bad end - Silver Star hotel, Palolem, Goa

1 star rooms and good food on the beach. Went off season (22nd July 2009 to 23rd) staff was helpful. Plain room - tv, western style loo. No soap, toilet paper, or hot water (but you can get most essentials at the shops 400 meters away). Owned by two brothers one of who I spoke to and seemed quite friendly.

 

Enjoyed my stay except - I was moving in to the Lalit Intertcontinental with my wife but wanted some clothes laundered. They agreed to clean them. When I checked out I did not ask for help and no one came forward to help with my 3 bags.

 

Realized the next day that I had the room key so I went immediately and dropped it off. All the staff was around the TV - slow days.

 

When I came back for my clothes on the 25th the other brother was there was he was not very nice. Said I owe him a days rent cause I had the room keys! I told him walking away with room keys is a common problem - that is why some star hotels have the paper or electronic keys now that can be easily replaced in house at a low cost.

 

He said how are they to know if I checked out or took the key along cause I meant to come back!

 

I reminded him : when I checked out I informed the staff that I was checking out, settled my bill and then left.

 

Then he started calling me a beggar and other obscenities, when I told him to shut up and cussed him one of his staff flew at me and had to be stopped by another.

 

Sad experience - will make me more wary of these low budget places in the future.

 

Regards
Tushar Kapila

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www.worldcommunitygrid.org Volunteer computer Cancer cures
www.thehungersite.com , and www.bhookh.com feed hungry , its free. www.ecologyfund.com
Please add these to your start-up how to: http://tusharkapila.blogspot.com/2008/05/s.html

travians fraggelrock theme song:

Fraggelrock Guild theme song:

Dance your cares away,
Worry's for another day.
Let the music play,
Down at Fraggle Rock.

Work your cares away,
Dancing's for another day.
Let the Fraggles play,
We're Gobo, Mokey, Wembley, Boober, Red.

Dance your cares away,
Worry's for another day.
Let the music play,
Down at Fraggle Rock.

 

Spotted on www.travians.com a fun game where you can find me as user "Tushar Kapila"

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www.worldcommunitygrid.org Volunteer computer Cancer cures
www.thehungersite.com , and www.bhookh.com feed hungry , its free. www.ecologyfund.com
Please add these to your start-up how to: http://tusharkapila.blogspot.com/2008/05/s.html

Bangalore BBMP (local government infrastructure)

to call for tree fallen / emergency road repair / water / other civic problems in Bangalore

22210-0032

22210-0033

22210-0034

+91-80-22210-0035

Call them, write them and ask them to make our footpaths more accessible, system not to allow bikes to get on to them (that is why they are so high): narrow, low step that turns inwards so bikes cannot use them to hop on to the footpath but pedestrians can (as we can easily turn). Remove hawkers especially busy roads like near bus stands (Shivaji nagar, Bangalore Main Station - Majestic, are the ones I have seen)
why don't people in India put a - or a space when writing phone numbers / long numbers ... makes it easier to read. keeps away the cross eyed lion syndrome :-)

Regards
Tushar Kapila

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http://stephenbrooks.org/muon1/ Volunteer computer idle time to science, is run by a friend; he has helped me with 2 algorithms. A child genius was in oxford at age 17
www.thehungersite.com , and www.bhookh.com feed hungry , its free. www.ecologyfund.com
Please add these to your start-up how to: http://tusharkapila.blogspot.com/2008/05/s.html or bookmark all in one folder in your browser and open all together so you remember to visit all! you can even bookmark the individual tabs of the hunger site like this for child health