Monday, February 26, 2007

The land of Dragons

Swatika

What is the difference between democracy and communalism? To find that out I am in Shanghai, China. Kidding I am in Shanghai for official reasons. I started my journey from Bangalore on the 25th Feb to Shanghai via Bangkok. The initial start of the journey was a long waiting Q to check in my stuff. I had a fear of exceeding the weight limit. My friends from office who had been here earlier were threading me about the food available here and I was playing safe with some ready to eat stuff and snacks. After waiting in the Q for an hour I got my bag checked in without any over weight. Then the immigration and customs was not an issue. Then I had to wait for an hour for the schedule departure. I called up some of my friends to do time pass. One was bloody drunk and repeating the same thing over n over n over. The flight took of on time from Bangalore 00:30. The flight had a hell lot of people going to Phuket, some package trip and making noise. It was like Honey Moon Travels Pvt. Ltd. All men�..:-(. In the flight there was food served at that hour and they woke me twice in the middle of my sleep to serve me food. Even though I did not want it. Idiots, could not sleep at all in the night. There was this movie Mistress of Spices being played. Looked more like a mystery. Could not watch that also my eyes were burning. In 3:45 hrs we were hovering above Bangkok and the time there was 5:45AM when we landed. I just got out and headed to a loo to do the most pleasurable job a man can think off�ah!!! The airport is called Swarnabhumi. The I had to do a transfer to my next flight which was at 11 in the day. Damn the Q here also was so big it too took one hour to get me the boarding pass for the next flight. By that time it was 7 and I was looking for a lounge to sleep. I went to the lounge operated by Thai airlines and they directed me to the economy class lounge. It was an open area with lots of sofa and couches . I found one and just crashed for about two hours I slept peacefully till my tummy grumbled for food. Then I realized that I had not eaten the previous night, den I went to Coffee World ordered a sandwich and a cold chocolate drink. I could not finish the sandwich it was too much to each, may be because I was too hungry. Then went about walking all over the terminal, I still had 2 hrs for my flight. There was everything available there in the terminal including a massage centre, it was nice place more like a mall to hang out. Some good girls also. Then boarded my flight to Shanghai which left at 11:20 and reached here at 3:45 PM. After immigration and baggage collection I took the Mag Lev to reach a place close to my hotel. This train run fuking fast. It runs at 430Km/hr and that is its maximum speed. Phew damn fast and in less than 10 minutes it got us to our destination. Very good and nice ride. From there I took a taxi and reached my hotel. One thing I realized after getting out of the airport that it is damn cold and my head was feeling it�brrrr�.. The hotel is good with all the facilities, fridge, washing machine and an oven. Nice and comfortable so far in China.

1 comment:

Naveen said...

Good one dude...Keep serving Chinese Food!