And how do you like it?? I really like and enjoy India!! :) By the way - biscuits (cookies for Americans ;) ) are very good!
Some pictures from my birthday you will find here.
9/26/2010
Promissed photo
And how do you like it?? I really like and enjoy India!! :) By the way - biscuits (cookies for Americans ;) ) are very good!
Some pictures from my birthday you will find here.
9/22/2010
Hi there!
Recently I have no time and power to write anything interesting. If there is nothing to say, we usually talk about weather, right? So today it was between 37-40 degrees centigrade (?? - ?? Fahrenheit). I think that monsoon has almost ended. Immediately everywhere we have dust. Now we are waiting for mosquitoes to be born and bring us more trouble (hopefully not malaria).
I will try to make some nice photos of rice fields. It looks like I will be able to see whole "production" cycle. When I came villagers were planting rice in the water (below them on the rice and falling from the sky), it was growing and now I guess it will be soon ready to harvest.
As soon as I will find some time I will also upload a photo of typical Hindi-English. I have bought a pack of cookies just because of the sentence on it. Let me keep you (maybe) interested and not writing it now ;)
Sorry for writing so seldom, but I am very tired and in the evening my brain tells me: hey buddy! No more English today!! By the way... I am switching to thinking in English sooner and sooner with each of my travels. This time it took me around 3-4 days. As my English is not so good anymore I do not have any interesting thoughts to share ;)
(Am I complaining too much??)
Recently I have no time and power to write anything interesting. If there is nothing to say, we usually talk about weather, right? So today it was between 37-40 degrees centigrade (?? - ?? Fahrenheit). I think that monsoon has almost ended. Immediately everywhere we have dust. Now we are waiting for mosquitoes to be born and bring us more trouble (hopefully not malaria).
I will try to make some nice photos of rice fields. It looks like I will be able to see whole "production" cycle. When I came villagers were planting rice in the water (below them on the rice and falling from the sky), it was growing and now I guess it will be soon ready to harvest.
As soon as I will find some time I will also upload a photo of typical Hindi-English. I have bought a pack of cookies just because of the sentence on it. Let me keep you (maybe) interested and not writing it now ;)
Sorry for writing so seldom, but I am very tired and in the evening my brain tells me: hey buddy! No more English today!! By the way... I am switching to thinking in English sooner and sooner with each of my travels. This time it took me around 3-4 days. As my English is not so good anymore I do not have any interesting thoughts to share ;)
(Am I complaining too much??)
8/29/2010
8/27/2010
Viva la musica!
Every day is the same as previous and probably the next one. So just two impressions with muscic in the background. Yesterday I was in the rubbish car form the factory on the terrible road (Khopoli - Pali Road) listening to my MP3 player. One of the songs was Sinead O'Connor's - Nothing compares to you (am I missing someone?). Then I can hear in the backround some new noise except engine roaring and suspension crackling. I take out one earphone and listen. It's the music our driver plays on his radio. So I get back to listening Sinead with Indian beat and sintra in the backround. Another opening mind experience ;)
Second one was on sunday. I went with my Indian friend to the shopping mall. One way by bus - full Indian Experience. The people, the noise, the colours, the smell. On our way back we took moto-rickshaw (three wheeler). Imagine: sunday evening, dark, Navi Mumbai streets full of people, cars, etc. Polish fellow with cute Indian girl in rickshaw enjoying the ride, talking and... listening to Enrique Iglesias!! Those of you who know me better, know that I have kind of allergy to such "music" but this time I enjoyed it! It is not so hard to guess why ;) It is amazing how environment can change one's perception!
Second one was on sunday. I went with my Indian friend to the shopping mall. One way by bus - full Indian Experience. The people, the noise, the colours, the smell. On our way back we took moto-rickshaw (three wheeler). Imagine: sunday evening, dark, Navi Mumbai streets full of people, cars, etc. Polish fellow with cute Indian girl in rickshaw enjoying the ride, talking and... listening to Enrique Iglesias!! Those of you who know me better, know that I have kind of allergy to such "music" but this time I enjoyed it! It is not so hard to guess why ;) It is amazing how environment can change one's perception!
