Smearing the mustard
HELLLOOO from the land of curry!
You know, I was never really a big fan of the curry. When it came to takeout food, curry was almost at the bottom of my list, an occasional venture was made, but rarely was there an urge, an overwhelming desire to bury my tastebuds in the richness of spice and gooey vegetable sensation.
All that is different now and not a moment too late. Love the stuff... and in a land where a curry will cost you a third of what it might cost to get a bowel of pasta, it is not such a bad thing.
anyway... I ramble as I am drunk as a skunk after watching the monsoon rains come in over the ocean on a beach in Goa with my brother, a french couple we met in Kerala and few bottles of Kingfisher.
Anyway, just thought it was time I dropped my head in to the land of Mess to see what the world is like over there. The world here is beyond comprehension unless you have actually experienced it before. As much as I love Melbourne town and always will, you can only appreciate such things when you take a break and look at it through fresh eyes that you have granted the gift of a different perspective.
But clearly the beer is starting to leach into fingers and there is an Australian bar not far from here (the Boomerang Bar... bwaaahahahaha) where my brother is waiting for me with another $1 longneck and a pool cue.
Until next time Messarinos, be good to one another and no doubt I will see you all on the other side.
Messy Mustard Love,
Damian.
Sounds fantabulous mate. Keep us posted on your journey.
HELLLOOO from the land of curry!
As much as I love Melbourne town and always will, you can only appreciate such things when you take a break and look at it through fresh eyes that you have granted the gift of a different perspective.
thats the point
enjoy
there's a point? ... fuck!
I've been going about this whole 'life' thing all wrong.
How's life in the 'dam Cruisemeister? Taking it easy on that fungus I hope.
There are a couple of people around here who clearly haven't. the guy in the cottage next to us is a old school hippy, he just sits there with a blank expression and a hint of a smile listening to pink floyd... actually, that doesn't sound too bad... he could be into Goa trance...eeeek.
I love a good curry. Dunno about putting veges in it though. As I said, slaughter a roaming cow and ask if they'll make you a real curry.
While in Goa I'll be dissapointed if you don't burn your mouth on a vindaloo.
LOL Just found out my housemate (he's indian) took his mum to mc donalds when she was here and got her to eat a big mac and didnt tell her it was cow till afterwards.
That is sooooooo evil. Fancy feeding someone McDonalds. ;)
Hellloooo there messarinos...
Thought it was about time for an update.
WE are currently sitting in a train station in Hyderabad... or Hyradabad... or somethingbad. Yesterday we spent the most money we had on a single item... a bus ride... luxury style (it cost $20) and we slept all night to wake up here... in another smelly city on our way to a magical place with temples carved into the stone. (I think part of the reason we slept so well is that they sell valium over the counter here... yeah... 50 pills for $4)
anyway...
Today was the first day I say some blue in the sky. We are running and running fast away from the south that gives new definition to the term 'wet'. Even if you have been in far north queensland in summer... times it by ten. FUCKING WET!!!
...so we're going to the desert.... and then perhaps to Kashmir (flicks ipod to LedZepplin). da na na na na.
So here's a brief udate on what we been up to... ahhh... a shit load of reading. For a boy who did not read very much, I have knocked off four books in the last two weeks that have greatly helped to widen my perspective and reignite my passion for words...
...but other than that we have been on a boat cruise through the backwaters of kerala, got drunk on a beach in Goa, got very wet on a beach in goa, played pool with some wonderful frenchies we met at a place called the 'Boomerang Bar'(hang head in shame), spent a lot of time on buses that make the sound of giant rusty mechanical magpies fighting in a room full of sandpaper, visited a beatiful town surrounded my enormous hindu temples and ruins where cows, dogs and moneys roam the streets... and on it goes.
Fuck I'm glad to be out of Goa. In monsoon it is wet beyond belief... and during peak season it sounds horrible, full of israelies and brits and hopeless trashbags (unlike the fine calibre of trashbags we have at home).
Steve and I are kicking around and having fun, but after two weeks of nonstop wetness and a sky of bleak pale grey we are craving some fucking sunshine. A sunset. A sunrise. A sun. It is not so much that I dislike rain.. in fact I love it... but it makes seeing and doing thing very hard... especially in the temple town where the power was knocked out for two days. We had to go to cafes and drink endless cups of coffee whilst reading under a lamp pwered from a car battery.
gotta love this country... except for a couple of things.... which I will soon post on the rant thread.
anyway... that's about if to me at the moment. I hope you are all well and happy and are partying hard in my absence.. You'd better have some good tails for me when we return.
also... I am soon to start a small blog, which has exerpts from my journal. I will post the address soon.
