Finally its friday!time to unwind from the hectic and loong week which had me bouncing off to lahore for a media tour to our NOC (network operations center) facility which in simpler words is the 'technical' thingamajig behind every cellphone call...trust me guys communication is not as simple as dialing a number and pressing 'send'Had 13 journalists from Islamabad who we flew (PIA has improved its service and believe it or not the menu has changed!) to Lahore. Landed and assembled at the PR agency to meet up with the additional media persons from Lahore and then teetered off to the location (45 minutes outside the city) via a mini bus.
The drive was uneventful except for the GEO reporter who gave the live breaking news update (via his mobilink cell phone of course) about fresh info recieved on the Islamabad Airport Bomber. Apparantly the guy was a divorcee from DG Khan with small children and a bad temper. . .what is wrong with these people??!!well we reached the site and showed them the in's and out's of the NOC and then went to a board room for the Q&A session... these guys can really grill you and then some!!after 40 minutes of i-said-he-said we left the facility and went to PC (thats Pearl Continental Hotel for the not so local friends of mine) for lunch.
Scrumptious food i must say! the Chicken Masala was dee-lish!!ended the day with some work meetings and then back to the airport for the flight home. PIA does need to realize that its winter time, and running the aircraft AC at full throttle (as well as the engines i guess to keep us airborne) is not one of the most comfortable of journeys i have had.
Landed at a quarter to 9 and then headed home to chill with wifey.had been up since 530 am so was totally pooped by 10. Crashed early (after watching a bit of Prison Break) and headed to work on Thursday. (thursday is the day i got my beetle back so will write a separate piece on that) am excited about working on my beetle (reference wifey's note about the 1966 vintage) and chilling with the gang over the weekend.will see you on the flip side of the week with the quirks of the weekend!
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