March 14th - 18th Working Week

Another week of long hours at work, as User Acceptance Testing reaches its end. This despite the fact that I was having my first major stomach upset of the trip which made the first couple of days of the week significantly less than fun.

I had arranged with Ziima that we would meet at the hotel at 8pm sharp for me to pay her the balance. This was made complex by the fact that the cash machine would only allow me to take out 20,000 rupees so, when she turned up at 10 I couldn't pay her everything she was expecting. However, she also wanted to meet up at some point so that she could get some copies of the photos for herself and we agreed that the final balance would be paid then.

I had been concerned that she would change our arrangement, but she did send e-mails confirming that the total amount to pay had changed, and confirming the amounts that had been paid.

During the week we found out that coming up at the weekend was the festival Holi. This seems to involve people pelting each other with water and coloured dust. After work on Friday, therefore, we went to the shopping centre and got t-shirts that we knew we wouldn't mind about if they got horribly covered. Getting home I also managed to arrange with Ziima that we would meet up on the Saturday to pay the balance and go through her pictures.