World's Best trip "Hyderabad Trip"

The most awaited “World’s Best Trip”

I am back again with a bang, I am just writing this blog to share one of my best moments which came just when I required it most. I am going to take you through the world’s best trip (Why it is in the scale of not below the world will be explained in later stages ;-))

Just to explain, how it happened before going further. Two of my colleagues Venky and Adi from the last wonderful project (Enemy of Enemy will become friends, Last Project gave friends like that) were deputed in Hyderabad and one of my wonderful (world’s best) colleague – Vamsi is a resident of Hyderabad (State, I am still confused whether he belongs to Telangana or Andhra. But he keeps changing it based on the need) and on top of it my desire to see Hyderabad made this trip possible.

So when I broke the silence of visiting Hyderabad, everybody in this group started dreaming their own way, Venky thought to explore the whole city in one day and play every single game. Adi thought of having all type of chicken and also have biriyanis of all famous joints. Vamsi thought of preparing the video starting from stepping on to the station to start the journey. I was thinking of how to book the tickets and when to go. As already a single shift from the plan has given me blasting from Adi, couldn’t afford the next shift.

So finally me and Vamsi did all jugglery and booked the tickets in tatkal. Cool when we did that, we realized railway has improved the website a lot, and also to my wonder, it connects without saying “service unavailable”. We both were so excited that our productivities at the office would have come down to half. To plan for the trip, I went to Vamsi’s room and started writing the blueprint to implement this project. We spent around 2 hours in doing that, and no wonder Vamsi has forgotten the paper... J

But the excitement reached to the highest levels when the day of travel arrived. The train was at 4:35 PM and Vamsi was at station by 3 PM only. He started bugging me to be on station early and I was stuck in lunch with my manager...

But somehow I managed to be there half an hour before and the first thing what I have done was taken a selfie to satisfy Vamsi and to fulfill his dream of putting it in a video.

Now starts the praise of Hyderabad by Vamsi, It has Asia’s biggest flyover, it has India’s biggest metro train network. Biriyani and Haleem were just icing on the cake. Because of this only now every item in my description is either world’s best, largest, biggest, or tastiest etc etc. J

Our train came and we started our journey with Train’s best seats, mine was emergency seat from which I can even jump or even someone can come inside if the main door is closed.

Vamsi started reading and I started enjoying the scenic beauty outside which I usually do. Vamsi offered me the book which was in telugu, then he laughed and told to see pictures only. I dint want to spoil my view of outside so was avoiding but came the savior who asked for that book. With that, I realized all the seats were occupied with telugu people who were just starving for that book and got it one by one... J

I took few wonderful pics enroute for our video and was just excited to see the world’s best city. It was night around 9 PM when some policemen came and told us to close the windows as there were many incidents of looting happened between the routes. I stared Vamsi, and he was just justifying it saying that it is not Andhra; the train will enter only in the morning so it is nothing to do with Andhra. I got convinced till the guy next to our compartment lost his mobile to a thief in the running train. He was playing game on his mobile when the train started and a thief from station just snatched it from his hand and ran away.

Somehow, I slept closing all my windows and keeping my mobile and purse in my pocket with all the negative thoughts “what will I do if I am going to lose them”. We reached Lingampalli station and Vamsi gave a look at outside to praise it to be the cleanest station in the world. I saw, there was no shade on the top and rains has just washed away all the scrap. J (Just to mention here, it is now we only who are comparing it to the scale of world not Vamsi)

Vamsi looking for the Auto and we were just hopping from one side to the other side of the station to get the best deal of auto. We hired one, and started towards Asia’s biggest colony… The moment we reached there, Vamsi had the glow on his face and he was enlightened, in spite of dark I could see his colony by his glow only... J He has shown me lawn tennis court, badminton court cricket ground clubhouse. I was just wondering if Venky would come here I had to offer him knife to kill me, else he will anyway kill me by torturing me to play till death... J The best part was we were not eligible for anything as Swimming pool required swim wear, tennis court required racket and ball, cricket required a team, etc etc which nothing was available. It’s different that we played barefoot on badminton court with one racket borrowed by Vamsi.

I was so tired that, I could not abide to the plan of 7:30 meeting, I just slept. There was a power cut which went on for hours so finally I got up by 7:30 and started waking up Vamsi too.

He again justified for this fault also that it was the first time power cut has happened and he turned on the inverter but dint on because the cradle was not turned fully... J Anyway the weather was fine, so I am not emphasizing much on this. Thanks to Vamsi for such a wonderful hospitality.

