unexpected but expected

Days were going by and for two weeks i hadn gone out with frenz sine they went to their hometown during weekend.Anyway this proved
to be good as it brought an interest in me to read books.It was to extent that i finished reading a book called Train to Pakistan by Khushwant Singh and now am in halfway through The White Tiger by Araind Adiga.Then i came aross  an invitation in my home which was from my native place saying that a function related to Sathya SaiBaba was going to be conducted for a week.My mother and my sister were praising a lot about that programme and about the person who conducts it(this had brought eagerness in me to attend this one) But i had no idea of attending it,as my mother planned to attend it and i had some other works at home here. Then the plan changed as doctor had asked my mom not to travel long distances.I then thought this was good opportunity for me to attend that function and said to my parents. I attended the function for two days and it was really nice and it was worth one for me and didnt disappoint me as i had travelled 200 km for that. Of many interesting things i encountered there i would like to tell two jokes which i would be saying later as am really tired using this virtual keyboard(some keys in my keyboard are not  working).Hopefully will be back with original keyboard sooner.

NightGear and its . . .

The first day itself the mentors made us feel comfortable by sharing some useful things, cracking jokes and showed us one of the videos they made. Honestly speaking the speciality of this prog is mainly due to those who are conducting it- among them Suyash san and Yamini san are worth mentioning here, of course other mentors too were really good in helping us. Projects were assigned to each team and i was in flash team. Days went by and i was really getting used to this sudden change. Wil  reach home by 6.20 am(my home is barely 15 mins from tidel park), have boost and wil go to sleep. then by 9.30 mom wil wake up me, i wil get up with  frustration(along with little anger), wil bath and have breakfast. then after an hour wil go again to sleep. wil get up by 1.30 or so and hav lunch. The main thing is that though i would sleep nearly 6-7 hrs daily, it would not be continuous sleep( and i can assure that split-up sleeps don make you as comfortable as continuous ones) . The mentors would conduct games!!! for an hour, once in a week and we all enjoyed those days.  But the end days were little tough as we had to stay for some more time and even had to come to office on holidays for completing our work.  Really the programe thought us lots of things on how to adapt quickly to any kind of situation, benefits of working together, feeling of togetherness and i could  add the list on and on… I thank those who were behind this prog for giving me(and all the 57) such a wonderful once in a life-time opportunity..

Some of the facts that was really hard to imagine was

## Playing carom in office that too at 4 am..

## Me awake and working whole night..

## Eating Snoodles or Sandwhich at 1 or 2 am..

## Having nice time in office that too due to  seniors..

## Having pizza and coke inside palar(which was our meeting room during this prog)

## and at last the TERMINAL thing, the big surprise we had..

back after. . .

Its been nearly 3 months since i blogged, and there are lots of new things  i experienced during this time. After my second phase of training i had been in bench for almost a month, many of my friends went to their hometown!! then came one unexpected twist in the tale on 16 th dec’08-We few guys got a mail saying we had to report at tidel park for a 1 month programme called NightGear on next day itself. One of my friend had went to his home in melur that morning only,pity he has to return that evening since the next day we have to attend that programme. Some of the details about it were collected from previous batch, most of them were shocking to hear initially !!!

No 1: The timing of the thing is from 9 pm to 6 am!!!(i had been rarely awake after 12 am)

No 2: Life style would change to sleeping during daytime and being awake for whole night.(was wild to imagine itself but adapted to it quickly)

No 3: A project kind of thing would be given and it has to be completed nearly in less than a months time (it could be of any background).

With all wild thoughts and with bit curiosity attended the programme(of course it was a gr8 one) and  next post contains the  experiences i had there..