Still in teens.. barely finished schooling.. out on the roads to explore the world... all on his own.. no support of any elderly.. ready to face the world to take care of a younger bro.. got married so early in life.. but was not lucky to spend all the time with his lovely wife.. he is on the sea for like 6-9 months.. n then gets break for couple of months to be with family.. cant imagine that kind of life.. all he does is reads maps, draws lines, directs the ship - yeah u got it right , he is the navigator for the ship.. He is the Sea Man.. he takes all these huge cargo ships to different ports... there are times when they dont get to see land like for almost 45 days... does he not get sick of water after so long... no mobiles to call loved ones.. only satellite phones to call back home.. no source of entertainment... they have no idea about lives on land.. they get to catch up with it once they are back home from work after months.. never get to see a movie when it is released.. can catch up after few months.. only thing they have to care about is water, sea creatures, wind, climate, etc.. what a life!!
Met a sea man on my way from schipol airport to chattrapti shivaji airport...
Tuesday, 7 April 2009
Monday, 6 April 2009
4 hours @ schiphol airport..
after a long tiring flight from twin cities to amsterdam, i was so very looking forward to this halt before catching another flight to mumbai.... yeah u might think i m crazy... who likes to be on airport waiting for the next flight... yeah but i was looking forward to this.. so that i can catch up on some writing... some time to myself n some time to think about things i dont generally think of.. well now u must be wondering - even though i m out of job right now.. at home full time...why do i not get enough time to myself??? well i do.. but have gotten into this crazy routine of just lazying around on the couch.. watching tele all the time....
i got off the flight, checked my gate for the next flight... checked my checked in status... freshened up.. checked out the duty free shops... n came to this waiting area.. looked around.. lots of indians waiting along with me... a kid roaming in his socks... an old couple tired n impatient to catch their flight home.. an irritating chap voice chatting on his lappie.. a young gal trying to read something... a firang nibbling on some cookies... a businessman eager to catch a flight for his meeting may be... n me by myself.. i finally opened my macbook... tried making some nice calendar on iphoto.. not very good at it :-) so the next few hrs in writing down something.. :-)
met this indian doc doing his theisis in Chicago.. he was from kerala.. very enthusiastic, energetic n cheerful guy.. we spoke bout diff medical systems... in different countries.. the two sides of the system... life is so different for docs... they see the world totally in a different way.. well everyone sees in their own way...
time for security check in for the next flight.. amsterdam to mumbai...
i got off the flight, checked my gate for the next flight... checked my checked in status... freshened up.. checked out the duty free shops... n came to this waiting area.. looked around.. lots of indians waiting along with me... a kid roaming in his socks... an old couple tired n impatient to catch their flight home.. an irritating chap voice chatting on his lappie.. a young gal trying to read something... a firang nibbling on some cookies... a businessman eager to catch a flight for his meeting may be... n me by myself.. i finally opened my macbook... tried making some nice calendar on iphoto.. not very good at it :-) so the next few hrs in writing down something.. :-)
met this indian doc doing his theisis in Chicago.. he was from kerala.. very enthusiastic, energetic n cheerful guy.. we spoke bout diff medical systems... in different countries.. the two sides of the system... life is so different for docs... they see the world totally in a different way.. well everyone sees in their own way...
time for security check in for the next flight.. amsterdam to mumbai...
minneapolis to amsterdam...
all bags packed.. ready to fly.. kissed my hubby goodbye... n there i go....
my first flight was from msp to ams.. i met this old gentleman on the flight.. president of a small company in denmark... learnt a lot about denmark from him.. had a nice conversation with him.. we spoke about marriage, children, divorce, religion, work, politics, recession,medical system, alcohol, meat, cooking, etc. almost everything under the sky... well quite a clumsy guy.. kept spilling wine, pepsi all around the place... he was struggling to solve a sudoku.. n i was like y the hell he is taking so long.. man he had an Extreme sudoku book .. no wonder he was thinking so hard... i started peeping in ... n thought m sure i cud crack it.. but man it was really extreme... finally asked him he wud like some help... n yeah he let me... n we both solved the puzzle in the matter of no time together.... it was fun.. he helped me with my luggage n we got off.. both separate ways.. i had lots of time to kill... lets go explore the airport...
my first flight was from msp to ams.. i met this old gentleman on the flight.. president of a small company in denmark... learnt a lot about denmark from him.. had a nice conversation with him.. we spoke about marriage, children, divorce, religion, work, politics, recession,medical system, alcohol, meat, cooking, etc. almost everything under the sky... well quite a clumsy guy.. kept spilling wine, pepsi all around the place... he was struggling to solve a sudoku.. n i was like y the hell he is taking so long.. man he had an Extreme sudoku book .. no wonder he was thinking so hard... i started peeping in ... n thought m sure i cud crack it.. but man it was really extreme... finally asked him he wud like some help... n yeah he let me... n we both solved the puzzle in the matter of no time together.... it was fun.. he helped me with my luggage n we got off.. both separate ways.. i had lots of time to kill... lets go explore the airport...
Wednesday, 1 April 2009
wat a terrific week...
This post was due from over a week now...
It was a Sunday morning and we had an early flight to catch to new york... i so very much hate early morning flights..
