ILP... Phase 2.. the starting..

as phase one ended.. i knew i m going to miss something very terribly in the training days from now on.. we were divided.. only me animesh and ankit were in oracle group 74D.. else everyone was scattered.. anuroop abhishek n manish in 74A.. kundu saurabh manoj ravi in 74E.. n rest in 74C..(probably..).. that whole day was killing me.. my inner self that day..

that coffee break.. lunch time.. when all the B70 rockers used to sit together and rock, were divided in different streams that was flowing against the direction.. i was trapped in the turmoil.. the whirlpool of thoughts.. but some how.. a glimpse of every one sumhow made my day.. everyday..

so.. as 1st phase was full of studies activities with no outdoor stunts.. we thought we shud go for a trip.. and we arranged one.. the tour we planned was awesome.. it supposed to be a triangular one.. but eventually turned out to be a zig-zag. from appolo villa to konark.. then from konark to chilika.. then from chilika to puri and back to appolo.. when we completed the tour we realized.. most of the times we were on wheels only..

got up at 3 that morning.. packed our bags and left.. by 4.. chilly night that was.. fog and cool air giving me the perfecct idea how the day wud be once the sun will rise.. that bus we booked was the back breaking one.. giving pain to spine.. the seats offered least comfort.

adding to that the driver played ultimate songs.. from mohra.. from bazigar.. gosh.. we wre all laughing.. the song of that day was "tip tip barsa panii..".. i danced on that song inside the bus.. with ankit.. and another song.. "tu cheez badi hai masst masst".. this one i danced with animesh.. and it was so fun..

by 6 we were at konark beach..the foggy morning gave me the purest feeling that i ever felt in my past years of life.. having tea and seeing the waves crashing in the early moring can freshen up ur moods within seconds and beleive me it did.. a great time.. watching the sea n sunrise at sun temple.. great time..!!

then.. we moved to our next destination.. chilika.. we booked 2 boats for the ride.. the special one where one cud see the dolphins.. we hardly saw 3.. the main drama was.. when people from other boat started spilling water on our boat while i was taking their pix from my cam..

it was terrible i must say... giving all the slang i learned in my lifetime.. i spared not a single word that cud sense in a bad way... people drunk least bothered to what happened kept me disturbed for the rest of the trip.. and from there after seeing red crabs and savoring on prawns and lobsters we moved towards puri.. our final destination...

we reached there.. but the scenario totally changed when kundu n ravi started a heated argument outside the temple.. i was shocked.. never thought even these people will fight over silly issues.. 10 of them went to beach.. n i returned wid kundu where the bus was.

a busy tiring expressive adventurous day coming to and end with drunken driver safely driving the bus at the highest speed possible and landing safely at the doors of appolo villa.. this 2nd phase i sumhow thought wud b very different from phase 1.. and it was...!!

ILP.. new year and then...

HA HA HA.. New yr came.. half of the ppl got their 1st SALARY.. and moreover.. no one got an extension in the 1st phase.. :) we are appolo villa ppl.. the aao frnds grp.. :)))))

after the scorecard we got i got Level 3.. which was considered to be a general level.. but we were happy. nothing more cud we expect on the last day of 2008. we came at our place. B3.

Kundu had plans of going out smwhr to celebrate the new yr.. but few else wanted the celebration in the villa itself.. few arguments.. kundu getting angry.. thoda panga.. but after DARUU hits u.. everything becomes gud.. ppl become BHAIII..(brother).. no differences wid any one n u take kiss. :P we were very happy..

for the first time i had vodka.. n as the ppl said.. i was down in 3 pegs only..( they just make false reasons so that i dont drink more.. else who gets floored after the 3rd peg..?? ;) ).. i felt like dancing. we had a frnd from jabalpur also..ankit... who with anirudh were not counted amongst jabalpur public.. jut like i wasn't counted in bbsr public.. he came to our place from lakshmi vihar.. n he was out.. totally.. eyes red.. n strangling walk.. he was floating while he walked..

we had music all night.. i and ankit danced a lot.. he even strip-teased. the fun was awesome.. everyone tired and slept except for me and animesh.

frnz.. this animesh used to shudder me.. peel me off with his comments and questions.. but that night we talked our hearts out.. n since then.. i never took his words seriously that he used to dig into me.. i knew he never meant what he said.. so.. the arguments between us was only fun sake.. :) he was pure by heart..

came new yr and we were getting close.. our aao frnds group expanded with one officially accepted member. richa.. the only gurl.. she was a very sweet girl.. nice smile all d time on her lips that never stopped of talks. she spoke 36 hours a day.. non-stop.. sometimes u wud skip what she said a second bfr.. we had great evening talks in canteen.. some beautiful walks while returning from office.. an evening wid songs dedicated to her only that i sung for her n she kept on laughing...( she was amazed.. hw cud i be so talented.. ;) )..

