2 Disgusting ppl

I met two disgusting people during my travel back home.
First guy, in the waiting hall. I was sitting with my luggage, suddenly I started hearing more people speaking tamizh, I started rejoicing for returning home, hearing native slangs.
Suddenly, I heard a mobile ringing, i know it wasn't mine, but it was of a guy sitting next to me. His appearance did not make any opinion for me, he initially started talking in a very low voice, slowly I started hearing his conversations, I din't over hear, but he started speaking very loudly, some personal issues, poor guy. But, he started abusing the person on phone with disgusting words in tamizh. I could not shift from the place since I had some heavy luggages, I hoped he would stop, but he continued further then he moved away from the place, but still I could hear him abusing the other guy. I felt that was not the words I should hear before I could leave :(
Then, the other guy in the plane next to me.. :(
He started conversing to me once the flight started. He was travelling from qatar, and had his transitition in Muscat. I helped him filling the immigration form and H1N1 awareness form. I din't feel like to continue my conversation with him, but he continued and told me that his abroad experience was hard and hence returning back home in 8 months itself. Later, it was dinner time, the airhostess came with some food, he immediately asked me whether they would provide hot drinks, I told , "after this ". I made sure my conversations with him were short . He also commented that the food provided was very less and also asked me to get some drinks for him from air hostess for which I denied. Immediately after dinner, I feel asleep very uncomfortably . After some 1 hour and 45 minutes, I could smell something bad and I was shocked to see the scene, "about half dozens of food dabbas lying by the side of me and he having another 2 with him, he was also asking or disturbing the airhostess for which they were repluying very rudely, I could make out he was drunk ". Then, I quickly understood what would have happened when I was sleeping. Fortunately, in another 10 minutes he feel asleep, I managed jump over him and changed my place, after some 15 minutes I saw him pucking !!!!
Thank God.. :)

Final exit from the port.. !!!

Finally, the DAY(21st November 2009) has come. Yeah, after some 1.5 years I am returning back home,getting released from this project. I was very blank, neither felt happy for going home nor sad for departing my friends and ppl at site.
I managed to reach the airport soon and planned to check in my luggages. I went in, all the queues were clear, no crowd and I was a little satisfied, but my gut feeling said, that trouble is awaiting for me. As expected, the luggage turned out to be some 10 kgs heavier so I ought to come out again to reduce some unwanted things. Then, when I went in the queue length increased 10 folds in all counters, but I decided not to be disturbed, hence was calm and composed. In the mean while, the PRO who ought to come for my visa cancellation was late by 1.5 hours due to his personal reasons. So, when I finally managed get to the check in counter after some 45 minutes of wait, he again said it was 5 kgs more, I spontaneously accepted to pay for it, to avoid any arguments, but was asked to wait till my PRO came. Then, I ran out of cash, so managed to get some bucks from my brother, who was waiting outside to get some chocs for my niece in the duty free.
Then, I was waiting for more than 40 minutes for visa cancellation, this was first time i have been so long for the cancellation, but I don't mind waiting without any trouble. Means the delay is fine without any trouble provided the delay itself should not turn out to be a trouble.
Finally, I got my visa cancelled, and crossed the immigration successfully and was in the waiting hall with a cup of costa coffee hoping that things would be fine after this.. :)

Swimming memories

This is about something that enjoyed one year before.. The most useful thing that i learned after coming here.. Initially, our weekend routines were fixed. Get up very late and have dinner sorry lunch and go for swimming. Yes, the hotel apartments we stayed had a swimming pool. Anyone, would feel jubliant when we have to play in water and will become very energetic .
Initially, I hestiated to go for swimming in the fear of falling ill, but slowly I too joined them. I know a very little swimming, but later managed to learn it then started jumping into the water without fear . But, the swimming pool was a small one about 6 ft depth only to the max.. :)
The memorable moments spent in swimming pool were for the independence day celebrations when we had some competitions , then the holi celebrations, few weekends when most of us were in the pool. Few of our champions are good swimmers and I managed to learn a bit from them too.. It was fortunate that, my hotel apartments had one swimming pool and no doubt I utilised it to the max.. :)
I hope everyone there would feel great for the moments spent in the pool...
After some 6 months, I got shifted to another apartment, but few of my colleagues continued to stay there, so my frequency of swimming reduced (probably the weekends when we visit there) ,then 2 months later all of them got shifted to another villa, hence our wonderful era of swimming came to an end at that place..

That i wud miss @ chennai ...

1. Relaxed mornings (Getting up by 7.30 for 8 o clock office..)
2. On foot travel to office . (its just 5 mins on foot from home)
3. Internet access @ office - (gtalk chat with friends and group mails in gmails)
4. Start home as soon as possible and whenever i feel (No dependencies .. :) )
5. Weekend movies and night shows .(A theatre just opposite to my office and another nearby home)
6. Last minute plans for outings with friends.
7. Dinner chats with friends.
8. Clock Tower chats after dinner, if weekends, it will stretch till late nights.. :)(The ultimate place, where I love to spend most of my evenings, very happening)
9. Frequent treats for simple reasons.
10. Various food outlets of all choices (north indian, chats, south indian, kannad , turkish , pizza, mediterranean food, kerelite style .. etc)
11. Quarrels/arguements with friends for simple things just not to give up with for ego.
12. Watching movies late nights till 2 or 3 am in laptops (neither do i have a laptop of my own nor my parents will allow to stay awake late nights).
13. Cooking or helping for the same at home. (Few of my friends, cook really well and with the touch of north indian its too gud and i will never forget the ultimate carrot halwa or the masti mixed masala)
14. Micro wave nescafe coffees....
15. Fighting for washing coffee cups at home.. :)
16. Discussing office politics (thats gr8 fun for us).
17. Obviously, my onsite allowance.. :D
18. The Muscat port area where the road and sea are side by side, my most favourite place in muscat.
19. Last but not the least, the feeling of independence/free and the sense of maturity in taking our own decisions.