8/15/2010
Because of the lack of creative power today (and this week) I will describe you what I eat and write one story which happened to me.
Almost every morning I drink fresh squeezed pineapple juice. Yummy! Every day for breakfast I also eat some watermelon, 2-3 pieces of cantaloupe melon (unfortunately not with lime juice, but I'm working on it) and depending on the mood masala omelette, scrambled eggs, over easy eggs or nothing. Then we get lunchpack to the factory (I usually take spaghetti with tomato sauce). In the evening we have dinner. Sometimes Indian, continental or Chinese/Thai food. Seldom I risk and order something I do not know. Then I am surprised and not always I eat all. Waiters already can tell me "Sir, this you will not like" or "I will bring you some for testing, plus something you like".
Here I also learn patience and observe, for me, out of mind behaviour. I can assure you that Indians can not drive. Imagine 3 lanes road, red light and cars aligning into 5 rows. Between people on bicycles, mopeds and small motorcycles. This is the least scary thing while driving here. Last time we went to the cinema and we had such taxi driver, that we had near to death experience and after getting out of the car everybody (except me) were smoking 2 cigarettes to calm down. One way I was also scared, but on the way back I was so relaxed that it was surprising to me. I was not relaxed this way maybe last 2-4 years. It was just mystical experience - let things happen. If I die it is completely out of my control - so I don't care. The driver was driving in the night, 120 - 130 kph (75-80 mph) and we were passing signs that there is speed limit of about 18 mph. The road was 3 lanes, but here are many trucks with no lights on rear side, mopeds, bicycles and so on. Everything of course without lights. Thrilling but also very refreshing experience. This, of course, accompanied by loud Indian music, very rhythmic. My thoughts were something like "If I have to die I choose big car accident in Mumbai, with really beyond limit speed, with this music, than some accidental death at home, being killed by someone else who was, for example, looking at nice girl and did not see me". This would be somehow meaningful, not so common ;)
Now off-topic.
I don't know why I almost never listen to the lyrics in english sang songs. Maybe 2-3 phrases. Even in songs I know. Then sometimes, when I have the opportunity to read it, from time to time it's beeing suprising to me. Recently I did this with some songs because of my last year's american adventure. Here is one of them. I hope to get for some time this state of mind and feel completly free. I do not write the title because, I guess, everybody knows it, and the artist too, of course.
Get your motor runnin'
Head out on the highway
Lookin' for adventure
And whatever comes our way
Yeah Darlin' go make it happen
Take the world in a love embrace
Fire all of your guns at once
And explode into space
I like smoke and lightning
Heavy metal thunder
Racin' with the wind
And the feelin' that I'm under
Yeah Darlin' go make it happen
Take the world in a love embrace
Fire all of your guns at once
And explode into space
Like a true nature's child
We were born, born to be wild
We can climb so high
I never wanna die
Born to be wild
Born to be wild
PS All comments will be welcomed :)
Almost every morning I drink fresh squeezed pineapple juice. Yummy! Every day for breakfast I also eat some watermelon, 2-3 pieces of cantaloupe melon (unfortunately not with lime juice, but I'm working on it) and depending on the mood masala omelette, scrambled eggs, over easy eggs or nothing. Then we get lunchpack to the factory (I usually take spaghetti with tomato sauce). In the evening we have dinner. Sometimes Indian, continental or Chinese/Thai food. Seldom I risk and order something I do not know. Then I am surprised and not always I eat all. Waiters already can tell me "Sir, this you will not like" or "I will bring you some for testing, plus something you like".
