A Train to Hyderabad - II

One of the 'awesome-est' places in Hyderabad I saw was The Nehru Zoological park. I was sitting on the bus stand with the Piyush - the one who did not leave IDRBT after a few weeks of playing poker. We were waiting for any bus with vacant seats and go to any place it took us....er- that was our 'natural' way of seeing Hyderabad. As a bus came a random man with no work to do and sitting there probably for ages advised us to take it. It occured to me later that the man was not just a random person but belonged to the league of legendary people like Gandalf, Dumbledore, etc who just give you the instinct to do something weird and you realize later you could not have done a thing more right. The zoo park trip was more than successful as we heard the lion roaring and putting the entire place to a silence, saw the cutest tortoise ever and first time ever saw a giraffe. I am just not sure if you use the word cute for tortoises- after all they are so senior to us....

On the return we saw a lot of burkas. Actually we went to see the Char Minar but the pigeons and the women market no less than one km long along the road were more worth seeing than the Minar. Why is it even famous!! I was baffled that what did the women say to burka seller- Yeh black wala nai....nai wo black wala dikhana?!!?

One of the facilities i loved at the institute was the Gym and TT. Apparently most of the interns were looking forwards to the Olympics so they never spared the table so i had to spend my evening in the gym . If someone had told me not to use the trademill at its top speed and highest inclination i would not have done so and the machine would not have got overheated and damaged. Alas!! This ignorance of my fellow mortal humans caused the gym to be out of bounds for intern students that day on-wards!! 

Another place  worth seeing in Hyderabad was the Golconda fort. Right since when we had been planning about our visit i was saying that the fort had to do something to do with Kohinoor (the diamond not the condoms!).... No one told me anything but finally months later i found this text from wikipedia "The Golconda fort used to have a vault where once the famous Kohinoor and Hope diamonds were stored along with other diamonds. At that time, India had the only known diamond mines in the world." 

I finally convince myself that i am a bloody genius!! :D
I like forts. We snapped say about a million pics there. The credit goes to Muski who wanted to have his pics twice everytime-once with his cap and then without the cap. If you ever have been told that i completed my project in first 15 days or so,  i must inform you that the rumors were initiated by this Muski creature resembling Golum. 

The only thing more intriguing than Muski was this thing Shubham from IIT Delhi who had grown so health conscious that he used to go to the gym after smoking cigarettes !! But he was an important person there- afterall he had a Plug-in internet connection in the apartment! 
This blog must mention a year junior from my college Ved Prakash the sandwich guy....He loved making and keeping things to eat as much as i love to eat... Nothing in the entire universe can be a more perfect example of symbiosis....I was constantly blessed with maggi, laddoos, mangoes and sandwiches thanks to him !!

 I used to think that everyone who was doing any intern somewhere must be having lots of  fun people around them but i realized only later that most of the interns did not had friends who threw beer bottles from the roof at midnight !! Nor do they have friends like Deepak Bansal from IIT Kgp who say they don't want to go by train, make you walk 2-3 kms on the Necklace Road saying there is a bus station nearby and ultimately end up taking you to a railway station one stop further from the previous one from where you miss the last train and so again have to go searching for a bloody bus ! 

Some other places we visited were Lumbini Park Laser Show and a BIG Inox screen with spiderman crawling on in it. They both shared one common feature- while they were running and i was sitting motionless with a gloomy face i was desperately praying for the piece of shit to stop!!" Why did the Hollywood people even make this new spiderman and what was anything new in it! And And what was that Rimjhim Rimjhim Hyderabad during laser show?!!? They allure people with stuff like Laser Show and show things no less threatening than Twilight movie!!

A Train to Hyderabad - I

Finally I arrive home after my summer internship in Hyderabad. I have quite a time to pass without football,college library,cricket (T20 is not cricket; it is more of a baseball ) and such other pleasures of life. The only good thing in the nearest future is The Dark Knight Rises.

I reached Hyderabad via some unusual route which would be Kanpur to Ranchi, Ranchi to Chennai, Chennai to Bangalore and then Bangalore to Hyderabad all by rail due to reasons even more unusual than the route!! The Ranchi to Chennai journey was gruesome caused by the humid weather, non-stop sweating and nonsense talk by co-passengers who were going for some engineering examination in the South. The adventure from Bangalore to Hyderabad was far more adventurous with the weather being more pleasant and the debate match between a young man vs old man and his old sister regarding South Indian politics being cut short by the TT. I took a quick liking for Hyderabad after I was able to reach my provided accommodation from station by spending only Rs 13 for the bus travel of maybe 10kms. Things became even more beautiful when I found decent breakfast nearby @ Rs 10-12.

I found myself sharing an apartment with 3 CSE guys of IIT Hyderabad :Sumit Chuttani ( he does not like to be called by his surname), Rohit Jindal who is no relative of the Jindal Steel people, Rajan-an avid promoter of Indian Tobacco judging by the number of smokes he had each day! Two Piyush from my Mathematics department in IIT Kanpur joined us in the apartment later, one of whom left 7 days later after collecting his bag from the IDRBT people and playing a lot of poker in the apartment.

I got my Data mining project on “Particle Swarm Optimization trained Cascade Correlation Neural Networks and applications”. I distinctly remember looking passively at my professor when I was told about the project topic (unlike my friends who raised their eye-brows when I repeated the title). I settled in the room comfortably connected to the probably one of the most beautiful things of the world- the internet! 

The biggest news of the day was broken to me soon: Facebook and youtube are blocked on the LAN. The second biggest news of the day followed soon: Use TOR (an encrypted browser) to use fb and Vtunnel for youtube. LIKE A BOSS!!

Apparently the IDRBT guys were Hollywood fans and used access card for entering all the rooms. Before I was much aware of it I had nearly made a decent attempt to break open a door which neither appeared to be locked nor unlocked.  I loved the concept of some uniform person coming and serving us coffee or lemonade twice a day. I was also accompanied by lot of guys from IIT Kgp (Seemant Ujjain, Shresth Pratik, Deepak Bansal, Himanshu, Manish Anand, AbhinavYellanki, Nitesh) who broke the entire world into two variables called LOAD and PEACE and had only thing to say- kuch to machaya hai!! If i go on mentioning all the names i would look like this: A guy on radio on "Aap ki farmaish" programme saying "aur is gaane ki farmaaish ki hai Patna se Bittu, Chitu, Ballu, Sonu......aur unke saathiyo ne..."

 Initially the mess guys who served us chapattis using a spoon and a fork and wore white uniforms were not very pleased at us asking for more chapattis, but reluctantly gave to our demands after persistent demands and deceitful pilferage!! The mess people continued to surprise us with a big container of rasam each day at lunch and dinner. We failed to figure two things: What to consume the masala water aka Rasam with ?
How the fuck all of it got finished?!!?

Our first trip out in the city was to the Hyderabad Central and grand looking but good for nothing GVK one mall. I took good care not to invest money throughout the intern into crap like Jannat 2, Teri Meri Kahani, Shanghai, etc at the 'cash extracting machines' called Inox, imax, etc. I did watch Vicky Donor on  the lappy and liked it. We found some Rs 55 theatres with the sexiest seats you could imagine of ! There were sofa seats on which I sat with my legs folded cross on the seat and the cooler beside me blew winds from the Himalayas into my happy smiling face. I think it was one of our greatest discoveries in Hyderabad. We watched Rowdy Rathore and Gangs of Wasseypur there. Akshay Kumar sucks !!

(to be cont.)