I have been somewhat lax in my respnsibiities of lat. This is in part due to my difficult circumstances, and in part dude to the inneffectal and downright horrendous provision of adequate technotlogocical facilities. In short, the keyboada keys stick quie appallingly, the internet connections are egregious to put it mildly, and the speed of connecton, particularly when it comes to uploading decent quantites of files are damned infuriating.
I have had to comprehensively re-edit that past paragraph no less then 2 times.
Colour me fucking livid - I am leaving India, to Laos in 3 weeks or less. I am leaving this fine, rich, exuberant and glororiously diverse and enigmatic country: but with the very best of reasons.
I understand this is a developing country but this frankly is simply not good enough. I am a creature of the Western world through and through and denying my feeling in that matter amounts to the secular equivalent of a blasphemy. Another 9 grammatical and pronuncization edits, right there. I am going to Kochi, skipping a large large part of my intended India excursion, flying out of the counyty via Chennai and going to Laos, where, at least, these thing are accepable and expected. They still hunt fish with spears, know littlem of the world beyond China, and hunt and gather meat in the finest traditions of the cultures that formed the foundationa of al that we know today as `civilisation` - whereas here they pretend to have multimedia capablitiies on a par with Europe and he fshions and, arguably, the fascism to match. Enough is, in the words of some famous so-and-so, is enough.
Anyway my next report will, typographical disiasters notwithstanding, do the justive to the city of mangalore that in this man's eyes it deserves.
A qck example of th disastrous typod, infrequet editing, keyoard malfucions and downright inadequacy of the suystems abilit o recognose simle words wil hopefully illustare theappaling level evel the mst mild-mamannered tyists can ony bearluy withstancd.
I hope that this, above all, will demonstrate the frustration I feel each and evey time I try to report back to you the candid, unbiased and unashamedly honest view of a westerner in this Eastern land of mystery and intrigue.
- James di Meo.
