Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Wish Japan Were This Happy After Their Ordeal

At 8PM, and 20000ft in the air, I decided to put the brake on my eating so it shuts my digestive reactor. I, too, was heading for a calamity, much like Japan. What was incubating in my head was a stressful, tiring, risky journey, and having my bladder making demands during those moments would've been hell. So I politely passed the food plate when offered, even repeating the negation to a confirmation call the second time. Even decided to keep the water off the list.

This one was my second flight for the day - the first had flown off sans me. This was also my second destination of the day - earlier Lucknow, and now Delhi. I still had Lucknow as my ultimate destination, though; only that a devious conception was involved: get to Delhi, then catch the first train that leaves for Lucknow. I came upon this plan while heavy-hearted over my troubling findings when wandering through the spaces at the Airport, that since Holi is around, tickets are scarce, rare, and darn costly.

So I flew the first flight which could prove decisive, so I rode the last of the day's run of the new Delhi Metro that connects airport to station, so I found out that the Jat agitation had cancelled all trains to Lucknow's route, so I took a detour in another train, so I sat on the train floor for 8 hours with my wounds and luggage, so I took another train without ticket, so I escaped being arrested for traveling without ticket, so I took a rickshaw, so I took a bus, so I took an autorickshaw. Then home. It was tits!

The journey being Mumbai - Delhi - Kanpur - Unnao - Lucknow. Now I'm in the land of spring, unlike Mumbai where I'm still searching for the break of the season on nature's face. The legendary blue helicopter flowers are at their bloom and nobody more than me could enjoy their regalia and nostalgia. I could get some sleep as well. And great heaps of food. Jump at the rooftop.

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