short shameful confession

As i was rolling through my archives, i noticed that i did the same meme twice, fourteen months apart.

short shameful confession

As i was rolling through my archives, i noticed that i did the same meme twice, fourteen months apart.

time to shut down shop

Despite wasting half my week downloading disk images, i managed to complete all objectives.  Huzzah.  Now i get to fly back and continue taking Malarone (yes, yes, LOL, i know) for another week.

Coming to India and not having lentils is like going to New York and not having pizza.  Since the latter happened to me the last time i went to NY, i had to make sure it didn't happen to me again, so today at lunch i made a point to order some, and got some delicious dal makhti along with the rest of lunch (which included garlic naan... mmmmmm).  I do have to say, though, that having everything quite spicy sure gets tiring after a few days.

OK, i hope traffic to the airport isn't too bad.

time to shut down shop

Despite wasting half my week downloading disk images, i managed to complete all objectives.  Huzzah.  Now i get to fly back and continue taking Malarone (yes, yes, LOL, i know) for another week.

Coming to India and not having lentils is like going to New York and not having pizza.  Since the latter happened to me the last time i went to NY, i had to make sure it didn't happen to me again, so today at lunch i made a point to order some, and got some delicious dal makhti along with the rest of lunch (which included garlic naan... mmmmmm).  I do have to say, though, that having everything quite spicy sure gets tiring after a few days.

OK, i hope traffic to the airport isn't too bad.

gnuuhhh

Bangalore International Airport fucking sucks.  It's an execrable, typically Third World experience.  Not even Quito's airport at its worst, during construction, was as bad as this.  Only two X-ray machines for everyone, and the metal detectors were so sensitive that i think they were just motion sensors, so the security people ended up waving a wand at every single passenger.  And the "line" to board was a crush of people shifting about, trying to jockey for position — almost identical to the way people drive in Bangalore, and a few people were in the wrong line and almost missed their flight to Bangkok; while some of the blame goes to them for being clueless tourists, the staff's announcements were made by Charlie Brown's parents.

Bangalore is the IT capital of India, so it stands to reason that it's been shuttling a lot more people over at least the last 5 years.  Why hasn't the airport been improved?  Infrastructure is dismal throughout the city, but you'd think the one part that handles the foreigners would be the one that gets attention, for many reasons.  I'm glad i took Gowda's advice to show up 3 hours early, especially because traffic was quite bad (afternoon rush hour, doncha know).

gnuuhhh

Bangalore International Airport fucking sucks.  It's an execrable, typically Third World experience.  Not even Quito's airport at its worst, during construction, was as bad as this.  Only two X-ray machines for everyone, and the metal detectors were so sensitive that i think they were just motion sensors, so the security people ended up waving a wand at every single passenger.  And the "line" to board was a crush of people shifting about, trying to jockey for position — almost identical to the way people drive in Bangalore, and a few people were in the wrong line and almost missed their flight to Bangkok; while some of the blame goes to them for being clueless tourists, the staff's announcements were made by Charlie Brown's parents.

Bangalore is the IT capital of India, so it stands to reason that it's been shuttling a lot more people over at least the last 5 years.  Why hasn't the airport been improved?  Infrastructure is dismal throughout the city, but you'd think the one part that handles the foreigners would be the one that gets attention, for many reasons.  I'm glad i took Gowda's advice to show up 3 hours early, especially because traffic was quite bad (afternoon rush hour, doncha know).