Tuesday night was impromptu Chaat night at Neha - Sandy's which extended late into the night, which was not a good idea considering an early morning flight. Have lately not been able to sleep so atayed awake till morning, thinking I'll catch up the next day which thanks to some work to do ended at 3 am.
24 Hours 0 hours sleep
Last trip to Hyderabad led to me doing something I never thought I'd ever do and definitely not at 27. This trip led to another (hopefully) once in a life experience.
Our meeting ended in time for us (me and 3 bosses) heading back to Kolkata.
The first funny part happened when some placement consultant decided to give me a call right in the middle of the trip back to the airport. It's actually quite hillarious but not describeable in public. Which also proves my point that you get the maximum job calls when you are least thinking of leaving and vice versa.
Anyway we reached the airport, gorged down a biryani and bought the tipping point. See most of the day had been punctuated with simple things being messed up, though the final presentation went off perfect.
48 hours 3 hours sleep
So I thought the worst was over and went off to sleep when the pilot announced something about the descent to Kol and then 5 mins later anounces that visibility is low so we're heading back to....
Now think of all possible locations a flight from Hyd to Kol can head to due to bad visibility
...Shamshabad airport (Hyderabad). I realized that this was just my bad day and I promptly went back to sleep and got up at Hyd.
We were supposed to rush back to a meeting in Kol the next morning so tried charming/persuading/bluffing our way into some early morning flight before we realized the futility and headed to the hotel which Kingfisher (must commend them for their amazing handling of the situation) put us up at. We reached around 2:00. Dropped to sleep at 2:30 and suddenly were woken up at 3:40 by a lady telling us to get ready by 4:00 because the flight was to leave at 5:00.
66 Hours 4 hour sleep
We reached the airport(40 kms from the hotel) by 5 and grabbed breakfast at the lounge before we headed out back to Kolkata where we headed back to office which I thought I'd leave early but that never happened so that I went to sleep finally at night which meant I had 4 hours of proper sleep in 66 hours
I did make up for it by sleeping through Saturday morning before heading to office. From where Lal and I decided to head to Big Ben where believe it or not the kitchen caught fire. Being nice people that we are we headed back into the smoke filled room to pay for drinks and the game of pool in which I won :) before heading to Tina/Parul's where we ushered in Lal's birthday with two chocolate pastries. I thought that I messed up by not getting a cake in time, but frankly found the cake cutting with two pastries much more personal.
BTW also managed to buy myself a PSP 3004 in between, which must've been the most expensive impulsive purchase I've made. Actually that would be the home theatre in Mumbai. The PSP is most wonderful and had me awake late in the night, which meant I missed church in the morning.
Anyway evening is planned out with as a treat by Sam Lal which begins with Madagascar and ends with dinner. With my life lately, god knows what exciting thing is going to happen.
Never a dull moment,
Luv,
P.R.
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