Sweet Memories During Training in Cognizant

My Last day at my college was on May 17th, 2007. I wrote my last exam and came out with lot of expectations. I had a sense of proud that I was the first person in my family to complete B.E and got selected in CTS in campus interview. So I thought my life was a settled one as I see it now. I was waiting for CTS call for almost 6 months. First I was given DOJ (Date of joining) as December 24th and on November 14th got call to join on November 16th. Here the journey of stepping into the CTS begins:):)

First day of CTS, I was called for induction program to Tidel Park. I was accompanied by Nirmall, My college mate (Department mate too). We don’t know much about the route. He told me that it will take just 5 minutes of walk from Madhya Kailash to Tidel Park. Believing his words we walked. Much to our agony Sun was just belting down as early as 8 itself. We walked for almost 25 minutes and then only I came to know he said its 5 minutes when we come in bike L on first day, we were given some lectures from all the top level managers. We as usual back benchers were sitting in the last row and trying to avoid the sleep as hard as possible.

We got a gang of friends who were from other colleges. Also we saw our sister concern college students sitting in the 2nd last row (SRM Eswari college, we are from SRM ValliammaiJJ). We had enjoyed for 2 days with some team building exercises and some various interpersonal skills programs.Then they parted us into groups and allotted training in some specialized courses. My team was a gr8 one. It was like Bharatha Vilas film in Tamil. I was put into AJ083 and we were combine with AJ084.The team size was 30. My batch break up was:

Andhra: 12
Tamilnadu: 11
Delhi: 1
Maharashtra: 5
Kerala: 1

This was an awesome collection as we had all the languages and people. I thought it would be difficult to group with this batch as it was a group and state based. But for my surprise all were brilliant and they gelled like anything. All were like pearls as I must say. Helping others out in all the things. All were so close that we enjoyed like a family friends in our training period. We used to roam a lot, Enjoy like anything in pantry.

We were put up in Siruseri SIPCOT INDUSTRIAL ESTATE for training. Although the roads were at bad shape the enjoyment we had inside the campus was awesome. It will be like an island and we enjoyed every moment in our training time. We roamed so many places when we were in training. Some of the moments I am going to Share with you through this blog:





Besant Nagar:

Besant Nagar is the first place where we had gone as a gang. Like always none was punctual except one or two poor fellows who reached on time and waited for others. In friendship and love, Waiting causes a lot of good things.. It helps us to think of others more time and bonds us better. So everyone came by 5.30(Our timing was 4-4.30 maxJJ). We had wonderful time in beach for almost 1 hour. We played with tennis ball and after tiring a lot. We sat and played Antakshari. We got mixed songs as we had Telugu, Malayalam, Tamil, Hindi people surrounding us J Then we went to a dhaba and had our dinner. Then we had our way back to our own backyard JJthe size been 16 out of 30.

Mahabalipuram:

Mahabalipuram is a historic place in Tamilnadu. We planned our next visit to historic place. We started in morning from my place and reached there by afternoon. Our first visit was to a hotel and we had our lunch over there. It was a combination of north Indian and south Indian dishes. We enjoyed a lot and we were pulling each other’s leg down in whatever opportunity we got J then we went inside, we saw the monumental Temple which was beside sea shore. It was the only one temple remaining out of 7 in the Mamalla period. It was a awesome temple with both Shiva and Vishnu in the same temple. Then after taking some photo shoot we travelled towards the sea. The sea was a bit rough, which didn’t hinder our playing JJ Also we had traversed through the rocky area which was beside the seashore and had some photo shoot there. It was an awesome place. The size was 20 this time. The enjoyment too increased with the amount of people increased.

OSO in Sathyam and Spencers:

Our Third visit was to Om Shanti Om film in Sathyam. To say the fact it was one of the worst film and most hyped film I saw in my lifetime. But I got chance to bully some of the SRK fans in my batch. Then it was like a family function and we thoroughly enjoyed in Sathyam even it was not a good film. Also some of my friends don’t know Hindi too.

After finishing OSO, we went to spencers and had our lunch over there. We also did some window shopping. But Ravi, Adari bought a vanheusen shirt for him to save us from blushes J we were 14 and I think it was the only one thing bought on that day J he he. We did take 8-10 photos in the Spencers and back to our home.

Empowerment:

Empowerment is the program in which we need to show case our talent in all the parts like elocution, Drama, Leadership Skills and a topic has to be completed in 1.30 hours. We got two topics. They were: Value and Ethics and Time management. We enjoyed all the sessions in the Empowerment. 2 of our batch mates got into project because of their brilliant Performance (Swapna and Deepti). So it was one of the learning which yielded lots of good results for the people in batch. We had some nerve wracking comedies from Manoj, Sam and other people. I too made a mess of some things like making the conclusion part too long. But at the end of the day everything is a learning experience which we had undergone in 3 months of training.

Punna da Dhaba:

After finished all our tests, our last date of our training was on February 27th and so we got February 28th as leave. We were asked to come on March 1st for our project allocation. We came and played on February 28th and had lunch at Punna da Dhaba. Almost 20 people came and we had some nice time before we were allocated into the project.




This is the Sweet memories which we had in our Training life. Also We did MFRP(My first Real Project) which was one of the good things we did in training. I hope all will be still lingering upon the sweet memories of our training life