星期二, 11月 14, 2006

y?

(紅圈中的兩個小孩,是Agra火車站的拾荒者,跟在Varanasi的那個小孩不同,這兩個小孩很有精力,邊拾邊玩,卻無情地加重了事件悲劇感。)

美麗的照片看過了,是時候看看真實的印度。

去印度旅行,除了 打好預防針,還要練得一身冷酷無情,鐵石心腸,才可以上路。

無論是火車站、機場、馬路上、清真寺的路上等,任何一個位置上,你絕對無可以跟行乞的人擦身而過,因為實在太多了,而且會伸手問你攞錢。

傳統去深圳的智慧告訴我們,勿動善心,因會來引來狂風浪蝶。而事實上,實在太多行乞的人,你根本無辦法滿足每一個人。

但最後,我還是給了一條蕉給一個細路,那時在Varanasi的火車站,等待往Agra的火車。

那個小孩才六、七歲,爛衫爛褲,看得出精神不佳,伸出無力的手,在問我們拿食物,我實在不忍心。(如果可以再來一次,我會給多點東西給他)

懷 著失望的神情離開我們之後,我看到他走落路軌,竟在檢食物! 須知,印度的路軌是火車糞便、尿液、乘客飛劍、月台食店路人垃圾的收集地,衞生情況惡劣到頂點。而那個小孩每天就是如此過活,天啊,他的人生就是如此渡 過,等待那年那日,吃下帶菌的食物,然後靜靜死去。對於世界第二人多的國家 -- 印度而言,只是上億的人口數字少了一個「個位數」,有誰會在意那個小孩﹖竟然印度政府在做什麼﹖﹖﹖

我們作為遊客,有時不免用了同情或以 發達國家自居的心態來看待他們,有時心裡不無矛盾,例如在Agra時,我們往酒店對面的roof top餐廳食飯,價錢在當地而言是超貴,埋單四個人花了近160港元。錢不是大數目,但餐廳看過去的影象才叫人深刻,在數座裝橫還算ok的酒店旁邊,竟在 空地上紮起一個單面帳篷,一個家庭就睡在裡面,近乎無遮無掩,高高在上的我們卻吃著與價錢不乎的超貴料理,身旁伴著一個自稱要靠客人打賞過活的機靈得過頭 的小待應。

但印象最深的,還是最後一天在孟買。當時我跟朋友打的往機場的途上,車給堵住了,路邊的婦人立即抱著女兒走了過來,問我有沒有 朱古力或香蕉可以給她的嬰孩。可惜,數天的鐵石心腸沒變,我沒有贈蕉施朱,雙方輾轉了數分鐘,最後車要開了,此刻,那婦人竟然跟我很有禮貌的說「bye bye」,彷彿寬恕我的無情與冷血,那一刻,我無地置容。

這是否體驗貧窮,我不知道,但在印度,誰願練得一身鐵石心腸呢﹖

(圖中的就是我們餐廳望出去的住家帳蓬。)

星期一, 11月 13, 2006

Indiannnn

「都叫你唔好影囉」sorry 都係影咗。仲見埋妳手上既紋身tim。

係Jodpur餐廳工作既靚仔。令人想起張國榮首「側面」
恒河邊既小女孩,你睇佢幾識擺post士

恒河邊既洗澡男生。

恒河邊的老伯,好cool。
我們騎駱駝經過沙漠中的一條村子中,看到這個小孩,他正問我哋攞rupees

Agra餐廳下面民居中的小孩。

星期六, 11月 04, 2006

In touch with Indian

There is something really bad about getting to and out of Jaipu which is our next destination after Agra. Reason? Train delay, as usual.

Delayed train to Jaipu force us to spend four more hours on the transportation. GOSH...............
and the worst is when we want to leave Jaipu for Jodhpur, where i am standing, the train was delayed from 11am to 4pm!!!!!!!!!! 6 hours delay!!!!!!!!!!! Can u believe that??????????????

So, we have to rush to buy another train ticket to Jodhpur at 2pm and getting on the train in great hurry and hassle. Luckily, there is a trade-off as we can experience a very local indian travel expereience, ie travel in a NonClass train car with layman indian.

Thanks to that, we four really have an opportunity to really have a good time with indian guys on the train.

While my fds are talking to an old indian man on the topic like indian number etc. A 22 yrs old guys ask me about the sitting matter(coz we don have seat, we gotta stand all the journey) and we started a conversation about Hindulism, Islam, Patisken, India, Arranged Marriage, Sex etc topic. It's always a pleasure to talk to local people.

As I am starting to get fascinated for Hindulism. my first question to Anoop is "do u belive in Hindulism?" The 22 years old, now working in a large scale company for engineering position told me, yes he is.

As he told me Hindulism is like a Philiosophy rather than a religion. There will not be any rule to follow, rather it's like kind of practise or way of life you are pursuing. The ultimate goal is pursue the supeme power and turn yourself into a God. Sounds like Buddlism? yes, coz the latter one comes from the earlier one.

Frank, due to his indian accent, i can't really understand his explanation on why Islam and Hindulism cannot work out to be a united India, as Gandhi advocated.

But, He did told me a lot of funny thing on Indian marriage and romance life. It's interesting to hear they are still looking for astrology to see whether the couple match to each other when comes to marriage, and Anoop told me if the sign doesn't mateh, he will abandon the proposed marriage. More to share with your guys later.

The most memorable thing would be he is quite determined and clear about what he is doing now, making money, move upward in the society, so marriage comes later

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By the way, the night in Jaipur, we went to watch a Bollywood movie called "Don", it's kind of 007+Jackie Chan+Matrix(outlook)+tons of HK movie element+typical bollywood dancing sequence. Guess how is it??????????????? haha. Well dancing sequence is amazing, and most importantly, the Gals are first-rated indian gal!!!! and the audience are all in high mood with scream and shout being heard all the time.

星期四, 11月 02, 2006

Indian Express

Hey, I am in India!!!! a place you have to see it for yourself!!

Today is my fifth days in this obviously over-population nation.

Though five days were being spent, but so far we just manage to visit Ganga River, ie Varanasi and Taj Mahal. The reason is we spent so much time on travel from one city to the next. (not to mention the serious delay, four hours, for the train to Taj Mahal)

and the annoying people you will get through in every single tourist spot is absolutely indian experience(but with style of Shenzhen)

Interesting things is we get over-alert dealing with the local people. It's quite problemtic indeed, since why i love travel is always due to the people who's living there. (you know people shapes the culture and the place) this time it's sometimes hard to find an indian guy to talk about himself to you without asking you whether you need money exchange service and so on.

After several days of observation, i find out that most of them are generous and good at heart, though sometimes they are looking for "Chek So". Like once you tell them you got boat for boat trip or you got your own hotel, u will be free so. and the childern is commonly fascinated with tourist's camera. (i just thought they would ask for money when we took the photo of him.)

Anyway, the two place we visited are both Great. i particularly love the River Ganga, i try to tell you guys more later, so the internet service counting is near the end... share with you some pics la.