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01/11/07

Random first day in an unknown city...

First day at office has been pretty excitingly dull so far...
I was wondering about how I would I reach office and find the people etc... But this is how it went...

Walk out of the house...
Walk for about 2 minutes to the bus stand...
Take the # 100
Sit in it for about 15 minutes...
Get out of the bus... cross the road... and get into the office...

Total travel time approximately 20 minutes, including the wait...

BT office is a nice huge building next to the Gatwick Airport, in the Gatwick City Place... so far I have seen about 25 planes landing at various times... Easy Jet, Zoom, Flybe, XL, VA, ThomasCook.com etc have been the names I saw today... they are local airlines flying inside Europe and UK... and very nicely painted aircrafts…

I have a lot of documents to read in the first few days and then get down to making a lot of documents in the next 8 weeks of my stay…

Had a nice Indian meal in the office... Angoori Sabzi, Chana Dal, Rice, and Naan (yea... they called in a naan, but it actually was a pancake, not sweet though), some sweet chutney... interesting food... and very very filling... The last time I came to UK, I had loads and loads of juice, … almost a litre of it everyday... I am on my way to do a repeat of the same… At least a litre of juice a day…

Looking forward to the weekend, so that I can get back to a place, I used to call Home thanks to Abhishek... Sad he is going to India while I am here... that wastes my three weekends... but its ok...

More later...

I can anyway post it only when I get back home... I still don't have internet access in the office... it would take me a while to get a BT laptop... maybe a few weeks... who knows :P till then.. Offline scribbles and posting the evenings...

Took a different bus route back home… and got down at a place called Horley Town Center, about 10 minutes away from where I am putting up… what a lovely place it was… nice shops lined up, oh.. and two huge malls Waitrose, and one more… bought myself some more food, some fruits… my dinner salad… and walked back home…

One more door that brought smiles to my face were of a library called the Horley Library… it looked big and pretty inviting… I will have to figure out how to find it open as it closed before my work finishes for more of the days… lets see…

Calling it a day now… May God be with us…

13 comments:

  1. me first.... good that you'r travelling places.... this time for how long though????

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  2. btw uk calling is local for us... tell me if u are feeling home sick and need some pjs to laugh on...

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  3. heard london is a beautiful place if you are looking for some old world charm

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  4. # Aqui...
    thanks... I should be here for about 8 weeks...

    oh.. great.. i will let you know.. maybe you can conference me with friends too :)

    # Tushar..
    Bhai, I am about an hour away from London... you are right.. london has a lot of old world charm.. one of the nicer places to walk around in...

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  5. Enjoy your time there. Keep posting snaps along with your words. Take care.

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  6. :)

    @ subbu...
    pictures ka thoda fight hai.. not carrying the camera everywhere this time... not much to click on the way either...but let me see... phone camera use karte hain :)

    thanks bro...

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  7. :( Mujhe bhi jana hai! Maine fir se cancel kar diya! grrrrr
    anyway... will u be there fr X-mas?

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  8. Koi na... agli baar cancel mat karna...

    i would be here on christmas and new years...

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  9. are u carrying your camera to work as well, to catch shots on the way in or back.. London streets will have great stories to capture am sure :) ...

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  10. # Tanu...

    Actually I am about 60 minutes away from London... and there is not much happening on the way... just the Gatwick airport and then my office.. only about 15 minutes of drive.. the camera would come in handy over weekends...

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  11. oh london must be brilliant. it is one of my dream destinations. even if you're working there, i'm sure you're taking out some time to have a bit of fun.

    and may god be with you.

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  12. London is a nice place to be in for sure :)

    thanks :)

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