there are often things about India that are not rational and it drives me crazy! I am a math person - i like order!
My visa is running out and I have to go to FRRO - the Foreign Regional Registration Office. It is the office that gives us our resident card too. It's riduclous. When I went there in July it was chaos. We had to fill out these forms on the computer, then go to another station and fill all the same info out on paper, then another station where they copy the information on another piece of paper and so on!!! augh!!!
Anyway they give you a 10 work day window to go. I talked to my principal to see if i could go during our standardized test day so that I would not miss any class. I arranged for that. Sree told WHY THE HECK NOT???? If you are open I should be able to come. So I had to change the day and am now missing school and a meeting with a consultant! augh! Not looking forward to a day of FRRO!
My internet stopped working and they said my plan ran out. You buy these plans for 6 months with a certain MB amount. You have no idea how much you are using etc. They don't give you a bill so you can keep up with it. they just turn your internet off and show up at your house one day demanding 7000 rupees. Which I don't have just laying around!! augh!! so They came in nov or dec. Friday my internet didn't work and page popped up on my computer that said I ran out. I figured out how to pay it then called the company to see when it would come back on - 24 hours! augh. but now I have it set up online - if only they would have told me to do that in the first place!!!
My friend Rachel and walked to a friends house that was having a clothing swap party. We nearly got hit by rickshaws multiple times. If you put your hand out when you are crossing the street they usually stop. Rachel put her hand up and the rickshaw actually touched her hand so that she was pushing the rick away. it is ridiculous! pedestrians have zero rights. and they just speed towards you and honk at you to get away instead of slowing down or stopping. BUT if someone hits a pedestrian badly, a mob of people will put him out of his rickshaw/car and beat the crap out of him!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! so bizarre. You wouldn't think they'd be so harsh - it's a miracle everyone hasn't hit a pedestrian!!
As people were pushing and shoving a queue today I was thinking how excited I will be to stand in a proper line in the states this summer. A nice grocery store line where people wait their turn in a civilized manner!
My visa is running out and I have to go to FRRO - the Foreign Regional Registration Office. It is the office that gives us our resident card too. It's riduclous. When I went there in July it was chaos. We had to fill out these forms on the computer, then go to another station and fill all the same info out on paper, then another station where they copy the information on another piece of paper and so on!!! augh!!!
Anyway they give you a 10 work day window to go. I talked to my principal to see if i could go during our standardized test day so that I would not miss any class. I arranged for that. Sree told WHY THE HECK NOT???? If you are open I should be able to come. So I had to change the day and am now missing school and a meeting with a consultant! augh! Not looking forward to a day of FRRO!
My internet stopped working and they said my plan ran out. You buy these plans for 6 months with a certain MB amount. You have no idea how much you are using etc. They don't give you a bill so you can keep up with it. they just turn your internet off and show up at your house one day demanding 7000 rupees. Which I don't have just laying around!! augh!! so They came in nov or dec. Friday my internet didn't work and page popped up on my computer that said I ran out. I figured out how to pay it then called the company to see when it would come back on - 24 hours! augh. but now I have it set up online - if only they would have told me to do that in the first place!!!
My friend Rachel and walked to a friends house that was having a clothing swap party. We nearly got hit by rickshaws multiple times. If you put your hand out when you are crossing the street they usually stop. Rachel put her hand up and the rickshaw actually touched her hand so that she was pushing the rick away. it is ridiculous! pedestrians have zero rights. and they just speed towards you and honk at you to get away instead of slowing down or stopping. BUT if someone hits a pedestrian badly, a mob of people will put him out of his rickshaw/car and beat the crap out of him!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! so bizarre. You wouldn't think they'd be so harsh - it's a miracle everyone hasn't hit a pedestrian!!
As people were pushing and shoving a queue today I was thinking how excited I will be to stand in a proper line in the states this summer. A nice grocery store line where people wait their turn in a civilized manner!
Wait in line for their turn in a civilized manner... clearly you've never driven the streets of Lexington in rush hour trafffic.
ReplyDeleteInteresting but I do not know how you do it. When people are impatient here we think it is bad but what you describe is on a different level.
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