FreshNESS (17th July, 20XX)

17th July, 2006, one of the most important days in my life as well as the day of equal importance to 13 others who stepped into the corporate world through an IT company named NESS. We were recruited through campus interview conducted all across Mumbai and Pune, they said we were recruited after screening 4000 students, they might be true because the interview was a seven step process with every round being an elimination round.

All 14 of us were of almost equal caliber and never took shit from the rest. We had to attend trainings conducted by the company, the training lasted for 3 months, I think we needed this time to break the ice and dissolve the differences we had in our opinions. These three months helped us to create a solid foundation on which we were betting our journey through the corporate world for next two years to come.

If a fruit grows, it will ripe someday, and once a fruit ripes, it has to separate from the tree to try its own fate. Our bonds tenure ended on 17th July, 2008 and soon the so called "FreshNESS" group dispersed, few chose to contribute towards the growth of NESS, where as rest ventured out to try their luck.

Today 17th July, 2009, at our own levels and in our own small worlds, we all celebrated the successful completion of 3 years in our journey of friendship. As we were exchanging e-mails and rejuvenating our good time, I realized that while being at NESS, I had couple of questions which never got answered and one dream which still remains a dream. On this very day, I demand for answers from all 13 Nessians.

• After coming to Ness, I had a dream, dream to make a KDC someday, promote K-Pill, develop a Kupport system for the welfare of all the girls, but unfortunately it just remained a dream. ('K' is the first alphabet from Kapil's name)
  

• I couldn't know the reason why all catering waalas always offered more bones and less meat to Abhijit?
  

• I was always puzzled about the fact that we grow at least a year old on our bdays but Nikhil never grew a minute old on any Naag Panchami (I would blame adulterated milk).
  

• I am curious, how Omkar managed to know everything and could join any conversation in it's midst, occasionally even after the conversation was already over.
  

• I always thought, Internet was biased towards Bhavik, how could he get online references to everything he has ever spoken, is currently speaking/thinking or will ever speak in future. Is he a humanoid or internet himself?
  

• I wondered how would a guy look when seen through Shraddha's eyes? Will he look like a tempting grilled meat same as how a lamb appears to a hungry wolf (I saw this in some cartoon), why couldn't she stop herself from hitting on every guy and towards the end why things ended in friendship?
  

• Was Aditya really slow, or he just felt that being slow impresses project managers (specially Dilip Dave) or was he always indexing world history and Google earth in his brain or both?
  

• Why Manoj always wanted to be a duck (he himself said this once)? Why he wanted to appear calm and at the same time paddle his feet vigorously beneath water? He could have paddled his feet in any swimming pool, why would one ever wish to be a duck??
  

• Was Shebina pure vegetarian, or was she a bird eater, more precisely a Duck eater?
  

• What made Tripti think as if she was still in college? 90% of time I saw her with books.
  

• Who exactly was Lavanya furious at, was it I, Abhijit, Pranati, Shraddha, Bhavik, Manoj, Omkar, Nikhil, Kapil, Barkha, Shebina, Aditya, Gunjeet, Tripti, Sashi Bhargav, Sanjay Mitra, Mr. Bean, Bhausaheb, Arun, Usha, Hemraj or every Nessian?
  

• What was the source of Barkha's income, towards the end of month many of us never had enough money to even buy 750ml of alcohol but Barkha had money to join virtually all fitness centers which she would never visit and still left with enough money to bet on things which she'll definitely loose.
  

• Did Pranati actually laugh on jokes cracked at that moment or was it the previous week’s joke making her laugh. When a joke was cracked, she would start with an assumption that the joke was on her, she would test the joke for all possible scenarios just to confirm whether the joke was on her or not, it would take her a week to conclude that it wasn’t; good now she could laugh.
  

• Was Gunjeet really good at caricatures or she always started with painting but things ended in a caricature. (BTW your paintings are amazing).
  

• What exactly was Geeta's last name Baliye or Belan, she looked more like a Belan to Abhijit.
  

• Why Amruta fucked Bhavik in all holes, why not any one else??

Those were amongst the best years; we enjoyed a lot and will cherish the memories for rest of our life.

All the best to everyone, be in TOUCH (cynical smile :))