the truth about the name of our flat

masala in indonesian and in malay means problem...

The Chea Connection

Dear sirs and Ma'ams.

I had the opportunity to go to chilistan, more specifically in Santiagopatnam.

Iwent there for the wedding of a friend of mine who happened to marry a chilean lady.

I stayed in Jose's (masalite july 2005 - june 2006) house for 5 days and we had great fun, cheea. Also, Steph (she used to live in road number 3 only) flew there for work and we all met. THis pic was taken in the restaurant "el toro" in santiago.........

enjoy...

long live masala flat

long live masalites

long live Raja

Marcelo garu

bla bla bla (as usual)

heeyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy masaliteeeeeeeeeeeessssssssss!!!!!!!!!!!!!

it seems that since the blog is working again everyone is afraid to log in a post something!
i dont have much to say as usual. just that i m in bali and that this is a place to live. is beautiful. great people. good music (crazy and completely different from the western standards). good surf (which would be good for the hippie, but it's too hard for me... i like to see though... the boys are usually pretty and their bodies... hum hum... (mike is jealous now). beautiful women ( and mike is jealous again). the food is also ok. they dont have biriani but i can survive even without it.

my itfriend left me. it told me i was not using it as much as it wished me to... (my itfriend was a red baton).

bla bla bla bla bla

where are you all?

can i stay in the flat in the night of june 29th? hum. if you dont want me there no prob. just let me know so i'll start to prepare myself to sleep in the streets of banjara hills... or masala flat or nothing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

it's all by now.

nice to see that karin is up for the meeting in august 2008. i hope you are doing ok back in austria.

where is heejung?
where are you guys?

god bless america and the dogs

husain sagar
bag piper
ror-rre
enfim.

And we're up and running again!

So, people, things are up and running again! Also, we should not have any of the problems we had before anymore.

There are a few things that changed: The username that you need to log in to the account and write posts has changed. I have sent an email with these data to everyone. If you did not get the email, please write to me: spaeth.aiesec@gmail.com

For safety reasons, you will not be able to change any of the settings anymore. I guess it's better that way, I'll take care of the blog from now. Mieke, you still have full access to the blog with your email address, but I ask you to use the new username I sent around all the same.

Let's hope this is the last problem we have.

Happy Blogging!

Mike

LIST OF PARRRIS TRRRRRAVELERS 2008!!! ONLY!!

peoplllllllllllee, maaaaa'aaams and babuuuus. Herrre the list of the people that had already accept the Paris traveling... Pls add you name if u accept it.

- The hippie babu (Stephan)
-Matthias babu
-Rrrr-orrre babu(jorge)
-Yung Li babu
-Mike babu
-Cristina baba
-Mieke baba
-Hee Jung baba
-Hideyuki babu (Im not sure...)
-Marcelo babu (Im not sure...)
-Michelle baba (not sure neither)
- Magda
- Andre
- Stephan
Am I forgeting somebody that has accept this proposement???? Please add the ones that I forgot, or add ur self. And, if I put ur name by mistake, and u dont want it, correct it.
Pls remind everybody that is not here.... Pls the VERY OLD MASALITES and the VERY NEW MASALITES have to come!!!! remind them pls.

CHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEA!!!! (Joseeeeeeee Pedroooo cooomeeee!!!)

Cris






LOVE UUUUUUUUUU
Cristina ma'am

i ll be back to hyderabad!

by the way. i ll be back to hyderabad. june 29. ... i hope yang, david, manoel, angela and zerline will still be there. also curious to meet the new people. i will stay for one or 2 nights! i hope i m still welcome.
beijos
jorge

