Delhi

Arrived early this morning, too early. 2:30am Monday morning. Always early morning arrival for airlines and departure as well. So you can "avoid" the heat during daytime. Right. Maybe more like seeing the pollution is more like it.

Iron-wife got the Biz class seat from HKG-DEL. Actually my seat. With my Silver membership, I got bump. With Cathay, it sucks. Never upgrade your companion. Can't even bring your travel companion into the lounge. At the gate as we were boarding, I got a new boarding pass with a new seat. She didn't. So she got "bumped" up there by me. Swine flu, I have been toying with the idea of getting her a new set of ticket for this biz trip. Good thing I didn't. Got a free one. I was so tired by the time I got on the flight that even though her econo window seat was cramp (with all those electronic boxes under the seat), I slept all the way.

The hotel we are staying in Delhi this time is called Hotel Leela. A 5-star business hotel. Very nice. But the food tonight was so so. Luke warm. That was the cafe shop. The nice Indian restaurant did not open until 7pm. Here, supper is late like 8pm at least. Had a lazy afternoon. Slept most of the day away due to obvious reason. Oven like heat in the afternoon was good by the pool. A nice pool. The water was very warm from the sun. I suspect it was about 32C. Power outage was plentiful here. Short though. 30 seconds to 3 minutes. This hotel has the fastest speed I have seen. 6Mbps download.

This hotel is connected to a mall called Ambi Mall. See the Youtube movie here.