#1: Travel to 15 countries - 2/15
My trip to Ethiopia wasn’t planned. As it so happened, I was supposed to fly back to Delhi and the airline screwed up my ticketing and refused to let me board my plane. I was insulted, mistreated, and made to wait for hours while my flight took off. Without me.
I later received an apology, a free hotel stay, and a trip that should have lasted twelve hours ended up lasting four days. The only good thing that came out of it was that I managed to visit Ethiopia’s capital city, Addis Ababa, and actually spend some time there. Not enough to be able to discover the culture and people, but good enough to get a feel of the place. Of course, I loved that part.
So, I’m back in Delhi. But not for long.
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#132: Buy a MacBook
I’ve been saying I need a new computer for the past one year. It sputtered and it crawled, it made weird old guy noises, and every two weeks, something broke– I was, at one point, using an external keyboard, an external mouse, had no CD or DVD drive, and required a restart every one hour. It didn’t help that the guy I paid to fix it a few months ago installed a pirated version of Windows and MS Office, even though–and you’ll understand my frustration at this–I paid for and have the original Windows software! All of it.
Anyway. Two hours after I arrived in Delhi, SpongeBob (don’t ask how it got named that), sputtered for the final time and died. (I think it was waiting to come home for the last time.)
I now have an as-yet-unnamed shiny new MacBook (and really, about two months ago, I was not one of those people who named their computers. I blame a certain guy). If you don’t see any entries on the blog for a couple of days, it’s probably because I’m playing with my new toy. I love my toys.
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