First Call....

First experiences are always memorable and exciting...Hence the bliss that I felt on receiving the first GD-PI call of the season was heartfelt and overwhelming.A call is like an acknowledgement for the hardwork and preperation put in to get into the esteemed B-schools...the dream of all MBA aspirants!
My pleasure multiplied manifold as the call was from SIIB,Pune and I got a chance to revisit beloved Pune after almost a year in Bangalore.(Thankfully I got call from SIIB as my initial confidence of getting calls from all colleges I had applied to via SNAP was thwarted mercilessly,thanks to the high cut-offs..n guess what about a month ago I had called up all my friends telling them I was coming to Pune...SIIB saved my face :))
I love Pune more than all the places I have been to till now.May be because Pune has peaceful ambience,a perfect homely place with just appropriate splash of suburban lifestyle n metropolitan comforts,compared to Bangy the cost of living is reasonable,it has many wonderful places to go around or may be my partiality for the city is because it gave me a chance to have a terrific friends group and we always had a blast together.Whatever, I was bubbling with expectations and excitement of going there.....the moment I stepped on the platform I felt exhalirated.It seemed I had never been away....the city looked so welcoming n just the same - dear and sweet.
I had total three days and wanted to absorb all that was around...I went to office,met all the friends,stayed in my old flat with my roomie who was the first contact I had made in Pune...the same flat in Aundh aroused the maximum nostalgia.I, entering the same house which I had found almost a year ago looking for accomodation for my friend and myself,as a guest now was weird.The same path towards Rohini Apartments that I had traversed hundreds of times,I was walking on them again but this time for limited number of times....in a couple of days I would be back in B'lore.I wanted to drink in everything around which I had taken for granted always...the small park at the side with seats where I had sat number of times and listened to Enrique's songs while returning from office looked so familiar n inviting though I had no time to sit.The bunch of kids playing was the order of each evening and that day too there laughter filled my heart...I clicked the view from the balcony and even the bedroom where I had stayed...which had witnessed me feel happy n melancholic,make plan for outings,talk over phone late into the nights...it was all so close to me...even the peepal sapling that had sprouted in balcony when I was about to leave a year back and had now grown a couple of feet tall...I touched the tender leaves n felt nostalgic...it was all so close yet so distant...for I had come as a guest..Yet wanted to capture all these memories in my mind n my camera...
I ate the 'gol-gappas' that loved,which they prepare with some khatta as well as meetha paani...I realized when you know your days in a particular place is numbered how much more you enjoy the simple joys n appreciate the little things...if only we could actually apply the same logic to our life(which indeed is limited) how much more we would enjoy each day!
The visit got over in a jiffy but rekindled feelings in my heart which can hardly be expressed exactly....and before I knew I was in B'lore again but then I had an emotionally charged up three days.Thanks to the first call...was the call from SIIB or from Pune itself?
(By the way interview had gone cool :))