I have noticed some things over the last two weeks that I find odd. I am not at the end of my trip yet and I may find more but for now, let me share a few interesting things.
1) Today I am in Chennai. As I was sitting in my hotel room working on a few things, the power to the building went off. Then it quickly came back on. Then a short time later, the same thing happened again. And then a third time. And a fourth time and so on... It has been awhile since I was in Chennai and I forgot that the city has rolling blackouts because the power grid cannot handle the demands. Odd...
2) In India, the numbering system for floors in a building is a little different. The ground floor is "0". If you go up one floor, you are on "1". The next floor up is "2". And so on. In the United States, the ground floor is "1". Quite odd. Just sayin'.
3) Today In Hyderabad, I went through airport security before going to my gate for the flight to Chennai. On the outside of my backpack were two web pockets that each contained a can of unopened soda. They were in plain view. I tried an experiment. I kept them in the backpack and sent them through the x-ray machine. The backpack went through with no problems. Nobody confiscated the sodas which is what I expected. Just before I gathered my backpack as it exited the x-ray machine, one of the security guards - not the one monitoring the items going through the x-ray - noticed one of the sodas, removed it from my backpack, and put in on a table next to the x-ray machine. She didn't confiscate the remaining soda. So I tried another experiment: I picked up my backpack and asked the security guard if I could have my soda back. To my surprise, she said yes. So I picked up the soda, put it back in the empty web pocket, and continued to my gate. Try doing that in the US and not ending up getting a cavity search! Extremely odd.
4) When traveling from Cochi to Hyderabad, we took this plane. It's odd to me only because I can't remember the last time I flew on a propeller plane. Not only that, we walked out on the tarmac to get to our plane. I thought that was odd too.
5) On Corregidor island, I saw this statue of General Douglas MacArthur. Is he saluting the German Nazis - "Heil Hitler"? No, actually he is saying "I Shall Return". Could the artist not have selected another pose? C'mon now! Oddness.
6) And last but not least, in Chennai at my hotel, I encountered this sign.
So if my room number is 5021 or 5022, which way do I go? Am I missing something? I was lucky that I didn't have to figure it out: my room number was 5020. Still...too odd!
1) Today I am in Chennai. As I was sitting in my hotel room working on a few things, the power to the building went off. Then it quickly came back on. Then a short time later, the same thing happened again. And then a third time. And a fourth time and so on... It has been awhile since I was in Chennai and I forgot that the city has rolling blackouts because the power grid cannot handle the demands. Odd...
2) In India, the numbering system for floors in a building is a little different. The ground floor is "0". If you go up one floor, you are on "1". The next floor up is "2". And so on. In the United States, the ground floor is "1". Quite odd. Just sayin'.
3) Today In Hyderabad, I went through airport security before going to my gate for the flight to Chennai. On the outside of my backpack were two web pockets that each contained a can of unopened soda. They were in plain view. I tried an experiment. I kept them in the backpack and sent them through the x-ray machine. The backpack went through with no problems. Nobody confiscated the sodas which is what I expected. Just before I gathered my backpack as it exited the x-ray machine, one of the security guards - not the one monitoring the items going through the x-ray - noticed one of the sodas, removed it from my backpack, and put in on a table next to the x-ray machine. She didn't confiscate the remaining soda. So I tried another experiment: I picked up my backpack and asked the security guard if I could have my soda back. To my surprise, she said yes. So I picked up the soda, put it back in the empty web pocket, and continued to my gate. Try doing that in the US and not ending up getting a cavity search! Extremely odd.
4) When traveling from Cochi to Hyderabad, we took this plane. It's odd to me only because I can't remember the last time I flew on a propeller plane. Not only that, we walked out on the tarmac to get to our plane. I thought that was odd too.
5) On Corregidor island, I saw this statue of General Douglas MacArthur. Is he saluting the German Nazis - "Heil Hitler"? No, actually he is saying "I Shall Return". Could the artist not have selected another pose? C'mon now! Oddness.
6) And last but not least, in Chennai at my hotel, I encountered this sign.
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