Useless

February 3, 2004 2:50 am General

The VISA for India finally arrived this morning, which I’m pretty pleased about. I wasn’t really looking forward to telling my manager that I didn’t get on the flights because I didn’t have my passport. I feel so amazingly unprepared for the trip. Yesterday I went into town to have a brief look at the India Lonely Planet – I didn’t really see the need to buy the thing, given that it was $69 and it contained about 10 pages for Bangalore. Fortunately Arvind has been great and has offered to be around while I’m over there. It’s fun travelling to new places, but that sometimes wears out when you don’t have connections at that end. I’m looking forward to meeting the Wipro guys and hanging out with them – I just wonder whether my trip will be of any noticeable benefit to them or not.

Justin, a guy over on holiday from Oz that we met down in Greymouth, took us up on the offer of some floor space. We headed out to a Mexican for some burittos and frozen Margarittas. Washed down with a few pints of Guinness, it proved to be a pretty enjoyable night. Nathan and Rachel come back for a night this week before heading off, and how knows who will be the next visitor to arrive at our door. Next weekend is Watangi weekend, a public holiday in New Zealand. Patrick and Maeve are planning to head up to Nelson to catch up with Kristen, and maybe check out a bit of climbing at Payne’s Ford.

Work has been ultra-frustrating this week, and looks set to continue. I’m slightly glad that I can leave some of it behind while in India, but really quite disappointed in the little progress we’ve made over the last month or so. I’m not sure what I can do to change things, and that’s the most frustrating bit about it. I just feel so fucking useless.

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