amazingly.. she was in our OC group also..[oral communication].. in which she played Mrs.McDonald ... after 3 days of practice she delivered her lines with utmost perfection.. ;) good work richa.. ;) very unlike anirudh.. who left no stone unturned to spoil that show.. :) but the story was great. NARRATION was great.. we got the best rating.. :)

EC4 n EC5 came n passed by.. postings were done.. 5 of us.. anuroop ravi saurabh swakshar n me got kolkata.. manoj manish abhishek ganesh animesh got b'ore.. ankit anirudh richa got mumbai..

streams were alloted.. ankit, animesh n i got oracle as our base stream n were in same section.. anuroop got java.. but the tragedy was.. his section was transferred to the IT park.. near silicon cllg. i cud see the flood of tears that evening. 5th of January 2009.. was one of the saddest day of my life. PHASE-1 ended.. n with that ended company of some great calssmates.. ended the smile of nivedita n priya ( LC for OC n Scheme).. n ended a part of me inside me..

ILP... tests and aao friends..

ok. we were given laptops and got a lab kinda classroom CR-19.. first few days we dint knew what to do until priya made few concepts clear of an alien language.. SCHEME. no fundas and concepts were andaas.. :).. so studied hard to hv a better score.. for a better impression over gals.. ;)

in the meantime.. AAO friends was gaining popularity amongst all the ILP trainees.. not bcoz it was a beer palour but bcuz our frequent use of it.. for coffee.. "aao friends. coffee piyen".. for lunch.."aao friends lunch karein".. n on n on n on... from out batch B-70 animesh, anuroop, abhishek, me were 4 ppl who had a different perspective in the eyes of other candidates.

batch meetings ( mock tests ) started.. in 1st BM i forgot to upload the program n i cursed animesh n anuroop whole day... although it was my fault.. but i dont like taking blames on myself.. n since that day they started calling me SENTI.. the SENTI SARDAR.. it was fun.. cuz their affection for me made them name me like this.. :)

came the first test.. n THAT WAS BAD.. veryyyy.. BAD..!! i got outputs in all the batch meetings.. was so confident.. but 1 loop spoiled everything..i was hurt deep inside. everything seemed to be shattered.. anuroop's was the same so was abhishek's.. animesh did that well.. others i dint knew.. i hardly spoke anything after that test.. tried to sleep whole day but dint let anyone knew that i shed tears also..:)

surprisingly.. me n anurrop sat on a bench that was in front of 2 ladies. sweet ones.. eversmiling bubbles.. richa n renuka. they were from jabalpur.. n i never had any sort of talks wid them.. although it was the 10th day of training. they asked us why were we crying n all.. n we made some silly reasons.. :) we are expert in that.. ;) we talked for a few mins n then i said richa.. " i hope i get a partner like u for my EC 2.. who will work for my part also.. " n she just smiled.. :)<--like this ...

came next morning.. n what we saw was richa was in my grp along wid antony n all.. n we both burst out laughing. first thing i did was i took her no. ( i never leave a chance like this.) but after 10 mins a shocking news came.. groups changed.. richa was now in anuroop's grp with preetam n puneeta. we were still laughing :)) ..

then came a few good moments.. we, the appolo villa ppl went LIQUID, CCDs n many a places.. spent a quality time n did great. i got a very gud partner santosh who sovled all the problems one wud face in a project. me n him completed the whole code but a single PPT that was given to jyoti n antony.. was found to b incorrrect on the presentation day. i was getting fumed but santosh cooled me down.. as we had to work as a grp in EC 4 too..

then we got the EC1 marks.. i scored 4.. second lowest in class.. totally broken i had no words left for the whole day, so i decided to shw my metal in EC 3.. ;) but that journey to EC3 was so special.. that i have to write it here..

SWAKSHAR kundu fell ill just a day bfr EC3.. i missed labs for him, dint went for GHAJINI.. n that fatso kept watching TV whole day.. untolerable was that hour when he listened to TV with such high volume.. i screamed at him n made him study a few programs necessary for that upcoming test.. :) hahaha.. he learned enuff to make it correct on the test day.. sometimes he is irritating but has got a golden heart.

one evening in between.. we ( me n anuroop) were toiling around the udupi n while returning we came thruu misky. i said to him that richa is inside.. n i can see her behind the black glass.. he said.. it cant be.. we had a bet n we moved in. i won ;) in between i heard that group of hers talking something of AAO FRIENDS.. n we smiled.. we were getting popular.

cheers aao friends.. :))

