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  • 28th Aug 2011

New Chennai Airport

Check out the new Chennai airport that is being developed at the moment. Looks like it will be a huge improvement on the current building which is looking a bit old and crusty now – it was built over 20 years ago way before air travel exploded and businesses started invading India. The bit about the ‘green airport’ made me smile though, apparently a few plants makes the airport ‘green’. I wonder if Greenpeace would agree!

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  • 23rd Mar 2010

Turtle Beach

Turtle Beach
Regular readers to my blog will know that Saturday evenings have turned in to my day of discovery as I stumble across various cultural and exotic goings on. A few weeks back I found myself in an art gallery watching a famous artist draw a picture of a cat (and buying art, who knew?), then it was the youth cultural exchange program that was taking place outside a big temple by the sea. This Saturday...
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  • 13th Mar 2009

Jealousy: Does You Have It?

Jealousy: Does You Have It?
A friend of mine posted this picture on Facebook, so I stole it off him. Look at the picture…does it make you even a tinsey winsey little bit jealous?? Honestly, I really can’t say that I miss British weather, not even a teeny tiny little bit. Does it stem from being a guy and liking things to be the same and not change? I don’t know, but waking up in the morning and know that the...
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  • 17th Dec 2008

An Inspiring, True Story of One Man Against the Odds

An Inspiring, True Story of One Man Against the Odds
I’m sat in the immigration office in chennai and writing this post, waiting for the office boy to deliver some paper work to me, It’s good to see the wheels of indian bureaucracy are still rusted together. An indian friend once told me that 80% of taxes in india go on paying for govt staff and govt pensions. If you visit any indian govt office, you can well believe it. The confusion...
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  • 26th Nov 2008

Row, Row, Row Your Boat!

Row, Row, Row Your Boat!
I took this video this morning as I was travelling to work. The recent monsoon rains turned the streets in to rivers, but a little rain never stopped the enterprising citizens of Chennai as they plough head long in to fast flowing rivers!
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  • 11th Oct 2008

Check Out My Wheels!

Check Out My Wheels!
Check out this bad boy! These are my wheels to and from the office each day. It does 0-20 mph in 2 minutes, pollutes like a chemical factory and sounds like a cat in a blender. It has almost as much power as a washing machine and 4 inch alloys. This is the pimped out version, the banana leaves stuck to the side are this seasons must have for all self respecting tuk-tuk drivers. As if a white man in...
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  • 5th Oct 2008

Dude, Where’s My Monsoon?

Dude, Where’s My Monsoon?
It’s Monsoon season here in Tamil Nadu. Except the monsoon rains are conspicuously missing (useless geekish fact #394: the word monsoon refers to the weather pattern, not the actual rain that occurs during the monsoon). When I was here in 2006, the monsoon season started as soon as I arrived and finished the moment I left. It’s quite incredible, one day it’s fine, hot and sunny,...
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