Dropping Somu to the Airport - Chronicle of the events

1100 h
It is almost time, just half an hour more. I put on the TV. Damn, it is Daredevil and Elektra again. This must he the 10th time this week that they have shown these two movies.

I wonder why my Harry Potter has not arrived, it had reached Miami yesterday.

1130 h
Time to go. I call up Mukund, it is going to the voice mail. By the way, where the heck is Somu. What ? he is still taking bath ..

1145 h
Somu is finally ready, we check everything and surprisingly everything is packed up. Lets go now. Somu wants to send his itinerary to his friends, borrows my Mac. Wow, Macs are cool ...

Somu sits on the glass top table, lifts his legs off the ground and bang, the glass breaks and Somu goes down. Is he hurt ? Well, definitely, there is this deep cut almost 3 inches long. We gotta take him to the emergency.

I remember, Samarth, the original owner of the glass top table warning Somu not to sit on the table as it could break. Trust Somu to do exactly the opposite.

1150 h
I call Mukund, voice mail again. Damn, where he heck is he ... And then Mukund calls up. Hey dude, we have an emergency, we gotta take Somu to the Hospital.

1215 h
Mukund arrives, we rush Somu to the hospital emergency. The Doc says, it is going to take atleast 3-4 hours. There is no way Somu can make it to the Flight. The Flight needs to be rescheduled. Doc takes Somu to the minor care to stich him up.

1245 h
Mukund manages to get in touch with the Travel Agent. Sunday tickets are impossible. Agent would contact Lufthansa and try for a Monday ticket.

1345h
Believe it or not, everything is done and Doc says Somu can fly today. Somu doesn't like the Monday option, fears that he'll miss his marriage. We call up the travel agent and tell him not to go ahead with the cancellation. Can we make it for the Flight on time ? Well the Flight is at 1530. We just might make it. So we leave the hospital and head towards home. God, am i hungry. I missed the breakfast today.

1355 h
We reached home, put all the luggage in my SUV. Time to start for the Airport. I check up with Somu again, Hey, when is the flight ? 3:30. Good, i grab a coke and we make a move.

1430 h
We are near the Miami airport. Traffic is just crawling. The approach to Miami international is bad. Broken single lane roads. Given an option of choosing between going to the Miami airport and going to the dentist, I'll be tempted to choose the latter.

1435 h
We reach the airport. We manage to find a security personnel who takes us to the business class counter instead. Luggage is checked in. We find an Air Hostess who is on the same flight. She takes Somu with her to the flight.

1445 h
Somu is in. Cant believe that he made it. We all go to Dunkin's Doughnut to grab something to eat. Curiously, whenever i have come to this airport, i have always gone to the Dunkin's. Maybe next time I will ask for a discount.

1515 h
Lets go home. Kapil says, lets make sure Somu has left. Srihari suggests, lets go and check out flight departure status. Hey, i cant find any Lufthansa flight for 1530. Wait, there is a flight for 1500 that has already departed. Wow, what a Googly, It would have put Shane Warne to shame. The Flight was at 3:00 after all and not at 3:30.

We leave the airport, it is raining like hell. What a day, I am dead tired. I guess I'll just hit the sack the moment I reach home.

1700 h
We reach home and as usual, I am hungry again. There are couple of pizza slices left, let me warm them up, meanwhile let me check the delivery status of the Harry Potter book.

I open my Mac. Oh no, this one is the biggest googly of all, my brand new, fully loaded Mac, shattered. It must have fallen on the same iron table along with Somu.

Well Mac is not the only thing shattered, along with it I am shattered too. The feeling is somewhat similar to the feeling that you get when you breakup with your girlfriend. In this case think, the feeling is much worse. What should i do now.... well for starters, I think I'll polish of the pizza ...

Mohiner Ghoraguli ...

I discovered the music of Mohiner Ghoraguli recently, only after I landed here in Florida. It would be true to say that this band was the best thing that had happened to the modern Bengali music, and it was in Mohiner's music that Sumon and others derived their inspiration from.

The ryhthm, the sounds, the instruments and the style the this band has produced is simply amazing. Who would believe that these songs were rendered during the early party of 70s. Surely, Mohiner were much much ahead of their times ...

I got introduced to Bengali music quite late in my life ... and thats a pity ... I regret not being able to grow up with sounds Mohiner's and Sumon's melodies ...

What makes a place great ....

Days in phoenix were awesome. Weekends were spent parties and adventurous activities. We would go for skiing, white water rafting, ballooning. There was always something to do. and life never ever boring. California, New Mexico, Colorado, Denver and last but not least Las Vegas, we had seen them all.

However, one my biggest regrets was that i couldn't muster enough time to go and visit Florida. So when i landed in Florida a couple of months back, that too in Miami, my expectations were running sky high. However, after three months here, i am all but dying to move back to phoenix.

So i then started wondering - What make a place great ?

I think it is the company that make a place what it is. Phoenix was so great because i had a host of amazing friends there.

Bangalore is such a miserable city ( and no offense to bangloreans, i used to love that city once), and yet stay there was relatively good because i met some very nice and interesting people , especially so during the later half of my stay.

So this blog is dedicated to all those great friends, all of whom i am missing so dearly here at Miami.

" A journey is best measured in friends and not in miles"