MeMoRiEs.....PART-1



27th December 2010…..
8:00 pm : I am actually speechless….no more confident….. Did not inform my parents----after all anything can happen and I cannot hurt them anymore….. Had practiced enough of placement papers…. Had an overview of the technical questions that could be asked... "if"... I qualify in the aptitude test…..

28th December 2010….
3:00 am : There was only one feeling before sleeping…and it was----FEAR!....Fear of losing the game….. Oh God, I have to win it please…
6:45 am : (Alarm rings)….(Snooze)….(Alarm rings again and again...)…..Don't feel like getting up and enter into the real world……
7:00 am : Finally, out of the bed….revised don't know what!...just went through a few concepts….
8:00 am : FET, outside Room no. 1…. People are gossiping, laughing, smiling, wishing each other… but I wished no one… I was silent…(There was something going on in my mind)...there was a feeling inside me…a feeling similar to the one that I had felt last night….the feeling of FEAR!
8:45 am : Aptitude question papers distributed….Students are still discussing, don't know what…anyway, none of my business!.... I looked at the clouds outside the classroom window as I always do (it is a secret...won't let you know the reason behind it ;) )…. I have to give my best today….
10:00 am : Done with the aptitude test…. I can still imagine my blank face as everybody else's…. Do they have to start with the company profile presentation??? I mean, can they not declare the aptitude results first and relief us from the tension-torture???....Presentation starts…. I am not listening anything, just glancing at the powerpoint slides with a blank face….. Finally, the presentation is over….
12:00 pm : Announcement - 'The aptitude results are out!' …… There goes the first list of selected candidates… Oh God, I cannot face this situation…..List 2…..3….4….Oh come on!, where is my name???…..List 5… "Yessss yeh hui naa baat!!"….Done with the first hurdle :-) …..
Called for the Technical interview(This scares me the most)…..Done with the TI round….Sent to the HR for the PI round… (Chanting in my mind continuously,almost like people chant The Hanuman Chalisa)Ohh come on Reshmi, you cannot afford to screw this round….Finally done with the HR interview too…. I was already given a hint by mistake by the HR that I was selected... 'but'….the final list was yet to come…..
Announcement - Results at 9:00 pm …..
8:45 pm : Back in college…. Room no. 1 …. Results postponed till 9:30 pm….10:00 pm….10:30 pm….and finally, there the CELEBRITIES come, with the list of selected candidates in their hand…..
List 1….List 2…. This cannot happen with me….. List 3…. You fool are you going to announce my name ever or not???!!....List 4… I'm gonna kill you now if you don't announce my name next!...(Seems that the person announcing the names, heard it!)…..I was there, in the list!…. totally speechless…. After a few congratulations, I realized that unlike every time, I am not in my virtual fantasy world this time :P .…..YES! I made it to ACCENTURE…. :-) Thanked God…..Called up parents to surprise them….Informed everyone, I could, at that time….. I can feel the ebullience inside me when I was signing my very first Letter of Intent...Finally…..High Performance Delivered! :-)

Stay tuned for PART 2 - "Picture abhi baaki hai mere dost!" ;)

Comments

  1. ROSHNIJanuary 17, 2011 at 7:12 AM

    Hey well depicted the feelings of those "SCARY" moments...As i was goin through it... i could reproduce the same scenario in the mind.. felt as if again facing it... Good narration.. specially the soliloquy... :)..

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  2. UnknownJanuary 17, 2011 at 8:32 AM

    Hahhaha nice one.superbly superb :P

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  3. ScintillatingstarJanuary 17, 2011 at 11:02 AM

    @Roshni and Pooja - Thank you! afterall your comments are my motivation for updating my blog ;)

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  4. NoopurJanuary 17, 2011 at 11:26 AM

    i would prefer to give my actual comment after you post the other parts too...bcoz i guess there is something interesting yet to come.. ;)

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  5. ritzJanuary 17, 2011 at 11:26 AM

    its something that we've been through... well written reshmi! n m waiting for the part 2. ;)

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  6. UnknownJanuary 17, 2011 at 11:44 AM

    ritely expressed timtim...ohh wow what a true description of the whole day and the feeling which I am sure every candidate had which even grew with every round and finally was at its peak when their respective names were not called out for very long (due to huge length of the list)...many new things also happened with me that day so the day remains one of the most memorable days for me..:-)):-))

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  7. ScintillatingstarJanuary 17, 2011 at 12:32 PM

    Thanks ritzie...
    @Noopur- Part 2 is nothing but the extension of the Horror nights at FET....

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  8. ScintillatingstarJanuary 17, 2011 at 12:36 PM

    @Sakshi- Thank you so much and yea... I can very well imagine your situation that day(bcoz ur name was really announced very late :P ), when you say about the feeling inside us when our names were called late due to the long length....

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