Wednesday, October 15, 2008

For the Heaven's Sake...

One is never very happy when things are just not happening or the things which happened were not at all in his favor. With a job offer in hand but, to wait for the date of joining is not something which one really wants to do... I think, so far you have guessed who this person is. Yes, Me Obviously. But, as they say, the things do not always remain the same...after a long period of waiting, one day the Doj came and that too at such stage, when I had started losing hope. Anyway, better late then never. I was Happy...

Each and Every person who used to tease me or increase my frustration with the most pinching question,"Kab Jaa raha hai??", was now asking the same with curiosity and then before I could reply he/she would just add a tag after it.."Jannat hai tumhara campus to" or "Masoori is a place equivalent to heaven" and I just used to pass a smile and say "Not masoori, it's Mysore", although these questions used to annoy me to a great extent but still increased my anxiousness towards reaching the campus as soon as possible.

The day I reached here, after some really time taking and irritating formalities, we came to know that now there's no accommodation left in the hostels and we are being made to stay at a hotel (some good 15kms away from the campus) and we can not come to the campus even if we have ample amount of free time. "Hotel Paradise" the board outside read and I thought ...Ok!! Heaven or Paradise, one and the same thing. Campus me to jana hi hai, city ghoom lete hain. We used to go to our workplace by company bus, which used to take us and the pleasant smell of fresh new formals used to rejoice the mind.

After a couple of days we were moved to the campus hostels and in the urge of discovering the surroundings I took a walk inside the campus and it is really Awesome. Greenery everywhere, cleanliness, fountains good roads and what not... People who used to say that it's heaven were True, I thought. Now after some initial induction, the big day had arrived, the day when our Training started. The educator greeted us with warm Good Morning and Said,” Welcome to the Heaven" and I thought that, he is referring to the place. But, after having a look at the studies and the daily assignments, I became sure that I was wrong and then only I realized his literal meaning which was,” Morons!! You are dead now."

The frequency and level of tests squeezed out the remaining life from within and in between these ups and downs rather Downs and more downs, weekends bring some time to breathe...feww. The campus is heaven, true but the sentence is incomplete. It should be like.. The Campus is Heaven but, they make Life hell.