As posted yesterday I am all set to go to bangalore for the Joe Wilson event.

I kind of never had an idea that I would post this, but I thought that it would be better if I did.

3 of us, Myself, Hebron & Sumudu have decided that we would be travelling. The others well, they weren't that sure about it. So we decided that there was no use waiting for them.

Yesterday I found out that all the trains to Bangalore are running Full and tat there was no possibility of getting seats to the place.

Fortunately there is a Scheme with the Indian Railways called the TATKAL which allows people to get confirmed seats on an extra payment of Rupees 150/- (3$)perr head.
Since Microsoft was Paying it wasn't a Big Deal.

I went to the Booking office only to find out that there was a huge queue waiting for the tickets,
I prepared myself for the long wait , knowing that in India, you will have to wait for anything and everything that you want.

But Thankfully Hebron came there on my request to give me company, and time just went by. Though it was a long wait for 45minutes.

We just managed to get the tickets 3 minutes before the Sytems Shutdown Automatically...

I really don't know Y the railways do this, but its the policy of the railways to start sharply @ 8 am and close @ 8pm.

Now the tickets I bought were only for the journey from Chennai, I had to buy the return ticket the next day(TATKAL policy)you can only buy tickets in TATKAL the day before the Journey.

I had to return Today to buy the return ticket.I arrived there @ 11:30 am, under the assumption that it will be empty, coz its peak Office Hours.BUT I was Wrong.
The place was more crowded than last night.

There was not other way out of this, but to wait.The Hot Sun outside, and high level of humidity made my wait even more punishing.
The clock seemed to move very slowly. I kept looking at it and it seemed to stand still for a very long time, minutes seemed like hours.
I was really begining to get annoyed with the Entire system and stuff.

Finally after 2 hours I managed to get the Tickets andcome out of the torture chamber.

On the way back I purchased 2 shirts for the Trip tomorrow ;-), I kind of did not want to use the Clothes that I already had on me.

If this is what happened before the Trip, I really don't know what will happen during the Trip, coz all PUBLIC Transports Systems are on a Strike tomorrow and we don't know how we will manage the travel around.