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...