Diary of a traveling ashtray

It was a while ago that Alex and I had our first fight. That was when Alex got those Ghosts in his head, but now we have again another fight. Is this what you are supposed to call “Double Happiness?” Double Happiness my a$$! Alex asked me to clean up his make-up suitcase this morning continue reading ...

Leaving Jakarta (personal message for Jack*) Partying in Jakarta is total madness. Alex has very annoying hangover now, with a headache from here to Tokyo. Two Paracetamols that he got from the receptionist girl this morning, aren’t very helpful. Not helpful at all. He’ll probably continue reading ...

Dear Gov. of Hong Kong, First of all I’d like to compliment you for every ashtray on a top of each trash hold, located on all streets corners of your beautiful city. I’d also like to compliment you for Hong Kong’s great infrastructure (Alex and I are very impressed) and public continue reading ...

It was probably 4.00 ‘o clock am. I woke up by the sound of air conditioning and saw Alex standing with his back towards the wall at the opposite side of the room. He looked like he was a bit nervous and ready for fight, or something like that. Never seen him like this continue reading ...

Alex still doesn’t feel very well, so he asked me to write something nice and positive about India, as a part of his life philosophy is: with a positive attitude, you’ll get positive attitude in return. Right… well, mostly. Although the traffic in Delhi drives me totally insane continue reading ...

Well, as Alex finished with his antibiotics and painkillers two days ago (no worries he feels almost fine), he’s got to deal with diarrhea and pain in his back now. :-( He also doesn’t really feel like writing right now, so I think I’ll run the WTA diary myself for a couple of continue reading ...

This morning Alex and I woke up by the sound of his mobile. The girl on the phone started talking Hindi, but Alex asked he if she would be that kind to talk English - and she did. She told him she was from Tata Indicom. Alex (waiting now the 3d day for Tata Indicom’s technician already) continue reading ...

A couple of days ago, Alex and me were on a little day trip. Just to escape the noise of Delhi for a while. We were on the road with 3 other people and a driver. We visited a couple of Indian monuments and made some nice pictures too. Alex was very fortunate to even visit Taj Mahal in Agra, but continue reading ...

Alex warned me to watch out with my words, as freedom of speech is very limited, even in so called ‘democratic’ countries - and even though I respect his concerns, I really don’t care that much, because I’m an ashtray. So I couldn’t resist sending you this card and continue reading ...

Just about 15 minutes before I met Alexander, he had an argument with a waitress (this part of the story I was told by someone, haven’t witnessed that moment myself, as I came a bit later on the scene). It all happened in Scheiwijck, one of Alexander’s favorite ‘brown’ continue reading ...