Radisson Hotel Grt Chennai (Madras)

... with goes with food and often work.&#8221; <br><br>Clearly, this was my honest opinion for many parts of our trip. But other times, including now as I type, I look back on that passage I wrote and it sounds far too cynical, negative, and pessimistic. Most of Chennai, although crowded, chaotic, and dirty, was covered with paved roads and motorized vehicles driving around. By the fifth day when we went shopping, we did not feel uncomfortable at all driving the streets and ...

... you begin to see yourself exactly as you are now. As soon as you do that, changes flow naturally. You don't have to force or struggle or obey rules dictated to you by some authority. You just change. It is automatic. But arriving at the initial insight is quite a task. You've got to see who you are and how you are, without illusion, judgement or resistance of any kind. You've got to see your own place in society and your function as a social being. You've got to see your ...

... that had music playing for us which was Bob Marley and some modern American artist remixed with techno. It was really quite funny to hear and I felt like I should be in the middle of a club. The farm dogs there were very cute and fun to play with too. My favorite thing for lunch was a triangular fried food that looked and tasted a lot like a spicy egg roll. On the way out we met one of the neighbors and his dog, Napster came to their gate to meet us. They ...

Spencers is a massive shopping mall in Chennai. On my first day I went to City Center and felt it was a little small. But it was a manageable size for a non-shopper. I only wanted to see what an Indian mall looked like. Spencers is where you go to actually buy things. This was my second trip there, actually. A week or so ago I wrote about the cool souvenirs I bought at a small antique store. The shop is called "Faith" and is at S123/S124, 2nd floor ...

... and i just went "what" they women told me not to worry that he was very traditional and he gets like tat. Later I find out that double dipping is not allowed. I broke one of their customs and I didn't even know it. I was so bloody scared, i thought i would **** my pants! I couldn't eat anymore after that. They all just laughed and told me to relax, and that they don't take him seriously anymore either. Needless to say we went to bed Very late. Probably only had 2 hours sleep.

... it said for an odd sense of p**v**seness.) ... Then th**e was the circle question. Who in their right minds travels in a circle: surely it is onwards, ev** onwards?? Yet how else does one travel in Sri Lanka. You land, go to the hills, "oooh, u must see da hill carvings, land's end, elephant orphanage, spicy shop", then head down to a beach and be flogged trinkets and ov**priced dhow rides, then Galle and be enthused with the Cape Dutch architecture and a post ...

... no smiles and welcomes. We have found it very hard to settle or relax here, but even so we payed a taxi driver to take us out around the City to try and make the most of the time here, we did visit Chennai beach for a short while, a church and a gift shop!!!!! They were all the sights the driver could think of to take us too, and on the way we saw more and worst poverty lining the beach and streets. Decided we'd move on the next day further south.

First let me start out by wishing everyone a Merry Christmas. I am sure you all had a very memorable and traditional day, I am really just thankful to be alive. For the first time in the last four months I was in fear of my life. To get out of Goa and away from the potential terrorist attacks, my friend Megan and I had to take an 18 hour bus ride to Bangalore where we would then continue on to Pondicherry and be on the beach by Christmas Eve. The Paulo "Luxury" bus ...

... should be quite visable in the movie if they use that shot. We were originally booked in for a 10 day shoot but after relocating us and 200 other extras they found that the sets weren't ready and told us we would have to wait and come back in 4 days,,,, that was far too much Chennai for the Hotfields so we skipped out of Dodge, hot humping beefcakes, and hotter thrusting Spondoolys forever etched onto our brains. As Mel once said, India might be India, but it's still India.....

... Sari Shop, and you can't even imagine how many Sari's this shop had, walls covered in shelves with Sari's piled high of every color, and texture that you can imagine. It was slightly overwhelming, and at first I couldn't find one I liked, and I didn't too much like the prices either (the first ones I looked at were around 1000 Rupees, or 20ish dollars) and I didn't want to pay that much for something I most likely would wear once. About an hour later we all had Saris that we liked (I ...