Shimla

Any one of you who has been to engineering college will understand if i say how satisfying it is not going to class and spending some time with yourself and your preferred colleagues. Not to demean any other graduates but in India where engineers (other then some premium institutes since i don't know what happens there but i am pretty sure it's similar if not same) are made in a factory where educations have reached new levels of ridicule. Practicality has been replaced by course books of outdated knowledge and sincerity by the amount of classes you attend. The only thing left is to label them and give a bar code. Well i brought up this because i am an engineer too or should i say a factory product. It was around six years back when i was in third year of my college. Me and my colleagues rented a flat and stayed there for attending college. Trust me when i say attending college was the last things in my mind. Don't think of it we were bad students or so but classes were just not appealing to us. After the break preceding the start of 5th semester we barely went to college 3 or 4 classes in one month. Other colleagues was remarkably impressed by our feat and so were we but the dean was not. So he called us for expressing his anguish towards us and we never showed up. The following day we received calls from our parents, courtesy dean. They told a lot about some important stuff which we don't remember, the only thing that stuck in our mid was" suna hai tumko paper nahin dene de rahe hain" ( we have heard that you are not allowed to give the sessionals). The expressions on our faces were exhilarating. For reasons of short attendance we were barred from giving sessional exams. It is not to give an exam due to short attendance especially if the others have to and you have been expelled. Next day we packed our bags and decided to go somewhere. One of my friend told me Chandigarh, good place never been there should try out. Since we stayed in Delhi it was too near from the place we lived. Siddharth one of my friend just had his maternal uncle shifted to a big MNC and placed at Shimla. A hill station seem a decent destination, but how to get there. Now we are not from a rich background but we belong to a decent middle class families. But the fact that we just received a call from our parents with some excellent verbal abuses and talks about our future prospects didn't urge us to call them back and ask for money. So where will the money come from. We had some money with us for one month's ration and rent already with us and a television set top top box of our senior. Now as any sincere junior, we sold the set top box and went to station for tickets.While he was giving exam we went for a jog in the park ( We told our senior what happened to the set top box and he is one of our very good friends now). We barely had enough money for the tickets to Shimla so we bought tickets till Chandigarh and decided to see what happens there.
We got to Chandigarh the other day and asked for the next train to Shimla, it was later that evening. So we took our bags and decided to roam in Chandigarh that day. It was a beautifully planned city of the likes none i have seen before. Time was short so we went to a few places only of which one of them was the Rock Garden, a beautiful place to visit. Then we took our bags and went back to station for our journey to Shimla. We reached Shimla the other day and luck was on our side too. Siddharth called his uncle for advice regarding affordable places to stay which he denied and said he had the company bunglow there and a driver. His uncle was out for some business so we had the bungalow and the car with us for the whole week. We went to whatever places we wanted as the food, conveyance and lodging was not our concern now. Shimla itself was a beautiful place and we admired its as we went. The journey to Shimla was my first unexpected ride with friends which till date i remember.