Offlate I realized that I like travelling. Do I love travelling? I am not sure though. But I like travelling a lot. I like to visit each and every small place that is around the place where I live. The right people would it make it more enjoyable. :-)
It would be more interesting to go around with similar thinking people.
Now on, I will post about the places I travelled too ...
I haven't travelled too many places but quite a few. And I will write about them and the places I would like to travel. (Along with some pics)
Saturday, January 16, 2010
Thursday, January 14, 2010
Bhai saab hum 9 log hain ....
I had been to India for a months vacation. On the way back I had an amazing thrilling experience. I thought it was worth sharing it. I happened to travel by Kingfisher airlines from Bangalore to Mumbai. The journey was pretty good except that I was horrible about leaving my parents back there and flying abroad. I could hardly concentrate on what Mr. Vijay Mallya was advertising all the time through in the flight due to that. I met the whole gang of 8 of my friends with whom I had to travel till the US of A. We all travelled from Domestic airport to International airport in the local shuttle and made ourselves present in the check-in queue for the next international flight we were to board. Mumbai to Frankfurt. The first friend (say A)of ours who went to the desk was told that our tickets are not confirmed and all 9 of us have to move out of the queue. What??!! Our tickets are not confirmed? What do we do? Whom do we ask? When will we reach? So many reactions. Of course, we started taking some actions. We called up the agent who booked the tickets for us. "No no no .... how can that be possible? I have everything confirmed here". My friend told her to speak to the Lufthansa guys. The guy and the counter says "Your tickets from Frankfurt to Philadelphia and Philadelphia to Columbus are confirmed. But I can not see the ticket confirmation for Mumbai to Frankfurt"!!!! Now what does that mean? All of us started talking among ourselves. There were very few people going around to find out what was happening and most of us just sitting and talking. (I think thats what happens when there are more people going around). Some one came back and told " They are going to confirm the tickets but we have got to wait".
The time was aorund 2:15 AM and our flight was supposed to take off at 3:30 AM. Lufthansa Airways. "Am never gonna book for Lufthansa once again!!" said my friend A.
Hmmm ..... and then at 2:30 am we were called one by one for check-in. The baggages were checked in and the boarding passes until Columbus were given. My friend A, B, C and me got our baggages checked in first and we rushed to the immigration check counter. One of our friends told us to just by pass the whole queue and 3 of us landed at the immigration officers counter. The interview started.
Officer: What are you studying?
We: Ms .. Ms .... PhD.
Officer: Is this the second year?
We: Yea.
Officer: Let her answer(Pointing to me!!)
Me: Yes...
Not knowing whom he was questioning I was keeping mum seeing the other 2 answer. "Yes the second year" I said as if they were the diamond worth words :-)
Officer: Ok. You can go ahead!!
My passport was stamped first and the rest were being stamped. Not knowing where to go next, I just ran behind the immigration counters. One of the responsible officers stopped me there. "Hey!!! Where are you running???!!"
I said "Sir .... sir .... we are 9 people ..."
Gosh .... I was not finding words. I still cant remember what I was blabbering. My friend A came to my rescue. "Sir we are 9 people and our tickets got confirmed in the last minute. We have our flight at 3:30 AM. She is searching for our other friends".
Officer: Just go ahead for security, they will come ....
We: Ok...
We three of us went inside and for our astonishment found that the security queue was split into two and for my sight I felt the queue would measure at least a kilometer :-P
we asked the ladies standing at the queue. I guess they Lufthansa air hostesses. "You can not by pass the queue, you need to ask the security officer!!".
We: Please let us go and talk to them.
We:(With the security officer) Our tickets confirmed in the last minute and we need to board the flight in about an hour from now. Please let us go in and complete the security check.
Security Officer: Theek hain. Seedha jao aur take the lift. You will find a queue there.
We three of us went for about a furlong and then realized that our friends need to join us. And they do not know about the by passing the immigration and security. I told my friend, just stay here take care of everyone from our gang who comes. I will go stand near the security entrance.
I ran to the security officer. I told him "Bhai saab hum 9 log hain, our friends are stuck up at the immigration check. Can I please get them?".
