Hotel Singh Continental New Delhi

I am happy to be starting a new blog from a new place in the world.
I am presently here in Delhi, and yes first impressions are of Shock and amazement. Where do you start to explain the differences to what you have been used to for your whole life.
After roughing it out at Bangkok airport i caught my early morning flight to Delhi, I arrived no problems and was lucky enough to sit next to Sidd who is an Indian national but is living and working in New Zealand, So we gotta ...

... that were a lot more conservative than what I would wear in Australia but appropriate I thought for India. Next we took the car to the computer place where I left my laptop hoping that it would be there when we returned, I wasn't sure how trustworthy the technicians were but was impressed when they got me to sign my memory chips, my hard drive and my battery so that I could make sure that after they took the computer apart they put the same pieces back together.

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... which attract millions of visitors each year and the few of them are as follows:- Rijksmuseum- it is the largest museums in the Netherlands and set in the amsterdam historic buildings and it also devotes considerable resources to education and to the decor and layourt of exhibitions. , Stedelijk Museum;- it strives to be one of the most innovative and ...

... in it. Then I had crispy fried spinach with mint and sweet chutney followed by a deep fried idli with coconut chutney. Idli are a traditional southern Indian dish that are like fluffy rice pancakes. I haven't tried the traditional kind but I definitely liked this version, with a spiced yogurt dipping sauce. Next came the manchurian cauliflower, which tasted like cauliflower in an orange sauce (your typical orange chicken in a chinese restaurant, but cauliflower instead of the ...

... houses because of the uncertainty in job market. Because of the slowdown, many companies are resorting to job cuts. This has worsened the situation. Developers are trying to address this problem also. To counter this, some real estate companies have offered to pay EMI for six months to buyers, if the buyer or his/her spouse were to lose his/her job. The logic for this is that within that period the buyer/spouse may get another job. As ...

... had to recharge every night, which required a lot of logistics. Three phones from the US, two that we had acquired in India, a still camera, a movie camera, a toothbrush (don't ask), and the laptop. Oh, and 3 iPods. With all the electronics, it's a wonder we brought any clothes along. Our friend Punita (Dr. of psycho acoustics, etc) was throwing a party that night with her brother and sister and their ...

... Metro from Noida to Greater Noida. Transportation facilities are also improving by the day. To improve better internal connectivity between Noida Greater Noida and Delhi, 150 buses will ply through Noida and Greater Noida. GNIDA has already earmarked 48 buses on 6 routes. For this a MoU has already been signed with UPSTRC (Uttar Pradesh State Transport ...

... Many of the shops don't open until 11AM, and many people don't get up before 10. So even the domestic help wasn't up yet. Having the entire kitchen to ourselves, we started poking around and Rebecca actually found an old box of oatmeal in a cupboard. It looked like something that had been purchased for some previous guest and then forgotten. (growing up, my kitchen had dozens of those items spread around) So she cooked up a nice bowl of oatmeal in the microwave while ...

... When i inspected the bathroom a huge question mark appeared over my head... how does this shower thingy actually work ?? i was desperate... i didn't only want a hot shower... more importantly i really NEEDED a shower... so i did what seemed to be the only way.. i called the reception of the hotel which sent immediately one of their boys to my room to explain the whole procedure.. AAAHHH... so the toilet combined with a ...

... TINY tiny room in the same neighbourhood. This room was literally 50 square feet, a 5 foot by 10 foot cell. But, it was clean, we had our own entrance (independent), and the coup de grace, cable TV! We had no choice, so we moved in there. However, later that evening as I was returning from my Hindi class I got a frantic call from a happy Priyanshu. "Come home quick!" he said. "I've found another place, it is so good, so good ...