2007
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By bluerasberry on 2007-08-12
I have been back in Seattle now for a few weeks. Originally I planned to use this blog to write about my trip to India. Now that I am back, I think that I would like to use it for a semi-personal diary to record everything that I do. I am still sick. I went […]
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By bluerasberry on 2007-07-10
I have been in England for more than a week now and I still have stomach problems. I have not gone to London simply because I do not want to spend time there thinking about toilets, plus there is something abnormal about my thought process right now. I find myself especially excited and excitable in […]
Posted in England, health | Tagged delerium, hospital
By bluerasberry on 2007-07-08
I arrived at Heathrow on the night of the second. As soon as I was in the airport I felt like I had come home. I was very sick. It was my plan to take the tube to the train and the train to Chia and Kieran’s place in Essex, so to prepare myself I […]
Posted in animal, art, England, health | Tagged comic, food, hospital, mouse, sickness, sport, theatre
By bluerasberry on 2007-07-01
I came left Benares the night of the 28th and arrived in Delhi Friday morning. It is too hot for touts this time of year. I walked all the way through the train station and no one spoke to me. Nandan told me that I could walk to Connaught Place from the station and I […]
Posted in animal, health, India, museum, religion | Tagged Baha'i, delerium, Delhi, dinosaur, food, map, police, sickness, zoo
By bluerasberry on 2007-06-07
Today in the main Darbur Square the Young Communist League had a rally. There were a lot of people here. I do not know much about the political situation here now, but for those who do not know anything, the Communist Party of Nepal, Maoist took over the government and defenestrated the king during a […]
Posted in museum, Nepal, religion | Tagged communism, mouse, rally
By bluerasberry on 2007-06-06
At Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle there is this type of minature deer called a pudu. I watched a pudu baby grow up there and I like the animal a lot. I read in the paper about the baby having been born and that is when I went to the zoo for the first time […]
Posted in animal, Nepal, religion | Tagged Buddhism, delerium, pudu, tiger, zoo
By bluerasberry on 2007-06-03
The drive from Varanasi to Kathmandu by bus was pleasurable. I caught a night bus to Gorakpur at the bus station in Cant in Varanasi. I arrived in Gorakpur before sunlight, and had no trouble finding a connecting bus to Sunali. I arrived in Sunali in the morning, got stamped out of India and into […]
Posted in Nepal | Tagged buffalo, food, Kathmandu, palace
By bluerasberry on 2007-06-01
I have to go to Nepal to renew my visa. It expires on June 7 and my flight out is on July 2. Nandan has recommended that I go by AC bus. He will take me to the bus station tonight and if we can find such a bus to Sunali, the city on the […]
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By bluerasberry on 2007-05-31
Chandu, the tout that Nandan used about a year back, occasionally drops by to say something crazy. Usually he says that he much some rich foreigner, and that they want to buy a lot of silk without asking questions. Sometimes he takes about opening a silk shop, which he says is the surest way to […]
Posted in India, religion | Tagged astrology, delerium, morality, sex
By bluerasberry on 2007-05-29
Krista’s research on Coca-Cola is proceeding according to her hopes. The research, as I have mentioned before, is that a Coca-Cola manufacturing and bottling facility near Varanasi is taking ground watch such that local farmers have none for their crops. Also the plant is accused of not maintaining the law’s requisite percentage of full-time permanent […]
Posted in India, research | Tagged megacorp, Mehdiganj