Traineeship in Chandigarh

bye!

2007-08-11T13:45:00.003+05:30

so, this is it. i leave tomorrow for atlanta. and i just wanted to say to you all:
thanks for an amazing time all of you - this summer has been incredible, very much due to you people.
i will miss you all, and please please keep in touch! good luck with everything - and see you soon.

love you!

-Maddie Stoddart, USA
maddie@aiesecgt.org

Dharamsala

2007-07-10T22:21:00.000+05:30

Here we go

... and a mountainview ...

... and we all know the buddha rocks here ...

who is going to Dharamsala??
--> Ask Sterling! He arranged the big house!!!!

(edited by Jan) ;-)

Shimla

2007-06-11T11:54:00.000+05:30

Coming weekend (16.06 - 17.06) we want to travel to Shimla

Who wants to join?!

Departure: Saturday morning 7.00am!

Where: Bus from the ISBT

Arrival in Chandigarh: Sunday night ...

Please leave a comment or write an SMS

The following persons join:

- Jaspreet
- Julie
- Catilin
- Meerita
- Justine
- Halina
- Sterling
- Marc
- Jan

Jan

Pirates of the Caribbean 3

2007-06-04T12:27:00.002+05:30

Does anybody wants to join this thursday - 7:45pm?!

I can arrange the tickets, but send me a message till Tuesday!
(Comment on this blog or SMS)

Who is coming :

- Halina
- Meerita
- Manveer
- Samantha
- Caitlin
- Julie
- Leonie
- Femke
- Cathy
- Midori
- Madeline
- A new trainee from Mohali ;-)
- Me

Jan

Amritsar This Weekend?

2007-06-04T11:40:00.000+05:30

Hey guys,

Maddie and I just came back from the Aiesec Conference in Delhi. Apparently there are a lot of trainees in Delhi. We did have discussions about Aiesec India and stuff and we realised that this issue does not occur only in Chandigarh. We have raised issues on reception and interaction between Aiesec India and the trainees. The trainees in Delhi was a really fun bunch. We had alot of booze and stuff. But the sessions in the conference were pretty bad. Basically, most trainees are not satisfied which they way AIESEC India is run here. So practically trainees had their own party at the conference and the Aiesecers in India had their own fun by themselves as well.

Maddie and I are planning to go to Amritsar this weekend. So I'm just wondering if anyone is interested to go there. We will be going to Amritsar then we will heat to Attari which is just an hour plus from Amritsar. Some other trainees from Gurgaon (Some place near Delhi) might be joining us as well.

Do let me know if u guys wanna go to Amritsar this weekend k?
My contact is 9876868839.
Does anyone have facebook? Maybe we cankeep in touch which that.

Cheers,
Cathy

Biking Action Around Chandigarh

2007-06-02T15:34:00.000+05:30

Biking Action around Chandigarh

The 4th of June (Coming Sunday)

Me and Halina plan a tour with the bicycle through the mountains near Chandigarh.

It will only be a one day tour ... so nothing to worry, just for fun!

Who is interested just leave a comment, email one of us or SMS ;-)

The "direction" is painted in the map:
The green point is the START and the direction, yeah, you see ...

In this sense ...

Ok, hope to hear from you!

UPDATE

Participants up to now:

Jan

Halina

Jaspreet

Harveen

Party At Trainee House Chandigarh (Sec. 21)

2007-06-01T15:04:00.000+05:30

At the Trainee House Chandigarh (#124, Sector 21)

Nothing is prepared, drinks everybody has to arrange himself, but we like to share and we serve an athmosphere that rocks!

C u tonight!

Jan

REVIVAL of the Trainee Blog

2007-05-30T11:13:00.000+05:30

Hello girls and boys,

after long time period this blog seemed to be dead ...

But we are back ... posting newest events, gossip and of course embarassing pictures ;-)

I hope that we will together take hands, post like hell and pray for this blog to survive.

Why?!:

Be informed everywhere about everything that happens in Chandigarh

Keep in contact with our subsidiaries in the suburbs of Chandigarh ;-)

Opportunity for new trainees to get in contact with us

Samantha granted me access in an administration role. So I would suggest that you send me an email or SMS if you want to be invited and write posts ...

So: 1, 2, 3 ... GO!

Greetings from the freezing office in Chandigarh City

Jan

P.S.: I like the game with the colours ... cool feature ;-)

Chandi beers

2007-03-12T23:19:00.000+05:30

Is this blog still alive? Are there any trainees left in Chandi?
I was wondering if you Chandigarians could help setting up a list of local beer brands, or basically those ones available and the alcohol stalls. I remember they were changing a lot back when I stayed there (MHA!). For some time the local dealer had certain brands available, other times not. And, shame on me, the only brand I remember is Hayward 5000! Well, and Kingfisher, of course.
So now I was trying to recall some of those sweet memories and realized my memory is quite blurred. So the list goes... Can you help?

Hayward 5000!

Upgrade Accounts

2007-01-31T20:13:00.000+05:30

If you still want to post to this blog, you'll need to upgrade your current blogger account to the new version. Contact Samantha for Gmail invitations if you need them.

2006-11-10T23:40:00.000+05:30

hi everybody
we went to samantha's on friday it was greeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaattt !!!!!!!!!!

Featured Posts

2006-09-24T14:36:00.000+05:30

Hey Ex-trainees!

While waiting for one of the new trainees to volunteer to be the Blog Administrator, I've added a new section to the right - Featured Posts. This will contain links to past posts that would be useful to current/future trainees. Any of you ex-trainees have any other suggestions for posts that you would find useful as a new trainee?

Welcome New Trainees!!

2006-09-21T01:38:00.000+05:30

Anyone have a photo of the huge trainee dinner the other night? If you do, then please post it on the blog. I'd love to see it!

2006-09-20T22:47:00.000+05:30

Good Luck My Dear Friend!!!

2006-09-13T06:39:00.000+05:30

Hello Everybody,

Well, this short post is just to wish the best to my dear friend Kent, who is in his way to become a mummy in the ancient Egypt.

Hope you will have a blast in this next months my dear friend.

Cheers for Kent!!!

Salud

Salvador.

Slight problem...

2006-09-10T19:42:00.000+05:30

Martina, the present blog administrator, is leaving tomorrow. And although there are lots of new trainees (4-5 Nigerians just arrived, and Anja from Germany arrived as well), none of them have regular access to the internet at work. So who will be the next administrator? AND who will read the blog in Chandigarh except me, the poor wannabe trainee?

Any of you trainees have any ideas (or I guess you ex-trainees since no trainees seem to read the blog anymore)? Maybe Martina can administer the blog from Germany until a trainee shows up who has access to the internet? She's travelling around India for 2 weeks, but maybe after that??

Trainees In Bollywood

2006-09-10T12:34:00.000+05:30

Hello Chandigarh & everyone else!
How are you all? I just thought I’d update you all on my movie stardom & encourage you all to go & see what is obviously gonna be THE best bollywood movie of all time, I know this because 2 of the coolest trainees are in it!
Yes on the 8th of September, mine & Lucie’s big bollywood adventure was unleashed in India!
For those of you that don’t know this is the film me & Lucie ‘starred’ in whilst holidaying in Mumbai!!!
Go see it (if you can handle that much Emraan Hashmi!) & let me know what it’s like! Don’t think it’s coming to Cairo just yet but I’m sure I can track down a copy once I get back to Bonnie Scotland!
Jean

PS for any those of you who can’t get enough of the film – there’s more about it here!