Here I also learn patience and observe, for me, out of mind behaviour. I can assure you that Indians can not drive. Imagine 3 lanes road, red light and cars aligning into 5 rows. Between people on bicycles, mopeds and small motorcycles. This is the least scary thing while driving here. Last time we went to the cinema and we had such taxi driver, that we had near to death experience and after getting out of the car everybody (except me) were smoking 2 cigarettes to calm down. One way I was also scared, but on the way back I was so relaxed that it was surprising to me. I was not relaxed this way maybe last 2-4 years. It was just mystical experience - let things happen. If I die it is completely out of my control - so I don't care. The driver was driving in the night, 120 - 130 kph (75-80 mph) and we were passing signs that there is speed limit of about 18 mph. The road was 3 lanes, but here are many trucks with no lights on rear side, mopeds, bicycles and so on. Everything of course without lights. Thrilling but also very refreshing experience. This, of course, accompanied by loud Indian music, very rhythmic. My thoughts were something like "If I have to die I choose big car accident in Mumbai, with really beyond limit speed, with this music, than some accidental death at home, being killed by someone else who was, for example, looking at nice girl and did not see me". This would be somehow meaningful, not so common ;)
Now off-topic.
I don't know why I almost never listen to the lyrics in english sang songs. Maybe 2-3 phrases. Even in songs I know. Then sometimes, when I have the opportunity to read it, from time to time it's beeing suprising to me. Recently I did this with some songs because of my last year's american adventure. Here is one of them. I hope to get for some time this state of mind and feel completly free. I do not write the title because, I guess, everybody knows it, and the artist too, of course.
Get your motor runnin'
Head out on the highway
Lookin' for adventure
And whatever comes our way
Yeah Darlin' go make it happen
Take the world in a love embrace
Fire all of your guns at once
And explode into space
I like smoke and lightning
Heavy metal thunder
Racin' with the wind
And the feelin' that I'm under
Yeah Darlin' go make it happen
Take the world in a love embrace
Fire all of your guns at once
And explode into space
Like a true nature's child
We were born, born to be wild
We can climb so high
I never wanna die
Born to be wild
Born to be wild
PS All comments will be welcomed :)
8/08/2010
Introduction
Short explanation of the title. It comes from what I do for living - I am automation engineer. My work is to travel to the site, make machinery running and go to another place. Except of travelling in my home country - Poland, recently I've started travelling worldwide. Last year I was in USA, this year I'm in India in Mumbai area.
Right now I am more than 3 weeks here, I did registration which is required by law (whole story about it) and I work, work, work. Not much time for myself but I enjoy it. Totally different culture, food, not to mention music. All this is of course known to you. I will try to write something on my personal experiences, some details, stories which hapened to me.
My general impression is that people here are extremally friendly. Not always they know how to make you happy or pleased, but they will try as much as they can. I like them for that effort. I think that most of us think about India through we saw in Slumdog Millionaire. Well... reality is not so colorful. I was alerady three times in the city of Mumbai, one time we were driving through kind of slum area and I can say that you can't prepare yourself for what you will see. Even in the city centre. We were going to Hard Rock Cafe. It was on a street where I think about 200 of homeless people live (on a distance of about 400 meters or 1200 feet - whatever you choose), next to the curb Mercedes S class is parked, a few meters further is car dealership of I think Roll-Royce and so on. Shocking contrast.
Right now I am more than 3 weeks here, I did registration which is required by law (whole story about it) and I work, work, work. Not much time for myself but I enjoy it. Totally different culture, food, not to mention music. All this is of course known to you. I will try to write something on my personal experiences, some details, stories which hapened to me.
My general impression is that people here are extremally friendly. Not always they know how to make you happy or pleased, but they will try as much as they can. I like them for that effort. I think that most of us think about India through we saw in Slumdog Millionaire. Well... reality is not so colorful. I was alerady three times in the city of Mumbai, one time we were driving through kind of slum area and I can say that you can't prepare yourself for what you will see. Even in the city centre. We were going to Hard Rock Cafe. It was on a street where I think about 200 of homeless people live (on a distance of about 400 meters or 1200 feet - whatever you choose), next to the curb Mercedes S class is parked, a few meters further is car dealership of I think Roll-Royce and so on. Shocking contrast.
8/01/2010
Startup
Hi everyone!
This is first post on my English blog. I hope that you will enjoy it. I'll try to put something here once every week or two weeks.
This is first post on my English blog. I hope that you will enjoy it. I'll try to put something here once every week or two weeks.
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