Training ke sunehere din

Training at DLF started on 12th Jan. It was supposed to be a new domain of technology for all of us. The new office has a beautiful ambience and the look and feel of it somehow made up for the distance we had to travel to reach. Our faculty Vijay Sir was the best faculty we could have got. The initial days of training were very serious and boring....for everyone was trying to be sincere and attentive in the sessions.
Rathi didn’t want to b toned down but somehow I had managed to bring her down at a low energy state wherein she didn’t create the ruckus which we were known for in TVM. The two of us used to sit next to each other in the last row n chat on our lifeline ‘Samtime’. We were capable of doing bakwaas entire day with each other only if no one else was available. Antakshari n other gossips on sametime kept us alive during the tuff initial days when everyone was so engrossed in the training materials. If we had any doubts regarding the seriousness of people around us...Chai n Kavi changed the slightest bit of hopes we might have had. They asked such ‘intelligent’(read ‘weird’) doubts that we wondered if we would ever clear the exit test that were supposed to happen after every topic was covered! Worst still Chai n Sir had such compatibility that they shared technical jokes which only the two of them understood n laughed at!! There was a stage when I wondered if Shweta n I were the only ultimate fools who couldn’t even get d jokes..leav alon lauff at them...but anyws we never showed that and instead laughed at it lik everyone else. Though later the truth was out that every1 laughed coz even they didn’t get what Chai was laughing on!!!
The lunch and breaks used to be a serious affair. Guys n gals had an Indo-Pak relation kinda thing...no1 dared to get into each other’s line of control even at dining tables. It was like people here were on a serious mission and didn’t believe in exchanging even formalities of daily courtesies like ‘Hi’ or ‘Hello’...infact I think they would have preferred to remain strangers.I remember discussing over this wid Shweta after which Shweta sent out the ultimate formal announcement on Sametime to every1 in the batch to atleast have lunch together. Afterall being the CR and Shweta being A-CR we had some responsibilities. Atleast that was the 1st start to building up a ‘Hi-Hello’ thing. It took time but slowly and steadily people atleast got together for tea n coffee.
Then came up the exit-tests and it was time for everyone to get serious again...everyone except Shweta and me. We had more important stuffs on mind like going Mumbai to Priya n Adi or for that matter my ‘GO GOA’ campaigns at every possible holiday! But somehow we managed to clear the tests. The tea-coffee sessions had slowly n steadily had helped us in atleast initiating a conversation. Then there were treats every now and then for some weird reason or the other...Shweta being the preferred ‘waiter’ in all of them..(I wonder if she earned a good ‘tip’ for that :P ..sory abt tat Rathi :D).
The biggest help in knitting us all together was again the dear dearer n dearest – SAMETIME. There was a period when every1 (except Chai offcourse!) was engrossed in group chat rather than in the sessions. And at times it would happen that Sir would crack one of his techie-stuffs and we would laugh at it on like it was the most hilarious thing we had ever heard...I’m sure even Sir had started suspecting if all of a sudden his jokes had attained ‘Santa-Banta’ status!!
Kya din the wo training ke...I can just go on and on about it. I wish our present training was even half as enjoyable as that...

A new beginning

"No friendships exist in professional world!!!"

---Atleast thats what I had heard and would have believed if I hadn't met a crazy batch of 16 people during my training period! After a rocking experience at Trivandrum during my 1st phase training I had hardly expected any of my future working days to parallel the experience...but then life is all about improbabilities!
My 2nd phase training was to be conducted in Pune from 9th of Jan...the only other person whom I knew in my batch was Shweta n vice-versa for her 2. We had become frens only during the TVM days though we were in same college for 4 years n were infact in same branch also! Perhaps that's what u call irony! We were really missing Priya n AAAaadu...our partners in crime at TVM. Together we four had professionally reached the heights of unprofessionalism!

The 1st day we were supposed to report at Quadra. I had mixed feelings about my second phase of training. I had been given stream mainframe of which I knew nothing. There were 16 other people in my batch out of which I knew just 1. I didn’t know what the training would be like. With so many uncertainities I was about to start a new journey of my life. The 1st new person I met that day was a girl called Vijetha...who I had never thot would become such a dear friend that c is today to me! She looked confused though now I have come to realize that infact that is the expression that comes to her naturally. Later that day we came to know that we wud have our training at DLF and that wasn’t a great news for many of us for it was very far off from the city. Anyways we didn’t have any choice or say in the matter. The day passed off with boring induction sessions which we were having for the ‘n’th time now. We also watched a movie called ‘Babe’.

In all it was a good day. The feel of the office was not great when compared to the training centre at Trivandrum but then it was going to be my office from now on and so had to settle down. The next day mainframe batch had to report at DLF. I was very skeptical about the new training and must say I had never expected that everything would fall into place so well...and must say my batch-mates really turned out to be a surprise package in the end!!!
Fir milenge... break ke baad....