Today,
George,
Tirthankar and
I went to a distant city!
We started off really late in the
morning at
10:15am. The trip began with a short walk a few hundred metres, and found itself inside a
tempo.
A little
auto like entity with a lot more padding, an excuse for seats. It fits approximately 10 to 12 people at a time - and its just a wee bit bigger than an auto. Travelling across the
oceans (as mentioned by captain po in
another one of our wild adventures ) we reached a place
renowed for its taxi services.
But then again, instead of taking a taxi, we rode a
bus to the Global Business Park, which I recently found out is the workplace of a well known
Tawakley!I work right infront of that place, and needed
funds to.. well..
fund myself.. :-)
After a little walk I was taken toward a
money spiller, which, as is its nature, gave me some money! and I was rich again...
In a
car we drove over to the
resting place of captain po and thankar shersingh rathod or just neil... I was in a hurry since we were already very late, and were supposed to be in college by 10am! I informed the two about my woes, but alas. george had ordered a
muffin. the reason why we were late was settled.
We set out after the very short bite towards the bus stand, and ironicaly again, ended up taking a cab to
"maadikal"Reaching there we hired an auto (the normal types) and asked him to take us to college. on the way we saw a strange thing popping out of the ground, reading the label on it we realised it was the
metro at the central secretariat! we stopped the auto immediately and neil jumped out! po followed and so did I.. it was raining, so we got drenched and then we sat in the metro all the way to delhi university.. A rick from there to college was employed, but we still got a little wet in the
rain..
We met barua on the way towards to the
college office walking with a
girl. They taking their lunch break together from CMS, where they both work. hmm..
We conspired to embarass him by totally
ignoring his existence and not acknowledging the fact that we even remotely know the guy! we tried, we failed - we just couldnt stop
laughing!!! haha... neil received the
best actors award for his
side-profile which he presented barua.
[ I cant take it anymore! I’ll add the rest of the pics and links later and post a message about it, this one has had its share of work from me... at least for now! phew! ]
The
college office people are just
amazingly nice! It was 12:40 and 1pm was the
deadline to apply for the Operational Research Course in DU. I walked in and
asked for the
certificates, I got them in
less than 5 minutes!! I got them
photocopied and attested, and by 12:50 I was
headed towards DU! I got there by 1pm exactly but the office people there had begun their
lunch break and I felt I was late. before going back I told them where I came from and
surprisingly they said, come at 2pm we'll do it...
went Holistic to have lunch and was
stunned to see such good food!! I had a dosa, idli, mango shake and fuit chaat! (live in a flat for a month, you'll like all kinds of food!) met ragupathy! sadly we could not keep him
entertained.. he left us at 4 claiming he had to see a movie... but before that we took a rick to kamla nagar and sat in
reliance for a while, and even in
barista! it was fun. ragupathy was trying to decide which is
better hourly, weekly or monthly wages..
sat and discussed the pros and cons of each and helped him come up with a
concept.. felt good to have a
brain (and just for the heck of it, here is a
female brain!) George called up a friend of his and went off for an hour or two and left neil and me at reliance.. we made the best use of our time and well..
surfed the net.I had to make another trip to DU, and ragupathy had to go home - so he
dropped me there. He told me something I had wanted, not expected;hoped, not wished; and left me stumped.
anyways.. coming back to the
trip, I went over to reliance to get neil and po. They were there, but we decided we would
play some games before we left!
Need for Speed Underground! the game that simply kicks ass! We tried playing with the
steering wheel, but george sucked at it. His best lap was almost 2 minutes for the first race! we played and played and played, and the reliance guy came over and said - "gautam, this is a trial computer, you arent really allowed to play on this machine.." thats when we ended the day and pushed back towards gurgaon - but wait! there still are many
vehicles left to go!
We took a
rickshaw to the metro station and went back to the central secreteriat, took an auto to hauz khas to pick up some stuff for my office from one of our clients, went over to andheria mod to catch a bus or a cab to gurgaon. Luckily we found one waiting right there. That dropped us to my office, where we got
drenched again! Po and neil sat at cafe coffee day and had some hot coffee and tea, whilst I walked the waters towards my office and handed over the clients stuff that I picked up.
Went over to ccd and ordered a nice
hot chocolate! and I cannot explain what a feeling it was!!
we walked a bit and got
water splashed all over us, but we were drenched already so it didnt make too much of a difference.
We found a tempo, whcih dropped us closer to our place, but just not close enough... we found another cab there which
thankfully dropped us off where we had first taken our morning tempo.
we were
back. wet and pissed off. i now understand the pleasantness of
complaining! (as long as you dont go into
specifics)
