This post is part of my TII series, where weird and wonderful things happen that can often only be explained by the phrase: This Is India. On Saturday I was heading over to see my friend. I called her up and asked if she wanted me to pick up anything along the way. She did. Some Indian fast food, namely sambar rice and idli. I stopped at an Indian equivalient of McDonalds, which serves Indian fast...

One of my fellow expats, who obviously has far too much time on her hands, has shown her creativity and created this amazing video which covers the last 6 months or so of parties, outings and general drunken shenanigans. If you are coming out to Chennai, or thinking about taking a job in India, then this video should show you what you can expect out of the expat community! You’ll meet people...

In India, someone has forgotten to tell the men that the 1970’s was 40 years ago and the world has moved on from the silly facial hair grown on the top lip – often referred to as a moustache. Even my own father, after years of an ever shrinking mousch, finally got rid of it all together by 2005. So…what has this got to do with the perfect haircut? Well, as I may blog about in the...

I thought I’d try and come up with the most boring and most mundane thing I could to post on my blog. Ladies and gentleman, I present to you: This week’s grocery shopping list Maybe a few people are interested in finding out how much everyday things cost here, I think you might be quite surprised! At the end of my road is what is rather optimistically referred to as a supermarket. In...

Things are going on behind the scenes in my life and after spending a few weeks agonizing over which direction I want to go in, I’ve finally taken the decision to move my personal blog to a new domain (err, which is this one) and do my business stuff from my old domain. For those of you who are confused, you can quite easily remember the two different domains. Just type my name (that would be...