From Kudiyan To Fejo

College days were over and only the sweet memories were left. Looking back at these four years, it was really fun. It was filled with lots of emotions, friends, love, pain, fights and gossiping. In the mean time my country ‘friends’ started calling me ‘KUDIYAN’ which was quite "ironical" to my behaviour. Like everyone else I too hated to study in college. But I really loved exam times because that was when “we” really had lots of fun. Lot many subjects came up in our discussions, even though the main topic during the final semesters were about the real “sasi”’s, who were born after third year tour and many awaiting sasi’s. In the mean time I forgot one thing: to prepare for my placements. May be it was because I had been offered a lecture post in a nearby college or perhaps I could complain it on my disinterest.

Thus I ended up as a lecturer just fifteen days after being a horrible student. On the first day, I tried to bring in a fake maturity on my face and entered into a class room filled with sixty young pretty girls. It wasn’t that tough for me to give them an impression that I really was a budhijeevi. I was assigned to teach digital electronics for one batch and micro processor for another . I really wanted to be a good teacher. But with my limitations (knowledge-wise), I couldn’t be one. So I taught them only the topics which I knew and skipped the rest by giving them as one page assignments. As they were new to one page assignments, they kept liking me. In the mean time I was really struggling with my ‘limitations’. I even put a test on a day when I hadn’t prepared anything and gave them all very nice marks, which really improved my popularity. I think I wasn’t that strict coz some of my students even commented on my dressing style (obviously negatively). Through these, what I call it as ‘udaaip’, I survived there.

Meanwhile I studied, for two reasons: one I was out of college so I was beyond the curse, second I was selected for an interview at ISRO with the best talents of my class and I didn’t want ISRO to wonder how I had cleared written test. But even that couldn’t help me as I screwed up the interview big time. But after that, I attended an interview at “I Think Therefore I AM” and the questions were from topics which I had to teach to my young pretty students.So that went fine and i was back home taking classes,when the HR guy from ITTIAM called and told me about my offer. I had no one around but my dear students to share my happiness and i'm pretty sure that without their help, I wouldn’t have cleared the interview. As ITTIAM had asked me to join immediately,the next day was going to be my last day as a teacher.

Next day, I was sitting in the staffroom writing my relieving letter,when a large group of students called me out of the staffroom and they exchanged a lot of senti dialogues with me. I was really surprised when they told me that I had a pet name ‘FEJO’. I never knew that I could "influence" them this much.(http://picasaweb.google.co.in/103642992275374071913/Personal#5514433052304345234). In the afternoon another set of girls whom I had never taught before came to me and congratulated me and mentioned about the popularity of my new name. For a second I became emotional. For the first time in my life I was being respected, loved that too by beautiful young ladies.

PS: Here in ittiam its total fun. It’s an amazing place, with amazing people (like those in PCI) and I really enjoy every moment here. I am learning a lot, apart from Table tennis and preparing bournvita, I also learn C, ANDROID and lot more......