Back home missing Chandigarh

2006-09-08T01:23:00.000+05:30

Hi Everybody, finally I am back home in Germany, not yet in Berlin but at my parents place. Dubai was nice for a 24hrs stoppover and a good place to break every rules for financial safety due to unlimited shopping possibilities.I just write to tell that I really miss Chandigarh and somehow the Indian atmosphere. Everything is so quite here, seems I became deaf. And where are all the colours gone, was the rest of the world always grey ? Why do I have to cut the pinnapple myself and instead of using nicely formed leaf plates, there is dish washing to do after consuming food. Even worse, although I like cooler wheater, Its terrible 15 degrees and I am freezing. I remember my arrival in Dubai being happy with acceptable warm 38 C and luckily hardly any humidity. There is much to organize here, starting with a new appartment, no car anymore, bank overdraft, big examinations etc. The live in India was somehow easier and yes I was missing my friends home, missing now the trainees even more.
Funny was that today a friend brought the DVD "Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham" (sometimes happy, sometimes sad), so I will enjoy 210 minutes of Bollywood tonight. There are also a lot of documentations about India in the TV at the moment.
The strangest thing is that back home you try to tell all the stories about India and show pictures, but hardly anyone can probably realize how this place and also the trouble sometimes really is, so without you trainees I feel a bit alone in my world at the moment, and things are chanching rapidly, back in my old clothes with old friends in the old clubs, seems I was never away, but there is this big time and of course in addition the time before in Southeast Asia and Australia, so many worlds, which are not reachable for only a weekend. I hope my later job will bring my around a lot, so being able to come back to all those places.
Ok, I really hope I will see you back in future, everyone is warmely welcomed in Berlin every time and can get sightseeing for 60 rupees per hour.
Oh, before I forget, here is a nice movie making fun about the indian call centers, you need broadband, but than its fun http://callcentermovie.com/movie/movie2.html .
So, I wish everyone the best in India, enjoy even the stress because the overall atmosphere is funny, food is cheap, you get attraction simply because you are european, etc.
Lets see, how Germany will get my heart back :-) .
Greetz.
Roman

PIGS Brunch Chez Moi: Take 2!

2006-09-06T18:11:00.000+05:30

More of you better show up this time - no excuses!!

Sunday, September 10
11am
My house - just ask Martina or send me an SMS if you don't know where.

Bring some food to share. I'll provide juices, plates and cutlery.

Unfortunately I don't have a big nice patio, so this will be mostly indoors with a balcony some people can sit out on as well.

Please forward this on to any other foreigners who might be interested in coming.

And if anyone's interested in a soccer match at 9am before the brunch, let me know.

(PIGS - Punjab International Gourmet Society: An informal brunch held once a month at somebody's house where all the foreigners in Chandigarh can get together and socialise.)

Hello?

2006-09-06T12:36:00.000+05:30

How many trainees are in Chandigarh these days?

Probably not as many as there were applicants for the Chandigarh LC. A whopping 564, if my numbers are correct. I think 65 were selected in the end. That's crazy if you ask me.

This one looks interesting.

2006-09-02T18:42:00.000+05:30

Anyone wanna go?

Today

2006-09-02T10:22:00.000+05:30

Exhibition at the Alliance Française

2006-08-17T19:40:00.000+05:30

I just don't know what to say...

2006-08-12T18:30:00.000+05:30

So yesterday I read an article about an Indian 20something living in the UK.  He is the son of a successful businessman, and has been over here helping run the business.  And one evening he went out to the movies or somewhere with three Swedish girls that he was friends with.  They enjoyed the movie and went back to his hotel room and ordered room service and had dinner.  All very innocent I’d point out, and after a few drinks, the girls fell asleep in his room – two on the bed and one on the couch.

Now here’s where it gets interesting…

In court his lawyer described him as a geeky guy, unaccustomed to western ways, and that – quite accurately – such a situation is unheard of in India (3 girls sleeping in a guy’s room).

However, now we’ve all been in different cultures, unsure of what to do in certain situations, but hands up anyone who’s thought that rape is the appropriate solution?!

In the middle of the night he got himself naked, took off one of the girls’ skirts and her underwear and jumped on top of her.  She didn’t wake up, but one of her friends did.

But of course it gets better… what would you suppose the British courts would deem a fitting punishment for this sexual assault?!

…An apology.

I just had to laugh with disbelief when I read it.  Un-frikin-believable.

Traineeship in Chandigarh

2006-08-08T14:59:00.000+05:30

Hello everyone. This is the first time I've posted anything here, and it's actually after my (incredibly short) traineeship was over!

So how's Chandigarh? Still not raining I hear. It's a bit hot here too - currently I'm in Jodhpur, sheltering in an a-c internet cafe!

Where's Theresa? Has no one added her yet?

Goodbye India!

2006-08-04T12:57:00.000+05:30

Hi ! As our traineeship at Mobera Systems is already over since a month, we now put together some pictures from our travels from Kashmir over Rajasthan to finally Goa. We enjoyed the time in Chandigarh very much and the time with the trainees was always great, so greetz to everyone who spendet time with us and definitely had fun as well. The internship at Mobera couldn't have been better, with all the birthday parties and nice employees. Felt very familiar, so farewell from work was hard as well. Through our travels we really found out, that the diversity in India is awesome, from the Himalaya and Tibetians in the very north, over the nice Muslim community in Srinagar, to the Desert in Jasailmer and the rainforest in the south. People, food, language, weather and religions are changing constantly, what unfortunately never changes is the trouble with tourist traps, rickshaw drivers and the fact that you're always been lied to for getting some money out of you. Actually, we covered a huge area this month, so trains and bumby busses became a kind of second home, in fact a home, everyone is willing to leave with pleasure :-) . Nikolai goes to Cairo now to visit Jean for a couple of weeks being back in Chandigarh in 2 weeks for a quick visit to Mobera. The next destination will be Sweden to study there for a semester, cold in winter but blond girls. Roman goes further south to the cape, than up again to Kolkata, Darjeeling and Nepal. He will spend a couple of nights in Chandigarh at the end of August, before going back to Germany to have an arrange marriage with a farmer girl from Baveria :-) . So, here they are, photos from the last month:

Hope to see you all someday again. Lovely Greetings Roman & Nikolai

PIGS Brunch

2006-07-31T13:04:00.000+05:30

Here's an invitation to the next PIGS (Punjab International Gourmet Society) Brunch. New trainees - this is an informal get together held every month for all the foreigners in Chandigarh. All trainees are invited.

~~
hi everybody,

it's time again for another PIGS brunch.

Date: Sunday, 6th August 2006

Time: 11.00 a.m. - 3.00 p.m.

Venue: [Address omitted - message/e-mail me for the address]

Please bring along some snacks ( sweet or salted, hot or cold) preferably no salads,
also some juice, cold drinks, coffee!

If you like to swim please bring your swimdress and a towel along.

Looking forward to meet you!

