Wednesday, February 22, 2006

Liquor ruins COUNTRY, family and life!!?

Liquor ruins COUNTRY, family and life!! Yes me read this on a bottle of KF (Kingfisher) yesterday. Me think this is the first time that me saw such a statement on a bottle of liquor/beer. Mr.Mallya is ruining the country???!!! Then its high time we stop Mallya and co! Me was pretty surprised to see this statement printed on the label. In b'lore me have seen on labels that "Consumption of liquor is injurious to health" but not things like ruining the country.
Anways, took off from office for 1.5 days, went over to chennai on official purpose. The company had arranged for a cozy accomodation at one of its pretty luxurious fully furnished apartments in the heart of chennai. Reached the place at around 10 pm and then realised the power of having roaming facility on the moblie (rather the feeling & helplessness of not having roaming facility). However settled down and had some sumptuous and tasty dinner (again courtesy cook arranged by the company).
Next morning got up early at 5 and finished all official work by 9 and was back in the room. Then passed time till around 1.30 and packed up & went to the A/C bar which me had discovered in Dec 05. Found it really difficult to pass time as my train was scheduled at 5.30. Somehow managed to hang around at the bar till around 4.30, also the SL vs BANG match really helped. Wonder what happened to the match result. On my way back to the station was caught in a traffic jam on the flyover in Chennai!!! ye................... Traffic jam on flyovers happen not only in b'lore but also one of 4 metro cities.
Once reached station got into the cozy a/c coach and tried to relax. This journey on the Shatabdi was similar to my journey from London to Bombay. In the sense that at regular intervals passengers are served something or the other. This was the first time for me to travel in a A/C compartment by train. First at just around 6 we were served a sandwich, then coffee, sometime later really piping hot soup (soup was ok) and by 8 dinner was served. Food was pretty ok, nothing to complain about. To top it all ice cream was served. Me though twice before going for it .... sitting in AC coach (temperature around 18), just last week me had severe cold??????
Finally me grabbed it and enjoyed it, though today morning me feeling the result of the same.
During this trip me realised the real good work done by our admin guys at office. Really, they do a nice job. Me was just thinking if me go on an overseas trip, would most likely think of getting some gift or the other for these guys who do a great job. They handle all deputation and travel requirements of hundreds of employees, but they themselves do not get a chance to travel anywhere. Great job guys, me vouch for it.
So at this point in time, me feel that got a chance to cross the atlantic this time and could land up in Big apple sometime in Mar/Apr. Keeping my fingers crossed!
All is well that ends well.!!!

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