TOUR De Simla

DAY -1

21st March 2013, 4:30 pm

The TRAIN, KALKA Mail was scheduled for arrival at ALIGARH Jn at 5:30 pm. But, since most of us were unable to control the emotional turmoil rising within, so we arrived at the station around 4:45 pm. There were some of us, smart enough to continuously check the status of train and arrived just at the right moment avoiding the unwanted loitering around the platform because the train arrived at around 7:15 pm. CAN u believe that???

At the station itself, i understood one of the major bullet points of LIFE: "With friends around you, even the dreadful and deadliest path would seem no less than a childish prank". So, the seemingly wide gap of 2-3 hours seemed as if a few minutes. Some of the parents inquired the BOYS regarding the journey to make sure that their child was going on a planned tour rather than some beautiful and distant MORNING DREAM. Sadly, they too had to bear the torture of late arrival of train, sitting quietly and LONELY on the platform. 

When we all kept our luggage together..... OMG!!!! It appeared as if an entire locality was going abroad. 

Just a Pinch OF LUGGAGE!!!

For a fraction of seconds, sweat beads did make their appearance on my forehead.... How would we board the train with so much of luggage, when we were not sure about getting some seats for placing our tashreefs...!!! Thanks to DAN BROWN and DIGAR for seriously contributing to the luggage. Seriously, their luggage combined would have weighed more than the combined weight of THE Strong MEGHNA, the Powerful KEERTI and Ultimate SUPERHERO--> i.e. ME or Equal to half the LAALA ji / .25 G2 /.40 TIDU. One more striking feature about the luggage: RED was the sole dominating color and VIP the dominating company, only name you could bank upon. One more add-on: some of these suitcases even contained the price tags, they hadn't been removed by the owner: courtesy DIGAR. (Seedhe shop se uthaa ke laaye theey….)

Well, the TRAIN arrived. We entered into different compartments, divided in small groups, trying to captivate whatever little we could get - :)Now, After we were sure that our a**es were fine enough and would not have to shift them from one point to other, that was the point when our real souls poured out.... HAHAHA... !!!

Hum Bhi hain JOSH Mein...

Aaj Patte ho hee Jayen.

Laughter combined with the CARDS: supported by the SNACK break at frequent intervals, stuffed into our bags by our MOMs: earphones found their appropriate place... as if we were the only individuals in the train. We were surprised by the occasional visit of TT, sorry Shikhar, who chatted with us, ate some biscuits and .. Gone !!

Finally, we reached DELHI..

Photographer ki Toh....

HUM Saath -Saath Hain

The desire of resting at DELHI platform could not be realized as we had to find our true, allocated seats and manipulate them so that we could all be together. So, we went to the allocated coaches, paper-pen were out, manipulation started, convincing the co-passengers to acquire our place. Seriously guys, majority of them were helping. FINALLY.... :P , we were able to group seats for 13 of us, which was more than enough to adjust 15-16. Then, the more real SOULS just flooded out. Literally, we were shouting the hell out of our throats and that too such melodious voice!!. Even the frequent interruptions by our neighbor aunty, reminding to switch off the lights and lower our voice could not deter us from playing the cards and that too in the club style. It seemed as if SLEEP didn't exist in our lives, with only 4-5 of us catching a NAP of at-most 1 hour, yes a NAP only, except CHUSKI (about 5-6 hrs.)The rest of us were awake throughout the night, playing continually as if RED-BULL had been supplied into our veins 

instead of GLUCOSE in some hospital. Oh MAN !! How shitty were those light deprived bathrooms in the train!!!! Where on one hand, we were struggling to change our pyjamas in them, there were some who couldn't resist emptying their bowels... Well, we have no control over that??? Have you???? :P

The super LOL moment was: At 4:30 in the MORNING, DIGAR tore open his suitcase as if his OXYGEN MASK was left inside. But to our shock and surprise, he took out his MAKE-UP Box!!! I bet, even you Girls would have fainted on seeing his KIT :) and he just started: applying one thing after other, contained in those transparent white bottles , wiping his face with cotton, doing this, doing that .... OMG !! What the hell .... But, seriously we all didn't take out anything from our bags, be it moisturizer, hair-oil, Face-wash etc. everything was with shikhar. ( Inke alawaa pta nahin kya kya thaa saale ke pass, hume toh itna hi pta hai...).

In the time he completed his MAKE-UP, we reached KALKA...

This was our obvious next ride...

22nd MARCH, 2013. 5:30 am

To Be Continued..... :)

We- are together..!!