oh YEAh! Ror-rre is back!!!! HIP HOP IS VERY DO NICE

camon people. yeah yeah yeah. dance yeah. la la la. oh oh oh. santa claus. pai natal. coiso e tal.
so here i am. your favourite jorge. bag piper man. a crazy dude that you all miss so so so so so so so much! i miss you too. but less... ahahahahahahaha.
well. paris is cool. i dont know if i can make it. i have a very busy agenda. cheaaaaaaaaa!!!!! i will try. yeah! there is a communist festival in portugal in the beginning of september and i cant miss it. so. and i need to be with my parents. i mean. my father and his wife (my mother) and her husband (my father) and his wife (my mother) and her husband (my father) and his wife (my mother) and her husband (my father). it's a lot of people.
bla bla bla. i m not on drugs. i am sorry. is just happiness. i fell in love. i have finally a french itfriend!!!!!! it's a baton! red baton! a red hot baton! a red hot chilli baton! a red hot chilli pumpkin baton!!!!!!!!!! cheaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.
when i woke up i was in burma. now i am in malaysia (forgot the name of the city, its not kuala lumpur)!! i m going to work here in another farM! i love farms! i love god!
i m doing a sleeping treatment!!!!!!!! i dont sleep for 3 days already (i m lying, i fell asleep two times). but anyway i feel like those guys that are tortured by the americans in guantanamo!!!!! cheeaaaaa.
i believe in god!!!!!! i see god!!!!!!!!!!
i didnt stop rocking in the sitar!!! people like it!!!! now i am a respected sitar player in thailand!!! tribal women like it! and i like tribal women but my thing are hijras and ladyboys!
god bless you all.
miss you.
see you in paris. berlin. or lisboa. que e's tao boa!
lisboa is indeed "THE CITY"! but if you want paris what can i do... by the way. my project for berlin 2008 is on the way!!!! cheaa. then all the masalites will be invited to the biggest artistic intelectual and post modernist/pre quantic project in the world!!!!!!! the revolution itself! the new economy. the state of pur inspiratioN!!!!!!!!!!!
m
bla bla bla. god bless you all. i was saved by a monk.
bla bla bla
jorge de braganca goncalves, poeta anomico, boemio e tudo.

LETS MEET AGAIN!!!

MASALITES!!!

lets meet again! lets plan some date to meet again!!! what do u say!! Maybe on summer 2008 or december 2008. It would be very nice to plan it from now so then we could save money and all that stuff and but cheapier tickets!!!! Matthias was telling me about going to Paris... what do u think???

Mike, so nice ur pics!!! Im glad u had a great time, so nice, we have to do also PPL!!! soooo nice!!! and Mike, thanks for ur happy birthday wishes, love u!!!!!!

Ok, now, lets plan something.....

Jorge, miss ur writting.... COME BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Cris

Amsterdam!

Yoyo!

First of all, Happy Birthday Cris, you old woman!

Last weekend me and Nadja met up with other trainees who were in Hyderabad in Amsterdam! Gil from Ireland was there, as well as Jenny from Germany and Olga from Switzerland (both ex-Masalites!), and the Dutchies: Friederike, Gerben, Imke. I don't actually know if anyone except the old Masalites (Hide, Marcelo etc.) remember or met them. But I am sure that you DO remember Miss Caroline? Well, I didn't want to miss the chance to meet my favourite Dutch Miss. We went on a boat trip through the Grachts (canals) of Amsterdam. It was so great to see you again Caroline, let's do that again very soon!


Aren't we a beautiful couple? :) Anyways, we didn't only drive around in boats but also went out to show Amsterdam how Hyderabadis party! So we ended up in this big disco and did the shake-a-delic until the early morning. We of course drank a lot of beer, too. I think Jenny and especially Gil really felt it the next morning. But of course, Gerben looked worse, as he always does after drinking. Enjoy the pictures, if you want to see more of them, go here.

HAAAAAAAAPY BIIIIIIIRTHDAAY 22 MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!

BABUS AND BABAS!!!! on saturday it was my birthday!! now im 26! sooo old hahaha but sooo happy :). I had a lot of fun here at home, I party with my friends a loooooot...in fact I celebrate it for 3 days!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! toooo much!!!! IIIIIIIIIIITS TRUUUUUUUUE!! but it was grt!.

I want to post here a pic of me and my friends before party. LOVE UUUUU AND MISS U. I would love u to be with me.

Kisses

Cris

Password Change

Dear all,
Nadja just told me that Marcelo shared the access data to this blog with the whole Satyam Google Community. While I think it's nice if as many people as possible read this blog, I guess it makes sense to restrict writing access to those who really lived in Masala Flat. Don't worry Marcelo, I don't blame you, these things happen. If you did it on purpose though, shame on you :).

What I did is change the password. I'm sending the new password to all the people I think should have access but I do not have all the email addresses. If you do not get an email from me within the next hour, please write to me at spaeth.aiesec@gmail.com if you think you should have access to the blog!

I hope you all understand this measure I'm taking, it's for the best of this community blog.

