By bluerasberry on July 25, 2011
I have been dating this boy named Xu since the middle of June and we have been seeing each other a few times a week. He is from Liaoning, which is the coastal province of China which shares a border with North Korea. He is doing a logistics program through Penn State’s industrial engineering department [...]
Posted in China, love, personal, Seattle, tour
By bluerasberry on April 30, 2011
So Nandan and I went to Kolkata to retrieve that 250kg of books I sent there from Seattle back in January. It arrived March 3 but no one contacted us or became aware of its arrival. I had the American shipper track it and he found in it Kolkata. We hired a customs house agent [...]
Posted in encounter, India, museum, tour | Tagged Kolkata
By bluerasberry on February 20, 2011
The temple complex at Khujaraho shows the best Hindu carvings I have yet seen and I would recommend the place to anyone is interested in the subject and has time to spend a day there. I had heard a lot about the erotic carvings there, and they are interesting, but there are maybe 10-20 erotic [...]
Posted in art, India, tour | Tagged architecture, monument
By bluerasberry on February 20, 2011
Nandan and I visited some places around Bhopal. Madhya Pradesh as a state seems more livable than Uttar Pradesh as the population seems lower, the roads are better, the cities and countryside are generally cleaner, and the government does more to make things easier for tourists. We visited this zoo called Van Vihar near a [...]
Posted in India, tour | Tagged waste
By bluerasberry on February 16, 2011
On February 13 Nandan and I visited the Taj Mahal. The architecture and the building’s history are very interesting and many people have produced media about these things. I want to write about four problems I saw during that visit: Monument entry Boy beating Queue control Filthy grounds I want to preface my stories by [...]
Posted in India, legal, rights, service industry, tour | Tagged filth, police, violence
By bluerasberry on February 14, 2011
Nandan and I went to Delhi to attend Chandan’s wife’s wedding. She seems to think of many things relating to Varanasi as having the negative attributes associated with a rural place. The wedding had guns fired into the air as part of the celebration process. I talked with a lot of people there but did [...]
Posted in education, health, India, research, tour | Tagged automaton, clinical research, school, vaccine, wedding
By bluerasberry on February 2, 2011
Nandan and I left our Mumbai friends and flew to Lucknow. We visited Imam Bara and the residency and the haunted house as before but all this was just a backdrop for planning our next moves. At Imam Bara we paid for a tour and were charged triple the price we were supposed to pay, [...]
Posted in gay stuff, India, non-profit, tour
By bluerasberry on September 7, 2010
Monday morning felt great also. We went to the Castro because I wanted to visit a certain NGO called the Center. The San Francisco LGBT Community Center, also called the Charles M. Holmes Campus, also called “The Center”, is a place where LGBT organizations can get inexpensive office space in a great location a few [...]
Posted in San Francisco, tour
By bluerasberry on September 6, 2010
Sunday was my own time. When I was wondering with Simon we went to the beat bookstore and I saw an ad for a cemetery bike tour. Jenny loaned me her bike and I aired the tires as she had not ridden in a while, and then left for the tour at the Colma bart [...]
Posted in research, San Francisco, tour
By bluerasberry on September 4, 2010
So Simon put me on the Muni to Oakland and I meet Jenny and Jeff outside the station. I had worked with Jenny at Free and Clear in 2007 and we used to go to art events. See moved to Berkeley, got a masters degree in East Asian studies, and now she is in a [...]
Posted in San Francisco, tour