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I have been in transition lately. Moving back to college after a break of 6 weeks. I should say i did enjoy the holidays. They were more of a sleeping exercise and at times i love sleeping. But it was not all that smooth going all the way there were hiccups. Last week of vacations was particularly not the way i wanted it to be. I had planned to go to lahore so that i could join the party there but had to knock down my plans because of red eyes 'viral conjuctivitis'. Whole fun plan was ruined for me. Everyone was there enjoying and having fun and for me life was reduced to putting eye drops in my eyes and wishing that they would get better soon. Anyhow things go the way they like to go one can't do anything about it. These vacations were a new experience in terms of surfing the net. Suddenly cyber space seems to be so hugew that there are no boundries.
Had to travel to karachi alone as the party had chosen to be airlifted and i have least tendency to be air lifted that often. Money is a constraint at times you see. So karakoram express is the solution for me. I must admit that its a comfortable train but not very swift. It was supposed to reach karachi at 8 in the morning but finished the journey at 1 in the afternoon. Some of the blame goes to the bad weather conditions in sindh. Rain was to be witnessed almost all across sindh. But the actual and primary cause of the delay was a filed engine of a train just in front of us which left the train and its pessengers stranded in the middle of a barren terrain for 8 hours. This blocked the track and our train had to wait till a new engine was attached. Back in the hostel its the same red place. getting monotonous and even more when there is no one around to chat with. Most of the classes are out for vacations.

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