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Indian students going abroad
Here are things you should carry with you if you are going to study abroad
1. Adapter if you are taking your own electronics such as cell phone charger. The sockets differ, from flat to round plug-pins, in different countries
2. Software - esepcially in you are in design and use a big package of photoshop+flash+illustrator
3. Maggi (Unhealthy but..)
4. Stationary and books.
While a text-book costs $5 (Rs 200) max in India, it is $100 in Canada.
5. Hair Oil if you wish. Its possible to get it in Toronto, but with difficulty.
6. Dont take too many clothes. You can buy them in the new country.
October 24th, 2007 - 12:57
You are absolutely wrong about hair oil (& Maggi). You can easily get it here (not as easily as in India of course). Wal-Mart, Sobeys or Dominion are too classy to sell them so don’t waste your time there.
In fact I have run out of my own and need to buy one soon… lets go do some hair oil shopping sometime from Little India, Toronto, Ontario. What is hard to find here is a place to get a good head massage with desi oil, but that too can be arranged if you n your peeps agree mutually to give one to each other
Please remove that point considering it as misinformation for prospective desis flying abroad. You can instead add Haldiraam/Bikanere mithai… damn I crave for that every once in a while.