I am back!

Phew..after 9.5 boring, agonizing hours in the air plane (I subtracted the amount spent on booze) I finally reached home sweet home. My last day in Japan was full of drama. I woke up on Friday to a very rainy morning. It was my day off and I had loads of stuff to pack..some things to buy and some bills to pay. Anyways I get this call from Sumit (who had to go to office) that day..and he goes like.."Stop whatever you are doing and look out of the window!." On asking why..he says "Its snowing!!". I opened the window and there it was...small white flakes along with the rain drops. It was sooo f*cking cold and I was in a T-shirt! Nevertheless I spent the next 15 minutes watching the snow. We prayed for snow ever since winter started. In fact there were days when it was as cold as 0 degrees..but it was sunny..and hence no chance of snow. Anyways on our last day in Japan..it snowed. It was cool. However reality struck soon and I realized I had loads of stuff to get back to. So I kinda finished up packing all my clothes..which were ohh so many that I felt like a girl! Anyways I had the task of returning my modem to the ISP. I started packing up the modem and as soon as I ventured out of the house..I realized I had left my umbrella at the office and the keys with Sumit. I called him up, but he said he'll be a bit late. I was left with no choice but to leave my house unlocked and venture in the rain without an umbrella. I stuffed the modem inside my jacket and walked till the post office. I sent the modem and decided to go to the office and get my keys and the umbrella back. I met Sumit at the station..and decided to finish up my shopping. on the way back. I had to buy a guitar case for my new-old guitar. The funny thing is that the cover ended up being as expensive/cheap as my guitar. But its a nice cover. My guitar is in one piece after checking it in, in the airplane. Anyways back at home..I realized that we wont have gas (to cook :D) after 7pm. We had asked the gas connection guy to come to our place between 5-7pm. And like a typical japanese..he turned up at 5:15! I was in the middle of making Pasta. By that time Sumit also had arrived. We requested for a few more minutes and tried to bribe him with Tea. But he refused the tea and allowed us only to cook the pasta. No gas meant no hot water as well. Anyways I hungrily gobbled up the pasta and it was then I realized I hadnt eaten anything during the day. After that .. there was this girl who was interested in our vacuum cleaner. She called up saying that she was lost in Kawasaki. We went to get her and also had to escort her back to the station. But that was ok since we had to book the tickets for the train to the airport the next day (her being a girl also kinda tipped that decision to her favour). Phew!..we bought the tickets...and with every formality complete..we resumed our packing! We dint realize how fast the time passed..it was soon 10:30. We had to meet with our friends as well..and poor Anwarul was waiting for us after making dinner for all of us. We went to say our goodbyes to Syam and Ashish san and had the most amazing dinner with Anwarul. After dinner we had loads of stuff to transport to Anwarul's house. So we took him along to our place and packed everything. Sumit still had some leftover packing to do..I, in the meantime finished up half a bottle of Brandy and enjoyed every moment of it...which was also the last time I would be boozing in my apartment..a very emotional moment indeed. It was soon time to dump our washing machine and book shelf. We did that..and went to the topmost floor of our building...just for the heck of it! I really dunno why we did that. And the lift started acting crazy. It stopped at every floor till we reached 15! We took the stairs while coming down. Anyways, the watch read 4:45 am. We decided to start getting ready. It was 5:30 when we finished and since I was incharge of getting the taxi..I ventured out for the same. We see taxis normally at every hour of the day..but that time ..there was none..zero...zilch!! After runing helplessly for 20 minutes..I finally found a cab. We wanted 3 taxis..but that guy refused saying that its an odd hour to get a taxi guy. So we decided he would have to go "to and fro" from our place to the station. We frantically picked our stuff and after 20 minutes..reached the station. But sadly, we missed the train to the airport and the next train was after an hour. We asked the station master who suggested us to go to Tokyo by the next train and catch it from there. However since we had missed the time for the train...our reservation would be cancelled but the ticket would be valid. That meant we had to stand on the train till the airport..which was a li'l more than 1 hour. That was frustrating..there were empty seats every where but the train guy did not allow us to sit..as if we were punished for being late. We stood in one corner..dozing off in between..while standing! We reached the airport well before time though and checked in everything. We were loitering around the airport before boarding the thing sharp at 11'o clock. We took off and after 9.5 boring hours and some booze later..we landed home! My folks were there to receive me..all surprised at seeing how much weight I had lost. Anyways we searched for the prepaid counter for Sumit and Mustafa. We saw a counter but upon going there for some strange reason he told us to go to the second counter! Sumit and I smiled at each other...damn!..we were soooo back in India! There was this another "we are soooo back in India" moment when the trunk of the taxi slammed into Sumit's head...but then, we weren't smiling. It was soo weird..he was putting all the luggage inside when the trunk came down and hit his head. It must have hurt...more so since he is ehhh..ahem..."folically challenged". Anyways the ride back to home was fun..the daaru party after that was even more fun. However, mom's dinner after 6 months was awesome! :D