Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Sleepless...In Night Journey...

(9th Nov, 2008)


On my way back to Hyderabad from Pune during Last weekend by train, there were series of incidents which made this journey memorable in many ways. I was quite happy after spending around 10 hrs with my old friend @ Pune, during which we had lunch @ our favorite place, cracked some jokes on ongoing issues & politicians (you guys must be able to guess whom we could have targeted), visited couple of favorite places & recalled our cherished memories, which has been followed by kayos @ Pune railway station due to electricity failure. Irrespective of 7 hours of power cut in 2 slats, it was great time that we spent together & we felt like we were flying high in the sky, but half an hr of waiting @ Pune railway station in kayos was sufficient enough to bring our feet’s down on this earth. Finally train arrived & crowd got confused & busy in arguing / fighting with each other to find their proper birth, as wrong charts were stuck on each coach. Finally train started & all set for journey.

A young Maharashtrain couple with twins were struggling to manage everything in small allotted place, welcomed me with smile as neighbor in journey. A young lady (might be a soft engineer) was busy in listening to music peacefully in front me & next to her, found 2 gentleman, looks like trapped in this journey & making creep on India & Indian systems. Their discussion was interesting but I preferred to be a audience. Just in half an hour i realized how difficult to manage 2 kids (especially twins). After a while, i left my seat & climbed to my birth, just to give comfort to young couple to manage their twins. As journey was progressing, things became smoother, discussion on India & Indian systems between 2 people has turned into debate between several people with series of arguments, & surprisingly twins were listening it quietly, which gave me a sudden thought that how curious today's children’s are about their country & future !! Probably, nobody realize how 2 hrs had passed & train stopped @ Daund station. Everyone started rushing here & there to make arrangement for meal.

Post meal session was peaceful, except kids in coach who were making noise. I observed many people busy on cell, especially youngsters were busy with their GF/BF's (it's my guess only), me too was struggling to get connected to some of my GF, but unfortunately couldn't, May be my Vodafone connection was checking my patience. Finally, I gave up & started listening to music on my iPod & in a while, TC disturbed me with his routine duty with smile. After couple of minutes, observed young lady on my front birth, holding her cell tightly, speaking loudly & seems bit disappointed, was trying to convenience someone on other side & connection dropped. I can easily realize with what kind of thoughts & feelings she is passing thro'. Again i laid myself on berth & started enjoying music playing in my iPod & suddenly one pantry boy by mistake bang with set of sandwich dishes on my legs & he regret for the same. It played a role of catalyst & again those 2 gentlemen started creeping on Indian systems. I was quite annoyed with their discussion but couldn't help myself either. Discussion continued till midnight & finally they slept, might be they were habitual to stay awake till midnight. I was enjoying peacefully my favorite songs & also started feeling sleepy, & suddenly my GF called me, I wonder how come Vodafone is so loyal to her though she hates it much, there could be some marketing strategy behind it to convenience / attract customers. With pleasant surprise, I received her call & spoke to her for almost an hour or more. It was very pleasant conversation among us & finally disconnected call after wishing each other good night. Again I started listening to music but probably that converses ion has played a role of Tea @ midnight & I spent almost 1 more hour sleepless, music was playing but lots of thoughts were going on through my mind.... Suddenly an express train passed by, whistling loudly & I found myself out of tornado of thoughts, was bit hanged & trying to become relaxed & looked at my watch wrist watch &.........

@ 3:00 AM, I found myself awake & sleepless in the Night Journey....