March 10th, 2008

As described in the previous post, the dreaded day arrived, finally. All the preparation, all the mock interviews, all the information hogged in to my brain was about to bear fruit. Couldn’t sleep much the night before. The anxious night was spent hugging Ranju while she was sleeping peacefully. The only face which refreshes my mind and gives hope. The sun rose to a lovely morning…

Started with some bad news. India couldn’t qualify for the Olympics in hockey for the first time ever. Being a hockey player it was indeed disappointing but I somehow got the feeling that it was a perfect base for my interviews. My intuition was correct, true to every word. Got ready in the hurry and was there in Loyola College, Chennai at 8.45am. The first interview (for the Business Management course) was at 9.20am. Must comment here that I looked too smart in tie, full sleeves and shoes, which was confirmed by many.

I was called in. Where are you from? Why Oracle when you are an Instrumentation engineer? Why such a less GPA? Which company on earth will prefer a lazy guy like you? Why do you always follow what others say? Why aren’t you mature enough? Gosh! It was surely leading into a good stress interview. After some convincing answers, topics like hockey, instrumentation etc, I felt it went well. But it lasted for only 10-12 minutes!! When all others had interview time of 20 minutes, I felt this was short and though it shouldn’t matter, it still disturbs me.

Then I had my PMIR (Personnel Mgmt and Industrial relations) Group Discussion (GD) and interview scheduled at 2pm. During the break, some important thing happened on which there is a post coming up. Keep waiting.

So PMIR GD was at 2pm. If you didn’t know, I hate GDs!! Never am I able to do well in them, as I found out from the mock GDs. So with some apprehension, went into the hall. AIM: HIV/AIDS and ten points to be prioritized for their prevention/control. 3 girls in our group and gosh, damn the girls these days!! First they were very much loquacious and dominating and next they spoke very freely on the topic. Your highness was unable to barge in much. 3-4 sentences in between. That’s all. Then the wait in the waiting room for some two hours till my interview. Agonizing. Pity my dad who had to wait with me too. Meanwhile I must acknowledge the QUALITY of girls coming for interview. The sample space is quite encouraging indeed!!

The interview went fine. Basic HR stuff. 15 minutes. But somehow I felt the first interview went better. I prefer only the BM course anyways and wont take the PMIR thing even if it was the only option. So at last!! Everything over!! I was a free bird, again!!

Got some time off with dad and Ranju. Went and attended two receptions in the evening. One was Sita’s(college junior) sis’ and the other, dad’s friend. And then was in cousin’s place, clearing some of her doubts in math. Tenth board exam today. Finally, I came back home, with nothing to do but sleep. Wow! Some heaven it felt…

By the way, 365 messages were sent from my mobile during the day!!!!!!! Hmmm…