Mike

Marcelo Back to Sao paulonagar

Dear all,
It's been a week since i got here in Brazil. I miss Hyderabad a lot. It is quite hard to adapt. After 19 months lots of things changed, things in my friend's lives, family members and so on. In the otherhand, the dynamic environment in which i was living in india, sounds like science fiction hereI tell my people here about the progress, about the fly overs, about how is it to be a very old employee in Satyam after only 1.5 years among all the freshers.For them it is unbeliveble.
my saying is:"In India you don't have to read the newspaper to be aware of the economic growth, you just have to look to the streets through the window"
I miss the optimism of my friends in India. i miss the hope in their eyes, their aspirations and dreams.
I friend of mine told me when i got here: "welcome, you just left a emerging country for a submerging one". The atmosphere here is of "survival". Peopleare concentrating on the struggle to keep their standards of living. I had dinner yesterday with a friend of mine who used to work in DHL Bombay and she told methat a call center operator in DHL Bombay is making more money in India than the people who she manages here in the biggest Brazilian Call center. I just want to remind you that our prices much more expensive than in India.
I miss the innocent look of Indian ladies, their pure gaze. I miss my morning paratha. My idly. I miss complaining about the spicy food, the crazy rickshaw wallas, the paperboy that delivers the "Deccan Chronicle" instead of the "the Hindu". i miss my landlord's son coming up every evening saying "marcelooooooo,My father wants to talk to you" (a.k.a. "he is mad with all those foreigners"). I miss the Rs 10 Dal Rice at Patel Hotel, the chai and the beedie with the owner of the place. i miss Sleeper Class, chai and train birianyi. More than anything else, i miss Cristina Ma'am.
People here don't understand my experience and maybe they never will unless they undergo a long stay in the Bharat mata. The other day i was showing some picturesto a friend of mine some pictures i took when i went to ajanta caves in August 2005. I thought:"Gosh, this was so long ago. So many things have happened since that trip!!"
No one here understads a malayalee joke (such as why productivity in kerala is so low? Because malayalees spend half their time folding and unfolding their lungis!) Bollywood is unknown here. Aish and Amitabh could walk alongside the whole of copacabana beach in Rio and be totally annonymous And i dont know why, but i get angry when people who know nothing about India look down to Her. "Oh, did you manage to learn any of their dialects there?". "Dialect??? Rabindranath Tagore got a nobel prize for his works in Bengali and you call it a dialect? Tamil has status of classical language alongside Sanskrit, Greek and Latin and you call it a dialect?" Maybe i have to be more tolerant and less emotional.
Anyway, in India, outside my group of friends, i was always a foreigner, a videsh, an Angrezi or a firangi. I kind of belong to this Brazilian place. maybe not...Maybe i belog to nowhere now!!
I will try to write more personal mails in the coming days, life has been hectic since i got here.
Regards,
Marcelo

public call to Miekelangela!!!

People!!!!

I think its time to make a public call to Miekelangela, the angeeeels of aaaaaangels... the smokers of the smokeeeeers, the alcoholic companyyyy of all the times, the looovely Mikelangela!!! that wierd girl that kisses weird guys in the weirdest moments... from a scottish guy to a thai guy.... was he scottish?

but even if she kisses wierd guys we still love her... and we miss her...

So my dear miekelangela, I know you are having a good time traveling with Yo-Yo, but please, give us some sight of life!!!!

Ma'am 1 is really missing Ma'am 2, with all the heart!!!.

Yung and Matthiew, the couple of the year... I hope u can join you beds soon again... I wish u all the best it he future...

'Bla bla boy' ... Maybe Ill move from Ecuador...Im not still sure if Ill stay here... lets see... maybe ill follow your path Master, and Ill follow you ...

Ohh my God... yesturday I drank too much and party too much, now is time to sleep and recover the formality of a respectful latinamerican girl... I think this drinking state is taking me the 'rro-rre' that we all have inside... ohhh hippie, I miss him. Ohhh and Momoco... hahaha the Jorge suplement when jorge left...Jorgina... do u remember???...

jorge, when u left, sweet Momoco start to get drunk alone!!! and then she got the nick of Jorgina... Momoco, let us know about u again!!

So, well, the point of this post is to tell Mieke to come back to our Masala Life and everything.

Cristina ma'am, the still kind of drunk baba of all times...

CHEEEEEEEEERS!!!

here some old pics with my friends getting drunk hehehe...kisses

In Berlin

Hey you guys,
I thought it's time for a little action again here. And I also thought it's time to reveal my itfriend's identity. I mean, most of you guys have probably guessed it and I've not been planning to make a secret out of it, somehow the game with guessing we played was fun and I never got around to telling you that I am, in fact, together with Nadja, whom some of you met in Hyderabad. She lived in Road No. 12. We've been together for almost 5 months now!

Last week we spent some time in Berlin, where Nadja is from. It was great, I love Berlin, always have, and it's even better when you have someone by your side who grew up there and knows their way around. We also took a trip to the 'country' south of Berlin and I'm simply going to attack a few pictures from the whole stay. I hope you enjoy them and are happy for me and Nadja.

