Tatkaal and Beyond

 I was trying for tatkaal from multiple accounts, even from one of my colleagues’ account. She said that she’s lucky, so I told OK, and then we should try from your account also. Believe me she proved to be lucky for me. From her account only I saw that there were 14 tickets available, so I clicked on confirm, made payment and finally when the ticket came, it was in waiting list 27. I am not sure how this site works, but I was shocked how this is possible.

With God’s grace, my ticket got confirmed and I started travelling, but I didn’t told anyone, I thought Its ok to reach one day before, What’s so big deal in that, also I had some other plans goin on Shhh.

I tried to leave office early; still I got late as usual. I came home, had a bath, because I didn’t had bath from last 2 days….Dont think that I am Aalsi. Paani nahi thaa room par. After shower, had my dinner and ran for train. I boarded train just 5min before, it left station. I arranged my luggage safely, sat for some time and headed for sleep. It’s necessary for me to have proper sleep after my shift due to the nature of my job. Believe me staring at screen for 9 hours is not a joke, may be a routine. In morning, I tried to sleep for more and more time, since in train I don’t have lots of work to do.

In morning time, mid* people came and started asking for money. The person who was there next to my berth said “Only ENGLISH, Only English”. I didn’t understood, how can a person living in India knows only English, neither Hindi nor any other language, I thought leave it, why should I care. I again slept. After some time, I woke lowered my berth (as I was sleeping in middle berth).

That “only English” person offered me biscuits, I said “no Thanks”. Let me tell you about few interesting characters of my coach now, one person were “Only English-security guard”, a Tamil guy-army driver, a Christian guy-music businessman and of course me-a computer Engineer.  

I will unveil the mystery of “Only English” guy and rest story in next post.

*I hope you understood, whom I am calling mid people.

Goin Home

Goin Home

Here, I am Chennai, decided to visit home.

But it’s not as easy as gome.

Started planning for it from months,

Still got slap on my bumps.

                                                                                                                                                                Me Being Poetic

As you might know and remember that I am living in Chennai and since it was going to be three months, I decided to give a visit to hometown for some days. I started working extra shifts on weekends so that I get enough days to be at my place. The whole plan was decided, I compensated every day before going home. But this was not enough for my leads, they changed my shift in such a way that I had to compensate 2 more days. It was also OK for me, but then after coming back….. Again he changed my shift in such a way that he removed one week off from my shift. I asked him, why and how he can do that. He was just telling me stories going around and around and not gave me that day, because he had no answer for that day. He also knows that he is doing wrong, but I think at such a position, these things don’t matter, these people become heartless for their juniors. But they remembered one extra day which I took off when I was sick, he just removed that day from my shift, but he is not ready to give me that one day which he took illegally.  I think that IT culture is like that only, where no one considers anything; they just want us to work every day, in every situation. It feels that I am complaining, you may feel that I am frustrated. Well everything is true; I am slightly frustrated and hence complaining. 

Regular visitors might be interested in knowing masala of this journey. Frankly speaking, I won’t be able to tell you the chat masala at this time because sometimes, something’s should be kept as Shhhhhhh.

Still let me start with side dishes. As my plan was completely set to visit hometown, I had booked my tickets and everything accordingly, but at the last moment my TL asked me to work for one more day, that one day, I took off when I was going home. So I had to re schedule my trip and at this time, my tickets were not confirmed. So I told my parents that I am not sure, when I will reach, but for sure up to a date, I’ll reach. I tried for tatkaal booking and got a ticket. Before going further, I want to tell you that tatkaal booking was also a big mystery.

Will tell you about Tatkaal and rest story in next part.