MSRIT, Mphasis, Mangalore, Memories…

Its been a while since i wrote something on my blog. Please excuse me for that.

The delay might have been because life has become busy like never before.

But if you ask me, i will tell that i did this intentionally, to prove a point that i dont forget things so quickly.

And this post is dedicated to all of those people, mostly my friends from Mangalore. B)..

And here iam, back to blogging.

Let me start again from where i had left. The story had stopped at me completing 50 days at my first company.

After that i went on to complete 70 day.. B).. hehe..

On the 71st day i had an argument with the HR, which led me to this..

and then this..

I decided that i will quit the job and also decided that 29th January was my last day at PAPL, the company. I was very sure about leaving the job, and was also very unsure about the future.

But there was this super twist in the tale. On 29th January i had a interview with Mphasis, and Thank God, i cleared the interview (which was preceded by a GD)

The story couldnt have been scripted any better. And then i happily quit the job and 15 days later was on my way to Mangalore.

Enter Mangalore, a semi urban town, with rude-talking people.

Reached Mangalore on 14th February, checked into the hostel, and then made recce about the  spots. Little did i know that the hostel would be the best spot.

Mangalore weather, is the worst i have seen in my life until now. Too hot, humid. That too it was peak summer when i went there. My room fan ran continuously from 14th Feb to 4th May, when it finally stopped rotating. Such was the weather.

The first few days were purely meant for signatures. I signed signed and kept

on signing for almost 3 days. .. Then started the real training, the soft skills part.

It was fun, to sit like you were sitting in a classroom, albeit with more interaction with the teaching people.The softskills training was for 12 days after which the technical traning started.

The first few days also made me realise that i was too weak in remembering and corelating names of people and faces. To beat this i started naming people based on the brand of cigarettes they smoke, SMALL, ULTRA_MILDS et al.

SMALL went on to become world famous at Mphasis. .

And there was this instance where i could not recognise my room mate.

After the first few hiccups i did make a lot of close friends.

Who told hostel life makes you see LIFE? I became a lot more lazy staying in hostel.

Not to forget the stupid, going nowhere conversations, which would go on all night. And when the sun rose we would sleep.

Also i remember the long, really long  phone conversations which would usually go on for hours together.

The one thing which is still etched in my memory is the near miss while we were returning back from bangalore to mangalore one Sunday night. Our bus, VRL met with an accident on magadi road. The bus rammed to a Santro leaving  the two people of the car dead on spot. And the bus’s diesel tank got damaged and we were lucky that the bus didn’t catch fire.

And then started the ordeal, stuck in middle of nowhere at midnight. Had to wait for two long hours for the replacement bus to arrive, and guess what the driver didnt know the route to mangalore. and we had to sit beside him and tell him the way.

And in the middle of all these i had the chance to change a guy’s life. He was a student of NIT-K who was travelling with us. He had got into IBM global(He was thinking seriously about joining it) and i advised him not to go for IBM instead try for something better and bigger. And he did get something better and a lot bigger. He took my advise and got into a company which paid 9.4 LPA!!!! . It somewhat gave me a sense of satisfaction when i got to know the news.

The short bangalore trips, which i was making, after i reached mangalore, would make me feel that i was 350 kms from heaven.

Nonetheless, Mangalore was wholesome experience.

Coming to the food, I  didnt really have a chance to try out GOOD food. This was mainly because of the most of the friends i made there were vegetarians or were allergic to good food. .. :@..

But the food at AUNTY’s made the experience kinda memorable.

Not to forget our Java trainer who needs special mention.

We also visited some places in and around mangalore. Mangalore’s Garuda Mall, Bharath mall also needs a mention.

And the famous, IDEAL Icecream. At one point of time, we were eating Icecream for dinner at IDEALS. ..

Dharmasthala, Kukke, Udupi need mention, so do St Mary’s Island, Penumbur beach, Someshwara beach. Not to forget Liquid lounge and Cyclone lounge.

And also Dhanraj, Surabhi and Sahara.. ..

And the cricket matches we played against the local teams, that too the ones against LUCKY boys’ team.

And yeah! The movies. MOVIES! Saw two of them in mangalore, Prithvi and Phoonk 2.

And those IPL matches in the TV room!!

Our technical training finished on 10 April and we were sitting entirely jobless until May 5.

Our itenary was get up and LOGIN and go and play cricket.

On May 5 we got our posting and i luckily, like most others got namma Bengaluru. ..

Hmmm.. That pretty much seems itt..

May be, i, knowingly or unknowingly missed out on some specific moments.

Please feel free to post them yourself in the comments.

Bye bye Mangaluru. Hope to see you again, only for a day or two. ..

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