Monday, 4 June 2012

Life is a travel, in this journey we meet many people. There are few journeys which are most lovable memories while some well we cannot forget.
As an architectural student i traveled a lot. most of my journeys are well lets say horrible yet funny memories

MY FIRST JOURNEY:AN UNSUCCESSFUL SURVEY
when i was in my first year of architecture we had to make a survey about water treatment plant in Singapore township.
It was mid summer and me and my friend Ashish had started. when we started, time was about 11:00 in the morning and temperature was well beyond 43 c all we had was a permission letter stating that to permit us to do our survey at Singapore township (which we learnt later that it was not Singapore township but Malaysian township) and few bucks in our pockets and of course a note-book.
we took a share auto and reached Kaza (a small village near our university) and inquired about township, which people there couldn't understand so we have to tell them that they are cluster of big buildings, one of the shopkeeper showed a mud road and said that that could lead us to the township. we took the road and started walking for about 15 minutes we could not find a single person nor a single building, our journey just took a wild turn at that time as we saw a dog coming towards us at full speed, we never backed down and even we started running at full speed, after running for about 15-20 min we lost our way. As they show in man vs wild we were struck in middle of nowhere. we just went straight there was a railway line nearly 2-3 meters above us we climbed that to see where we are and it was a bad decision as it was hot summer and rocks were hot we just ended up in bad shape.
We continued our journey and we crossed few fields where few farmers were working which lifted our spirits when we inquired about townships one of then dropped us at a cluster of buildings, to our surprise they do not belong to our township, they were a school and a orphanage. We thought to go back try another time, we just started walking towards main entrance of that place ,then were stopped by guards and were questioned as we trespassed a private property well to our luck we had letter and said to them that we were lost. lucky us because they believed that and let us go but we had a serious warning. When we came back we learned that it was a simple misunderstanding it was not Singapore township but Malaysian township. We just spent our day under mid summer sun walking all day long just for nothing. we just missed our ticket to jail and reached hostel at the end of the day.
Thus ended my first journey