Finally back to blogging after such a looonng time... it has been almost one year since I posted a blog. Quite a many times, thought of sitting and writing one, but could not pick up courage to consolidate my varied innumerable thoughts. I wanted to write a blog the last day when I was leaving pilani. So let me not mix up everything, and write this one, even though it should have been written long back. Aug-Dec 2008 was my last sem (oncampus) at pilani. It was full of so many things, events,etc. etc. that it felt like it just started and ended.
To begin with there were placements and GRE. Placement days...were like.. haa... was not able to clear aptis... One of the nights I remember distinctly even today in my mind was the night I got to know the results of preliminary round of Microsoft and result was as in the row... rejection ... and I did not get out of my room that night. Thanks to one of my friend who talked to me on phone, more importantly listened to what I had to say... and helped me regain the hope that things could get better. A few days after that, I got an offer from Oracle...and that was like ...such a relief :) ... cannot describe that feeling... which said... finallly... its gonna be okay :). Then, I was busy with preparing for GRE, screwed it up, gave it again , again screwed it up :) Those were one of the horrible days of my life. I knew no one could help me with this. I had to face it alone. But then somehow, just thought,.."okay..let it be.. whatever has to happen is gonna happen, so just chuck shedding tears and be happy that you have a job" .. When I look back today at those days, it feels like it was worth all the tension :). There was Oasis was also somewhere in between it... not too many memories of the last oasis...but okay..! Then there was CAT and then were compres, final COP , GRE apping (as ever.... last minute !!...made my SOP in 3 days !! ).. and then... there was the last day of leaving campus !
I still remember my last walk across my wing... when most of my freinds had left.. doors were open.. rooms were empty.. it was almost looking like no one lived here for ages, something like... a purani haveli.. though the night previous to that...the same corridor was so lively... full of freinds shouting..running here and there... packing.. talking...wishing goodbyes... filling slam books... going to cnot.. so many things :) And now, there was a silence in place of that. I could hear the wind flowing across my wing !... Neways, eventually, everything has to get over. The Eternal truth !!
But those last minutes of leaving campus brought a wave of almost ALL the events, friends, feelings, talks.... just so difficult to explain. There were the FDs, Saraswati Temple, Cnot, Library, the C- Lawns, the M-Lawns. It was like, I could see the past moving across in front of me... (just like a flashback in movies ! ).. my classes in LTC, studying EG in IPC..the library... OASIS.. Apogee...Farewells..BatchSnaps SAC.. Redi.. Cnot.. Sharmas .. Blue Moons.. my first year ...then the 2nd year...then 3rd...and finally this.... the last sem....
I just wished I could go back in the past..and be there...and just ...........be there !!!
The ride back to jaipur was all lost in thoughts ...of leaving pilani...and thinking what is gonna happen next (GRE...screwed up !!).
Finally reached an amazing place called home...with my family. I dont know why and how it happens, but it feels like one can face any damn thing in life when a person is with his/her family. They ALWAYS ....and ALWAYS...... accept you as you are ...which is just great... ! Love being home :)
Then, it was time to leave for bangalore for PS-2 !!