Messy mustard love.
Damian.
you write a lot musty
but wait... there's more...
Here's my blog. If you're at all interested. http://www.devilsbreakfast.blogspot.com/
I still need to update it a bit... but it's a work in progress.
love ya wordage!!!
looking forward to updates.
travel well
I don't need to go, reading your spin on things is better than being there and living my own nightmarish fantasies... besides I am too anit-social for India :)
I don't need to go, reading your spin on things is better than being there and living my own nightmarish fantasies... besides I am too anit-social for India ?
That's a shame...
C'mon Nos.. That's a bit poor - willing to take one man's perspective on things as replacement for actually experiencing it (scary fantasies aside, or not)??? pfft!
Although I do hear you about the antisocial side of things. Reckon I'd freak out with that many people 24/7... At least here you can go somewhere where the people aren't!! ?
whers my postcard mustardo
whers my postcard mustardo
here here!
there you go. Justin has them.
no. I'm lying.
I haven't been able to find any with boobs.
maybe I'll get onto that. Steve has boobs. I'll take a photo of him.
hey folks... just thought i'd pop in before I fall asleep.
Still living it sideways in mental India. Got up at 4:30 this morning to go float down the Ganges (and I thought the yarra was dirty... fuck)
anyway tidbit is up on ze blog with a few more in the bank that I hope to write up in coming weeks.
Miss you all except Justin.
heheheheh.
Love ya work Dame!!!!
heya peeps,
Kicking back in Udaipur again for my very last week in India.
I've uploaded a heap more photos to facebook if you are interested.
I'm also working on more blog entries and should have at least one more verbose wankering up in the next 24 hours, with the hope of having all my indian stories done before I move on to....
EGYPT.
yay.
should see ya'll round the web a bit over the next week as there is a computer in my hotel here.... beyond that... fuck knows...
Now I've got the indian groove (no, it's not a disease) it's time to move on to the mystery of an ancient land.
much messymustard love.
Damian.
Miss you all except Justin.
heheheheh.
and here i am bothering to read of your travels
your going to egypt? was that always in the plan? then where?
egypt! yay!!
all the best for the next adventure!!
should have at least one more verbose wankering up in the next 24 hours
OK....who told him.
:-[
I think he means a different Justin! One that you wouldn't miss, either!
Egypt! Yay, Dame! Hope you have a ball. I'll bet you'll soak up some good joo joo there.
xx
See you in ensuing months.
your going to egypt? was that always in the plan? then where?
No. that was not the plan... but after experiencing the monsoon in India and seeing that cambodia had 19days of rain per month in September... I decided to go to the desert.
After a stint here I'll be heading back 'down under' (as annoying internationals might say)
as for my wankerings... I always knew. I'm not here every day, so I'll attempt to waste hours of your precious time in heavy blotches of adjective ecky blah blah.
clearly the vocab is now lacking, possibly due to the pitiful amount of sleep I've had in the last few days getting out of India and into africa.
fuck... I'm in Africa.
how bizzare.
more wankerings soon. 
Hey mustardo,
a funny horse porn coincidence happened to me, i was looking at your photos of the sex temple in india the other night, and then yesterday in one of my lectures we were shown pics of the same horsey carvings from that temple. weird.
btw those photos (khajuraho & Taj Mahal) are largely mine and soph's... Dame neglected to credit us so I'm claiming them here 
All good though, as I still haven't got around to uploading them on my own page yet. We miss the mustard already, and India, which was a damn cool place.
lies lies lies... they are mine!!! all mine!! mwaaaahahahahah! [smiley=evil.gif]
no.... I lie...Much credit to Soph and G (almost all credit to be correct). Photographers extraordinaires.
However I do have some pics up from Egypt if anyone is interested.
I see even Nic finally gave in to the Facebook curse.
how does it feel Nic? you feel like a whore yet? oh yeah, cry, cry hard, I want to lick the tears from your face.
Sorry.... turkish coffee is strong. Got a little carried away there. Much love to you all... and especially to Nic. Sorry about the outburst. :-*
hehe, yeah nic. you suck 
great photos daim, you bastard
walk like am egyptian for me eh
Yeah I gave in .. mainly coz I have too many friends abroad!!
I blame them .. but mainly you Dame .. Bottling the tears as we speak, I'll pour them back onto my face when you get home!