Germany Trip - 13/August/2006

Day 2:-
If you feel that you are not getting things below then it is clear that you haven't read my first part. Please read the first one.

Yes. As you know myself, Mams, ICC and Mams friend were in that festival place (called as Konstanz, thanks to mams for reminding me about the place name) till midnight. Just before the midnight mams and icc had the thought of going to discotheque. But they did not know the place. So mams planned to ask some one and he went straight ahead to a cop to ask about this. ICC still not completely recovered from his hangover went straight ahead to a lady taxi driver to inquire the same. The reply from cop was "There was something like discotheque in that festival place itself". The reply from lady taxi driver was "You can find one down the straight road and a left turn - first building". Now ICC blushed - "Huh, females are more informative than males". Then mams not willing to spend some bucks just for killing time by dancing said "We will go that festival place itself". Now we were in a place where we heard "We will We will....". Every one there were dancing and some of them in special were dancing with beer glasses.
When everyone there were just moving their hands and legs in the name of dance one guy to impress every one started dancing like Michael J. But no one turned towards him. But then everyone started looking at couple (could be) in which Romeo did not dance at all but Juliet was dancing excellently. Mams and ICC applauded her for the "Hands on the hip..." action. Now this is mams just to prove that he has some logical thinking than his mechanical brain said "I think the guy is an engineer and the girl is arts student". I said to myself - "This statement if avoided could have saved some energy for mams". There were some other songs from More hits no words, Hips dont lie, World Hold on.
ICC now completely recovered from hangover started commenting about couples over there. There was one lady who was crying and ICC was about to say "Dont worry babe. I can take care of you. Do you like to have my company?". At this time since mams has already got aligned with frequency of ICC and hence said "Hair is gone. Dont be emotional". You got a question. What exactly mams mean by "Hair is gone?". Well i need to explain some words which were recently conceived in mams brain and coined the same. You need to translate the following in local language.
"Hair is gone"
"Itching?"
These words doesnt imply that mams is into marketing of products which will negate the above effects. He simply means the usual thing that he means in college but with some flavour.
Now it is the time when every one started leaving the festival place and move to their home. But we are having train only at 4 AM to singen. Now the time was almost close to 3 AM - still need to kill an hour more. But we did not know that our data about train timings were incorrect.
Once we reached the railway station Mams and his friend as they were were familiar with taking tickets and time table print outs from the machine chose the language as deutch and started touching the touchpad screen very fastly as if they are overcoming the speed of Microprocessor/Microcontroller installed in the machine. At one time they did not understand what the machine said and hence changed the language to english. Now i saw ICC teasing smile towards them. Mams finally declared that there is a train only at 5:40 AM. "That is disgusting" - ICC screamed. "But what can i do" - Mams replied back. We had no other option than waiting in the railway station.
Mams, ICC found a place suitable for sit/sleep and occupied it quickly. These three people (Mams,Mams friend,ICC) with their heads down in sitting position started sleeping. As it was very cold i dont feel like sleeping and hence started to listen the S.Ve.Shekhar drama that i have carried in my MP man. Time passed by and finally at 5 AM mams woke up and purchased the ticket from the machine.
Train arrived promptly and we got in. Train reached singen in 20 minutes but i had a very good sleep. Once we reached singen there was a connecting train to stuggart in the next 20 minutes and hence we got in that train. When we all are about to sleep in that train, a "Techno" music was played by one of the passenger in the train which added oil to the fire.
We somehow managing the "Techno" finally reached the stuggart. I felt as if i reached heaven - just for the reason of getting relieved from that "Techno". Mams friend left to his place and we three started moving towards mams place - favoritepark. At this point, the time was around 10 AM. Yes indeed. It took almost 2:30 hrs from singen to stuggart. Now we all were hungry and hence as soon as we reached mams place we finished all our morning "duties". There was a wheat bread mams had already bought and that saved us till we cooked the food.
Mams and I got into the kitchen. I assisted mams in making the mixed rice and egg curry. ICC was very busy watching our nearby north state language movie and hence did not come to kitchen at all. Food was prepared and we had enough.
The food started showing its power. We all were sleeping till 7:30 PM. Mams was very generous and asked me and ICC to have dinner there itself. But i wanted a tea at that time. Mams felt the same but ICC did not. When the tea was ready ICC as if he has relieved from his confused state said - "I also want tea".
After tea it was Mams who took the entire responsibility for making the dinner - Pasta. The pasta was very nice. Good work mams. When everything was done it was almost 9:30 PM and I and ICC planned to move. Where? Of course ICC room.
As we started moving towards ICC room, ICC started explaining the stop at which i should get down and things like that.
We reached ICC room. Now ICC was looking relaxed and started explaining me about his italy trip along with his male and female Kollege. He also revealed his crush towards one of his female kollege. That crush was crushed down to earth because of one his male kollege itself. Finally he said "Why it always happens to me like this?". This statement doesnt allure towards his previous hitches and patches for sure.

