A lesson in modes of transportation!

Lets go! Well this day i had wheels on my feet and quite literally. Got up at 5:30 in the morning (time stamp is important as you may see at the end), ready to leave at 6:15 and left the hostel at 6:30 moving towards gate, out of the gate and waiting for Auto Rickshaw, i boarded one and reached the air port at 7:30. Flight was at ten so waited for few hours. 9:30 and boarded the bus to go to flight. 10:00 here i was on flight already changed three modes of transportation. So back to city and in taxi going back to home in car. So fourth mode of transportation and time was 11:30 so in five hours 4 modes of transportation and 1000 km. Still the day hadn't ended, i went home and had to leave for one more place so here i move on my two wheeler and the time i reach their was 01:15 P.M in the noon. So quite literally on wheels. This was the fastest day i had and to my surprise i was not even a bit tired. But then i thought of life in this terms and i found that more than this the trip to kanpur had more twist and turns quite literally. Cause i had left in flight, moved to railway station in auto rickshaw, boarded a train and in kanpur i was sitting in a cycle rickshaw. So in these trips i have seen all modes of transportation and it has proved to be a lesson in modes of tranportation.

From flight to floor

Personally i can say that this was the incident which led me to create this blog. Finally we have reached Delhi and as with all IIT here too with great difficulty i found out the hostel i had to go. And here i enter the hostel like debonair only to know that my histrionics were of no use. People were waiting in queue for getting a room and the hostel warden was blunt enough to tell that their were not enough rooms and people will have to accommodate themselves in the common room and sleep their itself on the floor. Only privilege i enjoyed was that i had an Demand Draft, that day i understood the importance of a demand draft. I was asked to wait for half and hour but in half an hour the rooms got filled up and finally even though privileged i was asked to find a place for myself in common room. People cried out that they were their for admissions in MTECH and they should be given rooms but the warden would not budge. But to my surprise my friend had already got one room and the room was large enough to accommodate two. Only problem was i had to sleep on the floor. So from flight to floor in less than an hour, great change of fortune. But finally i got my sheet out, laid it properly on floor made my bag as pillow. It was not the most comfortable of the setting you would expect but it was all that you could have. So after getting settled in the room we rested for the noon and then in the later part of noon went for a stroll around the campus. Now as everyone knows its not the largest of the campus but still its fairly large and after seeing Kanpur and Mumbai the aw factor was slightly dying out. But still it has the tallest central building for an IIT. It is almost eight or seven floors high and has quite a contemporary look. So we went around for some time. From the experiences at Mumbai we had learnt that food was the most important part of the trip and it should not be ignored or missed at any cost if you want to have a comfortable trip. So we ate at various places from their Uth cafe to the juice centre. We tried everything that was possible. Other day we had written tests and due to that i got a chance to go around the academic sections. The academic section is really large and has vast corridors. So test was over and we moved back to hostels rested for some more hours and decided to go for a visit to the India Gate. We travelled by Blue Line bus. The bus itself epitomizes terror so it was terrifying to board it. But some how we managed to board it and went through the traffic ridden roads of Delhi. The government offices and the residences of government and military establishments are really good. We visited this place which is a sort symbol of Delhi. If you are talking of Delhi then you have India Gate or Parliament in the back drop. It creates a sense of patriotism in heart when we know that names of almost 13000 soldiers who had laid down their life for country has been inscribed on it. From their the view down the road is really breath taking. Its one of a kind atmosphere. The place attracts tourist because of its history, its importance in politics, its importance as the centre of power in country. Everything that happens to you and me is somewhere decided there. The aura of this place is completely different. You can see people from all the walk of life there from all castes and creeds. Its like this amalgamation point. So it was a really good experience and we returned to our hostel cause the next morning i had to return. The returning is quite a story.

Flight number 6E481

As evident from the name here we start the journey again in a flight to delhi, well by then travelling had almost become natural and i was becoming a seasoned traveller. Getting boarding pass, security check and all that stuff looked a mundane task. This time i boarded the flight with much more confidence as i had quite some experience now, so on flight their daily procedures started and here we go to Delhi. Like earlier times their was not much fun this time round, every thing went regularly. I got down easily and reached the campus easily. Nothing exhilarating.