Tension and Trauma

One simple question,Why do people go on vacations?
To relax and chill,to get away from the hustle and bustle of everyday life,to be away from one and all,to get time for one self.TO RELIEVE THEMSELVES FROM TENSION

That was the case for all of my holidays so far,England,France,Singapore,Thailand[2009], Oman,The UAE[count the 7 year residence as a holiday,as i was away from family] but this recent holiday to thailand and Malaysia would have been a complete disaster had it not been for our quick thinking and all[my parents mostly]

So we were using some new travel agent who had just shifted to our complex,i wont dwell much into those details as to why we decided to use em but lets start with us reaching Bangkok airport,now we reached at 2 in the morning and the point was that if we were to go to Kuala Lumpur we would have to catch a morning flight at around 10 AM,so to save time we decided that we would travel from Bangkok to Pattaya by road and reach Pattaya in a couple of hours,normally ,as in our last holiday all our transfers were by car,so we were waiting for the car,but that never came at the airport,instead we found out that we would be taken to pattaya via bus,but the bus service only starts from 8 AM
Fudge it we were stuck in an airport for 6 hours ,bloody hell,but we still thought it couldnt get worse than this,could it?

Our transfer to pattaya was fine,and so was the trip back to bangkok,Both cities were beautiful and since we knew our way around bangkok it wasnt a problem for us to go around

Next we were to travel to Malaysia ,Kuala Lumpur,our flight was to reach at 2 PM and it was bang on time,but for some reason again no car was waiting for us,after waiting for another hour we bought a sim and called the local travel agent who told us that they had no cars left to pick us up as we were supposed to come at 7 PM,a lack of communication between the indian counterparts left us in a fix,so we had to take a cab from KL to our "hotel" deep into the city which took another 2 hours for us to reach the hotel and cost us 102 Ringget ,almost 1500 Rs ,aye carumba

The hotel was more like a cheap motel,a budget hotel as people call it,now i have no problems but since we paid for 4 star accommodation we expect the room to be big enough for 3 people,this room was barely enough for 2,,it was located in the middle of a busy street where cars couldnt enter and after giving both the travel agents [india and Malaysian] a tongue lashing we went out hunting for a new hotel,we did find one good hotel but they said they were booked,it was the 25th of Dec,thanks to the Lord they could accommodate us and we spent the rest of the 5 nights there,of course em ass travel agents from Malaysia had to make our life a hell and they werent willing to shell out a little extra for the new hotel and it was being charged to me dad's credit card.

When we were to leave KL and come back to Bangkok for our flight back to cal,we found out that we had to get visas again to get our bags from bangkok and go to the other flight,now we expected that we would have multiple entry visas for Thailand as it was clear we have to come back to the place,but the friggin idiot from india decided we should have a multiple entry visa for Malaysia,cue another 2 hour wait at the Airport.

What a horrendous holiday,A special mention goes out to the Thai Air flights where alcohol was free,which meant each and every indian on the plane was boozing their ass off.

This certainly was my worst holiday ever,and in case anyone has heard ,they should listen to Sugarcult's - "Los Angeles",i would like to quote em

"One more Holiday,I wont Celebrate"

and neither will we EVER use these travel agents again

A Crappy new year

I know its been quite a while since i last posted something ,i only post when i do have time or i have a kickass REAL LIFE story to tell or when i am really and i mean REALLY pissed about something,and something just pissed me off massively,its not that i dont get pissed,i get pissed off quite easily but the incident that got my goat was new years Eve
31st Dec 2010

Normally my parents and I go out for a drive at the stroke of midnight to park street,the only street in Calcutta having both KFC and Mcdonalds ,and a ton of other restaurants.
I understand its the new year and all but what is there to celebrate?
We reached the place at 11:50 and there were like a gazillion people out on the street doing nothing but screaming and shouting for the new year,as the bongs and well rest of indians say

"Heppy Noo Yaaar"

Literally thousands of mindless freaks on the streets screaming and shouting and dancing and hugging each other like they are the best of pals,if only this sort of love could be seen on the streets everyday when people are out to run over each other or are abusing the life out of someone,the same people have no compassion what so ever from Jan 2nd onwards.
This whole new year celebration is just another way to milk more money out of the normal people,going to clubs and parties to celebrate what?

More deaths,pathetic governance,violence,corruption,the poor thats what each year is about,people forget all this so easily to celebrate another crummy year which holds more of the same for almost each of us.
I dont celebrate new years any more,but certain memories will stay about this one year:
This is what i remembered about 2010

Spain winning the WC
The huge BP oil spill
Togo bus getting attacked by militants during the African Cup of Nations
Paul the octopus
Rafa getting the boot[twice in one year]
Constant and rampant corruption in our country and outside it as well
Finding some kickass online and college pals
The ass of a travel agent we had
Creating "history" in college
Getting my Babe back :D
Becoming a Graduate

And oh yeah as far as new year's resolutions go,there is no point manking any of them because half of em cannot be remembered by the start of March and more importantly no one gives a shit to completing em
so there is just one resolution for one and all,live by it 24 hours a day,7 days a week,365 days in a year,EVERY FRIGGIN YEAR

"JEET KE AAOGE!"