Industrial Visit: DAY 1

Date: 01/11/2006
Time: 6:30AM
Place: CST station

It was still dark. But our hearts were filled with light of joy and we were going to be in the same state for the next four days. We always look for something new in our life; and it was the right time to bring some change in our lives…rather the time was going to change us. The reason was we were leaving Mumbai for an industrial visit a.k.a. trip to Bangalore!
… An unknown external agent entered our world silently… No one really realized that except one! Well…. That was of course me!
He was our guide for the visit. He was neither Tall nor smart. But still there was something about him which enforced me to constantly look at him… Don’t know what the hell was that but it was again and again diverting my attention towards him.

Date: 01/11/2006
Time: 10AM

Nothing much was happening….We all were grubbing food continuously and were laughing for no reason. Our vice principal was busy in gobbling all the food stuff brought by the train hawkers. He first had tea then sandwiches which according to us were enough for next 2 hours. But in the next two hours he had tomato soup, vada pav and 4-5 packets of chikki… kudos to him!! What an appetite man!! Anyways…that’s a different story… by that time I observed that the external agent was not much interested in food and was sitting with his back pack tightly held…

Date: 01/11/2006
Time: 3PM

The lunch was pathetic!! It was the worst food I have ever had! I guess none of us finished that lunch (of course except vice princy). Well… after that miserable lunch I decided to take a nap.
I would have hardly slept for an hour when I heard Pushkar’s voice. He was shouting like “ee chaai chaai!! vada vada vada!! Chai capee..Garam chai…”… uhh!! I’ll kill you!! Finally I had to get up!
We were moving ahead with the time… Air was hot and the train was filled with some unauthorized passengers. We were enjoying passing comments at them. WE ARE THE DEVILS. ..HAHAHA! But it didn’t last for long. We were highly bored and decided to do something interesting.

Date: 01/11/2006
Time: 9PM

It was a wise decision to play dumbcheratz. I suddenly realized that we were too good at it! After some time Piyush and Vicky also joined us. We were now playing in bulk. It was fun!
It was almost 9 and was the time for dinner. This time we did the right thing. We had our own stuff for dinner. All others again had same tasteless food. Whatever, that was the end of the food session. Not really! I heard that vice princy is still hungry!
After the dinner all the windows were shut to stop the chill from entering our moving world…the cold breeze brought a soothing sensation with it. We couldn’t stop ourselves from opening the window. Krishna was flowing from all the sides. We could feel the flow of water…could hear the whisper of breeze…it was inviting us to join their night party. It felt like we got caught by life. But just like that water, we had to move ahead… that’s what life says. We said goodbye to that enchanting atmosphere with thirsty eyes and satiated hearts. We all were overwhelmed with some strange feeling which I can’t describe in words. I never ever felt so calm and so happy… life is so beautiful…

Date: 01/11/2006
Time: 11PM

Suddenly all of my friends started giggling. They came to know that I was constantly looking at that external agent. I accepted that honestly and explained them the reason (Which I myself came to know few minutes back! Eureka!! I have seen the most beautiful eyes on this earth!).But none of them felt so…anyway… they got a new to topic to talk upon! And that was my first crush! (?) We renamed that external agent as Buzzy.He was sitting next to our compartment (of 2nd class). We both were able to hear each others’ talk. But he was not talking much… he was just holding his bag as tightly as he could.Well… I would have continued looking at him like that only but all insisted me to tell some horror story…
I was going smoothly….I reached at the climax when I suddenly saw something moving on the floor in the dark. I screamed out in a dreadful voice and just jumped into my friend’s lap. All girls screamed in resonance. After few seconds they came to know that I had seen a rat. It was more terrifying than the horror stories. All were searching the rat when my eyes were again set on Buzzy. God knows what did I see in his eyes but they were like magnet which pulled my attention again and again towards him. They were pure brown and deep…I would have lost in them when I heard someone calling me loudly…all were giggling again and this time Buzzy saw me…! I couldn’t stop blushing!! But he was dumb enough to not to get what exactly happened.

Date: 01/11/2006
Time: 02AM

Finally I decided to sleep. We were somewhere in Karnataka and it had started raining. It was completely dark outside. All of my friends were busy in getting terrified with some nonsense horror stories (all rights reserved to Piyush Jha) and I was there… sitting alone… watching the dark, cocooned in my shawl. Mean while I found three things: few boys from our class were continuously patrolling and Buzzy was sleeping on the floor and I had lost my berth so I had to find another one which I got without any trouble. I like my classmates…they are really sweet…they wouldn’t mind if I sleep here…