Saturday, January 28, 2006

What have I been doing?

Work. Getting up at 315 to start at 5 am. Very harsh. Work is pretty cool so far, with lots of great people, who think we're kind of god like.

I went down to Mumbai the other day, what an eye opener. People everywhere, kind of what I magine NYC to be like, but not as developed. Beggars and kids after money, hawkers trying to rip you off with anythin gthey have to sell. Handbags, jewellery, sunglasses, watches. I got a couple of soccer shirts for 15 bucks. Beats 140 for a real one. Some dude offering me hash, which I wanna get my hands on hile I'm here. Took us 1hr to get there via cab about 2 in the arvo and 2hrs back about 7pm. The traffic was insane, I've never seen anything like it. Such a polluted city, hazy one a good day. I got my International lisence before I came over, now I think I was dreaming, no way I'm gonna try the roads. I think beepng your horn constantly is a part of getting your lisence over here. We have a 40 min - 2 hr drive to work and I reckoing we go through 4 traffic lights on the way. The roads are crap, there seems to be constant work going on, but it doesn't seem that anything gets finished. I can't imagine what this place was like 20 yrs ago!

I went to the tailor today to get some shirts made. Very sweet. 112 for 5 shirts. They'll be ready in 3 days. We were looking at material, I reckon they pulled out 40-50 rolls, they can't do enough for you. All that for 8 shirts allmup. Then they showed me material for suits, absolutely awesome. I'll get them down the track.

Eaten out at a few restaurants, and it's very cheap. Tonights was 15 whihc was a dish each and a couple of jugs of beer. Mike, Megan and I ate on he street down form the hotel for 80 rupees the other day, about $2.40 for us all.

Anyways, out for now as I'm buggered.

Some pics

Well, a few pics. The cheap beer in my fridge :) $15 for a carton of longnecks, delivered to your door. Tidy.

Streets of India.

The crazy bamboo scaffold they use. Check the guys on the left.

The Mickey D's menu. Hows the prices?

And choofing down a hooker in a coffee shop.






Sunday, January 22, 2006

India

Wow! Unbelievable so far. Palaces to slums. I couldn't imagine the poverty before I came. I'm having some issues understanding people, but just asking again helps.

The hotel is awesome, but it does seem a world away from the 'real' India. Work has been good so far but tomorrow we start @ 500 am which means up at 330. Takes about 45 mins to get there in the mornig, but homne can be anything up to 2 hrs. The people at work are really nice but I do believe this week will be interesting as they are so desperate to be successful in their role.

It is so cheap to eat and general living expenses, but eletrnoics etc seem to be comparable to home. The weather has been nice, about 25-30 moost days abd cooling down at night. The pool at the hotel comes in handy.

Well, I'll get stuck into this in the next few days and upload some photos. Should reallly go to bed but the Liverpool v Man U game is on. Go the Reds!!!