Home Sweet Home...............

I never realized that being away from home could be so difficult. I started from chennai on 14 nov 2006 with all the enthusiasm cause it was the first time im left home to live by myself.

Great dreams, great expectations and my first air bourne journey, started from the domestic terminal at 5:30 .I never realized chennai could look so beautiful at the crack of dawn.
I could breath the fresh air of freedom (not that I didn't have that at home), but u know its a different deal when you are all by urself .

Reached mumbai at 7:45 and jus stepped out of the airport at santacruz. lokku,looku ,looku (im jus coughing) ..............so much for my "fresh" air of freedom.

If this was somekind of a hint to what would be following then - I didn't catch it.

Took an auto and entered into this economic industrial zone ........Well believe me it was tooooooooo economically built . Guess their budget was very low that they even thought its better to keep the drain open.
Have never felt so stuffed up , no fresh air anywhere.......How do these people live here?????
Forgot to add - I had to wait outside the economic zone for 2 hours and once i got the permission had to drag my baggage for 2kms inside.

The Air conditioning of the office was a welcome relief.But still the place was filled up with people and was u know ,stuffy.
Usual HR formalities and then came the big blow.....I had to leave to pune the same night (for some stupid training).
After inquiring here and there and everywhere got myself a ticket to pune. After a bad lunch and long boaring presentations we checked into the guest house for freshening up.
One thing was clear I jus didn't know anything about mumbai. To catch a bus at 9.00 pm I took a taxi at 8:30pm . In chennai it would have given me a cushion time of 15 minutes, alas I never knew about the mumbai traffic.
Was caught in an automobile catastrophe and I knew even god would not be able to save me from such a mess.
At 9:15 reached my boarding point jus to find out I had missed my bus.......(jus the right kind of topping to end a really bad day).
So had to wait till 10:30 pm to take my next bus. But guess my bad luck had not ceased yet , cause the bus came in at 11:30 pm and I boarded the bus half asleep (I woke up at 4 to catch the 5:30 flight) . I was on my way to pune and didn't realize it would be a different ball game all together .