back to base

Landed here on a balmy monday night. My apartment looks bigger -after all the days in the hotel room. Slept in my own sweet bed after so many days. i skipped office yesterday to get my body back into working mode. We went and visited Bachou and Emaibem - gave them the things i got for them. Watched a bit of the 20-20 match going on - i wasn't even aware what 20-20 is, i am so out of touch with sports.

i watched so many hindi movies on the flight – snatches of Chini Kaam, Just Married, Baabul and Dhoom 2 (god, Ash is so irritating in the film – everytime she went “like”, i cringed.). i watched a bit of 300 but it was gory – not my kind of movie.

All of my suitcases were way beyond the weight limit of 32 kg– one was 40 kg and another 36 kg. So in the airport, S and the gang went about dumping some of my stuff in the juniors’ suitcases while i went around fluttering from one m/c to another weighing myself - i think i have lost about 2 kg. In the end, they managed to make my suitcases weigh a decent 33 kg each! My cabin luggage was also overweight but the guy at the check-in counter was nice to me and didn’t weigh it – thank god! Oh, and i lost my copy of “One hundred years of solitude” in the airport – i had in the pocket of my jacket and it simply vanished! S and i went back to the car to search for it but could not find it..sob sob… We were there gossiping for about an hour with the gang who came to see us off. By the time we were done with the hugging and adieus, we were the last passengers to go in for security check. We were the last to board the plane!

i nearly got harassed by the Customs – but my Bengali got me out of it! i had all the electronic stuff in my cabin luggage – 3 cameras, 5 mp3 players, three phones, one ipod, a digital photo frame and when they scanned it, i think they got suspicious seeing all the wires! This guy stopped me at the gate and asked me what i had inside – i replied in Bengali and he was like oh, you can speak Bengali. i told him that i have cameras and mp3 players and i acted pretty cool about it – S told me afterwards that having more than one stuff of the same brand makes them go wild with suspicion! The guy let me go without opening my bag – becche gelam!