ILP.. pretest n more.. :)

so.. came the second day.. and we all geared up for a fresh start that this day was going to offer us.
we gave the second test.. we were allotted seats according to our batches. test started.. according to anand.. this test had no value.. but this was the first test that cud hv made a mark of us in the ILP.. so i took it seriuslyy and attempted all the questions.. but sadly i scored a mere 60%.. :)

then again the auditorium.. i was now scared of that place. sitting there for 8hrs n listening to uninteresting ppl was not my idea of having fun.. it was too depressing and we literally cried , slept n yelled whoever we wished to just to keep our cool :D..

then not much happened that day.. opening salary account was good.. and then we went to TDS.. yaa again.. to releive ourselves. ;)

came the third day.. 1st thing in the morning.. we had to select our CR ( class representative) which reminded me of my college days.. Abhishek was made the CR.. n we were happy.. an appolo guy our CR.. we cudnt hv asked for more.. :) but to my surprise.. the girl i had crush on was in my batch.. yes B-70.. n i was soooooooooo happyyyyyyy... i love to b in love.. always.. :)

that day was eventful.. we met Priya.. our Learning Co-ordinator who was sweetest in the whole bbsr it seemed. beauty wid brains.. n i started liking studies also from that time.. ;)

One evening we made a plan.. to go to a movie.. night show.. and Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi was stealing all accolades so anuroop manish ravi n me went for purchasing tickets and rest.. settled themselves for a beer party in AAO FRIENDS.. hehehee... we were irritated that they were late for movie.. but the best part was inside the hall.. ankit n animesh fully down.. were more enjoyable than the shahrukh's MACHO dialogues.. a great day and great night.. :)

at that moment i felt.. this ILP is going to serve me best time of my life..

ILP.. first day.. 08/12/2008

it started.. 8th morning.. the best morning.. that i ever dreamt of. getting employed officially today and getting to see the professional phase.. this thought captivated my mind from the day i was selected in tcs.

u all wud laugh.. but i woke up at 6 that morning, earliest in the whole villa. then went to neighbours place n woke up saurabh n abhishek..
came back to my place n woke up all others.

that day i decided to b in the same dress code that i was in during my selection procedure. white shirt, red tie n black trousers. i wanted to look gud.. feel gud. that was the day i knew i wud b happiest soul on earth.we got ready n catched the first bus that took us to KOEL CAMPUS in just 2 minutes. we were there by 8:45 a.m. well 15 mins bfr time.. had the breakfast n placed our asses in auditorium. and then what we saw were birth n death of desires happening simultaneously. well people from 6 colleges participated in this ILP. the crowd that came in brought us many hopes. many single guys thought of their wud Bs n slowly said to other that the girl in green is hers.. the dusky one is ur "bhabhi" so better keep ur eyes of her..

we 12 from appolo villa had a full row booked by us n had our eyes rolling in whole of the auditorium. i instantly fell for 3 gurls.. but then sticked to 1.. one of those 3 seemed to b committed.. girl in GREEN was Manoj's choice so.. i was happy with mine.. :) we never cared what was happening in the auditorium. attendance happened. some adjustments.. n we were finally allocated our batch.. mine was B-70.. the new name of fun.. :)

then was the round of documents verification, day passed by as it never wanted to end.. which was against our wishes.. we were bored of the induction programmes that were done. but then Anand told this will also happen on the second day n special package was a pretest.

well we came home.. took rest n went out for dinner.. poor tired souls had no work to do so whole night what we did was.. chatted abt the gurls we saw. best thing that can be done by a grp of boys.. isnt it..? ;)

ILP.. (part 2)

ohkk... so last time i introduced all the great appolo members who later turned out to be rockers of ILP.. but this was a journey. a great one and it cant be cut short. i want to give each n every detail of what i saw.. what i felt n went through in these 2 months..

as i said.. it started on 8th december 2008, but as we came here i had a gud orkut friend Anand to help me about different processes that happened here. he was a great help.. My Level 3 in phase 1 i wud say was because of his help only. well he was everytime with a lending hand of friendship whenever we needed.. :)

but great stories started few days before 8th.

i remember on 6th we went to TDS (ten downing street) a restro bar in mayfair that pretty much excited all of us who were there in bbsr.. saurabh, swakshar, abhishek, ganesh n me. we were there and started having fun in our own ways. i find the music very gud but ppl wid me were finding gals n beer bit more fantasizing. i ordered for a pint while others had their own bottles in their hands. 2 foreigners n 2 indians, that was the count of chicks we found there. but nevertheless saurabh i must say was the gutsy of all n had a rocking time.

then came the time for "tanduurii". it was sunday n all of us went to tanduurii.. these ppl from b'lore find the food price in orissa amazing. like best food in the cheapest rates. had a great meal n then we came back.

in the mean time while we were exploring new places.. i was trying to get into the lives of these new found friends.. whom i sumhow liked more than the companion my collegemates that i got in this phase of ILP. their thinking perspective was a bit different and hence we wre great fun.. ;)