On another note, my friend who hosted my blog while I was in India had to take it down because of spam. I've made my own, new blog at http://mikesayshi.blogspot.com. Feel free to visit it, in fact, please do, I'd love some comments on it. I've started writing about other things than travel reports and I'm not sure it's as good as it should be ;)

Anyway, I'm glad the blog works again and we all found our way back. Greetings go out to Jorge and André, glad to see a sign of life from you guys. Of course I also send my greetings to all of you other guys, I'm very happy that Cris made it back safe to Ecuador and that you're posting here. Please, you others, let's hear what's happening to you, wherever you are! This is a great platform for communication! Where have all the Koreans gone, for example? Miss Little Chinese and Grandma? Where are you? We want news!

Ok, I'll stop writing now. Enjoy the pictures.

god is blue

yohere i am.( your favourite masalite. i dont even need to sign now after saying this. you all know now who i am.) having adventures. in thailand. and by the way, cristina ma'am, yesterday i had a crazy story with a lady boy. when i say it is crazy it really is but i will only tell this story if one day will have a dinner or a weekend together somewhere in the world... all the masalites. or at least a good number... is a good story.

well. in 10 days i ll be going to burma. till then i will have a workshop on natural building. yes. building a house. naturally. that is one of the things i have been doing. i think my career is on the construction field now. doing something real.

anyways. the reason why i am writing is because i dont to do after going to burma. i mean. i planned to go to malaysia to work in a farm but i dont think this will work out. a friend told me to go and work with the fishermen for a while. but i dont think i will. so any idea will be welcome. you know i like strange things so... i like normal things too. what i want to say is that, for example, if you once thought about something you would like to do in this corner of the world. i mean. southeast asia. just tellme. perhaps i would like to do it too. i need inspiration. please... help me.

it's all by now. take care masalites. and keep in touch.

Road Number five, boss, Massalaflat!

Hey Massalitos,

how's it going in Road N5 Banjari Hills, the Beverly Hills of Hyderabad! I felt like scrapping sth in this blog to show that it's not dead and there are actually more ppl than Mike, Jorge and Christina writing their lifestories... which also nice ; )
I am still in Montreal, it is right now -35 degrees, half a meter snow and I have an exam tomorrow, damn it. After finishing my thesis here, I will go back to Europe, where my roots are and get veery rich, or not.
Hey Jorge, my SItar is fucked up, when I try to tune it, it doesn t sound right anymore. U wanna trade yours against mine?? I didn t brake it, since I did that already in Hyderabad, but I don't know what the CHarrrrminar is wrong with it! RIght now, I just use it to put my clothes on it, with all respect to my holy instrument.
Anyways, I hope the new Massalitos will have a lot of fun as well, keep up to roofparties and the guitarsounds up there and the Backpiper, and the other stuff ; )

Greetings from Montréal, cheeeeaaaaaaaaa

André






Allez Letzebuerg!

Back to Masala Flat Hyderabad and masalites

To Mike
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As Matthias said, it's too hard explain the whole thing, that's definitly a bad memory for me and every masalites. Now normal is there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Chee!!!

What I found sth special is that I never thought that I could know Mike in this way.

"Ok, what exactly happened now? Where is the other blog? And if you deleted it, why did you not copy all the articles over to this one?And you need to give me the username for the new blog again, please. The password I know.
Mike"

and this way

"Hurray hurray hurray, the blog is working again! I don't care how, but it's working. I almost had to jump on a plane and fly to Hyderabad itself only to punish Michelle (did I spell that correctly?). Woot!
Mike"

soooooooooooooooooooooooo special, huh~~

Anyway I want say Hello here to you.

Hi Mike, Um, ur spelling on my name is right, but perhaps you can call me Nan(Chinese name, Bty, it's not the Indian food). Um, Welcome back to the normal masalites, I hope you can keep blogging, scrapping, commenting and punnishing (hehe, kidding, pls never).

Michelle
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To my Zoet hart Mat,
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I hope you can have fun there with Mieke and Korean Girl(sorry forget ur name) . I also hope I can get more days off to join you guys later. All the best for your rest of days here in India.

Ik hon van jou.

Nan
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Normal is there!

Hurray hurray hurray, the blog is working again! I don't care how, but it's working. I almost had to jump on a plane and fly to Hyderabad itself only to punish Michelle (did I spell that correctly?). Woot!

Mike

everything is working perfect now...

