The whole trip from KL to Houston, Houston to Bangalore (transit through Frankfurt) reminds me of my previous job - challenging, dynamic, ever-changing, and restless working environment! Working through long hours, which left only less than 8 hours of 'resting' time in Hotel - including breakfast, dinner, shower, sleeping, I had spent almost 16 hours on the road, working (like dogs), meeting (or sometimes arguing), sleeping (when too tired, haha), eating (ofcourse I'd feel hungry) etc... Luckily I was here with the whole team, which made the trip more delightful.
On the road experience had never been a good one for me with poor traffic condition in Bangalore. The 30+km journey from hotel ended up taking an hour or plus to arrive our destination, the vendor's office which located in Electronic City. With 2 lanes road being occupied by light (motorbike, tri-motorbike, cars) and heavy vehicles (trucks, busses), animals (a herd of duck! cows, horses, donkeys, dogs), pedestrian, or whatever moving object that you could imagine, the traffic could never be a 'quiet' or 'smooth' one. Reckless drivers were all on the road, 'fighting' against each other to beat the traffic condition - or rather trying to get to their destination earlier. Our cab drivers (we rented 3 cars from travel house) who have plenty on the road experience (one being the ambulance driver before) in Bangalore were very 'competitive' with the environment where they knew lots of shortcut around the town, 'sliding' through the small gap (forming up the 3rd lane), honking & flashing throughout the journey. Luckily I am the type of person who can sleep in the car which had helped avoiding me from seeing those reckless scenes.Never been easy for any food other than Chinese food (or rather, home-cooked food), my
appetite was challenged with the variety of India food around - all with different type of spices to make the food 'look' and 'taste' good (so-called). Nevertheless, we did enjoy our in-the-room dinner (or supper, since we reached our hotel at almost 11pm, or close 12am sometimes) with special program at certain channels that would never be available in our home country. Never forget the massaging chair available in our suite (sharing with another female colleague of mine), it became one of reason why our room became the gathering spot everynight - for dinner, tv (programmes), and massaging.Had been working through my first weekend in Bangalore, where getting the application ready by time had become our top priority inspite of Shell's 'Work Life Balance' principal. Nonetheless, our hard work and effort had been seen and recognized when we were given off for our 2nd weekend to tour around the city.


