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...

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...

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...

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! Like Unlike

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...

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,...