All,
As you all know I was planning on going to Mumbai today, and I had my reservations at the Oberoi hotel, which I heard is a bare nice hotel so got my friend Mr Bilal Anwar (the supposed masterminder of the underworld) to book it for me, however I get loads of txts all night asking if im ok there was some shooting in Mumbai and im like yeh of course I am im in Goa firstly and secondly if theres a shooting whats the chances I would get hit in a city of like 15 million.
Turns out it could be quite likely I would have got hit, as my hotel was overtaken by the attackers, and now there holding some hostages and stuff, man firstly I don’t know what to do, supposedly my flight to Mumbai is still cool, but noone is answering the from the hotel and I don’t know if I should still go to Mumbai and stay at say the Hyatt there or my friend Angali who is the one who called me this morning to tell me my hotel was overtaken has kindly offered to let me and my mum stay with her and her family which is in the suberbs of Mumbai. I feel bad for imposing so maybe just stay in Goa after all I have loved it a lot, I don’t know though I don’t like usually being deterred from visiting somewhere because of such reasons…
Im feeling really blessed right now, as I only decided to stay an extra night in goa as the Golden triangle was so tiring and we liked Goa so it made sense, but Thank God, we did, because I don’t know how it would have been last night in the hotel, I can imagine it being really scarry but kinda enthralling not in a sadistic way but like I don’t know just its quite intriguing as its like everyon is watching the news and watching whats going on so to be there would be like woah…
Aneway I got to go sort out our next steps and inshallah will sort out my next steps and will let you all know for sure :P
Take care
Stormy
Thursday, November 27, 2008
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Wheres the line for Metrosexuality????
Hey,
Well I’m in beautiful Goa right now and man its amazing. It helps that im staying at the park hyatt but just driving around the state of Goa is unbelievable. I cant believe its part of India as it feels so free and hippyfied. I went to this flea market today that jus so happens to happen once a week on Wednesdays so I was kinda lucky to be honest but me and my mum both loved it, it was mainly full of tourists and a lot of them kinda hippy ones and it brought back uni days for me and probably the 70’s back for my mother.
Anyway about the subject of my blog, the whole metrosexual thing I believe I have spoken about it in the past where I am a self-confessed metrosexual. However even I may have gone past the line this time, ok well as you know I been getting massages in every city I travel to or at least try to, and I had 4 now in total in India. This time I thought I would splurge as its such a nice place and my mum was getting a facial so I went for some like super-duper 3-4hr session that would make me feel younger and more regunative (this desire may have come about after my much publicized ‘Quarter Life Crisis moment’) anyway so I decided to spend A LOT of money on this treatment, so like I go in and its supposed to be male on male and female on female but there was some sort of mix up lucky me I know ur thinking and it kinda was lol! So I get this pretty fit Nepali girl who tells me to go with her, and Im not used to Nepali girls, I mean theres thousands of guys in Doha that are Nepali but girls not one I met, so chit chat was a little awkward I couldn’t really start off with ohh my houseboy or security guy in my building is Nepali as I felt that was a slightly demeaning way to start a conversation, I mean think about it the only other person u know from that country is basically a servant I don’t know to…but to me its kinda rude or midly offensive.
Anyway she started off with telling me to put my feet in some hot water and then she cleansed them, and then massaged them, at this point I was kinda feelings like Eddie Murphy in ‘Coming to America’ lol anyway I wont go into the details too much but basically I got like a scrub a wrap, a massage and then a facial and there was a fruit platter at some point in the middle of all that and a shower but man it was awesome and what was quite cool is 2 became 1 as I got another girl to come in and do the facial part, who also happened to be a quite attractive nepali girl as there were no other guys available….lol so aneway the experience really was something and I don’t usually go for the whole shebang but I think from now on I will, most guys will testify that they don’t give a shit about their skin or at least their body skin maybe their face they will clean but the rest nah, and I was the same but I started to realize how its good, and I even kinda managed to find an Islamic releation though I don’t think Islam will approve about a woman doing it or maybe spending so much but noones perfect, oh and the Islamic releation is that we should all take care of our appearance and try to look good and clean as it will represent Islam and will show your taking care of Allahs creation.
