Having just spent 15 minutes writing today's blog I lost the lot when the internet conection failed. A regular occurance here and hugely frustrating. So here we go again......
Just about managed 3 hours at Dream a Dream's office yesterday afternoon before jet lag got the better of me. Went back to the hotel and had something to eat before crashing into bed for about 10 hours' sleep.
Eating in the hotel last night reminded me of just how many people there are available for work in this country. The hotel restaurant - famous for its vegetarian food - was pretty quiet last night being a Monday. I ordered a Thali ( a vegetarian meal consisting of a number of little pots of vegetarian curries and relishes together with a wonderful pilau rice and bread (roti or naan). At every mouthful, the waiter came up to me to ask if I wanted my pots refilled!! He had nothing else to do and the moment I had finished the plate was whisked away and the bill appeared. The meal cost me about £1.30 and I couldn't eat another thing.
Before going to bed I went to a shopping centre to buy another plug adaptor. There must have been a ratio of 10:1 staff to customers in the shop I went into!!! In most places, staff are plentiful and buzzing about.
This morning in the office, Indian English struck again as I was told by one of the managers here that there was going to be a meeting of the team. "OK", I said, "so you are having a team meeting". "No", she said, "it's not a team meeting, it's just a meeting of the team". ??!!??!!??!! Work that one out!!
And getting my auto rickshaw to the office this morning I asked the driver for Adugodi (the district where the office is based). It took me about 9 times to say Adugodi with emphasis on different vowels to get him to understand where I wanted to go. Rather like the first time I was here in November when I asked a rickshaw driver to take me to Brigade Road only to find out that my educated vowels didn't quite hit the spot as the pronunciation for Brigade Road is Briggerd Road. Ah well.......!
Till the next time......
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