Just Sarin

well.. christmas is off to a great start here... shashidhar was supposed to drop in to go along to bhopal/indore for tinni and andy's wedding. the delhi fog managed to keep him from keeping his committment, and air deccan did their bit, by first delaying and then cancelling the flight between bangalore and delhi (you might notice the great love i feel for that particular airlines).

now it looks quite possible that my flight to bhopal might also get cancelled. have to check on status on the flights for today, to try and get an idea of what its likely to be. my folks are hoping we need to cancel, so i can stay over.,... i'm hoping that i don't lose too much money in all this stuff. :-P

visitors from three new countries hit my blog... welcome over folks....

wish more people would visit, but i guess i shouldn't be greedy, since
i ain't writing anything spectacular anyway. :-P

anyway, to all these people who visit my page... there's a tag board
there just for you to leave your presence..... do hit me on it. :-)

found this really good site for latest hindi music thanks to raj: http://musicindiaonline.com

is quite interesting, and seems to have almost all the latest songs in a pretty easily listenable format... and it ain't blocked in office, which most sites are otherwise.

so the first visitor from portugal is notched up on this blog today...
sounds quite exotic.. never did manage to hit either spain or portugal
on my one foray out of the country during the exchange.

came across a couple of them while checking out this new site which is supposed to be competition to google (http://beta.previewseek.com)....

you can check these two sites out:
http://sarinsphotos.blogspot.com and
http://sarin75.blogspot.com

am sure there must be more, but someone needs to help me find them...

anyway, the preview seek site is pretty cool.. gives a whole lot of options/help in terms of a search, but i guess the elegant simplicity of google is tough to beat... just the search stuff, with a couple of sponsored links/ads thrown in subtly and unobtrusively - guess you can
tell i'm a fan. :-)

this neo counter thing is pretty good.... wouldn't have known that i had visitors at all.... but turns out there are chaps from other countries also checking up on my blog.... the latest addition being from the phillipines. :-)

welcome to the blog chaps... don't know what you're looking it up for.. but glad to have you here. :-)

and boy was it a long leaving.....

enter the airport at 6:00 to catch an Air Deccan flight scheduled for departure at 7:10. dad dropped me, and i told him to leave, expecting the flight to be on time, as no intimation was made to me otherwise.

in i go, and innocently check in, and am informed that the flight is on time. so i complete security check and find a seat to wait for the flights boarding to be announced.

suddenly there's an announcement that the flight will be delayed, and the new departure time is 20:50. okay, so its only about two hours late... so we sit waiting about after making a little noise about low cost air ways. in the mean time the other two flights out of there are also delayed by about an hour or so.

about 8:00 p.m., the delay is stretched to 00:30... now everyone is upset. lot of noise is made. everyone swears never to fly by air deccan again... but the resolute indians wait for the flight departure to be announced. some people have connecting flights at 5:00 a.m. and are now getting really jittery. others have connections at 9:30 and have now decided not to leave the air port at all. still others have a driver waiting outside the airport to drive them to another city,
who's just camping out there... and i have a friend who is just laughing as he thinks of how he will come at 4 a.m. to pick me up from the airport.

suddenly the flight is delayed to 01:15. no one gives a damn any more. a few groans go up, but there is hardly any movement. the people from the airlines have completely disappeared from the lounge, and all other flights have by now departed. it is only the flight to chennai that is left... even the one babe who was on her way to jaipur, clad in some short skirt, has left.

final boarding happens at 01:30. everyone is just relieved to be on their way, and makes a solemn promise never to fly by air deccan again... poor me - i've already got tickets booked for flying to bhopal for andy and tinni's weddings.... i can just sigh as the flight takes off.....