U barely done with your sleep and have to get out of the covers and rush to airport.. go through the entire check-in and security process... u are still half asleep n have to take off shoes n laptop n liquids... oh god need some more sleep...n then finally u get into the airplane n now keep waiting for it to take off so that u can try to catch up some sleep... still on the runaway... c'mon man take off...ahh finally the aircraft starts moving... its still on the runway n the person next to you dozes off.. now thats what u wud have wished for urself.... n still waiting for the green signal to take off... yeah finally all clear and its on the run... thank god, now lets see the city under.. its still sleeping.. got the blanket n pillow in the right position, now lets get some sleep...
I had just fallen asleep when der is announcement of landing... cudnt they like not announce.. let it land n then tell people... let them sleep till then.... well we had to get off at detroit n take another flight... now we waiting for another flight.. got something to eat before we boarded...Finally in the flight... all excited to meet ma friends after a long time...
We reached, picked up the rental car and drove to our hotel... it was on the water front n we got an amazing view of NY skyline from our room...it was awesome... we freshened up, had lunch n met friends in the evening... i was meeting them after ages n it was still the same... we went go carting n bowling followed by delicious north indian dinner... came back to hotel n crashed...
monday i went over to my frnds place... we went shopping followed by lovely mexican dinner at on the border... loved the food.... tuesday we went to manhattan... loved the city... felt so lively n busy.. walked around the whole day.. had a south indian lunch.. got great moments clicked on the red stairs n headed to macys for some more shopping... n then we went for thai food to topaz... man this place has got so many choices for eat outs! wednesday was a quite one... hanged around at frnds place.. had our long talks all day followed by dinner at their place.. we had to take rest on thursday...all of us were tired... friday we had chinese at nanking opposite to our hotel and then we headed off to manhattan. We got on the top of the empire state building to enjoy the panorama.. it was chilly out there on the top... we got some pics clicked n headed down.. grabbed some coffee at starbucks n then went to sarvana bhavan to enjoy the mini ghee idlis n dosas...
after dinner we walked around the wall street n new york stock exchange ... n then the path to the hotel... our frnds came over n we played cards all night... we had to catch a flight on saturday morning so we decided to be up all night.. learnt a new game - kali ki tiri... awesome fun... n then we packed n went to ihop... grabbed some breakfast n rushed to airport...thankfully this time it was a direct flight so cud get some sleep before getting off...
man it was one hell of a week... and hell of a food in NY : from chinese to thai, from north indian to south indian, from mexican to american...
finally back home... we were so tired.. slept all saturday like zombies...
It was a Sunday morning and we had an early flight to catch to new york... i so very much hate early morning flights..
U barely done with your sleep and have to get out of the covers and rush to airport.. go through the entire check-in and security process... u are still half asleep n have to take off shoes n laptop n liquids... oh god need some more sleep...n then finally u get into the airplane n now keep waiting for it to take off so that u can try to catch up some sleep... still on the runaway... c'mon man take off...ahh finally the aircraft starts moving... its still on the runway n the person next to you dozes off.. now thats what u wud have wished for urself.... n still waiting for the green signal to take off... yeah finally all clear and its on the run... thank god, now lets see the city under.. its still sleeping.. got the blanket n pillow in the right position, now lets get some sleep...
I had just fallen asleep when der is announcement of landing... cudnt they like not announce.. let it land n then tell people... let them sleep till then.... well we had to get off at detroit n take another flight... now we waiting for another flight.. got something to eat before we boarded...Finally in the flight... all excited to meet ma friends after a long time...
We reached, picked up the rental car and drove to our hotel... it was on the water front n we got an amazing view of NY skyline from our room...it was awesome... we freshened up, had lunch n met friends in the evening... i was meeting them after ages n it was still the same... we went go carting n bowling followed by delicious north indian dinner... came back to hotel n crashed...
monday i went over to my frnds place... we went shopping followed by lovely mexican dinner at on the border... loved the food.... tuesday we went to manhattan... loved the city... felt so lively n busy.. walked around the whole day.. had a south indian lunch.. got great moments clicked on the red stairs n headed to macys for some more shopping... n then we went for thai food to topaz... man this place has got so many choices for eat outs! wednesday was a quite one... hanged around at frnds place.. had our long talks all day followed by dinner at their place.. we had to take rest on thursday...all of us were tired... friday we had chinese at nanking opposite to our hotel and then we headed off to manhattan. We got on the top of the empire state building to enjoy the panorama.. it was chilly out there on the top... we got some pics clicked n headed down.. grabbed some coffee at starbucks n then went to sarvana bhavan to enjoy the mini ghee idlis n dosas...
after dinner we walked around the wall street n new york stock exchange ... n then the path to the hotel... our frnds came over n we played cards all night... we had to catch a flight on saturday morning so we decided to be up all night.. learnt a new game - kali ki tiri... awesome fun... n then we packed n went to ihop... grabbed some breakfast n rushed to airport...thankfully this time it was a direct flight so cud get some sleep before getting off...
man it was one hell of a week... and hell of a food in NY : from chinese to thai, from north indian to south indian, from mexican to american...
finally back home... we were so tired.. slept all saturday like zombies...
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