Mall Rat
This weekends trip to Dharamsala didn't happen. I left work at 5pm Friday and it bright and sunny. When my ride picked me up at 6:30pm for a 9:20pm train departure, all hell had broken loose. It was raining buckets. It was raining like a hurricane was raging over north central India.
Ok, so it's raining?
They don't have the infrastructure to deal. Everything flooded. The roads were lakes. Nobody was going anywhere.
Finally we made it to Delhi. It hadn't rained as much there. It was dryer, but now we had Friday evening traffic. My driver did his best. It was actually kind of fun speeding through the round-abouts and through traffic. I saw some beautiful areas of Delhi. The India Gate at night is quite spectacular.
At 9:30 we still hadn't made it. It took us three hours to miss my train, so we drove home. Took only an hour to get home. In that hour I made a bunch of phone calls. They weren't all happy calls. I spoke with Jen and my mom. That went fine. Then I called the place coordinating my trips. This didn't go fine. I realized the trip was booked, reservations made, and money spent, but I was hoping for a little customer service. My expectations were not met. Then I called my boss and things got worse. Something I worked on all week, wasn't right and now it's holding up the schedule. That sucks. That sucks a lot. At least now I had all weekend to get it fixed.
But I couldn't. Thursday night when the power blinked and came back up I got the following when I tried connecting to the internet.
Somebody hadn't paid the bill and it still wasn't paid on Friday. Could my weekend get any worse?
I got up Saturday and started watching movies I brought. I watched The Bourne Identity and The Bourne Supremacy back to back. I had some lunch and decided to hit the malls. There were two within walking distance of my apartment. The walk wasn't far, but it was hot. The air stunk and the beggers and begged. The first mall was the nicer of the two. It had a movie theater, shops, restaurants and bars. Playing at the movies was The Bourne Ultimatum. Should I make it a marathon?
I walked on down to the second mall (the one I've been buying my water from). It was bigger, but I didn't find it as nice. It was similar to the first with shops, movie theater and restaurants, but it also had clubs. Clubs like night clubs. I didn't like the movies they had playing their either.
I went back to the first mall and bought my Bourne tickets. I had three hours to kill. Without going away this weekend, I had some cash to burn. I had planned to buy a bunch of souvenirs in Dharamsala, so now I had extra cash. Nothing looked appealing. There wasn't a whole I was willing to spend my money on, then have to pack up and carry back to the states, so I spent my money on food and beer. First I went to a Pizza Hut. The pizza was like our pizza, but they put red capsicums on it and that tasted a little funny. Just now I realized, I had three Pepsi's with ice. I'm not supposed to drink ice (could be tap water), so now I'm all freaked out. After the pizza I walked around then went to one of the bars. Finally some beer!
Those are two 650ml bottles of Foster's. It wasn't the best, but I got my buzz on. Shortly after I saw the movie. It wasn't bad, but I think I got a little overloaded on Bourne for one day.
Watching the movie was interesting. They have assigned seats in the theater. The seats are real comfortable and recline nicely, but the experience is less then desirable. The people next to me talked through the entire movie. I would have said something, but everyone was talking. It wasn't necessarily out loud, but enough you could hear it throughout the theater - talking and cell phones. There was also an intermission.
After the movie I headed home. As I was approaching the steps to the ground floor of my apartment, a rat ran by. I mean I guess it was a rat. I saw a cockroach in my room last week the size of a mouse. I suppose this could have been a mouse the size of a rat?
Sunday I worked. I still couldn't connect to the interet, so I worked offline. I tried calling a coworker to find out if the office was open at all, but the number he gave me was wrong.
About 6:30 I cleaned up and went back to the mall. This time I got tickets for The Contract. With Morgan Freeman and John Cusack, how could it be bad? Don't waste your money. Luckily it only cost me about $4.
I went to Ruby Tuesdays for dinner. I have to say it was the best Ruby Tuesdays meal I've ever had, though I had enough to keep me from going back any time soon. They also had beer, so maybe that had something to do with it.
- b
Ok, so it's raining?
They don't have the infrastructure to deal. Everything flooded. The roads were lakes. Nobody was going anywhere.
Finally we made it to Delhi. It hadn't rained as much there. It was dryer, but now we had Friday evening traffic. My driver did his best. It was actually kind of fun speeding through the round-abouts and through traffic. I saw some beautiful areas of Delhi. The India Gate at night is quite spectacular.
At 9:30 we still hadn't made it. It took us three hours to miss my train, so we drove home. Took only an hour to get home. In that hour I made a bunch of phone calls. They weren't all happy calls. I spoke with Jen and my mom. That went fine. Then I called the place coordinating my trips. This didn't go fine. I realized the trip was booked, reservations made, and money spent, but I was hoping for a little customer service. My expectations were not met. Then I called my boss and things got worse. Something I worked on all week, wasn't right and now it's holding up the schedule. That sucks. That sucks a lot. At least now I had all weekend to get it fixed.
But I couldn't. Thursday night when the power blinked and came back up I got the following when I tried connecting to the internet.
Somebody hadn't paid the bill and it still wasn't paid on Friday. Could my weekend get any worse?I got up Saturday and started watching movies I brought. I watched The Bourne Identity and The Bourne Supremacy back to back. I had some lunch and decided to hit the malls. There were two within walking distance of my apartment. The walk wasn't far, but it was hot. The air stunk and the beggers and begged. The first mall was the nicer of the two. It had a movie theater, shops, restaurants and bars. Playing at the movies was The Bourne Ultimatum. Should I make it a marathon?
I walked on down to the second mall (the one I've been buying my water from). It was bigger, but I didn't find it as nice. It was similar to the first with shops, movie theater and restaurants, but it also had clubs. Clubs like night clubs. I didn't like the movies they had playing their either.
I went back to the first mall and bought my Bourne tickets. I had three hours to kill. Without going away this weekend, I had some cash to burn. I had planned to buy a bunch of souvenirs in Dharamsala, so now I had extra cash. Nothing looked appealing. There wasn't a whole I was willing to spend my money on, then have to pack up and carry back to the states, so I spent my money on food and beer. First I went to a Pizza Hut. The pizza was like our pizza, but they put red capsicums on it and that tasted a little funny. Just now I realized, I had three Pepsi's with ice. I'm not supposed to drink ice (could be tap water), so now I'm all freaked out. After the pizza I walked around then went to one of the bars. Finally some beer!
Those are two 650ml bottles of Foster's. It wasn't the best, but I got my buzz on. Shortly after I saw the movie. It wasn't bad, but I think I got a little overloaded on Bourne for one day.Watching the movie was interesting. They have assigned seats in the theater. The seats are real comfortable and recline nicely, but the experience is less then desirable. The people next to me talked through the entire movie. I would have said something, but everyone was talking. It wasn't necessarily out loud, but enough you could hear it throughout the theater - talking and cell phones. There was also an intermission.
After the movie I headed home. As I was approaching the steps to the ground floor of my apartment, a rat ran by. I mean I guess it was a rat. I saw a cockroach in my room last week the size of a mouse. I suppose this could have been a mouse the size of a rat?
Sunday I worked. I still couldn't connect to the interet, so I worked offline. I tried calling a coworker to find out if the office was open at all, but the number he gave me was wrong.
About 6:30 I cleaned up and went back to the mall. This time I got tickets for The Contract. With Morgan Freeman and John Cusack, how could it be bad? Don't waste your money. Luckily it only cost me about $4.
I went to Ruby Tuesdays for dinner. I have to say it was the best Ruby Tuesdays meal I've ever had, though I had enough to keep me from going back any time soon. They also had beer, so maybe that had something to do with it.
- b
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