24 hours of the day : 25th March, 2014 Started with anxiety as I reached my hotel back late at 1 am in Mumbai after a nice dinner with good pal Ankur Agarwal. As I had to catch an early morning flight, worked till 4 a.m. to keep myself awake. Thanks to my wife Ruchika Agarwal for not missing the flight, she woke me up at 5.30 a.m. Rushed to the airport in the taxi and suddenly realized I had spent all the paper money in my wallet last night and had insufficient funds to pay cabbie. Directed him to the ATM, paid him and proceeded to check in. The counter receptionist frightened me that whatever I was carrying in an odd looking packet might not be allowed in hand baggage at the security check-in but ah I passed through after 10 minutes of wobble in my mind. After a long long time found a good co-passenger onboard and enjoyed my next 2 hours. Landed and headed for friend’s Sunny Jain place. Slept unconsciously for 2 hours where I had to go to attestation agency office to collect my long awaited stamped visa papers. Went hurryingly there and got them but was more relieved than happy. Then Kolkata weather took a sudden u-turn and at 3.30 I was sensing it’s already 8 in the evening which was followed by thunderstorms, lightning and heavy rainfall. Had to wait for an hour to get it cleared. All this while checked the PNR status of my night train at least a dozen times without it moving a single notch. Decided to go to Burrabazar after the rains, mistake, that too in a tram, bigger mistake. Was stuck for 5 minutes and found that the roof of a building had collapsed and then I took u-turn and cancelled the plan of visiting the old filthy place and went for the nearest “M.G.” Road Metro station (read as “Chor” Metro). Somehow reached my friends place back and played with my new best friend. My friend’s one year old son - Atishay. Just love him and his naughtiness. Still the ticket was waitlist. Sunny gave me few Income Tax returns to file in my spare time and I felt like aahh boring 31st March is there. Had food at Jain timing but what suddenly lifted my mood is that my ticket got confirmed and it was time to head back to my sweet home. But then was too excited to reach there and there is that unending anxiety and excitement. Good 24 hours. I might not sleep tonight but the wait will be a worthwhile for Mumma, Pappa, sis and wifie.
Posted on: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 19:00:13 +0000
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