Chennai - Base Branch

It's been around two weeks since I came to Chennai. Had travelled from Vizag along with Mom and Bro - They were to spend their winter vacation with Dad at Kalpakkam and I had to join at my base branch. On the day of reporting, we(dad and me) started early and drove down to Shollinganallur. The roads at OMR were quite dusty. I was allocated to RTSC (block for Retail domain) at Karapakkam.I wouldn't have minded working at Shollinganallur too; the campus was quite beautiful.

I took temporary shelter at Vijay Pratap's room. It was very kind of him to accommodate me apart from two other of his friends - Pavan and Ashok. The hunt for a room continued for three days and we looked for rooms in Velachery, Thiruvanmiyur and Thoraipakkam. I personally loved a duplex at thoraipakkam and had almost confirmed it but we couldn't finalise it. Karapakkam was where we finally got our place of stay. We rented out 4 one BHK (read 1 bedroom hall kitchen) flats at a rent of 4000 per month/flat. With four of us staying per flat it was quite affordable and the bargaining skills of Mukesh had brought down the broker's commission from 16000 to 3000. The poor chap wanted a months rent as advance :)

60k is the advance we paid altogether. The room is a 10 min walk to office and with 14 of us staying together, I hope the days ahead should be fun.

The office at RTSC is an 8 storeyed building with well maintained corridors and cubicles. There is a gym which we plan to make the most use of. Our daily routine at office presently is to sign in the register and stay confined to the library and canteen as we are on BENCH. Some of us have already made reservations to pay a visit back home.

I am going home tomorrow to Kalpakkam where I would be joining Dad and Mom for their trip to Ooty and Mysore.

Adieu !!

Two months of ILP in Bhubaneswar rolled past as though it were just two days. I feel as if it were only yesterday that I walked into this room with Praveen along with our luggage !!

These were one of the best days of my life. Friends, studies, responsibilities, enjoyment ; there was a proper blend of everything. In two months I made so many friends !!

I am gonna miss this place. The memories will last long and strong.  I got my appointment orders today. We had our release process and all the other formalities were done. We also had our valediction function. Mementos were gives to best performers in exams and to CSR volunteers. I had to spend a lot of time on stage which was in fact a bit uncomfortable :)

I had a sense of satisfaction when our work at CSR was acknowledged. A power point presentation ran through summarizing all the activities. Back in class after the function we took many snaps and a class video which had each one's introduction. The moments slowly ticked away and finally it was time to depart. This was difficult to digest especially when you had grown so close with friends.

So, gotta leave Bhubaneswar in another couple of hours. Had a very memorable time here.

Good bye Bhubabeswar !!