Finally I'm back to a... city. I was about to say modern but it's actualy not so yet. Neverthless, it's Dehli, a city, where has neon lights and shops and nice resturants and clean 5 star hotels.

I had been staying in a town called 'Moradabad' for 4 days. It's an industrial town 150km away from Delhi, 3.5hrs by car. This is where most of indian metal items are produced from. There's only one 'big' hotel in the town, others are only guest house sort of small hotels. The hotel has 3 stories and totally around 10 rooms. I don't know if my feeling about the room is too subjective but from the stained floor and non-bedcover blanket, I decided not to step on the floor with bare foot and covered my own bath towel when sleep. In fact I once stayed in this hotel in my last business trip for 4 days or so. That's why I remembered to bring a bath towel with me there. The bathroom has no shower, so the water has to be held in a plastic bucket and we used a plastic cup to ladle the water and pour on the body. This hotel has one resturant, which is one of the only 2 nice resturants in Moradabad (others are street booths), but it's actually dark, old, full of rotten smell, and the food is merely 'edible'.

This town has only market, but few shops. A big shopping mall is under construction, and will be finished in 1 year time. Most of people here are factory workers, so their dresses are always messy and muddy. The streets are small but full of trucks and cars, so the air and ground are always dusty and smoky. Cars are always horning, and trying to take over thru cows water bufflos horse carts or roaming people.

Everyday we left the hotel, jumped up the car, got to the factories, squating on the floor working on the development item by item, program by program, or walking on the dusty ground checking out factory facilities, smelling engine oil or color paint, and breathing metal dirt or diffused air. Some factories have A/C only in the office but not showroom, so we had to endure the indoor heat and sticky pants and tried to get work down as soon as possible. At night we came back to hotel and had dinner in that dark smelly resturant and tried to order different food in each meal. I could only grab a book but not internet before going to bed.

Now finally I can lie on a tidy cosy bed in luxurious Marriot hotel again with high speed internet clean bedsheet and shower nozzle. Gotta go to sleep and have some nice dreams.