Archive for April, 2008
Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
Buddhist IV’s
March 20, 2008 - Bodhgaya, Varanasi, Jaipur – India
(have kind of slept our way through all 3 places, unfortunately)
I just ate a lovely meal of Farfalle with Tomato sauce, a mixed mango & orange juice, and fresh salad*. This sounds ridiculously bland and uninteresting, especially for India, but it was extremely special for me […]
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Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
Train Connections & Touts
March 16, 2008 – Kolkata, India
We missed our train connection from Kolkata to Bodhgaya. We were at the train station 45 minutes prior to departure, but due to completely misleading signs and unknowledgeable officials we were sent to wait at the wrong platform and by the time it had all been sorted out, the […]
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Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
Getting Scammed
March 14, 2008 – Kolkata, India
Please, join us for another episode of Lemming One and Lemming Two… I have nothing to say in our defense. I don’t know how we could have been so stupid. All it would have taken is an extra minute of thought. They have it down to […]
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Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
Nightlife in Kolkata
March 13, 2008 - Kolkata, India
Four years ago, Faisal, a fellow-filmmaker and friend of mine, left Vancouver to go to Bangladesh and India to shoot a documentary on sweatshop labour. This year he was invited to screen it in Bangladesh, and then was interested in coming to India again as well. We ended […]
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Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
Flight to Kolkata
March 10, 2008 – Kolkata, India
We were recommended to leave the apartment at 5:30am this morning, by the latest 6am, in order to get to the airport in time for our flight.
5:27am - my vibrating but non-ringing phone succeeds in semi-waking me up. I wonder briefly if it has been ‘ringing’ since 5am, our […]
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Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
Strangers with Candy
March 8, 2008 – Kerala, India
Trivandrum
There was a lovely woman at our school, named, much like the school, Shanti (Peace). She was known to most, however, as Shanti J., J being short for her rather confusingly long last name. Shanti J. very kindly helped us arrange our stay in the southern state of […]
