My Airforce Selection Board Call

Dated : 22nd January-26th January 2007






Fliping thru the pages of my book called life...i do some times get into flash back (Just like another Ekta Kapoor Series).Some times i just wish i could turn back time.......just go back to past and re-live those moments that have become my memories.Why dont these people at the Labs invented a time machine or something? One such memory was the SSB call of Indian AirForce,Dehradoon during the last week of January 2007.Rite from my childhood days i had a fantasy for Airforce. Air thrills me......when i was small.... i wanted to be an Astronaut.......i spent hours watching at the sky....and space programs in DISCOVERY CHANNEL were my favourite....someone told me Airforce is the way towards being an Astronaut......
Anyways...sillly me.silly are my thoughts.....lemme fast foward my life here.
December 2006:Airforce written cleared ....well i was the only boy from my college to clear that exam....i wonder how i did that.......cleared rest of the rounds and bagged the Call for AFSB.All of a sudden i felt my childhood dreams on the way to reality.

I left for Dehradoon just the very day my University Semesters got over.....Man! wat a month it had been...the exam days.......long wait...tuf papers........aaah! why do we have exams...Yuhi degree de do yaar....kyu apna n hamara time waste karwa rahe ho...we can use this time na....waddya think?(Can anyone temme who invented this exam shit???Saale ko ghar pe jaa ke hi fodunga :-/).....but i was glad it got over...I was very very enthusiastic about my trip......I did a lil party in the Bus itself.....Romanov,Me and Lays Masala were the trio!!!!
The trip had been more entertaining, more learning than i expected......I actually lived kinda live army life for 5 days....i have felt was a military life is like.....
Its was soooooooo cold in Dehradoon....didnt even came outta room without 2 sweaters.......I wonder how the Doonites or Doonians...wateva they call themselves survive.......One the very day we arrived the Incharge read a huge list of rules n regulations.....and a time table sorta thing for us.....n left many of us wondering how on earth are we gonna do that.....the Time Table that he chucked out wat some like this:

Morning Alarm : 5Am
Bed Tea : 5.30 Am
Hotwater in Washrooms : 5.30 -7.00Am
BreakFast : 6.30Am - 7.00 Am
Attendance : 7.45Am
Activites (Involved Personal Interviews , Physical Tasks and Group Activites and Conference Interviews) : 8.00AM - 2.30 Pm

Lunch : 2.30PM - 3.30Pm
After 3.30Pm we are free to visit city .
Reporting at AFSB campus : 7.00pm Sharp.
Attendance : 7.30Pm
Dinner : 7.45 Pm - 8.30 Pm
Tv till 9.30 Pm.
In room by 10.00Pm

The Morning Raga:
Getting up in the morning was always a big fite for me.....and that too in such a chilly dehradoon morning......God! i hated that sooooo much......the water was soooooo cold....i was a herculean task to even touch it.....i kept on wondering if a Big Big ice slab was kept in the Overhead tank that kept on melting and flowed thru the pipes to our taps......I even tried to experiment ma thoughts n intuitions but the boys werent allowed to go upstairs.....thats where the girls dwelled.....Silly me .....Silly are ma thoughts......
I was last one to arrive for the breakfast.....everyday....Reasons...u know....Its like even by 7.30am....there wasnt enuf morning light.....as if the sun had gone to play hide n seek.....hehehhee.... or was trying to play with us....One thing was alwaz with me....My Stole (Mufflar).....i liked it so much i wore it alwaz and these friends called me "FANA FOR YOU"...hehehehehe...subhanaalllaah!!!!!!

Activities
Personal interview:
Mine went for say about 55mins to 60 mins......man! that interview wale ne mera mental rape kiya tha....believe me.....He asked me sooooooooooooooo many questions that i had to interrupt him saying...i was thirsty!I wonder if he was waiting to dissect me......choos liya saale ne!

Physical Activities and Group Tasks:
The best part was this one....had to move in groups..chuck out a plan......blah blah blah!....These guys even made us go thru tyres, jump , crawl, climb ropes that was fucking 10 m high......only god knows...kitne maasoomo k haath cheel gaye.....even girls had to do all this.....bechare!

Conference Interview :
This was the decidinground.......Unlucky me...i was the 2nd attack of these hungry hound of interview panel......i entered a closed room.....n entered another room...seemed like i was goin thru mazez....and then when i opend....these guys started staring me as if i was sum kinda new sleek mobile.....they were round about 25 people.....all in uniform ..from President of Airforce Station, to Air Commodore to Squadron Leaders to Psychologists.....and that too 5 of them......and i was soo alone......they asked me back to back and all at a same time..i didnt knew whom to answer....heard a queation from one side..turned to see whu asked...the very time another interviewer asked.......

Anyways....i was out.....Rest....forget it......m not gonna say you.

Then came the Mussorrie journey.............

We were about 25 - 30 chaps....both dudes n dudettes......in Bus .......round round curvy scary zig zag road......while going towards Mussoorrie it seems everyone drank a glass full of BOOST (the secret of Tendulkar's energy!!!)....dheere dheere..sara josh utar gaya.......the roads made us going on a puking competitions.......sabne part liya...kisi kisi ne to 2-3 shots laga diye..comp jeetne k liye....heheheheh....How Dirty!!!! ;-)..we coloured the bus
Mussooriez a honeymoon spot and i spotted a lotta couples moving together.....commented some....i mean wheneva i crossed them i started sing some number(TUJHE DEKHA TO YEH JANA SANAM...).....hehehehe...must be thinking kitna kamina larka hai yeh!!!! but believe me...its fun.....n i even felt so good looking at these couples drowned in each other......boleto ROMANCE mai...jyada mat sochna ;-) .....i know wat u fellas thougth :-D
Mussoorie is a good place..i like the town but i hate the road towards it.......The bandas n bandis those were selected ....we compelled them to treat us ......had PIZZAs worth Rs1700......unki aisi halat ho gayi thi ki baad mai hum sab contribute karna pada......hahahhaa!!!

Now comes the craziest part of our entire journey....
I'm sure u fellas must have noticed that little standway admist the two seating rows......we all danced the entire journey back in that standway...the curves of the road made us fall one each other...but we wudnt stop at nothing......we fell down...got up again...danced again....fell down as the curves came by again......its was sucha a fun i tell you.....do try that some time if possible....That was one of the craziest thing i have ever done ......Bus k saare supports tod diye...i m sure he wud have sweared not to take any students trip anymore
Finally we reached back to Dehradoon...some of had there Buses back to home.....we dropped them and continued our journey back.......
As we bid each other aideu.....we very full this our throat.....we all were seperating ..... this lil journey of 1day was way too much to make us a small family.......
Its not just another the time we shared but the aura of fraternity dwelled in us......everyone of us....irrespective of there own personal problem....which i m sure everyone wud have had like Job tension,the gam of not getting selected....n many more...was left way behind........we had a quality time.......infact this SSB call not just gifted us friends but gifted someone a brother too....
I have not just met different faces....but different thoughts,different ideas......different natures......and all this has made me more adaptable......I have seen life thru a broader specs .
well,even if i write this down.....i ma sure these journal wudnt make you feel the impact that it had on me......