Old Is Gold: Time flies so fast; today, 7 years ago we all strangers together put
our first step to start the career with zeal and curiosity to see the WORLD of
IT & now we know what it is. Hope you all are doing good and sailing your
boat smoothly at extreme waves. Someone said appropriately that “Time Flies,
But Memories Last Forever”; Memories of our CTS training days were really
awesome and still alive on our mind. Just we need to recap I am damn sure that
it will add smile on your face.
Let’s me force my
mind and recall the old memories which we spent together; I am penning down
some moments:
31st August
2009, we came from different cities, states and landed at CTS - IDB Hall,
Hinjewadi Phase 1 for joining formality. People were arriving and taking the
seats – Leaving the first row empty as usual “Indian Tradition... Lol”.
HR. Abraham noticed the odd man out logic where girls took the position on
right side and boys on left side. She started giggling and requested to mix up
so that she could brainwash our old mindset (Since childhood, we have been
opting the same logic & sitting: Girl – Girl & Boy-Boy orders). Induction
of firm started, around 30-45 min later one person entered in the IDB hall and
took last seat that was Anand. On the special request of HR, he came forward
and opted to sit just behind our seat. Whole day we spent by signing the
documents, team-building activities and at last closed the day with Group photo.
Next day, we
reported CTS academy center (beside to Symbiosis) for 3 months Training
Program. Few were disappointed because on Day 1 we got to know that entire
batch was for Testing but few were happy because they wanted to explore it. If
I am not wrong then we have been asked to sit at Room No. 104 (right hand side
from lift).
Testing training
started, Individual introduction completed and CR Finalized for our training
batch that was Anup “The CR”. Slowly-Slowly we people started
interacting with each other and exchanging our information. Training room was
awesome: Munna Bhai MBBS type seat arranged, Low lights, Comfortable chairs and
Pleasant AC – Providing a pleasant atmosphere to sleep during the lecture. We
were three musketeers from same college (Asif, Abhishek and
I), so very well aware about each other. We started interacting with others and
in couple of weeks a great bonding developed between all of us.
In training room,
we followed the same decorum which we learnt since childhood, Boy-Boy &
Girl-Girl even though facilitator and HR tried a lot to break this. We used to
sit at (first column-prior to last few rows) on left hand side if you enter
from the door where usual we keep projector. I was sitting with Amit, behind
me Asif, Behind Asif – Anand & Rahul, In the front of
me – Sachin, Bhavin and on right hand side – Ninand, Prashant,
Abhishek and many more. Some philosopher “Rakesh” was also
there but they were sitting on the first column on right hand side. CR was very
attentive person so he used to sit in the front row. Prasad, Shesadari on the
last row. In our batch – We had “Sweekar” good investor, who used
to do trading during lecture time; if I am not wrong then he had also invested
good wealth in Satyam Share J. All girls are pretty but chronological
order from top to medium; Top one were sitting first column, first desk (just
next to entrance door) and In the front of Sachin’s desk. [Guys, not specifying
name here beyond my protocol, force your mind to recap those days]. Some girls
who used to do lot of chit-chat or some who wanted to remain silent were
occupying the second row or third row. [~ Hope you guys have remembered your
seat location as of now ~]
Moving to the
next segment; along with study – we did lot of fun as well. We were the first
batch who organized Team Outing to Alibaug within a month of joining. That trip
was awesome and would be remarkable forever. Also went for Valley crossing.
Some exclusive
memories captured during training period:
- Amit
was holding “Bhandar” of latest dumps which he used to showcase us
and most enthusiastic person “Shrikant” during the spare time.
- Rahul
& Anand – They had arranged system/application/folder icons on their
desktop in such a way which normal person couldn’t imagine. They used to
sleep most of time during lecture and taking the advantage of last desk.
- Dovetail
2 Exam was tough for all but night-mare for two associates but at last –
they cleared it with good marks. We opted “Munna Bhai Style” where they
plugged wireless earphone – Started sharing their questions & we were
answering from Canteen. I do remember the name of all who joined me for this.
- How
can we forget “Kaluram”, he supported us a lot. During last paper when I
got to know that Navdeep scored 100/100 then I requested her to help me on
few objective questions (86% I was done but still Yeh Dil Mange More) but
Kaluram all of sudden came at my desk as a hurdle. I hugged him tightly
and requested Navdeep to check my pending questions and submit the correct
– We managed to hold him for 1 min and submitted the answer and got 96%.
After that I said sorry to Kaluram and he replied “Don’t do this next
time”.
- Some
famous dialogue of movies which were whispered a lot during the training
time – “Lala Mere Maa K Khangan Wapas Kar De”, “Paro ne kaha sharab
chhod do” [ Kuch Kuch Yaad Aaya Bhai Log]
- We
had some stunt man as well e.g. Bhavin, Ninand - who did some magical
stunt on Bhavin’s bike during Lonavala visit, Bus Bike Ki Back Light Tut
Gayi Baki Kuch Nhi Huya :)
Few girls we had
“Shilpi S” and “Juhi” – What a fluent speaker they were, we were thinking: Why
they joined IT, ideally they should apply for News Anchoring Job.
There are lots of
memories which we spent together but not captured above because of the limited
space or time but I have prepared a video & uploaded in YouTube which will
help you to recall those days.
Those days were
best days of our life, here we go:
Title: Old Is
Gold (31st Aug 2009 )
Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQ6-lONWec8
Thanks to Megha,
Jyoti, Shilpi C, Lakshmi, Priyanka, Shital, Vrushali, Snehal, Rajashree, Asif,
Abhishek, Anup, Akshay, Parminder, Sandeep, Sanjeeb, Rohit, Sachin, Rahul,
Sheshadri, Prasad, Rakesh, Shrikant, Priyanka, Amol, Amit, Shrikant, Ninad,
Prachi, Prashant, Sweekar, Juhi, Vishal, Shilpi S, Sahil, Navdeep, Ankit,
Yogita, Nandini, Prajakta, Rupali, Bhavin, Sourabh, Anand
Guys, Our Batch
Strength were around 44 and I still remember the name of each.
Be happy wherever you are but always stay connected.
If you like this
video then please leaves your comments below with some memories of our training
days.
9 comments:
Liked the blog so much and also the video is awesome!
Thanks for putting all this together.
Very well written blog. The way u arranged different flowers (different moments) in the basket is just incredible. Kudos on remembering everyone's name �� you can't imagine how much joy it feels after reading your article.
@Navdeep kaur Thanks Navdeep & Anup
Bhai tussi great ho. Awesome flashback. U made me remind everything. Nice to go through this.
Beautifully Written, Reading this was extremely joyful. Nothing like old days. You made my day...dude.
Very nice post Ankit. As I was reading, it reminded me of all beautiful memories we all shared together.
True,very well written. While reading, I actually lost in those 3 months... I wish we all could become freshers again...
True,very well written. While reading, I actually lost in those 3 months... I wish we all could become freshers again...
Liked the blog so much and also the video is awesome!
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