Hi Y'all!
It's March the 3rd today and as you may or may not know, I should be in Bangalore right now. Well I'm not! Some mix up happend with flights and stuff, and to be quite honnest, yes it was my fault :D But hey, being in Chennai is not all that bad. I had a good time here and still am. Anyways, I'm leaving for Bangalore on Saterday.
But to recapture my Chennai'n experience since the last time I blogged...
So on Saterday we went to the opening of a new club in a shady neighborhood... The Candy Club ;) We got there a bit earlier to check the place out cause a friend of a friend I was going with was supposed to model in a fashion show during the opening. Once we arrived at the place we were woundering if that was really a good idea :S Anyways we went to check the club out, and to our amazement it looked pretty good! But as all things here in India, they seemed kinda delayed with the works and stuff, they were still hamering away and painting and doing all the shit they should have gotten done a week before the opening :) Were they gonna finish up in time??? That was the question... Well they did! So we spent the evening at the club, unlimtited drinks and the same music you hear in every club in Chennai, all the time. Unlimitted drinks you say? Yes, untill they run out and you have to pay for them...hahahahaha. Guys, don't try this in Belgium, they'll brake the place down!
Hey look I'm famous :p hehe....
So that was saterday. On Sunday I went for a run with a group called the Hash Runners. It's a group of people who go on runs at different locations all over Chennai, and in every state they have a group. Someone has to set out a path and the rest of them have to find there way, looking for white marks on the ground and dodge cow shit in the boiling sun for about an hour. Sounds good? Well it was very much fun, especially the part after the run when they bring out the beers and food, and beers and when they make the rookies sit on a cold block of ice for about 20min asking stupid questions!
And I made some friends too...
They found it very amusing watching me run arround, in short shorts :D
So that was a good weekend, followed by a week of work, gym, gym with Kammy and cricket with Kammy!!!! Oh yeah it's the world cup cricket here in India, and India is cricket crazzzzzzzzzy! And seeing as I am South African, I have to act a bit cricket crazzzzyyy too :)
On Saterday went to my going away BBQ, well leaving Chennai for Bangalore BBQ actually, but as I didn't leave then I should probably give it another name...well no what the heck! And on Sunday I got stranded in a Riksjaw.... I was going somewhere and the driver ran out of petrol! Babbeling to me in Tamil, he left me in the Riksjaw, somewhere on a busy road, with some guy who kept staring at me and was leening on a pole. I wanted to leave and get another one, but the driver left his keys in his shuttle and I just couldn't abandom him... I think he was new at it cause he gave me a really good price without me having to fight with him and bargain about the price, plus his Riksjaw looked kinda new... so I waited.... and waited.... and waited... and waited.... 30 mins long... untill finally he came back!!! With petrol in a bottle! He looked as happy as I was to see me as I was to see him :)
Funny how every story I have to tell about my so far Indian experiences has me waiting in it.... Waiting for this, waiting for that, tomorrow they say, but over here when you're waiting for something, tomorrow really never seems to come unless you go and get it!
It's March the 3rd today and as you may or may not know, I should be in Bangalore right now. Well I'm not! Some mix up happend with flights and stuff, and to be quite honnest, yes it was my fault :D But hey, being in Chennai is not all that bad. I had a good time here and still am. Anyways, I'm leaving for Bangalore on Saterday.
But to recapture my Chennai'n experience since the last time I blogged...
So on Saterday we went to the opening of a new club in a shady neighborhood... The Candy Club ;) We got there a bit earlier to check the place out cause a friend of a friend I was going with was supposed to model in a fashion show during the opening. Once we arrived at the place we were woundering if that was really a good idea :S Anyways we went to check the club out, and to our amazement it looked pretty good! But as all things here in India, they seemed kinda delayed with the works and stuff, they were still hamering away and painting and doing all the shit they should have gotten done a week before the opening :) Were they gonna finish up in time??? That was the question... Well they did! So we spent the evening at the club, unlimtited drinks and the same music you hear in every club in Chennai, all the time. Unlimitted drinks you say? Yes, untill they run out and you have to pay for them...hahahahaha. Guys, don't try this in Belgium, they'll brake the place down!
So that was saterday. On Sunday I went for a run with a group called the Hash Runners. It's a group of people who go on runs at different locations all over Chennai, and in every state they have a group. Someone has to set out a path and the rest of them have to find there way, looking for white marks on the ground and dodge cow shit in the boiling sun for about an hour. Sounds good? Well it was very much fun, especially the part after the run when they bring out the beers and food, and beers and when they make the rookies sit on a cold block of ice for about 20min asking stupid questions!
So that was a good weekend, followed by a week of work, gym, gym with Kammy and cricket with Kammy!!!! Oh yeah it's the world cup cricket here in India, and India is cricket crazzzzzzzzzy! And seeing as I am South African, I have to act a bit cricket crazzzzyyy too :)
On Saterday went to my going away BBQ, well leaving Chennai for Bangalore BBQ actually, but as I didn't leave then I should probably give it another name...well no what the heck! And on Sunday I got stranded in a Riksjaw.... I was going somewhere and the driver ran out of petrol! Babbeling to me in Tamil, he left me in the Riksjaw, somewhere on a busy road, with some guy who kept staring at me and was leening on a pole. I wanted to leave and get another one, but the driver left his keys in his shuttle and I just couldn't abandom him... I think he was new at it cause he gave me a really good price without me having to fight with him and bargain about the price, plus his Riksjaw looked kinda new... so I waited.... and waited.... and waited... and waited.... 30 mins long... untill finally he came back!!! With petrol in a bottle! He looked as happy as I was to see me as I was to see him :)
Funny how every story I have to tell about my so far Indian experiences has me waiting in it.... Waiting for this, waiting for that, tomorrow they say, but over here when you're waiting for something, tomorrow really never seems to come unless you go and get it!
