'Mng 5:40 board the train!' updated my Facebook status as soon as I made myself accustomed to that uncomfortable chair-car seat of JanShatabdi Express at Jabalpur junction and started for our next destination, Bhopal. You can forget to call your parents and tell that you have reached safely. BUT!! you can never forget to update your Facebook status. All thanks to Mr Mark Elliot Zuckerberg !! I wonder 'whats on his mind?' lol :D
Well !! Me and Sam, already drowsy with early morning train (and all-night-long PS2 mania) were helped a great deal by a group of 3 B.E. students sitting right beside us. Anyone can easily recognise that, three are the engineering gems, just by looking at them even from a train-length distance. First Einstein was a short guy with thick glasses on, suggesting that he has already read all the engg tombs in his college library and the other two with that 'If-not-we-who-will-save-the-planet-earth' looks, announced their grand presence in the train. These upcoming engineering miracles were in full swing with all possible types of circuit building(or breaking) tech talks and I must say their level of excitement and intensity of discussion was directly proportional to the speed of the train. No wonder we had a deep sound sleep for the most part of this 'extreme engineering' coated drive.
A familiar voice of a lady announcing the trains arrivals and departures along with those terrifying caution announcements disturbed my deepest sleep as we reached Itarsi junction at around 10:20 am. And once again my belief got strengthened that God is there when these Future Engineering Masteros got down at Itarsi to catch their connecting train for Chandigarh. At last !! some sanity prevailed and our train slowly started picking up the pace, whistling in harmony with the 'Dead Woman Talking' terrorizing announcments.
Few more Facebook status messages updates at Bhopal as our next train for Belgaum was at 7 pm and we had nothing much to do the whole day. Moment, we stepped into Platform#1 at 6:45 pm, Train Number 2630 Yashwantpur Express arrived. India is a magical country and sometimes trains appear 'On or Before Time'. We reached our allotted berths and soon settled into sleep. Best part about a train jounrey is that, you get ample time to catch up with your sleep.
Next day morning our train was scheduled to reach Pune at 11:15. But!!! As usual destiny had something else stored for us. The coach-attender came in with this tehelka news. " Train Pune nahi jaayegi, jo log Pune ja rahe hai wo next station par utar jaaye", he announced it anxiously, just the way I use to tell my Ma about my exam's grades. Situation was quite dramatic and funny at least for the passengers not going to Pune. Sam, me and others who were going to Belgaum or Hubli were pretty much relaxed, enjoying the reactions of Pune passengers. They were looking very much clueless and started praising the Indian Railways with all kinds of abusive terms. They got down at the next station looking for the alternatives. Well, our fun-session didnt last for long and as me and sam were discussing the Amir Khan's Titan watch ad in which he says ".. kabhi kisi anjaan shehar ka ticket kata kar dekha hai ??" our tall dark and not so handsome coach-attender came back with another piece of information that our train is not going to Belgaum either. And we landed up in 'Anjaan shehar' Sholapur station !!
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