Old Mumbai taxi.
‘Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found’ by Sukethu Mehta will give a clear in-depth of what life is all about in Mumbai. A good book to read and remains a book to read. I had a brief time in Mumbai last week and though didn’t have much time to explore but from what I can see, Mumbai is a city you do not want to miss. A real mixed on modern new and old from the past.
I had a long trip from KL to Chennai, Chennai to Coimboture then to Mumbai and back to Chennai. Half of Chennai city was flooded as I was told by an old friend Ravi. The manager of Hotel Green Park, Mr Kabir was kind enough to offer me coffee while I was waiting for Ravi at the hotel before my next flight to KL. With Ravi, we had a modest tea meal with capati along with rogan josh. We talked about old times back to year 1985-87.
This trip to India was short and travel was extensive stretching from Chennai-Coimboture-Mumbai. Though most of the flight times were all in the evening but it did drained me of the waiting and sitting period at the airport. This reminded me of my early years of travelling to Bangkok from K Lumpur by train.
Not long after finshed my college years, I decided to venture north to Thailand. I was told of much charm and beauty when you arrived Bangkok with women welcoming you with flowers and garland. Kevin decided to come along and we were very excited. I told him as what I knew about the great Bangkok, the Thais were pretty, warm and friendly, cheap shopping and great food. We took a train there of course and after a long ride, we arrived in Bangkok after about 15 hours of bone-shaking journey. As naive as we were, we expect Thai girls to welcome us with flower and garlands and to our shock, we were met with beggars trailling us every wherever we went like leeches. Things were pretty cheap though and we bought two fake watches. Mine was about RM10 and lasted less than 2 days and for Kevin’s, well it functioned more than a week before he dumped it. That year was 1988.
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