The Trip to Hyderabad.... Prologue..

Before I begin.. Gamers.. this has nothing to do with 'GranTurismo5 - Prologue.'
Stepping into my new role at work.. I was asked to go to Hyd.. the place I hate..for a month..its a good place to stay in a hotel or company guest house...go out with frnds and n stuff...
but living here for 6 months in 2008 while trainig the NOC team was indeed a nightmare..neways.. so I decided to go there with a positive frame of mind...excited about my new roleand training.......... and came to know that two folks from my former team are also joining me...
one of them a new joinee who is getting married in a few days... poor guy..
and other..... well dont wanna say much apart frm the fact.. he is the ultimate deifinitionof Fat Lazy ASS.
So then came the day.. Konark express... yes our company has this train guidelinegoing on where we are not allowed to travel thru flights .. cost cutting
so for a 7 PM train... the sluggish guy said one of my frnds Nilesh.. whom I mentionedin a earlier blog post is gonna drive us frm my home.... He soon made me realize not to depend on a laggard like him ... who has not done one single thing in his life on time....by getting late while me n Nilesh waited at my place.....
U know in Movies.. during a very exciting part.. u get unnecessary scenes whr emotions andsome stupid stuff is done to strech the movie nd u r like..... plss cut the crap and get a move on .. thts what this guy is like...he can really test ur patience by being extremely slow and stupid..
so we hurried to Pune station..ran to platform num 3... and realized the train was a hour late
You knw we say...hey Mumbai airport is good.. Pune is a small pathetic airport. Indoreairport is a joke..
I sweared then and there .. I am never gonna say anything bad about any airport in my life again after experiencing the Pune railway stations platform number 3.
on top of that we got the heartening news in form of a deformed voice from an old speaker.tht Konark express is gonna be two hours late... so from 7 PM it was 9 PM.....
tht train starts frm Mumbai and got late ..6 hours bw Pune to Mumbai..we were alreadyregretting why dint we take the earlier Hyderabad express....
So I went to the vada pav shop as my frnds started dying due to hunger..saw a a Chennai guy frm Pune Chennai express struggle with the vada pav guy ..language issuesChennai guy wont speak Hindi as he thinks its a shame.... bloody MF Chennai guy.... the shopkeeper wont understand English or Tamil.. so I helped him out with his food and expenses... Fu**ng A didnt even say thanks...
not that I was helping someone to get a thanks.. I dont really mind ppl not saying thks nd all..but Chennai guys.......
here is why...cos I have heard abt Chennai guys..assholes of the upper category...I am 110% sureif I was struggling in Chennai no one wld hv sorted it out for me... I wished I hadnt helped him..
so I will, yes I WILL help Chennai guys in the future if they are struggling.....But I will make sure his black ass really has a hard time for 5 full mins and enjoy the show before I step in..
so there we were on the stinking platform.... had two rounds.. of vada pav.. still there was 1 hr 15 mins to go before the train arrived.
So we started loitering around the platform, found a book stall.. and after checking many a of novels decided to go for a 50 Rs Forbes magazine...
When we came across another book stall.. where my frnd also had a sudden fancy of buying something to read ... I saw a Reader's digest....
I felt like kicking myself.. how could I miss a RD at the previous one and take a Forbes,RD is like the novel I enjoyed so much since class 8th and was a regular reader before I started working..
Still cannot believe I boguht a Forbes and RD didnt come to my mind...
But neways..the moment I saw an Avaya ad in the magazine.. felt amazing..Two major reasons :
1. cos this is first time Avaya sales team had taken a intiative where it would take its visibility to the public.. Poeple in India feel proud while saying they work in Tata or Reliance and we miss saying that despite of being in a bigger and better company..itabout time Avaya is known in my country.
2. Big thing for me moving into my new role.. if the sales org. in India kicks off.. good for my future......
But I would still prefer a RD over Forbes next time........
So the train's arrival was finally announced.. weren't we delighted...
the Train did come in..now for some of the people who have seen Mumbai's local train barging into the station and braking... this arrival would have been testing......
I mean.. the train was entering the station at an amazingly... and trust me..amazingly slow speed.. I promise you could hv walked faster than the train.. and we did when we realized our AC 2 tier is gonna be ahead of where we stood..
the speed ..and it really does not deserve to be called speed.. so.. the manner in which the train was coming was a serious insult to the horse power the railway engine holds..
neways....
so the poeple in the train were interesting. couple of fat people who told me 'Jab me tumhari umar ka tha to aisa hi fit tha '.... m nt sure I would wanna be in a position to say thatto some 25 yrs old guy when I am 45.
and a Vora guy who narrated stories of his international travels..
and a military commando who was involved in the 26/11 raid in Taj Hotel...he told us the story so non heroically.. such a down to earth commando... a really amazingguy frm Mathura who despite of being a hero didnt flaunt it...
and readers of my previous post titled 'General Observations'.. you would understand when I saythat no girls were there in the train bogey I travelled in.. ofcourse they were in thenext one !!!
Morning I woke up at six, read a sticker in the bathroom saying no to use headphones loudly .. gave me the idea of getting my Ipod ,..... stood at the door for two hours listeining to someHard Rock music....8 am we got down on Secundrabad station........
So thats it.. it seems this is already turning out to be my longest blog entry....
Thats the prologue to my one month stay in Hyd..
if my journey towards Pune is as exciting.... or maybe exciting is nt the correct word..I'll say if it is as eventful as my arrival in Hyd...
there surely will be a Epilogue to this post.
And pals.. pls do not build a perception of Chennai people by my blog..
not all of them are bad people, one of them happens to be in my team and is a very nice guy :) .
Bhavin.