Germany Trip - 12/August/2006

Day - 1: 12/August/2006
This is the day i felt the meaning of every second.
I need to catch train to Frankfurt from Brussels Nord Station. The departure time was 6:33 AM. I slept only at 2:30AM after packing important things needed for travel setting the alarm in my mobile phone to 4:30 AM. Two hours i needed because i still need to press some of my clothes and to do a complete packing. The inner alarm indeed woke me up at 4:00AM but the laziness devil made me to feel sleep thinking that i will wake up at 4:30 when alarm rings. But it did not happen. The alarm should of course has rung but i have shut it off. Consequence? I woke up at 6:10AM. With just 23 minutes left to board the train, i rushed and brushed my teeth just to avoid bad breathe and took some unpressed clothes, dumped in bag and left. Until then my plan was to catch a metro and go to the station which will hardly take 10 minutes. So i still thought there is a possibility to make it.
I left home at 6:20 AM and reached metro station at 6:23 AM just to see the metro train has gone to the next station less than a minute before. I am a strong believer of "God gives more oppurtunities any time". I thought still there is a chance to make it. I did not give up. I came to the main road and looked for a taxi. But alas i dont know where the taxi stand is. I went to a person who was standing close to me and asked "Do you know where the taxi stand is". He replied in french which i could figure out as "Sorry i dont know". I had nothing to say other than "Merci beacoup". And now it was almost 6:28 AM.
Now god gives his helping hand in the form of a taxi which came via the road i was standing. I stopped and told him my requirements clearly. "I need to go to Nord station within 4 minutes. Is it possible?". He replied - No problem. Thinking how he could manage i just got in and he flied. God again made my path clear by showing no red signs in the road. Finally by travelling around 100kmph he dropped me at Nord Station at exactly 6:32 AM. There was exact change with me so i had no problem in settling the amount for taxi.
Now still i need to find out which platform the train is in within a minute and board the train. When i reached the square - where the details of departure/arrival trains are displayed i saw my train was in platform # 3 which was close to where i was standing. I ran to the platform and jumped into the compartment. I turned back just to know how early in terms of seconds before 6:33 AM. The comparment doors were already closed.

Actual Destination: I have planned my trip such that i will go to stuggart where my friends live and stay with them and roam around. My train reached frankfurt at around 10 AM. My next train to stuggart was at 10:20 AM and i came to know that it will reach at 12:00 AM. The train did as what it supposed to do. My friends there were waiting for me from 11 AM and finally we exchanged our "formal" salutations. There was another small challenge awaiting for us. There was a festival at a place close to singen and my friends were actually planning to spend the whole night there. The train to that place was at 2:30 PM. But since i was not fully ready (not shave, not had bath, not had food etc) i need to go to my friends place get ready and come back to the same station before 2:30PM. From here i will address my two friends as follows.

• Friend #1 - ICC Member One.
  
• Friend #2 - Mams.
  

Mams place was at a place called "favoritepark" which will take 20 min travel from Haufbahnhof station. Here i have to explain something about german metro train system. To put in a simple way.

• Hbf - Haufbahnhof - Any main station will be called with this name. Example Frankfurt Hbf.
  
• S Bahn - Stadschnellbahn - Sub urban metro trains.
  
• U Bahn - Untergrundbahn - Underground metro trains.
  

The difference between S Bahn and U Bahn is that the former will connect stations which are atleast some 3-5 Kms away but the latter will connect more closer stations. Now by taking S bahn (S4 i guess towards marbach) we reached mams place at around 1 PM. The next train from favoritepark to haufbahnhof was at 1:32 so i was asked to finish all my "activities" soon. Indeed were were able to manage to catch the train from favoritepark to haufbahnhof and from there to singen. While travelling we saw people enjoying their life by having tins of beer preparing themselves for the festival. Both Mams and ICC got tempted after looking those tins of beer and planned to buy once we reach the place.

We reached the place - where the festival was happening at around 4:30PM. Now mams and ICC started looking for a shop where they can buy beer. We roamed in the streets but couldnt find anything. Finally we saw a man carrying crates of empty beer bottles towards a shop. We followed him and finally got the place. Now mams and ICC started picking up the neccessary items for their wonderful evening. They bought 18 bottles (330ml) of beer and all the neccessary side dish. Since i dont take alcoholic drinks they got me one orange juice. Occasionally mams smokes when he take drinks. So he bought one pack of Marlboro. So with all these items we started moving towards the festival place.

