Good day my beautiful mudskippers,
As we all know that being an elite, erudite, and thoroughly charming bloke that I am, means that I have certain sectors of populace to please. Consequently, I took my own sweet arse time to put the videos of my India trip up. While the audio is a bit off and there is plenty of shaky cam. (I refer to them as the typos of the video world) I would suggest that you have a box of tissues beside you because you are about to be taken through an emotional tour-de-force.
The videos are after the jump, and I would suggest having HD switched on.
Showing posts with label delhi. Show all posts
Showing posts with label delhi. Show all posts
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Monday, December 28, 2009
Boxing day and Airports
Since December 26, 2009, I have spent 23 hours flying, 12 hours waiting at the Delhi Airport, and 3 hours waiting at the Brussels airport. If I wasn’t the fearless, handsome and yet strangely in-touch-with-his-feelings type of blogger I would say I was tired.
I think I am ready to plan my next travel.
Stay tuned to the blog though. I still have several reflections to post from some days that I have missed. PS who is currently en-route to Goa is one of the guest columnists, and MT also wanted to pen his return from India.
Also, I want to thank you all. I know that there were several people in Ottawa who were following this blog, and I know that there were more than a faithful few in Toronto who were reading this. Trust me, just knowing that people were reading this made me keep wanting to write more.
I have the next two days off work. In those two days on I shall be editing a lot of video footage that I shot, and posting the final copies of a lot of the pictures that I took. They shall all be peppered across social media for you to enjoy. Remember on twitter you can find me @damookman and on flickr you can find me at Aramil Liadon. I suppose I will paste on facebook as well, though it is well against my religion to do so.
Oh hey, I found an emporium. It was this way.
Monday, December 14, 2009
The cabbies of Delhi (part 1 and hopefully the only time I make this kind of post)
This city runs on tips. Understandable, as so much of the traffic that comes through here is based on tourism and there is a lot of poverty. But still, most of our moneyzz (TM) has been spent on tips, tips and more tips.
That being said our cabbies so far have been interesting. There are only two major ones to speak of. R from day one and UK from day 2. R from day one (not his real name) was a very upfront driver who first took us to a money changer in a seedy backalley. "Why oh venerable blogger?" Who said that? Oh its you again, I should have known. It's because, my beautiful lemur, stupid western unions were closed on a Sunday and since he did not "know" where else to take us and just "happened" to take us to a place where he would get a small commission. At least now we knew the game was on.
He was then hoodwinked when we demanded to go to a place for shopping, and eating not on his lists. The bugger got us back though. He stated that if we were looking for items for souvenir we should head to a place called "Emporium". At least he was honest about saying that he is going to get a commission out of this and if we bought anything, he stands to make more. Awesome deal for me, as his "tip" went away.
Day 2 was Agra. Post to follow soon on that day. The driver that we had for that stretch was a completely different person. A very professional man, who led us through some of the worst traffic we have seen thus far. He did however, mention that traffic has been very light thus far. MT's video of the traffic screams otherwise, but hey, who are we to argue. However, I must say he is also the only person to take a shot at MT thus far. Here is how the conversation went.
UK: Sir, you did go to Agra right?
@damookman: Yes?!?
UK: And you saw the Taj, and the other beautiful things there?
@damookman: We did indeed.
UK: And you and the other sirs, took pictures and videos there.
@damookman: Yes.
UK: I only ask because it seems that sir (pointing to MT) does not appear to have found anything other than a traffic jam to videotape.
I like UK as a driver.
That being said our cabbies so far have been interesting. There are only two major ones to speak of. R from day one and UK from day 2. R from day one (not his real name) was a very upfront driver who first took us to a money changer in a seedy backalley. "Why oh venerable blogger?" Who said that? Oh its you again, I should have known. It's because, my beautiful lemur, stupid western unions were closed on a Sunday and since he did not "know" where else to take us and just "happened" to take us to a place where he would get a small commission. At least now we knew the game was on.
He was then hoodwinked when we demanded to go to a place for shopping, and eating not on his lists. The bugger got us back though. He stated that if we were looking for items for souvenir we should head to a place called "Emporium". At least he was honest about saying that he is going to get a commission out of this and if we bought anything, he stands to make more. Awesome deal for me, as his "tip" went away.
Day 2 was Agra. Post to follow soon on that day. The driver that we had for that stretch was a completely different person. A very professional man, who led us through some of the worst traffic we have seen thus far. He did however, mention that traffic has been very light thus far. MT's video of the traffic screams otherwise, but hey, who are we to argue. However, I must say he is also the only person to take a shot at MT thus far. Here is how the conversation went.
UK: Sir, you did go to Agra right?
@damookman: Yes?!?
UK: And you saw the Taj, and the other beautiful things there?
@damookman: We did indeed.
UK: And you and the other sirs, took pictures and videos there.
@damookman: Yes.
UK: I only ask because it seems that sir (pointing to MT) does not appear to have found anything other than a traffic jam to videotape.
I like UK as a driver.
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