Let's start with a little background info.... My dad's in the Indian Army... He is posted to Udhampur, which is close to Jammu. I have been to jammu once, when i was heading to Awantipore, which is closer to Srinagar... Jammu is well the 2nd last railway station on that line and Udhampur is the last. The track ends at Udhampur. Most ppl get off the train at jammu coz its more connected than udhampur.
So inspite of my parents moving to udhampur in 2006 Nov i failed to visit my house there since then. My parents keep "surprising" me with visits at delhi. Mostly on weekends..! Anyhoo, i finally decided to bite the bullet and head home for holi weekend. I knew i would survive mainly coz my brother Kris was there, not to mention my cousin sisters and aunt from bangalore. To top things off Mekhala also decided to tag along. So i knew i could keep the heat off me for most of the weekend...
The trip started quite ominously, My phone decided to screw with me... It conked off at the station. To add to the screwups, the dude who booked the tickets, smartie pants, put mekhala down as male.... oh and he booked us till jammu instead of udhampur. But i said, screw it, lets do it (sorry richard) and we decided to speak to the tt when the time came. The train was quite crowded, not to mentioned overbooked. TT in his hurry dint notice the 2 males listed on the ticket and signed off on it. He told me to meet him before jammu to extend the ticket and i was all happy that we were not gonna get screwed over.
Morning came and i was informed by the other passengers that the TT had come and gone twice.. :) Sleepy sleeperson that i am, i dint know!! I went and found him. He decided to make me his BEST FRIEND!! He kept talking and talking and talking and ... u get the picture. His motive was to get his son a job in gurgaon, i was like dude i cannot do anything for u. Finally i convinced him and he started saying stuff abt the fares.... kept saying itna lagega blah blah!! i was like dude make up ur goddamn mind... finally he said we can settle at 200 and i was like phew finally.... but he asked to see the ticket... OH i missed out on the main point here.... First thing he asked me... Is she your wife?? (i wanted to laugh so loud, dunno how i controlled myself) anyhoo.. so he finally started making the ticket and lo and behold he noticed we are 2 males.. I dint know what to say, i told him the truth that even i realised it very late... so please to help us out... then he said that i am doing u a big favor and the usual crap that comes along with that.... Finally he made the ticket and i literally ran back to my compartment...
Train was damn late and by the time we got there it was way past lunchtime. Adding to the misery.. flat tyre on the way and overheated tyre rim... when i say overheated... i mean smoking hot... got home excited to see everybody but guess what my dad wants to go for golf "RIGHT NOW". Oh well, Tiger quickly bathed and went to whoop some a$$... Needless to say overconfidence was not reqd and i got my a$$ whooped by both dad and bro... Anyhoo.. got back chilled out and pigged on some awesome chinese food. Then came the best part of the evening.. We all sat and sang songs and danced and stuff. It was awesome... my cousins well they can both dance and sing... both of them got shakira's moves down... finally ended the day with scrabble... Crashed finally very peacefully in the wee hours of the morning...
So inspite of my parents moving to udhampur in 2006 Nov i failed to visit my house there since then. My parents keep "surprising" me with visits at delhi. Mostly on weekends..! Anyhoo, i finally decided to bite the bullet and head home for holi weekend. I knew i would survive mainly coz my brother Kris was there, not to mention my cousin sisters and aunt from bangalore. To top things off Mekhala also decided to tag along. So i knew i could keep the heat off me for most of the weekend...
The trip started quite ominously, My phone decided to screw with me... It conked off at the station. To add to the screwups, the dude who booked the tickets, smartie pants, put mekhala down as male.... oh and he booked us till jammu instead of udhampur. But i said, screw it, lets do it (sorry richard) and we decided to speak to the tt when the time came. The train was quite crowded, not to mentioned overbooked. TT in his hurry dint notice the 2 males listed on the ticket and signed off on it. He told me to meet him before jammu to extend the ticket and i was all happy that we were not gonna get screwed over.
Morning came and i was informed by the other passengers that the TT had come and gone twice.. :) Sleepy sleeperson that i am, i dint know!! I went and found him. He decided to make me his BEST FRIEND!! He kept talking and talking and talking and ... u get the picture. His motive was to get his son a job in gurgaon, i was like dude i cannot do anything for u. Finally i convinced him and he started saying stuff abt the fares.... kept saying itna lagega blah blah!! i was like dude make up ur goddamn mind... finally he said we can settle at 200 and i was like phew finally.... but he asked to see the ticket... OH i missed out on the main point here.... First thing he asked me... Is she your wife?? (i wanted to laugh so loud, dunno how i controlled myself) anyhoo.. so he finally started making the ticket and lo and behold he noticed we are 2 males.. I dint know what to say, i told him the truth that even i realised it very late... so please to help us out... then he said that i am doing u a big favor and the usual crap that comes along with that.... Finally he made the ticket and i literally ran back to my compartment...
Train was damn late and by the time we got there it was way past lunchtime. Adding to the misery.. flat tyre on the way and overheated tyre rim... when i say overheated... i mean smoking hot... got home excited to see everybody but guess what my dad wants to go for golf "RIGHT NOW". Oh well, Tiger quickly bathed and went to whoop some a$$... Needless to say overconfidence was not reqd and i got my a$$ whooped by both dad and bro... Anyhoo.. got back chilled out and pigged on some awesome chinese food. Then came the best part of the evening.. We all sat and sang songs and danced and stuff. It was awesome... my cousins well they can both dance and sing... both of them got shakira's moves down... finally ended the day with scrabble... Crashed finally very peacefully in the wee hours of the morning...
HOLI HAI!!! Awoke to the annoying cries of get ready to play holi and all.. and i was like.. Get ready??? Played a lil holi.. had a decent enough time.. pigged out on trout.. mmmmmm.... that evening my cousins and aunt left for delhi and then to blore... so that nite we tried to watch a movie.. parents passed out so movie cut short... Brother in the mean time gets hooked on to the Aatif song from Race.... He ain't no Bono so it was painful.. As mekhala tried to sleep she was awakened by the screeching cat that is krishna... and we both did a "halla bol" on his a$$ and yanked away my ipod to lessen the pain...
Woke up next morning all gung ho for golf... shoulder was killing me but i decided to wing it... Also found my long lost ferrari cap... the one which schumi wore during the press conference after the race he had just won... Played well this time... was on the verge of whooping Krishna's a$$ unfortunately.. a few mishits here and there ruined my chances... halved the game (that's draw for the uninitiated) yea krishna, if u reading this.. we halved u dint win!!
We left that evening and by god was the train crowded... I mean there were ppl sleeping/standing/sitting everywhere... dint sleep much.. but was glad to get home in the morning... not that i missed delhi.. but whatever... good to be back...
I can understand if u skipped thru the whole thing and are reading this bit.... it's way too long... But i was in a mood (not to work) so ... deal with it.. :D
Snaps of the trip at picasaweb.google.com/neomenon
Feel free to laugh at my snap!!
W00T!!
W00T!!
