Tuesday, July 26, 2005

Maharaja waiting...

Maharaja of Air India is waiting for me to arrive and take me off to alien lands.The feeling of leaving all my near and dear ones and a living a dream.. i never thot wud come true.. is sinking in me now...
"I do not know beneath what sky nor on what seas shall be my fate;
I only know it shall be high,
I only know it shall be great."
Hopefully!!
I wud b making a long jouney after a gap of 7 yrs. wud be travelling 9780 miles in 22 hours.Reminds me of my second last journey to AP .. assam was cut off from teh rest of india ... and yeah coincidently it was teh same day in '97 i guess... no it was end of july... yeah so assam was cut off from rest of india due to heavy floods.. a very common thing for assame folks every year ... i n mom along with some valuables set out to reach hyderabad for the house-warming ceremony of our house... we reached guwahati frm jorhat.. found that trains wud move but frm bongaigaon.. n there is a free bus service to take passengers to bongaigaon.. we left our plans to take teh plane to calcutta (time bad ayte manam emi cheyalemu).. we got into teh bus.. a bus with a capacity of 30 ppl was packed with abt 100 ppl...with luggage..(read ppl as 80% army jawans.. n abt army jawans u hav to see to know how it is..)mom got panicky.. but we cudn't get out of bus so we stayed and let god decide our fate... in that rickety bus.. on that kucha road.. those 4 odd hours were in simple words hell....... to add to the spice.. one sweet elephant of teh village we were going thru decides to block our way.. and refuses to make way unless fed with some 2-3 gellas of bananas..... finally on reaching bongaigaon..(the railway station of which is smaller than bapatla's.. with just 2 platforms) there were hundreds of people trying to get into teh bus even before atleast half of us inside teh bus cud get out... teh driver got irrtated and kept moving teh bus back and forth to control teh tarffic... in this confusion mom got thrown out of teh bus .. i was stuck inside ... after some more hulla gulla i got thrown out of teh bus with my rucksack and a suitcase and a bag whose where about were known neither to me nor mom.. I was then one-third of what i am now .. we two finally after some fighting with teh traffic got together and frm god knows where some1 threw our bag at us.. we spotted an old kuli.. he said he wud lift our stuff.. but we had to see who wud lift him in case :P .. so at the bongaigaon station ... first time in our lives we saw a railway station with only 2 women on teh platforms -me and mom ... the train arrived.. got filled up.. we were guided by an angel in form of an air force officer .. whom we dared to believe on teh ground that he knew my mama (whoz also in air force).. and we three went to occupy a desserted bogie which was supposed to be attached to teh train that wud take us to vijaywada.. i donno how many times mom prayed that day but it really worked and teh bogie was by god's grace added to teh train.. thn on journey was smooth.. but here... some1 else is also involved.. my dad... cut 2.. location hyd... those were teh days without any cell phones or easy acess to telephone... my dad found from our neighbours in assam taht we had made arrangements to take plane to calcutta... we went missing for 2 days! there were announcements for mrs nalini and miss vichika on guwahati railway station,guwahati airport, calcutta railway station, calcutta airport, vijaywada station... dad was worried to core... when we reached vijaywada after our ordeal.. we called him and he was relived... phew! some exp..
:P .. i get carried away when i think about my days @ assam.. bas this episode ends here.. phir milenge agli blog main :D

Wednesday, July 20, 2005

School chale hum...

savere savere...yaaron se milke ban than ke nikle hum..
badal sa garje hum, sawan sa barse hum..
suraj sa chamke hum... school chale hum..school chale hum..
oho oho ohhohoho..hooo......
so, am going bac to school.... used hate it whn amma called my college school... n now am going to a grad school!!
my 22 yrs long holiday is coming to an end in another 22 days....hope everything works out well....will definetely miss my lazy days :D ..