Friday, March 28, 2008

Meet The" KOLKATA KNIGHT ....... (Sorry) TRAM RIDERS"


It was the most fateful day of our lives on 4th of april when names of final selected ppl where called out for WIPRO and we 4 (me ,jadu arli and suprita) made it except karan who unfortunately culdnt make it thru tech round.Since that day wipro has been so kind in showering lots of love on us by constantly nagging us wid irritating sessions,Boring project and stupid mails.Every little endeavour that wipro shows towards us to make it a part of their family just recedes us away frm this comp and we culdnt stop but curse it weneevr we are called to meet various "san" ( Sriniva"san",Gane"san" and lot many) of wipro.

This time wipro decided to suck more blood frm our veins by ordering us for medical checkup.we decided to go to kolkata as it is the nereast to our BBSR. i made more plans for myself to visit my home as it was long due since october.So packed wid my whole luggage we all gathered at the station and embarked on our abt to be a surprisingly special and memorable trip.No 1 was sure abt the plan as to what we will do there and wen we will be coming back as we didnt book our return tickets.But suprita and jaadu had everything clear in their minds and had already planned to see every nice thing of kolkata and go for a night stay too to achieve it.we reached howrah station early morning and decided to get fresh thr.i even bought 1 toothbrush on the station itself and wid suprita was on the lookout for a place whr we can clean our teeth.we found some taps right at the back of a restaurant and like true bihari style we 2 went their and brushed as fast as we can saving ourselves frm the eyes of guard of the restaurant standing thr.we had to pinpoint our at the tap coz of the funny way it was made and kind of dirty it was .

Every1 till then was ready to leave to the assigned hospital for our chkups.we got into a typical kolkata overcrowded bus to reach park street.We then get to the hospital and got started wid the process.after some initial chkup we went to submit our blood samples and i still curse that doctor who put a big injection and took out so much blood frm my body.Time for our urine samples and here deepak shaw showed his heroics.1st of all arli found him coming out of the "HER" toilet wid instant begging frm his side not to tell this fact to any1 in the coll as he did it by mistake( God knows how this self assumed shakespere in english read "HIS" instead of "HER") .Then he finally got inside "HIS" toilet and was supposed to submit his samples thr itself.but instead he took it in his hands and came out in front of all of us to ask whr he was supposed to put that bringing in all of us a pill of uncontrolable laughter.he got rebukes frm the nurse too for his situational comedy.Meanwhile jaadu and ishaan who forgot to bring their pics went to a studio to arrange for their pics and finally get on wid the process.So finally at 1 we were done wid our medical chk up and came out of that hospital.time for some food and then i had to leave for home too biding good bye to jaadu suprita arli and all.But fate had something else in store for me as constant requests frm these 3 to stay wid them and njoy in kolkata put me in a big dilemma as wat to do.shaw on the other side was in no mood to stay but i changed my mind and decided to stay thr and have fun at kolkata rather than getting bored alone at home.

So shaw and ishaan left us and rest of us decided to go to Ac market to buy some branded stuffs at unbelievingly cheap rates.Time for us to get to metro station and get a feel of that famoues kolkata metro ride.we went to Esplanade called the heart of city.To move thru those narrow pavements full of so many stalls selling everything from a pin to clothes to electronic gadgets even at such cheap rates is a feeling in itself and doing so 1 just feels a part of the happening and crowded city .we kept roaming frm 1 end to other stopping in between to buy stuffs at many stalls specially those gals who culdnt control themselves and were ready to empty their purses by showing their bargaining talent.Till now only 5 of us were left and rest of us left for coll and jadu and suprita were quite successfull in executing their plan to perfection.meanwhile jaadu got in touch wid some of the seniors of our coll who were working for CTS now at salt lake.and at the same time suprita got in touch wid didis and they both arranged for our night stay at salt lake.So over wid this big headache of finding a place for night stay we got too relaxed and every1 got into fultoo masti mood.we again went to metro to leave for shovabazar frm whr we can get an auto for salt lake.but at the station we were stopped by the guard as i had so much luggage wid me and according to them metro was meant for light luggage only.we kept on arguing but he didnt bend even a bit from his stance and didnt let us thru.But jaadu did take our revenge wen he took a video shoot of this nautanki by those guards bringing instant fear in their eyes of getting exposed wid their stupid stuff.We simply left that place and got inside the staion frm the other side and boarded the metro to reach shovabazar. All gals specially miss suprita was over excited to fulfill her long time unfulfilled dream of getting onto a tram.and luckily for them or rather unfortunate for all of us we did find a tram thr and we all get onto it without giving a 2nd thought to it even though it was destined to same location frm where we just came.after boarding it jaadu in all this excitement paid for the last staion as the total cost was a mere Rs 4.The tram journey gave us an opportunity to see eevry nook and corner of kolkata moving thru those narrow kolkata streets in its own slow ,gentle pace.but after some time we did realize that it way too slow and and will take 45 mins to halt.After taking a U-turn we again came back to shovabazar by metro.and the credit for all this crazy act goes to none other than miss suprita jha who ensured that 1 mery-go-round trip frm 1 station to other and frm metro to tram to metro again.