We woke up and got ready with the wonderful idly prepared by Vamsi’s parents. It was in real sense, one of the best idlis I ever had. Now is the time when I will have a real experience of what Vamsi has explained by my open eyes... J

We went to an auto stand and asked for the place which Adi has explained to Vamsi... Now here comes the challenge for Vamsi or anyone else to reach to the place which Adi has explained... You will doubt your own identity if you interact with Adi, he has a unique talent of confusing you to the core... J

We started in a metered auto leaving the one who told a fixed amount, the moment it started the meter was running like a sprinter, I doubted if that meter wanted to reach before us… I raised my doubt and Vamsi again fan of Hyderabad justified the same, but sooner he also realized and told the auto driver to give him fixed amount. So at last in a sunny day we reached to the place near to Venky’s and Adi’s hotel. I was shocked to see all kind of courses, it looked like professional courses hub. If you stay there for one month, I can bet you can come with any technology hands on experience, if not then at least certificate… J

The place where we got down was the place where hotel was there, but we went ahead as suggested by Adi or as understood by Vamsi… J I inquired with Venky and then came back and finally reached to the hotel. We were late for our Keema Naan breakfast, but everyone forgot that after seeing each other. We started after keeping my luggage to struggle  for auto again. There we found a new theory that autos will have different rates, if it is on the other side of the road or even if it has to take the u turn… We finally found one reasonable auto to Paradise in which Vamsi sat on Adi’s lap… J the highlight of the trip was that Vamsi enjoyed it also… J We reached to the place to have world’s best breakfast. Without thinking for a moment we ordered 4 Keema Naan. It came and we wondered if it is breakfast or lunch… We started having it with waiter taking our pics… then we ordered Irani tea for which we had to give so much of explanations to Vamsi as why it is called Irani, don’t know if it is Adi’s impact… We had finished our Brunch and came to know that Vamsi has left that planning paper at his pg, we did a quick planning there and started for Salarjung Museum… The museum was not of anybody’s interest but Venky told about some clock in which toys will play around at 12 o clock and will be amazing to see, and Vamsi told that it has a mummy which they have exported from Egypt. So based on these facts we also got excited to go to Museum. We reached there crossing Asia’s largest flyover. We took some photos and started covering it quickly so that we could occupy the seat to watch the world’s biggest clock show. Meanwhile we inquired about Mummy which was not there, so our expectations are now only with the clock. We reached to the place 15 minutes before only and were waiting for the best moment to come. I checked the place all over and was ready if some toys come from behind and front, it was like war front for me as explained by Venky… Suddenly it was almost 12 and the security announced to keep quiet so that we could experience and see what is happening, with that the show was over and we kept discussing as what has happened… We all were like behind Venky to beat him and he was calling everyone he can confirm with if that is the same clock what he has seen some decades ago… From everywhere he got the same information that it has that much only… Now one fact I concluded was that all kids live in their imagination as what me or everybody else must have done in watching such shows.  It is more than reality, our imagination which entertains us… J

Here while roaming we found one guy standing with the BMI and horoscope machine and was charging 5 rupees for the same. We all without any interest agreed to go for it, as it was going to reveal the truth about everybody whoever was claiming to reduce some kgs… J Thanks to Venky, the moment he stood up on it, the machine stopped working.. Everybody was so happy that they are now safe… Before even standing on it Adi was justifying saying that he ate Keema Naan and dint go to gym today as if by everyday going to gym he loses some 5 kgs… J

But our happiness dint last for long as while returning the machine was fine… and except me everyone was overweight, and even I was just standing at the border of overweight and fit.. L now all started doing their calculations of reducing some 2 -3 kgs as they are wearing jeans… J While playing and running it never weigh so much but when u r on weighing machine yes definitely it is the heaviest cloth in the world… J

The horoscope was also fantastic, I will give glimpse of those. Adi seeks the advice for Love and Advice given by Venky can be Fatal… J

Now we started for Chaar MInaar to find Adi’s one more love (refer to the pic “Isha loves Adi”). After begging so much Adi dint take the pic and even after he took he dint share it… It was Vamsi who broke this scandal and captured the frame in his camera… J

We planned to go to have world’s best Biriyani at Bawarchi, and wanted to start from the place, Vamsi guided us to catch an auto and we just took a round round around Chaar Minaar… and caught the auto from the same point where we started… Thanks to Vamsi for unintentionally making us walk to burn calories… J

We went to Bawarchi and had the best Biryani, I ever had… This is after having heavy brunch.. Now is the time to start for I Max where we planned to watch 4D movie and to hangout… After reaching there yes we watched 4D movie and also thought of watching Planet of Apes, but due to unavailability of tickets couldn’t watch… I can say whatever happens, happens for good… else we couldn’t have enjoyed the rains at Lumbini park and then the boating… J Now here a special mention of Tom and Jerry fight which started some centuries before is still continuing in and as Iyer and Namakati… Iyer is our Venky and Namakati is our Adi… J

