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Our clients have performed activities spanning 5 days , in a land where people speak a foreign language. Their adventures began on a strangely normal day, just like today....
Phani: yo man. Just checked out the IIT site. There's Shaastra from 1st Oct to 4th Oct.
someone: Cool man, will we go there ?
Phani: Why not, just let me check out ....
And these were the statements that created history, as these 5 enterprising young men went to
Original Plan : Phani,Deepak, Ganesh,Arun.Karthik + Kashyap ( he's my IMS friend)
Actual thing : Phani,Deepak, Ganesh,Arun.Karthik
Original Accomodation : 100 /- per person for 5 days @ IIT hostel
Actual thing: Beautiful moon lit sky and night stars + 5 ppl cramped in my IIT M friend Manish's room .(Access from the backgate , with bonus mosquitoes and a beautiful display of firecrackers )
Journey : By Charminar express - 2760 on 1st Oct, 2009.
Enroute , we got into a bus, got down the running bus with our luggage
[arun's trolley, my suntech day bag, Ganesh + Racha + Deepak s Liviyas'. ]
Got into the train at 7.oo pm. Not particularly cold , but it was fresh. Got in. The compartment had 2 other occupants,one north indian and one ( probably) tamil guy.
Arun started scaring them off, with his adventure. He started with the car-scene at Sri Indu and went into Medival history as far as Bharat's village adventure . Good thing they were not complaining !
After a few photos of us here and there , and we were ready to enjoy the night ride. We started scrambling for window seats n stuff, and someone took out edibles [snacks, mind you] .
We were still eating when Warangal arrived, and Racha Racha's ( scientific name for IT karthik)
parents came. Mom bought some home made cakes [ awesome .....] , few water bottles, and the train left shortly thereafter.
From then on, there was no looking back. We were speeding our way to the AP-TN border , crossing the huge expanses of blackness. It was pitch black, and we didnt have stuff to talk or discuss on.
So what did we do ? ha ha. Look ,let me give a hint. I m very new to card games, courtesy the Chennai trip ! Thats what we did ! Pulled out a blanket, spread it on the upper berth, and started playing . I learnt the game slowly, unable to win a single game that night ! I had several close calls though.
As the night crept over, the familiar feeling of sleep crept over us, and one by one, the wickets started falling [ actualy, arun was the first to fall , and myself the next ]. I found out later that the rest of them were near the door, enjoying the night ! [ really ? i thought something else ;) ]
That ended our Day 0 of the chennai trip !!!! No way. That night, at almost 12.00 , we reached Vijayawada. The train halted there for a considerable amount of time, and we got doen to take some pics ... after that, we really slept.
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