Saga de Singapura - The Departure

Mar 18 2008:
Its about 2330HRS in Singapore and 2100HRS in India and I am currently in between Singapore and Ahmedabad somewhere flying over Indian Ocean and have just entered Indian territory. In an hour time, the flight will be landing and I thought to blog about all the happenings of past few days.
I am on my way back from Singapore and in three hours time, I will be landing in Ahmedabad.

This afternoon, when I checked in with Singapore Airlines, I chose the tail end seat and avoided any disturbances of fellow passengers when they gather around loo... And very fortunately, I had no companions around and thus, I could use all three seats to my disposal!
Earlier, I flew to Singapore from Ahmedabad on Mar 13. When I reached airport, the airport was full of people and it was so difficult to cut through this dense crowd and to enter the airport building.

The reason for such huge crowd? For each student traveling to Australia/New Zealand, at least 50 relatives would come to send him/her off...

When I reached to the counter, the queue was not long but it took about 45 minutes for me to reach to the counter. The staff was just slow for reason unknown.
My fellow passenger was a grandpa of 71 years who moved to Singapore when he was 6. He happened to know some of my Singapore Indian friends. He and his wife were going back to Singapore after attending some wedding in India. When the drink was served, to my very surprise, he asked for beer and his thirst lasted for three glasses...
When I landed Singapore, it was 0730hrs Singapore time and I headed to friend's place in Geylang.
I know your eyebrows are raised now but his condo was on a very outskirt of Geylang and it was safe enough for me to stay there. You can still continue to be proud of me that I am still ******!!!
I have to stop using laptop now as they announced for the landing. I plan to upload this blog once I reach home. In coming days, I plan to blog about some interesting events of this trip.
Its Mar 19 2008 0027HRS IST when I am about to hit "Publish" button of Windows Live Writer...

Few more Barista stares..

Last evening's Barista stare was the one which would be difficult to forget. But I had few stares in Barista with each of them carrying some story...

He is Ayush and this stare was recorded on 19th March of 2003... Five years back... I was in Barista that evening with Honey and Darshan and Ayush came there with his parents. He was calm and cool and gave me this stare... His smile is very mature and very rare for a child at this age.


He came to Barista with his mother on 25th March of 2005 and while she went to order, he looked at my table and we clicked! His mother was kind enough to allow me to record this stare. His eyes are amazing.


Nidhi came with her mother and two friends of her. She was placed on the table while their drinks were being prepared. All ladies continued their gossiping while I captured this stare. Her right ear is a bit unusual but her smile is very charming. (21st Feb 2004)


Funny? Yea and Gaurav was equally naughty. While his parents were busy in their talk, he approached my table and started asking me about my laptop. We became  friends instantly and he gave me this funny stare. (3rd March 2004)


It was 20th June of 2004 when me and Sissie went to Barista for a chill out. This little cute girl was very cooperative and gave such a curious stare.


Ghanny's younger daughter Mahima!!! We were in Barista on 23rd of last month when Honey was to introduce his honey to all gang members...


Honey and his honey and the stares... Though her stare is behind glasses in this picture, recently, she underwent eye surgery and got rid of the barrier... Now, Honey has nothing in between them ;)
And now come some of the family stares at Barista....


Dr A and me went to Barista on 25th Jan of 2004...


Deadliest and scariest stare from Sissie... It was an evening of 30th June of 2004.


Hehe... Two gorgeous ladies... Two killer stares... Though white balance of the picture was messed up, it shows the stares perfectly.


Not really stares but perfect picture to conclude my Barista stares...

The stare in Barista...

I was in Barista today evening and I was lost in finishing an important design before I go on travel. Earphones relayed my favorite Tomato songs in my ear canals and my fingers were dancing on the keyboard. My tongue was enjoying sips of Barista Blast at a regular intervals and my legs were shaking on Tomato tunes. Things were moving good and I was approaching to the completion of the design.

Suddenly, I felt a bit uncomfortable with some sort of breathlessness. I felt as if I was getting tied by a rope that I could not even move my hands... Don't know which hormone started flowing in my blood but it should be mixer of many, that even now, I cant describe or understand that feeling.

When I forcefully raised my head out of my laptop screen, I noticed that someone was staring at me... Its very USUAL in India to be stared (and to stare) and girls feel happy when they are used for "Optical Exercise" by guys... But when a guy gets stared by a girl, definitely something is wrong and when a guy of age 40 gets stared, everything is wrong... When there are millions of "worth a stare" handsome ones in Ahmedabad, how come me get a stare??? Before I get an answer of this, my eyes met her and rebounded immediately. A whole body shivering jolted me with a 10000KV electric shock and before I could regain myself, she got up from her seat and started approaching me.

You can guess that my heart started pumping at 180 ppm... My brain started working on contingency plan of how to protect myself if she was gonna slap me... The forehead started dripping sweat drops and adrenaline level in my blood shot to the highest... Vision started fainting and Tomato song got faded out in my ears... Earphones dropped out of my ears due to excessive enlargement of ear canals and fingers fell dead on keyboard. While legs became water bottles, my stomach started twisting and churning... Breathing speed increased with exponential rate and with every inch of decreasing distance between me and her, end of my world was approaching... By the time my heart was about to burst, my eardrums about to rupture, my eyeballs about to explode and my lungs about to blast off, her killer voice penetrated my ears "Is this iPhone?"