orkut rules

Seems strange to thing that with nothing else to do, even then i did not write anything on my blog yesterday. The reason is stranger...with nothing to do, there is nothing to think and hence nothing to write about....simple eh!

So how am i passing my free time nowadays one may think. Till yesterday it was through one of the most ridiculous things that one could think of. I was using the famed orkut.com to find long lost friends and getting in touch with them. Believe it or not...i actually found a friend i had lost contact with after class X!!! And small as this world is, this guy is in bangalore...where i am destined to be in months time. The two of us do share a lot of memories together and i hope that shankar was as happy to see my mail as i was after seeing his.

Enjoy life ppl

So much to talk about

Thr are days as i must have mentioned before when u have so much to talk about that u feel that you need more than a blog and more than afew minutes to write about them. Yesterday was one such day. The only reason why i did not put anything yesterday itself was that at 5 in the morning, after dancing for 5 whole hours and then taking a guy back to his room after he had had more than his usual quota of drinks, i had no energy left to even think about logging in and writing something.

A very dear friend of mine took me to a temple yesterday. No big deal...I am one of those ppl who go to temples on a regular basis. Now this temple i went to was really located in such a small corner of the city that we actually wondered who had discovered that such a temple even existed. And then it was really small. Why this friend took me was because she had kept a small mannat and on its finishing she wanted to come and take 108 rounds of the idol. Why u may ask. This will happen in case u r not familier with the way indian society is run. Total faith in God and all his doings and undoings is such that even things which are explained by normal contemorary science are sometimes attributed to Him. But we are MBA's (me and my friend), so why do we believe in all this and actually feel that in case we ask him for something, he is the one who is going to give it to us? Not that i am in any way lowering his place or trying to dispute that he does not exist or even trying to lay a claim about his presence. This is supposed to be a very median statement not meant to mean or convey anything. I just felt sitting their and waiting for her to finish her rounds, as to why this was happening. Is it because we are not confident of what we can achieve on our own? Or is it because we need someone to put all our mistakes on? Or probably to have someone with us...because man is a social animal and all our lonely ordeals on this planet make us want to have someone around...so why not have God who will be present everywhere and we can talk to him and walk with him and listen to him at any time that we feel lost in this big bad world?

If that is the case then as soon as the above things are taken care of, will we lose our faith in the existence and hand of god?

I dunno...all that i know is that if their is God, then i would prefer to have him on my side...

For the Blogophobics

Since last year when i started this blog, i have had numerous ppl coming over and saying how much time i am wasting on this "crap" and "@#@%&#" and some decent words as well. Now i give one small thing that hapenned yeserday night that was actually an example of how USEFUL a blog can be. Rabi came over to my room asking me about Bhittarkanika, how to get thr, what to do thr and all similar details. All that I had to do was open my blog and let him read my post about Bhittarkanika. Howzzat!!!

So now for all the blogophobics, blog haters and the similar junta....herez a reason to write blogs. You dont have to remember everything that happens in your small or big world...depending on how you see it.

So pick up those idle fingers and type away...

These medicines do have a way of thr own. I got this really bitter cough syrup from a doctor and was told specially that it will make me go to sleep and hence i shld not be driving or doing any similar risky work after having it. Within a week, i finished an entire bottle but not once did i feel that my sleep was because of the medicine. absolutely no affect...either on my sleep or on my cough.

Next bottle that i get is another medicine which is supposed to be in a "new tingle flavour"...whatever that means...and this does not come with any soporific warnings. i took one spoon of this and i got to know the "tingle" flavor...and after 15 min...i had forgotten everything and was in a deep slumber on my bed. Thnk god that i was in my room nahi to pata nahi kaha so raha hota raat bhar ;-)

these medicines and there ways!!!

cough cough cough cough cough cough cough cough cough cough cough cough cough cough cough cough ...............

that is all that is coming out of me right now...so that is all that i can think of putting on my blog right now...

hope i m the only one suffering from this illness on the planet right now

take care everyone

my plans

back from wasting some of my quality time at home, i have a very daunting task ahead of me. I have to decide where to spend the rest of my days that lie in front of me before my company decides to have the guts to start giving me money (for what, i still dont understand). i have thought of afew things which i am not sure about that will work. but still my mind is so so so confused that i really cant understand what to do. i have put enuf e-books on my comp to last me a lifetime if i want to, enuf movies on cd's to while away another lifetime, enuf games to waste another generations precious time....but what the hell am i going to do?????

