on the 3rd. It was such a long way by bike and FREEZING we stopped a few times along the way to drink tea which helped and had lunch […]

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A Punjabi wedding

February 01

Today we went a Punjabi wedding about 40 minutes away from Chandigarh at a wedding palace (it has an indoor area for food and all the marquees are set up outdoors). The bride was the sister of Jass Bains – Happy’s friend from Perth, and there were some other friends from Perth there too and […]

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Daily life & food

January 30

This week I decided I would dye my hair at home!!! What a challenge!! Happy had to help me wash the dye out with a bucket and jug and it took us an hour!!!! I am becoming a pro at the bucket&jug shower these days and it doesn’t bother me as much anymore. We also […]

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My Punjabi suits

January 26

Everyone has been requesting photos of me in the traditional “Punjabi suit” that Happy’s mum gave me.. Also known as Salwar Kameez. (Salwar is the pants and Kameez is the top) They range in prices depending on the quality and detail, in most shops and markets when you buy them it’s packaged with the scarf […]

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Madu Chhanga

January 25

Last Sunday we called Happy’s cousin & best friend Jaskaran at about 10pm to ask him if he wanted to come with us to Taj Mahal and he said “why are you going there you haven’t even brought Steph to my farm yet!!!” Next thing I know we are packing our bags at midnight and […]

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Visitors and our new bike

January 17

Happy’s Dad bought him a motorbike – Royal Enfield Bullet and his brother Sonu called to say him and Happy’s cousin were coming to drop it off to us. So we went off to the market to get a blanket for them so they could sleep over. I forgot what we were there for and […]

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Chandigarh Terrace garden … and showering!

January 14

This morning we woke up and I made breakfast and I said to happy I am just going to have a shower then we can go out. He said to me let me just check the shower! I thought that was odd but he came back giggling and said to me “don’t freak out but […]

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Moving in & setting up!

January 12

Today we moved into our small unit/room which is above a brand new house, we enter from the driveway and there is a small (scary) staircase up to our room at the back and we have our own attached kitchen & bathroom, and small balcony. The family that live in the house are nice, I […]

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Finding somewhere to live

January 11

We have spent a few days looking for places to live from recommendations etc but it was all becoming quite time consuming I ended up finding a real estate company on google and we called them and the man said yeah come over to my house and I will help! We thought it was a […]

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Chandigarh

January 10

We are now in Chandigarh! Happy’s brother Sonu and cousin Shubh drove us here and it took about 4 hours and we stopped along the way and bought amritsari fish (fried in spicy batter) and ate it the whole way, drinking whiskey and coke and listening to punjabi music! Chandigarh is the capital city of […]

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