In first trimester, our entire class went on a so-called industrial trip to a pharma company in Baddi (about 300 kms from Delhi ). The bus started from the college premises early at 0530 hrs and reached Delhi by-pass at 0615 hrs where i and another classmate were scheduled to board the bus. So we reached on time, boarded on time and then started the LONG journey.
It was an A/C bus with a seating capacity of around 50 people but our strength was 54, so some were standing and many were seating but that was not a problem, we all adjusted well to the conditions. The route we were plying on refreshed my old memories of my trips to Ambala during my engineering study days. For the onward journey we all played dumbshral arts (pardon me for spelling mistake, couldn`t figure out the correct spellings in Dictionary), and it was great fun to play it. I`m good at enacting the name of the movie but when it comes to guessing the name, i quite misjudge the acting and as a result guess the wrong name, but still i tried at it and guessed some correct names. We started that game when we were around Sonepat and continued uptill we reached Haveli, a motel in Karnal. Time for breakfast. My concentration was at clicking good phototgraphs for my orkut and facebook profile rather than the breakfast. Ours group was the late-latif when it came to boarding the bus, courtesy late breakfast service by the motel restaurants. So the journey began again, this time there was a surprise in waiting for us, i must mention it was not expected on our parts. A silly B-Grade movie staring Mithun titled "QATL-E-AAM" was being played. Taking note of the amount of vulgarity demonstrated in that movie in front of the entire students and teachers present, i think that movie shud be re-christened as "SAR-E-AAM", immediate action was taken and that movie was shut down. We by-passed Ambala district and headed for the chandigarh-panchkula area, by passed those two citites too and reached Pinjore, the town famous for its Garden. From this point, the journey ahead must be around 60-70 kms and the condition of roads was so poor that it took almost 2 hrs for us to cross that section.
Some how we reached our destination, our first attack was on the snacks served in their canteen. Later visited the boiler section, water purification system, then the main area of production. Also went around the packaging area and before that we had to wear special clothes to prevent the entry of germ and bacteria. We were given a pair of trousers, a shirt, a pair of polythene bags to cover our shoes with and a plastic cap to wear before we entered the packaging area. One of my frnds was given only one polythene for his shoes and he mistook and wore that on his head. The so called visit must have taken around 1 hour and around 1600 hrs, we started for Delhi again. First stop was Pinjore Garden . All had some snacks and started again. This time also we played `the dare` game. We were to enact or sing or dance as a dare this game. Full of enjoyment. Imagine the dance steps when the driver of the bus applied breaks.......lol. So time for dinner and this time it was Mirchi restaurant about 5 kms from Ambala. We immeditely placed the order and to my surprise with 2-3 minutes our dinner was served. Now i know why the bus driver was adament for a dinner at this particular restaurant, well his strategy to have some extra earnings helped as we could finish our dinner early and go onto the bus to get our seats and prepare for a good nap. For the remaining trip, I slept and don`t know when we reached Delhi . A small nap was disturbed when the driver stopped over for tea and can u imagine, one of my close frnds was enjoying tea at time of the night. When we were entering Delhi, i had to make a decision, either call Dad at by-pass to pick me up or go to my friend`s house, which was on the way to college. I decided for the later part and camped at my frnd`s house. The bus dropped at a particular place, it was 0330 hrs. Must have taken around half an hour to reach his home. Upon reaching, we were figuring out wat to do now, as none of us feeling sleepy anymore. So we zeroed in on ‘Kismat Konnection’ movie. I was up till 0530 hrs, when i couldn`t take it anymore and decided to sleep for half an hour. Finally woke up at 0800 hrs, again started for my home and once i reached home again went to sleep and slept from 0930 hrs to 1400 hrs.
Morale of the Trip : For an industry visit of 1 hour, we traveled almost 24 hours (both onward and backward journey time) but fun, masti and enjoyment were unlimited.
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