Amartya's House in USA

A horrible Incident in the plane

The plane was moving over the Pacific Ocean from Hong Kong to Los Angeles while a fine lunch was served to us. I was playing Chess in the net and hearing some music with an earphone.
  We were feeling hungry and began to take our lunch as soon as it was served to us. Several times I asked my juniors always to do one at a time. It was finely cooked.
In the night they supplied us with a good dinner. But a mistake was committed by me of doing three at a time in the plane. 1. Taking dinner, 2.playing chess, and 3.hearing music with earphone.  I was taking rice with some peas curry. Unmindful I was and done two wrong moves in the chess when my opponent (net supplied) took away my queen and a knight against a a pawn and a horse. My wife said, "this time too you are taking rice. You like bread, that is also nice." Instead of taking rice I shifted my choice to bread. It was difficult to make bread pieces in that small tray. I put some vegetables, peas curry, on the bread and took it. I did two wrong moves in the chess being unmindful. While going to take another bite, I felt severe suffocation. At first I thought there was less ventilation. I asked for ventilation to an air host. They couldn't follow me. My suffocation was gradually increasing. I put off my garments and asking for help. An air host took me to the rear side of the plane and tried to help me with some hand fan. My wife being totally nervous was asking for a doctor and a person who could understand Bengali. Perhaps there was no Bengali in the plane. Some one asked my wife would you be able to say the details of the case of your patient. After many attempts of making my breathing normal, a big size pea obstructing my breathing came out and I felt relieved. The danger was over, I came to my seat, didn't take my dinner and began to play chess which I won.
            

A view from above

3rd Visit to USA; Plane Journey - 17.1.14 (Cathay Pacific)

We reached the Air Port International before two hours of our reporting time, thinking that in office hours there might be some jam in the street. As such we had to wait for the office of the air lines, Cathay Pacific, to open. The office opened just in time and we got two wheel chairs for assistance. They took us to all the check-in-posts safely and to the aircraft. It was at the middle of night. The plane started just at 12-10 am. on 17.1.14.
The air lines offered us a light break fast and took us to Hong Kong Air Port at 6-30 am. Hong Kong Air Port which is situated. It was a stoppage of about 7 hrs. We expected that the air lines would offer lunch or high tea as in Lufthansa but they didn't/. We could have taken some break fast . We had cash dollar and also a Cr. Card in the name of nilima samadder, sent by my son but nilima was not fit to move a distance from the place we were posted by the ladies carrying our wheel chairs. After some time nilima could take the trouble of going to a near by coffee stall and we took coffee and some snacks. At about 12-30 two persons and took us to the flight from hong kong to loss angeles. There we got two seats of window corner. It was nice to look outside in broad day light.
Once we had a similar short journey in window corner while going to Imphal from Silchar in 1972 to enjoy marriage ceremony of Jhunu ( Dr.Sanjib Chakrabarty of Kalyani University) in Gauhati and Kathaal, Silchar.