India day #16
It’s a boring day. Sorry.
Sunday 11 February 2001
Why the fuck do these people get up so early?
Got my stuff together (including this book) and headed out to KSV’s house. Had a great read (The Dilbert Future, hilarious!) and nice nap in a quiet room. Breakfast was eggs, toast, and corn flakes, then a quick spot of reading before we left.
To an all-day Club Leader Training at TechnoPark, a government-funded IT park on the outskirts of town. Fantastic facilities, but the meeting was so dry. Much of it was in Malayalam, so I sat in the back, zoned, wrote in here, and read materials for most of the day. Spoke very briefly — typical BS — and chatted with a bunch of people (mostly same questions). Had a good conversation with a young psychologist about accents and little annoying quirks of Indian culture (such as the tendency to not listen). Sadly, though, our conversation was cut off by the end of the tea break, and he left soon after. Dinner after drinks (I skipped the alcohol and stood on the terrace drinking club soda for a while) — typical, typical, typical. Got heavy sales pitches from 2 guys about the park itself, but had a rough time explaining that my company couldn’t rent out space… home about 21:30; after fruit, a shower and bed.
Boring, yes. Although I did get to meet a legendary singer of the Malayalam film world whose name I now cannot recall. And boy, was that mango ever fresh…
Tomorrow: jeem leaves Trivandrum and spends hours upon hours on the night train to Chennai.
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