So next im off to Mumbai or Bombay if ur hip yaaaar tomorrow and I will miss Goa I wont really miss any other place but Goa I love and will want to come back again for sure…
Anyway take care and inshallah will write from Bombay yaaaar!
Stormy
Well I’m in beautiful Goa right now and man its amazing. It helps that im staying at the park hyatt but just driving around the state of Goa is unbelievable. I cant believe its part of India as it feels so free and hippyfied. I went to this flea market today that jus so happens to happen once a week on Wednesdays so I was kinda lucky to be honest but me and my mum both loved it, it was mainly full of tourists and a lot of them kinda hippy ones and it brought back uni days for me and probably the 70’s back for my mother.
Anyway about the subject of my blog, the whole metrosexual thing I believe I have spoken about it in the past where I am a self-confessed metrosexual. However even I may have gone past the line this time, ok well as you know I been getting massages in every city I travel to or at least try to, and I had 4 now in total in India. This time I thought I would splurge as its such a nice place and my mum was getting a facial so I went for some like super-duper 3-4hr session that would make me feel younger and more regunative (this desire may have come about after my much publicized ‘Quarter Life Crisis moment’) anyway so I decided to spend A LOT of money on this treatment, so like I go in and its supposed to be male on male and female on female but there was some sort of mix up lucky me I know ur thinking and it kinda was lol! So I get this pretty fit Nepali girl who tells me to go with her, and Im not used to Nepali girls, I mean theres thousands of guys in Doha that are Nepali but girls not one I met, so chit chat was a little awkward I couldn’t really start off with ohh my houseboy or security guy in my building is Nepali as I felt that was a slightly demeaning way to start a conversation, I mean think about it the only other person u know from that country is basically a servant I don’t know to…but to me its kinda rude or midly offensive.
Anyway she started off with telling me to put my feet in some hot water and then she cleansed them, and then massaged them, at this point I was kinda feelings like Eddie Murphy in ‘Coming to America’ lol anyway I wont go into the details too much but basically I got like a scrub a wrap, a massage and then a facial and there was a fruit platter at some point in the middle of all that and a shower but man it was awesome and what was quite cool is 2 became 1 as I got another girl to come in and do the facial part, who also happened to be a quite attractive nepali girl as there were no other guys available….lol so aneway the experience really was something and I don’t usually go for the whole shebang but I think from now on I will, most guys will testify that they don’t give a shit about their skin or at least their body skin maybe their face they will clean but the rest nah, and I was the same but I started to realize how its good, and I even kinda managed to find an Islamic releation though I don’t think Islam will approve about a woman doing it or maybe spending so much but noones perfect, oh and the Islamic releation is that we should all take care of our appearance and try to look good and clean as it will represent Islam and will show your taking care of Allahs creation.
So next im off to Mumbai or Bombay if ur hip yaaaar tomorrow and I will miss Goa I wont really miss any other place but Goa I love and will want to come back again for sure…
Anyway take care and inshallah will write from Bombay yaaaar!
Stormy
Monday, November 24, 2008
The Pink Effect...
Hey,
So im writing this from jaipur, it is a pretty shitty city in terms of i think a place to live but its got alot of offer in terms of culutre and its beauty. The reason i think its a shit place to live, i havent seen much stuff for people to do, like cafes and nice reasaurants the whole place baring the tourist areas seems like a proper dive!
Anyway about the tourist stuff, well its really nice, theres this palace on the water that is amazing, ill be inshallah putting pics on facebook so u can c, and the pink buildings are cool cuz its so different and a really nice contrast to the city, as i said its a bit of a shit hole otherwise so having these nice pink buildings and random bits of grand and beautiful architecture is really nice.
The last post i wrote about Akbar in my title but never went into it, well Akbar used to be one of the mogul emperors of india, and he set up base between agra and jaipur i believe in a place called fattipur sakri or something liek that, aneway its again a pretty cool place, and im reading a book right now kinda to do with Akbar, called The Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie, and its a pretty cool book and since im traveling around the moggul ends i kinda can relate to some of the descriptions in the book about the places which is pretty cool as wel. I will try to review the book once im done but i only jus started abouta fifth thru the book so its unfair to judge so far but im enjoying it.
Anyway tomorw im off to Goa, which should be intresting with my mum, but i doubt its like Ibiza or Sharm el Sheikh or at least i hope not, though i not been to Sharm, if it attracts people like Bilal Anwar then you got to be sceptical of places like that.