anyone having any suggestions or recommendations...plz come ahead and put them up for me. I will be really grateful

going home

seems like such a long time that 0.2 celsius temperature in delhi is also not at all putting ice on my mood of going back home. tonight, i push off for a nice long week at home which as it happens will be my longest stay at home since i joined ximb.

hope the dilli ki sardi is able to create a cool atmosphere but not put ice on any of my plans...

enjoy everyone

Xuberance 2006..grand closure

I have been itching to write this post for a long long time. Actually since last year when sitting at the control desk, I saw the elation on the faces of my seniors when signing out...each with a job and each happy not just for themselves but for their friends of 2 years who are going to be their for them for the rest of their lives. Tomorrow is that day for us. We all sign out starting 10:30AM. But I saw that joy on my batchmates faces today itself.

As soon as word came out that the last of us had been placed...it was simply a "cycle stand affect" that took place...with an uproar going up all over the campus (right upto the faculty quarters waking them up as well). There was no stopping any of us, shouting and shouting and jumping and jumping and laughing and laughing away to the brink of madness. The elation and joy and ecstacy knew no bounds.

It is but difficult to put into words, and even more difficult to put into writing (since no one can actually see the emotions that arise on my face while writing this post) the kind of feeling that is going on. We were all awaiting the last result with bated breath counting down the number of people left to be placed. A real painful thing specially for those who were part of that group. And then....it goes down in history as the first truly 100% placement for XIMB on day 1...it goes into history as the best placement for XIMB in its history...it goes into history as Xuberance 2006.

With these emotions I want to draw this post to a close humbly wishing all my batchmates best wishes for a wonderful and successfull career and life full of joy and happiness and satisfaction with all achieved and desire to achieve all that is yet to be attained.

These last few weeks...

Long have been these weeks. No sense of what is going on....first the GD's were not getting cleared. Then suddenly there seems to have been some major upturn and I started clearing them...all of them!!! On last count..I had cleared 7 of them on the trot. Then I came across another hindrance...interviews. I had to somehow find out what the hell did each company want...."profile matching" is what the HR ppl like to call it. Then came 4th of Jan...the day when I had given XAT 2 years back and the day when I had got my summers one year back...this time it was my turn to get a job!!!
HDFC offerred me my first job! I was stunned...because the way I had performed in the interview was absolutely pathetic. Giving stupid answers to stupid questions
e.g.
Q: What are u looking for in HDFC?
Ans: Treasury
Q: Why?
Ans: Because everyone who has done finance wants treasury!
Q: But dont u think u will be more suitable for retail marketing?
Ans: May be...actually that is the reason why I took SDM and B2B and SM as papers!

And I was selected....GOD knows what they were looking for.

Anyways..that scared me..because of a simple reason that I have a strange aversion to banks. They simply dont impress me. So next day..with renewed vigour, I sat for ITC Infotech. GD cleared...interview..I gave but i did not know what impression i made. Suddenly I came to know that i had been cleared for a second round of interview and i was shocked. that also went coolly and i was waiting for the result. bated breath and almost senseless. What came was even a bigger shock than what had been hapenning in the last few days. I was offerred a LATERAL OFFER!!!!!

Some company had actually recognized my Navy experience as lateral and had decided to offer me a job then!!!

Things have taken such a lovely turn...

WHEW!!!...these last few weeks are coming to an end now!!!

This is just a continuation from a reply on a very dear friends blog (http://xcellence.blogspot.com )

This is regarding success and failure that people look at. Ppl like to go to bookstalls and read books about "1001 ways to succeed" but never think about failure. Something similar to what we learnt in our PROF class. Why do we forget that behind every Armani suite, their are a 100 torn shirts. This is a very known human tendency that success gets on the brain much faster than failure. You will hardly find a person who has had a success without failure to even think about people who have failed more often (a.k.a. my frnds in XIMB) whilst people who succeed after having failed more than their due share of times find success to be sweeter (a.k.a. some other of my friends in XIMB). And then (as my blogger friend puts it) people go to successful people to ask how to succeed not understanding that to be successful, it is more important to understand failure than it is to understand success.

This diatribe of sorts may be taken by some as my own wanteness for recognition (u know....one of the people who continue to fail despite all the "strategies" that we adopt) but it surely is a truth in life.

Oh...by the way...A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR to everyone who bothers to drop by and read these small ejaculations from my heart