Maria and Walter Kissinger

Reading Recommendation: Third-class Ticket

2006-07-30T18:59:00.000+05:30

Here's a new reading recommendation to follow-up on a prior post and comments.

Third-class Ticket
by Heather Wood

I just started this book and I really like it so far. I borrowed it off my boss who bought it when she was in India ten years ago, so I hope it's still in print.

An old wealthy lady dies and in her will, she leaves enough money to the Indian Railway Company to send all the people from her poor village on a railway tour of India. These people have never seen most of their own country and are amazed and changed by the journey. The author is a Canadian (from Red Deer, Alberta) who was lucky enough to travel with them for 7 months and penned a novel recounting their story.

one more: best/worst/funniest

2006-07-28T22:34:00.000+05:30

No posts for quite some time here, so I just thought I'll drop a line to the Chandi-Blog. I had been in Chandigarh from Nov 2004 to July 2005, so that's quite some time ago. Does anybody remember Manimajra House? (MHA??!)

Anyway, I am quite late with this, but wanted to mention best/funniest/worst India experience. It's tough to fix it to a single one each, but in the end it really doesn't matter.

Best

We had just come back from a one-week stay in Srinagar and it had been at quite the end of my almost 9 month stay. At ISBT I jumped out the bus from Jammu, and I already had a sensation of coming back home. Packed with luggage I looked like they perfect prey, so it was the normal situation "Sir, where you go?" "Hotel? Cheap? Come!" and rickshaw guys pushing you in some direction. Over time I had begun enjoying those situations, but this time a guy topped it all:
From the rear part of the crowd he quickly stepped to the front through the other guys and proclaimed: "Ahh, Mister Hennes! Manimajra? Modern Housing Complex?"
I was so happy that I had almost hugged the guy. That really felt like coming home! I didn't even ask the price, and as far as I remember, it was the normal 40-60 Rs....

Funniest

Riding a cycle rickshaw was definitely unforgettable. I still remember the smile on the driver's face, sitting in the back next to Luisa and all the other rickshaw drivers shouting something and laughing. At the same time I have to express my respect to those cycle rickshaw guys, because after two sectors you clearly feel your load and the fun is turning into some real exercise!

Edited/added on August 6th: Actually at minute 2:20 of this video you can see that rickshaw thing. Btw, I uploaded the whole bunch of videos I cut, just go to the playlist.

Worst

Well, who would be stupid enough to put all (ALL!) his valuable belongings into one single backpack when travelling to Goa? I did, and that one got stolen from right above my head from the waiting deluxe bus to Delhi. It didn't only include digicam plus all tech equipment like CF cards, MP3 player etc., it also carried my diary and other personal stuff, which I think was even worse. Being in Goa without camera, a nightmare.

At the same time I got in close touch with Indian bureaucracy. That is, going to the police office at ISBT and trying to "fill in" (free-form!!) a report, which name I don't remember (maybe F.I.R. or similar). In fact, I had the choice between two versions, a simple missing report and another one, which would induce an investigation. That actually only Rahul from AIESEC could explain to me after he arrived at the scene (thanks again for that!!) Before that no one spoke any english, no one felt like explaining anything, and so I wrote that 2-page report 4 (!) times, because each time something was missing and could NOT be solved by crossing it out *sigh*

By the way, we could catch the deluxe bus to Delhi 2 hours later and also could catch the flight to Bangalore!

Traineeship In Cairo

2006-07-10T12:50:00.000+05:30

Salam!
How are you all doing? Chandigarh appears pretty quiet these days…Just thought I’d send you all greetings from Cairo! Its great here but the trainees are nothing like the cool chandigarhians I spend the last year with!

Last night I had a very exciting experience that was nothing to do with the World Cup - I used a washing machine!!
Do you know it’s been over a year since I used a washing machine – it could possibly have been one of the happiest moments of my life. I felt like a housewife that has just been freed from the shackles of the sink (or bucket if you’re in India!) …amazing how much technology has advanced in my year’s absence from Normal Life!
It is perhaps the first model of washing machine ever invented (even older than the one in Panchkula!) & the directions are written in Japanese! Of course, why not?! [But I’m telling myself it’s just a cool new retro design]

So yes the Pyramids are breathtaking, the Nile is outstanding, the Red Sea exciting…but this washing machine has really won my heart! I’d love to have some pictures of Egyptian life to share with you all but every camera I’ve touched in the last week seems to have broken…maybe later.

Maasalaama
Jean
X

World Cup

2006-07-06T22:56:00.000+05:30

mytraineeship.net

2006-07-02T18:03:00.000+05:30

A friend of mine told me about the new website www.mytraineeship.net. It's purpose is to collect blogs and information websites of trainees doing interships around the world.

So, if you've got a blog about your traineeship (or posting ;) in India go ahead and add it to the database to give other people the opportunity to read about your experience.

Traineeship in Chandigarh

2006-06-26T18:10:00.000+05:30

Traineeship in Chandigarh

First of all we have a new trainee. Alice Little from Britain. Wellcome. She has come , thank god, to keep me company in the trainee house. We are planing al lot of weekend trips for the next week. So if anybody is interested to join us, especially you Samantha, just let me know.

It's time for great emotions

2006-06-19T10:59:00.000+05:30

Germany 2006

Announcing our next match tomorrow, Tuesday @ 18:30:
GERMANY vs ECUADOR

Martina and me will celebrate in the English Garden
(Sec. 17, Restaurant Mehfil), so meet us there and ...
let's kick ass !!!

An Icelanders Indian Memories

2006-06-17T08:46:00.000+05:30

My Worst India Moment(s)
On my way home to The City Beautiful I took a Sleeper Bus fro Udaipur to Delhi. Ofcourse my bunker bed was the ONLY one not to have curtains. So, ofcourse, the lovely Indian men sleeping around me all had their curtains open for the view. I turned to the window and tried to ignore it and sleep.

In the middle of the night, I woke up to something stroking my butt. I decided someone had been passing by and accidentally bumped into me (now, after all this time in India, don´t ask me why I gave these Indians the benefit of the doubt).

A few seconds later, I got stroked a second time. I realized it was no accident. So, when the third stroke came, I rushed up and saw an Indian jump behind the curtains of his bunker bed across the hallway.

I opened the curtains and started yelling “Excuse me, excuse me” at the man who lay there pretending to be fast asleep. After a few loud “Excuse me´s” he pretended to wake up with a confuzed expression on his face. Pathetic! I screamed a few well-picked words in Hindi, but seeing as I had been working with children during my traineeship, my vocabulary was limited to colours, animal names and such. In the end (as I usually did with the children) I made him apologize: “Bollo: Sorry – Bollo: Sorry”. What an asshole!

The story is not finished! After a whole night on the bus, I took a bus from Delhi to Chandigarh, ran some errands in Sector 17 and 35 and took a rickshaw back home to the traineehouse. Now, when I took of my clothes to take a shower, I noticed a BIG hole in the back of my trousers. YES, the Indian gentleman had been cutting a hole in my trousers when I was sleeping. And, I had walked around Delhi and Chandigarh with my underwear showing the whole day.

Amazing Indian Men

My Best Indian Moment
Oddly enough, I had to think for a while before I could find a good moment from India... most of my memories seem to involve harassments of one sort or another.

