Monday, August 18, 2008

Reporting live from India

Earlier played soccer with the CCHS gang at The Cage near stadium, damn shiok and extremely tiring. Cos there's no out, so the game goes on.

$90 for 1h
$135 for 2hs

Then went back home and back stuffs before heading to airport.

1700++

Met my SG partner Allan for the New Delhi trip. Checked in and walked around before boarding the plane

From my observation, the plane had 2 types of passengers.

1) Locals with families
2) Foreigners on business


The plane was rather cramped as I was sitted in the middle. It was a long 5hs flight to New Delhi. On board entertainment was good, managed to catch 2 movies , Kung Fu Panada and Hot Fuzz. Also listened to Eason's Chan album.

Flight Dinner
Drink :Singapore Sling Tasted like Fruit Punch with alcohol
Appetiser: Some nuts with raisins and sour bread (don't taste sour to me)
Main Meal: Vegetarian rice consisting of potatoes
Dessert : Cornetto Blackforest ice-cream

Reached Delhi 2135, SG 0230++
Throughout the journey was pretty rough as there was turbulences, however take-offs and landings were smooth. The airport runway was huge but the terminal was small (smaller than shopping malls). The terminal is still under renovations.

We had 2 contacts who were waiting for us and drove us to the hotel. India's traffic is an eye-opener. Like my colleague Gopi mentioned, if you can drive in India, you can drive anywhere.
I would post the videos of their traffic conditions


The sights of the city was apaling and pitiful. All those spoilt brats in SG better stop complaining.

Along the way, we stopped at a petrol station and bought mineral water and necessities. Soon we reached our humble hotel. We had issues checking-in but soon we were shown our rooms. A pretty small room with 2 beds and bathroom attached. Luckily got network point. No internet is death to the new generation. Their cable tv had more than 200 channels including MTV< Discovery, BBC ... soon washed up and head for bed.

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