India: Part I
# 24 May 2008 19:18
So, first impressions of India after the 8hr flight, plus at least an extra hour of flying around in the stack waiting for landing permission at Mumbai, and another 20 mins sat on the ground waiting for a space for the plane to pull up and let us off:
Mumbai airport is basically a dump. My initial reaction was that they haven't finished building it, and then as I went inside I thought maybe we'd stopped at some disused terminal as the building was grotty and the walls were plain untidied concrete with a ceiling that looked like it was supposed to have suspended ceiling tiles, but instead had electrical cables hanging down from it.
Security coming into the country seemed almost non-existant: A quick look at my passport, then claimed my baggage and that was me free to roam India. lol
Anyways, so I get outside and as my dad had said their driver, Sheike (sp. to be corrected later, lol), was there to pick me up, holding an A4 sign with BEARD written on it. Fair enough. Then I had to push my way past (the words 'excuse me' did nothing) to reach him then came the 3 hr drive from Mumbai to Pune.
What an experience. At first I had thought "oh they drive on the left like us", but now I know better: Sure they drive on the left; but not like us. lol. Driving in India is dangerous, IMO. I felt like I was risking my life--not that the driver was bad, just that nobody seems to have any road-sense.
In most places there were no road markings or pavements at the side of the road. People drive wherever they want, and people walk around the edges of the road and cross without looking all the time. Other road users are an equally hazardous thing too; with cars weaving in and out of eachother, constantly beeping their horns to get past, say thanks, or just plain say 'hello', it seems. Traffic lights do not seem to mean anything either as they appear to be mostly ignored. Pedestrian crossing might aswell not exist.
I can't adequately describe the roads in words; it is something you have to see for yourself to believe.
There is also a randomly large amount of wild dogs roaming the streets, but they don't bother you at all. Less can be said of the children begging in the streets downtown, who will hound you until you enter a shop and wait til they pick on someone else to make your escape.
Other than that it's nice to be with my family again, but I am missing David terribly. So that's abit of a double-edged sword, really. :(
Jenn's birthday today... 18, woo! Got to sleep first though, so I'm not entirely sure what we are doing tomorrow, although I think we will go to the local bar, which should be interesting...
At some point I need to check out the local McDonald's which doesn't serve meat other than chicken, apparently. Also there is a pizza place nearby that apparently does a Hawaiian pizza, but fails to mention that there is no ham on it....so it's a ham & pineapple pizza without the ham, basically. Oh and no tomato sauce on the base either... Crazyness. Indian's obviously haven't got the hang of pizza yet. lol
We had Chinese today, which was nothing special. I wouldn't be surprised if it was wild dog meat instead of chicken though... Hmm... lol
Anyways, hope you are all missing me ;)
Laters!
Andy xx
most random day ever
# 25 February 2007 09:52
Yesterday was reallllly random, went into town and met Duane... Walked around for a bit then we say Jenn and Daz and Paye in the cafe in the square place... Roland Hill centre or whatever it is. so we went to join them (after a browse around Fopp). Jenn and Paye were crazy... Turned out Daz had a free house, so we all decided to go round his. lol
First though we dropped Paye home then went to play with Duane's Wii, then me Daz and Jenn came home for a bit, then went to Daz's.
Me and Duane headed off to Tesco's for boooze. Yay! And had a fun night of watching/playing Yu-Gi-Oh and other random stuffs.
Then we stayed the night, lol just got back and I'm about to go to MFI and places with mum... shopping for my room YAY!
Then drunkeness tonight again :S lol
Yay!
Labels: drunkeness, friends, room, shopping
Shoppingness!
# 09 October 2006 18:03
Went down town earlier cos I was bored.
Got the X-Men 3 DVD and the new Killers album, Sam's Town.
They had it playing over the spekers in Woolworths so I thought I'd buy it. Woolworths need the money cos they suck, and I felt sorry for them. :P
And--this has to be a world first--I went into Game and actually didn't buy anything. *gasp*
I usually end up picking up a couple of games that I'll never play or soemthing, but not today! Aren't I good? :D
And I bought some nice new jeans which are pretty nice, methinks. Went into TK Maxx but couldn't see anything that grabbed my attention. And that's about it.
Yeah, so it's boring really. :P
x
I'm happy if you're happy
# 20 August 2006 00:47
It's all Ashley's fault! :P
Yeah, he said a while ago that he was looking for a CD... The Best Party Ever, by The Boy Least Likely To.
So I thought I'd be clever and find it for him, only he found it himself and now I have a copy too. lol. But yeah, got kinda hooked on their catchy tunes. yay!
So, I now have had "I'm Glad I Hitched My Apple Wagon to Your Star" stuck in my head for a few days. Set it as my mobile phone ringtone too, lol. Deary me.
Must have been another of his grand and evil plans. 
We are going to see them in Brum in October! :D
In other news, I am still working on Galactic Basic v8, it's just been slow. Worked 10 days in a row, just. And I finally got a weekend off, and have nothing to do with it! :(
Went into Kidder earlier to spend my £40 clothing allowance from work, and anoyingly I managed to not getting anything for work, so I'll have to go back sometime... Need to find a decent tie that I like! Sam and Karla reckon I should get a pink one, but I'm not so sure about that. Hmm...
Anyways... I'm going to sleep now. lol
Take care pplz!
x
# 03 May 2003 17:50
Went into Worcester to take back a t-shirt I bought. The store had ordered it for me, but had sent me extra large instead of medium... Probably because of my sloppy writing...
I was thinking there were a lot of kids about, and later, about 2pm, I realised this was because it is Saturday. Dunno what day I thought it was, but that's no surprise - I rarely take note of the day or date.
So after getting to Worcester, I bought X-Wing: Wraith Squadron, and Tatooine Ghost, I will enjoy reading those, I wonder if I'll have finished them by the time Amazon.co.uk gets round to sending out Force Heretic II: Refugee...
Also I got Combat Flight Simulator 3 for the PC, yay!
Umm... Gotta go get ready... Going to an engagement party tonight.
Personally I think 17 is too young to be getting engaged, but that's none of my business, really... lol.
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