I found a shisha place right next to the hotel that this girl in the hotel told me about man its a sick place, its on this roof top of some office building and is so nice as u look over Jaipur and theres not many tall buildings in jaipur so u can see the stars and the whole city pretty well , and i was having Paan flavoured shisha which i only ever heard of in india i dont think u can get it anywhere else but its some serious smokking material!
I spent almost the last month with my mum which i have touched on before is quite unusual for myself as i dont tend to spend much time with my parents or family that much apart from fleeting visits every few months so its been pretty weird but kinda cool as i hope it has given my mum kinda hope that i aint that bad a son as she might have thought i was or used to be lol! Some people are really close to their family and its really nice while others are quite distant which is also ok if ur happy with it but i know some people who are distant because they think its cool or something which i think is pretty gay, as ur family or at least ur parents brought u up and did all they could for u to be the person you are, yeh fine they would have made mistakes but were human and im sure ill make mistakes with my kids and inshallah they will learn to forgive me for them, but in the end the love the family has for u cant be matched, thats not to say you should do as everything your parents say no not at all, as i have said there only humans and they can make wrong decisions that u maybe shouldnt follow but know that the decisions they make for you have ur best intrests at heart...
I guess what u know im getting at is what happened earlier in the year with me, it took me time to accept what happend and i dont know if i completely have yet to be honest, because it was kinda out of my hands but life moves on and inshallah i have to move with it, and i have no resentment towards my parents or family as all they wanted was the best for me...
When people ask me what i want in my future wife, i always reply that i want someone hot well when i go traveling i always see hot girls so they cant be a prerequireste to marriage or least my only condition i obviously do have others but ill go into them another time...aneway off to bed and prepare for Goa! inshallah will write again soon
take care
Stormy
So im writing this from jaipur, it is a pretty shitty city in terms of i think a place to live but its got alot of offer in terms of culutre and its beauty. The reason i think its a shit place to live, i havent seen much stuff for people to do, like cafes and nice reasaurants the whole place baring the tourist areas seems like a proper dive!
Anyway about the tourist stuff, well its really nice, theres this palace on the water that is amazing, ill be inshallah putting pics on facebook so u can c, and the pink buildings are cool cuz its so different and a really nice contrast to the city, as i said its a bit of a shit hole otherwise so having these nice pink buildings and random bits of grand and beautiful architecture is really nice.
The last post i wrote about Akbar in my title but never went into it, well Akbar used to be one of the mogul emperors of india, and he set up base between agra and jaipur i believe in a place called fattipur sakri or something liek that, aneway its again a pretty cool place, and im reading a book right now kinda to do with Akbar, called The Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie, and its a pretty cool book and since im traveling around the moggul ends i kinda can relate to some of the descriptions in the book about the places which is pretty cool as wel. I will try to review the book once im done but i only jus started abouta fifth thru the book so its unfair to judge so far but im enjoying it.
Anyway tomorw im off to Goa, which should be intresting with my mum, but i doubt its like Ibiza or Sharm el Sheikh or at least i hope not, though i not been to Sharm, if it attracts people like Bilal Anwar then you got to be sceptical of places like that.
I found a shisha place right next to the hotel that this girl in the hotel told me about man its a sick place, its on this roof top of some office building and is so nice as u look over Jaipur and theres not many tall buildings in jaipur so u can see the stars and the whole city pretty well , and i was having Paan flavoured shisha which i only ever heard of in india i dont think u can get it anywhere else but its some serious smokking material!
I spent almost the last month with my mum which i have touched on before is quite unusual for myself as i dont tend to spend much time with my parents or family that much apart from fleeting visits every few months so its been pretty weird but kinda cool as i hope it has given my mum kinda hope that i aint that bad a son as she might have thought i was or used to be lol! Some people are really close to their family and its really nice while others are quite distant which is also ok if ur happy with it but i know some people who are distant because they think its cool or something which i think is pretty gay, as ur family or at least ur parents brought u up and did all they could for u to be the person you are, yeh fine they would have made mistakes but were human and im sure ill make mistakes with my kids and inshallah they will learn to forgive me for them, but in the end the love the family has for u cant be matched, thats not to say you should do as everything your parents say no not at all, as i have said there only humans and they can make wrong decisions that u maybe shouldnt follow but know that the decisions they make for you have ur best intrests at heart...