Officer: Jao jao ... no problem ...
I ran towards those ladies(Lufthansa air hotesses). The same dialogies repeats .... hum 9 log hain ...... "Ok go ... "
After a wait of about 2-3 minutes, 3 of my friends come in from the immigration check. I take them in and tell them please take right turn and go straight, you will find someone from our group". They come back and tell me "they are not letting us in!!".
I went with them and saw the officer again. "I have to see you to let them in!!".
Gosh ... I sent these people in. Again 2 of my friends came ... I took them along to the officer and let them in.
My friend A comes running and says that the 2 people who went inside just now never met him!!
He ran inside once again came out and started yelling!! "Give proper instructions to people, they just went and joined some queue."...
HMmmmmmm ..... this was tiring and tensing. Time now was 2:50 am.
Friend A comes running once again. Where is "D"?
Me: I don't know, he is the only one left. He is not even seen in the immigration counter.
Lets check in the security queue. He ran everywhere. I was searching to see if there was any announcement kind of thing I could make. There was nothing. This was not Walmart you see. :-)
We ran all over and did not find him. I saw managed to get a peep to the immigration area among the people. A red backpack. I shouted "there he is!!".
We both ran to the entrance of the security zone and asked them if we could get to the immigration center. "NO" was the answer. We stood there waving our hands so that he sees us. Time now was 2:55 Am. We shouted his name aloud. And I was shouting so loudly for the officer who I met in the immigration center. He finally heard me. He came to us. We were on the security side and he was on the immigration side. "Bhai saab ......" the same sentence starts again. "Can you please arrange for a immigration for him?".
He calls one of the immigration officers and tells him to do immigration check. My friends kept staring at us for what ever reasons. The immigration officer talks to us in the mean while.
Officer: Why is your friend staring your faces when we have ourselves told him to by pass the queue?
We: Yea .. sir we will tell him.
After so much of shouting and showing directions, he went to the officer.
Officer: Are you both gang leaders? What are you studying?
We: Me, Ms, A, PhD.
Officer: USA.
Hmmmm .....
My friend comes along into the security area and we were so relieved. The time was now 3:05 am.
We told him that we had taken the permission.
We ran like, there was a bomb inside the building. So fast. On the way we thanked the security officer. "Thank you bhai saab...!!!" We really gotto be thankful to him. If it were not for him, I do not know whne we would have reached the flight.
We took the lift and went to the ground floor, searched for the security queue and joined. One of our friend shouts from the other side of the security queue "We are all done, ask for permission!!!".
My friend A says, one more last time ... :-)
"Bhai saab ..... "
We were through. At about 3:15 we joined our group and we saw that there was a long queue boarding the flight. We managed. Yes we managed. After all the struggle.
My friend A said standing in the queue to board the flight, "Was it not a thrill?".
Yes it was.
After we boarded the flight everybody just went to deep sleep after all this. We reached safely :-)
But this 1 hour, probably I will remember for years to come :-)
The time was aorund 2:15 AM and our flight was supposed to take off at 3:30 AM. Lufthansa Airways. "Am never gonna book for Lufthansa once again!!" said my friend A.
Hmmm ..... and then at 2:30 am we were called one by one for check-in. The baggages were checked in and the boarding passes until Columbus were given. My friend A, B, C and me got our baggages checked in first and we rushed to the immigration check counter. One of our friends told us to just by pass the whole queue and 3 of us landed at the immigration officers counter. The interview started.
Officer: What are you studying?
We: Ms .. Ms .... PhD.
Officer: Is this the second year?
We: Yea.
Officer: Let her answer(Pointing to me!!)
Me: Yes...
Not knowing whom he was questioning I was keeping mum seeing the other 2 answer. "Yes the second year" I said as if they were the diamond worth words :-)
Officer: Ok. You can go ahead!!
My passport was stamped first and the rest were being stamped. Not knowing where to go next, I just ran behind the immigration counters. One of the responsible officers stopped me there. "Hey!!! Where are you running???!!"
I said "Sir .... sir .... we are 9 people ..."
