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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: Marks DTM Calib on 01 October 2007, 21:49:30
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.....and its a good night from him!
Got to be up at 4.00am to head off to Heathrow to get my flight to India.
Back late on Friday.
Enjoy!
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bye mark ,enjoy your trip, ;D
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Bye Mark
Be sure to have a good breakfast before you go :D
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Have a good trip Mark.
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Bye Mark
Be sure to have a good breakfast before you go :D
lol i wish i didnt mention breakfasts now, you got them on the brain ;D ;D
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take care of your wallet !!
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Enjoy .. but take care :)
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Lucky bugger. Beats going to Bletchley like I have to....
Hope you enjoy it, if only for a change (as I suspect you'll be too busy to appreciate it properly) :y
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Enjoy, bring me back a curry :D
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Oi......you havent replied to my PM yet >:(
;D ;D ;D ;D
Have a good trip :y :y
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Hope all goes well mate :y
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Stay safe Mark, see you soon :y
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Yep be safe, dont drink, eat, breath or walk outside of your hotel....i speak from experience ::)
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Always fancied India just for the food. Indulge & enjoy. :y
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Always fancied India just for the food. Indulge & enjoy. :y
the food aint good out there :o
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Make sure that you've got plenty of Euros. :-/
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Enjoy if you can :y
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Enjoy, bring me back an OOF Turban... ;D ;D
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Its 38degC here.....and its only 9.00!
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Its 38degC here.....and its only 9.00!
Cool 8-)
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I'm sat in my suite on the broadband.......(its 10.15 here)
The driving here is 'interesting' and all the Taxis look like Ford Anglias or petrol powered wheel barrows. I did see a road roller but, god knows what bit of road its been used on coz I certainly haven't seen it.
They don't have big cars here, don't they they would fit......the only thing that truly works appears to be the Horn on the cars (used as an indicator, a warning, a thank you....a caffeine replacement!)
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..hope you remembered to take a cork ;D
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Got your new c/card then mark, enjoy it to the full and charge it to the company. :y
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When are you back, and i'll try and meet you.
Do you fly with Jet airways. :)
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Got your new c/card then mark, enjoy it to the full and charge it to the company. :y
No....had to pay for the hotel on my debit car....and its 210 quid a night!
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When are you back, and i'll try and meet you.
Do you fly with Jet airways. :)
I did fly jet airways, very impressed to.
Get back Friday evening....
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[size=22]Taxi![/size]
(http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b394/Marks_DTM_Calib/India1.jpg)
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Shame youre away Mark, someone has abandoned a 2.5 CDX in the carpark at work. Im going to see security to see if I can grab a few bits before it gets towed. Did you need anything?
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[size=22]Taxi![/size]
(http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b394/Marks_DTM_Calib/India1.jpg)
Taxi colours are wrong otherwise it looks just like East Kilbride.
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Got your new c/card then mark, enjoy it to the full and charge it to the company. :y
No....had to pay for the hotel on my debit car....and its 210 quid a night!
Blimey, £210 per night in Bombay? Where are you staying, in the presidential suite? :o :o
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Hi Mark, :)
I'm on late shift Friday night, if your not to tired, would you mind me coming to say hello.
I'll meet you on the Jet bridge, i'll just say hello, as you'll be wanting to get home.
Just need your inbound flight info, as they operate 3 flights in the afternoon, which we get to clean :'(
Cheers
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Got your new c/card then mark, enjoy it to the full and charge it to the company. :y
No....had to pay for the hotel on my debit car....and its 210 quid a night!
Blimey, £210 per night in Bombay? Where are you staying, in the presidential suite? :o :o
Its a club queen club room, all they had left....
Its got a queen size bed and Tv in the bedroom, marble bath, shower, lounge area with TV, 3 piece suite and desk plus a patio (I am on the 4 th floor and its still 5m x 5m!) and very starngely.......a telephone by the toilet....which they advertise as a sales feature...I know its India but thats just ridiculous!
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Hi Mark, :)
I'm on late shift Friday night, if your not to tired, would you mind me coming to say hello.
I'll meet you on the Jet bridge, i'll just say hello, as you'll be wanting to get home.
Just need your inbound flight info, as they operate 3 flights in the afternoon, which we get to clean :'(
Cheers
Its flight 118, should get into termianl 3 at 17.55....
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telephone by the toilet....which they advertise as a sales feature...I know its India but thats just ridiculous!
He He. ;D
Which service do you require? Errm. <blam> Oh, er <blam> Don't worry, sir. Large packet of Diocalm on it's way. Toilet roll is in the 'fridge.
Kevin
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Got your new c/card then mark, enjoy it to the full and charge it to the company. :y
No....had to pay for the hotel on my debit car....and its 210 quid a night!
Blimey, £210 per night in Bombay? Where are you staying, in the presidential suite? :o :o
Its a club queen club room, all they had left....
