Some things are way more complicated as in other countries. For example paying the phone bill.
I have now my bank account for some time and already registered for ePaying of the bills. However so far the bills do not show up there and I cannot pay via the bank account. So I decided to just go to their office and pay it directly. Arriving at the office they told me that it is only possible to pay bills below 1000Rs (25$) by cash. For bigger amounts you need to pay by check. So I went back home just to get told that the repair of the geysers will take another month, since there are none available. Well, already in a bad mood I went to work and tried to deposit the money for our phone bill, which turned out to be not that easy. With every deposit you can deposit a maximum of 10 bills in the ATM. Having more than 60 bills (the phone bill included internet for the whole year) that turned out to be a problem. Not only because it was cumbersome, no, because there were only 3 deposit slips available. So I decided to go to the main branch and deposit the money there, which worked out fine after I had to fill out another deposit slip and making a copy using manifold paper... A lot of stamps later I finally had deposit my amount.
So on monday I'll have to write a check and get to the phone office again...
Mittwoch, 30. April 2008
Sonntag, 27. April 2008
Sightseeing Bangalore
Today Florian arrived and we decided to do some sightseeing in Bangalore. We visited the Bull temple, Forum Mall, Russel Market and Lal Bagh. Afterwards both of us were very exhausted and relaxed at my house.
Freitag, 11. April 2008
Diving the Andamans 2
The last two days were filled with dives for my Advanced Open Water. It included a deep dive, Underwater Navigation, Underwater Photgraphy and Underwater Naturalist.
All dives were quite interesting and helped to feel more comfortable under water.
I was really sad to leave, because I met a lot of interesting people. The dive place was really great and the people there very friendly and helpful.
I'm looking forwared to go there again.
All dives were quite interesting and helped to feel more comfortable under water.
I was really sad to leave, because I met a lot of interesting people. The dive place was really great and the people there very friendly and helpful.
I'm looking forwared to go there again.
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Donnerstag, 10. April 2008
Diving the Andamans 1
The following day I made again 2 fun dived but this time took the camera with me.
Can you find the octopus and the sea horse in the pictures?
During the first dive there was a strong current and I got pretty exhausted. We surfaced about 200m of the boat and had to swim against the current in addition the waves were getting higher and went sometimes over you... Luckily the boat crew threw out some ropes and pulled us in direction of the boat. I was very happy to be back on board after "drinking" a couple of sips of salt water ;-)
Can you find the octopus and the sea horse in the pictures?
During the first dive there was a strong current and I got pretty exhausted. We surfaced about 200m of the boat and had to swim against the current in addition the waves were getting higher and went sometimes over you... Luckily the boat crew threw out some ropes and pulled us in direction of the boat. I was very happy to be back on board after "drinking" a couple of sips of salt water ;-)
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Mittwoch, 9. April 2008
Vacation - Andaman Islands
A long weekend was coming up and so I decided two take two additional days and make a short vacation. Definitely I wanted to go diving again and the first choice was Goa, due to the short time of only five days.
Looking at availability and prices @ Goa I decided that there must be other places. A little bit of googling showed me that there are nice dive sides at the Andaman Islands (DiveIndia.com) and that accomodation can be quite cheap (500RS / 12$) per day. So I called and confirmed my booking and finally arrived there. The accomodation is very basic (see pictures) but everything was very clean and well maintained. I definitely can recommend them.
Thinking of getting a little bit more serious about diving I decided to make my Advanced Open Water Diver.
During the first day I made 2 fun dives to get used to the water again and in the evening a night dive.
The night dive was definitely the most amazing dive I ever did. In addition to seeing different behavior with the fishes it was just interesting to dive in darkness. Close to the end of our dive we turned our lights off and all around us were fluorescent algae. You were hovering in the water in complete darkness and all around you were this shiny colorful dots....
Once we surfaced we relaxed and looked up in the night sky, filled with million of stars while floating on the surface of the ocean...amazing!
Looking at availability and prices @ Goa I decided that there must be other places. A little bit of googling showed me that there are nice dive sides at the Andaman Islands (DiveIndia.com) and that accomodation can be quite cheap (500RS / 12$) per day. So I called and confirmed my booking and finally arrived there. The accomodation is very basic (see pictures) but everything was very clean and well maintained. I definitely can recommend them.
Thinking of getting a little bit more serious about diving I decided to make my Advanced Open Water Diver.
During the first day I made 2 fun dives to get used to the water again and in the evening a night dive.
The night dive was definitely the most amazing dive I ever did. In addition to seeing different behavior with the fishes it was just interesting to dive in darkness. Close to the end of our dive we turned our lights off and all around us were fluorescent algae. You were hovering in the water in complete darkness and all around you were this shiny colorful dots....
Once we surfaced we relaxed and looked up in the night sky, filled with million of stars while floating on the surface of the ocean...amazing!
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