After seeing the boat of his religion Adi smashed Venky not to get onto the boat… This was one of the most memorable moments we had in Hyderabad. As while walking for one KM to reach Lumbini park we couldn’t judge the rains properly and thought we could reach park before will drench… And after reaching there only realized that now there is no need to hide in shelter as we don’t have anything to keep dry as we all were drenched in the rain…

We did motor boating and enjoyed it the most, we screamed like never before and enjoyed it the most… After having fun blast, we headed towards eat street which Adi was not at all ready for… J but somehow managed to reach there and had a hot coffee to release all our tiredness… J Namakati and Iyer war is still on and me and Vamsi were enjoying it every bit, till Reddy is introduced to stop the fight… J

Now we were so tired that couldn’t plan anything further, if we would have planned something, definitely we would have lost few of us, as already in every plan everybody was offering knife to each other to kill as planning something after that is also like killing each other…

While going back we saw office of Venky and Adi and also the jogging track of Venky (which he might be jogging in dreams.. J). We had plans to have a full time pass gap shap at guest house and planned a little party… After taking bath we all gathered in Venky’s room for deciding on to next day’s strategy as well as discussing that day’s experiences… J Then there started a Group Discussion of Castism and reservations in which slowly the voices started becoming loud and we ended up screwing each other… J Nobody knew when Hyderabad, Kota and Chennai got into discussion and got fulltime insulted… But it was fun, and Namakati and Iyer fights were awesome.. We ended up sharing our NDE (Near Death Experiences) in which everybody shared fantastic experiences… The party and the first day was about to over when we did the jugglery of sleeping (4 people in 2 rooms which ended up Adi alone and we three in one room)… Morning as usual I was the one who got up earliest and started bugging all… J I was excited for the second day as I was unaware what is in the box which was yet to come… I can say now that it was my mistake; I should have taken some more rest, as another NDE is on the way… J

 Cool!!! We started for Vamsi’s house in a bus and were doing full on masti in which even conductor joined us… J We were discussing about the biggest largest, highest and tastiest things of Hyderabad… J

We reached to Vamsi’s colony, and before he took us to his flat, he has shown all amenities in the society that’s different that later we couldn’t qualify to use any of these.. Anyway we went to his flat and again had the fantastic idlis prepared by Aunty and Uncle followed by a tasty and refreshing tea…

Then we thought of atleast go for badminton, as for cricket we dint have the team, for Swimming we dint have the costume, for lawn tennis we dint have the racket, for table tennis we dint have the racket… And when we decided to go for badminton our team dint have the shoes… he he he he.. I think Venky was so excited to come for sports that he forgot to wear shoes… J Then they decided to play barefoot when Vamsi struggled to find the shuttle… Oh man so many permutation and combination that the whole excitement of playing went for a toss… Finally we could manage to enter the badminton court like a war field, and played to Near Death Experience… All were drenched in sweat, for which everybody might have thought of that we were playing in rain or might have jumped in swimming pool… J

Venky was again insisting to play one more game which we all took out knifes and thought of giving it to him to kill us… J

We were so tired that were not able to walk even and Vamsi was insisting to have Biryani and Haleem.. Oh god we thought to run away from all that but couldn’t get away as it was Vamsi who challenged that Paradise Biriyani will be better than Bawarchi Biriyani… We accepted the challenge and headed towards to Paradise and in between had one one beer just to reduce the pain what we had… I know that’s the reason guys give to have it, but here it was the fact… J

We reached Paradise and ordered one full family pack for 6 people (2 of Vamsi’s friends also joined), before it could be served fully Adi and Vamsi ordered one more family pack which was like top up for our already full tummies… After finishing all that stuff, we were like half dead and thought of dying completely by ordering “Qubani Meetha” a Dessert which was looking awesome in the hands of the guy sitting next table.. So now there were all desserts in front of us… We were laughing like hell…

So here we parted and Venky and Adi left for their hotels and we to our home from where we went to railway station… I was so much into the memories of the trip that forgot my mobile and handkerchief in the auto which the auto driver came running inside the station to return it… All my misconceptions about Hyderabad were snatched by this guy who has shown the best part thing which is called humanity.. Hats off to the guy and Hats off to Hyderabad… I will never forget this wonderful trip and the fun we had there… The journey here is not the end but I should call it a beginning….

Thanks to Vamsi, Adi and Venky for making this such a wonderful and memorable moment..

Thanks to All my dear ones and near ones who inspired me to write this… I will keep you all posted...

Miss you Hyderabad… I will come soon…   

Note:- Please don't take world scale seriously.. :-)

Love you all.... 

Sunil Morwal