I am going to Utrulla tomorrow to look at a new HMS install. Very exciting. What’s more exciting is that I am going to Delhi for two nights from there. I am going to try and vote. I want to have my say in the Senate. Maybe I can vote for Mick Gallagar in the lower house. That would be fun. I wonder if he has ever recieved a vote from India.
Today it’s raining and a bit cooler.
Last night I went to the Nursing School Talent show. Most of it was in Hindi. There were a few good acts. The sound was horible. Some of the comedies made me laugh. Unfortunately I missed all the dialog but there was some good physical comedy. The dancing was good. Some singing was good too.
The bigest problem with the evening was that people spent to long winding up and too much time spent on thanking individuals. It really needed the Oscar music policy where after a minute or two they drown out the speaker.
All in all though it was a bit of alright. Nice to go to a show.
Oh another thing. It’s very hard to work out who’s married. Most couples don’t sit together at social events. Some have different last names. It’s all quite confusing.
I am so smart S M R A T I mean S M A R T. I have just improved my internet speed a lot. If you run the sat proxy on each individual computer it works much much better. Yay!
My week up until Sunday had been pretty poor quality. Work had been giving me the urge to hit something. Then Sunday came around. Sunday is the one day off I get each week.
We get picklets for breakfast in the morning which was good. Then I went to Hindi church which was quite unpleasant. I get a bit bored with someone talking loudly for 40minutes in a language I don’t understand. Is that strange. It doesn’t help if they speak at 200 words per minute.
Then back to the lair(home) where me and Pete(flat mate) had a good old complaining session. We got called to ask if we wanted to go to Nepal with Precila and her mother(who is visiting for a week). We said no. Then I went to find lunch at the Western Guest House mess there was no food there. I went to the doctors mess where Precila and Pete were. Pete suggest I should go and go I did.
Some people don’t realise how committed I can be to my impulse decisions. I ran home grabbed passport and cash. Ran out the door to meet them. We decided to meet at a hotel one of the doc’s recommended. I decided to take a rickshaw so I could get started on immigration.
Indian Immigration took a long time. The guy couldn’t quite work out what I wanted to do. Then I went across to Nepali immigration on the rickshaw again. When I got in my heart sank. I had the same guys who wanted a bribe last time. Sure enough they wanted a 100Rs. I wasn’t going to pay and made it quite clear. I think they wanted a bribe to change the date on my old visa. I said just give me a new visa. This time though they gave me the free 3 day visa. I paid no bribe either. Praise the Lord.
Back on the rickshaw and into Nepal proper. It takes a while to get to Birganj on rickshaw. One of the things about rickshaws is you see so much more then when in a car. So eventually we get to the markets. I ask for the hotel where I am meeting Precila and her mum. He couldn’t understand me. I had no idea how much money I should pay. I gave 60Rs at first. He wanted more. I had no idea how much it should be. I made it 100Rs and he wanted more. At this stage I just walked away from him.
A few minutes later I got on another rickshaw which took me to where I wanted to go. I paid this one 10Rs for a few minutes ride. I was pretty low on change. I arrived at the hotel for lunch at 2pm. I left at 12.45pm so it wasn’t to bad. I ordered a spring roll, sweat and sour sauce and fried rice. It was enough food for two. The meal and two drinks cost 200Rs ($AU6). Not bad. Then we went back. Precila negotiated 15Rs for my trip to Nepali immigration. My rickshaw driver was a little boy. He was very into racing. Which on a bike(rickshaws are basically bikes) is okay. He’d do some very fast sprinting. In the end he wasn’t much quicker then the rickshaw the other two were in. They left me at the border. Indians don’t go through immigration.
No problems leaving Nepal. Countries love you to leave. Then I decided to walk to India. Indian Immigration was tedious but otherwise fine. I did do drip sweat onto the form. Ops. Then I brought a Coke of a cute little girl who was playing some game rolling little objects. I hope she got some of the money. Then back to the hospital.
English church was good as usual. I really like getting to sing English songs and hear sermons in English. Dinner was good too.
I could go on but I should get back to work.
Until next time.
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How good is this. Britian is writting off it’s third world debtors. The poorest countries will be forgive all money lent by the UK through the IMF. Plus they are challenging the other goverments in G-7 to do the same.
Do you think I should pre-order U2’s new album. Or do you think it will be availible in Delhi. Ordinarily I would just pick it up in Delhi. The most popular western music in Delhi is bands like back street boys though. I do remember they had one or two U2 albums. What do you think?
Was up until 12.30am trying to get the new server to play nice with other computers. In the end I had to downgrade some of the software. Bunch of dogs.
Funny thing is I was creping back into my house and then I see my flat mate playing video games in the living area/my bedroom.
We now have a dedicated dedicated server. How fun is that. We got our new server today and now its been prayed over it’s ready for the switchover. It’s quite a nice server. Bit expensive for my tastes, but should last for quite a while.
I have started a new image gallery at http://onegeek.net/pics for people to view some of my photos. It’s going to take a while to get photos up. But I’ll try and get more up soon.
I miss Westfield. I miss the food court. I miss Wollies. I miss Coles. I miss Borders. I even miss the security guards and big red ads. It’s all a bit tragic.
I miss advertising. What’s happening too me?
The shops near the hospital appear to be out of all small varieties of Coke. I would of thought with the English guys gone I thought they might of had a chance to restock. But no they are all out. Well shop no 1 is anyway. They only have the 1.5L bottles. It is a travesty. I was planing on grabing two 300ml Coke’s with my post lunch snack. My stockpile of Coke ran out yesterday and I thought oh well I’ll go on Wednesday. So I think I am going to the markets to stock up big!!
Why can’t Coke supply more regularly to Raxaul?
Why did Coke ever make ThumbsUP? It is half way between Pepsi and Coke. Stupid, stupid stupid.
There is a woman singing what could only be a song of lament outside. I can here it through the window. It’s quite tragic and beautiful. It’s broken by crying from a baby I think. It’s stopped now. So much pain and suffering in this place. Poverty sucks. The hospital does what it can but often it’s not enough.
Onegeek.net has moved to a new home. I decided to save some money and have some more features.
I am now using b2evolution as my blogging tool. It’s quite nice. It might take me a while to make some decent templates though :-(.
Onegeek.net has moved to a new home. I decided to save some money and have some more features.
I am now using b2evolution as my blogging tool. It’s quite nice. It might take me a while to make some decent templates though :-(.
Onegeek.net has moved to a new home. I decided to save some money and have some more features.
I am now using b2evolution as my blogging tool. It’s quite nice. It might take me a while to make some decent templates though :-(.