I was given an ultimatum by both ma dad and mom that I have to be there last weekend, which made me run for bus tickets on a lazy Saturday morningJ. After going through few agencies, I finally managed to get a ticket on a sleeper bus to my native. For those people who are new to the concept of sleeper bus, it’s the same luxury bus you see in the street, modified to have bed like structures inside where you can lay down while traveling.
Since the trip was short and without ma wife and kiddo, I didn’t have to carry much of a luggage except for one additional pair or clothes and ma laptop. I reached with much enthusiasm at the bust stop anticipating a nice, relaxed trip watching some nice movies on my laptop as sleepers don’t have TV sets. I took about an hour delay before the bus finally arrived and I somehow managed to pull up my sore fat body up to the top tier.
I finished watching two movies before it finally stopped for a late dinner. Now my doubt was to whether leave the laptop in the bus itself while out for dinner or carry it along with me… a grim reality of me paying rupees $2500 to my company as compensation if I miss the laptop just woke my consciousness up and I decided to carry it with me… what a mess. J
Guess it was another driver who took the bus after dinner, it seemed as if he is a bit of a hurry as the bus just rocketed on Tamilnadu highway though not without some funny incidents… as I was in the window side, I could see a guy on a moped chasing our bus, visibly furious on something our driver did. He was shouting and even tried blocking our bus with his toy like bike, but pulled off at the last moment realizing, survival is important that heroism J I couldn’t stop but laughing looking at his pale face when he almost got ran over by our driver...
Two days went like seconds and next thing I remember was me packing back. I copied the movies I should be watching on my way back and boarded the bus in a hot and humid Sunday afternoon after saying adieu to my parents. As I belong to a placed surrounded with mountains and snake like roads, I decided to take out my laptop only once it enter the state highway… after holding on to the iron rode in my seat like a circus guy in a revolving globe…
Finally it looked as if the bus has entered the state highway of Kerala and I dared taking out my lappy and the next thing I remember is that me and my lappy sitting parallel to the ground, yet not touching anything as we were in the air!!... after a while I landed on my ass with a thud voice and I grabbed my lappy from falling down like Srisanth holding on to Misbah’s catch in cricket world cup final J
Before even I open my mouth, I could hear people cursing from back of the bus, most of them rubbing their head with pizzed off face… Poor thing, the driver might have missed a gutter I though!. Alas, that was not the case and it looked as if the joyride has just begun. I tried watching the movie in a rather uncomfortable position, but it didn’t take much time before my eyes gave me the signals that its giving up trying to focus on a moving LCD screen J With a slight headache creeping up, I call it a quit and put back the lappy back to its case.
I was quite relieved when it stopped for dinner and Damn… I had to carry my lappy again with me where ever I go and people was looking at me as if a gone nut computer geek who is showing off a bit J
Tired, hoping to get some sound sleep before I go to office next day, I decided to call it a day and just lay back on my back. It turned out to be a day dream that I can sleep on this bus as our driver kept ignoring small to semi big gutters on the road and most of the time I could feel the guy sitting below me banging his head on my seat and literally shouting something like “you…moth….r “ J
But nothing could stop the “spirit” of our driver and he just started ignoring big gutters as well and finally we could hear the engine coming to a standstill with a loud noice under the bus. The driver and his helper got down and started investigating and almost everyone on the buss started laughing when an old man said with a rather grim voice “Good if its broken, atleast now I should be able to catch some sleep”
But, his joy was short-lived as they fixed it in some 30-40 mins and this time the driver looked even determined to catch up for the lost time as we the passengers were thrown up and down like bricks in a jugglers trick J…. Thanks to both the ruling and opposition leaders in my state that the roads rather look like a blast zone…. And for providing such brilliant drivers who should be good enough to be promoted as the drivers of a UFO instead.
Since the trip was short and without ma wife and kiddo, I didn’t have to carry much of a luggage except for one additional pair or clothes and ma laptop. I reached with much enthusiasm at the bust stop anticipating a nice, relaxed trip watching some nice movies on my laptop as sleepers don’t have TV sets. I took about an hour delay before the bus finally arrived and I somehow managed to pull up my sore fat body up to the top tier.
I finished watching two movies before it finally stopped for a late dinner. Now my doubt was to whether leave the laptop in the bus itself while out for dinner or carry it along with me… a grim reality of me paying rupees $2500 to my company as compensation if I miss the laptop just woke my consciousness up and I decided to carry it with me… what a mess. J
Guess it was another driver who took the bus after dinner, it seemed as if he is a bit of a hurry as the bus just rocketed on Tamilnadu highway though not without some funny incidents… as I was in the window side, I could see a guy on a moped chasing our bus, visibly furious on something our driver did. He was shouting and even tried blocking our bus with his toy like bike, but pulled off at the last moment realizing, survival is important that heroism J I couldn’t stop but laughing looking at his pale face when he almost got ran over by our driver...
Two days went like seconds and next thing I remember was me packing back. I copied the movies I should be watching on my way back and boarded the bus in a hot and humid Sunday afternoon after saying adieu to my parents. As I belong to a placed surrounded with mountains and snake like roads, I decided to take out my laptop only once it enter the state highway… after holding on to the iron rode in my seat like a circus guy in a revolving globe…
Finally it looked as if the bus has entered the state highway of Kerala and I dared taking out my lappy and the next thing I remember is that me and my lappy sitting parallel to the ground, yet not touching anything as we were in the air!!... after a while I landed on my ass with a thud voice and I grabbed my lappy from falling down like Srisanth holding on to Misbah’s catch in cricket world cup final J
Before even I open my mouth, I could hear people cursing from back of the bus, most of them rubbing their head with pizzed off face… Poor thing, the driver might have missed a gutter I though!. Alas, that was not the case and it looked as if the joyride has just begun. I tried watching the movie in a rather uncomfortable position, but it didn’t take much time before my eyes gave me the signals that its giving up trying to focus on a moving LCD screen J With a slight headache creeping up, I call it a quit and put back the lappy back to its case.
I was quite relieved when it stopped for dinner and Damn… I had to carry my lappy again with me where ever I go and people was looking at me as if a gone nut computer geek who is showing off a bit J
Tired, hoping to get some sound sleep before I go to office next day, I decided to call it a day and just lay back on my back. It turned out to be a day dream that I can sleep on this bus as our driver kept ignoring small to semi big gutters on the road and most of the time I could feel the guy sitting below me banging his head on my seat and literally shouting something like “you…moth….r “ J
But nothing could stop the “spirit” of our driver and he just started ignoring big gutters as well and finally we could hear the engine coming to a standstill with a loud noice under the bus. The driver and his helper got down and started investigating and almost everyone on the buss started laughing when an old man said with a rather grim voice “Good if its broken, atleast now I should be able to catch some sleep”
But, his joy was short-lived as they fixed it in some 30-40 mins and this time the driver looked even determined to catch up for the lost time as we the passengers were thrown up and down like bricks in a jugglers trick J…. Thanks to both the ruling and opposition leaders in my state that the roads rather look like a blast zone…. And for providing such brilliant drivers who should be good enough to be promoted as the drivers of a UFO instead.
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