Came across this article:
http://chronicle.com/temp/reprint.php?id=t15b1l92nf46jb6sq8b82dpsct9f9003
recently, which is a really interesting look at the political situation in India today and good analysis of the right wing hindu parties methods of control and agitiation. I really agree with the author that the conflict that is envisaged between west and east, christian and muslim, hindu and muslim whatever name [...]
Archive for May, 2007
Democracy in India
Posted in daily stuff on May 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
i trained
Posted in daily stuff, sport on May 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Tried the latest iTrain last night - iStrength with Nick… this involves lots of weights and different bodyparts and gym equipment. Unfortunatly our gym isn’t as well equipped as it should be so had to kind of make up alternatives. Also i’m a bit of a klutz around barbells and so at one stage found myself trapped under [...]
Cricket rules
Posted in sport on May 30, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Got friends that don’t understand cricket?
Just forward them this simple explantion and all will be clear….
You have two sides, one out in the field and one in.
Each man that’s in the side that’s in goes out, and when he’s out he comes in and the next man goes in until he’s out.
When they are all [...]
Intelligent Graffitti
Posted in daily stuff on May 29, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I stumbled across the works of Banksy, a UK artist a while back. He uses anonymity, graffitti, surprise and stealth in his art and his messages are usually political and nearly always controversial. he has snuck into the Tate Museum and the Louvre and successsfully placed his own ‘works of art’ amongst the work of ‘genius’. He’s [...]
new zealand
Posted in travel on May 29, 2007 | 1 Comment »
some nice nz images from nzedge.com
The weekend
Posted in daily stuff on May 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Why are weekends always too short? How can it be Monday already?
Had a fun Friday night round at the Germans’ place. They have a new Karaoke playstation game that is lots of fun after a few of shots of the strange german schnapps that went with the yummy sausages. So woke up Saturday morning with a pounding [...]
too cute
Posted in daily stuff on May 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Little Sucker
goa, monsoon etc
Posted in fridays on May 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
so after todays lame excuse for a Friday poem I think I should actually write a bit better constructed entry about the week… Flew down early Tuesday morning with a colleague, into sweltering, 80% humidity. The air was so thick you could feel it when you breathed and the clouds were stacked up into high puffy [...]
friday poem
Posted in fridays on May 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Hello weekend
nice to see you again-d!
I’ve been out of Bombay
for the previous 3 days -
Goa was bloody hot
and of sweating I did a lot.
My nose is burnt red
and my butt is tired,
I’ve been climbing round ship’s cranes
getting covered in grease stains,
investigating this and that,
and forgetting to wear my sun hat.
I did get time for a evening [...]
dilbert for today
Posted in interesting distractions on May 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
missing stuff
Posted in daily stuff on May 21, 2007 | 1 Comment »
It’s funny how you can never guess what things you might miss the most when you are not living in your native country.
There are three things I miss the most.. all food related:
New Zealand milk – in India we get either the full fat unpasteurized buffalo milk that needs to be boiled before you can drink it.. [...]
friday poem
Posted in fridays on May 18, 2007 | 5 Comments »
Its Friday again
I’ve got a pain in my brain
I just said that to rhyme
I do that all the time.
Well this poem’s quite shit
why are you still reading it?
Ha! just a joke,
I don’t want to provoke
you to leave from my blog
to go drink some grog,
It’s Friday after all
go out! have a ball!
Tonight i will stay home
I’ve got [...]
Kerala
Posted in interesting distractions on May 14, 2007 | 1 Comment »
This is where I’m dreaming of having a long weekend monsoon break, in July perhaps..
peaceful, green, rainy bliss….
Taj Kovalam
*sigh*
how far away is July?
friday poem
Posted in fridays on May 11, 2007 | 1 Comment »
it’s friday.
and I don’t have pms
in fact i’m full of happi-ness
this morning
as I was yawning
there came to my door
the greatest sight I ever saw.
It was our cleaner!
To see her I couldn’t have been keener!
Now our house will be sparkling and tidy
and I can really enjoy the fact that it’s Frday.
She been AWOL for three weeks,
and [...]
mumbai today
Posted in Mumbai, daily stuff on May 10, 2007 | 3 Comments »
I had to make a quick dash out today to my doctor, as he is the only person I know who is eligible to be a witness for my new passport application.
Mumbai today is hot – weather.com says it ‘32deg but feels like 37deg; humidity 65%’. Not as hot as it will get, we are on [...]
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