Yes I'm back

Been back in Oz for one week now. While I thought I might get an adjustment period, I have been thrown back into my insanely busy life with no mercy. Factors outside of work including a certain big birthday are giving me daily headaches.

When everyone asks me "How was India?", I struggle to answer without a big explanation. In short:
Good to experience another culture in any kind of way.
5 weeks was too long.

Upcoming posts will be:
Trip to Nandi hills including my kick-ass monkey photo.
Leaving from Bangalore Airport on the night of the 20-20 semi final.

Indian news #5

This is possibly the most disturbing. Not only did a witch doctor decide who was guilty, but the lynched dude wasn't even him.

Feeling poorly?

Tents like this crop up on the side of the road here and there. Must be holy-men or something. The sign text is copied here:
Ideal treatment is given for both gents and ladies. Good treatment is given to infertile couple with sexual problems suffering from 10-20 years. Permanent relief for the patient suffering from renal disease, gastric, paralysis, jaundice and ulcer etc. Patients are successfully treated asthma, hernia, appenditis, hypertension, neurological & gynaeclogical without any side effects. [checking of pulses rs20 only]

There is a possibility he is saying that being together for 10-20 years is the cause of couples sexual problems.

A dingo stole my baby!

Keep the children away from the street dogs. Thanx to Tom.

What to do when you have a puncher

There is a little blue shack on the side of the ring road that has fascinated me for 4 weeks. Hand-painted on the wall are the words "Puncher Shop". I wondered what they punched? 4 weeks of daily travel later I finally saw a new addition to the shack - a big tyre balanced on its edge out the front with the same words painted on it. AHH A PUNCTURE SHOP. Vehicles and bikes go there to get their punctures repaired. Makes perfect sense.

There are many hilarious english spelling errors here that I have failed to record. At our previous-favourite restaurant, there is a (quite good) drink called a 'throat buster'. One assumes it is meant to mean 'thirst buster'. Otherwise it could have been a form of masala-cola. Yes such a thing exists. You can get spice-flavoured apple juice etc and the packaging is similar to the real stuff. Very horrible, very traumatising to drink if you accidentally buy it.

Indian news #4

Yes, I always wear pants.

More news (thanks George)

Monday September 10, 2007
Ravi Shankar Singh, 46, of Hasanpur, India, has launched a campaign to stop people answering the call of nature outdoors and start using toilets. He goes out on patrol each night searching for people squatting in fields or by roadsides. When he catches someone, he shines his torch at them and lets loose with a blast on his whistle.