First blog (supposed to be)

As the title suggests this was supposed to be my first blog titled 'My best ever Delhi trip??'. I had this one ready right after getting admission into SP Jain.. but something stopped me from posting this. I made some changes recently but tried to retain the most as the original.. The original title doesnt seem to be relevant any longer..

Well, the third list was out and I was not in it. Had little hope as only 3 were in the 2nd list announced a few days earlier. I was actually surprised that there was one among them who didn’t accept the offer. So, I was mentally prepared to go for CAT 2009 and thought of starting the mission after a little time-off where I would concentrate more on my job (appraisal time :) ).

Then one fine day, there was a mail from the Alstom university to confirm my participation for the training on the Environmental products (ESP, Bag filter). I had attended the exact same program 2 yrs back and still don’t remember exactly if it is Bag or Back :P. The training was scheduled at our Noida office so I didn’t inform my boss about attending the same program earlier. I always looked for an opportunity to meet all my friends in Delhi and it was the perfect time to help me get the over the results and start afresh for CAT 2009.

Thanks to the global recession, our company also took the cost cutting measures even though the business was good. Now we had to go to Delhi in a train. Time for me and one of my juniors (who also loves Delhi) to find the trains such that we can spend our maximum time in Delhi.

So we finally reached Delhi one day before the scheduled training. Then, just about when I was going for a bath, I noticed my cell ringing and it was from a Mumbai landline. I was relieved that it was not any customer or vendor but then started cursing the call centre guys who pick only those days when I’m out of Gujarat. I answered the call reluctantly with these words ready ‘I’m in roaming right now, call me after a week’ Thank God I picked up the call and didn’t utter those words. Instead, just stood there listening to the other person. What I had heard was the best news that I had heard in ages and it took a lot of time to sink in. (by now, u must have guessed it.. it was a call from SP Jain asking me if I was interested in their offer). With no one in the house to share the news with, I started making panic calls informing everyone (even my boss and he was happy for me).

The next 3 days in Delhi were eventful with me bunking the training program on 2nd day (felt really good especially after seeing the state of my juniors who could not manage to stay awake during the program. They were very angry at me for bunking the program and not worried about the consequences. Little did they know that I had resigned), hunting for loans, catching up with friends, etc etc…