I will give my “Best Indian Moment” to my favorite stalker: Narinder Singh “The Guardian of Tourists”. As I´m sure many of you did, I had the pleasure of bumping into him quite often.

He had the best explanation to why Indian men think they are “all that”. They concider themselves to have very large Johns. So large in fact, that us western women would much rather be with an Indian man than one of our own. Now, I never experienced an Indian John during my stay. Obviously a grave mistake. Can anyone vouch for this?

Amazing Indian Confusion

Funniest Indian Moment
In the beginning of my traineeship there were about thirty trainees around. Someone had heard of a circus coming to town and we all baught tickets. I hadn´t had much experience with India or Indians at that time, so I went, expecting a circus – a real circus.

Dear lord! It was the most awful entertainment.

There was a man on stage making his dogs roll over for ten minutes.

A girl lay on the ground and an huge elephant layed on top of her. I would have been more disgusted if it hadn´t been for the ridiculous giant advertisement for “Mandir Taylors – Suits and Sarees” hanging over the elephants back which kept my attention.

The best moment was when twenty girls came to the stage holding flags. They walked around in circles for five minutes, without doing so much as waving one flag.

All this, and more, went on to the most hilarous music. Repeatedly they´d play Circus-versions of The Beatles “Hey Jude” and Phil Collins “Groovy Kind of Love”.

Amazing Indian Entertainment

Granny Jean is leaving Chandigarh!

2006-06-16T00:31:00.000+05:30

Granny Jean

Never without a drink in her hand... And very cranky when she doesn't get her 8pm!

But where would we have been without you DJ-ing. Certainly the international dance styles wouldn't have bloomed so well!

So on behalf of all the past traines, current trainees, stalkers and wierdos you've met along the way, Chandigarh will miss you.

Enjoy Egypt!!!

World Music Day

2006-06-15T17:51:00.000+05:30

Best/Worst/Funniest Awards

2006-06-14T18:38:00.000+05:30

Damn you for making me reminisce, Sam!

Best Moment

It has to be shooting the movie…  spending a day kissing Dobi while dressed as a soldier – you can’t go wrong with that really!  And then dressing up as a rather dashing Navy Captain which meant I could recreate the scene where Richard Gere picks up his lady and walks off into the sunset with any obliging young lady.  I want to be a movie star!  …again!

A close second has to be when, a few days after arriving in Panchkula, I was getting ready to go to Manali and got talking to Kent, who I hadn’t really spoke to that much beforehand, and told him that I was really looking forward to going away for the weekend.  When he asked why, I promptly told him that it was because I wouldn’t have to see his ugly face while I was away.  And so it was that a friendship was born based upon friendly insults from Kent, and honest insults on my part (just kidding Kent…)

Worst Moment

Having random things stolen from my room, and my first bike, Agnes, taken for a joy ride, abused and then returned as a complete wreck.  Only to be repaired and stolen a couple of weeks afterwards.  Or maybe it was getting my second bike stolen.  I also heard rumours that my third bike was stolen as I left the country…

Funniest Moment

Salvador is better at telling this story, but I’ll have a go anyway…

It all happened during one of the traditional RMS trainee’s Saturday Chats between myself, Vladan, Salvador, Marian and Arno/Parno.

During his time in India, Arno developed an evil personality at RMS, Parno, owing to some confusion between pork and porn (that’s another story though…)  and we were talking rubbish about that during a group MSN chat, when we started to wonder why Marian was being so quiet (this was his first time joining in the conversation)  So we guessed that it was because the evil Parno spirits (at this stage I’d like to point out that we were working Saturdays, and so even the slightest distraction became amusing…)  had infected him.

I think it’s also worthwhile to note at this point that Marian’s keyboard was quite temperamental, and only some of the keys worked – a problem he had raised a couple of times before, but of course being in India, nothing was done about.

So when Marian tried to defend himself, all that he could say was a clearly demonically possessed “hshffmmwinf”  or something along those lines…  and now I can get around to the Funniest Moment bit…

This garbled comment was enough to crack me up, but I was managing to control my laughter - until I heard Vladan laughing out loud way over at the other end of the office.  The laughter was still pretty much under control until I looked over my shoulder to see what state Salvador was in.  At this point Salvador also looked over at me, in pretty much the same state I was and once eye contact was made we were both pushed over the edge into uncontrollable laughter.  Salvador was beyond control now, so thought it would be best if he left the office and seek solitude in the toilets to calm himself down.  Only to make himself laugh even more with the realisation that his attempts to suppress his laughter resulted in some rather dubious groaning sounds coming from the toilet cubicle…

And so he had to leave the toilets which weren’t helping his situation and leave the building completely for a cigarette break.  Only now as he was struggling to control his laughing, the owner of the company happened to walk past and ask him how he was doing…

Salvador’s description, and acting out what happened, when he finally returned to the office rounded off the whole event nicely, ensuring that no work would be completed for the rest of the day as we kept falling back into laughter about it all.

And I know the post is already quiet long now anyway, but I also need to mention my close second…  when during a horror movie, The Grudge, Benjamin managed to recreate the ‘scary’ noise that had been used throughout the movie, during one of the tense scenes by slurping the remains of his drink through his straw…  that in itself slaughtered me, but Johanna’s persistent confusion about why me and Ben were laughing meant that my face hurt from laughing way into the journey back from Fun Republic.

Random Question Time

2006-06-13T15:58:00.000+05:30

I was wondering does anyone know a good website where you can share your personal videos/film clips?
I mean a site where you can upload them and friends etc can view them... nothing like youtube or that public!

Any ideas/suggestions would be most welcome!

Best/Worst/Funniest?

2006-06-12T21:40:00.000+05:30

Wow, this is tough. I need to submit the candidates to my brain for voting. Hopefully the voting will be fair and democratic, without any influence from the other lobes. Sorry for the lack of pictures, maybe i'll upload them some day.

Best Moment:

Hanging out in the back of a liquor stand with the Panchkula police eating chapati, daal, and aloo and drinking some beer. Highlight of the night was getting to hold a rifle.

Worst Moment:

Although I was already back at home, the day that same liquor stand was demolished was a rough one. So many memories went down in a cloud of dust.

Funniest Moment:

Buying liqour at said liquor stand for christmas party, only to have a case of beer fall off one of the bikes. Five were lost in the debacle, however we did manage to save a horse from being crushed by a cart. I'm still trying to figure out why this is funny....

I find it odd that my most memorable moments from Panchkula are based around a liqour stand. It's justified as follows:

Internship at Company = Bad, Liqour = Happy, therefore Liqour + internship at company = necessary to remain sane. Hmm...that made no sense.

Music

2006-06-12T12:47:00.000+05:30

PIGS Brunch

2006-06-11T00:01:00.000+05:30

PIGS = Punjab International Gourmet Society
(i.e. foreigners in Chandigarh who get together once a month to share food and socialise)

It's time again for another PIGS potluck brunch! Trainees are all welcome to my house for a cool air-conditioned break from the hot summer. But for those die-hard sunlovers, there are two balconies where you can enjoy the warm air.

