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The other night we dropped in to Barista for our post-lecture coffee, and there were these two blokes sitting in there chatting away. When we sat down, they said – with great big friendly smiles on their faces – to

The stuff I posted earlier today – which is dated from a few days back – I actually wrote before, it's just the pace of this course has been so flat out I hadn't had a chance to edit the

On Sunday my learned colleague Rob & I elected to get the hell out of Shimla and see some of the surrounding countryside. To wit, we forked over the hefty sum of 1125 Rupees each (about 12 pounds) and hired

First week down, so here's some more choice tidbits and photographs… Our class consists of Rob the Dutch Dude, our instructor Sukhdev, and myself. There's a big old theatre in town, which was built when this was the Indian Summer

Exams, buildings and mountain views are all very well, but the thing you're all desperate to know is “What's the beer like ??”. Being the scientifically inquiring type, I set out to test this very concept the other night with

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! I just passed my first ever Microsoft examination, which confers upon me the globally recognised status of Microsoft Certified Professional. But you can call me “Mike”, for short. So that's one exam down, about another 6 to go.

So the question on everyone's lips is, “What's it like in Shimla, Jason ?”. Well I'll tell, shall I ? This place is fricken' great – admittedly this is my first time in a non-Westernised country, so a lot of

Wow, got to Shimla today, and there couldn't be two places more different ! After driving for what seemed an interminable distance across flat, dusty terrain our bus started up a gradual incline and the landscape became incredibly green. The

Hmm, that was well done… never made it to the Red Fort – apparently it was closed, but then I also had a little trouble working out wha tin the hell the guy was trying to tell me about getting

Heathrow really takes all the fun out of flying, doesn't it ? Never mind… I'm now here to tell you about my hotel room in Delhi, because I haven't organised to go outside yet (although that's immediately next on the