Asian SR Hotel Chittagong City

... 2 days a week in the office studying their Bibles, praying and correcting courses. The other 4 days a week they go to visit the students and personally witness to them in their villages. Traveling over these roads takes real dedication! We traveled in relative luxury of a private car with driver, but even so the traffic is something else! <br><br>Last year 18 students made a profession of faith and took the important step of baptism! (Others made professions and ...

... earth that could negotiate the mountainous terrain of this course), look right over the creek and the bridge and way out there in the mist and the woods is a green backed by dense jungle and fronted by bunkers on both sides. it is a right angle dogleg. i hit the 4-iron and landed right in front of the wavy-gravy green. 3-on and 3-putt for double bogie. it's a tough green. on the uphill parts you need guts to hit the ball hard enough to climb up to the hole. it took me three ...

... about 200 km north of chittagong, but by weird coincidence he was in chittagong at that time for a meeting with the mayor of chittagong. wow! after the meeting he met me for lunch at a restaurant called pitstop. behrouze handed me his business card. it said that he was the chairman of the board of the largest tea company in bangladesh. wow again! we chatted about the good old days and also about poverty and ...

... bus service is not a service for passengers. there is no shuttle service for passengers. the smartly dressed airport employees stared at me in disbelief as if i were an alien from space and i may well have been one. i did get to the terminal eventually and right on time too. i was told to check in at 2:30pm for my flight to chittagong on gmg airlines and i arrived at the check-in counter at 2:37pm. wow, talk about punctual. of course the counter was not open yet. i ...

... lost, and Thommo's pitch report. As Bangers had won the toss, they did the usual and decided to bat. The openers took off, and after two overs, 19 was on the board. Lee and Bracken then started to slow things down with a couple of wickets each. Brad Hogg picked up three, one to Johnson, and Andrew Simons collected the last two in his one and only over. Bangers all out for 197, on a pitch that was a batsman's paradise. Our turn to bat, and after four overs, we had ...

... couldn't get it right!! Just goes to show money doesn't buy everything. I've been to two one day internationals before, both in London and both, of course, supporting Australia. This one could go either way. Bangers has beaten us before in one day cricket (as I mentioned in another entry). They also have home ground advantage this time and one day games are much, much more popular than test matches. They're faster and more colourful (the guys wear colours instead of just ...

... had some, a price was negotiated and off we went. It didn't take long before we needed directions. This took less than five minutes, and within ten, we had lost Bernie and Paul !!! Along the way we needed petrol, so Andrew, Peter and myself, had a quick game of street cricket with some kids. Once back on the road, we knew we were getting close as the shops on the side of the road were selling life jackets and all sort of shippy things. But still ...

... in the back of a deadly Sudanese bus for 2 days between Kurma and Wadi Halfa, care of "Mohammed - the crocodile killer".  While Mr R and Mr Prickett peered out the window looking for crocodiles in the sand to test our driver's reputed skills, Mrs R turned the colour of a crocodile skin handbag.  In at number 71, Ethiopian b*st*rd bus journeys.  Any country where every bus leaving town departs at 6am has got to be bad.  But to make it worse, every trick from the rugby field has ...

... the world in 80 days.  (Although, all the fixers in the world couldn't get you across Dhaka during rush hour in under 4 hours.)  But a storm is brewing on the southern horizon.  Our next cricketing destination, Sri Lanka, is in the midst of a political lemon meringue pie.  The peace accord which has been in effect for the last couple of years was yesterday scrapped by the Sri Lankan President, who herself is being ...

... side, they would have won.  For the first couple of days we sat the the Club House with the relatively well-heeled Bangladeshi's.  During Days 3 &amp; 4 we moved to the opposite side of the ground to sit amongst enthusiastic locals and a smattering of of Barmy Army-ers (most of the England supporters took VVIP seats - as you will recall, we were too cheapskate to consider joining them).  A careful anthropolgical study of the Barmy Army revealed a chorus of ...