Sunday, June 18
11am

Please bring enough food to feed the number of people in your party. I'll supply juices, soft drinks and whatever alcohol I have in my liquor cabinet (warning - my liquor cabinet is rather limited).

I'll start...

2006-06-10T17:25:00.000+05:30

Since I'm not actually on a traineeship, then I'll just describe my best, worst and funniest moments relating trainees.

Best Moment:
During the Christmas party in Panchkula that Kent's boss paid for, when during the first five minutes of the feast when everyone dived into the cheese, all you could hear was "Mmm... Yumm... Mmmm" and various other expressions of satisfaction. It was a great shared moment that only we could have understood and appreciated.

Worst Moment:
Saying goodbye to so many trainees, like Johanna & Ben, Kent, Nacho, ... and the hardest was Ryan because he was the one I had spent the most time with (and because he's a great guy, of course).

Funniest Moment:
Definitely Alcolympics By Night. Watching drunk people run crazily in the wrong direction after having chugged beer, spun around in circles and had their retinas burned out by a camera flashing right in front of their faces was priceless!

FORMER TRAINEES UNITE! SAVE THE BLOG!!!

2006-06-10T17:15:00.000+05:30

Now that Jamie, the blog administrator is gone, and Jean, also a frequent blogger is leaving soon, the trainee blog is in grave danger of going extinct as bloggers become an endangered species in the trainee community in Chandigarh. (Or one could say that the trainees themselves are the ones becoming endangered.) There are only 4, soon to be 3 trainees left in Chandigarh. So we need to convince them that the blog is a fun and happenin' place to whittle your hours away at work.

To all the former trainees, here is your call to show your support to the blog! Here is the challenge:

Create a new post describing your best, your worst, and your funniest moments during your traineeships in Chandigarh.

Feel free to give a little background for trainees who weren't around during those moments. And if you can't think of all three moments, then just list the ones you can think of... Or if you can't think of any, then just post something, anything!

SPREAD THE WORD! SAVE THE BLOG!!

A cultural event

2006-06-10T17:06:00.000+05:30

Traineeship in Chandigarh

2006-06-09T16:53:00.000+05:30

Hi, I just try to find out how every thing works in this blog. How can you post a photo?

BBQ at Sandra's

2006-06-09T12:59:00.000+05:30

For the four trainees who are left in Chandigarh, Sandra (one of my colleagues) would like to invite you to an informal BBQ at her house tonight at 8pm. If anyone needs the address, then send a text message to me (or Jean). Afterwards, if you guys want to stay over at my place, then you are welcome to.

I asked her what we could bring and she said that dessert would be good.

Lucie - sbohem! And Safe Home. A Tribute.

2006-06-08T14:39:00.000+05:30

Surprised Lucie

Cooking Santa Lucie

Shopping Lucie

Dehydrating Lucie

Best of Luck at home Lucie!

...All My Flatmates Are Gone!!

Jamie – Cheerio Old Chap. A Tribute.

2006-06-08T14:30:00.000+05:30

Possessed Jamie

FilmStar Jamie

Holi Jamie

SunStroke Jamie

Best of Luck on your travels south! And enjoy your Virgin flight home!

Be Wary of the Satanists Today

2006-06-06T15:27:00.000+05:30

I've just found out, and felt it was my duty to inform you all, that today is the 6th day of the 6th month 2006 – 06/06/06 and therefore “has great significance for evil-doers and Satanists who revere the number 666.”
But it's ok because there are Christians holding 'a violent day of worship', whatever the hell that is?!

And an added bonus fact from the BBC - The fear of the number 666 is known as hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia. Now try saying that after a few drinks!

2006-06-05T16:04:00.000+05:30

I've set a new personal best, making 4 posts on the blog in under half an hour. Well done me!

Leaving Party

2006-06-05T15:57:00.000+05:30

So the time has come for Lucie to depart the City Beautiful and leave India heading home for Czech. I am also leaving the City Beautiful, heading south to soak up the Monsoon atmosphere for three weeks. I'll be making a short appearence in Chandigarh at the start of July, but for most of the trainees, this will be my final goodbye.

All who know us are invited to the 38 trainee house for our joint leaving party! Full details to be confirmed soon but here's the basics:

Venue: 38 Trainee house
Date: Wednesday 7th June 2006
Time: TBC

O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo

2006-06-05T15:51:00.000+05:30

There he is:

Trainee Shopping Trip

2006-06-05T15:34:00.000+05:30

This weekend, the trainees went shopping in Patiala. Look here's Jean in her shopping outfit, strolling down the highstreet: Picking up a few things in a corner shop. Look what the shop keeper is wearing. Bet he feels silly in that outdated outfit:
We ended up buying a 1938 Chevrolet for the drive home. Not a bad day out:

Cool – Normal Films!

2006-06-05T09:58:00.000+05:30

I've just realised Steven Spielberg's last film Munich is in the happening FR! Of course the timings are stupid, but I plan on going this week some day to the 7.30pm show if anyone wants to join me!

Thought I'd go watch a film for a change instead of starring in one!

Something for the Girls!!!

2006-06-02T18:13:00.000+05:30

Good news girls, a recent study has just revealed that
'Moderate Alcohol Consumption May Make Women Sharper'

If you don't believe me you can check it out for yourself!

Archive is back!!

2006-06-02T17:04:00.000+05:30

Following a slightly prolonged period of general ineptitude, the wonderful blog administrators have worked together in perfect harmony to bring the monthly archive back to the blog! Now, your long days at work can be spent browsing Chandigarh's long and gracious history of hosting trainees. Enjoy!

End of an era

2006-06-02T12:06:00.000+05:30

I would like to officially announce my retirement from the world of competitive Pacman. The intricacies of level 26 and 27 have defeated me and with only two days left in the Canam office, I need to concentrate my efforts on uninstalling all the rubbish I’ve put on my computer over the last four months.

Byebye Mr. Pac. I’ll miss you! You have provided me with so much pleasure the last few weeks, distracting me from the nasty people in my office who sometimes insisted on giving me their work to do.

We laughed, cried and ate yellow dots together. And now as my traineeship comes to an end, you are just one more person I must say goodbye to.

To hell with Chandigarh -

2006-06-02T10:14:00.000+05:30

I'm off to Egypt!

Mmmm......wonder what the class system is like over there...

ByeBye TomTom. A Tribute

2006-05-31T17:46:00.000+05:30

Creme Brulee Tom

Tom and his new friend

Clubbing Tom

Tom's other half.

Farewell Thomas. We only wish your stay was longer. At least your Nutella carvings will be satisfied back in Lyon. All the best!!!

2006-05-30T12:25:00.000+05:30

Guess The House

I have a game all the trainees can play whilst at work it's great fun, it's called Guess The House, there are many variations and perhaps you can even create your own version too...here's the idea-

You have to guess which trainee house AIESEC decide to close next?

Or put more correctly

Which trainee house AIESEC will declare is to be closed in the near future?

Variations can include

How many hours in advance will AIESEC call trainees to announce house closure?
How many hours will trainees get to move?
Which sector will the new imaginary talked about for months trainee house be in?

The trainee to guess correctly will get to stay in the house of their choice! (if it still exists)

Looking for attraction

2006-05-29T15:07:00.000+05:30

When there is nothing else to do, we trainees like nothing more than to

pose in front of the camera !

