After all the clouds of uncertainty and confusion I finally started out for the short journey . The decision of travelling on Sunday morning turned out to right by which I was able to crave out amble time for the last minute preparations... and thanks to my sweet wife who packed up everything in order and checked and rechecked what all needed ...Finally when I set off with Meru cab at 11 30 on a vinayaka chathurthi.

May be after a gap I still had the new guy feeling to the airport and all those security check-ins and the boarding in ... It was a long wait but my early arrival paid me good giving me a good window seat in the middle area ...and a less standing in front of checking in ... There is no other way that sleeping for one hour in front of the flat screen flashing up champions league.. Bala the interesting guy whom I was lucky to accompany as usual got in the last minute when the check ins closed ....We were able to spot Upender.. one old friend from GCSM at the airport..

There is no variance of a minute for Qatar . Their punctuality is appreciable and so their services we took off in the smaller version of flight ..sorry noting down the air model didnt went over my brain that time in the excitation still the flight no is 270.. My heart still pumps a bit faster when it speed up in the run way .. many times than it started and it inclines to find its path through the sea of air ... The safety instructions and the cabin crew all found to be routine and the so called excitment of a new flier was not there afterwards .. Karate Kids were the pick for that flight to Doha ...and the rest of an hour of sleep and dinner .. There is nothing much to appreciate.. neither much to complain about the veggie food I had chosen ... Its some channa with some bread and some thing some thing ..

Doha..... The Gulf city....

Till then it was not in my mind that I was visiting a Gulf middle eastern place .. the sight of the ocean and the deserful area on the shores were very beautiful .. the sandy area with very neatly planned residential area of Doha was a very much new sight for me .... I am sure the common experience here wont be as beautiful as I am seeing from the altitude .. The temparature itself is a clear indicator to it .. and it reads 32 .. at a time of 6 o clock in the morning . The brighter part of the Doha with the modern sky scrappers were even beautiful and its clearly announce the economic stength of this Gulf nation .. Got to know of the heat when we landed and boarded to the transit buses.. unlike in Frankfurt there is no time to spend .. get out and stand in the queue for flight to US .. further there is additional security for Flights to US with special security personnels from US checking u left and right back and front ... half an hour stand in the queue to on boarding.. some how after marriage I am accustomed to standing in such long queues unlike before I roam around and come and skip those unproductive time just being in the long wait...

The promise has to be met .. I have to call in the transit ....But how I didnt find any phone booths or any kind of telephone facility over there any where ... the satellite phone facility in the airways was a real new thing for me . though bala mentioned some thing like that to see it real in front was a bit happy thing as well as shocking fact reading its call rate per min showing round to 6 $ per min !! .. I was hesistant .. but I couldnt stop dialing .. there were not many 24 hrs between me and her before after the sunrise of jan 24..

Much heard Avatar was the initial pick for this journey ... Its a long long movie .. I thought it will never end as usual movies with high expectation never kept their promise.... still its a watchable movie .. shawshank redemption was a good piece to cover up that gap of a good movie.. yeah after a sleep of 2 hrs ... but still time remains.. its painful .. its painful .. 14 hrs continuous is terrible than the same duration of journey in our indian railways ... or on the road ... but there is no way out ... I have to pick up the next but looks like I am a bad chooser . I didnt find any other worth watching movie ...and had to compensate on kanthasamy haa definitely i didnt watch it from begining to end .. I did it in between running it quickly.. truely in a dilemma what to watch on the way back ...

I bet bala is a luck for me to travel with .. We had booked a hertz car and he drove it.. After a bit of tension we are on the roads heading sayreville.... We were truly at roads with out a definite address to go .. There is no other way other than Rams house... Yeah all folks .. prateek ... srikanth every one came to visit us .. and now its time to search out the PG ... after a round about we got to this #16 crest drive ... its slightly expensive .. still we the offer of vonage and phone connection and flat screen TV made us accept the offer .. All set for another tenure here ... lets see how it goes... another 57 days to go to board back to my beautiful India....