Just wanted to write some thing on completion of my one year in Samsung, could not find more satire in anything other than my travel to Korea, here is the piece: I left for the day by registering an attendance of 8 hours and 45 minutes, which is too less by any standard of Samsung, mentioning I have to do a lot of preparation for night flight. Based on the feed about work culture in Korea, hope and despair were coming in my mind like they would have been coming to opposition leaders of Mr. Modi from last 2-3 months. All in all, I packed a big suitcase, having all the measures to counter the cold, and food items if my body rejects the in-famed Asian cuisines. It looked like some Poorvanchal leader from UP is preparing to go Mumbai for contesting an election against Raj Thakrey. As my mother instructed me to start early for airport to avoid any rash driving, I initiated my journey around 10 PM for 3 PM flight knowing well that it do not take more than 1 hour. However I failed to convince the driver about the hazardous of rash driving. My repetitive warning did not make any impression on him, as our beloved neighbor Pakistan ignored Dr. ManMohan Singh’s all the warnings from last 10 years and engaged itself in nation building activities in Kashmir. Driver did not even find me suitable to respond, as if Navaz Sharif has correctly discovered the ‘Dehati Aurat’ proverb for our PM and my kind of species. “Saar! I may fall asleep if I do not drive fast”, driver spoke almost bombarding me. After that, I started chanting ‘Hanuman Chalisa’ and kept remembering that if I have given my insurance number to my wife correctly! I had a luxury of time because of my driver friend. I saw my colleague, who is also going with me, with his entire family member for a typical Indian see-off. Exchanged good gestures and clicked many family photos as if I am attending a marriage ceremony and nobody should be left giving consolation to groom. Slowly we moved ahead to immigration check and custom declaration, crossing many security devices, sharp eyes and skilled hands of guards on my different body parts. Immigration officer asked about old expired passport. Because it was as blank as Mr. Modi’s, I thought it is not worth carrying and given away to my daughter to play with it at her will. Officer jibed. Then my colleague has taken the frontier in Kannada and successfully proved me a sincere, honest and truth seeking person, like Kejarival did to many political aspirants. I thanked him with all my teeth wide open. But things became messy again at custom declaration desk. I was carrying two laptops, one company for which I had receipts and another one personal. I wanted to declare only personal one. But the officers, whose look could be the closest resemble of any Rakshashi from Ramanand Sagar’s serial, scolded me in typical south Indian Hindi, “Software engineer banke bahut smart samajhta hai”. After that, imagining what worse could happen at this moment, I started filling as per her instructions in a powerless obedient manner without making any eye contact. Though the laptop was not worth more than 30 thousands, she asked me to fill 50 thousands. My position was like UPA’s double power center where 10 Janpath decides what to write and where. It was quarter past 3 AM. Plane was big and people are less, so I quietly sneaked to a three seater, lifted all the handles, and shamelessly stretched myself to sleeping position. I was very happy and felt proud of my skills and experience developed by sleeping on station benches while travelling on Indian railways. This period of night was truly realizing the famous prose about Midnight by Mr. Bachchan. My friend crashed on his single seat and a Korean person sitting next to him started snoring, using his shoulder as a pillow. My friend was trying to give him a real situation in between. But like leftist regime of Bengal, things did not get changed after repetitive change. Finally my friend left the seat like many Indian left the country seeing no visible improvement, and came to my seat and expressed his thoughts of sharing sleeping area like a Bangladeshi migrant. Then we spent next 3-4 hours like a coalition government with common minimum space, moving, swinging on each other with lots of hate and compulsion. Suddenly we realized that the Sun is too bright and we cannot protect our eyes with handkerchiefs. Situation of everyone looked like survived travelers of Titanic. In mean time, a beautiful Asian air hostess appeared and asked, “Veg or non-veg, Sir!!” Bracing myself from sudden shock of hospitality, I remembered lady custom officer in Bangalore, and asked meekly showing all ignorance, “How much?” “It is free, sir!” she replied with smile. It was music to my ears and I showed an expression and eagerness for food like Mr. Ram Vilas Paswan showed for ally offer from NDA. After that we hit the food and drinks like UPA ministers ate Coal, spectrum, etc. etc. After some time Air hostess stopped coming to our lane. But considering it as a winning gesture, we were first time satisfied and appreciated ourselves for our choice to work with Samsung. We have also taken revenge from domestic airlines who sell food like hawkers in Mumbai locals. After changing flight from Hong Kong, I thought testing Korean food. This decision was proved as wrong as taking support of Mamta di by Atal ji and Manmohan ji. I was unable to differentiate between live and dead food (animal) served to me. Somehow I adjusted few spoons but this effort got failed like DRDOs attempt to discover meaning full weaponry in last 30-40 years. It became extremely irritable and I vomited. I was thinking that zero loss theory of Mr. Sibal is proved now. I learned not to experiment with at least food in Korea. As no one had any doubt about state of UPA after election, similarly no excitement left for the rest of the journey. I had not imagined Indian food during my stay in Korea, but our Nepali cook made me to forget what North Indian food I used to eat in south India. Uday Shankar Amaresh Kumar Pandey Dibyajyoti Mohapatra Anup Shetty Ashish Kumar Gupta Deepak Sharma Abhishek BhatiAlok Srivastava
Posted on: Wed, 28 May 2014 12:12:51 +0000
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