tic tic toe... tic tic toe.... tic tic toe...
26th DEC 2005 09:00 Am @ Chennai central railway station, standing on foot board of Coromandal Express, waving my hands for a long goodbye to my parents...
Its time to ILP
Life has taken me to a new directions after I stepped into my first job in IT. Campus interviews, written tests, HR interview, results, offer letter, new faces, TCS vadapalani office, joining letter and here I m in Bhubaneswar to witness what TCS gonna provide me for my rest of my IT career... Well... it all started of with a paid holidays.. ha ha ha..
back to 26th Dec 2005; almost 30% of the train population was filled with TCS budding software engineers, the train all travelling to Bhubaneswar (BBSR)... Though I already have some friends from my college travelling along with me and some whom I knew, I still started making my intro to every single person who looked very serious from their face, travelling alone, although I misjudged a few :) but got to know almost many of them by the time I reached BBSR... The whole train journey was completely filled with excitement new people and making new friends..
27th Dec 2005: reached BBSR.... A new dawn, a new place... We took and auto to Patalia where we got our accomodation... day to rest and make ourselves fresh and look out where our friends got their accomodation... To my surprise, I found were many other buddies who already arrived a day before from every corner of the country...
28th Dec 2005: Unforgettable events
The first day, Morning bath (whether to bath or not to bath), "machi water is very cold"
Hey how to wear the tie…
My dress… "Is this dress matching?" Pity on Niranjan (CR B29), no dress to wear… this guy coolly brought the suitcase from Chennai keeping the keys at home and realized when he stepped in BBSR…
My files… My documents… "Alas!!! I didn't sign here", "should I carry this document", "My passport", "Where did I keep my mark sheets", all sought of tensions…
Gather some friends to have breakfast… "Machi udupi… No… Subham…" and atlast went to Canteen…
Abdul Kalam visit to KIIT… everyone was eager to see this great personality…
Entered IBAT, "hey this is Allahabad bank", No da this is only TCS… (Some hindi guys) "yeh kya TCS office hain kya… itna Chota"
(tamil guys) "cha rombo chinada iruke"
Entered Audi… Gangs formed slowly… Lectures from Suman, summit ,Vijay and Asit pradan started… very eagerly watched and got bored as usual… batches formed …
CR selection… will never forget B27 CR selection…
Lunch… (None knew food could be an all time problem)
"No place to sit"
"No taste"
"No juices"
"Only all new faces"
Back to audi… Got a thread and ID card, which was misunderstood as tag… Weared the tag and walked briskly on the roads of Patia…
Vijay's dialogue, "please fill ur address correctly", "please put ur signature here"… bla bla bla….
Vending machines at terrace…
Evening walk, back to Villa and Apartments (Finding short cuts to go to villa)
The day when we all first met? Not knowing each other… Not wanting to know… Not even a smile… Then we started with a blank smile. Then we started with (in Tamil) vanga, solunga (with a respect tone), ponga… then became va, solu, po… Then we addressed with dai, da, di, machi and all!!! Had a fun and memorable time with my batch mates(B28), had masti with roommates Mohamed Suja and Niranjan… My gang and all other staff… A new innings of my life was shaping up as I was undergoing my ILP at BBSR...
Some memorable moments
Tera suroor song
Get togethers
Picnic to Konark Puri and Beach
Big bazaar
Singing songs in the bus, we traveled
Reliance GSM connection.
It took a long time to spell "Hajimemashite"…
The song that was played for written communication… some sha la la la wo oo wo ooo
ICICI bank
KIIT hospital where our buddies were admitted during malaria
Udupi's Shubham and madhuban… never go to canteen
Chilka lake
Camera cell phone (that you can misuse at ur will) to capture all the happy moments (Guys.... plz donn let ur imaginations take wings!!)
Udaygiri caves
Kolkata bazaar
Rang de basanti
Pongal celebration
Together to temple on top of the hill.
Playing in KIIT campus
The auto's bargain.
Cricket.
Projects (only reason to enter gals VILLA)…
Laptops
Evening walk to villa from IBAT with most friendly and lovable person
Late night project discussion (Kadalai)
The foggy day… I was blind the whole morning
Attendence sheet
Feedback forms
Books
"Notepad over"… "CRRRRRRRRR please get me notepads" I could still hear the sound
Star of the day.
Its 5'o' Clock… sir plz stop the class
Antakshari
Debates
Birthday parties late night…
Hot water issue
New year celebrations
Midterm exams
Group study
Open book test
Gracia, vijay, sumit, suman, tarun,Chitanand, Nanda, karthik, meera, sudipto Sailesh, Preet...
Japanese with Ashish
Anupam's, "Think man Think", inspired many.
Jayanthi's her attitude….. aarrgghhhhh!!!!
End term exams
Asit Pradhan's Accident… Always remembered
Farewell day left tears in our eyes.
And now it's been a year in TCS, few early confirmations, few onsite, many having training abroad and in India also… Congrats to all… Shared our days, hours, minutes and seconds together. We made castles with our thoughts, moved mountain with our dreams… Today I wanna tell you how much u mean to me… hand in hand we move the immobile… "Long live our friendship"
Life becomes so easy at work when you have wonderful Colleagues around you. Thanks to my friends and colleagues in ILP who had helped me a lot during those days and it was really a growing experience for me. I hope to carry this rich experience with me in all my future endeavors. I pray for all ur life engagements current and future, let with the grace of god...U all shine with flying colors in every thing u all take up.
Wishing all of you a Happy and Prosperous New Year 2007!
Dream your dreams and put your foot on the path to fulfilling your dreams. Do not hang back. Go ahead and try. If you succeed, brilliant. If you only get part way there, you will have the satisfaction of knowing you tried, you gave it your best shot.
Monday, January 1, 2007
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