First cool morning at Bangalore... after a lot of Bhagam Bhag...

Finally got the right place, Robert Bosch, Bangalore and I welcomed the offer by joining yesterday only. Thanks to Adithi [HR consultant at Bangalore]. Its only because of her. She called at right time and coordinated very well. Now I am satisfied with this job and has no doubts in mind while joining here. First day at Bangalore came with lots of excitement and surprise.

The things happened so dynamically over last weekend, that every situation was realtime & having very higher priority. I left Pune on 1st March with clear intention of joining Patni, Bangalore [with lots of doubts in mind... but somewhere the feeling was lingering that something will happen and the fate will change ]. I decided to stay at home from 2nd to 8th March and then at Pune on 9th-11th march. Leaving Pune on 11th I decided to join PCS on 12th. I did all the reservations from Pune and went back to home.

01-Mar-07: Left Pune by 8:30PM for Katol

02-Mar-07: At home by 1:00 PM. Decided to collect my degree certificate and to visit my Mama's place Hinganghat.

03-Mar-07: At home ...leisurely... Holi day.. Adithi Called to schedule Robert Bosch telephonic interview. Decided to give it on 5th march.

04-Mar-07: At home ...leisurely... Celebrated RangPanchami with Gulal only.

05-Mar-07: Left katol early in morning 8:30 PM. The Robert Bosch telephonic interview was scheduled at 11 AM. So decided to give once I reach nagpur. Gave Bosch telephonic, went well. Later started for Umrer, UCOE for collecting degree certificate. After collecting degree went to Bhau's Tapari at bypass road, where we used to have chai and poha. Bhau was happy to know about placement of all of us. Adithi called to arrange face to face interview with Bosch. Now real trouble started of molding plans. I decided to take the chance. Went to Hinganghat, my Mama's place. It was after 6 years I went there. There visited all relatives, and finally decided to rush to bangalore as suggested by aai and soni.

06-Mar-07:Came to Nagpur from Hinganghat, Called Suresh, and its because of him i managed to do all reservations again, We went lot of here and there for re-scheduling travels and re air ticketing. Also purchased some books from famous book stalls at nagpur. Left for Katol by 7:30 pm.

07-Mar-07: Went to my father's place "Yenwa", our gaon. Came back to katol by 10:30Am, By that time soni reached home from hyderabad. She got her first salary and she got fabulous gifts for us. Titan Watches for mom and dad and necktie for me. Had lunch and left for nagpur at 4:30 pm. Saini Travels 7:00 pm left nagpur by 8:30 pm.

08-Mar-07: Very frustrating journey, I was feeling like bullock cart will go fast than this Saini Travels. Very slowly I reached Pune by 12:45 AM. Thanks to Jayant and Mahesh sir at SLs, helped me to get salary slips.

And most interesting thing is .....Tell me apart from going to toilet and brushing teeth what other things you did FIRST in the morning. The moment I reached Pune, I went to saloon for haircut and beard trimming[I didn't want to appear in my special AVATAR before Robert Bosch people]. Then rushed to flat, took whatever come handy, packed the bags and rushed to Lohegaon airport.reached airport by 3:00 PM. Spicejet flight was scheduled at 4:00 PM. Theres a weird rule of single hand baggage[I was having laptop and sack]. Somehow managed to convince security and Again disaster stuck when security personnels identified scissor, swiss knife, nail cutter, big pencil cutter all in my hand baggage[ good enough to hijack a Boeing 737 ]. While packing bags hurriedly put these items in my hand baggage. They canceled my boarding pass, I went back to spicejet attendants, they told that luggage is already sent and cant call back... finally they put all items into "security related check" items envelop, gave new boarding pass. Finally got in the plane and reached Bangalore by 5:40 PM. Vasant received at airport and then came to our flat near Silk Board. At night tried for wireless internet connection... and my goodness got one absolutely free. Checked mails for interview next day.

09-Mar-07: Went to Robert Bosch, opposite Forum, Koramangala office. there they took 1 technical[one interviewer], 1technical+HR[2 persons... project managers]. After these rounds they gave me offer letter to join. I have already told them that I am going to join PCS from Monday. This might be the cause why they wanted me to join from today. While coming back to flat brought the " 7/G Rainbow Colony " tamil movie DVD. Watched my favorite song "Kan peasum ..." from the movie. This movie has gr8 songs.

10-Mar-07: Today... writting this blog early in the morning 7:00AM