Gosh .... I was not finding words. I still cant remember what I was blabbering. My friend A came to my rescue. "Sir we are 9 people and our tickets got confirmed in the last minute. We have our flight at 3:30 AM. She is searching for our other friends".
Officer: Just go ahead for security, they will come ....
We: Ok...
We three of us went inside and for our astonishment found that the security queue was split into two and for my sight I felt the queue would measure at least a kilometer :-P
we asked the ladies standing at the queue. I guess they Lufthansa air hostesses. "You can not by pass the queue, you need to ask the security officer!!".
We: Please let us go and talk to them.
We:(With the security officer) Our tickets confirmed in the last minute and we need to board the flight in about an hour from now. Please let us go in and complete the security check.
Security Officer: Theek hain. Seedha jao aur take the lift. You will find a queue there.
We three of us went for about a furlong and then realized that our friends need to join us. And they do not know about the by passing the immigration and security. I told my friend, just stay here take care of everyone from our gang who comes. I will go stand near the security entrance.
I ran to the security officer. I told him "Bhai saab hum 9 log hain, our friends are stuck up at the immigration check. Can I please get them?".
Officer: Jao jao ... no problem ...
I ran towards those ladies(Lufthansa air hotesses). The same dialogies repeats .... hum 9 log hain ...... "Ok go ... "
After a wait of about 2-3 minutes, 3 of my friends come in from the immigration check. I take them in and tell them please take right turn and go straight, you will find someone from our group". They come back and tell me "they are not letting us in!!".
I went with them and saw the officer again. "I have to see you to let them in!!".
Gosh ... I sent these people in. Again 2 of my friends came ... I took them along to the officer and let them in.
My friend A comes running and says that the 2 people who went inside just now never met him!!
He ran inside once again came out and started yelling!! "Give proper instructions to people, they just went and joined some queue."...
HMmmmmmm ..... this was tiring and tensing. Time now was 2:50 am.
Friend A comes running once again. Where is "D"?
Me: I don't know, he is the only one left. He is not even seen in the immigration counter.
Lets check in the security queue. He ran everywhere. I was searching to see if there was any announcement kind of thing I could make. There was nothing. This was not Walmart you see. :-)
We ran all over and did not find him. I saw managed to get a peep to the immigration area among the people. A red backpack. I shouted "there he is!!".
We both ran to the entrance of the security zone and asked them if we could get to the immigration center. "NO" was the answer. We stood there waving our hands so that he sees us. Time now was 2:55 Am. We shouted his name aloud. And I was shouting so loudly for the officer who I met in the immigration center. He finally heard me. He came to us. We were on the security side and he was on the immigration side. "Bhai saab ......" the same sentence starts again. "Can you please arrange for a immigration for him?".
He calls one of the immigration officers and tells him to do immigration check. My friends kept staring at us for what ever reasons. The immigration officer talks to us in the mean while.
Officer: Why is your friend staring your faces when we have ourselves told him to by pass the queue?
We: Yea .. sir we will tell him.
After so much of shouting and showing directions, he went to the officer.
Officer: Are you both gang leaders? What are you studying?
We: Me, Ms, A, PhD.
Officer: USA.
Hmmmm .....
My friend comes along into the security area and we were so relieved. The time was now 3:05 am.
We told him that we had taken the permission.
We ran like, there was a bomb inside the building. So fast. On the way we thanked the security officer. "Thank you bhai saab...!!!" We really gotto be thankful to him. If it were not for him, I do not know whne we would have reached the flight.
We took the lift and went to the ground floor, searched for the security queue and joined. One of our friend shouts from the other side of the security queue "We are all done, ask for permission!!!".
My friend A says, one more last time ... :-)
"Bhai saab ..... "
We were through. At about 3:15 we joined our group and we saw that there was a long queue boarding the flight. We managed. Yes we managed. After all the struggle.
My friend A said standing in the queue to board the flight, "Was it not a thrill?".
Yes it was.
After we boarded the flight everybody just went to deep sleep after all this. We reached safely :-)
But this 1 hour, probably I will remember for years to come :-)
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