i know politicians,come police station!!

this is my first post as a blogger...last two days of my life bring this blog entry. these days were the most jubiliant days of my colg life.

wednesday 7:00PM

i came from class , planning about all the stuff that i wish to do in these pongal holidays.most of the part included sleeping,movies....etc,well as i reached my room,still breathless after running up the stairs, my friend came to me and asked eagerly "oye ,tu ooty chal raha hai kya t".suddenly my whole planned program got shuddered in the cold of ooty.

In 15 mins i was at the bus stand of vellore.At the enquiry window,a guy sitting over there told us to wait for an hour .still there was a bus for ooty which was about to leave was already filled by a huge crowd.so all we 19 friends decided to wait for the next bus rather, but even getting a seat there ,was not gaurenteed.The time we waited for kept on increasing..........whenever a bus came over there ,all the shrill noise making crowd appeared.so the journey was gonna be very terrible.......and finally we hired a bus for ooty. the bus was gonna visit all the tourist places in ooty and coonoor (12 km from ooty). the whole conversation with the bus owner and the driver went in tamil with a friend who was the only one who know tamil, because bus driver and bus owner ,both of them did'nt know either english or hindi.this is how our journey finally started.

thursday morning about 9:00AM

in the morning the bus was climbing nilgiri hills.we reached ooty at about 10am.as we all ate our lunch and were ready for a healthy walk . we reached our first spot "pine forest ".the pine forest is the place where the shooting of the film "Raaz" had taken place. this was a 21km long forest.we all had great fun in pine forest.we all were overwrought but eagerly waiting for our next visiting spot doddabeta.Ooty is at a high altitude so it was difficult to drive there, just a short distance also takes lot of time.well,after about 2 hour(we were still in bus)we asked driver how far were we from doddabeta.he told doddabeta closed at 6:pm,so we are returning to our cottage.we all were very upset because in whole one day we just visit only 1 spot . we asked a local person about doddabeta's opening time.he told it was 8 km from ooty in opposite direction from what we are heading to.All things changed dramatically......everyone was very upset with the driver and for making their mood little light some of us made some abusing noise.

friday morning 8:00am

we had time till 12:30pm,after that we had to go coonoor.so we asked local persons about path of doddabeta,because after a drastic chapter of previous day no one was prominent about driver.after asking from one person to another we reached doddabeta, it was a adorable scene,it seemed we were above white cloudes....

afternoon 1:30pm place-coonoor

we had reached at coonoor.again a trauma drama came over there.driver hesitated to go tourist places.he shruged and told to hire another bus for visiting kunoor.we had no option beside hire another bus.(sorry,i forgot to tell you that we also hired two jeeps to reach doddabeta with the same description from driver)

friday evening 6:00pm

we all were very tired by whole day's pattern and psyche's things by driver.we were in on our way to getback to vellore.we came over here at early morning near at 4:30am.this is the drama that bring my first blog entry.we already planned to cut 1000 rupees from the asked amount because he simply wasted our time on 1st day in ooty and due to "he can't drive on height"thing we had to pay about 2000 extra money.we were standing outside main gate of vit.first we all got down,after a little while the driver also got down to get the rest of the money as we paid already some money to him.rather i should say he was quite certain that we are not giving all the rest of the money .our incharge chacha(my friend karthik)gave him Rs.1000 less and argued with him about his mistakes.he called the bus owner,talked to him something in tamil.......'poda,pada,illa' these two or three words i can hardly pronounce .after a little chat the driver was done with bus owner, the driver gave the cell phone in kartik's hand.as i said he didn't know either english or hindi.but he could speak some words with a foggy pronounciation.as the conversation began

kartik:hello,we are...

master:(kartik in between his sentence)you give money,i know politicians,come polise(accent problem)station.

kartik:don't threaten m...

talk finished.

we all went to security guard of vit and told them the whole thing.we decided to give money to driver as it will be said by security.kartik talked to security chief and told him to pay attention to this matter.as security chief said "i recommened you to give him not a single penny but as you are a student you should show little courtesy" so the decision was in between both the parties.we paid him all his money but Rs 500 less......

as the conclusion of this blog is how outsiders try to take advantage of students.students should answer back to all such matters that happen in their life rather than run away from their problems.

thank u vit for supporting us.....this was an unforgettable trip in two manners.first,we enjoyed that ooty world as much as we can and second it was a great learning lesson.