Damnit! Of all the stupid things to do, this one probably doesn’t rank up there as one of them, (for a list of the most stupid things to do, these guys take the crown). But on a list of really annoying things to do, this has to be right up there. This afternoon I had… Continue reading
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Row, Row, Row Your Boat!
I took this video this morning as I was travelling to work. The recent monsoon rains turned the streets in to rivers, but a little rain never stopped the enterprising citizens of Chennai as they plough head long in to fast flowing rivers!
Why Mac’s Don’t Cut It In Business
OK, so I was using Apple Macs before they were cool. I even had my very own Performa 630. I grinned and beared when my mates were playing the latest, coolest games and I had, umm, snake? For a few years I was the typical mac fan boy, before anyone had even heard of macs… Continue reading
India Isn’t Just A Different Country…
…It has a different way of thinking. So often things happen in India, and it just makes me wonder “what was going through your mind when you were doing that”. For example, standing on the roof of a building and using a pneumatic drill to dismantle the roof. Granted, stupidity isn’t confined to a single… Continue reading
Check Out My Wheels!
Check out this bad boy! These are my wheels to and from the office each day. It does 0-20 mph in 2 minutes, pollutes like a chemical factory and sounds like a cat in a blender. It has almost as much power as a washing machine and 4 inch alloys. This is the pimped out… Continue reading
What My Mum Thought About India
A few weeks back, my Mum came to visit me in India. What did she think about it? Her thoughts? This is what she sent me below… Some observations from my trip to India: All the stray dogs look the same – is there only one breed of dogs in India? I couldn’t believe that… Continue reading
Dude, Where’s My Monsoon?
It’s Monsoon season here in Tamil Nadu. Except the monsoon rains are conspicuously missing (useless geekish fact #394: the word monsoon refers to the weather pattern, not the actual rain that occurs during the monsoon). When I was here in 2006, the monsoon season started as soon as I arrived and finished the moment I… Continue reading
What do you want to know about India?
I’ve been going through a bit of a dry patch recently, trying to come up with some inspiration on things to write about on my blog. Days are whizzing by, months are coming and going, pretty soon I’ll be going home for Christmas…and I’ve only been in India since last week, or at least, that’s… Continue reading
Diamonds in the rough?
I have often posted about how bad the tuk tuk drivers are here in Chennai. They see the white skin and little dollar signs flash in their eyes. A journey that should cost Rs 80 to a local will cost Rs 150 for a foreigner – as if we’re all made of money. Yeah, right!… Continue reading
Waiter, what’s this fly doing in my soup?
I think it’s doing front crawl, sir. OK, so yesterday I had my first cockroach experience. Henceforth know as “that thing that happened and what we will never talk about again. After today”. Now I have seen plenty of cockroaches in India. Some of them are big buggers and fly (FLY! who knew?!), others are… Continue reading