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HI,

yeah posting again. I am posting more frequently since I have 2 days in the city centre, so next post will be from the middle of the jungle, so in a week or so.

So, transport and traffic in India, cool, crazy, good drivers

Most common are motorcycles, old cars, tractors / carts and buses.

Traffic education: none, that is what makes them good drivers. You can make a U-turn in any road you like, any place, any time no matter what other cars are passing. If you don’t honk the horn, you’re not good to drive. You can hear constantly horns honking, it seems its a tradition. Indicators? Who bothers about them, what is their use? Zebra crossing? Why should you car? to cross a narrow road with zebra crossing it takes you from 20 - 40 seconds, impressive Driving? yeah fine there are lanes, in narrow roads, you can see 3 -4 cars overtaking each other, 2 of them being on the wrong side, so what? No wonder they have 85,000 traffic fatalities a year You can cross from one road to another on a T junction on any side of the road, there is no need to respect your lane. IF you have a bike you can even cross roads from the pavements. Bus drivers? They are all racing against each other, all the time!!

Bus status? well, this one, very similar to maltese buses, those kind of old ones, but even dirtier. But you won’t find a flag of Bob Marley or a set of good speakers in their buses, or those small pictures of naked women hanged to the mirrors, no way.. nothing of that So, in bus hamallagni, we beat them guys

Cars, very old, typical TATA, lada, perhaps an old (classic) ford vans (yeah, MR Henry Ford, your classic cars are allover the world mate!!) and sometimes the typical hillman, hunter, cortina cars lol (police have the hunter and hillman cars). Every now and then you see a new matiz or hyundai. On the way to Bangalore (city centre) I was in a TATA jeep, with like other 10 people (yeah squeezed!) and on the traffic lights there was some kind of honda cabriolet, really common in Malta. ALl the guys where like yeah, latest model beautiful. The nice thing was that the driver was a what they call sexy indian, with a woman. The woman had that smile on her face, like “yeah it is me in this car, you’re jelous? what are you looking at?”..

bikes…well no big bikes, again old bikes, sometimes a new but nothing big, no harleys, no racing bikes, no Kawasaki ZXR lol. The best bike you can get at the moment with the biggest horsepower is the latest Honda Nero 250cc. Get a black bike of these, a moustache, cool hairstyle (ferq fil-genb) and you’re in to date the hottest chicks in town!! Helmet? It is legal only for the driver, well legal, maybe you will see 1 in 20 drivers with the helmet, the rest, relax, why bother? Even our Priests who have bike, why bother wearing a helmet? What is funny though, passengers on bike are not forced legally to wear a helmet, and most of them are parents taking kids to school, so you see a father with the helmet and 3 (yeah 3 kids) kids without helmet lol. Sometimes you see a whole family on a bike, yeah true, like mum and dad, 3 kids Well a small word about helmets, impressive Schumacher and Alonso did a huge hit in here. Many helmets are replicas of their helmets, some of them are “scary” replicas lol, some of them are good replicas, really good

Well tip for travellers: Mind how to cross the road, traffic lights, zebra crossing, no respect man. When there is a red light, usually it has a countdown displayed, like 120 seconds. AS soon as it is 20 seconds, although cars are passing through the other road, no worries man, just drive into them and honk the horn and you will be true. Some of you know that I really like to drive, and fast, but hell, I’m scared to drive here!!!

again, some means of transport pics

Auto, cheap means of transport, kind of taxi. There are 1,000’s of them in city.

Old bike with typical India Style customization.

Typical City street scene.

Blue bus, depending on the colour it got something to do with regions.

Very nice Fernando Alonso Helmet Replica.

more here

HI geeks and guys (i know it is a commercial greeting, but WTF!!)

I just impressed some indian people with a card reader to upload some photos lol!!

well, learnt a lot of things. Today I’ve been at Bangalore centre (As I’m like 60Km away from any kind of society, in a remote centre in the middle of a jungle/forest/ mountains).

All I am doing is walking kids to school, playing football, basketball, volleyball and kind of tennis. you have to stick to their own rules, weird rules, whatever, but still it is fun

Well what I’ve learnt is that indians rarely loose hair (like i did lol) so they all are so proud with their hairstyles. THey all carry a pettner in their back pockets, if you don’t have one, you’re outdated man! (in malta it is the other way round lol!)

Buses? don;t try to understand schedule, routes or whatever. ON each bus stop “Il kunduttur” starts shouting the destination name and if it matches where you need to go just go up. if you manage!!! no queue ideas, you know every one pushing. buses, have people hanging on the back, and also sheep etc on the bus lol. people carry everything in the bus

IT is a very dirty country, but hey, it is really beautiful City centres not that it impressed me so much, but where I am situated, in the middle of nowhere, it is so wonderful. At night all you hear is different kind of animals screaming or shouting or whatever.

The city centres, have these cool small shops, like tailors, ironing of cloths (no electric irons, just one with boiling water or have to be heated on a cooker ), tv and video repair (mmm…. from the sceen I doubt if he can really fix things :P).

Well that is all for now as I have to rush back to the centre, as I am sleeping at the city centre overnight so tomorrow I leave to the middle of nowhere.

Well, the post above might sounds as a pessimistic one, but none of it!!! Although they are ages behind, cities are hectic and dirty, it’s a total different world from ours which anyone would really like! different culture you know (nahseb qed nigi daqsxejn ikkulturat!!! lol!!!)..

some pics, enjoy

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http://www.galaxyzoo.org

fuck, this makes sense! finaly I understood how it works.

These people are more brain damaged then the BSOD guy!
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Quoting an email from Robert:

Yes they do eat spicy all the time even in the morning at 7 am

Yes all they do eat is rice, stinky pancakes (not good) and some hot hot sauce with rice

you have to eat rice with your right hand (with the left you clean the bottom) so it is an offense if you eat with the left..

and the secret of eating rice without utensils is by putting sauce with rice so it sticks together

He could only access gmail in simple mode because the connection is .. dialup

http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/frogs/control-a-dead-frog-via-the-web-281948.php

KEY EMPLOYEES OF THE COMPANY

JOSEPH PUFTA, age 45, has been employed by the Company for approximately
six years and presently serves as General Superintendent for all new home
construction. Mr. Pufta supervises eight persons relating to the home
construction and development activities of the Company. Prior to joining the
Company, Mr. Pufta served approximately eight years as the Project Manager for
one of the largest commercial construction companies in the United States on
various construction projects in Georgia, South Carolina and Florida. Mr. Pufta
also has approximately five years experience as a custom home builder and as a
framing contractor.

Here

http://www.slashphone.com/70/7826.html

Internet is enviroment where different parties meets and everybody follows rules of his real life country… SL is similar enviroment as well however it seems that it can not right now inherit crosscoountries policies nature of internet because its connected too much USA law.

Maybe only open source SL server project, which is under development, will change it.. when each sim server will be possible to place in different worldwide locations as web servers today.

Extract from new policy:

…

Policy

It is a violation of this policy to wager in games in the Second Life (R) environment operated on Linden Lab servers if such games:

(1) (a) rely on chance or random number generation to determine a winner, OR (b) rely on the outcome of real-life organized sporting events,

AND

(2) provide a payout in

(a) Linden Dollars, OR

(b) any real-world currency or thing of value.

…

more at:

http://blog.secondlife.com/2007/07/25/wagering-in-second-life-new-policy/#more-1106

iphone or this sony device …? I’d go for the sony device…

Nokia is running some alternative advertising ..

Bonus Joke:
Assmosis - The process by which some people seem to absorb success and advancement by kissing up to the boss rather than working hard.More office slang here.

here goes! l33t stuff ahead