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So here I am, at IGI airport in Delhi. As usual, my parents insisted that we arrive well ahead of time in case any hiccups don’t cause us to miss our flight. So we arrived at the airport at 5:30 for a 8:00 flight. Now the time is ermm … 7: 33 p.m and over the past two hours i have been thoroughly bored. This is what i have done till now to get rid of boredom:

• First, i just sat down and relaxed, waiting for sleep to come, but surprisingly i wasnt able to sleep, even though i was quite tired. I thought that after so many hours of practice of sleeping while sitting on a chair, it would take me no time, but it seems the ambience that of a lecture theatre, is a crucial factor. And since there was no-one around whom i could pretend to be my prof at IIT, I dropped the idea and moved ahead.
• Then, I roamed around a bit, but that too didn’t last more than 5 mins, mostly because there was nothing (no-one) worth seeing.
• After that i decided to call up someone, so i chose Dahiya, and asked him abou the DotA game they were playing when i left the hostel. But alas, it wasn’t one of those eventful games (Sanket was not playing). Basically Dahiya raped Ravi in a 1v1 ardm match.
• After checking in, I roamed about again, but even the aquariums and the budget news on TV (without sound) could not hold me for long.
• Then I turned up the music on my cell phone and just sat down. I admit that this was going ok, atleast better than most of my other attempts.
• But then mom told me about these kiosks, which brings us here, and this is what I have been doing for the past 20 minutes or so. That familiar feel of the keyboard and the mouse never brought me so much joy. It somewhat subdued my burning desire to have my laptop with me, which started the moment I entered the airport. After all, there was a sign that said FREE WI-FI. After that constricting proxy in IITD this would have been like heaven

And now the boarding for my flight has started. So i’ll be off.

Abhinav

PS: this would have been posted earlier, but there were some “technical problems” with the kiosks. Guess nothing in life is really for free.

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