Here we are at Friday and the end of my third week here in wonderful India, and I've lost my first day! As we got into the car to head home last night, I enquired of Raju "It's Thursday tomorrow isn't it?" "No", he replied in his typically direct and perfunctory way, "Today is Thursday. Tomorrow is Friday". "No", says I, "Today's Wednesday, surely". But he was right. Somehow, as I've worked between 7am in Columbus Ohio, midday in Bradford, 2pm in Qatar, 4.30pm in Kochi and 9pm in Sydney each day, I lost a day! I'm still trying to work out how it happened but, well, anyway .....
So here I sit, at 9pm on Friday night, Kochi time, just about to run out of battery power 'coz I left my adaptor back in the office in my rush to get to the optometrists to pick up my new specs (not too bad at all if I do say so myself) and trying desperately to make a note of the things I want to talk about here before they're lost in the fog. Dear reader forgive the following summary, typed as my own aide memoire, to be filled out prose like on the morrow:
only suleiman yesterday on the walk, busy doing lung filling exercise
today a cast of thousands, introduced by suleiman (noting me as his "father", Daoud, in a biblical reference as we noted we are all children of the book)
walked with our minister who shares suleiman's views about the corruption of government at local and state level, reflected in the poor quality of the infrastructure
the parks' been dug up to run an oil pumping and refuelling line to and from the harbour; been going for a year and no end in sight (seems everything's been going for a year, when it's been going on too long)
yesterday's walk ennervating rather than energising - strength sapping humidity
no minister tomorrow, he's going to TVM (Trivandrum) tomorrow.
met the determined avoider archetype yesterday - six passes and six eyes down, I know you're there but I'm not looking!
things happening, but slowly in the office
interesting take on OHS here given by photos on the facebook site
looks like I'm off to mumbai and pune when I come back from Phoenix
wore the mundu to work today - too hot to do otherwise
poured rain this afternoon but because the next part of the first floor slab has to be poured on sunday, the boys worked through it without complaint
continuing diet of chappathi, with variety of veg sauces continues to go good on the weight loss stakes but I'm naughty with chips from time to time
and now the battery runs out
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