Just we are about to enter the festival place the security check was made and they did not allowed as as we carried weapons (beer bottles). So now mams and ICC had only one option. To finish all the beer bottles (all 18 bottles) within some few hours and then get in the festival place. So they started having beer sitting near the railway station stairs. ICC had little problem in opening the beer. So he requested mams to provide some training on that. Mams is a perfect gentleman and provided the teaching/knowledge transfer to that hungry ICC. ICC got trained and became a skilled beer bottle opener. One, Two bottles over. Now station guard watched us and asked us to get out of that place. So we moved to a new place carrying all those things again.

This time we moved to a place where so many people were having beer. Mams and ICC started their activity again. Mams judicially spent his cigars as he has to maintain them till the next day. After consumption of 4 bottles by them i realised that they were already in out of sense. I could realise mams talking something stupid and ICC shouting in deutch. ICC as many of you may not know, has changed his hair style. He is now looking like Leanardo Dicaprio. With his elegant hair style he was always saying "Lieber Kollege" (Dear colleague) towards all.

Mams Ideas & Experiences: It was know mams realised that he and his Kollege are in out of state/control and he said that if they go to WC and refresh they will be back in normal state so that they can continue with remaining beer. They went and came back but NOT refreshed. These two people now started off with their 5 the one. No problem. Now the 6 th one. Over. 7 the one. It was at this point mams dropped a beer bottle in the stairs (he tried to move but due to obvious reasons it slipped from his hands) which got spilled on the guy sitting below us. He said something which mams did not understand. By this time mams friend also arrived to that place and guessing the situation he simply handed over one beer bottle from us to that guy. He said "Danke" and left. Now ICC laughing at this situation was boasting that he was in a steady state. At this point we saw a family people from our native and as a mark for our tradition mams handed over one beer bottle to a family man in that gang. The family man accepted the same from mams. He also said that his wife has already bought some beer from him for tomorrows party that they are going to have. He said "You might be thinking what a family". I said to my mind "yes".

After these events mams slipped again the beer bottle but this time it did not break. But all the contents flown out and there was nothing left. If you have followed all the events properly you should realize that there should be only 3 bottles of beer left. Now ICC declared "I cannot have more....". Mams insisted "You can do it ICC. Just do it".

Confused ICC:
But ICC as usual got confused and did something other than what mams mentioned. He just called one guy who was walking towards the festival and handed over one beer bottle to him and said "Danke". Mams was in his heights of Anger. He scolded ICC. ICC did not care and took one more bottle. He is out of control and he went straightly to a gang of people having beer and started telling "Cheers" in deutch to everyone. But after telling cheers he did not drink. But he showed his attitude of being thankful to nature. Yes. He poured the contents on a tree. Mams was now blinking what to do now. He now the last bottle and finished without any problems.

Since now everything was over we got in the festival place. All along the place we carried ICC carefully as he has already started shouting "I love you" towards every one. Me now fully worried about these guys status and fear about how to carry them back to their place. The firework started. It was just amazing and i took video of that with the help of Mams friend advice. Mams and ICC did not see fireworks show as they were already flat. ICC slept in some stair close to a lake there itself. When i was back after the firework show after 1 hour or so mams and ICC were back to their normal form. All the contents were down after their small rest. Day one ends here as the time was already 12:00 AM Day 2 will be posted shortly. If you want snaps of mams and ICC status after fully drunk please mail me: thoppae.saravanan@gmail.com

Puzzle

There is a person who loves in making riddles and puzzles and ask others to solve it. Being very wise and noble he was able to make the puzzle so complex that the people who are solving it has to spend their entire life. But the people who are solving the puzzle made a habit of giving away their work to their descendents so that the continuity of solving the puzzle remains uninterrupted. Still the people are trying to solve those puzzles. If one puzzle is solved the other pops up making the people occupied all time they live. But one best thing is when one puzzle is solved it paved way for the betterment of life.
Now the puzzle creator is still laughing as though the puzzle solvers hasnt even reached the main clue. This puzzle game is never going to end as the puzzle creator never wants to get bored. But do you think that puzzle creator is making other time waste just by increasing complexity? What does he really wants? When is this puzzle game going to end? What is the goal of this puzzle?
The above are the questions that every one started thinking about. There were one group of puzzle solvers trying hard to break the big one. The other group realised that the puzzle is never going to end and they also understood the purpose behind each puzzle. Whatever may be the case both felt that the goal is one. Working towards the betterment of life and perhaps humanity as a whole.