Its got a queen size bed and Tv in the bedroom, marble bath, shower, lounge area with TV, 3 piece suite and desk plus a patio (I am on the 4 th floor and its still 5m x 5m!) and very starngely.......a telephone by the toilet....which they advertise as a sales feature...I know its India but thats just ridiculous!
LOL, after a bout of Gandhi's revenge, that phone will be useful....
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Got your new c/card then mark, enjoy it to the full and charge it to the company. :y
No....had to pay for the hotel on my debit car....and its 210 quid a night!
Blimey, £210 per night in Bombay? Where are you staying, in the presidential suite? :o :o
Its a club queen club room, all they had left....
Its got a queen size bed and Tv in the bedroom, marble bath, shower, lounge area with TV, 3 piece suite and desk plus a patio (I am on the 4 th floor and its still 5m x 5m!) and very starngely.......a telephone by the toilet....which they advertise as a sales feature...I know its India but thats just ridiculous!
You'll also be paying luxury tax e.g., sit down toilet and Toilet roll, colour TV ETC.. just don't go to sleep without your trousers and T-shirt on, as you may just come back home with something................. ::)
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All back, safe and sound.
A good and successful trip in all and certainly an experience, its one of those places that makes you appreciate what you have got as its a VERY poor place.
The trips in Fiat 1100 Taxis, some of which are from the 60's, (although the same design was being manufactured right upto 2002 in India) is interesting and very cramped. They do all run on CNG (compressed natural gas) but, the driving style is out of this world, its not a place where you want to be if you need emergency medical treatment because all you get is basicaly a Midi van as an ambulance which seems to be slower at getting through the traffic than the Taxis! (everybody uses Taxis, old buses and motor trikes so there are LOADS of them)
From a maintenance perspective, some of my obesrvations were:
Lights are clearly not compulsary, rarely used and certainly very rarely work
Brakes, gearboxes and clutches dont last very long here
Road maintenance seems to be non-existant!
Roag markings are a waste of time, I counted 7 vitual lanes on a two lane road
When crossing the road you realy do take your life into your own hands
Didn't see a single policeman!
Tyres are normaly the smoothest thing on the car with the only pattern visable normaly being the threads sticking through the canvas.
Traffic lights are very interesting....some have a timer which counts down the seconds until they are going to change, this has some interesting affects.
1) Red light, timer below 10 seconds......engine revs rise and the vehicles start to creep forward.....
2) Green light, timer below 10 seconds.......this means floor it, go for it....pretty un-nerving given the other traffic will be doing point 1!
A big hello to A380 Elite who met me on the sky bridge, I hope we didn't make to much mess and that they managed to get the medi system repaired, It was great to talk to you.
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Welcome back :y
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:y You are in your home and one piece.Nothing is better !
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Welcome back M_DTM, not that you were ever away from our little corner of cyberspace, what with broadband in the room etc.
Sounds like an interesting trip to see the different culture. Reminds me a little of my trip to Egypt a couple of years back, only more extreme...
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Another couple of pictures.....in one of the quiet suburbs follwing an excellent lunch time curry.
(http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b394/Marks_DTM_Calib/India2.jpg)
(http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b394/Marks_DTM_Calib/India3.jpg)
Note in the last picture....
1) The random holes in the road
2) A small section of slum and this is a picture from one of the top office complexes in the place!
3) The scaffolding (babboo and lashings) on the tower block
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Morning Mark,
Glade you got home safely.
Jet turned around on time, panasonic, well they were still trying to sort that problem out.
I apologise for the name tag, MARK, OOF, forgot the rest you see.
Look forward to meeting yourself and others soon.
The boy next. :-?
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Morning Mark,
Glade you got home safely.
Jet turned around on time, panasonic, well they were still trying to sort that problem out.
I apologise for the name tag, MARK, OOF, forgot the rest you see.
Look forward to meeting yourself and others soon.
The boy next. :-?
I suspect I know the fault......I was watching the system re-boot on one of the screens and noting the Linux (red hat) logs as it went. It was showing corruptions in Flash (I cant beleave they used something as un-reliable as flash for storage!) which is something I know a bit about so I suspect it needs a full re-build!
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Morning Mark,
Glade you got home safely.
Jet turned around on time, panasonic, well they were still trying to sort that problem out.
I apologise for the name tag, MARK, OOF, forgot the rest you see.
Look forward to meeting yourself and others soon.
The boy next. :-?
I suspect I know the fault......I was watching the system re-boot on one of the screens and noting the Linux (red hat) logs as it went. It was showing corruptions in Flash (I cant beleave they used something as un-reliable as flash for storage!) which is something I know a bit about so I suspect it needs a full re-build!
I confirm that Mark_DTM is an expert in solid state flash. Shame he couldn't fix mine though ;D