Well it was on 28 Febuarary were we made a complete fool of ourselves, the day goes like this,
On 27th evening I had got a call from one of my M8’s saying that, a Job Fair was being organised at Medak Engineering College, and Most of the Guys/gurls are going there and was asked to come along, as big shots like Microsoft, Accenture…etc were going to attend.
The Transportation was organised by the above said college authorities as Busses to Ferry the Students to the College, this being an State level Event, so we expected the transports to be overcrowded and decided to go by road. So I had SMS’ed mah Buddies to assemble at my place, at 7am, but only 1 soul turned up at 7, n that was not me.
We started our Journey at 8 30am 28th Feb 08 armed with Apple iphone’s GPRS’s GPS appoxminator (Navizon) and the same for Nokia, so we had no probability of getting lost. The name being Medak engineering College confused our Navigator (Sarode) that the Said College was in Medak, so we headed out to Medak, with half tank of Gas. We took the national Highway NH7 the Road was bad at times, but it was pretty much ok, we were averaging at 90km/hr as the road had bumps, we Fist made a stop at Yellampet for Breakfast , and headed off road after this was pretty good, we managed to maintain 135km/hr for quite some time, and reached Ramayapet clocking 107km, now according to the Google maps we had to take a right turn and go down more 30km to Reach Medak, the Road From Ramayapet to Medak was in a Very sorry state as it was only a single lane road, so he had to be half on the road and the other half on the sand, hoping we wouldn’t blow a tyre as it was easy for it to get punctured.
After reaching Medak, when we looked around we couldn’t find the college and the surprising fact was that no one had ever heard of the college, So we had made a call to the college authorities (Medak Engineering college…etc), the guy was on about some weird directions, we ended up in circles, as there was an stature similar to that of in Siddipet were the college is originally located. After a while we got restless as it was 156km on the trip meter and we had no clue where we were exactly as the Airtel network had gone down, and the Maps and Navizon needed Internet to work, So we called up guys who started on the busses, they claimed to have reached the college* they started at 7* well before us, and we still had no clue where we were, So finally I guy said that , how could u miss the college gate as Siddipet was relatively small, then it striked us that Siddipet was on the Other side, after a brief conversation, we realised that we had taken the name of the College in Literal sense and went ahead to Medak as it was named Medak Engineering College, So were offcource, then we started again, tracing back our steps in to medak to Ramayampet, when at Ramayampet we had Cellular signal and we were able to plot the route again to Siddipet, which needed us to travel more of 115km, so we started, the road from Ramayampet to Siddipet was Gud we were able to maintain 165-170km/hr,
During the process the Iphone’s battery had died out, and we missed the siddipet intersecction and endeded up going more miles towards karimnagar, after a while when the Iphone Started again , wiv very little Juice, we came to know that we were again 70km off cource and were travelling in the wrong direction, so we then again turned bk to siddipet and we were running low on fuel, there were no pumps on the way, atlast at Siddipet intersection we found a pump and got the tank filled, Now we had to travel more 20km to reach the college as it was 20km from Siddipet,Finally we Reached the college, with Numb Butts- but i wasnt tried even after all the driving.
We reached the college at 1pm. I had put in my Resume in Microsoft and Accenture, I got a chance to be interviewed in Accenture, it went good, but the Microsoft interview guy, wanted all the applicants to came again the next day, for the interview and didn’t even put the Interview list, and asked us to came back tomorrow and check it, so after same fooling around we decided to leave at 5:30pm and this time we managed to take the correct route and reached home at 6:10, and it was only 98 km to the city, it would have been 196km journey
For 98km we had travelled 379Km!
So next time , u plan on taking a road trip, be sure to plan it out thoroughly and carry instruments like GPS navigator or Navizon which is Free to download and also works with Nokia Cellular Phones and only Required Internet to be activated which is In Airtel 15rs/24hrs, which is a good deal.
I have More pictures, ill upload them as , soon as Sarode Forwards me them.
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