My 10th std results were not excellent, but they were not good enough to get me into a science group. I agreed and accepted to take up commerce. Would I have fancied a science group if I had scored well ? I don't know is the answer. So, after having finished schooling with a commerce background, I was wondering what next.
I wanted to do something different, become a star and shine and not let my academic figures affect my desires. I decided to do my BBM and then pursue MBA and also join a NIIT course like my brother who fared well in it.
Simultaneously there was something more exiting happening in my life, more that what I had expected it to be. My dad had asked me to apply for Hotel Management and like a good daughter I agreed to put my leg into it. I wasn't sure what I was getting into, but I was happy only because I was doing something different.
On the day of the entrance exam my dad dropped me to the examination centre and picked me up after 3 hrs.Oh no I wasn't a pampered kid, he only did that because I know my way to the centre, it was a Sunday and I guess appa was more excited for me than I was.
Within a months time I was intimated that I got selected for the next round in Chennai. Amma travelled with me to Chennai, I was wearing a Peach kurta with a parallel bottom pyjama. The panel asked me What is Coimbatore famous for ? I mumbled some thing that I cant remember now. The panellist called my city "The Manchester of India". After a few more general knowledge questions my Interview finished swiftly.
A month later I got to know I was selected, I was happy, more than me my mom and dad were. On a hot scorching afternoon of May Appa along with me, my bed and baggage landed into the hostel of IHM- Chennai.
Diana Suresh is the first girl I met in my hostel. New place, new life and a new beginning. I was scared and nervous but I lived every moment of it,even then I dint know if it was right place for me but now looking back, I am glad I decided to walk the road that was less travelled.