This aint Lemony Snicket here. Its just that for the sheer number of forgettable incidents that've happened and the number of faux pas I've committed during this trip, I couldn't have named it anything better.
I'm on a solo trip to Japan with the legendary Sapporo winter gloriously yawning its way in. The mercury is heading down south from zero and staying put there most of the time and I'm beginning to feel that this is a trip I should've safely avoided in favor of a much more pleasant weather in Bangalore.
I've got a torn knee ligament and cant hop around much. Ice Skating followed by a reverse somersault followed by a fall-flat-on-the-back-in-the-middle-of-the-road was the the last stunt I wanted to pull, but ended up doing it anyways one harsh winter morning on my way to the office. Bloody hell, am I having a tough time here or what....
I didn't volunteer to be the savior of the world though. My PL had got recently married and there wasn't a choice left on who should be traveling, with just the 2 of us in this project.
There was however, a flip side too, to these otherwise dull proceedings. The fact that I was all alone with a problematic leg was gaining me a lot of attention and sympathy from lots of my colleagues here; With my boss and my super-boss in that sympathizers list, I had a 'customized for yours truly' relaxed project schedule; and with some of the babes in my office populating that list too, I finally had something spicy to write home about other than a daily report on how much minus degrees the temperature had reached!
Some colleagues of mine(guys in this case) even offered to take me on a guided tour to some places here, and with nothing much to do other than hibernate on weekends, I readily agreed.
So thats how the plan came into being. Myself and two of my colleagues, Hayashi-san and Tanabe-san were supposed to meet up on that Saturday at a subway station from where we were to set out on our weekend adventure.
The details of the outing to follow soon...
p.s. This blog was written a couple of months back but has been published unaltered to preserve the emotions(???) captured in the post.
I'm on a solo trip to Japan with the legendary Sapporo winter gloriously yawning its way in. The mercury is heading down south from zero and staying put there most of the time and I'm beginning to feel that this is a trip I should've safely avoided in favor of a much more pleasant weather in Bangalore.
I've got a torn knee ligament and cant hop around much. Ice Skating followed by a reverse somersault followed by a fall-flat-on-the-back-in-the-middle-of-the-road was the the last stunt I wanted to pull, but ended up doing it anyways one harsh winter morning on my way to the office. Bloody hell, am I having a tough time here or what....
I didn't volunteer to be the savior of the world though. My PL had got recently married and there wasn't a choice left on who should be traveling, with just the 2 of us in this project.
There was however, a flip side too, to these otherwise dull proceedings. The fact that I was all alone with a problematic leg was gaining me a lot of attention and sympathy from lots of my colleagues here; With my boss and my super-boss in that sympathizers list, I had a 'customized for yours truly' relaxed project schedule; and with some of the babes in my office populating that list too, I finally had something spicy to write home about other than a daily report on how much minus degrees the temperature had reached!
Some colleagues of mine(guys in this case) even offered to take me on a guided tour to some places here, and with nothing much to do other than hibernate on weekends, I readily agreed.
So thats how the plan came into being. Myself and two of my colleagues, Hayashi-san and Tanabe-san were supposed to meet up on that Saturday at a subway station from where we were to set out on our weekend adventure.
The details of the outing to follow soon...
p.s. This blog was written a couple of months back but has been published unaltered to preserve the emotions(???) captured in the post.
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