Ireland`s visa so easy to get! (Part-V)

Uday Hakim, back from Dublin (Ireland): I came out of the embassy building after submitting necessary papers. The gateman asked if anything happened well. I told him that the embassy officials requested me to come here around 4pm today. “Isn’t it too early to get the Ireland visa? Well, okay. Come at the given time,” the gateman exclaimed with smile.

The squirrels were standing with the walls of the park while I was coming down from the embassy. I saw another pair of squirrels that day. The squirrels guessed my existence there and looked at me with roguery gestures. I could not even imagine whether there would be a visa or not as I was drowning in squirrels’ volatilities.

When I was a kid, I saw my father used to check (using his nose) whether his traveling is good or bad before going anywhere. I had also seen that, for most of the time, it fits although I couldn’t believe in this superstitious activity. It’s superstition but not maltreatment to check before going to travel anywhere! It’s not harmful. So, you can also test for yourself while you are going out of home.

The process is simple. Push fingers inside your nose and see which empty side of the nose is clear for air in and out. Right side or left, which one is clearer? Don't understand? The nose has two sides to inhale and pass up to breathe. You have to push your finger inside the empty spaces of your nose. Ensure which sides of the empty spaces inhale or out the air more easily with no bar. If the right path is clearer than the left, your journey will be safe and good according to the belief.

But the reality is within half an hour or within a minute; it can be changed. It can be changed by sleeping or even if you get cold.

Entertaining and examining the journey I aimed to start, I have found that the two sides of the nose are almost equal by air flow. That means it may or may not be a visa for me. It’s fifty-fifty chance to get the Ireland visa. What is to be done in this situation? I have sat in the park for five minutes and later I thought of returning to the hotel for two hours.

I went to the hotel room and freshened myself up. Then I got busy with my mobile phone and scrolling up and down the Facebook page. I kept my eyes in the news portals to see news from Bangladesh. A friend from Kolkata called me whether I would go there.

Meanwhile, filmmaker Mohammadullah Nantu also went to Kolkata from Bangladesh, accompanied by model Rana. Nachiketa sang the ‘Facebook’ song I wrote. The shooting of the song was taking place at the bank of the Ganga River near Kolkata. Nachiketa himself was a model in the song. I said, if I don’t have the Ireland visa, I would join them in Kolkata.

I called Mohammadullah Nantu and told him I could get a visa. I felt he was getting upset after hearing from me. He told me, “It would have been better if there was no visa for you!”

I went out of the hotel. It was around 3:30pm. I reached the Ireland embassy within 20 minutes. The gateman smiled after seeing me there and said that it was ten minutes to go.

I sat on a bench of the same park where squirrels made me mocked in my helplessness because I was not getting Ireland visa. Now I found four squirrels. They were doing fun with music in the bodies around the park. They were very busy with them. There was no time for them to look at Uday that time.

Another part of Cliffs of Moher
The gateman again called inside and sometimes later he let me get in. I was waiting in the room where I sat in the morning. I drank water again as I was in the morning here.

Some beautiful pictures of Ireland were hanged on the wall of the embassy room. I was looking at them and became fascinated. One of these was a place called ‘Cliffs of Moher’. There were some landscapes as well in the room. The country is a beautiful one!

“Who is here?” a gentleman inside the office room sounded nearly six munities later. Going ahead, I said, “Yes, it’s Uday.” The 20 to 25-year-old youth handed over my passport submitted early in the morning and asked to sign on a paper. I took my passport and other documents.

Understanding nothing I got my passport. I'll open it later to see if they give me the visa. Maybe I can’t go to Kolkata to meet Nachiketa!

(To be continued . . .)

(Uday Hakim is the advisory editor of risingbd.com and also an executive director of Walton Group)

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