The new airport

I usually don’t know how to start a piece. if I can even call this a ‘piece’. This one is going to be about my journey from Mumbai to Bangalore which happened on the 1^st day of this year.

Flight journeys have always been normal for me. Since I (used to) study in Bangalore but live in Navi mumbai, I frequently fly between the two places.

In the mumbai airport, there are 2 terminals for domestic departures and 1 for international. Up until very recently all the domestic flights would only depart from the domestic terminals 1A and 1B. but now Air India and Vistara airlines also depart from the international terminal 2. I found this out the hard way, when I arrived at the domestic terminals for my Vistara flight to Bangalore, only to be informed by airport security that Vistara actually flies out of terminal 2. Imagine my surprise.

I have a habit of always arriving at the airport at least 2 hours before my flights departure and that helped me at this point in time. I was able to board a bus (run by the Airport management itself) which went to the international terminal right then, and reach there on time.

Now the last time I had been here, it looked pretty normal. But they seemed to have made some significant changes, both structural and aesthetic, which looked amazing! Long tower like objects designated with letters stood before various check in kiosks, each section being enormous in area. The design reminded me of the Changi international Airport, Singapore which was one of the best looking airports I had ever been in. After security check, there were a whole bunch of travellators which make covering the long distances between security checks and boarding gates easy as a pie (or a piece of cake or whatever gets your tummy rolling). So you get to stand and look at all view instead of walking the distance which is good since the airport is huge and you have to walk a lot. like a lot.

Onto the flight journey then! Now, I was under the assumption that Vistara was a low cost carrier, so I was very surprised when they served the in fight meals which were like the real deal. Even the box in which the meal came in looked nice and you could tell by the looks of it that a lot of thought had been put into designing it. I had asked for the non-veg option so I got a roll like thing which was filled with chicken. It tasted like God. Like literally, awesome. There was dahi vada too, which was delicious as well. Rasmalai for dessert which was great! Overall, the food was an A+ affair. You can't say that for every other carrier these days.

A couple of pointers regarding the aircraft itself. It was an Airbus, but I couldn’t tell which model. It could have been a revamped version of the A320 series itself as they are the most commonly used aircrafts for domestic flights by carriers like Air India and Jet Airways.  The newer elements included a sleeker latch for the tray tables and a no-electronic devices symbol on the overhead panel and the plane looked new all around. it could have been a custom design, like how the carriers personalize their fleet.

The White Dog

The first post of this blog. This idea to start a blog has been on my mind for a while now, and when I say a while, it is like a ‘while’!

I had a few topics in mind for this post but I think I’ll go with the white doggie thing. Here’s how it goes.

So it’s a lazy Sunday, like every other Sunday, where I stay in bed till 1-2pm and get up finally so that I can answer the nature’s call which I had been postponing for a few hours. And those few hours weren’t exactly productive as I was busy facebooking (yeah that’s what I’m gonna call it). So I get off the bed and, you know how it is, you start to question why you got off the damn comfy bed in the first place. Then you remember that you are a human being and to continue to be classified among them, you gotta do 1 or 2 things every day WITHOUT FAIL, like brushing your teeth, and eating and stuff like that.

I decided around 4:30pm that I’ll go to Seasons, which is a small eatery on Jail Road or Kaikondrahalli Main Road or Amrutha (eeks!) College Road (Take your pick, I don’t even care anymore). Their specialty is non-veg, more specifically Rolls and Shwarama thingys (do not care about the spelling, yeah!), and they do it reasonably ok and it’s not too expensive, although I do wish they lower the prices slightly. So I get there totally ready for a veg roll with some French fries on the side (yeah…). I give the order, take the bill and when I turn to move toward the seating area (yeah they have one, surprisingly!), I see this dog looking at me from under one of the tables.

I think, yeah let’s start backing up about now, and like even though I like dogs I don’t usually go out of my way to approach one (I actually do!). So then after a while I realize that its actually like one of those dogs that sit next to the food places so people give it something to eat. That dog eventually comes outta there. I get to one of the drier tables (it had just rained), take a seat and start munching on the lunch or snack or whatever you want to call it. I keep noticing the dog at regular intervals because, you know, its my thing to, you know, stare at animals and random moving objects around me. I notice that the dog keeps taking a step toward me, very slowly and lightly. It just looked pretty cute (ha ha). I felt I should give the poor thing something as it looked tired (how would I even know?). but then I remembered how I hadn’t eaten anything the whole day (even though I hadn’t been awake much). I just didn’t want to part with the veg roll, which I had been starting to enjoy over time.

Finally I ate my meal and got outta there. Here's a pic of the dog.

Wow the eyes look crazy now. i hadn't really taken a look at the picture after i took it. 

The End, bros….