Radha Park Inn Chennai (Madras)

... the people live - you see hundreds of thousands if not millions of people each day and hardly anything that looks like housing. It is amazing to me the mindset differences between us and them - to us life is about family, friends, where we are from, where we live, what our houses are like, what cars we drive, what we wear, what we like to do. To them, most of them don’t really have a choice about any of that at all. Sleep is had wherever you can find it, and ...

... about degeneration of moral and spiritual fiber in America today, and another thing to do something about it. The place to start is within ourselves. Look carefully inside, truly and objectively, and each of us will see moments when "I am the punk" and "I am the crazy". We will learn to see those moments, see them clearly, cleanly and without condemnation, and we will be on our way up and out of being so.<br><br>You can't make radical changes in the pattern of your life ...

... were originally built to house gods but due to war they were never finished and therefore do not contain the god statues. Overall seeing all these places was lots of fun but the temperature was very hot. We left the Shore Temple and went to one of the Rotarian's weekend houses on the beach. It was green, clean, and beautiful. We had traditional Indian food and sat in an open tower type thing where we could feel the breeze off the ocean. There were also some ...

... I don't know which system is better. Of course you should always marry for love. But is it better to have someone pick your mate based on long-tested formulas? Or should we leave everything up to chance and try to meet that right person, never knowing for certain if we've made the right choice, always afraid that we haven't? It's bittersweet, leaving India. I've got just over 24 hours to say goodbye to the place I've lived for 3 weeks. We'll see how it goes.

... the while talking in their language, singing and giggling. I was soo sleepy but i stayed awake just to watch. I should have gone to bed. They brought out some food and i stuck my hand in the bowl and picked some, and did it again, just like when we eat chips (not really double dipping or anything). But the uncle came in and started yelling at me. I didn't understand what he was saying but i did get the "I DON"T LIKE" constantly being repeated. The whole room went quite ...

... into a nice little tuft of hay, and dump it in an elephant track. Next thing is a jumbo with a v**y painful, v**y broken mouth - and an ugly slow death. (Shades of my trick to zap pesky baboons in the Okavango: embed a few little fishing hooks into an orange, place it on a fence post, and wait. Soon those big slurpy lips would be sewn up tight. ...... I pond**ed the thought for years, but eventually decided the SPCA might have something to say about it - let alone ...

The povery in Chennai is off the rictor scale!!!! Bodies line the pavements at night, the stench on the streets, the state of the roads, buildings, everywhere you look, there is no relief from it, and it has not got the atmosphere that Kathmandu did, even with the poverty that Kathmandu had. The way of the people here are hard to get used to, the pushing and pushing in, the barging, the stopping and starring, the shouting and angry faces and words ...

... Bond for the past month and tracked down a cinema showing it. There was no dancing in the aisles here though - far more refined than our previous trips to the cinema. And a night out on the town found us in a hotel bar full of young wealthy Chennaites splashing their cash on drinks whose prices made us weep! We had a wonderful last few days and rushing round meant we were too busy to remember we were actually going home....

... testosterone mixed with the sweat dribbling down my face only to be shaken aside with every hump, now they rolled out spondoolys leading lady. She was a stunner, maybe 23 and not wearing too much by Indian standards, Spondooly and her dry humped their way through a few more angles of the same shot, with him humping and flailing a gun around in the air. Sammy Charlie and Theo were called in close to stand directly in front of the action and look scared when he shot the gun ...

... is by referring you to a moive, where you see one of the characters shopping, and they show you small snippets of different outfits and stores, and bags piling up, and the music in the background, everyone know what I'm talking about? Good. We went to the local shops, Ushra came with us, Krishnan had to go back to work for a bit, and the 6 of us girls went shopping, Krishnan dropped us off, and we all squeezed into his small car for the ride over there. The first place we went was ...