Musings of an Idiot

Transition

In the process of shifting houses at the moment - and most of my stuff is across in the new place. I think the whole process will be complete by this evening. You must be wondering as to why I am typing all this now. Well, I suddenly realized that I will be without internet connection at home - I would say for atleast a month or more. The problem is that to get normal internet you need a phone line - over which Telecom has a monopoly and costs close to 50 bucks a month to have a landline combined with another 50 bucks for internet - on top of the initial 250 bucks odd installation. While if we go wireless internet it costs about 300 bucks to setup {router + activation} and a 1 year contract at 50 bucks a month - which is a pain as you have to pay for it even if you end up not using it at all. And don't want to end up spending that kind of money at this stage. So yeah no internet at home - means less replying to emails and smaller blog postings with no photos; let's see how this shapes up.

I will try and put up photos of the new place as and when I get access to internet but in the meantime enjoy a bird's view of the place we are moving into.


Yesterday evening, had another funny experience with dinner. I saw a new indonesian eating joint at the local food court and it looked really authentic, so decided to give it a go. I ordered a chicken dish which looked yummy in the photograph - i can't remember the name of the dish but the description was grilled chicken cooked with hot chilli, roasted onions, garlic and sun dried tomatos. To my amusement and surprise - the cook was trying to dissuade me from ordering the dish saying that it was extremely hot and I would be better off ordering something less spicy. I looked around and didn't find any dish I wanted to try and insisted on eating the same dish. So the cook reluctantly took my order and it kind of caused a minor event amongst that places staff - where they were all pointing fingers at the picture of the dish I ordered and discussing it amongst themselves. It was really amusing seeing that. Anyway the dish turned out to be hot but extremely yummy!!! And when I told the cook while eating that I really enjoyed the dish, she sent me out some more hot gravy since I had eaten most of the gravy. So all in all it was an interesting experience.

Anyway I better get back to doing some more work and will probably write an update when I next get the chance.

Till later,
Amit

Labels: Food

posted by Amit @ 11:20 AM