mad rush

last post for the year and the first in some time. what can i say, was out of station... or was i in station for after all i was visiting my folks at home. and then when i land back, i had to drag myself off to delhi for a visa interview. well it wasn't so much dragging as a whirl for i had forgotten (not so much forgotten as didn't know it existed) to get this letter from our hr which states that this guy ain't a beggar and has the backing of a big bad corporate machine. whatever... and i learn about this document of absolution an hour and a half before my flight is due. don't even care to remember the things that followed. i must have given half a dozen people a heart attack. the hr woman thought this was all some kind of joke. she simply refused to believe that such things could happen in today's highly integrated, process-perfect world. boy! was i glad that she didn't hyper-ventilate or something. my manager had this stunned look as if he couldn't believe that he was the guy who hired me but on the whole was very supportive helping out with printing the letter and even managing a pep talk which amounted to "go get'em tiger" though all i was going to was hours of standing in a queue for the privilege of talking to this highly energetic visa guy, whom he (the guy, not the manager ;-) ) would himself probably have described, accurately mind you, as male caucasian in a tone that has probably never seen a voice modulation since the last time he said "mummy, i wanna pee" or in his case, "mother, i desire to urinate".

but all in all even that was interesting. i always enjoy delhi in the cold. if you want to enjoy real privacy, you need to be in a teeming city. though sometimes, i guess, it could get a bit lonely. watched a lot of footage of the tsunami. made me feel thankful to be breathing. well in the words of mr.gump, "and thats all i have to say about that".