HHNY

Today is Bikram Samwat, which is Hindu New Year.

This means that by tomorrow I will have celebrated 4 New Years this year:

- Potato New Year ("ralph ralph fondle ralph")

- Chinese New Year ("Kung Hei Fat Choi")

- Vietnamese New Year ("Chuc Mung Nam Moi")

- Indian New Year ("Excuse me do you know where the training room is?")

It is obviously a holiday here because the traffic has eased. However, we are all still cramped into a little training room in the corner of the large floor. The only other people I can see on the floor are potatoes - other idiots with poor timing.

Bryan turned up late today - about 6 hours late to be precise. His new driver had taken him to the wrong venue. Poor Bryan.

This Window

This window. From my hotel room.

I suppose you could also say that about the wall.

This window looks out, misleadingly, onto a charming balcony. There are chairs and a small, clean table and a tiny ashtray. The noisy, forbidden fruits of the smoker.

The Shining Leela Palace

Could they have possibly put my room any further from the lift?

And even if they did ... why did they need to shove me there with it?

If you listen carefully, you can hear fatty puffing from the strain.