I cannot believe I am writing this stuff, but something woke me up in the middle of the night (around 3:30 AM) and asked me to write about everything i am doing and feeling here. The reason could be a human urge to share his/her Moments of everything (joy, anger, and hunger desperation) with his/her loved ones.

Since this is my first writing adventure after my failure to make it to the top 3 in the class 5 essay writing competition at school, may be content writers at work have a part in this (inspirational I mean..), I request you to have a big heart and not spell check and write back to me all the grammatical mistakes that u notice or give me ideas on how I can improve my writing skills, as i do not intend to continue writing for the rest of my life.

I started off with an adventure again as always (any thing that I am exited to start will have an element of drama to it). The guy at Check-IN (Hyderabad International airport) put in a wrong bar-coded tag to my luggage. I noticed the goof-up and informed the officer and then it took 2 hrs and a visit to the luggage area to identify my bag before the right one was put on. Hmm.. That was quite close, else my entire clothing (including the inner wear) for the trip would have ended up in a elderly lady’s house in Florida.

AND you know Air India, these guys are amazing, you will not believe how consistent they are in delaying everything and don’t care to apologize. Started 1 hr late on the domestic flight to Mumbai and things got worse there and were delayed for 2 hrs due to technical snag before we took off for Frankfurt. I was actually looking forward for a nice swim with the sharks in the Atlantic, not that i am new to this activity. I do it day in and day out, only this time the sharks are human (my wife and her mother.. he hehehhe. actually my wife would rather correct it to MY mother).

Can somebody tell AIR India to look at competition particularly Kingfisher and benchmark their best practices? I can point out one… The age of their air hostesses. I felt guilty to the fact that friends of my mom are serving me on the plane. I guess Kingfisher will have serious competition after about 5 years when all Hostesses at AIR India would retire as a batch (batch of 1974, coincidentally that was the same year i was born in, pretty young ha..).

I liked the food that they served, hot n very Indian. The only reason people still travel by Air India apart from the cost factor. The in-flight entertainment is like “Oh Man! ……..” forget it, I guess this is turning out to be a review on the airline. Anyway it took 8 hrs of boredom from useless thinking about my future FREEDOM, landed in Germany for a short break before we started again for a 10 hrs of more boredom and non-implement able plans for the future. The only respite I got was watching mother earth from some 10,000 feet above, it was awesome. The Atlanticfrozen in some parts and mountains, deserts my god I felt so good that there are still areas on the planet where man cannot destroy with his occupation. Real estate people are you listening….

Finally after a very long (about 20 hrs) and tiring flight, landed in Los Angeles, cleared immigration (happy to get 3 month stay in US) and headed for the domestic flight to LAS VEGAS. The airport was so huge that it took to almost 2 hrs to check-in, then got the time to call home and inform about our safe landing and arrival into the United States. It was raining in LA and so again flight delayed due to bad weather conditions, cutting the sad story short we landed in the world of entertainment and fun after two long days.