My journey to my selection in air force was the most interesting part of my life. Those 3 days before ssb that include my journey to Varanasi (my ssb center), 5 days of ssb, 5 days of medicals were more than awesome and somewhat adventurous too. Now it’s only a part of my memory, just trying to share it here. I am not a perfectionist in writing but doing an effort. Beginning from 4 days before my ssb here I go…..
It was 17th September 2010.
I was at home. I woke up early... at around 5 am. Don’t even think that I disturbed my sleep for studying because in entire 22 years of my life I have never done that. Though many a times I tried by putting an alarm of 5, sometimes 4 (in very rarest of the rare cases), sometimes even progressed to switch ON the light but failed every time at a single point... And the point was ‘haye yaar, kitni neend aa rahi hai. Kaun padhega itni neend mein’ Dis point was always raised by hypothetical devil inside me dressed in a red robe with two red horns. At such times I was in so much love with this red devil but an angel (who was also a part of me) dressed in a white rob with white feathers always interrupted my love session with the devil by saying ‘C’mon get up.. You have to do it. If you will hard work today, you will get the reward tomorrow.’ And I was left with “what the hell is this... Hey, you angel, just shut your mouth” and then I would always switch OFF the light saying “god ji, bas aaj sone do... kal se pakka jaldi uthkar padhugi..I promise”. Even many a times while getting back into my bed, I had listened to the angel’s crushed weak voice “no... Work hard” and simultaneously the devil’s cruel laugh “ha ha ha ha... As usual... I won!!”
Well, getting back to my abnormal deed of getting early, the reason behind it was I was to reach dehradun by 8 am. Coz I was to attend a campus placement. I woke up 3 hours before coz my home was 35 kms away from dehradun... And at such occasions I had always missed having a home in dehradun... 15 minutes later I was out of my bed thinking if I had been living in dehradun, I would have slept for 1-1.5 hours more.. Shit man!!
So my day started very very slowly like a bullock cart (that too broken with an ox that was to die the next moment). I took 45 minutes to get up fully ready (45 minutes coz I was in my sleep hangover.. don predict that I was applying any sort of make-up and all similar sort of things).. 15 minutes went in breakfast and then I proceeded for my destination.
At the bus stop also, I was not thinking about my interview and the recruitment, the thing that was in my mind was ‘Hope I’ll get a good seat in bus where I can complete my sleep…huh...’
After 1 hour 20 minutes I was at my destination and in these 1 hour 20 minutes I totally removed my sweet sleep hangover. The venue for campus placement was DBIT… I had always possessed a sort of negative feeling for this college. And I have got the reason too… the very good and the logical reason is that as soon as one enters into the college, the mobile network stops following you… In short, one has to leave his/her soul outside the college gate… not actually everyone, but gals and guyz like me jinki jaan cell phone mein basti hain… aisa hota hai due to an another logical reason which I would prefer to keep a secret…sssshhhh.
So, I entered into the college gate with my two besties Nitti and laxmi with our souls left outside the gate. After getting in, we, the trio, took our seats in the hall. There were students from our college and from some other colleges. Now we had no option but to wait for the company people to come. I was under a constant torture coz I was doing the worst work of WAITING that too with a cell phone without network… Again a body without soul… uuuuaaaannnn
After around half an hour I noticed a strange thing. Laxmi was moving in and out of the hall again and again in every 15-20 minutes… HOLD HOLD HOLD… let me first elaborate this strange creature in my life. Laxmi is my really dear good friend and we are friends since the first day of the college. She is a good and a caring human being always carrying a strange permanent expression over her face. If I’ll have to say something about that expression, it will be something like this ‘oh god, kya karun main, kitni tension hai, somebody help me out… I am in so many problems.’ I think u guys can make it out now what I mean to say.
This time I followed laxmi to see why she was going out again and again… and there I got her.
“nahiiiiii… this is impossibleeee”, this was my first silent reaction when I came across the whole matter.
SHOCK 1 of the day!!
The reason was her mobile was catching some soul outside the hall. I tried for my cell phone again and again but all in vain. “chee chee god ji… why such a partiality…this is not fair.” I came back with such an expression as I had missed the chance to dine with shahid kapoor… ooooooo shahid kapoor… he is my sweetheart, my first love, my first crush, just irresistible and so on….
On getting back I told this thing to nitti.
“yaar… laxmi ka to network mil gaya. Lagi padi hai wo apne cell mein”
“chod na tu use…. Uska to yahi kaam hai”
This was nitti. My cute sweet choti tinni. Her every elaboration will surely start with her looks and the way she carries herself. Gifted with good looks and smart, cool, sexy personality… I just love her… hey, I just love her coz she is my very special friend… it’s not coz of her beauty… after all I am not abnormal. One SATUTORY WARNING about nitti: JUST AVOID HER IF YOU ARE TO GO FOR ANY EXAM OR TECHNICAL INTERVIEW. The reason being that she will ask you such questions (out of her habit) that how much confident you are about your preparation, at last you will be left with these words “abbey… mujhe to kuch bhi nahi aata.”
