My life in Bhubaneswar.................

On 8th October, @ 5:45pm I received a mail from Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) regarding my initial training which they call it as ILP. I was jubilant seeing the subject line, but was not very excited after reading the mail, coz my training was scheduled in BHUBANESHWAR. God, of all the places in India, Bhubaneswar (this was my perception). Half-heartedly I packed my bags and boarded the train for Bhubaneswar from Chennai on 24th Oct night. The only thing that kept me a good mood is that, my friends were also allocated Bhubaneswar for Phase 1 of ILP, so no problem for company.
The train which was suppose to reach Bhubaneswar @ 5:30pm on 25th October reached @ 8pm. I was like, wow…. What a start. Reached the office, got our villas (cottage house). It was good. We even had fridge and T.V. Atlas.. something good. We 5 friends were tired to core, so decided to call the day off @ 10pm.
Next day, Sunday.. we had planned that we will explore the area and do some shopping. It all went till 2pm. Then we started to search for a good place to eat. Guess what, the best place for veg we found was Udipi (famous in south india). The food taste was okay okay type.

I had hoped, Bhubaneswar being the capital of Orrisa, we will find good restaurants; but no. Later, after few enquiries we found that we are staying @ border of Bhubaneswar city limit. About 200mt from our villa, the Bhubaneswar city limit ends. Wow… even better. And also, after 9pm ; everything gets closed.
We all were like, what?? 9pm?? That was a shock.. We usually have our dinner @ office mess and then reach the villa by 9pm. After that, none of us would even feel like going out, bcoz
(1) Tired
(2) None of the places will be open after 9:30pm. Even Big Bazar closes by 9:15pm.
(3) Even if we go to city(which is about 10km from our villas), after 9pm.. its hard to find transport for a return trip.
On Saturdays and Sundays, we get up @ 11am.. we either chat or watch movies or tv series (LOST or PRISON BREAK) or play game on our laptops.

(two of my friends, playing Counter Strike.. look @ thier concentration.. thier dedication)

This monotonous lifestyle helped me in one way, it gave me lot of time to think.. about me, my future, my failures, my success .