Dial H for H.O.M.E

Well folks, this post is from the cool and comfortable ambience of my home at Kalyani. A nice get away from the recent troubles in Blore. The continuous awkwardness of coming to a cube which will not be mine come Oct 22nd, the sick feeling of not willing to contributing to new assignments, the lack of  "kick-at-work", and to add to that, the quarrels at the flat amongst other rommies was getting a little to much to handle. So when Oct 1st arrived, I was thrilled to bits, literally.

This was the first time I was boarding the plane from BIAL airport. Apparently it was around 40 odd kms away from my office at ITPL. Ouch.. it takes one and half hours to cover 26 km from my home to ITPL. I need at least two and half hours here - I told myself. The plane was at 8pm. I left my office at around 2:30. BMTC has introduced these cool Volvo shuttles from all over the town to BIAL. The nearest boarding stop from ITPL was Kadugodi bus stop. I had decided to catch the 3 pm shuttle. Come to think of it, I leave my home around three and half hour prior to the departure time in Bengal. Here, I was leaving five hours before! Crazzy :)

Anyways, the journey was quite nice from ITPL to BIAL. It was a two hour journey. Spent a good one hour of it chirping with Pri.She Kept pulling my leg and eating my head :-P 

I reached BIAL at around 5:20 in the afternoon. The last 20 odd km was through what one would say a classic example of Great India Highways. I have always had a great fascination for them. There is a great adrenalin rush when you speed through a six-lane highway at nearly 100kmph. Should have taken some snaps. But I guess I was too enthralled by the experience.

I was very sceptical about the fact that Blore airport was shifting from HAL to BIAL. Okkay we need a higher capacity, more efficient Airport, but for God's sake, 50kms away from main city is insane!. But my first experience was quite pleasant actually. If BMTC can maintain this high standard of Volvo Shuttles, then the distance is worth it. The entire Airport complex was really impressive. HUUUUUUUUUUGE structure, ample breathing space (no more suffocating feeling one would associate with HAL or DumDum Airport, clean toilets, nice workers. Food was costly though. Also, apparently one can use the airport wify facilty free for one hour, we could not. One had to send a txt message to get a passcode. The txt message was sent, but no reply came :). Good old Tata Indicaomm VData card had to be used.

Jet Lite flight took off at 8:30 pm. It reached Kolkata before the scheduled time though. I was looking for my baggage at 10:50 pm. 

The first few hours is always a little uneasy for me at kolkata. The same thing happens of course when I reach Blore. You need to get used to the high humidity levels. You are suddenly amongst the two most important persons in your life - your parents. You get that over-the-moon feeling, next moment you get reminded that this is merely going to last for a couple of weeks. And then you tell yourself, what the heck, lets LIVE these couple of weeks at least :)

I was sleeping for most of the next day. Sometimes I would wake up, only to see it was raining.. no wait it was POURING..!! :) Goshhh, I miss these thunderstormy rains in Blore. There is no thunderstorm out there! The garden in front of my house looked so beautiful.. :) Boy! Do I love Green :)