The INDO-GULF trip
One of the days in life you don't like to forget - Truly amazing with lots of masti, enjoyment and bus travel.
We started at 5:30 in the morning and reached Jagdishpur at around 11 - with a halt in Lucknow. I and Vivek Aalok got into the bus late so had to sit with girls. There was a lot of 'booing' around initially and some tit-bits during whole of trip, but without much caring about them we both continued to enjoy. Especially the three of us (me, Vivek and Niharika) stayed together and talked a lot.
We enjoyed ourselves a lot. We sang songs, did a lot of chatting, shared thoughts and opinions and guess what, talked about books. OK. Will think about Niharika in some other post, but let me remind myself that Shilpa also talked and if we had continued she would have started chatting fluently. Actually, I invited her to sit down beside us.
So, the journey started by Sir coming late and sitting in front of us. But the good thing is he enjoyed our singing (even bad songs) and showed us some magic tricks. Also he was sleepy more than halfway through the journey. We offered him biscuits and chips, and he gladly agreed. He impressed me today.
Priyanka as usual started by taking out the books but songs forced her to put them back, especially 'Awaara Bhanware'. Amanjot was talkative as usual. Arnika was on fire compared to how much she speaks. Shilpa - mentioned above. Niharika deserves a separate post. Shivangi and Poonam talked only in factory area.
Our hostelmates? As usual. Packed in the back of bus like school days - playing Antakshari, passing comments, singing waise wale songs, applauding every out-of-normal-course thing, shouting at will - man! I missed that. But have done enough of that already. On crossing Lucknow, Rishi and Sadanand joined us and started singing songs. That was fun. However gud the girls may be, you get real fun with the gang !!!
When we reached the factory, we were made to wear helmets and to deposit our mobiles and cameras. After that we divided into 3 groups and were shown around the area. First we were taken to the Control Room of Ammonia Manufacturing Plant and later to that of Urea Production Plant. It was fully automated and quite impressive. Then our guide - Mr. Navin - took us to various parts of the plant. It was huge - the pipelines, absorbing and reforming towers, pumps, generators ... everything. Chemical Engineering displayed with its full grandeur. But the most amazing and the most unforgettable of them was the Prilling Tower. It was 109 meters high and quite a few meters wide. Urea sprinkled from the top reached the bottom as round prills. Mr. Navin opened the Inspection door and as soon as I saw it, I was mesmerized. It was awsome. Just like snow falling from way above and collected by a rotating twin blade at the bottom. Everyone was thrilled. Then we caught an elevator to climb up the tower and from there we say another breath-taking sight. Whole of the plant which looked so huge was laid down in front of us like a small model and men looked like small ants moving around. We stayed there for quite some time and came back to the ground. Everything was big again. Then we went to see the Water Cooling System and returned back.
Later we had our lunch, which I accept was not very good, and waited for don't-know-what for around an hour before heading back to Kanpur. As our campus neared, everyone was becoming merrier except one - myself. I wanted this journey to continue for some more time. Can't say why. Maybe because I was having a good time or a good company, or maybe something else. But here I am, sitting in my room, typing this post and ...... reliving today.
This much was written on Saturday and then I slept so much that today is Monday now. I will share pics later.
We started at 5:30 in the morning and reached Jagdishpur at around 11 - with a halt in Lucknow. I and Vivek Aalok got into the bus late so had to sit with girls. There was a lot of 'booing' around initially and some tit-bits during whole of trip, but without much caring about them we both continued to enjoy. Especially the three of us (me, Vivek and Niharika) stayed together and talked a lot.
We enjoyed ourselves a lot. We sang songs, did a lot of chatting, shared thoughts and opinions and guess what, talked about books. OK. Will think about Niharika in some other post, but let me remind myself that Shilpa also talked and if we had continued she would have started chatting fluently. Actually, I invited her to sit down beside us.
So, the journey started by Sir coming late and sitting in front of us. But the good thing is he enjoyed our singing (even bad songs) and showed us some magic tricks. Also he was sleepy more than halfway through the journey. We offered him biscuits and chips, and he gladly agreed. He impressed me today.
Priyanka as usual started by taking out the books but songs forced her to put them back, especially 'Awaara Bhanware'. Amanjot was talkative as usual. Arnika was on fire compared to how much she speaks. Shilpa - mentioned above. Niharika deserves a separate post. Shivangi and Poonam talked only in factory area.
Our hostelmates? As usual. Packed in the back of bus like school days - playing Antakshari, passing comments, singing waise wale songs, applauding every out-of-normal-course thing, shouting at will - man! I missed that. But have done enough of that already. On crossing Lucknow, Rishi and Sadanand joined us and started singing songs. That was fun. However gud the girls may be, you get real fun with the gang !!!
When we reached the factory, we were made to wear helmets and to deposit our mobiles and cameras. After that we divided into 3 groups and were shown around the area. First we were taken to the Control Room of Ammonia Manufacturing Plant and later to that of Urea Production Plant. It was fully automated and quite impressive. Then our guide - Mr. Navin - took us to various parts of the plant. It was huge - the pipelines, absorbing and reforming towers, pumps, generators ... everything. Chemical Engineering displayed with its full grandeur. But the most amazing and the most unforgettable of them was the Prilling Tower. It was 109 meters high and quite a few meters wide. Urea sprinkled from the top reached the bottom as round prills. Mr. Navin opened the Inspection door and as soon as I saw it, I was mesmerized. It was awsome. Just like snow falling from way above and collected by a rotating twin blade at the bottom. Everyone was thrilled. Then we caught an elevator to climb up the tower and from there we say another breath-taking sight. Whole of the plant which looked so huge was laid down in front of us like a small model and men looked like small ants moving around. We stayed there for quite some time and came back to the ground. Everything was big again. Then we went to see the Water Cooling System and returned back.
Later we had our lunch, which I accept was not very good, and waited for don't-know-what for around an hour before heading back to Kanpur. As our campus neared, everyone was becoming merrier except one - myself. I wanted this journey to continue for some more time. Can't say why. Maybe because I was having a good time or a good company, or maybe something else. But here I am, sitting in my room, typing this post and ...... reliving today.
This much was written on Saturday and then I slept so much that today is Monday now. I will share pics later.
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