The strange title of this blog is because of the reason that I am writting this blog sitting in a train. I am travelling on 2721 Dakshin Express from Hyderabad to H. Nizamuddin and at this point of time, the train has just arrived at Bina station.
The journey has a lot of interesting things. I'd write about all of them here. First, why I am travelling. My wife's parents live in Haridwar. It is almost five weeks since she has gone to her place. Though initially it was decided that she would come alone in return, but then the plan had to be changed because my in-laws wanted to organize a 'Satyanarayan Katha' and ofcourse they want me to meet 'n' number of relatives on my wife's side (rather it would be a kind of show off event, because my marriage was a very small event and just a handful of relatives attended the same).
So I will be travelling to Hazrat Nizamuddin (Delhi) by this train, which will reach there at 4 am tomorrow (25th July) and then I will catch Dehradun Shatabdi exp. from New Delhi Station which departs at 0650 hrs and will reach Haridwar at about 1130 hrs.
Next is the story of my ticket booking. Well as I said the trip was not planned well in advance, so I bought tickets of 3A class at WL 16. Now, I was aprehensive that the waiting may not be cleared, therefore I also booked a SL class ticket at RAC 16. Now, because this great Dakshin Exp train takes 30 hrs from Hyderabad to Delhi, I didn't wish to travel in SL class, therefore I booked a tatkal ticket for 3A class. However, due to rush for this tickets also, by the time I could select my travel plan on IRCTC site and make payment, I was given a WL1 status. (the complete process took me less than 8 minutes; the final ticket had a time stamp of 0808 hrs.So finally I had 2 tickets, one of 3A class and another of SL class. When the chart was prepared my both tickets were confirmed, so I ended up having 1 ticket each of 3A and SL. So, I am finally travelling in 3A class.
Now, I am handling a few mandates in office, where in I am the only resource. Therefore my boss asked me to take the laptop along so that in emergency I could send in some response. The laptop and datacard proved to be a lot useful for killing the time, as well as file the online TDR for the unsed SL ticket.
The journey has a lot of interesting things. I'd write about all of them here. First, why I am travelling. My wife's parents live in Haridwar. It is almost five weeks since she has gone to her place. Though initially it was decided that she would come alone in return, but then the plan had to be changed because my in-laws wanted to organize a 'Satyanarayan Katha' and ofcourse they want me to meet 'n' number of relatives on my wife's side (rather it would be a kind of show off event, because my marriage was a very small event and just a handful of relatives attended the same).
So I will be travelling to Hazrat Nizamuddin (Delhi) by this train, which will reach there at 4 am tomorrow (25th July) and then I will catch Dehradun Shatabdi exp. from New Delhi Station which departs at 0650 hrs and will reach Haridwar at about 1130 hrs.
Next is the story of my ticket booking. Well as I said the trip was not planned well in advance, so I bought tickets of 3A class at WL 16. Now, I was aprehensive that the waiting may not be cleared, therefore I also booked a SL class ticket at RAC 16. Now, because this great Dakshin Exp train takes 30 hrs from Hyderabad to Delhi, I didn't wish to travel in SL class, therefore I booked a tatkal ticket for 3A class. However, due to rush for this tickets also, by the time I could select my travel plan on IRCTC site and make payment, I was given a WL1 status. (the complete process took me less than 8 minutes; the final ticket had a time stamp of 0808 hrs.So finally I had 2 tickets, one of 3A class and another of SL class. When the chart was prepared my both tickets were confirmed, so I ended up having 1 ticket each of 3A and SL. So, I am finally travelling in 3A class.
Now, I am handling a few mandates in office, where in I am the only resource. Therefore my boss asked me to take the laptop along so that in emergency I could send in some response. The laptop and datacard proved to be a lot useful for killing the time, as well as file the online TDR for the unsed SL ticket.