I guess what u know im getting at is what happened earlier in the year with me, it took me time to accept what happend and i dont know if i completely have yet to be honest, because it was kinda out of my hands but life moves on and inshallah i have to move with it, and i have no resentment towards my parents or family as all they wanted was the best for me...
When people ask me what i want in my future wife, i always reply that i want someone hot well when i go traveling i always see hot girls so they cant be a prerequireste to marriage or least my only condition i obviously do have others but ill go into them another time...aneway off to bed and prepare for Goa! inshallah will write again soon
take care
Stormy
Sunday, November 23, 2008
Akbars ends and the drive to Jaipur!
Hey all,
Im writing this from country inns hotel or soemthing which in the centre of jaipur, jaipur from what i seen so far is a bit of a shit hole, though has some western shops and stuff it seems it was all built TIME ago and this is one of the few decent hotels i seen in the whole place but still the delhi hotel smacked it out of all of them!
Ok so in each city im staying im getting a massage in the hotel, and the one in delhi is winning so far, you know when people say you got knots in you back due to stress well i actually had them, i dont think i ever had them before in my life, anyway the massuese got rid of most of them i think but india is really stresseful with the constant badgering (it doesnt help that im gonig to all the tourist sites i know but still! ) aneway i could have met my friends father in Delhi but it was getting late and by the time she got back to me with his details it was a choice between him and a tibetan 24year old and unfortuntly the tibetan won....anyway the one i had in Agra was really bad and just a bad experience, lets hop jaipur will be better!!
aneway i best go will write more soon inshallah
take care
Stormy
Im writing this from country inns hotel or soemthing which in the centre of jaipur, jaipur from what i seen so far is a bit of a shit hole, though has some western shops and stuff it seems it was all built TIME ago and this is one of the few decent hotels i seen in the whole place but still the delhi hotel smacked it out of all of them!
Ok so in each city im staying im getting a massage in the hotel, and the one in delhi is winning so far, you know when people say you got knots in you back due to stress well i actually had them, i dont think i ever had them before in my life, anyway the massuese got rid of most of them i think but india is really stresseful with the constant badgering (it doesnt help that im gonig to all the tourist sites i know but still! ) aneway i could have met my friends father in Delhi but it was getting late and by the time she got back to me with his details it was a choice between him and a tibetan 24year old and unfortuntly the tibetan won....anyway the one i had in Agra was really bad and just a bad experience, lets hop jaipur will be better!!
aneway i best go will write more soon inshallah
take care
Stormy
Saturday, November 22, 2008
Awesome Agra 4th Wonder of the World DONE!
Hey guys,
Well im writing from the hotel called Jaypee Palace Hotel in Agra, which is a pretty old school hotel but you can tell used to be BARE nice like 10-15 years ago and now is trying to be nice in an antiquey kinda way!
Anyway today was the main reason i came to India, to see the Taj Mahal, and it was really beautiful, i mean you hear it alot and when you see it in pics you have like ohhh thats nice, but when you see it in its majesty, its massive, beautifully planned out and for me because of the Islamic influence can releate to it more so than the other wonders of the world that I have seen. Also because of the history that surounds the Taj Mahal (for those that dont know wikipedia it, but essential the king built it for his deadwife in her honour and to hold her body ) so obviously has all of us metrosexuals already instrested because of the love surrounding the building but i think even the most macho guy would appreciate what went into the building. The guide was saying back then it cost 4 billion rupes and rupes back then were BUCKS so you can imagine just how much he wasted well wasted is the wrong word but spent.
Im sure now the indian goverment is making like 4 billion ruppes every 10 years probably off it in some way or another so hes given back to his country. Anyway Agra is much more touristy than Delhi however its also alot more rural and you see alot more animals in the streets and more street people, its weird because i would have thought as so many people come here they would try to hide the poverty but they havent really done so, which is a good thing as it elevates the situation to the outside world. Tomorrow i was told the turkish primem minster is coming to see the Taj, the architect for the Taj was from turkey and has alot of turkish and persian influences so im sure that will be raised, but the reason i was mentioning it was when you get world leaders coming im surprised as most countries try to hide their poverty from other countries India acknoledges it. Lets hope inshallah over time though that the wealth in this country will be better distributed.
