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Finally... The Rock Is coming back to........ C H E N N A I (the crowd cheers)....

Ya... the MATC (TCS Allocation Dept) has published our allocation results. I had earlier chosen my preferences..

1. Chennai
2. Hyderabad
3. Bangalore

I was banking on the fact that even though only 46 vacancies were there in the Sep 26th batch 100 odd managed to get chennai as their Centre. As for my batch (Sep 30), we had 56 vacancies (for 275 students). And Oh boy... My joy knew no bounds when my pal, Rama confirmed that I was allocated to chennai.

Its more of a relief after the initial ruckus created by the T-77 Batch. And to top it all.. that MATC lady Sheena announced that the allocation details would be published only on a couple of days before we finished our ILP. Grrrr... wat crap.. Glad that the issue was played down and didnt reflect too much on our allocations.

Some pals sadly didnt get their preferred centres.. Swati opted for Delhi but was allotted Pune ahead of Delhi and Mumbai. Ismail and Aditya (SVCE, CSE) got Mumbai instead of Chennai.

Well.. I can finally live the way i want. Work .. Play .. Party .. Yipee.. 2 more weeks.. I'll be in Home sweet Home..

The Mistaken Birthday

Just a week back, Shail Vora celebrated his 22nd Birthday. We (Prashanth, Vivek, Rama and I) bought him a gift and he treated us with ice creams and milkshakes... It was an occasion to remember. The earlier night had been a fiasco (the Midnight Birthday Party) and suprisingly my name was forwarded to the Manager of Lal-Tourist-Home as the person to take the blame (thankfully.. the issue didn't explode at all). Thats when Swati (didi) told me that she was to celebrate her birthday in excatly 7 days time... the 25th of Oct.

I didn't forget it and made sure to wish her first up. But when i hit the sack on the 24th (10 PM), I went into a deep state of meditation to reach my higher level of concsience (in short.. I slept). Prashanth and I ensured that we wished her before we started for work. And we did.......

Prashanth and I : Happy Birthday Didi
Swati : Birthday ???
I : Ya... isn't it not ??
Swati : No
I : But I thought you said your B'day was due on 25th of Oct when Shail was celebrating his.
Swati : Oh.. I was just Joking...
Prashanth and I : !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Swati : What happened ?
I : (to Prashanth) Ok da.. Lets give her the gift anyways.....
Swati : Awwwww (blinked like a bulb)

Well she promised us a REAL treat for a FAKE birthday.. And a treat it was.. At Ariya Niwas. Yum Yum.. Thanks Didi...

Munnar Trip

Having made pals with a lots of batch mates and hotel mates... it was easy to settle in. And the MUNNAR TRIP was instrumental in getting to know my pals a lot better. Especially Ashish, Shewaaz, Prashanth, Vivek, Swathi, Neha... Lots of others..

We started on Friday Night at 10 PM. I was already dead tired for i hadn't slept well in the past 4 days. So i slept off admist all the Hindi and Punjabi numbers playing at a high volume. I gotup the next day around 6.30 AM to find myself staring at a green patch of a hill top smeared with Clouds. It was a pleasant way to start the morning. We checked in at Munnar Tourist Home (MTH) and then started out to a couple of locations. I should admit that i wasn't all that satisfied on what was my First visit to Munnar if it hadn't been for the Kwel Speed-Boat ride later in the day. I was expecting a lot of trekking and a lot more fauna to be found. All i got to see was a pitiful mountain goat (Blah Blah). But the Boat Ride changed my mood for the better. It was another FIRST for me... On a speed Boat. I felt the lake beneath us... It was ****ing COLD. My fingers got numb for the next 12 hours.

The next day we started for ALLEPEY for the most boring part of our Trip.. The Backwater boat ride. Baah.. 3 Hrs of hell watching only water and coconut trees. We returned at 10 PM and i almost immediately dozed off. Need some rest before ILP resumes on Monday. Syanora

Life at TCS, Trivadrum (ILP)

I guess its been a while since i last posted. All thx to my ILP at Trivandrum. I arrived at Trivandrum on the 28th of September. I got my accomodation at Lal Tourist Home (Near the Central Station). I happened to know 2 other SVCEans who accompanied me to the Hotel. One was Keerthana a.k.a Tarantula and the other was Prashanth (never seen him before). I spent a lot of time familiarising with all the batch mates as well as other pals. Prashanth, incidentally my room mate too, was a nice guy with an attitude similair to mine. We got along well right from the time we met at the station.

ILP started on Sep 30. It was new experience and i should say the speech by Col.Nair was really a enlivening if not enlightening one. Prashanth and I started experimenting all the nearby hotels in the area... THAT proved to be my own undoing. i got ill as well as started coughing profusely (an irritating one). I took me a week to regain my my health back. The latest info is that... there is a talk abt a visit to munnar. Lets see how it goes......