Crossing the sea's
Atlast I put my foot on Uncle Sam's land. After a long wait of about 4 years...After running around CCD, HR and other divisions in Blore DC and after some resposible work by Mangalore HRD I started with a bang by missing my flight from Bangalore to Chennai. My petition papers did not reach Bangalore on time and I had to miss my flight. later I rebooked a ticket for Chennai in the night flight. Slowly the petition papers reached the kec block after I sent back the Taxi that I had booked for going to the airport. Collected the petition papers and got the remaining documents from HR went back to the room and enjoyed the last few hours in room #107 of staff hostel after a long stint of stay for nearly 2 months.Then the time had come when the same taxi came back to drop me at the airport. Estimating that there is a large posibility of traffic jam in blore I left Infosys campus at 7.00 PM itself for a flight at 10.30 PM. But to my surprise I was not caught anywhere on the way to the airport. Waited patiently with a capucino in my hand which costed thrice that of in Mangala food court CCD outlet and calling everyone whom I thought I missed out sending a mail.When the clock struck 22:17 I boarded my maiden flight. I boarded the flight with a special kind of hapiness and excitement inside myself. i was welcomed with a warm smile from the air hostess. I then went and and sat in my seat next to a window. To my suprise I was next to the right wing of Jet Airways. But I was not happy with the amount of leg room in the flight. Later when the flight started it was great to watch the things moved in the wing, reminded me of the Gas Dynamics and Jet propultion that I studied during my graduation. It was a great sight with the wings close by at the same size and the back ground becoming small slowly. Wish I could take some snaps. Then I was served some veg snack which was nothing other than a croissant and they served butter milk. Had my dinner slowly and I finished munching and I heard an announcement that we have reached Chennai, never thought I was so close to home that it just takes a meal's time to reach home. Reached home at 00:00 hours and had dinner again and went to bed.Woke the next day early expecting it to be a hectic day. Started to unpack the luggage that I had carried from Bangalore and started to pack my bags with quite a lot of expert suggestions from my dad and sister. Once that reached some shape, started to go around for shoping, which went on till 19:30 and then got ready for leaving.At 21:30 when i was about to leave for the airport, it started to rain in Chennai, yeah you didnt read it wrong, it did rain in chennai. The general belief is if some rare event thing happens it rains and so it did!Reached the airport, checked in my luggages and came back to my parents who had come to send me off. Then when it became 23:30 I had to say bye to my parents and proceed to the customs check and security check. After a long wait, boarded the flight bound to Frankfurt. I got the 3rd seat from last but a window seat again. The flight was mostly filled with old parents going to US and other counties to meet their kith and kins. Since I did missed my sleep for many days I was really tired and I slept for a long time. Thus I did not feel the journey that boring. When I woke up it was morning around 06:30 Frankfurt time. When I was given an option of Asian Veg and Omlet, I chose Omlet. Later I realised that Asian veg had pongal sambar, boy! I missed a chance to eat pongal...My omlet roll filled with chicken satisfied me. Later they played Ayutha yezhuthu(Yuva) so was watching that and soon after that came to an end we reached Frankfurt airport. Then walked a long strech to reach gate 65 from where I had to board my second leg flight to Chicago.After about an hour and half I boarded the flight to Chicago and I was sandwiched between an Indian and a American lady. The man next to me was gulping white wine one after another...Then shortly after the flight was started the lunch was served, I opted for some thing just because I heard Turkey in the name. Taste wise it was good but looking at the man and woman next to me I felt very uncomfortable with the way I was handling the fork and knife. Then they played Hitch watched the movie and slept in between. Then later played A good company, saw that one as it was bugging in the flight. Later they served another meal again, this time againt they said some turkey and veg pizza, I was not intrested in turkey this time so took veg pizza which was very good.Later reached O'hare Chicago. Went throught US Immigration. After that got releaved and went and collected my luggages from the carousal. Thinking I have to manage the Custom guys, I went towards the customs, but was just told to go straight down where I went to the place where people were waiting to receive people. I was doubtful if i was supposed to come out or not. Then i searched for bhargav and called his mobile and he came along with his wife to recive me. Later we searched for his car for about 30 mins in the parking lot and then reached home.
Alas!!!
Later in the evening went to wal mart and sam's club. Next day went to office and got introduced to many people and passed my time there till evening. Today there were a lot of garage sale so we went for some of them and got some important stuffs that we need for the house.
