I had a difficult day at work, and came home early, for a change. Its a lovely evening outside my window, and I should have just chilled out. But no, I had to decide to get tickets booked for a trip I need to make this weekend. I thought I should check out the train reservations first. I searched for the indian railways site, and finally found both an indian-railways@gov.in as well as irctc.co.in. I tried a dozen times to find out the different trains and timings to my planned destination. Each time I got the error message and couldnt open the page. Finally I turned to irctc. I thought, why not register, this could be useful whenever I need to book tickets online. I filled in the registration form, about 20 lines. Clicked submit.And wham, ‘this page cannot be displayed.

I checked all the settings I could, as well as my net connection. All hunky dory.

I filled in the form again. Clicked submit. Same result. I tried again, and again. Finally decided that this site is not registration friendly.

Went back to the homepage and tried the ‘Train between Metros’. Well, that page couldnt be displayed. Nor could the “Train between important stations’ be displayed.

I kept trying ways and means, tried google search, dogpile search, but now even irctc was not in a mood to be displayed.

Ive spent more than 2 hours, most unproductively. I could have read a book, listened to music, watched BBC Entertainment, gone to bed early….

Maybe I should try one more time. I do want to make that trip…..