2 hours were over but there was no sign of the recruiters. I wondered what the hell this is. They are making us to wait here only coz we are unemployed??? Well… every dog has his day!! Majboori kaa naam Mahatma Gandhi!! Bapu amar rahe!!
Laxmi was so busy with her soul so I turned to nitti.
“come yaar… lets go to canteen… feeling kinda hungry”
“ya ya ya… tu khilayegi na?” another unique characteristic of nitti. If anyone was to go for canteen or restaurant, one could never expect her to pay the bill and I had an ample experience in this field. But that was the thing of the past… now she is just opposite due to her monthly salary she gets from Dell. But now I really miss her this unique characteristic.
At canteen, while I and nitti were having stale patties (they were just horrible… the crumb was so hard dat I felt as if I was doing a commercial of VICCO VAJARDANTI… when my teeth were struggling to chew them a music started i n my background… vajardanti vajardanti vicco vajardanti, vicco powder vicco paste…… the rest I didn’t remember)…
So, coming back to the point… at canteen while I and nitti were having stale patties, niiti asked me about the whereabouts of a very special person in my life and at that moment, I really missed that person badly. I missed that person more coz just a day before I had enjoyed the rain and a burger at McD and had shared a lot of things with that person.
And that person was none other than…… errrrrrr…. Wait, guyz and galz, Are you thinking that person was my boyfriend?? No no no no… A person who is even more special than a boyfriend and the person is JUHI GUPTA. MY ANOTHER SWEETHEART.
I would not elaborate her much coz I don’t know why but whenever I elaborate her or talk about her nature, her relation with me I get really very senti… but in short I would say she is the angel of my life and I think god has sent her in my life coz he knew that many a times I will face some situations where I will feel damn weak and shattered and in those situations juhi will be my support. Well… I am really proud and damn lucky to have her… and I swear had I been a boy I would have married her for sure!!
Well, there is a thing about juhi which I have never shared with her but I am going to share it here. When I saw juhi for the first time 4 yrs. back I felt as if she resembles a bollywood actress but in all the 4 years till now I am unable to find out who the actress is… but I am sure there is one… perhaps someone belonging to my grandparents’ era!!
Shortly after getting back into the canteen the company (NIIT) people came and our aptitude test started. I and nitti got through it. After that there was a written paper in which we were asked to answer some awkward questions like dialogue writing, manual writing etc. after this test was over I and nitti were sitting together with one other friend. Clock was striking 18 hours and I was feeling somewhat tired. Then began the last round- PI. I was on my chair hearing to the man who was coming after every 10 minutes with a bundle of papers announcing the name of candidates who failed to pass the second round. I was enjoying that thing coz it was somewhat full of suspense. I and nitti were safe till 4th or 5th list. Suddenly a round man with round specs came from behind and asked me, “who is mansi jain?”
My tired mind said, “abbey gol insaan, mansi se hi puch raha hai ki mansi kaun hai? Chal..bhag ja!!”
But the decent and good girl inside me stood up and said, “Sir, I am mansi”
“Come fast with me, u have been called for the PI”
SHOCK 2 of the day!!
I grabbed my cv, put it in the file I had borrowed from nitti and I ran behind the round elephanto creature with one of my shoe laces open. I noticed it when one boy out of the group sitting at the stairs said “arey mam, aapka shoe lace khula hai.”
I opened the door of the room and went in. I wished the interviewer and took my seat. She was a lady… a fat lady with dark circles. She took my cv, read it and asked, “so mansi… u know only c++ and java… no .net??”
“No mam… my both the projects were in these languages.” Inside I thought “oh god.. dis fatso is saying I know only c++ and java!! Instead She should gimme a standing ovation dat I know at least c++ and java”
Then she said “ok mansi… just gimme 2 minutes.” With this she took her cell phone and went at some distance. I listened her saying to someone “ye candidate ke dono projects java mein hai… kya karein??”
When I heard this my mind said “lo ji… gayi bhains paani mein” and I even saw a hypothetical flash of a picture with a big bhains jumping into the pond making a loud chapaaakkkk noise and I also saw bhainsa and bhains ka bacchaa jumping behind her shouting mmaaaaaa. To my surprise the bhains was resembling the fatso.
The fatso came back and said, “mansi, ur profile is quite impressive”
“Thank you mam”
“But if you are interested to work with us then you must know .net”
“mam, once I join I assure you that I will learn .net in the minimum possible time”. Wow… I was sounding so innocent that time… as if I was the hardest working person in the country.
Now I was expecting some technical questions from her side but her next line gave me 2 shocks at the same time.
“ok mansi… you are selected. You may join from 19th of September”
SHOCK 3 of the day!! I got selected without going through any technical questions.
SHOCK 4 of the day!! She asked me to join from 19th and I was to leave for Varanasi that day.
And then I did a big mistake!!
The mind didn't work correctly at the time and it was as if jumping on a sharp axe that too without shoes......
well... this was the first part of my journey. very soon i'l be sharing the mistake and my ssb journey...
Good Post Mansi I like you
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