Holi hai....

Well had Holika Dehen today...n Vishal n Uday were running the whole day trying to arrange wood n kerosene n sweets etc...

Time of burning the fire- 7 PM

6:30 PM : It starts raining all of a sudden..n suddenly it looks as if the hard work has been spoilt...

7:05 PM : Suddenly the power goes off ( nt too unusual in our campus...)

7:10 PM : Me n Abhay take the colours( from the 5 kg bags( taking the colour out without lights n any knife or blade required another Engineering skill-we used a pen to tear a hole in the bag ;) ) )and finally managed to extract enough colour to be used as tikka ( bt believe me, we used it for everything except the tikka) and matches to light the fire...
btw its still raining...

7:24 PM : We decide to light the fire, some 12 of us in the open...all ready to make the fire burn against all odds...

7:28 PM : We try to light the fire...n IT starts burning on the first try ( sweet success... :) )

7: 35 PM : The crowd starts arriving, most of them not quite ready to come out in the rain( it was still drizzling...) bt we had enough crowd to start with tikka n Holi....sang songs too...

9: 00 PM : After enjoying Holi, the rain and the warm fire....its time to take a bath....

waise the starting has been good..Lets hope the colour fight tomm rocks too... ;)

anyways Here's wishing u a Happy and Safe colorful Holi....

The First day....

okay..my PS is at GE motors Faridabad....this is my experience of the first day..i.e 24th may 2007..
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9:00 am
All pressed n dressed...luckily had already talked to the ps instructor cause he wasnt responding to his mails we had sent on his bits mail id...( guess this guy too doesnt use his bits-mail.. ;))...n cause we had to know the time for reporting cause this company doesnt start working upto 9:30 n employees keep coming uptill 10-10:30 am...
We were finally supposed to reach at 9:30....

9:30 am
Reached punctually...no sign of the teacher...find the rest of the guys there.. Vishrut, Akshay Yash n Vikram also came in till 9:45...however the teacher hadnt arrived...

10:30 am
We finally got our respective departments to report to..n no two of us was in the same deptt..Vishrut was given IT, Akshay was in production, Yash in the assebly line, Vikram in R&D n i was in manufacturing....
Anyways we went to our coords to report to them...n till that time too our instructor hadnt reported...
My coord just told me to go around the plant the first couple of days...

11:30am
Finally the instructor arrived...we reported to him..he told us the basic rules etc..all the stuff abt quizes, gd etc...n told us to report back to our coords...

1230 pm
My lunch time...we all had diff lunch times..bt now we have managed n i had a 2 hr lunch break...cause me n yash see the assembly line..so the workers go for lunch at 1230..n we couldnt do anything after that...n staff has lunch frm 1:30-2:30 pm..so we have lunch then..

4:00 pm..
We all met at the reception n came to know that Vishrut, Akshay n Vikrams instructors hadnt come so they were all free..so we all sat down n waited for our instructor who had told us that he would come back frm JBM Auto..( another PS stn under him...) at abt 4...

4:45 pm
The instructor hadnt still turned up...so Akshay called him up..made some excuse abt some ficticious family function n we all left for home....


Generally our instructor comes thrice a week...n we have to do some work..go around the plants etc whuile the rest of the days...its just masti...
PS is going gr8 till now...though i did learn a few things..n i am sure so have the others..n its gr8 masti....

n m gonna miss it when it ends ;)

The Train Journey....

Generally BITSIANs frm Goa travel by Goa Express..bt the reason that I and Vishal were travelling by Kerela Sampark Kranti Express was because i had to leave for Leh the following day and wouldn't have been able to reach on time by Goa Express...

11 pm
anyways I had Vishal reached the Madgaon stn uneventfully..Everything and everyone on the station was as usual asleep(including the guy at the enquiry counter..). We reached the stn at abt 11 pm n the train wasnt due till 2 in the nite..so we had to find ways of passing our time..

00:00 am
At abt 12 the first sign of activity on the station arrived...it was Matsyagandha Express...the crowd finally woke up and started moving about...The next was Netravati Express at abt 1 pm....

1:50 am
Our train was supposed to come at 2 pm..n abt 1:50 pm..we bid adieu to Bharat and Soju baba( Soju baba..spent the time on the stn sleeping...) who had a train at 3...n moved to the other side of the station...where our bogie was supposed to be coming...

2:15 am
We could see the faraway headlight of an engine and thought it would be our train..bt when it arrived on the station..it turned out to be just a engine which stopped in front of the control room...n a guy came out with his suitcase n boarded the engine and it went on its way....boy were we livid...and just to add.. Vishal hadnt slept more than 4 hrs in the past two days cause of consecutive exams...n i too hadnt had too much sleep...

2:40 am
Another set of healights in the distance..this time we thought it would definately be our train..bt it happened again..an engine came, stopped,the co-driver came down..bought tea for himself n the driver n it went away again....

2:45 am
Vishal was literally getting pissed off..n went to the enquiry to ask when the train
would be coming..bt the guy was sleeping...Finally the guy woke up n told us that he couldnt contact the driver of our train.... only possible in INDIAN RAILWAY...

3:00 am
The train finally arrived n we got in...We had 2 lower berths n cause Vishal had his guitar wid him..he wanted to sleep on the upper berth...the other four berths( n another in front...) belonged to a Goan family..who for that matter looked as if they were travelling for the first time by train.. First they couldnt find their seats..even though they would find 5 empty seats
anywhere on the train...then they managed to find them...Then they told us that these are our seats...Vishal who was looking forward to a good nite sleep had to literally point to each seat n count...one..two..three...four ..five... Then he told them that he wanted to exchange one berth cause he wanted to sleep on the top berth....n he just climbed up n went off to sleep....i too lay down on my seat n switched off the light....n after that i could see the family count the no. of seats to see whether they totalled up to 5 or had we tricked them...and so finally at abt 3:30 we went off to sleep.....

The rest of the journey was okay..n finally in the evening..the guy asked us where we were headed..n when we told him Delhi...he asked in surprise whether the train goes to Delhi...n he was going beyond Delhi...

Rest of the journey was okay...reached Delhi on 14th morning....n left for Leh on15th morning..I'll write abt that later..after i get the pics..which i dont have at faridabad....where i am doing my ps...