New Actionhero in Town !!!

2006-05-29T11:27:00.000+05:30

proudly presents ...

Hindustan Times: "Panchkula is in fear and uproar. Last saturday he already caused an immense damage (100 Rupees). Will India be strong enough and stand united to fight for their gates ?"

Hi hi hi, and goodbye to Asami. A tribute.

2006-05-29T11:16:00.000+05:30

Star struck AsamiDesert Treking Asami Sleeping Asami (she did this alot)
Drinking Asami
Scary Cake-face Asami

Goodbye Asami,

You will be missed! Enjoy the Philippines!!

More movie news with Jean -

2006-05-26T13:54:00.000+05:30

Looks like the Da Vinci Code might not make it to Chandigarh after it has been banned by the Punjab Government, not for blasphemous reasons like in other parts of the world but for "intelligence inputs".

You can read about it here.

As Chandigarh is actually UT & not Punjab I wonder if we'll get to see it. I just wanna see it now it's being banned, it didn't bother me before!

Finally...

2006-05-26T11:23:00.000+05:30

Some more Amir Khan in the world!

A South African in Europe

2006-05-22T15:17:00.000+05:30

I miss my India...

I look like a bollywood actor in a fake indian european scene

Dear trainees this is a short message from Europe, just to say hi and show you a little bit of my trip in this different continent...
Nobody asked me...`Which Country` or `Father´s Name`...

i´m having problems with food because is all about meat....I have no problems with bear, i spent the first two days drinking wine and bear which means that i was drunk all the time.

I miss all of you and i hope India ig doing well with my dear trainees.

Auf bindensen (Something like this Germans say when they try to say goodbye)

Want a good night out?

2006-05-19T17:01:00.000+05:30

When Chandigarh nightlife lets you down and you want a taste of some drinking, dancing and somewhat normal action, follow these easy steps to achieve that elusive great night out right here in India:

1. Take a rickshaw to the ISBT in the City Beautiful
2. Catch a bus to Delhi
3. Cross delhi by rickshaw to reach the domestic airport
4. Wait anywhere between two hours to two days for your air deccan flight to Kolkata
5. Arrive in Kolkata and realise it's stupidly humid(moist).
6. Catch a taxi into the city centre.
7. Shower and make your self beautiful for your nightout
8. Your final taxi can drop you at the Park Hotel where a short walk will bring you to Roxy's Bar.
9. Now spend a months wages on massively over priced drinks and dance the night away.
10. At 2am sneak into next door nightclub for free and continue the fun.
11. At 6am crawl out of the nightclub and happily pay over the odds for your taxi back to your hotel.
12. Now all that await is the thousand mile journey back home.

A normal bar, with normal drinks!
Oh, look at these beautiful men

Think Asami has pulled

What funky dudes!

What's that on my head?

Getting her grove on!

A tribute to our "South African" friend

2006-05-18T00:08:00.000+05:30

Working Nacho

Contemplative Nacho

Cool Nacho

Kashmiri Nacho aka Rickshaw Driver Nacho

Happy Nacho!

We'll miss you in all your forms. Have fun in Europe!

A real taxi service! Chandigarh's moving up in the world!

2006-05-17T18:12:00.000+05:30

Card Night at 38

2006-05-17T17:20:00.000+05:30

The 38 Trainee house brings you another quality, fun filled evening!

FREE OF CHARGE!!!! 200rupee entry free, plus 30% foreigner tax.

Event: Cards night
Venue: 38 Trainee house
Date: Thursday 18th May 2006
Time: Probably around 8-9pm*
Invites: All trainees and their personally invited associates.
Drinks: Mango and Rum Shakes

Games: Probably poker and some drinking games. Maybe in the other order.

Hope to see you all there.

*Anyone wishing to stay over is more than welcome assuming their personal hygiene is up to scratch.

Poll Results

2006-05-11T16:06:00.000+05:30

The results of the 'best dressed' poll are in and congratulations go to Lucie who pulled in 63% of the votes. Good effort. Sorry, no prize!!!

Well done also to Nacho, Nikolai and Samantha who all managed to catch the eye of someone and recieve one vote each.

As for the rest of us, well we should all be ashamed of our selves!

Coming Soon

2006-05-10T13:39:00.000+05:30

JUDO CONTEST

RULE #1 : show some respect...

ASAMI

vs

Tom Tom

We`re looking for a referee...please apply now for this job

What a Mentalist!

2006-05-10T11:54:00.000+05:30

I found this story about David Blaine fairly amusing. This guy is totally mental:

Showman David Blaine has left hospital after spending seven days under water.
The week-long stunt caused liver damage, pins and needles in his feet and hands, some loss of sensation and rashes, Blaine's doctor said.

Dr Murat Gunel said there was evidence of liver failure on the second day. "I told him he needed to get out of the water, and he refused me," he said.

"He said he did not want to let the people down." Blaine failed to break the world record for holding breath.

The illusionist received food and air through tubes during the seven days he spent in a water-filled sphere in New York.

Blaine managed to hold his breath underwater for seven minutes. At the end of the ordeal, he tried to break the nine-minute record for holding breath but divers pulled him out after seven minutes when he began struggling.

Crowds of spectators and millions of TV viewers saw him rescued.
Appearing shaken and weak, he thanked his supporters and left for hospital.
"This was a very difficult week but you all made it fly by with your strong spirit, your energy. Thank you so much everybody," Blaine told a cheering crowd in Lincoln Square.

He appeared to have freed himself from chains attached to his hands but was struggling to free his feet when the divers entered the tank and pulled him out.

Blaine received medical treatment over the weekend while in the tank because his peeling skin and overall condition were worrying doctors.

Kerala Exhibit

2006-05-04T18:06:00.000+05:30

Call Jamie for all your IT problems!

2006-05-04T15:25:00.000+05:30

Each day i arrive in my office hoping that today will be different. That today will be a day when I can actually do some work. And each day it is with disbelief that i discover that yet another fundamental piece of "so called" technology is failing to work.

On monday my computer blew up. Its currently sitting with the IT guy in a queue to be fixed.

On wednesday I managed to corrupt my new computer with a crazy virus. After and hour or so, the IT guy tracked it down to a personal email. whoops. And he can't destroy the virus. Now that computer too is in the queue waiting to be fixed.

So today i have been working on yet another computer, and things were going great. I even managed to do some work and with only one short powercut, I had quite a productive morning. So imagine my joy when the company director came to okay my mornings work for the company website, and i found that all my files had somehow got themselves corrupted!

The IT guy was again summoned and was again unable to solve the problem. So my third computer of the week has joined his queue to be fixed!

All my files and my last two weeks work is trapped somewhere on the malfunctioning network and the company director spent ten minutes shouting at the poor IT guy to find them. Of course, he was unable.

Oh happy days. Four days, three computers and i've pretty much destroyed the company website, unless these highly important files can be found.

Time for a couple of games of freecell!

Party

2006-05-04T10:43:00.000+05:30

Its Party Time!

Calling all trainees and their friends:

Theme: Caribbean
Date: Friday 5th May
Time: From 9pm
Venue: 38 Trainee House
Aim: Get really Drunk and eat lots of fruit.
Entry: Free to those who bring fruit.
Live Music: Asami might sing for us if we get her really drunk!

