U turn

I should have waited before making the statement "Things started getting better".....not at all....It took U turn....Things started getting worst now...Good Bye for few days till i get the confidence that "things turned good"...

US doesn't accept other citizen's Blood!!!

On August 12th 2009, i booked a schedule to donate blood. I prepared myself for blood donation at 9:00 AM near campus,

I stepped into van, one lady took my details and gave some material to read. After reading the material, they gave long questionnaire to complete...

Few questions were focused on my health and rest(most) of the questions focused on other nations visited.

Were you in UK during this period?
Are you from Africa?
Ever had sex with African male/female?

i was uncomfortable to donate blood, but i was continuing as there was no 'India' there and my intention is just to donate blood.

Finally, after filling the application....lady opened a record and found out my city information. When i told 'Hyderabad', she told "we are sorry that, you cannot donate blood if you were in this place anytime for the last 3 years as there were reports of Malaria". As you visited US in 2009, you can donate blood only in 2012 if you continue to stay here...

Guys, this is so irritating....i know blood donation is for my good health but at the same time, for your emergency. I am sure, you will have sophisticated techniques to test donated blood. If you have all these obligations, put an Online form as to determine eligibility of the donor....F...disgusting...

How Music turns you On and Off

There were lot of hiccups in short time and slowly passing by. When ever i go down, i scratch my head and ponder "what went wrong?". At that time, i isolate myself from others and feel isolated. Though it sounds foolish, i accept that am a fool during some part of life. In that process, i curse others around me...It all happened all these days. Slowly things started getting better. But i ordered myself to be pessimistic till things get much better.

Going back to July 26th...After boarding on to flight...

I don't remember the music part a lot. But i only remember that i was more towards fusion, rock, kind of addictive tunes....no soothing or melodious tracks.....i wanted to move out every emotion/fear from my mind...British Airways didn't provide made it worst by not having movies. I was expecting journey from Heathrow to Houston to be much better because most of the flights operate in that way...To my surprise, It was much horrible than Hyderabad to Heath row.

Flight got delayed for more than an hour as it was not getting runway. To avoid pollution, Airport used same runway for Departures and Arrivals making it a nightmare. I opened "Quiver Full of Arrows" and started completing stories too fast. Finally we got some room to move and flight started. I know it is a long journey and as an add-on to my frustration with delay, there was no in-flight entertainment. I have to rely on books. I am not a continuous reader and i am not capable of doing that. I planned to share my journey between Books, Music and sleep. To concentrate on books, i relied on Music and i made a long stretch completing short stories and reaching half of "Alchemist". Some how, i completed that journey.

Now Port of entry, It is the hell i got scared of so many times. Lady was sitting there, i know dealing with ladies is the toughest thing. But Q pushed me towards her. I wanna act like i missed something, go back and come again so that i can reach a guy, but thought like "what if i meet same officer again?". I thought its fine, i will go. Interview went for longer time than first time and faced so many unexpected questions. I was expecting a question asking some documents (which i am scared to show), but she never asked me. I was happy with the result and headed towards baggage, Luck followed me, my baggage is delayed. I have to fill the form with my address to which baggage is to be delivered. I do not have it, i was not prepared for this situation....blah blah blah...finally i submitted form...

i bought some basic things and checked into hotel room. Took a nice bath and reached rolling hotel on top floor, had a nice wine along with some food. There was lot of fun there (one guy was on high)...i took nap for not more than 4 hours and headed to airport. This time no (vegetarian) food on flight. F......i switched on MP3 and went on with nice soothing melodious songs, while listening i recollected all incidents from the past and reached final destination....

I got my baggage after 4 days. It was so frustrating...even then it happens...things starting getting little better now...But one final thing to make it much better can change the situation...

Lets see...Sincere Thanks to God for what ever happened till date :-) Hope he will be with me for ............(no time frame)....ever :P