Archive for January, 2008
Monday, January 28th, 2008
Walking
Mumbai, India – January 27, 2008
Evy & I went for a walk today - we got lost. As the area got progressively more slum-like & the stares progressively more rude (& lewd), we decided to turn back. It’s a first for me, feeling like it really would be safer to turn around than […]
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Monday, January 28th, 2008
Mad & Ev go to Bollywood
Mumbai, India – January 24, 2008
Uncle Manu is a doctor. As such he seems to have numerous connections, of which he has kindly taken advantage of for our sake. Today it was a doctor friend, who happened to be the head of neurosurgery at a Mumbai hospital, known to most as ‘Doc’. […]
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Monday, January 28th, 2008
Blood Tests & Tour Guides
Mumbai, India - January 23, 2008
Day 2 with Uncle Vinay was kind of amusing, in the sense that we were able to display our ineptitude to it’s fullest extent. Uncle Vinay got caught up talking to students & forgot to let his henchmen know what we ought to do. So they gave […]
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Sunday, January 27th, 2008
Uncle Vinay
Mumbai - January 22nd, 2008
When Nimisha’s cousin Minti asked us whether or not we wanted to spend time with her mother’s brother Vinay, who’s heavily involved with blood donation in Mumbai, we both immediately said yes. What we did not realize was that this man, whom the family seems to affectionately regard as someone […]
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Monday, January 21st, 2008
Mouse
Mumbai - January 19th, 2008
For the past three days we have been very kindly hosted by a variety of members of my friend Nimisha’s family. Our first night we spent with her maternal uncle Manu & family, and then we spent two nights with her paternal uncle Tata & family. It’s been great. Hopefully the […]
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Monday, January 21st, 2008
Arrival in India
Mumbai – January 17th, 2008
Having my name on a little paper sign at the greeting section of the airport was a first for me today. It was kind of funny to see all the little holiday company signs and then in the midst of it all Nimisha’s Uncle Manu and his family’s sign-carrying driver.
Overall […]
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Friday, January 18th, 2008
Computer Issues
Singapore - January 16th, 2008
I short-circuited the entire dormitory section of our hostel today. Twice. I needed to charge my computer battery but was worried about power surges. With this in mind, I attached Evy’s surge protector to my newly acquired Singapore adaptor. I plugged this lovely dual system in - not even attempting it […]
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Friday, January 18th, 2008
Internet Access
Singapore - January 16th, 2008
Internet access is sketchy at best so I think the dates on my posts may be a little sporadic, even though I’ll be trying to write somewhat regularly on my computer.
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Monday, January 14th, 2008
Vancouver-Frankfurt, Frankfurt-Singapore
Sunday, January 13th, 3:00pm - before boarding in Vancouver, we stopped at the duty free. With the purchase of 2 gifts & some reading materials, we managed, without even having left yet, to exceed our intended budget of max $20/day… Official trip begins!
The flight from Vancouver to Frankfurt was uneventful, I was sitting in […]
