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Terribly Pathetic

What the fuck is wrong with this hotel?

It’s been 17 days since I’m staying here. There aren’t much choices of decent hotels really when you’re stuck in a place where I am now.

This is the one of only two decent hotels here in Durgapur. The ONLY reason I’m not moving to the one next door is because there’s a free broadband Internet over here. Besides, there are things like daily power cut (it happened twice as I’m writing this), poor service, super cold air conditioning and staffs speaking Hindi to me, et cetera. These things don’t piss me off as much as what happened this morning.

I HATE to be disturbed when I’m sleeping. What more after last night’s match between Spain – Italy which went to penalties and finished at 3am.

There was this idiot from the room service knocking on my room door as early as 7.30 am. I didn’t want to get up to open the door and hoped that he just gave up and come later. But instead, he kept knocking, and knocking, shouting ROOM SERVICE! all along. What really pissed me off was the way he did it. It was 10x worse than how my mum used to knock on my door when I tried to skip school last time.

I thought he wanted to bring down the whole damn door, but when he finally realized he couldn’t, he tried to open it with the card. Obviously he couldn’t since I’ve double locked it from inside. He knocked and knocked and knocked.

After 10 minutes of trying, he finally left and I went back to sleep. But after a little while, he came back again. This time he was screaming, HOUSEKEEPING! and bang! bang! bang! on the door again.

I got up, opened the door and with my sleepy face, screwed that poor guy upside down like there’s no tomorrow. He ran away.

You see, the hotel don’t provide the room doors with the ‘Do Not Disturb’ sign. Maybe I should bring one from home which I stole from many hotels in the past.

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Where On Earth Is Durgapur?

When people asked me, So, where are you now?

I replied, Durgapur.

And the next thing I knew was, Where on earth is that place?!!

It’s in West Bengal state in India, about 160km north east Kolkata. To be precise, 23°29′N 87°19′E or 23.48, 87.32.

I was playing around with Google Maps just now, so I thought I would just try to embed the map into this post and see how it shows up.
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How to Survive 8 Weeks In India

I thought my camera needs some exercise after 3 weeks of inactivity. So, here you go. Some of the food I brought from home to survive 8 weeks here.

Included are:

  • Aik Cheong Kopi O’ (My favourite!) x10
  • Japanese green tea bag x20
  • Maggi’s Fish & Chicken Porridge x6
  • Indo Mee Goreng x20 packets
  • Ayam brand’s Chilli Tuna and mackerel x4
  • Safcol’s Tuna x2
  • Kit Kat x5
  • Oreo x5 sticks
  • Spaghetti & Fettuccine
  • Fisherman’s friend and Strepsils x10
  • etc, etc

Foods

And not forgetting my 1 litre rice cooker!

It’s not that bad here actually. It’s just that sometimes it’s much more convenient and easier to cook yourself when you’re in a place like I’m in now.

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Durgapur – 5 Weeks to Go

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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