I stepped out of the boundaries of my cozy and comforting hostel in Manipal, sat in the taxi to Mangalore airport, filled with a lot of apprehension, excitement, enthusiasm and in anticipation of the journey I was about to herald, which I didn’t know would change me, my life and my views in more ways than one.
My parents, thousands of miles away, were calling me every second possible to find out if I was safe and sound and constantly pouring words of advice into my ears over the phone much to my annoyance. :D But I guess parents will be parents…
Anyways, reached Bangalore, the hub of the Indian IT industry,which looks magical at night. But that day it had a veil of darkness on its face thanks to the hideous bomb blasts which shook the city, a day before.
Then I finally reached Orchid Inn, the place where all the CAs were being put up, after a couple of phone calls to Mr.Azeez and a few wrong turns. I was allotted a nice, posh flat with a TV (plus it also had a really cool couch :P ), where Shobhna and Nagratna where already staying. We started talking to each other and got friendly at once, and here I must add one thing I noticed in general about all the Campus Ambassadors, is that they were very friendly and went out of their ways to know each other better.
After this suddenly the lights went off and we were left in the cold, dark night at the mercy of a meager candle and no water in our flat. I was terribly hungry, sleepy and exhausted after the journey and wanted to go to bed as soon as possible.
Then, comes Abhishek, with a big smile on face, humbly apologizing to us about the slightly poor conditions and suggested we all meet our fellow CAs to make good use of our time .We also met Ankit, who had taken a bunch of CAs out for dinner. Both of these CA coordinators were extremely friendly and made us feel at home. Next, we had a small, informal, interactive session which was really interesting and a good way to break the ice between all of us. Dinner consisting of loads of yummy things, came a little later and we all didn’t waste even a second in finishing it off.. Then we reluctantly retired to our flats out of sheer necessity as tomorrow would be the first day of our Induction Program, the reason why we all had gathered from all over the country, beating the terror of bomb blasts, undertaking long journeys, yet feeling supremely confident, joyous and eager about the events going to happen in the next three days…
Such is the spirit of the CAs of Sun Microsystems that each and every CA appointed and invited for the program was present here, despite all odds, which I believe is an amazing feat!!!...I salute each and everyone involved in the program: Gary (the person whose presence made the program so much more special and interesting), Ganesh, Vijaya, Rajesh, Angad, Tirthankar( ya the “photographer guy” :D), Shyam and everyone else who left no stone unturned to make it a great success….Kudos to you all !!!!!! Cheers :D
My parents, thousands of miles away, were calling me every second possible to find out if I was safe and sound and constantly pouring words of advice into my ears over the phone much to my annoyance. :D But I guess parents will be parents…
Anyways, reached Bangalore, the hub of the Indian IT industry,which looks magical at night. But that day it had a veil of darkness on its face thanks to the hideous bomb blasts which shook the city, a day before.
Then I finally reached Orchid Inn, the place where all the CAs were being put up, after a couple of phone calls to Mr.Azeez and a few wrong turns. I was allotted a nice, posh flat with a TV (plus it also had a really cool couch :P ), where Shobhna and Nagratna where already staying. We started talking to each other and got friendly at once, and here I must add one thing I noticed in general about all the Campus Ambassadors, is that they were very friendly and went out of their ways to know each other better.
After this suddenly the lights went off and we were left in the cold, dark night at the mercy of a meager candle and no water in our flat. I was terribly hungry, sleepy and exhausted after the journey and wanted to go to bed as soon as possible.
Then, comes Abhishek, with a big smile on face, humbly apologizing to us about the slightly poor conditions and suggested we all meet our fellow CAs to make good use of our time .We also met Ankit, who had taken a bunch of CAs out for dinner. Both of these CA coordinators were extremely friendly and made us feel at home. Next, we had a small, informal, interactive session which was really interesting and a good way to break the ice between all of us. Dinner consisting of loads of yummy things, came a little later and we all didn’t waste even a second in finishing it off.. Then we reluctantly retired to our flats out of sheer necessity as tomorrow would be the first day of our Induction Program, the reason why we all had gathered from all over the country, beating the terror of bomb blasts, undertaking long journeys, yet feeling supremely confident, joyous and eager about the events going to happen in the next three days…
Such is the spirit of the CAs of Sun Microsystems that each and every CA appointed and invited for the program was present here, despite all odds, which I believe is an amazing feat!!!...I salute each and everyone involved in the program: Gary (the person whose presence made the program so much more special and interesting), Ganesh, Vijaya, Rajesh, Angad, Tirthankar( ya the “photographer guy” :D), Shyam and everyone else who left no stone unturned to make it a great success….Kudos to you all !!!!!! Cheers :D
