Continuation to how i got into infy....
Well... where do i start from... lets see... just a quick recap like our hindi sitcoms ...
I went to baroda for infosys interview... got selected... asked to be reported at chennai... first time to leave my family...
recap over...
so, my dad with help from my mama (who had contacts in indian railways) to get me tickets to chennai in Navjeevan Express (the only train between chennai and ahmedabad directly)... I still remeber that they got tickets which were to make me land in chennai 2 days earlier than the joining date i.e. 3rd October. So, I were to reach on 1st October. With some more settings I was able to get accomodation in gujarati samaj located at Broadway, Chennai...
So, I started on 29th September at 9:30 pm from Ahmedabad. All my family members dad, mom, my sisters, brother, mama, bua, uncle, my best friends Naman and Narendra... were there to bid adieu to me. First time ever I was going to leave gujarat and go outside. I remember I took blessing from my dad by touching his feets... a belief which I still follow. I believe that whatever I am today is because of him. I can go on elaborating on that but I do not want to digress. There would be a separate blog dedicated to him. Love you dad...
I started the journey on a sad note... with small invisible tear droplets coming from eyes... my heart was very heavy... as if some tons and kilos of heavy stuff is kept on it...
Train soon reached baroda and I jumped out to meet one more best friend of mine... Rachit... had a quick hug with him and good bye... again the same heaviness engulfed me... I was not able to recover for some days... time and again the faces of my beloved family and friends... the stolen moments with them... were flying through my head like a film trailer... their face seemed so near to me that I will go and touch them...yet so far...
Traveling hasn't been my habit... so I soon fell ill in the 2nd class sleeper... I got fever... so I took some tablets... the journey was 36 hours... so it was going to take quite some time for me to reach chennai...
I tried to put my thoughts on a book (do not remember which one...) but failed miserably... I was simply not able to concentrate... the separation was taking its toll on me...
It was not that I was travelling to chennai for the first time... I had been there to give my interview in IIT chennai for MS in computers... I had seen very good part of chennai at that time... as from Airport to IIT Chennai the campus is roads are good and the locality is very posh... so to me chennai was like a clean and honest city... though this impression was going to break shortly when I was to land and go through the experiences... which probably lot of hindi speaking junta would have gone through...
as soon as the train was going to arrive in chennai... my clean city was turning out to be quite dirty... like every city has suburbs which are filthy and dirty... chennai too had its fair share i would say... my train was going through one such suburb and then I realised... sir... welcome to reality... your destiny or destination... chennai has arrived!!!!
ps: coming in this series... my first few experiences in chennai...
