It’s been 4 months in US and here comes my blog on the highlights of the day when I started to US. Despite being a very long period, it is still close to my heart and I want to capture it as it one of my dreams come true. (I always wanted to visit US atleast once in my life since childhood.. Ennathaan irukkuthunnu paakkanum that makes people say just WOW)
My trip to US was confirmed on Nov 9th and I was electrified imagining the big trip and thanksgiving, Christmas season ahead. And I was all set to travel on Nov 17th from Chennai (it feels good to start from your state) and had to leave Bangalore on 15th. So it meant I had a week for my packing and purchase and it’s a lot of time. My brother came from Mumbai to Bangalore the previous weekend. And the whole weekend went in a flash and I had not started my packing. But procrastination is the biggest asset I have with me and hence my mind knew there was still a day left.
It was Nov 15th and I had to complete all the formalities in the company. I went pretty early and had to get to signs from so many people. As expected it took a lot of time and I had to board KPN bus at 11:30 PM and I hadn’t started my packing. (I knew certain people telling they started packing a week back..). I started around 5 from the office to do some last minute shopping. And the sky started pouring heavily. Finally reached ‘Top in town’ stores at 8 and after a 30 min shopping, I told to deliver the stuffs to my house as I got to complete a few other shopping as well. I reached my room at 9 and yes, I started my packing. I never knew I can do my packing for US in just 30 mins (but obviously a very very messy packing). Thanks to my friends Mouli and Naresh who helped me at the last moment. And I realized , alas, I had not received the stuffs that I got from departmental store. I called the shop but those ***** didn’t pick up. My anger soar high and I went again to the shop. I just shouted at those guys and I got the answer that he had sent an hour back. The shopkeeper called the delivery guy and he couldn’t figure out the address of the house. Finally he came back to the shop and I took him along to my house.
It’s 10:30 and I have an hour left to board the bus, but still have lots of packing left and had to travel more than 10 kms to reach the bus. I booked Meru cab (the only good thing I thought I did) and it came on time waiting infront of the house. I somehow managed to fit in all my stuffs and the packing is finally over. And it is 11:05 pm. My friends Mouli, Naresh and I went down with my bags to meru cab but we couldn’t find the cab, and as I called him he replied he left as his waiting time was over. Abusing him and just not wasting time, we went in search of auto to catch the 11:30 bus at 11:10. Luckily we got an auto immediately and reached on time.
As I was just being happy that finally all went well, I figured out I didn’t bring my KPN ticket. Height of carelessness. And Mouli logged on to my kpn account and we got the boarding pass using the ticket pin. Finally I bid adieu to my friends Mouli and Naresh.
I knew I would miss Bangalore a lot. As beautiful memories were just flashing my mind, i opened my wallet to find I missed my Driver’s license in my cupboard…………………
It’s one hell of a start for me, a memorable start though :P
To be continued…
