This will probably be my last post from India, as I leave in around 20 hours. I will be glad to get away from this HEAT, it's really formidable. The papers all say this is one of the hottest summers India has experienced in a long time. Hello, Global Warming ( Read more... )

So, S is off somewhere - not surprising, as he knows every time I sit down at an internet cafe, he's got an hour to kill - so I'll post a few more random thoughts ( Read more... )

madachaddah! KUSS EMEK! @*#&%(*&#%!!!! I swear in the languages of three nations!!!

These damn internet cafes and their decrepit PCs. I posted a great post the other night, dare I say it was EPIC, about our bad, annoying train ride and it seems the damn browser I was on didn't save it properly - did not respond to LJ's "restore saved data" even - ( Read more... )

We're in Delhi!

The train from Chennai was the Worst Train Ride in the entire History of Bad Train Rides. First, it was ********36 hours*********.

And I still don't think I'm ready to write about it, but we survived, are happy, and are about to enter a really swanky-fashionable looking little boite with red lights and chandeliers here in Delhi to ( Read more... )

Forgot to mention this when it occured, but damn it was annoying!

We were staying in Hampi, and had ridden a rickshaw into Hospet to pick up the package of WxW's books that he'd sent to Sreenu. Everything was fine, we picked up the package as scheduled, and were on our way back to Hampi.

Suddenly, the rickshaw we were in was stopped . . . by the ( Read more... )

Dear Indian Guys and people in general;

Have you REALLY never seen a foreigner before?! Honestly?! Do I look that weird?! Do you need to stare that much? At me!? Look, I'm sweaty and dirty, and not even all that attractive most of the time, dressed in one of my baggy salawar khameezs'. Come on! Give it a damn rest! A quick glance is one thing, but ( Read more... )

Okay, I hate it here. We're in Chennai and it's about 8,000 degrees. It's AC in this little internet cafe, but ugh, the guy just squirted, I think, "Love's Baby Soft" cologne preserved from the 70's on the fans, and it is making me gag. The heat is a wet blanket - there's just no relief. Sticky!!

The last few days in Hampi were great. Lounging ( Read more... )

Still in Hampi. S's passport arrives tomorrow, and the day after that a shipment of books from WxW that S needs for his application to the US embassy. We'll be moving on from here in a day or so, to Tamil Nadu, the US embassy there. After that, bigtime train ride to Amritsar, on to Delhi and home (for me, and S will follow me in a few weeks, insha' ( Read more... )

Still in the shanti of Hampi. Yesterday, we cruised around on the scooter a bit, which is always fun. Hung out with Sreenu's parents, and tonight we'll go there for dinner - his mother is cooking a giant fish. Didn't do much during the day, I took a nap in the hammock outside our room, while S was off getting stuff done for me. *grins* Finally got ( Read more... )

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