In my last post I wrote about how
amazing planning works and you enjoy being out with friends and spend quality
time. Well! Life just surprised me during this trip to Ernakulam. It may sound
as if I am giving clue that this would have also worked. Well, that is not what
I intend to say. Read along and enjoy the journey!
In March Satz calls up and shares
the new that Jhuu is getting married. I was so happy to hear. It as a moment of
another get together. When he mentioned that it is in Kochi and he was going to
book tickets, I told him I need to check. He told that I have been giving
excuses and I will find one even this time (Which is definitely not true). So,
this time he will book the tickets and I have to come along. In the mean time I
spoke to Mom and informed her that I have plans of traveling on 4th
May till 6th May for Jhuu’s marriage. Jhuu calls me just after she
will call me to invite personally. I congratulated her and comforted her
saying, I will definitely make it this time.
I called Satz back and he says he
already booked the tickets. He was really serious when he said “ You have to
make it to the marriage – DOT!”. For about a month, absolute silence and as we
neared the end of April, I got reminded of my May weekend plans. The first one
was Jhuu’s marriage.
I called up Satz and asked for the
tickets as I wanted to know the train timings. He shares a screenshot of the
ticket after 2 days and still we haven’t discussed what plans as there was 2
days plan. We caught up on call on 4th May and discussed about how
to travel. The berths were still on RAC. I mentioned to get snacks so that we
can kill time. Satz asked for movie too but I was sceptical to commit on it as
I was not sure if my brother will have anything interesting. We hung up and
confirmed to each other to catch up at the railway station.
At office it was a usual day. I
however was over excited and looking forward to the travel to Ernakulam. The
day passed by and by 6 PM I left office. Almost everyone could make out at
office that I was excited about this weekend. I reached home by 6.30 PM and did
the final touch to the packing. Mom gave me a cup of tea and I took her leave
after informing Karu to take care of her and self.
Satz called up while I off boarded
the auto. I already had reached and got the platform number for Alleppey
express as D11. I informed the same to him and he mentioned it to Christy. Satz
reached and again I was caught with not being able to direct him. He finally
stands in front of me and stares at me . I understood his stare that he almost
felt like knocking on my head. We wanted to get dinner for him and so we headed
to the railway station canteen. Just to be sure, Satz looked at the board where
the train numbers and platforms were displayed. Alas! I was dead. The platform
was # 6 for Alleppey Express and I had seen it as platform 11. He stared at me
and this time annoyed. How could you mention a wrong platform number. We then
quickly got dinner for him, informed Christy about the platform number and
headed to platform#6.
On the way Satz wished there were
girls ll around in the coach. Well, I being myself, I said “ no ways. There
will only be monkey crowd around”. And guess what – it was fact. Christy’s
voice alone heard from a nearby distance, we started looking outside the window
from him. Again he called out to us and asked to look on the opposite side. We
found him there smiling and waving. It was emergency exit pane and so I asked
him to jump in. The joke dint take off at all.
Christy then left his luggage with
us and bought 2 water bottles. The engine whistled and we were on the way to
Ernakulum. We were meeting after long and the whole night was a pandora of
stories and stories and stories. What were they – Shhhhh! Classifieds!
Hilarious though and we couldn’t stop talking at least until Satz felt hungry.
After his dinner, we continued the stories again. I shared my bit of story
which Christy was not aware and yet he held a very plain expression. Very
fervently nodding though to acknowledge that he was all ears.
Around 12 Christy decided to get
to his place as the TTR was on rounds. Somewhere around this time the TTR asked
about our 4th partner in crime. Kim was only going to board the
train at Salem. Christy very calmly slipped the topic again under the carpet –
Definitely Successfully.
Satz was on his mobile with
Bahubali 2 and I was on my mobile listening to song and chatting on whatsapp
with my friend. After 2 hours, Satz and I looked at each other. We again
started the stories and little and kept each other awake as we were waiting for
Kim to board. We had a cup of coffee each. It was little better as I was too
hungry. After sometime, Satz would say 2-3 words in the sentence that he wants
to talk and then hung his head. He was literally falling asleep. I told him to
occupy the berth that was abandoned by the earlier passenger. Satz being the
concerned Leo, he was insistent that only after Kim boarded the train, we can
decide on sleeping. At 4.30 am, the train got herself into Salem station and
Satz spotted Kim. We met and started yapping. Satz was too sleepy and so he
dozed off. Kim placed her luggage on the berth and Satz took the 1/4th
of the berth to sleep around the luggage.
Throughout the journey from 12 am
I kept pestering Satz that I was feeling hungry. All I could hear him say ”I
already warned you that you will feel hungry”. Kim and I caught up on what we
missed. Finally around 5.30 am at a station we saw the vendor selling biscuits.
I quickly bought biscuits and jaggery-nuts snack and boarded the train. Once
in, opened the biscuit and ate as much as required. Kim seemed to be feeling
sleepy, found another berth vacant and stretched herself there. I couldn’t
sleep as it pained in my stomach as I dint eat on time. By the time I decided
to sleep it was 6.30 am. I hardly slept for an hour and could hear the vanar
sena shout loud. I woke up with a heavy headache.
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