Victoria Memorial Hall
My December started with a real head spin; as from the 1st itself, my fifth year examination began!! However, I’m a student and i’ve faced enough examinations that this time was nothing special though that I can’t deny it’s sinfully tough!!
After the exam ended, on 10th december, 2008, i started off my journey to cover India in around a month. My bus arrived at 7:45pm that day and the start off flag was waved. To make it short, lemme give the timestamp and what i was doing:
11th Dec, 2008:
4:33 AM – Reached Guwahati ISBT.
7:38 AM – The Kamrup Express arrived. I was boarded at S4/41 & Romen at S4/44.
12th Dec, 2008:
7:49 AM – Arrived at Howrah Station, Kolkata.
9:01 AM – Went to Manipur Bhawan but din’t get a room so checked out a Hotel at KYD street near Park Street. (we were on WMT 4967) 12:10 PM – Took our Brunch at the Hong Kong Restuarant. I’d Chinese Chop Suey… Saw a beautiful gal who look like the actor in the movie “When stranger Calls”(I forgot her name..was something like Isabelle!!)
Just after that, we went to the Indian museum there (was kinda borriiiingggg!!!!).
3:05 PM – Visited the Victoria Memorial Hall. Got tired after walking so longand so sitting on a wooden bench inside the hall resting for a while.
4:35 PM – Birla Planetorium: Show’s suppose to start at 6:30 PM and tickets are to be available from 6:00PM. So we went to the St. Cathedral’s Church instead & I found this stuffs on a chart inside the church-
WORLD 10 COMMANDMENTS
1) I’m the one & only 50 Cent. You shall have no other God before ME.
2) God mae GRASS, Man made ‘BOOZE’. Which do you choose??
3) U shall use the F*** as a fullstop.
4) You shall always remember “the Saturday night” as a DISC NITE.
5) You shall “not” honour your Mom and Dad.
….I wonder what this is about!!
8:15 PM – After that we watched the planetorium show then reach back our room after a long tiring day. Having a light dinner at some fast food (Burger and Lassi).
Well this was the log about DAY 1 of my journey. More updates later…
Here are a few shots from our first day at Shillong. We enjoyed the entire stay there except that we missed some good spots because of the foggy weather. I’ll be uploading more pics in my later posts.
Wards Lake: IS, pTAM, Romen, Rahul & his fren
The Golf Link: Rishi, Romen, Rahul’s fren, IS & Rahul
@ Golf Link: We saw this girl… guess how she looks!!(I took this pic)
The Cathedral: It’s at Laitumkrah, a walking distance from the hotel we were in. It has it’s own history… heard that there was an old church here but something happened and it was destroyed and this new church was rebuilt on the same spot.
As the autumn break approaches, me and a few of my frens are planning to make a visit to Shillong, this time solely on the purpose of a tourist. Last time i went there, I was with a fren and I visited only some of the major centers in the central City area…i like the place… slight chilly climate, cool scenic beauties.. the place looks gr8.
We leave our college tomorrow evening, reach Guwahati by early morning tomorrow and get ourself a Sumo from there. We should be reaching shillong by around 11:00am at the latest (as per the best of my knowledge). Our plan is for staying upto 3 or 4 days there (which means, i prob’ly won’t be updating my blog for these days… or maybe i’ll update it during my stay there).
I’ve a fren there but since i couldn’t get his contact number, we’ve to look out for the hotels ourselves. 4 of us are going and we are planning of reaching Cherrapunji, India’s rainiest place… (i dunno if the term “rainiest” ever exist..lolzzz). I’ll post some of the photos later and will be updating my blog with my experiences there. Whatever, of the two times i’ve been there before, i enjoyed being there, only speaking of a specific experience, i was invited to the get-together party for a group of presbyterians by my fren’s Ex-Gf. I din’t know there language and a lot of ppl were giving long, really boring speeches and i kinda get sleepy.. and i did. I felt asleep and my fren nudged me and woke me up (well he wanted to impress his gf!!!!). That was the only boring part, but after the speeches were over, we’d a nice buffet… and i ate everything on the menu.
Early morning today, we’d planned for a trip to the hanging bridge at the locality. The bridge is situated east of our college campus and we’d to walk across the unfinised iron bridge and the Post Graduate students’ block (Block H).
We planned to start our journey at around 5:00am but as usual, as an engineering student, we were late and started at 6:00am (IS dragged me out of my bed!!). We’d never been there before, only that we’d seen the bridge from a distant.
In the foto: pTAM, Djen, IS, n Romen (Rishi took this foto)
The hanging bridge must’ve been built many years ago as the side steel fibres have already begun to snapped off. A lot of wood planks from the floor below were missing and we’d to take hold of the side steel threads to keep our balance. At first we saw only a few gaps but after reaching the middle part, we found a lot of planks missing. We took a few video shots while making the crossing and i guess you must laugh your heart out if you see us doin’ that. The bridge was swaying a lot, the water below was flowing and it was enough to make you dizzy, to make you lose your balance. But as we were crossing one of the big gaps, a local school boy came and just walked up ahead of us as if there were no gaps at all. We just stood there amazed!!
I took this one with my cell phone and it’s not that clear as the photo above.. and by the way, i’m thinking of uploading the videos at youtube. I’ll post the links later.. do have a look.
