Inspired to write this by a friend of mine, here's my experience into what they say is the big, bad corporate world.
6th May I enter this royal 300 acre Campus.. rains and an amazing weather give me a warm welcome. Excited I am to know what the experience will be like for me. I am gonna stay for the next two weeks in this plush campus, an almost 5 star room.
The excitement seems to fade away soon, buildings and fountains can excite a person for only so much time...
The training begins and MBA seems to repeat, with personal communication classes i wonder what i did those 2 years.. i wouldn't mind these sessions again, jus gimme my friends here as well...
Money comes into the picture with words like CTC, Gross and Net thrown around from day1.. my colleagues discussing tax calculations, I'm lost in my own world. When I return to the discussion I find myself no where and get up and go to grab a coffee.
Coffee has become my staple drink and its just a way to run away from work for a few minutes or to get my mind back into the IT world.
I learn to ride a bicycle and people around me see me all enthusiastic, I wish i could tell them that when I'm cycling and the wind is blowing over this 300 acre gold cage, it takes me to Calcutta and to Delhi at least till the time I can see that ts time to park it on the cycle stand.
My day starts with idly and ends in dosa.. I miss my Mom, her food was so much better!
I feel that this is not where I am supposed to be, that its just a matter of time and I will be where I am happy.... just that this feeling leaves me soon and I start wondering - what am I doing here?
People around me discuss 'being independent'. I say to myself - " Bloody Hell..! I dont want to be independent. I want my friends and my family to be my support system. Where r u guys yaar, i wanna have some fun! "
No Internet access, before 9, after 5... here, not there,.., no orkut , no this no that... dont walk on the grass, dont do this... rules, rules and more rules...!! it suffocates me sometimes... Missing the perpetually on laptop on my desk with no rules, anytime access!
My phone is on roaming for 2 weeks since I feel I'll be leaving this campus soon. The phone on roaming is almost useless.. , caught in this circle of salary and money I cant even talk to people when I feel like. I get to know after 2 weeks that I am finally located at this same place- Mysore. I cry out for help.... I wanna be in Bangalore, will somebody listen?
Ok! i have come to terms with Mysore as my location. "Come on Sweta, Bangalore is just 2 hrs away!" FINE!! Here i go to the Hutch Shop, buy a Corporate connection and I am so so happy..! Didnt know a phone connection would gimme so much happiness.. at least i can now call my friends wenever i feel like... One day, I make STD calls for a few hundred rupees..! Money cant buy happiness, did someone say that?
They start discussing Telecom now... ! Some one is a Telecom Manager, some one a Telecom Engineer...Me only a mibile phone user... will it do??
There was a time I wrote some poetry... my poetry has died a silent death...now when i sit with a pen and paper in hand, the paper remains blank till the time I get lost in my thoughts again..! No words to express.... verbose prose like this, after about 3 weeks is all I can manage...
Sometimes I close my eyes and I wish my friends could be here... I open my eyes and find none of them.. I pick up my mobile phone and call one of them, but its too silly to tell them what i jus felt.. Let me take this opportunity and tell u that i really really miss u a lot.... !
I walk into the Book Shop in campus and plan that this is the book i'll read next week, this the week after that and then this and then this.... I used to read, once upon a time....
Music in my life is now zilch... ! i seem to enjoy the DJ who plays here sometimes..., jus because its music, music starved I am... will my wannabe Dylan friend come to my rescue..! ?
My weekends are spent sleeping, washing and ironing... along with that some movies like 'Kya Love Story Hai' and 'Good Boy, Bad Boy'.... dont worry, my taste in movies is still the same;its just that the multiplex here screens these movies and I have no choice.... Can i look for movies on the LAN... ? will someone send me a movie over IP?
i wanna go bak to IMI days... i wanna take up a job in Calcutta... i wanna be with my friends.. come over yaar, we'll sit and chat..! we;ll discuss some songs, some movies, some books... we'll go for breakfast and eat something thats not south Indian... we'll chat on gtalk for hours.... !!
I dont want so much money... if my life is gonna be as shallow as this... i want to read, i wanna write... , i wanna watch some brilliant movies... i wanna discuss music and books... ! i wanna eat home food.... ! i wanna meet my friends.. i wanna sit with my friends and talk for hours... i want some nice long beautiful conversations..! Come someone to my rescue... come will u??
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