Thursday, October 25, 2007

I boarded my plane at 11.15PM, though the flight was schedules for departure at this time...(but hai re Air India), anyways der aaye daroosat aaye.

I started the journey on the wrong foot, as I sat on the wrong seat, even after watching carefully (seat no.), which belonged to a beautiful gal :D.(By the way my seat was just in front of her, But we never talked during the whole trip, as uske saath ek mustanda bhi tha :P).

The plane finally took off at 11;55 PM IST. This flight had a stop of one hour at Hong-Kong(about which i was really excited), but my hard luck, we were told not to leave the plane and remain seated. Most of the passengers unboarded the flight here and only few remained back, As the plane just contained around 10 ppl, I thought there will be some new passengers boarding the plane, but no one boarded, and finally we came to know that 1 hour break was for the Hong-Kong passengers to get down and for crew change. Durng this time we were not even allowed to roam in the plane and also there were strict instruction of not using the rest-room either. (ab batao jisko nature call aayi hui ho, woh ek ghante tak kaise manage karega :P)

The crew serves you a lot - woh itna kuch dete hain, ki banda kha kha ke mar hi jaye - jaate hi juice, then dinner, again some refreshements, then breakfast with some juice(s). By the way they also showed 2 movies - and i had not seen any of them before - (movies bas theek thak thi, koi itni khaas bhi nahi thi, don't even remember the names)

poore flight mein bus 2 ghante hi soya hoonga, aur finally we landed. waise Landing itni dhansu thi ki kya bataooo (during landing one of the briefcases of a passenger came out of the closet, there was so much of jhatkas, that even a ride on Indian roads would look better.)

is samay meri boori halat thi...neend bhi aa rahi thi...so hired a taki and came direclty to Hotel, and immediately after checking, just called my manager(jo ki meri sab se baddi bewakoofi thi), I was told to goto the workplace, so mujhe khade paon hi hotel se bhagna pada :(

First Day in Korea:
As soon as i reached to the workplace, i started with my work (and woh itne nikamme the, ki un hone khane tak ke liye nahi poocha, chalo khair, mujhe hi besharam banna pada, and told them to give me some coffee, as there was no coffee machines on that floor), Finally the day ended for me and i came back at 8.30. Had taken few packed food for myself, so prepared it and had some. And after that i just slept, slept and slept.

Second day:
Finally meri neend khulti hain around 8.45 (local time, for those who do not know Korean time is 3:30 hours ahead of India), i was late to office as i needed to reach there around 9;30 and i takes around 40 minutes to reach that place :(, so just took 10-15 min to get ready, and ordered the room service, but kya bataoon - yahan par room service sirf 10am-1pm hi milti hain, jaise koi movie show chal raha ho, anyways mujhe khaana to khaan hi tha, kyunki pta nai din mein kuch milega ya nahi, so went to the reception and asked them where i can have breakfast (as this was complementary :), so didnt wanted to miss it) I was directed to there restaraunt, which was really good. I was really getting late so just ate few loafs of bread (khani mushkil ho rahi thi, kyunki bilkul sukhi thi, even butter did not help)....took my taxi...reached office...to my surprise no one was there...so i still managed to be there before anyone else, so they did not know that i was also late :D. Again wahi din chariya shuru hoti hain...kaam shuru kar dia jata hain...then this korean guy comes around 12 and says he is feeling really hungry and wanna go for lunch, some how we delayed his repeated appeals and ate the lunch.

Lunch: bilkul sukhe chawal, no spices, only beans - chawal bhi bahut hi mota tha - there were few recognizable salad 9so took them as well)...the koreans like fish a lot so usually they add meat/fish to each of there dish, only few do not have these :(. I also had some eggs - pta nai kaunse jaanwar ke the, woh bhi bilkul sukhe the, then there was some sea weeds (these are like leaves), which these ppl eat with rice, by spreading rice on it. i took one packet with me to try it. i was accompanied by few members of the team, and one of them put more of these packets, saying " Gupta, i guess that much food is not sufficient for you, so here are few more for you" :(

kissi tarike sa khaya yahan par, and then we had some sort of juice which tasted like an Ice tea, but they said its not that.

Anyways we started with the work again and finally closed the day at 2100 hours.

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