Frm shovabazar we took an auto and that autowala told all 5 of us to adjust in the back seat only.we somehow adjusted wid jaadu sitting on me and his legs almost out of the auto.and the most funny thing was the way that autowala was driving...truly inspired frm famous south indian actor "rajnikant" ..following his style he was taking his auto out of any kind of gap possible on the road.evrything was going fine though till that autowala crossed an aunty so closely that jaadu's legs struck her and she fall down.aunty in all her furry started hurling all possible bengali gaalis on jadu and we somehow escaped thanx to that rajnikant style driving of autowala.

Finally we reached salt lake safely and this place totally seem too different frm kolkata wid so less trafic,lots of peace,no rush of crowed and beautiful buildings towering over our head.We went to the most happening place of salt lake whr all the it employess rush to have some fresh air after some tiring day at office.jaadu who was looking for KFC whole day finally got 1 here and we all went thr to have some much needed food.suprita meanwhile met her our seniors and then we all went to meet them at CCD.they all were soo happy to see their juniors who came to meet them and some even got senti remembering their college days memories.Frm their talks it was quite clear that they still are ao much attached to coll and they havent totally settled down to the demands of IT industry.frm thr bhaiya took all of us to 1 of the best restaurants which was supposedly saurav ganguli's one and ordered so much food for us.they were treating us as their own family and being wid them was so full of fun.Time for us to leave and have some rest.suprita,arli and nivi went wid didis and me and jadu came to bhaiya's place.in their flat we met all the other bhaiyas and each one of them were so kool that every moment spent in their flat was fun.Chayan bhaiya started rememebring their college stories and those were so intresting that he went on and on till 3 and still we didnt wanted to sleep.we finally went to bed as next day was planned for Aquatica and we had to get up early.

Next day all the bhaiyas agreed to go to aquatica wid us as they never went thr in their 4 months stay at this place.all the gals joined us at technopolis and frm thr we went to Aquatica.This was 2nd visit to a water park in less than a month for me and jaadu and we didnt wanted to miss any fun.all bhaiya and didi were also seem to be njoying a lot in our company and we never felt as being seniors or juniors.We spent a lot of time in the waves of bath bed and every1 wished to touch the wall at the end of bed.Jadu helped arli reach thr as it was so difficult to get thr coz of the water level which was more than her height.after that it was time to njoy other rides and we really missed those 60 and 90 degree rides of water kingdom in mumbai.But here also Nirmal made his presence felt as we took his exapmle to inspire girls to go for all the dificult rides as then they would be able to tease him on his inability to go for those kinda rides.The most funniest 1 was the dark amazon where nothing was visible inside and jaadu held arli's hand and went alongwith her inside it.and everytime they came out of it ,their expression on the face said it all that they njoyed it to the core.Nivi who was constantly fighting wid cough and cold and a sore throat ignored everything and njoyed all the rides just on 1 mention of nirmal's xample.We all had a nice time thr and after 1 Grp pic of all of us we left aquatica and came to Bowling centre.each 1 of us being a 1st timer to bowling were so much excited abt playing this game.Each one of us had a go at this and me and jadu got a fair amount of success too.But 1 person who really did SUCK in this game was suprita jha who was not even able to make the bowl reach the strike as she hit the floor too hard wid the bowl that it stopped thr itself and all of us cant help but laugh at her soooo much. Even arli and nivi did far better than her.After completion of the game it was time to plan for our return as we culdnt decide whether to leave next day or that nite itself .this confusion was thr just coz of the fact that gals stay st didi'd place was not taken too well by her landlady and in the moring she did said many thing to lodge her disapproval.But didis being grown up under the harsh treatment of Sukanti in the 4 years of coll life were kool abt it ans they asured us that they will anyhow handle it.So finally we decided to extend our stay for the night and leave the next morning.All the gals left and me ,jadu and all those bhaiyas went to have our dinner.Their also we had some great food and some nice moments wid them.They again had some nice stories to share and nice words as to how much they njoyed wid us and thanked us for visiting them.Girls also had fun at di's flat as they did cooking for their sweet juniors.Next day we had to get up early morning at 5 as our train was at 7:30.it was so nice to see that they sacrificed their sunday sleep for us and came to drop us at the stand and all these little getures shown by them really made a special place in our hearts and we wont ever be able to forget those 2 days spent wid these bhaiya and di.My experience wid Kolkata has never been such a good 1 as all previous viits were marred wid some really some bad moments ...but this 1 trip was truly special as we 5 wiproites had time of our lives spending time together and wid those seniors.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

hey vermu,dis is so sweet of u..dis blog jus reminds me each n every moment spent in kol...thank u so very much...i had never thot dis trip 2 b intersting but it turned out 2 b....thank u....