It’s funny how after all this time I now go to finally update this blog and barely think of all the events that have transpired in the time since last blogging, so this might serve as a brief apologetic update and hopefully I can get back on track from here… It hasn’t helped that our laptop has broken down twice for us to have to get repaired – not surprisingly this somehow took a whole lot longer than what could be reasonably expected..
So for anyone who missed the last update, the big news for Clarky and I is that we’re about nineteen weeks along with our first kid on the way; sure most of you probably know that by now, but personally the excitement hasn’t abated, so I still enjoy ‘saying’ it anyway. We also moved into our apartment in Benson Town, one of the old cantonment areas of Bangalore, ironically now quite a ethnically diverse suburb with one of Bangalore’s larger Muslim populations. We quite enjoy the area, basically in the inner north, and roughly equidistant to the two offices I currently work in – it’s a good balance of ‘living locally’ and getting a feel for India whilst still being more than comfortable to live in. (http://maps.google.co.in/maps?hl=en&tab=wl ) The apartment itself is also great: 4 bedrooms and 4-bathrooms (why?... blame the under-pant gnomes), quite modern, and in a decent complex with about 50 other apartments, a pool, small gym etc. It’s also been much better for Clarky in particular finally having ‘our own place’ here and settling in.
Since being back in Aus (late July early Aug) Clarky had been fairly ill with some sort cough and chest/head infection – that combined with a rapidly expanding mini-Walks inside her pretty much sapped her of any energy or ability to recover, so she was under the weather for about 4 weeks – thankfully a lot better now though and I think finally enjoying pregnancy and the amazing/ridiculous/fascinating/terrifying/incredible/stunning changes to the body that she once owned alone.
We’ve also managed a trip to Dubai for a weekend to catch up with some great mates, but sadly little else here in India with local social commitments and still a fair bit of demand in my work. We had planned a weekend in Mumbai, but Clarky’s health was still not the best, so we cancelled at the last moment. In the end probably not a bad thing – I was up there for work on the Monday, about the time that northern Victoria (Aus) was flooding. I was reading stories from home of in excess of 150mm falling over a bit more than a day... whilst witnessing first-hand a little more than 200mm each day for 4 days straight in Mumbai!
I’ve finally started a bit of Yoga myself but time is still at a premium, so tough to get into anything regular (even weekly), but hoping to do a bit more here and there. Learning Hindi has also been a challenge – I’ve always found languages relatively easy to learn by simple immersion, but getting a consistent ‘immersion’ down south here is quite difficult; whilst most of my work colleagues will all speak Hindi with an accent of their native Malayam, Tamil, Kanada etc, even the words themselves are often very inconsistent between my different ‘teachers’, so it’s turning out to be a difficult process, but interesting none-the-less.
So enough of the non-interesting for now, hopefully much more to report on shortly, and similarly not quite so long in between updates this time 'round.
So for anyone who missed the last update, the big news for Clarky and I is that we’re about nineteen weeks along with our first kid on the way; sure most of you probably know that by now, but personally the excitement hasn’t abated, so I still enjoy ‘saying’ it anyway. We also moved into our apartment in Benson Town, one of the old cantonment areas of Bangalore, ironically now quite a ethnically diverse suburb with one of Bangalore’s larger Muslim populations. We quite enjoy the area, basically in the inner north, and roughly equidistant to the two offices I currently work in – it’s a good balance of ‘living locally’ and getting a feel for India whilst still being more than comfortable to live in. (http://maps.google.co.in/maps?hl=en&tab=wl ) The apartment itself is also great: 4 bedrooms and 4-bathrooms (why?... blame the under-pant gnomes), quite modern, and in a decent complex with about 50 other apartments, a pool, small gym etc. It’s also been much better for Clarky in particular finally having ‘our own place’ here and settling in.
Since being back in Aus (late July early Aug) Clarky had been fairly ill with some sort cough and chest/head infection – that combined with a rapidly expanding mini-Walks inside her pretty much sapped her of any energy or ability to recover, so she was under the weather for about 4 weeks – thankfully a lot better now though and I think finally enjoying pregnancy and the amazing/ridiculous/fascinating/terrifying/incredible/stunning changes to the body that she once owned alone.
We’ve also managed a trip to Dubai for a weekend to catch up with some great mates, but sadly little else here in India with local social commitments and still a fair bit of demand in my work. We had planned a weekend in Mumbai, but Clarky’s health was still not the best, so we cancelled at the last moment. In the end probably not a bad thing – I was up there for work on the Monday, about the time that northern Victoria (Aus) was flooding. I was reading stories from home of in excess of 150mm falling over a bit more than a day... whilst witnessing first-hand a little more than 200mm each day for 4 days straight in Mumbai!
I’ve finally started a bit of Yoga myself but time is still at a premium, so tough to get into anything regular (even weekly), but hoping to do a bit more here and there. Learning Hindi has also been a challenge – I’ve always found languages relatively easy to learn by simple immersion, but getting a consistent ‘immersion’ down south here is quite difficult; whilst most of my work colleagues will all speak Hindi with an accent of their native Malayam, Tamil, Kanada etc, even the words themselves are often very inconsistent between my different ‘teachers’, so it’s turning out to be a difficult process, but interesting none-the-less.
So enough of the non-interesting for now, hopefully much more to report on shortly, and similarly not quite so long in between updates this time 'round.
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