Inspired by my dicision to give up my traineeship and become a Carmen Miranda impersonator, we have decided to have a caribbean party. Plus i haven't been really drunk in ages, and i need a good excuse.

Please can everyone bring some fruit so we can make fruit salad and fruit punch. Fancy dress is encouraged but not complusory. The more alcohol the merrier! RUM!

Hope to see you all there.

Lets all learn Zulu.

2006-05-03T15:59:00.000+05:30

During the course of my exciting day I discovered that on average a language becomes extinct every two weeks. Fearing that english might be next, thus leaving me unable to communicate, I just had to calculate the probability of this occuring. Seems the best estimates say there are between 3,000 and 8,000 languages in the world. Oh my god. that means there is, at worst, a 1/3000 chance of english becoming extinct in the next few weeks. I'm learning Zulu tonight to double my odds and i strongly suggest everyone else does the same. I've already learnt a little today at work:

"Sawubona, Kunjani?"
which means:
"Good morning, how are you?" to which you would reply:

"Ngiyaphila" which means: "i'm fine thanks."

All seems fairly simple. Easier than hindi at any rate. Think i'll stick with it.

Woman Autorickshaw Driver

2006-05-02T19:43:00.000+05:30

There are women drivers in India! We met one in Kerala... I think it's a good sign of progress.

Detention

2006-05-02T17:15:00.000+05:30

Well done to Sam and Kevin for submitting their homework. Kevin, yours was a little late, but overall a very good effort, B.

As for the rest of you low-lifes, where is your work? This is simply not good enough. Nikolai and Roman have been excused because they didn't have access to the blog until today, but what have the rest of you got to say? Hey?

Lucie and Jean, i think you were to busy sunning yourselves on the beach to give your homework any thought. Your both in Dentention. Nacho, i can't think of any possible excuse you might give me. Maybe a cockroach ate your keyboard!?! Detention. Asami, again, simply not good enough, you too are in dentention.

Dentention will take place tomorrow at 3am. I expect you all to report to sector 17 to help with the current resurfacing work by the main fountain for two hours.

You are dismissed!

penguins

2006-05-02T11:11:00.000+05:30

Inspired by the sikh (not sick) penguin from rishikesh, here is my collection with the name: "penguins with hats"

admiral

ok, this one is pretty ugly

these penguins are not used to cold temperatures

this looks english

construction worker

santa penguin

ok, this one has no hat, but nevertheless looks quite funny

beach tourist

A typical morning in my office

2006-05-01T16:55:00.000+05:30

Today has been just another day in the office. I arrived around 10:30am, as usual and had my morning chat with some of my colleagues. They asked me what everything I was wearing cost. I told them. They made mental notes to forget this information so they could ask me again tomorrow.

At around 11am I settled down at my desk and was a little surprised to find the internet working for a change. I settled into sending a few emails. While I was busy, the world’s biggest cockroach crawled up my trousers and it wasn’t until it got half way up my leg that I noticed. Anyway, I fished it out and kicked it across the floor and my colleague very kindly called the servant to come kill it. It was so big. The biggest I’ve seen and somehow it got half way up my leg unnoticed.

A little while later the first power cut of the day struck and everyone scurried around to save their work before the computer backup systems cut out. I started to eat my sandwiches in the dark while the office got gradually hotter. A short while latter the power returned. I went to turn my computer on and it started to produce lots of pretty sparks and make lots of strange burning noises. My colleague grabbed a metal ruler and used this to turn the power switch off at the wall. I couldn’t help but laugh at his choice of tools for the job, which only served to anger him somewhat. So I read the newspaper while they organised a new computer for me.

Things are quite calm now, but i'm sure the next powercut is due anytime now

Yes sir! Mr. McLean SIR!

2006-04-30T16:34:00.000+05:30

Being always the good student, here is my homework. Although now that I think about it... I seem to remember always asking for extensions on my deadlines and never handing anything in on time... But this will be submitted before the deadline. Maybe I`m just out of practice.

Did you know that the ketchup dispensers in Rishikesh are Sikh (not 'sick')?

Nacho: Where's the party everyone?! I want to dance to Kaj ra rai with Ashwarya Rai!

Aww... don't they make a cute threesome?

Jamie's decided to leave his traineeship to pursue his hidden dream - to become a Carmen Miranda impersonator!

Homework

2006-04-28T18:05:00.000+05:30

Okay, so no one seems to be blogging anymore. I find it hard to believe that anyone's traineeship keeps them busy enough to prevent them from blogging. So anyway, i'm setting everyone some homework for the weekend:

Everyone must think of something interesting to blog. Your homework is due in by the end of Monday.

Help!

2006-04-25T17:06:00.000+05:30

Urgent assistance required!!

I need urgent help in trying to find my mosquitoe geschitzer. I think I lost it this morning in sector 17 when I was buying a through train from a street seller. If anyone has any leads, please let me know. I can’t sleep at night without my mosquitoe geschitzer.

On an unrelated matter, did the German word for ‘car jack’ argument ever get resolved.

Apologies to anyone who wasn’t in Risikesh this weekend and doesn’t have a clue what I’m talking about.

I'm Back!!!

2006-04-25T16:47:00.000+05:30

Yea, i'm finally back online. After four weeks away from the office i have returned to my dark corner of the Canam office! And today it has only taken me 6.5hours to get online. Oh this wonderful Indian technology. But i've made it. I'm back online after four weeks away. And i'm back on the blog to start spreading my own sweet brand of crap to you all once again! I can't think of anything to blog now though. The excitement of being back online has overwhelmed me. So many emails, so much to do. Oh happy days!

Invasion of the cockroaches

2006-04-25T10:28:00.000+05:30

hey guys, it's really crazy... since yesterday we have so many cockroaches in our panchkula trainee house, so many that we can shoot another scene of starship troopers... on sunday evening evening I think we killed about 10 or 12 and yesterday the same number.. we are really scared... Jamie, is it a possible that you come with your "throughtrain" and clean up a little? maybe that helps... we even made a "How-many-cockroaches-killed-so-far-"-Hitlist (which I lead proudly at the moment by the way)......somebody must help us... please....!!!.

oh by the way for all the new trainees comin: at the moment we are 4 human inhabitants of the punchkula trainee house (sonia, nikolai, roman and me) and uncountable bugs, ants and cockroaches.... cu

Indian Highway Code - first time published in english

2006-04-24T12:17:00.000+05:30

1.The assumption of immortality is required of all road users.

2.Indian traffic, like Indian society,is structured on a strict caste system.The following precedence must be accorded at all times. In descending order, give way to: cows, elephants, heavy trucks, buses, official cars,camels, light trucks, buffalo, Jeeps, ox-carts, private cars, motorcycles,scooters, auto-rickshaws, pigs, pedal rickshaws, goats, bicycles (goods-carrying), handcarts, bicycles (passenger-carrying), dogs, pedestrians.

3.All wheeled vehicles shall be driven in accordance with the maxim:to slow is to falter, to brake is to fail, to stop is defeat.This is the Indian drivers' mantra.

4.All manoeuvres, use of horn and evasive action shall be left untilthe last possible moment.

