Well, as we had a lot of experience coming out of engineering colleges in how to sleep during lectures, we had no difficulty in applying them here. The most experienced of us all was Jophin. The moment someone starts a session, we can see him leaning to anything that is near to him and sleeping, and when I see that, I feel what the f**k am doing without sleeping.................ahem..........factors of jealousy , normal human feelings.I was also not too far behind regarding these matters, though I had a different experience. Usually, when I am sleeping in a class, I will be waking up because of periodic bursts. Once, when our manager was taking class on web-services or something, i fell asleep within some 5 minutes, and after some time I suddenly woke up and said, "YES, WEB-SERVICE". Listening this, my colleagues and manager turned up their faces such a way that I thought I had done something terribly wrong..............well, they didn't know I had sleep bursts.........so, the fact is neither I nor those who were in the class knew why I shouted WEB SERVICE..........
There are many things to say, Meryl's monitor is unforgettable, there are many things to tell about myself, but I am not doing that, coz, I don't like boasting....eh.Darshan's pinky is another thing to tell. I didnt mention before where our training was, right. Well, it was in an Engg College, not a normal one, but one of the colorful, ahem.......i mean best colleges in Coimbatore. Kumaraguru College, it was huge.............the main attraction being the big white palace-like building , which is one of Cognizant's training centers. The college has around 21 acres of playground , and many engineering departments too.........obviously. So, that means, more number of gaaaaalsssssss.......We used to have our lunch from the college canteen itself, so got to see some good birds. And one of them was Pinky. Well, I don't know when it all started, but Darshan used to look out for Pinky whenever he saw a group of girls sitting or standing somewhere. The name was also a given name. Darshan gave her the name, as most of the time, she wore a pink-colored dress.He used to tell the way she sat under one of the trees in the campus and prepared for exams. Her beauty, her smile , her innocence, well, we could see everything from Darshan's words.......Maybe this is what we call the first signs of love. But, he couldn't get the time to go forward as training was over by three months....
Another incident that happened to me was a little frightening one. Could have been avoided had I been more alert. Myself, Kushal and Bijesh were walking back home after our training. We thought of cutting through the college ground and reach the exit instead of sticking to the roads, for which you have to walk around the ground. It was dark, may be 8:00 in the evening or so. Suddenly, Bijesh screamed "aye ayyee!!" looking at something very near to our legs. The moment I heard this, I jumped to the front, didn't stop there , but went on jumping three, four times to the front. Bijesh and Kushal where standing back , and shouting at me. When I turned around, I saw a snake crawling by, cutting our path. I got terrified, coz, as from what Bijesh told, I just missed the snake by a whisker when I took the first jump forward!!!
One day, I think it was a weekend, and we all went out to spend the evening. While taking out his purse to pay for something, Sriram found the ear ring in it. The sudden flash of joy in his face and anger in our face was to be seen, but then he got what he was looking for, and that's fine.
The stay at Rehaja was another unforgettable thing. We had a very king-like stay there for a week provided by our company. Taking pics of all the Benzes, BMWs and Volkswagons was our first job. I still remember how I made Jophin to jump many number of times just to take a pic of him in the air...........but the skills I possess to take that kind of shots with the cam resulted in pics that had only the background taken after Jophin landed !!! Ya, but in some shots you could see the side view of Jophins back....eh.
Sleeping in the class was one thing, and applying the same while travelling in a bus seemed not much difficult. We were coming back home from Gandhipuram after some shopping and I fell asleep in the bus. I had a cover in my hand too. Just after getting down, I checked for my purse, and it was nowhere in my trouser's or shirt's pocket. The bus took off, and I ran like anything, luckily, reached for its door and asked the conductor to stop. I went in, and just then the cover in my hand got my attention, and when I saw, my purse was inside it. I saw the conductor with a sorry face, and he told something in tamil, that I dont wanna mention here. But, after that I thought, if I had run the way I ran behind the bus, I would have won the 100 mtr race held in my college!!! Well, sorry if it was too unbelievable............but the point is, I could run fast!!!
Many things more to tell.......but not much time to post. Even this single post took me around 6 months to complete......cause I used to edit it once in two weeks and all. May be you will find the next one a more serious stuff......wanted to spread some message .....thinking of it..........ideas awaited , comments much awaited.......