Anyway tomorrow im off to jaipur, so inshallah will write from there! take care
Stormy
Well im writing from the hotel called Jaypee Palace Hotel in Agra, which is a pretty old school hotel but you can tell used to be BARE nice like 10-15 years ago and now is trying to be nice in an antiquey kinda way!
Anyway today was the main reason i came to India, to see the Taj Mahal, and it was really beautiful, i mean you hear it alot and when you see it in pics you have like ohhh thats nice, but when you see it in its majesty, its massive, beautifully planned out and for me because of the Islamic influence can releate to it more so than the other wonders of the world that I have seen. Also because of the history that surounds the Taj Mahal (for those that dont know wikipedia it, but essential the king built it for his deadwife in her honour and to hold her body ) so obviously has all of us metrosexuals already instrested because of the love surrounding the building but i think even the most macho guy would appreciate what went into the building. The guide was saying back then it cost 4 billion rupes and rupes back then were BUCKS so you can imagine just how much he wasted well wasted is the wrong word but spent.
Im sure now the indian goverment is making like 4 billion ruppes every 10 years probably off it in some way or another so hes given back to his country. Anyway Agra is much more touristy than Delhi however its also alot more rural and you see alot more animals in the streets and more street people, its weird because i would have thought as so many people come here they would try to hide the poverty but they havent really done so, which is a good thing as it elevates the situation to the outside world. Tomorrow i was told the turkish primem minster is coming to see the Taj, the architect for the Taj was from turkey and has alot of turkish and persian influences so im sure that will be raised, but the reason i was mentioning it was when you get world leaders coming im surprised as most countries try to hide their poverty from other countries India acknoledges it. Lets hope inshallah over time though that the wealth in this country will be better distributed.
Anyway tomorrow im off to jaipur, so inshallah will write from there! take care
Stormy
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Delhi delights
Hey hey,
Im in the indian capital and man was it crazy when we landed we had no clue me nor my mum what was going on, but man were stayingin a sick hotel thats costing me bucks to write this!lol so ill have to keep it short and sweet as i restart my blog, well the weather is really shit here! its really cloudy and had no clue when we were going to land as the pilot felt it was too foogy to land and he was right because when he eventually did it was on the shittest landings i had in my life! Me and mum though were ok as we were not mixing it with the rif-raf as i booked buisness class as its the first hols properly me and my mum had in time, so thought i would try at least to treat her.
The driving is the same as the uk ways and the same standard as Bangladesh ie a complete mess though you can turn the country has money you can also say its got some serious issues it needs to deal with first and thats just after being int he country for an hour!
Anyway i best go but inshallah will write more on the host city for the commenwealth games of 2010 and tomorrow im off for the main reason of my visit the 4th wonder in my list the Taj Mahal! come on! and i got alot of stuff that has happened over the past few months since my last entries so will inshallah be updating on that front as well!
aneway i really best go cuz it is costing me BARE! lol
aneway take care and inshallah you will here from me soon.
Stormy
Im in the indian capital and man was it crazy when we landed we had no clue me nor my mum what was going on, but man were stayingin a sick hotel thats costing me bucks to write this!lol so ill have to keep it short and sweet as i restart my blog, well the weather is really shit here! its really cloudy and had no clue when we were going to land as the pilot felt it was too foogy to land and he was right because when he eventually did it was on the shittest landings i had in my life! Me and mum though were ok as we were not mixing it with the rif-raf as i booked buisness class as its the first hols properly me and my mum had in time, so thought i would try at least to treat her.
The driving is the same as the uk ways and the same standard as Bangladesh ie a complete mess though you can turn the country has money you can also say its got some serious issues it needs to deal with first and thats just after being int he country for an hour!
Anyway i best go but inshallah will write more on the host city for the commenwealth games of 2010 and tomorrow im off for the main reason of my visit the 4th wonder in my list the Taj Mahal! come on! and i got alot of stuff that has happened over the past few months since my last entries so will inshallah be updating on that front as well!
aneway i really best go cuz it is costing me BARE! lol
aneway take care and inshallah you will here from me soon.
Stormy
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