little. yellow. different. A weblog by Ernie Hsiung

things i would blog about on my trip to india, but was too embarassing so i ended up not blogging about it, but am writing down anyway as a note that it actually happened

• How I got off the plane, I went into the washroom, saw the hole in the ground, freaked out a little, then was told by the next janitor that a western style toilet was right next door
• How stepping out of the Bangalore Airport I was instantly surrounded by 50-100 different hotel drivers in a semi-circle, wasn’t able to find my taxi driver, freaked out, and got MAJORLY ripped off, being charged 2250 Rupies to go on a 10-15 minute taxi ride. You do the math.
• How I got travellers sickness on Day 3, and combined with the jet lag and the exhaustion, how I fell asleep at the dinner table at a lavish Indian restaurant
• How I misread my iternary, misreading my departure time from India as Saturday, 3am instead of Sunday, 3am
• How I already checked out of my hotel when I misread my iternary, misreading my departure time from India as Saturday, 3am instead of Sunday, 3am
• Going into a motorized rickshaw and being offered to go to a strip bar
• Going into a motorized rickshaw and being offered to go to a strip bar, and then being offered “the finest Indian grass”
• Going into a motorized rickshaw and being offered to go to a strip bar, being offered “the finest Indian grass,” and then having the drive TAKE OUT said Indian grass in a little baggie, waving it in the air, while busses drive around us

Ahhhh yes, the western “bowl”.

Sounds lovely. Oh well, at least you survived it all.

So it sounds like that bathroom was literally a “shit hole”.

i remember my first encounter with a “turkish toilet” i freaked out a bit too.

Now that is a full-service taxi.

OMG You are too funny! I still have yet to see the “Eastern Toilet” in person but I have heard some stories…

Hey but if you smoked said grass then the holes and the airport for hours and hours would have been totally cool, man.

But you must have loved the food! (that’s the only positive thing I remember about India, besides the Taj ofcourse)

China has Chinese toilets (that look like Indian ones and Japanese ones, but no, these were Chinese, dammit!), I had to use one right away when I got to this hostel (24 hours of travel + bad airline food), but no one told me I had to bring my own toilet paper…

Too funny. Totally things that I would do.

uh maybe if you had smoked the grass and taken him up on the offer to go to a strip club, it would have been a pleasant experience? and the whole “no big deal about naked women” thing… “the finest indian ass” would have been made finer by the “finest indian grass” i’m sure…

On my visit to China I remember when a German Tourist fell IN a Chinese toilet…

Considering the only source of clean water to wash off with was rip-off priced bottled water, I’d say your experience was alot more pleasant.

I have an American Standard toilet :p

Your list is awesome. I laughed out loud. It reminds me of my own travels…

Awesome. Sounds like a good trip.

I’d freak out, too.

Don’t want to gross people out, but, talking about shit holes..I was standing with about 3-4 other people pissing in those long horizontal piss drains in china. There was no water flushing that stuff and it was hot in there. I held my breath as long as I could and was doing great. Little did i notice there was a young kid (maybe 11) squatting and shitting at the far corner. Fuck that was sick as hell.

Hey! tell me more about it. I hope you learned some Hindi there.