Taj Mahal

as it became quite clear in my last posts, I've been working like a dog last week. Friday till 11p.m. Saturday till 0.30 a.m. Sunday till 2 a.m. And to top it all, on Wednesday till 4 a.m. So when I came back from office at 4.30 a.m. on Thursday morning, Javed my roommate was already there - and he works night shifts!! All the reason why we did that was for the client meeting we had on Thursday itself. And that meeting was so frustrating - well, frustrating for Mirabilis, since we got the feedback of being far away from what we were supposed to deliver. On the other hand it was rather a satisfaction to me, since I always claimed that points of lacking structure, a missing focus, clear goals and a clear added value in the report that we were writing. Fair enough that no one listens to the trainee from abroad. But now, after the WWF Asian Pacific Manager asked exactly for these points we have to manage the turnaround in order to make the project successful. Personally I take it as a very interesting experience out of which I can learn quite a lot. It highly fosters my cultural understanding and sense of profesional work - or better said of how not to do it. Due to the fact that I really want to have an equilibrium in my work-life balance, I took Friday off. Just to compensate all the extra hours and mostly recover and relax. Together with my U59 friends I had a great night out on Thursday, sleeping in on Friday and preparing the birthday party of my Indian brother Javed. get more of javed's birthday party pics

On Saturday we headed to Delhi where we went to see the Red Fort, Ghandi Museum and India Gate. At India Gate we were interviewed by a local Television Channel, who asked us about Indian Monuments and what we know about India Gate. So after having been on the radio in Switzerland, I'm now going to be on Indian tely as well, jejeje In the evening we went out to Baci, which was an incredible over-priced club that we left immediately after entering. So we headed to check Headquaters and Decibel out. Although there was the worst DJ ever, thanks to the party people I was with we had a great night out! The DJ changed the music style after each song! You cannot do that Mr. DJ!! You cannot put Rock after Techno and then some Rap and some Punjab music after R'n'B and expect the people to go with it. FOCUS MAN - again (even in the disco). You can never ever please everybody, less you will do so if you are too broad... Once we reached U59 at about 4 a.m. we had a quick refreshing shower, got changed and jumped into the mini bus which took us to Agra. In a group of 10 people I had the pleasure to see one of the 7 New World Wonders!

TAJ MAHAL

indeed it's true! you've seen it on so many pictures and posters, but to be physically there, standing in front of it and watching the white marmor is not comparable at all! it was soooo impressive, so beautiful, so lovely that it definitely deserves the title of LOVE MEMORIAL! once we were to enter the Taj Mahal, it softly started to rain... 15min later, by stepping outside it rained cats and dogs! Never mind, we told us and went out to dance in the rain! It was great fun and so wonderful to enjoy that natural spectacle in front of the Taj Mahal!

the fact that we got completely wet didn't bother us at all - we went to a shop, got some new dry cloths, went finally for food and did some drinking games on the ride back to the shitwhole Gurgaon. Obviously we were quite exhausted but it's been such a great weekend!

it's been so GOOOD



pics of Taj Mahal journey