3 weeks gone. 5 to go in India.
I arrived in Durgapur 1 week ago from Kolkata. Just in case you’re wondering where the hell is this place, it’s quite near to Kolkata. 160km to be precise. It’s a small steel industry town whereby the town comprises of 1 shopping complex with some small shops surrounding it and steel factories.
I have a car and a driver, so moving around is not that inconvenient. There’s nowhere to go actually besides hotel, work and lunch at the shopping complex daily. They have a small Spencer’s (Malaysia’s equivalent to Tesco, Giant & Carrefour) 5 minutes walk from my hotel. That’s where I get my daily groceries for dinner and weekends.
However, the food varieties are quite limited though except for rice and curry powder. A can of Ayam brand tuna costs RM10, Safcol RM16, and pretty much nothing more. There’s also Ayam brand’s Salmond Wasabi Tuna. I wonder what’s that?
Life’s been pretty much the same everyday when you’re in projects. Everyday feels the same, even for weekends. It goes like :
Work — Lunch — Work — Dinner — Online + EURO2008 — Sleep
..and the routine will repeat again and again for the next 5 weeks for me.
If it’s not because of the free Internet the hotel has and EURO2008, I would sure be bored to death every night. There are 100+ channels on the TV, but most of them are Hindi shows/movies. Those channels which are my favorites like Discovery, Nat Geo and History Channel, they speak in Hindi! After EURO2008, they would be Wimbledon and Tour de France until I get back home, so things are not so bad indeed.
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