Thanks to god and computersience our blog is working again. I will not explain what the exact problem was because it's to boring... and you all guys would never understand...
I just want to say that I will travel from this saterday the 3the of march upto the 20the of march to himalaya. My dear nan will join me later. So my Indian Traineeship story is almost finished...Of course my masala story will continue (I hope so) and hopely never ends...

see you on the blog

Matthias

Back to normal?

So, is the whole oddyssey with our blog over? Are we back at where we started? Am I the only one reading this blog because everyone else is at some other place? Someone enlighten me please!

Mike

ECUADOR IS THERE....

Quito is there...Ecuador is there...friends are there...family is there... and wedding was there... very nice by the way.... so much alcohol and dance and dance and dance...sooooo nice. Ill post some pics for u....
But Masalas are not there, Miekelangela is not there, Georgo Armani is not there, the guy with the ugly red bike is not there, big chinise teddy bear is not there, Eeeeeeeeee is not there (Momo), curly girl is not there, hippie is not there, Ammar and Bilal are not there..., my latinos are not there, my Mike, my Hide.... (etc, etc etc... if i continue the list it will be tooo long...)all Masalites etc..are not there) and of course, my LOVELY GORDO is not there.... all my ppl is not there...

Ohhh Raja is not there.... but I can live with that hehe

People here are asking me all the time, how was it? and sometimes I try to explain and explain and explain and explain and tell them about India, about you, about how great we were all together, how much fun we had and how we become real friends, good friends, a big Masala Flat.... but nobody can really understand...so at some point I start to tell them things like...yep, my friends are really nice and thats it...

Nobody can understand how this family is and how amazing it is. I love you sooo much. you are really more than one experience in my life, more than any travelling friends I meet, you are my Masala family and even if the flat changes so many times, all of you are part of this. Thank you for making this experience so amazing and being so good friends, and dont worry because this ECUADORIAN girl is going to go and visit you in Europe,maybe in one or 2 years... I WILL BE THERE ONLY!... and Ill kick all ur asses! especially Hideyukis (he used to teach me self defense)

I hope everybody is doing great in their new lifes and I hope NOBODY forgets to write here in the blog until one day that we can meet together again...

Kisses...

Maria Cristina Ordonez Crespo Crespo Jaramillo Viteri Mena...... (as a good latina...I know all my lastnames until my great grandmother)

A big change in masalaflat

Masala Flat Hyderabad
Dear masalaflat,

there has changed a lot in masalaflat. Senior Marcelo has left the building. Masala will never be the same again. Also his dear love who called him gooordooo has left. Then we have mieke who left also only... And then of course not to forget the hippie with I hope is hippie pants how left his luggage in yangs dirty room...hehe Last and least we have jorge the looser of the flat who left...He went to an other country in search of new real friends

guys I will miss you all but the is a new starting in masalaflat...
we have Manuel the german
Carlos the colombian
and angela la colombiana
David the mexican

So lets clap or applaud and pray the lord or ganesh for this new bung............

matthias has spoken

Dear All,

Here I am. HUSAIN SAGAR! In Calcutta. Quite nice indeed. My sitar is with me. Still alive. In the plane everyone thought I was a musician so I had a special treatment...
bla bla bla.
anyway. i left some beautiful trousers for our hippie in the flat. I hope CRISTINA will give to MIEKE or to YANG so one of them will give it to the HIPPIE. I MISSS THE HIPPIE.
As some of you know. Now I am going to Thailand. I will become a farmer... it was dream for a long time. so it will become true. i bet that mike is quite jealous by now since is a very rural person.

bla bla bla
please. tell to the new masalites to post here. to upload some photos etc. i will do the same. i wont let you to forget me

love
jorge braganca goncalves
husain sagar
bag piper
rorr-re

Goa Impressions

Almost all Member of Masala-Flat went to Goa to celebrate Christmas and New Year!

It was a funny time and I hope that everybody who joined this journey will tell us a story about our Goa-time in the comment box.
There was the Terrorist-Story, the Hippie-Bar-Story, the Story of "Spitze", the Tourist-Menu-in-Bambolim Story, the "Memory-Man"-Story etc etc etc
Let's collect all stories... :-)

I attached some pictures that are mostly telling their own story...


Silvester (31-12-2006) Dinner in Baga.
Jorge was enjoying his "nasal sex".


















New Years Party in "on the Rocks" (Baga)
Everrrrybody was therrrrrre....


















Mama-Chris and her children


















Yeah Baby!










































Last Day on the Beach of Bambolim.






































And Finally:

"Gib mir nicht nur die Spitze, ich will den ganzen Schwanz!"
(a Goan Insider)

For translation:
http://dict.leo.org/




















Your Hippie