Continue … My business trip to Scotland.

This is the part 2... hence you must read part one at

http://mihirsangani.blogspot.com/2008/05/my-business-trip-to-scotland.html

before reading this one.....

So I had to find an innovative way of cooking without a kitchen. I was carrying the ready to cook noodles and other packs for easy use, but even they needed microwave or boiling water. Now the hotel room I was in, had a coffee making machine … which boils the water and stops automatically once the water reaches the boiling point. Guess what, I used it to boil the water … and than once the water is boiled I would put the ready to eat pack in it and than keep turning it on and off again and again, once the food is warm enough to eat… I would eat like a maniac to finish it before its cold again. So this is how I managed to cook for a month. And guess what …. I even used to boil potato for sandwiches and **Bhel**… yeah I was carrying those bhel packs which lasts for 4 – 6 weeks.

So this is how I cooked the food and ate. My office had microwave … so after couple of days I started carrying the ready to eat pack and some quick cook food in the office to have a proper food. That’s how I survived there for a month.

So, now it was day 2; again the English breakfast … and for a change I asked for a cappuccino today because the coffee that they served was not at all good. Same old story … not many options for vegetarian same old hash brown, grilled tomato, cornflakes, fruits and yogurts. Had that and went to office, by cab (Ooops the taxi cost was killing me). Now I realised that Mark my buddy or mentor was in a mess because he was told by my manager that I cannot work because I am on a business visa. When I was told this, I said than I better go back to India and get the right kind of work permit you need so that I can start working asap. But he said that my manager will be in the office in couple of days and till than I should relax and read manuals. So days came and went by, same old thing … day started with an English breakfast and ended with the innovative way of cooking. And those same old boring Limited TV channels.

Now I passed 5 days like that, and it was time for weekend … dammn what am I gonna do for that long weekend… so I slept till 1400 hours on Saturday and than woke up and made bhel and ate. Than I was finding ways to kill time … so thought might as well go to the health club in a hotel and check it out … booom …. It was a room where they fitted 1 treadmill, 1 walker, 1 rover, and few weights … and the swimming pool was a baby pool … I was so dammn pissed looking at it… cant describe… but let me give u some indications **** ******* #****** * * *£$”£$”£$”£$. Got it ??? lolz!!!!

Anyway … sauna was good enough so I thought may be I can kill some time there… so I did pass some time … than later in the evening I took a walk in the market and did some window shopping. Again it was evening and I thought of having something outside for a change, and landed at pizza hut. There were only two choices for vegetarians and I took one of them and had it.

So now I killed Sunday the similar way I killed Saturday, but the good thing was that there were movies back to back on Sunday which helped me kill at least 8 hours.

Week two was similar and I met my manager he said that I should keep some patient and things will work out well. I managed to find a pc in the office, and one of the local guy helped me bring it back up and login to it … use it for internet and stuffs. So my day used to begin with an English breakfast and than the internet surfing at office and than when I m back in hotel … it was Top Gear and “Survival Stories” and some movies which used to help me kill some time. But for how long ??? I was frustrated in week 3 and started finding ways to pre-pond my return. I could manage to do so and I did. So on the last weekend I did some shopping for chocolates and others stuffs. Packed my bags and few….. I was ready to leave Scotland.

I did that … left from Edinburgh and reached Heathrow airport… dammn the flight was at 2200 and I was in heathrow at 1430. What do I do ??? there were no good restaurants where I can have vegetarian food neither a pizza outlet … finally managed to go to Italian restaurant and found some vegi salad and a same old margarita cheese pizza. Ate it and passed time listening to music… finally was in flight and landed in India after sharp 9 hours. Wow … it feels so good being back home.

So overall this experience was a big bull shit… and guess what … i wrote this when I am here … back in Scotland for long time… may be more than 6 months …. Things have changed a little bit because now I am in an apartment and can cook what I want to eat with ease.