"Why haven't you packed your bags yet... Why are you wearing the clothes which you want to take.. I am not going to wash them again... Why don't you put your stuff first and then think of parcels for others.... blah blah blah...." My Mom was yellin at me last year around this before I was leavin for US... I can't belive its been a year since i have come here... I almost had lost hope that I would be comin here.. I was supposed to be here by July 16th.... well no regrets.... i arrived on the evening of 25th Aug 2009 after a painful 33 hours of flight.
A lot of drama happened between 16th July and Sept 23rd.... I was being told every week that next week I would be flyin... n be prepared... I guess I became a master at packing and unpackin my luggage... Well it had a gud side to it... every weekend I would go out partying with my friends saying next week I would be flying and to the same set of friends..... i believe even they started losing interest or faith (watever) as will I really go or not.... but then it happened... I collected my tickets.. cash ..docs... was a pain... n finally I had to fly on sunday, 23rd of Aug 2009.
On the day before (22nd Aug).... it was my childhood friend... Kiran's reception party... n I was a lil nostalgic about everything.. . I was with all my friends... havin a gud time... and at around 11 PM Srikanth (khan bhai) suggested that we should go for a movie... so we went to Imax in his car... n obviously didn't get tickets... with almost no options left at midnight.... we headed towards our Last Resort.... a Dhaba on the way to Shamirpet. We were on our usual menu... drinks .. chana fry with extra onions.. omelette... chicken 65.. n in the end... roti ..dal fry and curd rice... I reached home at 5 in the morning... n my dad was like... son its morning... y did u come back.. go out again.
I slept till 10 AM and got up to do the final packing... had Sambhar and Rice for the last time before I left .. and it was time for me to leave... I wasn't excited to leave as I had lost enthusiasm over the last couple of weeks coz of all the drama n delay... .... However... I had to go on ... said bye to mom n dad.. and boarded the flight.. I didn't have much trouble in goin thru customs n all .. n I reached Rochester n called up my manager... Used 4 quarters for the first time to give him a call... they picked me n it was sunny bright evening.... yet cold... wierd... Since then its been more than a year... has been gud.. wudn't say easy... learnt a lot of things... n still goin on... a lot to say... probably in my next post....
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