So what do I miss about the UK, someone asked me the other day. Rather surprisingly, I had to stop and think for a few minutes before I had any answers. The real answer to this question is: not much! Aside from the obvious family and friends, it got me thinking about what I really… Continue reading →

…and I’m still not dead. Although having been out on the back of the motorbike several times since I got here there has been an element of luck involved. Nor have I succumb the to the traditional Delhi belly that travellers to India are welcomed with. Obviously everyone else who came to India and suffered… Continue reading →

So if anyone out there has been keeping up with my blog, this week and last week I’ve been conducting interviews with ‘freshers’ (people fresh out of university) looking for around 6 people to be trained up by me in the art of programming, design, usability and quality control. Side note: In the UK, it… Continue reading →

Life isn’t all hard work you know! This weekend I’ve been chilling out a little bit more (by that, I mean I haven’t spent 16 hours a day infront of a computer). On Saturday we went to a really, really posh hotel called The Residency Towers which really is as nice as it looks on… Continue reading →

India. It’s an entirely different country you know. To master the Indian language, you would have to become a master of 15 different languages…and that’s just the ‘official’ languages. Unofficially, it seems every city, town, village, hamlet and quite possibly 3 member family has their own language. In Chennai, the city where I’m staying, the… Continue reading →

For the past week I’ve been interviewing “freshers” from the Southern Indian universities. There are six positions available, 2 designers, 2 programmers and 2 quality controllers. The plan is to take these freshers on for work experience – but unlike the UK, it’s not going to be for just a few weeks, this is going… Continue reading →

Now there’s going to be a few raised eyebrows for anybody that knows me personally when I tell you this… Indian food is lovely! Once we got over the fact that you don’t need to add 10 chilli’s to add taste, the food is really nice. Everyday is something different and always nice. Once the… Continue reading →

Wow, first blog post from India! I’ve been here for 3 days now and I’m still not dead. And as an added bonus I still haven’t caught any weird and wonderful tropical disease that turns your face inside out, makes your eyeballs boil and your skin fall off – but hey, there’s still time. So… Continue reading →

Hey, check this out. I’m on my way to India! Off to Chennai in the Madras region, which in on the South East coast. OK, so everything isn’t confirmed yet. I have to go to the Indian Embassy in London to get a visa, get several different injections for diseases like Malaria, Yellow Fever and… Continue reading →

Rain. It was invented in the UK you know. But as with so many great British inventions in the past, other countries took our ideas and made them bigger and better. Monsoon season has officially struck India, and we’ve gone from lazy sunny days to lazy rainy days. It’s been non-stop torrential rain for the… Continue reading →