5.In the absence of seat belts (which there is), car occupants shall weargarlands of marigolds. These should be kept fastened at all times.

6.Overtaking is mandatory. Every moving vehicle is required to overtakeevery other moving vehicle, irrespective of whether it has justovertaken you.Overtaking should only be undertaken in suitable conditions, such as inthe face of oncoming traffic, on blind bends, at junctions and in themiddle of villages/city centres. No more than two inches should beallowed between your vehicle and the one you are passing - and one inchin the case of bicycles or pedestrians

a little joke

2006-04-20T11:46:00.000+05:30

A chap from haryana, having seen blisters in both of his friends' ears, asked him what happend to his ears. He said that while he was busy ironing his clothes,the telephone rang, and he mistakenly put the iron to his ear instead of the receiver.Then the first fellow asked him what happend to his other ear, and the reply was "That fool called me again!"

an another one

Mr Harpreet Singh Gulati is travelling from Moscow to TurbanPore[Capital of Khalistan] by Kithe Pacific. Seated besides him isGary Kasparov. Gary asks him whether he would like to play chessto kill time.Gulati : "Oye Gar(r)y. You think I don't know who U are?. I can'tcompete with a world champion"Gary : "How about if I play left handed ?"Gulati : [Think.. Think..] "OK!"Gulati is demolished in 4 moves... and is very upset through-out therest of the journey. On landing he meets his friend Manpreet Singh.Gulati : Hey! U know what! I played Chess with Gary Kasparov andhe defeated me inspite of him playing left-handed...Manpreet : Oye ullu-de pathey!! He sure did fool you!! U knowwhat!! Gary IS LEFT-HANDED!!

Bunty aur Babli

2006-04-18T11:13:00.000+05:30

Any trainees remaining in Chandigarh are invited to my place tonight to watch Bunty aur Babli (or am I the only one left who hasn't seen this movie?) The movie showing begins at 8pm sharp!

Ooh! The songs are still going through my head. I love the soundtrack!

So long Sailor!

2006-04-14T10:12:00.000+05:30

John Abraham

2006-04-13T22:08:00.000+05:30

well well well... in that photo (further down the board) is that my poster of john abraham still up on the wall, behind (a very slim) Ryan with a (hopefully aimed at the landlady) saucepan? everyone swore they would take it down as soon as i left!!! Unfortunately John is no longer a big influence in my life, although I must say all these scrawny brits i keep seeing everywhere just don't cut it.

love and missing you all.

Nick xxx

Ghandi, King & Ikeda

2006-04-12T18:11:00.000+05:30

There's an Exhibition -

'The Power Of One: A legacy Of Building Peace'
or
“Apostles of Peace: The Inspiration of Gandhiji, Martin Luther King Jr and Daisaku Ikeda”

Taking place in the Conference Centre of the National Muesuem in 10-C from 16 - 27th of April.

Know it's not everyone's cup of tea but it sounds pretty interesting to me, so if anyone does decide to go, let me know what it was like!

Apparently it is 'Directed primarily at the youth, this effort is aimed at revisiting the values of non-violence and Gandhian principles.'

Animated Features

2006-04-11T08:31:00.000+05:30

MOISTY THINGS

2006-04-10T16:14:00.000+05:30

TWO TRAINEES UNDER ATTACK

Lately, we were travelling around City Beautiful just to have some fun...Some trainees have been to "Bizarres" National Parks...and personally, i have to take Jean every weekend to an amusement park otherwise she doesn't stop talking about Amir Khan...
We remember trainees from 38-B going to a National Park near Haridwar just to spend some time with tigers but they saw sick (not sikhs) elephants "only" and weird people doing "moist" things outside the road "only"...ask Jamie for more details.

I have to tell you that last weekend Jean and I went to the mountains looking for that Mysterious Tiger (Not Kasouli Tiger) and we finally found it.

Here is the evidence of our extreme and dangerous weekend...

This is "Moisty"...The Tiger

I was so scared of Moisty...

I think they have something...look at Jean's face

aggggghhhh

2006-04-10T11:14:00.000+05:30

Anyone else feel like death today? I think a badger has crawled down my throat and died during the night. Seriously, i'm not sure i'm going to make it through the day. Must have been something i ate!

SOME WEEKENS IN CITY BEAUTIFUL...

2006-04-07T12:37:00.000+05:30

CHANDIGARIAN TRAINEES

Here some pictures of our last activities during nights in the last two weeks.

just a little drunk...ass dance, not anymore!!!

Jamie needs an exorcism!!!

Ryan needs a Therapist!!!

Asami hiding from the indian Ghost!!!

non-drunk people

Jean, after she saw a cockroach

Ryan being a 4 years old drunk boy

Dirty Lucie

And the winner is...

2006-04-06T17:19:00.000+05:30

well, looking at the poll results, i can only see one clear winner, and no sign that the poll has been abused.

so, congratulations Samantha! the first non-trainee administrator of the blog! and it's lucky that you're the only person who's going to be here for any length of time since everybody else will be leaving soon!

i'll make the necessary arrangements to ensure an easy hand over of control!

Traineeship in Chandigarh

bye!

Dharamsala

Shimla

Pirates of the Caribbean 3

Amritsar This Weekend?

Biking Action Around Chandigarh

Party At Trainee House Chandigarh (Sec. 21)

REVIVAL of the Trainee Blog

Chandi beers

Upgrade Accounts

Featured Posts

Welcome New Trainees!!

Good Luck My Dear Friend!!!

Slight problem...

Trainees In Bollywood

Back home missing Chandigarh

PIGS Brunch Chez Moi: Take 2!

Hello?

This one looks interesting.

Today

Exhibition at the Alliance Française

I just don't know what to say...

Traineeship in Chandigarh

Goodbye India!

PIGS Brunch

Reading Recommendation: Third-class Ticket

one more: best/worst/funniest

Traineeship In Cairo

World Cup

mytraineeship.net

Traineeship in Chandigarh

Recommended reading

It's time for great emotions

An Icelanders Indian Memories

Granny Jean is leaving Chandigarh!

World Music Day

Best/Worst/Funniest Awards

Random Question Time

Best/Worst/Funniest?

Music

PIGS Brunch

I'll start...

FORMER TRAINEES UNITE! SAVE THE BLOG!!!

A cultural event

Traineeship in Chandigarh

BBQ at Sandra's

Lucie - sbohem! And Safe Home. A Tribute.

Jamie – Cheerio Old Chap. A Tribute.

Be Wary of the Satanists Today

Leaving Party

O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo

Trainee Shopping Trip

Cool – Normal Films!

Something for the Girls!!!

Archive is back!!

End of an era

To hell with Chandigarh -

ByeBye TomTom. A Tribute

Looking for attraction

New Actionhero in Town !!!

Hi hi hi, and goodbye to Asami. A tribute.

More movie news with Jean -

Finally...

A South African in Europe

Want a good night out?

A tribute to our "South African" friend

A real taxi service! Chandigarh's moving up in the world!

Card Night at 38

Poll Results

Coming Soon

What a Mentalist!

Kerala Exhibit

Call Jamie for all your IT problems!

Party

Lets all learn Zulu.

Woman Autorickshaw Driver

Detention

penguins

A typical morning in my office