Narriman Point
Sunsets last longer over herebecause we're nearer to the equator ( or that's my pseudo science explanation for something that may be totally in my head). This is great, go over there and watch the sunset..try to get the beggars to stop bothering you for 15 minutes to enjoy it.
That's Malabar point on the right.
After the sun goes down, The ring of lights around the bayis what the tourbooks call 'The queens necklace', but none of the localsuse that term.In short you can see all of downtown Mumbai around Marine pointlight up in a cresent. The camera does'nt have an angel wide enough to get all this in. Essentially that line of lights keeps going out to the left, across the whole bay.
Then you can look out to your left and see the pitch black nothingnessof the Indian Ocean. It's fantastic.
That time I supped in Bombay
Before I left my boss sent an email.
Next time you see Pat, he'll be a seasoned world traveler, smoking cigarettes from pretentious cigarette holders, telling stories supping in Calcutta.
Dude , I am never supping in Calcutta, that place is a mess. Let's talk about Mumbai.
So how's the food in Mumbai?
The Chinese is excellent. I reccomend India Jones in the Oberoi hotel, that's some 5* chinese at greek diner prices.
What....You went to Mumbai and got Chinese?
Yes, dude I've been eating Indian food every day, that's all that's in Pune.
It's not like NY...'oh I think I'll have italian tonight' or 'maybe that new sushi place'.
It's a never ending supply of channa and dall, each day, every day.
For my geek friends that's:
while (daysLeftInIndia >0)
{
try
{
drink(water);
eat(vegetable);
eat(roti);
if(day == mon day== wens day== fri)
eat(channa);
else
eat(daal);
}
catch (BadFoodException bfe)
{
takeCipro(now);
thread.wait (12hours);
}
finally
{
daysLeftInIndia --;
}
}
Programmers: Note it's all in the try block, you don't want any unhandled excpetions.
Non Programmers: You just learned the sematics of a try/catch block.
Plus the Chinese cooks don't have this hangup about using meat.
The seafood in Mumbai is excellent at well.
Wanna be down
Oh and here's another fun part for me being in Mumbai.
All the wait staff are indian dudes trying to act like British butlers as much as possible.
I'm the white guy trying to act as inidan as possible.
Greet them with "ap kaisei hei" ( how are you) , order some curry and roti , eat with your hands ask for the onions and lime wedges. They will love you....
"bholie hindi?"
>>"bholie mi hindi itni ati" ( a very little)
>>" mein Poona ek mahina raha hoon" ( me pune one month being...)
My syntax is probably wrong and my accent is probably awful.
I did this at lunch one day ( becaus this is actually close to what I have for lunch most days)., They ask questions...tell you how to get around, where to find a bar...it's great.
Yeaaaah....I'm cool.
Then I got carried away.
At the Thai Pavilion at the Taj President I carried the impress the waiter thing too far.
"How spicy sir, mild or medium?"
>>"Oh I've been in india for a month...do it a touch more than medium"
Oh dear god, what a mistake....a little translation of the spice levels in India
- mild = I'd like something spicy
- medium = Do you have anything that will burn my tounge?
- spicy = Do you have anything painful, and mildly narcotic?
I think I literally got high off the chilis in that penang. Sweating, shortness of breath, time distortion...all the not so fun parts. I had to lay down and drink lassis aftet that.
DaysLeftInIndia --;
