I lhave lived in the UK for the last eight years and I still hate it when the shops close right on time just as you are wondering if you wanna shop..

Too bad..

and BTW its not just in Germany where you would live like this, calculating your movements to the last nanoseconds.. it is anywhere outside the Indian subcontinent. I have had some similar experiences too. When in Tokyo, I had to fly the next day and had no yens with me and I reached the cashing counter just 30 seconds late or so. I tried every single thing I could but the guy didnt relent . Fortunately I knew of a hotel which used to convert dollars (but only cash and not TC’s), so that was the saving grace else I wouldnt have been able to clear my bills.

Have had the pleasure of running after buses, trains etc only to miss them – happens all the time outside India . Even if you are coming from any direction but arent at the LINE where the bus stop is, those guys wont let u enter.

Everything around you is so materialistically beautiful, perfect and punctual that sometimes we forget that we come from a land that is inherent with naturalness, disorderliness and flexible. That calls for a whole new topic. But right now yeah its sometimes good to be flexible than living like a machine that goes off at a specific time.

It’s a whole debatable topic. Never mind you lived in one of the most beautiful places in the world. The experiences you had are worth a life time. Enjoy while it lasts.

My mind was playing ‘Aji aisa mauqa phir kahan milega’ while reading ur prev. posts

wo laptop case mein ek do plastic bags fold kar ke rakho- mere purse mein hotein hain