http://bitmasala.com/blog personal bits and ramblings Fri, 01 Feb 2008 10:38:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en well, err, that's me! You might not know it yet if you depend completely on this blog to keep up with my whereabouts, because I abandoned the blog a couple of months ago: I have been home from my big journey since November. I have been away for slightly more than a year. ... http://bitmasala.com/blog/2007/12/21/gone-again/ Singapore trip review 16852 The 3 days in Singapore were my last stop of my Southeast Asia trip. I went there to visit my friends Kay and Emilia and I did not expect the city itself to be very interesting after all I have heard from other people. Accommodation is quite expensive, ... http://bitmasala.com/blog/2007/07/21/east-or-west/ In the first month of my India trip I bought a CDMA2000 1x mobile phone from Reliance India and an USB datacable. In theory, with the NetConnect service I am able to surf the net comfortably in my room at a rate only slightly higher than in an internet cafe. ... http://bitmasala.com/blog/2007/07/08/reliance-netconnect-sucks-at-times/ 16840 Spotted inside the main entrance of Masjid Sultan (mosque) in Singapore. What looks so much like an ATM , is in fact a machine to give donations to the masjid. I assume the money gets transferred directly from your banking account to the account of the masjid. And you get immediately ... http://bitmasala.com/blog/2007/07/08/edonation/ 16670 I found bills like this one sticked all over Melaka, Malaysia: Public Talk: Will Israel attack Iran?. I was a bit shocked by that title because the idea that Israel would do something like that seems to me to be quite absurd. First I wondered if the Malays were radical ... http://bitmasala.com/blog/2007/07/07/will-israel-attack-iran/ Malaysia trip review 16716 "Malaysia, truly Asia" is a slogan of Malaysia Tourism. In my opinion this claim is stupid. Of course Malaysia is Asian by definition, after all it is part of Asia. But in my opinion the slogan gives the impression, that Malaysia is somehow more Asian than other Asian ... http://bitmasala.com/blog/2007/07/07/truly-asia/ I have just uploaded a bunch of picures of the last weeks and the gallery is now up-to-date: Malaysia - Kuala Lumpur - Melaka (Malacca) Singapore India - Kolkata - Varanasi In the next couple of days I will write some blog posts about my journey in these places. http://bitmasala.com/blog/2007/06/28/gallery-update/ 16877 Yesterday I witnessed the arrival of the monsoon for the second time in the last fortnight, this time in Varanasi (aka Banaras|Kashi). I was walking in a small lane, half way from my guesthouse to my tabla teacher, when I had to stop to take some pictures of the incoming ... http://bitmasala.com/blog/2007/06/28/flushed-down/ 16658 found in the toilet of the Raggae Bar, Kuala Lumpur http://bitmasala.com/blog/2007/06/01/usage-instruction-for-western-toilet/ At the moment I am sitting in the Farang Bar in Chumphon, waiting for my train which should bring me over the border to Malaysia. I plan to be in Singapore in 2 weeks. There I will hopefully meet my friends Kai and Emilia. On the way I plan to stop in ... http://bitmasala.com/blog/2007/05/25/last-minutes-in-thailand/