I reached my home looking like Chewbacca expecting a warm welcome hug from my parents (My mistake. I know.) and in their faces I see an expression of a person who is watching a Powerstar movie directed by Perarasu. The first words I hear “Neeye poi sarachittu variya, illa naan sarachi vidava?”. After the routine, I still looked like Chewbacca but with lesser hair and my parents praised me as if i were Han Solo. After checking my Facebook notifications of some shitville requests from people who I don’t even know and numerous mails from LinkedIn, Quora and Flipkart, that day pretty much passed doing nothing.
Then came my Birthday. With Mid-night wishes from friends and family, a regular visit to the near-by temple, a small gift from my parents, some texts, and many wall posts in Facebook, it turned out to be just another boring birthday (Did I say I was in recovery from a surgery? Ya. That was also a reason it was boring.).
After a complete recovery, my parents started to talk “the talk” (Not that talk. I’m 20 already.). Mom: “There is some university called horwald? or is halword? Your mama said it is very good. Why don’t you apply for that?” Dad: “Dai. Don’t listen to mom. Prepare for IAS. Take a year’s time. I don’t care. I want put a name board outside my house as Ajay Vardhan B. IAS” US return well-off bro: “No da Ajay. Your parents’ are misguiding you. Get a Job first. I have been working in CTS for a long time now. It is the best company in the world. Come here. I will make you the CEO.” Uncle: “Follow your dreams. Have you watched 3 idiots? Here. Take this CD. Watch it. But remember never go for a normal 9-5 boring job. Get a Govt. job. It is very secure (dafuq?).” That’s it. All the plans for enjoying my last summer vacation have been ruined.
I started to plan my future. I asked myself “What is the first thing that you need to take a step further?” Dei. Go and prepare a resume first. Then ask questions like Socrates. Resume preparation started. Surfed through many weight resumes and resume creating sites. Filled in all the basic details. Next step — Favorite subject. Maths? No. Social? No. Physics? No. I don’t have any more favorite subjects da. Next — Extra curricular activities? Acted as Hanuman in school culturals. Then? That’s all ah? Sutham. Okay then? Hobbies? Hmm.. This seems interesting. Lets fill the whole resume with this column. Reading, Cycling, Walking, Gardening, Watching TV, Playing sports, Computer games. Dei. You are not filling About me in Orkut. This is a Resume. Think. Resume Over? I haven’t even finished one side! TCS ku ithu pothum. Moodittu po.
Okay now what? Started to search for internships. Through friends, HCL and CTS brothers, family friends, nothing worked out. And the worst part is that all my friends are attending internships or have already attended and here I am sitting and watching Varavu Ettana Selavu Pathana in Ktv.
I forgot everything. Decided to enjoy my vacation. Planned for a trip with my friends. The best place I could find was Thirupathi (Don’t make fun. God will kuthify your eyes.). I expected at least 15 of my friends to turn up. Not even half came. Apparently all were busy “doing internships” it seems. Anyways, why bother? We had fun. Hence the program to execute a trip for the vacation has been successfully executed in the required language (IT Student).
Only 10 days were left for my so-called last summer vacation and my ass was most of the time either in front of my laptop or TV. I hadn’t prepared for my placements, GRE, CAT, GATE, nothing! “Calm down” said my brain “Only for lazy asses like you there are companies like TCS”. “But I don’t even know how to type an addition program in C language” “Do you know your name and address?” “Yes.” “That’s it. Congratulations! You will be hearing from us soon.” “Kekkarathukku lam nalla than irukku. But what about my dreams? I wanted to be a Director, a Movie critic, a Carromboard player, a trumpet player.” “Dei. Mariyathaya poyidu.”
Last day of my vacation. I think of how constructively I have spent these 40 days. The only thing strikes my mind is spending 2 hours for writing this post. How is this constructive? You may ask. Just remember one thing. Kelvi kekkarathu romba easy sir. I thought of updating my Facebook status as “Gained 6 kgs. Again.” But who gives a damn about my corpulence? (Yes. WordWeb only.)
Another vacation gone. Nothing improved in my life. So what am I gonna do after my college? Work? Higher studies? IAS? Cat? Gate? For all these questions, the only answer that i can give is
“Innum 1 year irukku da. Pathukkalam.”