Best trip so far

Last week I was in Delhi, my hometown. And I think, in the last one year, this was my best trip. Although at some points in time, I was sad or not-so-happy, but I think those moments were few and far between.

Some of the dates worth special mentioning are 24th June and 26th June. Obviously, the time you spend with special people has to be special. However, as they say, "Gods must be crazy". Something had to play spoilsport. It happened in a DTC (Delhi Transport Corporation) bus. I was travelling in a bus plying on route number 901 when around 7 people got into the bus from Azadpur bus stop. It seemed to me that they were from two different but related families and they seemed to be from normal middle or lower-middle class. The male who looked most responsible bought the tickets for all 7 which means he spent around 50 bucks.
Before the bus had started moving, one of the girls (looked to be around 16 years old) in the family started feeling dizzy. So the male, who was also her father, got down from the bus along with her and helped her to drink some water. But that didn't help much. She was feeling no better. By this time, some people had started getting restless because the bus hadn't moved an inch in the last 10 minutes and some of them started shouting at the driver asking him to leave the families at Azadpur only. That was when, within myself, I started cursing the dilli ki junta for being so unhelpful. Ahh, but to my pleasure some people intervened and in a raised voice, said Unke 50 rupaye barbad ho jayenge (They will lose their 50 rupees if you leave them here). So it was decided to wait for the girl a little more.
Anyway, after a few moments, the girl was told to get back into the bus and was given a seat next to the window, in the rear half of the bus, so that she feels better (everyone thought it was the effect of heat) and things seemed to have settled down. But worse was still to come. And it came just when I wanted it least.
As I was waiting near the front gate of the bus to get down at Kingsway Camp, I heard the girl cry out loudly. I turned around, uncomfortably, and saw the whole crowd again staring at the girl.
Girl: Papa, papa.... papa (Dad, dad... dad)
Dad: Haan... Kya hai? Kya baat hai, bol (Angrily he replied, Yes? What's the problem?) At that moment I thought at least he should have replied properly in a polite manner. After all, she was his own daughter who needed his love and support the most then.
Girl: Papa, mummy... Mummy kahan hain? (Anxiously speaking, she asked "Where's mom?")
Then came the voice of a female.
Female: Kya hua... Yahin to hoon. (The female was sounding worried and said, What is the problem, dear? I am here right besides you.) It turned out that this female was the girl's mother and was sitting right next to her.

That is when I had to get down from the bus so I could not hear or see anything more regarding that incident. The girl, it seems to me, was suffering from a mental disorder or had some psychological problem. But whatever it was, I was a witness to it and it wasn't a good sight. It spoiled my mood. Thought about it till I reached my home and even after that. Something about it hurt me so badly that I kept thinking about it and till late night I could not even pack my bags to come back to Kanpur. Just got out of that in time to pack my bags, reach the station in time and catch the train but as you can see, I am still not completely out of it. Still remember each word distinctly... My week long journey that began happily ended on a really sad note. Still thinking how her dad would have reacted to what she said that I heard last.

I don't know whether I should be saying this. Gods may or may not be crazy, but they are really cruel at times.

By the way, the trip was the reason why I could not blog for so many days. No broadband internet connection at home and to add to my woes, my hard disk crashed :-(

How right I was...

I can't stop laughing... I just can't.
What I predicted about Parineeta was so true that even I am amazed. May be I should move away from the technical world (which I find soooo boring) to the world of predictions! If current trends continue, I could be more famous than Nostradamus. The movie turned out to be an absolute disaster and my friends who went to watch the movie were on the verge of pulling their hair out of their own heads. And when I came to know about all this, I rushed to each one's room and talked about the movie to make sure that they did not feel any better :-P

But the most interesting part about my previous blog was the first comment about it. Posted anonymously, it had some nice advice(s) for me. I am not very sure, but I think I know who she is. And I also know that she would read this post of mine very soon, so just wanted to say "Thanks!" to her. So, now I have another non-academic task to keep me busy today... to find out who posted that comment.

How busy I am...

Today I was busy the whole day... sitting in the laboratory and concentrating hard.
No don't worry, I haven't changed. Wasn't studying.
I was busy adding some features to my homepage and that kept me busy the whole day. In a way, I wasted the whole day but so what... nothing new ;-)
Anyway, some of my friends went to see Parineeta (don't go by what IMDb says 'coz it can be misleading sometimes) today but I did not go along with them because I didn't want to waste money (time, as I said, I always waste so that is not an issue). I expect them to come back either sad because the movie wasn't as good as they expected (I told them) or sad because its a sad & emotional movie! So either way, they are going to be sad! :-)
A good decision, isn't it?
They don't call me intelligent for no reason!

Welcome to Blogger!

Hi friends,

You might know I was blogging on MSN Spaces till now, but apparently anonymous comments are not supported there so I decided to move over to blogger. Moreover, blogger has a much better interface and now I don't have to do so much tantas for blogging.
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