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Weekend Rains @ Bangalore = Tokyo memories!

This sunday has been a wet sunday for namma bengalooru! Coz from noon, it is constantly raining with few minutes breaks in between! Clouds were moving rapidly and it was playing hide-n-seek game with the Sun :-) This remembers me of my flight from Japan, en route to Bangkok/Thailand on 6th Sept 2005. My flight was at 10 AM and since the Tokyo Narita International Airport is around 85kms from the city, I had to leave early, as early as 5.30AM! But rains started previous night and hadn't stopped in the morning also. Visibility was very low but as I had booked the taxi earlier, the cab had come at 5.15AM itself. Finally I reached airport and during take off time also, weather was very bad with all black clouds around and we faced lot of air turbulances during take-off itself. To my surprise, when the flight ascended 11000feet altitude, I could the flight totally covered by the thick black clouds and lot of turbulence. Suddenly from nowhere, we saw a tinge of blue sky emerging an