So I purchased an iPad

I mainly wanted to be able to doodle straight to digital format. I've been wanting to do this for some time now and now I can. Though not without a small hurdle first. The iPad was designed for fingers, not a stylus. Other than for drawing this is preferable, but for drawing it is more challenging to guide a finger into strokes that a pencil might maneuver. Looking online I found a cheap solution to interact with the iPad's capacitive touch screen. An little guide recommended wrapping a cigarette's packaging foil around a short pencil while keeping a curl at the end for the electric's flow to have an exit. Here is the result of me signing my name. I also passed the image through a photograph modifier to make it look like a sketch.
I now looks like my signature is embroidered. Cool :D




- Sent from my iPad

Camping ChonMaSan

- Posted from my iPhone

Location:Mt. ChonMa

The Last Hour of the Last Day

The last day sure did come quickly. But I must admit that thinking back to the begining of the trip, it was a while ago. Flying out tonight with a transfer in Hongkong again.

This blog was good in allowing me to keep a record of what I did and what I thought of at that time. This was more for myself, but if people enjoyed my pictures and progress, then that's great!
I'll be updating posts with picture from my Dslr and also other picture from my iPhone that I did not have time to upload.

Going to Delhi

I wanted to make Delhi my last stop as that is where I am flying out of to get back to Korea. But with time starting to put its constraints on my direction, I took the opportunity to get a ticket to fly to Delhi. This will eliminate about 2 days of traveling through buses, trains and auto rickshaws with a 2 hour 10 minute plane ride.

In my time since I have bought my ticket, I have killed time by updating my pictures on this blog. Now it's off to fly on SpiceJet. Masala!

Hightailing it out of Darjeeling

Arrived near Siliguri Tuesday (16th) from a train leaving Kolkata (Calcutta) and took an auto-rickshaw to a jeep taxi station. This 2 1/2 hour jeep shuttle service is seemingly the only way to get up to Darjeeling from Siliguri.

Yesterday it was told to me that the jeep service workers were going to have a strike. Unless I left at that momement, I would have been stuck there until this Saturday. So now I am trying to figure out how I am going to make it to Agra to see the Tajj Mahal before finishing in Delhi. If I got stuck in Darjeeling I am pretty sure I would not have enough time to see the Tajj Mahal before going home. How anticlimactic would that be? Would have liked to spend more time in Darjeeling but what I did see was good.
 

Porting is big business.

A spot of tea?

Side street on the hilly terrain.

The Black Hole of Calcutta

Arrived Saturday and planning to leave tomorrow for Darjeeling.
The city has much to see and unfortunately only a fraction will be seen.

At Hotel Paragon, you get what you pay for. Meaning that one's little money buys one a room that has no windows with sea-foam green paint on a chipping wall. Other friendly travelers and the buddies I'm traveling with make this much more of a nicer place to stay. Can't forget to mention that the notes, messages, epiphanies, drugged rants, and quotes that are written on the walls by travelers definitely adds character to the place as well. I added my own nonsense by reminding people that bringing a towel is good for a place like the Hotel Paragon, as they don't provide/have them.

But in my time I have manged to see a the holy Kali temple and witness a goat beheading to sacrifice in the name of Kali, the wife of Shiva. Sorry, no picture for this one.

Went to see a movie. But not any movie, a Bollywood movie in an Indian movie theater.

My two Singaporean buddies Imran and Ridzwan standing by the poster.

Have you ever heard cheering in a movie theater whenever a Muslim ideal was reinforced?




I have ate a bunch of spicy food. Biriyani is similar to
fried rice and always is a delicious choice.. Two samosas for 5 cents is most affordable.

Burning bodies by the Ganges: Varanasi

The trip into India took two days, due to poor timing of buses and scheduling. Finally made it in and headed towards Varanasi, India where they hold many ritual funerals by the Ganges river. Met two cool Singaporean guys and have been hanging out with them the few past days.

Cool bunch of guys with a friend one of them had met a year before in Cambodia and randomly bumped into again here in Varanasi.

A lassie from a lassie shop that is popular with Koreans here in the this area. I got a special mix and ate that
as dead bodies were walked passed the shop to be taken to the river bank.

The buildings and walkways on the Ganges bank.