Asterix

Some people might feel that I feel proud to put such things before others to make myself sound hilarious, but believe me, I have no intentions to do so. I can rather put a disclaimer saying - "Mere saath aisa kyon hota hai! :-( "
At this someone might argue ki uske saath bhi aisa hi kuch hua ... so I should rather refine this as - "Mere saath aisa hi kyon hota hai! :-( "

Few days back one was such day, when I was considering myself an "enlightened" person (amongst several others, ofcourse) who knew that GoAir will give away 10,000 of its free tickets to anyone who mmanages to book them in time after 3:30pm. At the same time, I was considering myself an "enlightened and lucky" person, who had no major work to do in the office, and hence could give my full time, passion and concentration to do the bookings :-)

So came the day, and the time when the bookings were made open and, Wow! I was busy with my favorite passtime - TP (For the uninitiated, TP=TimePass, an invaluable work of art). I generally heard some people shouting in muffled shouts - "Jaldi! Jaldi! ... Oh Shit! ... Oh F***! Abhi ho jaata ... etc.etc."
Out of my perennial curiosity, I walked over to their desk to get an insight of what was happening.

[To support the term - Perennial Curiosity, I should tell u that my roommate during my IIT years was so bugged with my unending questions that every morning when I'd see my face, I could see a deep 'n' dark "Question Mark" made by the roommate ... on my forehead!]

Getting back to the "Jaldi, Jaldi"&"Oh F***!", understanding the commotion there, I ran back to my desk, restarted my laptop (Poor baby! Had gone into hibernation as it was left grossly ignored and unattended for sometime, owing to my TP habits) ... went to http://www.goair.in/ and tried bookings for several sectors -
Mumbai - Goa - Mumbai
Mumbai - Ahmedabad - Mumbai
for several dates

I suppose since the server was being mauled by several thousands (may be lakhs) of Indian who wanted to accomplish their dreams of travelling in an aircraft (just as they show in the AirDeccan ad), it was showing the message "SERVICE UNAVAILABLE" again-n-again.
With my dream of travelling from Mumbai-Ahmedabad and back during Chaos time (IIMA cult.fest), I was fighting against the server to let me get the bookings done for 20-22nd Jan,2006. Again-n-again, I had to choose from amongst the Goa, Ahmedabad and Coimbatore Sectors from Mumbai and back.

And BOOM!!!!

It was done :-) I filled in my credit card info and I had the tickets for 20-22nd Jan!!! :-)
Yessss!!! I finally had the tickets! The printouts ... Actually, TWO printouts, to save from misplacing the first ones! Saving the webpage to be extra secure :-)
Done!!!

And I repeat, with the feelings coming right from the core of my heart -
"Mere saath aisa hi kyon hota hai! :-( "

A look at the print-outs said -
Fri 20-Jan-06, Depart Mumbai(BOM) 13 : 30 Hrs - Arrive Goa(GOI) 14 : 30 Hrs
Sun 22-Jan-06, Depart Coimbatore(CJB) 22 : 35 Hrs - Arrive Mumbai(BOM) 00 : 20 Hrs

In tickets ka ab main kya achaaar daalun??????
Agar Mumbai-Coimbatore and Coimbatore-Mumbai bhi ho gya hota, tab bhi main generally TP ke liye 1 weekend wahan ghumne nikal jaata.
Aur mere Chaos ka sapna???? :-((

"Mere saath aisa hi kyon hota hai! :-( "

- Asterix!