Man...Spending the supposedly last three months of life at tcs is peaceful...the withdrawal process has slowly started...i have started to dream of life beyond the confines of the crowded cubicle and life beyond coding...well, there is a lot of unknown about my life in the b-school and am looking forward to an exploratory and insightful journey...BTW...
Yeah...I had been to delhi and mumbai for my IIT B and NITIE interviews..and more than the interviews i enjoyed the trips...man..here goes a tour diary...
Saturday 5th Mar....
Alarm set at 5.15 got up at 5.40 and pedal eduthen first thing in the morning..Great article on Budget in the bathroom....Then...Rushed in the bike to pick up my call letter from my aunty's house in sec'bad 20 kms from my house and realized i was running out of time cus it was 6.40 and i had to check in before 7.30 cus the flight was at 7.50....
finally i drove 20 kms in 15 mins...god saved me...was drivin at 80 mosta the time...but all was well...i made the airport after parkin my bike in her house and the auto guy was fast....
The flight to delhi was spent reading, finishing the last 100 pages of "The IITians" and devouring jack fruit chips that chaitra had got from her home town...Good book and great chips...
Rohit (My cousin, Jayant's bro) was in the airport in his car and we raced to their house where i idled the rest of the day...chattin and browsin...that evenin we went to a top college cultural fest where I realized that Bombay was not half as good as delhi in the ABI (Averabge Beauty Index).."Had a good time;)"
Sunday 6th Mar...
Got up reallly late for the interview...was at 2 pm...arnd 9 am i realized i had no SOP...so wrote one down in 30 mins and then read statistics in the car while goin to IITD...GD was more a parliament meeting and managed to butt in a few times and spoke well...
Interview expectedly was on Statistics...did ok and had meals in an IIT canteen...Man it felt good and i missed studyin in an IIT for the nth time...
That evening was non descript...and so was the night...
Monday 7th Mar
Got up late rushed for the airport and reached the boardin exit at 8.45 for the flight which was to leave delhi at 8.50...i missed all the buses and they had to drive a qualis to take me to the flight thru the runways...;) and after a round of apologies slept off the flight journey and was rudely awakened by the pretty air hostess Anne..she asked me to fasten my seat belts and prepare for landing...and at 11 reached mumbai..where my periamma had been waitin with the car....Went to their house...slept and arnd 3 pm walked out to have a feel of mumbai...
was damn happy seein the 100s of doves flutterin away to glory arnd a tree and a fence and inspired me to take a movie like Nayagan;) Mani touch na summaavaa...
Then browsed to post a comment on that;) and ofcourse went to eat Chaat...,and spent 2 hrs readin The Week in a park....Felt good bein my own companion and wanderin in the streets..After a temple visit after months....came back home to sleep and prepare for NITIE...
Tue 8th Mar
Got up reasonably in time at 6 for an eight am interview.and after a delicious aloo paratha breakfast which ate into my time....I still was jus in time thanks to a great drive by my cousin to the insti...Met Bk's cousin Bala there and had a good time relishin the feeel of bein the only 2 guys not in ties....After a good PPT by the NITIE guys and a Nice GD, had a long wait for my interview...Did some time pass with a tvm class mate and a few TIME batch mates...Interview was fine and rushed in the suburban trains to catch Balalee run thru the Paki tail....
Again had a flight to catch to Hyderabad...this time it was very irritating to see the plane do a girivalam around the run way for an hour awaiting take off...Finally wat was supp to be a 1 hr ride turned out to be a 3 hour agonizingly boring journey...and thankfully reached Hyd before the auto guys start askin for dugna lagaan;)
The day had a perfect finish with a telephonic crossword session with sab at arnd 11 pm...;)
All in all it was a nice tale of 3 cities and 3 flights and 2 interviews..and ofcourse ME
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Good one mayte.... that dove effect. unbeatable... will have to wait to experience that at least once..
aana onnu certain things jus do not change.... J getting late for anything and everything.... paathu daa first nightukkum late poyi tholaikka pora, might find her fast asleep.....
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