Palaces!

I love viewing houses - no kidding. I know it sounds weird.

My day in the hospital has been quite relaxing, since my patients are stable so far, so I ended up spending some time chatting with my seniors in the doctor's room.

My Registrar was surfing the Net looking for house plans for the plot of land he bought back home in India. Being excited, he started showing me the house plan which he fancies. The artist's impression looks really good. It's got a tinge of indian flavour in it, but westernized too. I love looking at these things, and started pestering him and my MO about how the rich are like in India, and if they build houses which look like palaces and the Taj Mahal.

I guess they knew I was getting a bit too excited, so they started to satisfy my excitement by showing me some other brilliant houses up for sale in India. I thought they're considered rich, when they can buy big plots of lands and build beautiful houses. But they claimed that they're only of a middle class standard, and the gap between the rich and poor in India is massive. They were also telling me about this filthy rich guy in India who bought his wife a real airplane as a present.

I love palaces, and hence, started pestering them to show me palaces in India. There's one which I find beautiful (Mysore Palace - see below), especially when it's lighted up in the night. Love looking at these things and how I wish I can build my own palace (if only I'm that rich...muahahahha). Apparently, they think I'm weird for dreaming of living in a palace. My Registrar was telling me how my bones would be found decades or centuries later if I accidentally lock myself in one of the hundreds and thousands of rooms, and starve to death without anyone realising it.

We started talking abt the Taj Mahal, one of the famous 7 wonders of the world. I've never been to India, but the videos and pictures of this wonderful architecture sweeps me off my feet. Would love to see it one day. I started asking them if there's anything within the Taj Mahal, and apparently, they said there's nothing spectacular inside, since there's only a tomb. For those who didn't know this, the Taj Mahal is a tomb which a rich guy built for his late wife (damn lucky hor?!), and this rich guy chopped off the thumb/finger of every worker who built the Taj Mahal, because by doing so, these workers can never ever build another structure this fascinating again. Cruel hor?