Tour snippets

After writing the previous blog for almost two hours, (yeah, you read it right) taking my own time in correction and updating the links, I decided I should give a week's break. But now inspired by cricinfo blogs at this 14 hundredth hour ( 2PM to those whose left brain is dormant ), - "inspired" is a beautiful word to surrogate plagiarism; I just can't wait to write an other blog. In this case I got inspired to write an other blog, but not the beautifully carved inspired in the quotes I just referred to.

During my golden triangle tour I had seen couple of instances which I found were amusing. 1. A rickshaw puller in Jaipur dropped a foreigner at a place and asked fifty rupees for his service. This white foreigner had a bizzare expression on his face, literally conveying , wha' da ...(beep).. ?? Immediately the rickshaw puller's colleague came to his rescue and said, He know - no english, it is fifteeenn, no fiftyyy, fifteeen....And this stranger breathed a sigh of relief. 2. Again, a foreigner, a white foreigner. Yes, we are so freaking obsessed with the colour white, that if you telecast an ad in TV which says, cow shit turns you fair in 4 weeks we would be up for the challenge, painting our faces with that shit, sleeping the whole night and waiting for the next night. So this foreigner after getting out of the rickshaw was waving his credit card to the rickshaw puller and seemed like asking him, Do you accept credit cards? Little did that rickshaw fellow know about the usage of credit card, I suspect. Had he known that he would have said ' Yes' and would have sprinted from there in no time. Next time our intelligent foreigner would be thinking twice to even book air tickets on his credit card.

Oh yes and the traffic jam. How can I forget that ?! We were on our way back to Delhi and we got stuck in a traffic jam at the vastly and the fastly developing city,Gurgaon ( the millennium city as they dearly say) It was like what, we travelled 2 - 3 kilometers in that beautiful slow ride for two hours at 10 pm and we were pissed off. Even more, when we reached the end of the traffic jam, there were police barricades stopping each and every vehicle, looking at the faces of the passengers in the cars and why ? The next day is August 15th, the Indian Independence day ! Lesson learnt: Neva' eva' travel the night before Aug 15th, in and around Delhi.

Talking again about the beautifully etched "inspiration", did somebody say genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration? We software engineers just do the opposite.