2 days of timepass

2 days of time-pass
Went for a techie-vendor meeting to Hyderabad for last 2 days –make it 4 days, including the travel from Cochin.

We were put at up at Hotel Sitara at the Ramoji film city which is like 40kms away from Hyderabad…after the splendid greenery of Kerala, every other place starts looking dry and dirty by comparison and AP was no exception. Combine this with some extremely disgusting habit of pan-spitting by total junta and you get totally filthy corners  - Consciously looking at PYTs which are about 5 feet above the dirty ground tends to quell any such feelings of disgust.

I found the entire place quite nauseating…”Obscene baroque” is what the style can be called – gold and gild everywhere, seraphim and cherubim popping out from walls, corners, ceilings chairs….not in the least perturbed by the griffins who hold up the walls, the tables…generally anything that can be held up.

Team from Mumbai had a vairy vairy fair Kashmiri babe…but apart from general flirt-coochie- cooing, digital snapping and smiling-smiling, nothing much happened…I guess my sudden, frank desire to know all about Kashmiri culture and the many fascinating habits of Kashmiri pandits and the sad story of their migration was somehow viewed with a shade of skepticism ;-) Well, eye-candy was cool, but not so smart…a pity.

Meeting went off ok except for one snotty guy from our side who had earlier been sacked by the vendor – he was out to get them and we kind of popped him out of the meeting. Angry, aggressive me! ;-)

After eating at the famed Paradise biriyani joint, buying some traditional Hyderabad (pochampalli something) sarees, Andhra toys and blowing 4k on some shirts from Shoppers Stop, returned to the film city. Next day started late from the hotel and reached the airport 5 mts before the flight left where an Air Sahara hostess first refused to let us in and then finally relented with a “DON’T EXPECT THIS FROM US AGAIN” – after such a nice gesture, such a nasty remark…I still love you and your Jetmiles, Mr.Goyal – just wishing you would start a direct flight from Cochin to Hyderabad.

Back at the flat, had to escape into the bathroom, hiding from the accusatory heat of my Kap/PR/OG material. So tried to wake up early and did some basic Math from PR…quit halfway through swearing to do it another day.

Going to take a large printout of prep schedule and put it up in my room. Now is that self-flagellation of sorts or a diligent reminder?…The show goes on, folks and only time will tell.