life today...

As the sweet song plays in the background

My mind wanders off into the past

In the hostel room gossiping around

Hunting for maggi, discussing life, teasing,

n Studying at d moment very last …

Bunking classes or attending one f them at best,

or dancing away at the college fest,

sleeping at the very last bench,

N exam time being the only trench..

Rising up much after the sun

O it was all so much fun,

College got over n I left

Promising that we all will remain in touch; depart? - o never ..

Leaving my friends I felt my life had gone bereft

Will it be the same ever?

Then Started the ILP at Coimbatore tcs,

Where it was some fun n more stress…

With the gals trying to match the chunnis with suits,

n guys trying 2 come up shaven, matching ties n clean boots!!

Made new friends, worked hard n cracked jokes

Went on trips, attended(slept) in the classes n had mocks..

Work,fun - o d day never ended ..

Sleeping late into the nights was the thing e never minded

We rose with the sun

But all of it was so much fun..

Late into d nite, we sat in the lab

All of us excited bout the first ever pay check n what lay ahead…….

life just wasn’t a drab!!

New friends I made who will remain for life,

After 2 months all of us deputed to different branches,

we left with with tears in our eyes …

Back to home town ,

Settling down in to TCS delhi,

And now its as if we have been here for ages

Making some more new friends, Gone out on a trip

Going on diets n with no cokes sip

Participating in d poster making n bhangra competitions

N looking at boring book exhibitions

So many new people- our seniors n GGs

Who helped us into the project,Into tcs

Made it feel good

Made it feel like we mattered
n helped us reach where we stood

Now long after with the newness all gone

a different bond is born

No more d freshers

Much more confident, starting out on our own

But still ,a lil unsure…

This New set of people

Whom I m still discovering

Learning each new day so many things,

Learning bout them

That they r not what they seemed

So different

So human, so down 2 earth

So full of life n fun ,still esteemed

Just like us , but yes a lil more responsible

Bonding as I spend more time with them

Not expecting them to b there

Yet missing them when they r not there …

Yet that bonding

Team

I m starting to understand the meaning

Friends

Life taking new curves each day

Along different roads as it sways

Amazing it seems

That how much I have grown in the past few months

N how much more is left

The discovering newness, in myself and in others

a process that never ends …

21 may 2005

Nish