So far....

I come from a land of Sea, Sand and Sun-GOA!! Being brought up as a youngest child wasn't much of a challenge but being a part of a hardcore brahmin family was. Somehow Goa and hardcore brahmin family doesnt seem to co-exist in people's minds. But its true. My life in Goa was surrounded by various rules and do's and dont's. Everything I did had to be pre-approved; right from what I should wear to what I eat, to whom I speak etc etc.


But fortunately due to my good grades and a lot of convincing and coaxing from me, my parents agreed to let me pursue my further studies outside Goa!! It was quite an unusual and unheard kind of a thing in my family. Except my sister no one else had attempted it.


I was planning to be the second.. The process of preparing for my CAT exams till getting invites from various colleges was very lengthy. And even tedious was the process of appearing for a GD/PI, awaiting the results, getting shortlisted and finally applying for an education loan. The path seemed horribly difficult. But somehow I managed it...


5 yrs and 7 months back I came here-Bangalore-My second home!! I have had the best, worst and craziest days of my life here.....


Two years of hostel life was absolutely heaven...

Initial months away from home were miserably lonely. Though there were 300 students living in a 12 acre campus; we were not home!! But happiness, sadness and loneliness brought all of us together! That 12 acre land became our home away from home in a span of few months.

After that came a lot of late night coffees and movies, chit-chats, fights, birthday celebrations, new year bashes and some study squeezed in between all this work!! phew!!

When companies started coming in our campus we realised why we were there in the first place!! :) All of us fortunately made it in a corporate world but we were highly unrehearsed for what was going to come...

Our life changed after that.. we were no longer students. We suddenly became "professionals"!!!
There were no longer fights and late night strolls and coffees. :( Only work was being discussed.

Gradually we all had to go our separate worlds..

Its been 4 yrs as a professional!! Yet we are quite unrehearsed.. Now the life revolves around clients and customers and salaries.. Life is different. But its good.

Now as I sit in my hostel room and punch in these words.. These years are rewinding in my mind. A lot has gone by and a lot is yet to unfold...

I have come so far... And I am waiting for more..