encounters part ii

3am Dubai airport.

The kids were with me during this trip earlier this summer & were getting impatient by the minute, our flight to singapore not scheduled to fly for another 3 hours

Next to where we were sitting, we were surrounded by groups of mostly desi men sleeping on the floor

One guy who had been oogling at us, my "zinanee" being the object of his fancy,
comes to me & shows me his ticket and asks me for the gate number

Without even looking at it i tell him that gate appears only an hour before the flight. My response gets a blank look from him

I look at his boarding pass and am surprised to find that his flight was 18 hours later.....i tell him about this and he says he was helpless, the "agent" had booked the flight for him and his group

"So you guys will reach home in jeddah late evening tomorrow?" I asked, surprised at their predicament

"we are not going to Jeddah", he goes & gives me another ticket showing onward flight to Cairo.

His Jeddah-Cairo flight booked on the cheapest fare airline had another 20 hours transit time in store for them at Jeddah airport

encounters...part i

after procastinating and my brain about to burst with the material piling up i am posting as briefly as i can some of the recent travelencounters...there might be some abusive language so a warning for the faint hearted...atleast one character, who happens to be my favorite, made sure that i had ball of a time not only because of his language but also because our flight from colombo to karachi was delayed for 2 hours

Rain drops ..... Part II

for those who are new to my "dormant" blog, i travel beteen karachi, singapore and colombo every month and my reference to rain have nothing to do with karachi where i just spent the last ten days. the next time i am in karachi it would be september and the monsoon clouds would have lessened in intensity...looking at the sky in karachi yearning of rain is symbolic , hope for better days and an ever elusive goal of stablility in the country