IT101 - BOM-BLR - 0630-0800 - 9th November Wednesday.
9W450 - BLR-BOM - 1145-1320 - 10th November Thursday.

Hope some folks are free on 9th evening. I guess M.G.Road area. Nine Eight 203 - Six Three 725.

Tags: bangalore, job, meet, travel
Current Mood: thesis writing
Current Music: Zoot Suit - The Who

Wrapping up Bangalore trip report:
Lunch was with bluesmoon and AD at, finally, Shiok! We met up for lunch near Cambridge layout or Indiranagar and wandered around looking for Empire and some other places but found nothing suitable. bluesmoon pointed out the Shiok was on the road were roaming around on, so we immediately converged upon Shiok. themadman wasn't there so couldn't meet the man, but good food was had nonetheless :). It was tough trying to satisfy our collective constraints: no chicken for me, no seafood for neelchand :), and kolhapuri food for AD. We ended up having Veg. Drunkard's noodles, Beef with lots of condiments and peanuts (beautiful), Sumatra Fish Curry, and Steamed Rice. Excellent place to eat, even if I may be the millionth person saying it.

The Jet BLR-BOM flight was delayed and left at 10pm. Their new web check-in print-your-own-boarding-pass funda rocks. You directly reach the airport, go for a security check, and approach the boarding gate. This can be done just-in-time and so is a great facility. No need to reach the airport 30 minutes before and all that. But this web check-in is so new that airport security and even some Jet staffers are unaware of it. Everywhere on the way out and in, at both BOM and BLR, folks insisted on a boarding pass. When I showed them the printout, they said it was an e-ticket, and that I must go and get a boarding pass. Some Jet uniform person had to tell them that it was ok and a new funda. Good to see folks sticking to guidelines. Now, since this web check-in is sctually a Sabre feature, I don't see why it can't become the norm and ultra-convenient especially for backpack travellers with no luggage.

The flight reached BOM airspace before 11:30pm and the pilot told us that we were 27th in queue to land! We circled Bombay and were over the Arabian Sea for one and a half hours! I saw Bombay from all angles, orientations, and altitudes. The best pass was from the south of south Bombay heading due west and seeing the queen's necklace etc. recently seen via Google Earth. I saw more than 10 other planes at different altitudes criss-crossing the sky. That sure is a busy time to try and land at Bombay. We landed on the alternate runway coming down over the sea on top of Andheri and Vile Parle instead of the usual Vashi, creek, Ghatkopar approach. Landing was at about 1am. All this, I suspect, was due that plane skid a few days ago.

Tags: bangalore, bombay, flight, food, jet airways, mumbai, planespotting, travel
Current Mood: recovering

First interview yesterday. Job talk was good. One on ones mostly decent. No idea about match, outcome, or next step yet. 8+ hours in all including lunch and coffee breaks. Tiring.

Resolution: No more day long interviews when I am down with a fever and eating Paracetamols.

Met a bunch of LJ'ers, not all of whom I knew. Lord freegeek's well-being was asked by everyone :)

Yesterday evening was at Purple Haze with old SNC dude. Nostalgic old rock videos stuff. Crashed at his bachelor pad. Woke up feeling better today and saw a load of rock DVDs. His collection is amazing.

Lunch with bluesmoon in a bit. Blogging/browsing/mail-checking till we meet. Cyber cafes here actually serve coffee while you browse :)

Back to BOM at night. Jet's web check-in is cool.

Tags: bangalore, job, snc, travel
Current Mood: recuperating

The journey begins.

9W411 - BOM-BLR - 11 October 06:40
9W484 - BLR-BOM - 12 October 21:30

Busy during the day on 11th. The rest of the evening and all of 12th is free. Hint hint :)

Tags: bangalore, job
Current Mood: making a ppt