Neglecting The Blog

So I spent 2 months in Melbourne just enjoying not being in India, I missed the terror attacks & all the excitement that happened in Mumbai.

I'm back again & trying to figure out how to upload vids to youtube so you can have something to watch.

So far I have learnt ..... iMovie 08 is PURE EVIL, I'm undecided on Windows movie maker atm, If the next post is a youtube vid well then it worked :)

Update for the Sake of updating again

Australia is damn cold so I've been in hibernation for the past week enjoying some peace & quite.

GM has been attending a cultural sensitivity course in Delhi for the past few days, I was supposed to attend also but seeing I'm in Oz that's not possible.

He's updated me on the course events & advised it's all very shallow & basic common sense that they are teaching (I know a few outlaws that need to learn some common sense. lol).

He's also traveled far more than the course trainer so the whole thing sounds like a big fat waste of time, Thankfully the cost of the course wasn't coming straight out of our pockets.

Toto, Were not in Kansas anymore...

I'm back in the land of Oz again, Had a run in with the Wicked Witch of the East along the way, haha (cryptic, I know)

Not much to blog about these days as the new hotel is still under construction & not scheduled to open till July 2008 so no crazy guests to deals with, So I'm killing time in Oz for a month or so before heading back to Mumbai.

Tragic News

We have just got word that a young boy died at Hubby's former Hotel.

The story below is copy pasted from: http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2008/10/3/nation/2176153&sec=nation

GEORGE TOWN: A festive holiday trip turned tragic for a family when a 12-year-old boy accidentally fell and drowned in a swimming pool at a hotel in Batu Ferringhi here.

The boy, had come to Penang with his parents and elder brother from Kajang, Selangor, for a two-day trip on Wednesday.

His father Mr X, 59, said the family started looking for him at 7pm after they realised he was missing.

“I spotted him in the pool some time after 8pm,” he told pressmen at the Penang Hospital forensic unit yesterday, where he was with his inconsolable wife Mrs X, 53, elder son MrZ, 26, and several other family members to claim the body.

Mr X said paramedics in the ambulance tried to resuscitate the boy but failed.

It is believed that the boy slipped and fell into the pool that was closed after 8pm.

His body was found fully clothed.

Police said they did not suspect foul play.

Grrrrrr !!!

I'm sick of living in hotels, We are still waiting for the green light to move in to a rental aprtment.

Fingers crossed we should get the lease signed by weeks end.

Hmmm, well …………………

My 2nd last post made mention of a “nightmare” check in experience I had at a particular hotel. I like to review hotels I stay at on Trip advisor so did the usual with this one & btw it didn’t get a 5 star rating, I never bother to review one of Hubby’s hotels as I see that as a conflict of interest & I would be biased anyway.

Well some astute individual put 2 & 2 together & figured the less than stellar review was composed by me & I seem to have ruffled a few feathers in the camp with my factual, based on experience, non opinionated review.
Hubby received a call yesterday from the area regional manager condemning him for the review (even though it was written by myself) & was advised it displayed a lack of loyalty (never knew I was supposed to be loyal to husbands company ?!?) was detrimental to business & will be revenue impacting ! Seems it’s ok to review hotels belonging to the chain as long as it’s positive & benefits the company. I guess fascism is alive & well.

Geez instead of getting defensive & trying to intimidate a mere housewife (me!) perhaps the Hotel management should take the constructive criticism on board and deal with the maintenance & customer service issues I raised in order to better the product otherwise where is the integrity ?

I won’t post the offending review here as who knows what will happen if this blog is discovered.

I suppose If you log on 1 day & discover this site no longer exists it won’t be hard to guess why.

Other than that (for the moment at least) I’m loving Mumbai.

Delhi Belli Strikes Again

Not much happening as I've been struck down with the dreaded Delhi Belly (& it's not fun) !

We leave Delhi on Sunday for Mumbai then basically I have a month to settle in there & I'm off again to Malaysia & Australia.

Um, Nature calls (AGAIN).

Here are pics of today's excursion...