BLT Diaries

Chapter 1 - Haldia Awakening
Haldia, WB

(hmm, guess i've been watching Heroes a lil too much!!!)

It started out with an unbelievably dingy hotel (ironically named "Classic Inn" nothing classy about the place i assure u). After a depressing few days in the "classic inn" moved (ran frantically would be a closer description) into the company house. Awesome place with a private garden, patio, music system, gym and home theatre.
If your thinking it had it all, well, reality check... the only things missing were a water purifier, washing machine and best of the list, pest control!! so much so that it reminded me of the land that time forgot... only replace all the dino's with terrifyingly huge/tiny lizards... ewwwww!!! U know paati's (granny) tales of hearing lizard's chuckles (i dunno what else to call the wierd noise they make) being inauspicious?? That better not b true for my sake coz i'm given to listening to entire lizard 'o concerts when i'm at home!!

The next few days went by without much happening. The usual work-home-TV-internet-takeaway parcels substitutes for food-sleep. Then came a all enchanting Sunday. (btw did i tell u, by some silly rule, factories work six days a week...talk about work-life balance, blasphemy!!)

Back to the story. The all enchanting Sunday.

Plan of action: Stay up really really late on Sat, watch movies that i've seen already a zillion times... who cares! i should stay awake!! wake up after noon... take a riverside walk, spend quality time with my precious (tats my awesome'st legendary canon dSLR i'm referring to).

And as most (needless to say, most=> every single one) of my plans end up in deep graves, the all awaited Sunday went something like this.

The only thing that went according to plan - movie marathon n staying up reeeaaallly late on Sat. As for the rest of the Sunday, this is how it went.
Woken up rudely at an unearthly hour (who knew clocks actually touched actually hit 8:30 am on sundays) by the guest house cleaner!! the rest of the day went: clean-dust-clean again (damn! should have dusted bfr cleaning the first time!!!)-eat dry toast-wash clothes(still no washing machine !)-stay indoors... political unrest outside.. u better not venture out says my manager and finally blessed sleep (outta exhaustion). Blissful wasn't it?

But all was not lost... I promised myself that next sunday would not be the same. After a surprisingly fruitful week at work, again the most awaited Sunday.

This time, it did get better!! took a lazy long walk by the riverside, got drenched in the rain. Sadly it was pouring so heavily, that i wldnt dare take my precious cam out for a few snaps! Saw a overloaded jetty take off on the hoogli river, a broken bridge that was really picturesque and to top it all, saw an actual hovercraft in action (u know, the 007 kinda awesome luking ones) at the coast guard hovercraft port. Totally rocking!

Monday morning blues were quickly washed off by the beautiful rains. Which now have turned into a cyclonic storm (named Aila!). Am now stuck at work inside the factory coz its too dangerous to venture outside winds at 90kmph speeds, trees uprooted n everything. Which is what brought about this long long ramble from my part. Got a lil tired of being stuck in my room and listening to the wind wailing outside.

3 more weeks to go in this tiny town... Chapter 2 in d pipeline!