Killer Smile.. Flashy Eyes!!

Sep 28, 2007

My excitement was at its peak. Starting today, I would be an employee. I would get to meet loads of new people. I took out my new pair of formals and placed it on the bed. I never liked wearing formals but I did not have an option this time :(. We were to report to the training center at sharp 9:00 AM. My roomie helped me with the Tie. Hell Yeah, it was mandatory for us to wear a tie during our training period. 

The training center was huge. We were asked to gather in the auditorium. ICICI bank employees were available to assist us with the opening of new Salary accounts. We got the 'Welcome Kit' which had our account details, ATM card and Cheque book. 1 row behind me I saw a trainee. She was of my height, wheatish complexion, hair shorter than shoulder length. She was in complete business formals. I am not sure why I noticed all these details about her. She is in US completed her Masters. She is one of my closest friends till now. All the trainees were divided into batches. Each batch had a maximum of 40 trainees. The batches were formed based on the field of specialization in our Engineering. T85 was the first batch announced which had a list of trainees from Computer Science/Information Science background. I was put in T86 batch which had trainees from Chemical/Civil Engineering/Biotechnology. Electronics students were in T87 batch. 

This part of my memory seems to be damaged and would need to be repaired. 

I guess T85, T86 and T87 batches were moved to a single large room. All of us gathered in the room where the instructors would help us with the documentation process. There were hell lot of documents required with attestation from the Gazetted officer. The instructors would call each one of us and verify the documents. Among my college mates, I was the only one with few missing documents. The missing documents meant I would not be enjoying my first weekend completely :(.

I was given 2-3 days for submitting all the documents. Only after the submission of all the documents, they would initiate the process to generate the employee code. I returned back to the last bench. Yes friends, I was a last bench-er most of the time. 

As one full day was allocated for documentation, there was a lot of free time when our turn was over. I did not interact with anyone apart from my college friends all day. We were busy checking out the chicks present in the room. My eyes wandering in all the possible directions in the room. Everyone present there seem to be at their best. 

Right at this moment I saw a group of 3 gals in the first line at the entrance. I remember only the names of 2 gals. The 1st girl was slim, tall, medium length hair, sweet smile and a bindi on her forehead which reminded me of my sister. The 2nd girl was short (probably 5'2), round face, sharp features, killer smile and flashy eyes. She was wearing a Salwar(do not remember the color) which was modified as per her requirement.

As I remember, my eyes followed the 2nd girl all the time. I was mesmerized by her charming looks. The more I looked at her, the more I was falling for her. I mentioned the same to my roomie who was equally agreeing with me. I do not recollect what I did for the rest of the day. I was completely thinking about the short female. I even started bribing 'God' for setting me up with her.

I went to bed with 'HER' images circulating right in front of my eyes. I was recalling all the expressions she showed the whole day. With some hope of seeing her and talking to her the next day, I dozed off.

The wait is Over!

September 07, 2007

The long wait was over. There were bunch of emails in my email box. But only one email caught my attention and I was dancing with joy in the browsing center unaware of the people staring at me with blank expressions. The email  had all the information about my joining with instructions on how to reach, what to bring etc. I was super excited about the joining. I rushed home to convey this to my parents. I updated the status on ORKUT. Yeah!! Orkut was still the best social networking site then. I booked my ticket to Kurnool as I had to meet my atti (aunt). I was planning to spend some time in Kurnool and then head to Bangalore.

September 28, 2007 was another milestone in my life when I began my professional career with one of the most reputed organizations. 

I was extremely excited when I saw the place where I would be getting trained. Its 'God's own Country' no prizes for guesses, its Kerala. I booked my ticket from Bangalore to Trivandrum (also called Thiruvananthapuram) as I had to collect my provisional degree certificate from my college.

I reached Bangalore on September 22, 2007 and stayed with my college friends. The ticket was yet to get confirmed. The required documents list was huge and I started cursing myself for taking the situation very mild. I was restless till I got all the required documents set.

September 26, 2007

With some hugs and best wishes I departed from my college friends (Rajesh, Akhil, Swaroop, Raghu) and reached Bangalore City railway station well in time. There was a lot of time to kill and heavy luggage ofcourse. The ticket was confirmed. Not sure of what to do, I started moving around on the platform desperately looking for some familiar face. That is where I met my future roommate Dattatreya. Datta was of dark complexion, tall, lean with short hair, with super cool attitude. He was a chatterbox. We had our ice breaker session on the platform. I met few of my friends (Kishore, Venkatesh, Basavaraj) and new ones who were placed in the same organization with same day of joining like me.

Fortunately most of us were in the same coach. The whistle of the engine gave us a signal that the train would start its journey to one of the most beautiful place in South India. We discussed about the things done by each of us in the last few months while at home and had dinner. Then we went back to our berths and slept.

A new family member!!

September 2007 - Nagpur

Finally, I was done with my graduation in June. I am a Chemical Engineer!! Life was too easy for me during my college period. No responsibilities over my shoulder. Suddenly life was not easy during my pre-joining days at home. 

I was placed in one of the best Indian IT firms, Tata Consultancy Services. Desperately waiting for my professional life to begin with mixed feelings. I was excited about the job at the same time scared of the responsibilities that would come with it.

It was over 3 months already and there was no news about my joining date. Life was so boring. No friends to gossip, no lectures to bunk, no multiplayer gaming on LAN, no hangouts with friends, no birthday bumps. I missed my hostel life the most.

My family was in a financial crisis. This made mom lose her patience sometimes. She kept on asking me about any news regarding the joining date. Unfortunately, I could not give her any good news then. 

During this period, me and my sister thought of bringing a new family member to join us. On the evening of September 2, 2007 we added one more family member. He was no more than a week old and did not even open his eyes. We fed him with the spoon and made him sleep beside us. 

He is of cross breed. I am not sure about his breed yet. Complete Cream color, long and soft hair, a white triangle on his forehead (called as 'Stop'). The most interesting thing about him is that his eye color keeps changing multiple times in a day. LOL

The next day, he started making weird noises. We could not understand what those noises meant. Finally we let him down and kept a bowl of milk in front of him. With eyes still closed, he was trying to identify the item in the bowl. Every time he moved forward to drink the milk, he would hit his nose to the bowl and the milk would spill on the floor. We held him by his neck and directed him to the milk. It is still one of our most memorable moments with Tuffey Ambekar, our puppy.