Hyderabad Blues Part 2

On popular demand by a few of my very close friends, I have finally found some time to write about the most wonderful days of my life in hyderabad. Since my last post I have realized that MBA keeps us busy most of the times doing things which hardly take time..

After the 3 days wait and experiments at the hostel, finally the day i had been looking forward to had come. I had to report for the first day of my training at the office campus , excited I reached the bus depot 15 mins earlier than the reporting time. It was a completely different experience, fresh new faces full of excitement around me, most of them including me wearing new clothes, While i dont remember much of the bus journey from the city to the campus(I am sure it must not have been very exciting. On reaching I was awestruck looking at the campus, it was bigger than I had imagined it to be, with very well built and maintained blocks (buildings). All the trainees who reported on that day were sent to two seperate blocks -3 &4 and what came next was a shocking surprise test for all the 600 plus trainees. Having no choice all of us had to occupy a seat in the training lab which had posh seating arrangements and great infrastructure. While I had started to feel nervous about the test, i could see one little cute girl full of excitement moving here and there looking for a corner seat (corner seats are always safe during exams!!) , finally this girl occupied the seat next to me and from then until the test started or rather the test ended went on talking non stop. chatter patter chatter patter.... and very cleverly passing comments on the people sitting quietly next to her, its a different thing that I was the only girl sitting next to her. Little had i known that this little bak bak machine would turn out to be my best friend in hyd and even after that.

Our batch had the training in a location outside the office campus, we were cleverly deprived of the facilities of the campus for the first 2 weeks , but it was at this place that i met people who are now my best buddies. The training at this location was tough to handle as it lasted mostly for the entire day, but thanks to the full of energy and enthusiastic professors who trained us that the energy levels of all of us there also remained on par with them. We had a few entertainment sessions in between the training sessions and in one of those sessions one girl very boldly volunteered to sing a song on the stage, it was quite a bold move considering the fact that there were close to 300 people in the auditorium-oh yes the training room was actually an auditorium. Once the girl was on stage i realized it was the same chatter patter machine who i had met in the test and had now mesmerized the audience with her beautiful voice, the next perfomer was a simple looking guy who sang his own composition, the lyrics of the song clearly indicated his feelings for the love of his life and quickly caught the attention of a few girls from the group.. And before i forget to mention this guy is one of my best friends now. As the days passed I had found a good friend in that sweet chatter patter machine and we spent most of the time together, by the end of this 2 weeks of training i had 3 great friends, all of them caring ,intelligent & talented, the only mismatch between us which i later came into fact with was that the 3 of them great dancers and singers, and i was someone who had 2 left feet .Slowly the frequency of exploring the city increased and with it the bonds between us grew stronger. Training schedules were quite tough and the thought of a test after every module brought some seriousness into us. So while we slept during the afternoons after the training, explored the city in the evenings we also studied and worked on assignments at nights, a perfect balance of work and fun.

Hyderabad brought with it a lot of "First Time Experiences", staying out with friends till 11 pm for the first time as the city closed at that time,First time visit to a disc and pub, wearing a short skirt for the first time -i am glad my bro is not into blogging ,first time visit to a temple- birla temple , being hospitalized at midnight due to viral fever for the first time along with my best friend who was also admitted to the same hospital for viral fever(it was one of its kind of an experiences and i can write 1 full page just abt this) , first time breakfast at a roadside stall,first time overnight stay at a friend's flat, first time going to classes without bathing that too on my birthday- thanks to all my frnds who kept wishing me over the phn all night so much so that i overslept in the morning, first time large scale birthday bash, first time salary to others and to me first time no salary for the first 4 months; thanks to the typo in the joining date I along with 3 others did not receive salary for 4 months and most importantly my first ever dance performance at the cultural evening.

As a kid i was always interested in learning dance but never really got the opprtunity or to be precise the time to learn dance. The cultural day was a great chance for me to live my dream, but as i said i had 2 left feet and learning dance was one hell of a job to do . After all the efforts when i realized that its just not possible to learn dance , there came another reason for me to drop out . The dress code for the stage performance was a black jeans and a RED T shirt and I for some unkown reason had never worn a Red Top or t shirt and was scared of the colour red. I decided to quit and came back to my room from the rehearsals, and sometime late in the evening my best friend called to check the status of my rehearsals for he knew how excited i was about it and after listening to my experience of the day and decision to back out frm the dance grp he very nicely motivated and convinced me not to drop out and go practise for the dance. He had these strong convincing skills which not only let me live my dream but also overcome my fear of wearing the colour red. Of course i did go back and rehearsed with more interest this time and our grp dance with the Red tshirt and black jeans was good if not great on the cultural evening.
Like i said every single day was a great learning experience, the time spent with all my friends in hyd are undoubtedly the best moments of my life and I will cherish them forever. I have made friends who will always remain special to me irrespective of the time, distance and changing priorities in life.
That's all for now. Hopefully will write more in the next post!!