Chhavi Noticed This! » Travel

monkeyshines

chhavi — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 04:29:12 +0000

Literally. In the sun.

Do you recognize the place? I’ll give you a hint: It’s not in Maharashtra

dashboard clock?

chhavi — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 04:41:05 +0000

No dashboard clock? No problem. Here’s one for easy viewing for driver and passenger both. Innovative, huh?

watches

chhavi — Sun, 15 May 2011 04:37:40 +0000

and you thought I was making it up…
Only 80 rupees for any variant. In case the second one isn’t clear, it says ESPRET…

(see blog post a’pos’tro’phe)

chinese fishing nets

chhavi — Fri, 13 May 2011 04:55:21 +0000

Another post from Kochi – these are the Chinese Fishing Nets, or Cheenavala, so called because, well, the nets come from China. They work on a unique pulley system with rocks and are fixed on the shore. Reminded me of principles demonstrated by da Vinci (when he wasn’t being used to concoct random conspiracy theories about the descendents of Christ.)
This is a throwaway post. I had to share because it’s just as pretty as the picture Meanwhile, up the shore there are men who will cook the fish for you. I thought they were actually trying to come home with me along with the raw fish, I had no idea they were cooking them on the spot!

yeah jaam, tumhare naam!

chhavi — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 05:54:34 +0000

Post 3 of 3 from a Fort Kochi menu
Those are some great Continentar options… I’m pretty partial to becked things myself, how about you?

upside down in delhi

chhavi — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 06:42:12 +0000

Where else but in saadi Dilli? This one is a pretty old – taken from Outer Ring Road, with a friend in the driver’s seat. We spotted this one night heading back after a film, soon after the #CWG and were awestruck. A whole, huge directional sign hung upside down, pointing the wrong way. Yes, that sign is above the other lane.
The next night we were heading back, we tried to capture it – shakily and blurrily and in motion, sorry!
Well, Mumbaikars could counter that at least Delhi has visible road signage! Here, every time I go to the airport, I see a car (sometimes two!) attempting to back down the flyover, having totally missed the tiny sign on the left and then having spotted the Sahar hotel, thinking “Oh $#!%@”

back of the bay

chhavi — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 06:24:10 +0000

In Ballard Estate, not too far from Elephant Gate and the navy dockyards is a wren of ill-maintained streets with idiosyncratic names that people still use, despite the MNS-ification of the nomenclature. On Goa Road is the tiny Matthieu Foss photo gallery. Finding it took us a half hour of asking and slowly zeroing in after casting quite a wide circle around the area. This charming Irani cafe beckoned from one street corner… Suitably romantic for a V’day post, I think

Grant me…

chhavi — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 09:21:33 +0000

…the sense of humor to view all things around me with some equanimity…and to stay in the moment without spiraling out of control. Like when the idiots at the stop light outside my house think that honking will vaporize the idiot in front and miraculously clear a special path for them.
Anyway, this was taken months ago in Hong Kong and while it’s a modern sculpture, there was definitely a sense of serenity around it. I kept, however, wanting to speak into my communicator watch and say “Giant Buddha…into motion!”

eww. or, rather, ewe?

chhavi — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 14:25:18 +0000

This actually says “The myth of youth guardian angel” and then the rest of the text says “enhance body energy; revitalizing to the skin” – 60 capsules made from the placenta of sheep.

Err. Right, then. The damn thing says “myth” and people still buy it? The elixir of youth based on not even a half-claim. If I remember right, these cost something like USD 100! Holy cow! Or sheep. Or something.

for real?

chhavi — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 10:57:10 +0000

I just watched “the Oh in Ohio” and was reminded that while I hadn’t gone inside this store, I did have this picture of the window display

And since a picture is worth a 1,000 words and there’s plenty of quirky objets d’art here to keep you busy, I’ll shut up.