Monday, September 29, 2008

Quiz time

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Tokkalodi okkadu answer cheyyalaaaaaa.. tupel fellows.. anta vetti ani cheptaru.. okkadu kuda banda kuda veyyala...

Answer: Ghadar Party Started by sikhs in Canada, US against the discrimination shown by canada and us govts to sikhs. Later the movement also spread to india.

Israel Travel

Junta,

I ll pen down my IL experiences here.

I reached Chatrapathi Shivaji Maharaj International Airport, Mumbai at around 19:50 hrs IST, 26 SEP 2008, about 15 mins delayed landing due to rain on the stipulated way from Benguluru International Airport by Jet Airways, Boeing 737-800.On board they served a hot bread with corn dressing and coffee. Here I should say something about CSIA. It is so big that you cannot compare BIA with it. Folks back in Bangalore felt BIA is quite a big and good airport. But it is no match even for the CSIA's local terminal for local flights.

We( Passengers having an international connect) are taken to the International terminal by a Volvo Bus (Courtesy : Airports Authority of India). One thing I observed was most of the junta are flying to US( Jersey, newark, boston etc etc..) . Probably I am the only one flying to Israel from mumbai. I went to the Austrian airways terminal and waited for the staff to turnup. The counter started at 21:00hrs IST. I took my boarding pass to wien(vienna in german) and then from wien to Tel Aviv Yafo. I asked for a through check in ( I learnt a few days ago that with through checkin I can collect my luggage at the final destination. This relieves me of managing my luggage for connecting flights). I went through the immigration process in mumbai and then waited near gate 7 and had 2 veg sandwiches ( now for people who know my food habits, this is a surprise. It even surprised me). Sankardada style "If horse hungry, eats dry grass".

I waited till 00:30 hrs,27 Sep 2008 for the boarding. One problem with indians is that people back here don't believe there own people. I don't remember how many times i have shown my passport and visa stamping ( but in austria and IL i was not asked for them except at security check). Whites are still respected with highest honor in india even after 60 yrs of independence.

I got onto my flight (Austrian Airways,Boeing 737-900 I guess). The flight is quite good and I fortunately I got the first seat in middle row( So , I have more leg space). There is dedicated LCD monitor for each passenger. They served a late night dinner and break fast in the morning. I should also appreciate efforts of our office travel desk for ordering Asian Veg meal for me, if not I can't imagine wat my situation would be. The best part of austrian airways is that u have sexy (sex bomb:P) hostesses and they served all varieties of drinks on the plane. Being a sane person, I humbly took coke.

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In all 5 movies were telecasted, Jannat (Bollywood), 2 English and 2 German. One movie stars George clooney as a American foot ball star. Another movie is starring Steve martin and lot of kids.. I dint get the names as titles were shown in german :(

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Statistics::::

1. Distance between Mumbai and Wien(AirDistance) : 5981 Kms
2. Altimeter reading (Excluding Take off and Landing) : 10.2Km
3. Max speed i have seen: 1100kmph
4. Time taken : little more than 8 hrs.
5. Temperature in Mumbai when took off: 22C
6. Temperature in Wien when landed: 9C
7. Landing time: 5:10 hrs Wien time.
8. Waiting time : 5hrs in Wien.
9. Time of landing in Tel Aviv: 3:40 Tel-Aviv time.