its time to go again

what? it's monday already? this time last week i was sleeping off the flight back from Mumbai. now it's time to hop back onto a plan. lahore this time.

u ok? yeah. i love it. the travelling. anything you don't love? sure. i don't like having to work like mad to make up for the time i spent travelling. but its good you know? to be away. to have some time for myself in a different part of the world.

it's like being able to escape.

except that i'm not. escaping.

work wise its the complete opposite.

i shouldn't complain. really.

Day 03- I need to clarify

last post was badly written i suppose...leaving many, including my lil bro, confused about how i've gone from 5 star to No star...

allow me to clarify...

you see...i was only suppose to fly into Mumbai and travel to Pune (where the programme is) on Sunday...accomodation for this programme i'm on was arranged for a certain Singapore government agency....but only from Sunday onwards.... I arrived a day early as I couldn't get on the flight for Sunday...and so had to arrange for my own accomodation in Mumbai and wait for the rest of the delegation to get to Mumbai so we can travel to Pune (which is bout 3 hours by bus away from Mumbai)....which i did, through another participant of the programme who's from an all important Ministry with an all important office in India...who booked us into the Hyatt as there was low availability of rooms in all of Mumbai that weekend...that's how we got 5 star.

Now...next part of the story is in Pune which is a smaller city quite a distance from Mumbai...In Pune, we were supposed to be checked into a 5 star hotel here for the rest of the trip....the same hotel where ANGELINA JOLIE and CREW are staying at while they're shooting some film here! sigh....

BUT because of some screw up...and the fact that she and her crew has taken almost ALL the available hotel accomodation in this place...we ended up having to stay in the Training Centre's residence....what sucks is that the group got divided into two....the Government Agency that organised this decided the easiest way to divide this was by sectors...us Public Sector ppl got stuck with no Star..while the Private sector ppl got the lovely 5star accomodation at the hotel where Angelina Jolie is staying...grrrrrr...soooooo unfair..

what is most irritating...is that this division was done last minute....and i had initially been on the 5 Star list as I had signed up for this programme pretty early...doesn't that suck! I could be babysitting Maddox right now...

ah well...it SUCKS...but the room isn't too bad...there's broadband 24h a day...so that helps...hmm did i mention that there's no TV!...yeah.....the bed's not tooo bad... only half of me is aching right now...i guess it could get much much worse...

and hey...i get to wipe my a** with the most luxurious toilet paper ever...how can i complain?

Day 01& 02 Mumbai- From 5 Star to No Star

SQ422 arrived in Mumbai at 9.20 am. A day early because I couldn't get onto the flight day after I checked in with T-Chien into the Hyatt Mumbai. Hyatt was the only hotel that T-Chien could get us into because conferences made sure that there were only 2 rooms left in almost all of Mumbai hotels for us- luckily, in Hyatt.

I was on cloud nine. After all, how many times in a year do i get to check into a 5* hotel with a 500 plus dollar price tag? Almost everything was heavenly, including the soft fluffy pillows which felt like every bit of the 300 USD it probably costs! Soft yet firm. I slept like a baby through the afternoon and most of the night....Check out the lovely heavenly room for yourself...

You know what they say? When you're up...there's no other way to go but down..and down i went!

Apparently, we weren't checked into the 5 star hotel we were checked into. Instead, us public sector ppl had to be holed up in the training centre's management residence...check it out....


Need i say more....siiiighhhhh....