From the words of my friend........
“Enough is enough!!can’t work so much for such useless targets”…Such things came to my mind after working almost 1 year in Pharma sales sector.I was pissed off with the job and planned to quit the job and do an MBA…Now the question is where to do and what are the best institutes in Bhubaneswar???Because in Bhubaneswar if you will stand at Rasulgarh square and throw a stone, irrespective of direction, then the place it will land is an MBA institute.Once I found one institute named Oxford and for the time being I thought that Oxford university had opened their franchisee here at Bhubaneswar…Actually fact is that I didn’t know much about the institutes and the exams to prepare to avail a seat in some good institutes.Finally,took suggestions from my friends and made my mind to join CAT coaching at TIME institute Bhubaneswar. After some days, I met the admission officer of the institute and he described the coaching strategy in such a way that I thought that this year I will join IIM,nothing else…Let it…whatever it may be but my enthusiasm was at its peak. Finally, on 16th April,2008,I took admission on TIME for CAT..
At that time,I was staying at Athgarh and had to come Bhubaneswar daily by free govt. vehicle i.e passenger train from Ghantikal,Athgarh to Bhubaneswar. Nobody does a ticket for travelling in that train because that train was a gift from railway ministry to the people of Athgarh and suburb areas for travelling the capital of odisha free of cost.I took hardly 40-45 minutes to reach Bhubaneswar and these 40-45 minutes were constantly added by inertia of motion and rest at fixed intervals of time.However,my destination was used to be Vanivihar Railway station whose total length is equal to the length of that train. In rainy seasons,after stepping out from train definitely you have to run at vanivihar station because no shed is there and waiting hall is always locked like “havellis” of horror films…Any ways I joined my classes at 9:30 am at SaheedNagar Centre.After 3 hours of serious struggle with the Aptitude,Reasoning and English I finally returned at 12:30 pm.Everyday after coaching I used to find the first bus to reach Badambadi(Cuttack) from where I can go Athgarh.At Badambadi,bus conductors will welcome you as if you are the star player of Indian cricket team.Every time you ask conductor about the availability of seats inside the bus, the answer is ‘yes’.I don’t know why they nod their heads but if the bus sitting capacity is 50 then definitely the bus will be carrying something around 80-90.At most of the times the top of the bus is loaded by small bags to the largest ones and even sometimes Atlas and Hero bicycles are also loaded. I don’t know who had discovered speed,distance and time formula but if he would have seen these bus then definitely he would have added another new factor called “load”…Finally,I used to reach home around 3:00-3:30pm.This routine was going on for about a fortnight and I was enjoying the preparation also…
It was 5th May, 2008, Monday and I went for my classes as usually .The weather was excellent and I preferred sitting near the window of the train. I was murmuring some latest Bollywood tracks and enjoying the deep blue sky having some patched clouds and the green grassy fields from the window of train accompanied by some cool breeze due to last night’s rain. Really, the feeling was awesome… and didn’t knew when my destination i.e Vanivihar station came.I stepped out of the train and waiting for my friend Rohit who also used to come with me in the same train. On the meantime, I saw a girl wearing a yellow colored dress with a pink bag.She was looking very beautiful and talking with her mobile with someone else.I was looking at her continuously. I had never seen such a beautiful girl before. I don’t know what happened to me at that time but now I can realize that –perhaps it was love at first sight. I had seen many girls before…always want to talk and flirt with them but I don’t know why my heart said to love that girl but not to flirt with. My friend came and called me. We both went for the classes as we were already getting late for the class. While moving with my friend, I again looked back at her, and she was still standing and perhaps waiting for someone else. On the way to our coaching class my friend was talking something to me but I was mentally still there at railway station and thinking about that girl. Any ways…we reached our class in time and our Reasoning Class started. In every reasoning class we were initially given some hand-outs to solve and then that paper was discussed. The paper was very tough and I started solving it. The second question was so difficult that I got stuck to it…Actually main thing is that somewhere I was able to visualize that girls face in my reasoning paper. I was unable to concentrate. Suddenly after 20 minutes, our center director interrupted the class and told our reasoning sir that-“Sir, few more students for your batch”. We all looked at a time to the entry door and what I seen was an unbelievable experience for me. My pulse rate suddenly became hyperactive…The girl I was thinking about was standing in front of me along with 3 other new faces which were not evenly constructed. Being a back bencher, I took the advantage because she sat just behind me…I became so energetic that the question which I was stuck to was solved within a couple of minutes…
After the Classes,I returned home and in night started solving some quants questions but can’t.Because my heart as well as mind both gave priority to her face rather than my TIME institutes study materials.I don’t know what exactly happened to me but now I can realize that I suffered from a disease that every vicenarian suffers from..Yes it was love…Finally,closed my books as well as eyes and started dreaming…
(To be continued in my next post…)Have a nice day.....
Truely yours
JGD
9:51 AM(as per my office pc time)
23/08/2013
