2012....

Now that finishing of the exam was done, the next challenge had come up...
General Management and Communication Skills (GMCS)...

The compulsory 15 day training program...
For me the program was scheduled to happen in Trichur/Thrissur, the place where i was born. The place from where my mother is. The place always meant a lot to me. Going back few years, it was a place where i always enjoyed going as the place always had people called cousins and cousins meant fun...

This time, going there meant classes... Classes meant new people... New people = New friends... So all was set, trains booked and left for Thrissur on Jan 22nd... Stay there was at my uncles place...

I had instructions from people who had attended GMCS before. The main one was that tying a tie was compulsory. I never had tied a tie before. So before starting to Thrissur, a special coaching was conducted by my dad on how to tie it. I always wondered why the tie was compulsory. Till now i haven't found the answer to it...

We started of as total strangers but those 15 days more than enough to bring about a bonding between us... In those 15 days we learned things... Public speaking, time management, case study discussion... We played.. A modified version of rock paper scissors, a skit... And then there was the most fun filled part... We were able to give company to a set of people who only had god for company... We spent a day with them...

But the feather in the cap of the 15 day training program was the boys only tour to Nelliyampathi in Palakkad... Since it was a boys only tour, there was no do's and dont's. There were only do's. A full day trip and lots of walking and photographs.... That day was fun...

In between this training program is when the great job hunt began.Registration for campus placement had began and i registered myself for the job fair with the hope of getting a job... Like all good/bad things must come to an end, the program came to an end and it was time to say goodbye... But we knew we would be seeing each other often from now...

So it was bye bye to thrissur with the hope that i wud get a job through the campus placements....

(To Be Continued) 

2012...

This blog is dedicated to all those people who spared even a second of their time for me in the past year...

The past year was one of great learning for me....
Every day is fresh... every day is a new beginning...
365 days of experience is what last year gave me...

When the year began many people had the belief that it might be the last new year we might see... But, we are still here catching up with each other...

For a few of us, it was not the world ending which mattered... We had SATSANG, a regional conference of Calicut Branch of Southern India Chartered Accountant Students Association, coming up... Some of us were busy running behind organising the program. The program went off well...

Once the program was done, the dates of my CA final results had come... Then it was this date which i had to look forward to... I still remember the day of the result... January 19th... Painting going on at my house... Parents at home... Results expected 8 AM... Sitting in front of the system from morning 6 ..Refreshing the page every 15 seconds... At around 7.30 we got the news it has been postponed to 2 PM... So break for 2 hours and back to refreshing around 11.00 AM... Dad had a call at office at around 12.00 PM... So refreshing stopped again and went out to drop him...

By the time i came back and refreshed it showed CA Final - Results declared... Time was around 12.30 PM... Time to check... Entered my roll number... I got a message 1st saying invalid roll number... Thats when i realized i had forgotten my number... Second try... Number went through... Result failed... That is when i checked the name to find that it was someone elses... I called up a friend who had wriiten with me...
I could see the tension on my mothers face...

Yes... this time the number did go through and it was my result... Some of you know me... so you already know the result... some of you dont... for those who dont know me, the number of CA's in our family had just been increased...

 (To be continued)