Nightmares of packing....

When you have a long extended trip planned,without anyone to accompany at the time of the journey, you do tend to get a little paranoid. For one, because it means you will have to pack sensibly given that no one is about to help you haul your luggage up on trolleys. And you have the dual task of hauling suitcases and managing alone for the first time at the airport with so much luggage, which necessitates you to take a months worth of weight training in order to even attempt the task.

Whenever I have had to travel, I have packed and packed and packed, secure in the knowledge that someone will look at the luggage (in the initial days my family, now the person who accompanies me in the journey), yell and scream a bit and then hoist it all up with their sturdy capable hands. My hands, on the other side, are delicate. They are not meant for hauling up sturdy luggage filled to the sit on and zip up point with clothes I might need, and with matching shoes to go with the ensembles.

This time round I need to be economical with my packing. Therefore the eradication. Multitasking clothes, which can be rolled up and packed and worn without the fear of them looking slept in when I unroll them and pour myself in them. Jeans. A lot of them. Sturdy walking shoes for when I need to walk. And a couple of comfortable wedgeheels for when I dont. One dress if there is ever an opportunity for an evening out. Medicines. Lots of it. For every possible ailment. I need to be prepared.Dont want to act like a baby infront of bro and sis in law to depend for everything on them.Gotta proove to bro that I am all grown up no :P. I’m making my lists. In excel files. I need to pack with a list. If it is not on the list I dont put anything inside, even necessities like toothbrushes, never mind if I spend the first night at my destination using my finger with toothpaste smeared on it to clean the surfaces of my dental fixtures.

Wish me luck. I need to cram in two months worth of clothes and essentials into one suitcase and one duffel bag, which is the only reasonable amount of luggage I can manage.

Awesome trip

I am back from Delhi and awesome is the word for the trip.Along with exhausting,tiring,exciting etc. etc. etc. Since the day I reached Delhi (i.e. early morning of 4th april o8) it had been one hell of a roller coster ride.Getting out of the house at dot 10 a.m and entering the house again somewhere between 9 to 10 and stopping in the middle of all this just for a quick meal or something.

Now a quick meal does not mean that the meal wasnt lavish or something.Contrary to it I have not eaten so much at one time in the last few years which by the way made things even more difficult for I was hardly in a state to stand much less walk the roads of Carolbagh (hope the spelling is right) or Chandni Chowk with armloads of shopping bags!!!

Delhi was dirty, the streets were very dirty, the only thing I found clean was the Metro, which was very cool. But anyways I am used to dirty places living all my life in a place like where I am living :P.Although I DID expect something better in the country's capital.Not exactly complaining just an observation :P

Now it must be going through the mind of everyone whose reading this post as to what exactly was I doint in Delhi that was so hectic.Hmmm..... good question.I was shopping in grand style for bhai's engagement and wedding ..and when I say grand dont under rate it :D.

The best thing I liked about this trip of mine is that I did shopping in the real sense of the word.No mall wala shopping for me....and you know what the icing on the cake was....heavy downpour while I was shopping in those keechdi peechdi busy galiz of Chandi Chowk.Man was that fun lolzzzzz!!! I'll never forget that day.Trying to save Bhabhi's saris that we bought and getting soaked ourselves in the process.

Anyway, it was a good trip. I am hoping to get admission in Delhi after all the sightseeing(infact I have been hoping for this since a long long time even before this trip of mine) *wink*, but God has other plans for me. Let’s see what happens…………………