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So on 19th January 2008 I left Silchar for Guwahati. I thought I would see a lot of saline water combined with a lot of melodramatic expressions on my departure but to my surprise none of them bothered to shed a single drop of it ....on the contrary most of them seemed pretty happy to get rid of me. Previously my uncle was supposed to leave me uptill Guwahati but blood sugar got the better of him and I had to leave alone(not that I complained). I reached the bus station accompanied by Suren(a cook in our restaurant) and found out that except Rajdeep( Chowdhury ) none of my other friends cared to show up. Tantu and Jeet preferred to sleep and Sourav could not make it because of higher causes. Anyways I was glad that Rajdeep was there when I left and actually dint give much of a thought to others after that. The bus journey from Silchar to Guwahati is something that I have always hated, it was a 12 hour bus journey, and I usually spent most of the time either sleeping or cursing the govt for not making things easier....but at the back of my head I was happy this time cause I was taking this journey the last time for sometime to come now!!! As the Bus slowly moved out of the station, then over the only flyover we have in silchar, a lot of things began to roll on my mind. Ofcourse I was happy but the sights and sounds of silchar suddenly started to feel very nostalgic and I began to think of the things that I will not be able to see for a long time now. I was busy in my thoughts when I was suddenly brought back to reality by a group of tourist, probably from in and around Delhi, when they started talking about all the things they saw and hated about Silchar. They growled about its roads, sewage system, electricity, unemployment, the ignorant people and a million other things and they seemed pretty sure that they will probably never come back. At one point I thought I would jump into the conversation and give them a piece of my mind.But I was a silcharian and I loved silchar for whatever it was and thought that the group behind me was the worst set of homo-sapient in this bus. I don't know when I fell asleep but when I woke up we had already covered about a 100 kilometers and someone in the bus was playing Always-by Bonjovi. The rest of the journey was alright but we had to encounter a two hour delay because of a road block which was ok by our standards.I reached Guwahati at 8 P.M and checked in hotel Siroy Lily for the night....My train was early next morning!!