P.S : But all these are very least, if staying with family... :) East or West Home is BEST !!!

Pleasure times @ hols..

This post was basically for me to remember the most enjoyable moments spent at home during the Eid holidays. We spent our time playing cards and dumb charades. Though we had 2 packs of cards, we din't find any time to play cards till then. The card game we played many times was 'Badam satti' . This was taught to us by one of my friends, Sujit. The game goes like this, we start with '7' card and keep filling the series both ways for all symbols and the winner has to shed down all cards first. And the rest are given some points according to the cards they hold. Bigger number then you become the loser. Since it does not involve any brain and just luck only (as commented by another friend of mine :) ) there were many iterations for the game, say some 15 times to decide on the winner or rather the loser. It was quite interesting game atleast helped us to while away time. Ironically, I was loser many times, probably luck did not favour me (its mere luck only and no brains -stating it again not because i lost). Never could forget the arguments during the game , effectiveness of the game, another colleague of ours misinterpreting that we were playing it for money and so on...

Then it was the dumb charades. I love it very much. It is a great entertainer in its own ways and that too when people struggle to enact , its real fun !!! So, our contestants can be described like, the one who could stand thinking most of the time of what could be enacted , the one who enact the same way irrespective of any film name given, the one who could enact strange things irrelevant to the given names and so on... We had many memorable moments while playing this, few times rolling on the floor in laughter too. The actual fun was when people like us, who do not know hindi were asked to enact for Hindi movies. Few movies which we enjoyed enacting or identifying were Kachhe dhaage, kung foo panda, mela, aamdani attani kharcha rupaiyya and so on.. Guess all others will have the same great memories only.... :)

P.S. : Then only, we had three consecutive B'day celebrations also .. :)

Dolphins WATCH....!!!

We were given a weeks holiday during September. We all were planning for many trips . We came up with many options, like going to an island, to stay in a resort in the mid of a desert ,etc. Basically, we were looking forward for an exciting and interesting one. Inspite of our planning, we could make it for only one, but not any of the above mentioned ones.
We went to Dolphin watch on the Arabian sea. It wasn't a show, where we could imagine trained dolphins jumping to great heights inside the rings with a trainer, but just to watch the dolphins out there at the sea naturally . When enquired people around us about the watch, we got mixed reviews, since it was all mere luck if could see the dolphins. Though this was discouraging, we all wanted to try our luck also and finally planned for it.
Its been very long since we had holidays on Sunday (here weekends are friday and saturday). This trip was planned on a Sunday only. All were set ready for the trip and we went there with least expectations. First, we went to a port, where we found quite large number of boats stranded. These boats resembled a minie ship with 12 seater ,anyone would love to go on it. It was a 2 hours trip in the sea. It was too good, the clear blue sea with very less waves was worth the sight in the morning sun light. After few minutes of travel, we could see only sea at all directions. I was able to sea few other boats around us who came for the dolphin watch. After, some say 20 to 25 minutes the boat was stopped when the first dolphin was sighted. Then onwards, we use to ride for some time and halt in a place and all in our boat curiously wavering in all directions in an attempt to get a clear sight of the dolphins jumping. We managed to get the sight of dolphins jumping to a certain height which gave us the full satisfaction for the trip. Then, slowly the enthusiasm started to cease down and all got settled back to their seats.
We were actually warned not to have any food, which would lead to a dizzy feeling and sea sickness, and that was true. After an hour or so, I too felt the same. The wavering boat travelling swiftly through the waves, beating the water harshly, made us feel very drowsy.
So, finally after this enjoyment, we all were waiting patiently to reach the shore as soon as possible. Ironically, we were not able to take the pics of many dolphins since it was too fast for us capture in our cameras, my friends managed to take one or two decent snaps also. Those great sights of the dolphins jumping around in pairs with the sense of freedom in the sea still remains in my memories unerased. This was one of my most remarkable and memorable trips.

A Gr8 experience indeed..

I wanted to write about one of the jubliant moments I had here. It was almost a year back, sometime by 1st week of November 2008, when we were staying in a service apartment. There was a large team here at onsite and there were few girls also. We all planned for a DJ night in one of our apartments. There were many preparations for the it like food stuffs , some drinks, etc. For music, our Manager had just brought an iPod Speaker, and one of them took real pains for the collection of songs to include all kinds, (English, Hindi , tamil all types) basically to make everyone dance. Initially, I was a little bit reluctant to this plan. I was not very sure about dancing and I find this attitude with most of the south Indians, we feel very shy and worry about others comments . Then, by around 8 PM the stage was set ready. All were invited or atleast forced to be there in the room, switched off the lights (just a dim light was on), switched on the music... They played the first song, few people volunteered to dance, I was watching them, it was very good. They actually forced each of them to dance, slowly my shyness had gone, joined them in dancing, though I call it so , atleast that just I made attempts. All of us started dancing at last, enjoying to the core, jumping, dancing in the dim light. I have not experienced it ever before, this moment when I forgot all my sorrows, like a kid jumping and shouting was too good. Later, my manager and his wife also joined us in this party, and there were no differentiations on professional grounds. Then, I understood the basic reason for this arrangement. Since most of us were in the nut shell and was reluctant to come out for dance parties, our colleagues wanted everyone to realise THE experience. This turned out to a grand success. This went on for atleast 3 to 4 hours and I hope all enjoyed it a lot.. I thank my friends and colleagues who had arranged for this and made this one of the memorable moments in my Life.