Arbit…..(kuch bhee)

Day 2

8-830 hrs…….. I Wake up. Have a lot to do today. Nothing is in place. All our stuff is lying on the floor. Only one computer is unpacked. Lot of stuff (actually everything one could need) needs to be purchased. Our 1st day cost of living is already too high. Bank balance shrunk to almost unsurvivable levels. We have some bfast. well just nominal. Complete the daily stuff.. bathing etc…

1100 hrs…  Waiting to go to purchase some stuff. The Internet guy is finally here.

1300 hrs Our room is connected to the net. Singhee rings up. He and Asha will be here at 3:00 odd to meet us. The landlord wants the copy of our passports/ identity etc and photographs. I as usual dont keep my photographs.. u know how i look like (monkeys dont keep photographs).. neways.. i rush, with manish to get the photos done.. Kalighat metro station. Power shedding here! No photograph. Rush back to reach home before singhee and asha come. My cousin is with me. He handed me my passport n is looking for a flat here for a friend of his.

1500 hrs We are back home. 10 mins later singhee rings up. He was at the mall. I goto to get them to the flat. My cousin, his friend, Asha and Mukul. They are all here. Asha had a small gift for us. A good luck Ganesha. I loved the gesture. Din thank both of them for being here. But I felt too formal doing that. Dont know how they felt about the flat and all… but they said it was good

1630 hrs We havent done any purchasing today. No work yet. So we have to have to hurry. We rush to the Chandni chowk again. Have to get a fan, a hard disk, the household stuff and what not! Of course we are late by one day.

1830 hrs Bargaining is not my forte. Lokesh is doing it hard. I have to learn a few tricks from him. We get a couple of fans, a hard disk and a press. We do a few rounds here and there. among us, only I partly know caclutta. So we had to do a few extra hours on the road.

2000 hrs Home is 1.5 hrs by bus. They wont let us in the metro cos the fans and iron(press) box could contain bombs. And last night’s dinner was not something we would want to have again! We have dinner at Chandni in a decent restaurant…

2100 hrs Savi, mukul and Goel know how vocal I am about the bad things of calcutta. Of course, Most of what i used to say was exaggerated bcos it was meant to tease savi and singhee more than anything else. But I am still sure i never said anything wrong. Our bus driver(We cant afford a taxi daily) hit another bus. Like all big metros, rash driving by busses is the way here. And it is worse when compared to delhi. Seriously! Lokesh is quick to point out how I could ever wish to live in Calcutta in the Longer run (Lokesh wants to live in some good Place, For me Calcutta is the good place )

2200 hrs Finally unhurt, We reach our flat. We goto the South City Mall to see morning show timings for the Dark Knight. Lokesh and Manish want to be there.

2300 hrs We are on our comps. I have a shower.Did work for an hour and then sat down writing the first part of this blog.

0130 hrs I am sleeping.

PS: Half the work was not completed today. We have to make another trip to chandni. We had no lunch even today!