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

Days seem to be getting longer....

IT is just afew days left to the beginning and end of placement week to come on us and I am starting to find these days getting longer and longer and longer. With daily full dress rehearsals and GD's (and somehow I feel...now interviews as well) it is becoming an ordeal that does not show any signs of abating. As it is...it is becoming more and more difficult to go out with so many other people who have nothing more to do but give gyaan to people like me on how to go about targetting companies...

What can a little success do to an individual is amazing. From being a no one to being a person who feels that he is the GOD and then going ahead and trying to prove it to the less lucky mortals is a behavior that has been written on since long time back (not that I have read any such books but guess it must have..how can the enterprising psychologists and sociologists of this world leave such a topic alone!)

Anyways...as Abhishek Bacchan says... "ye world hai na world...isme do type ke log hote hai, ek jinki naukri nahi lagi hoti hai aur dusre jinki lag chuki hoti hai. Jitni jaldi iss dusri category mein aa jaoge, utni jaldi kismatwaale kehlaoge" (this world has two type of people, one who have not got a job and the others who have. The sooner you join the second category, the earlier you will be called a lucky guy.)

Friends???

Friends...that is what people like to call themselves. Of course everyone knows the definition of a friend.." one who stays with you in cheer and tear....bla bla bla..." and of course everyone boasts of being one who does that. But in the end it all boils down to the same thing. "I have one thing which you dont...so obviously you dont know what you want in life while I always did..." even though the same person for the same thing may be feeling exactly the same way just two days back as you are feeling today. Arre if you dont know how to make a person feel more comfortable...then at least dont worsen the situation for him. At least, calling yourself a friend, this much you can do. But what does a friend in despair...in need of a shoulder to cry upon get? He gets another person talking in the same way as the rest of the human race in exactly the same tone making it clear ki in this world, every man is for himself. Friends are there only till the time they are required by you. Least bothered about what they may be feeling or may feel if you talk in the way you want to.

This is the definition of a "friend" as should be told to children. After all schools are supposed to make children fit to live in this world and this is one essential thing that has to be learned....or maybe this IS taught in school...i may have missed that class

A random thought...for the record

Just a thought which passed by in my mind while talking with a junior...

Since you are in the system,
Be like the system.
Till the time, you are not able to change the system,
Dont talk about the system.

All the more reason to try and rise above the system

Nice day this was...

Hmm....so where do i start?

This post is actually a continuum of the last two posts with positive results for both of them. I cant believe that I finally managed to clear a GD. This is a different matter that out of the 9 ppl in my group, 7 were selected (these minor things are better overlooked) but the point is that I cleared! Company is Genpact (GE's BPO) and the pay is good. The interview was also fine...actually i guess my navy background really helps in a lot of places simply because of the reason that the other person surely does not know anything about the field and i can faff to my heart's content :-)

I may or may not get thru but i surely gained some confidence as far as my capabilities regarding my getting placed is concerned.

Dinner ka to pata nahi...but the lunch in the mess was again pretty darn decent. Rajma chawal remains my fav any time anyways and this today was also pretty good...of course not comparable to what i could get in delhi from my mom's hands.

Vaibhav has reached back to delhi from IMA after two terms getting over. Next term he will be the boss in the academy...how i remember my days in NAVAC when our sixth termers used to srew us like hell and we had no option but to think of the time when we will be in thr place...that chance never came for me but still.....remember i do...


chalo gd nite for now
till nxt time

The mess bounces back

By making that statement...i am probably imitating our media which has the habit of exhorbitantly expressing itself everytime a small player makes a significant achievement...sometimes to such an extent that the poor player (he is a human after all) is left feeling like a god and starts to falter...before reaching the alter (;-))..

I guess since our mess is not going to know about this post, it really does not matter in this case. Tonight for dinner (which is cancelled for me by the way) we had parathas with potato in gravy and cucumber raita with the usual daal and fried rice. The entire fare has been served to us every friday but today, the taste was much much better. It sounded as if the thought of losing great business had made the contractor realize that he had to do something and finally...a.k.a. Ajay Jadeja in his hay days...the mess rose from its slumber to serve a menu which was not only eatable but actually relishable (if i could use a word like that)

Hope the good work continues....and oh!!!...by the way...i still dont have a job :-D

I have no clue what i was thinking about when i opened my blog today. guess that is what it is supposed to be like that u can publish anything that u feel like, whenever u feel like. but today seems to be a very very spl day. i have lost 2 offers...not that i had them at any point of time but i could have got them only if.........

only if i knew the answer to that only if....
only if i understood what these ppl select in a GD....
only if i knew what godamn thing is going to be asked by an interview panel which could be of importance...
only if i had the capabilities of faffing which everyone else seems to have and everyone feels that as an "mba" everyone is supposed to have....
only if i understood what was going on in ppl's minds at any given point of time...
only if i had a fraction of intelligence that Mel Gibson got in What Women Want...
only if i become fortunate enough to get what i want or desire at least once in my life....(other that my better half or best full that she likes to be called...and of course my parents who i am really fortunate to have...)
only if.....i knew the answer to these only if's.....

i was just wondering wether the only way that i could get a job was in a company which did not take a gd...???

maybe...because that is how i got my summers as well.

god send a good company where they dont take a gd....baaki future mein kya karna hai ye main sambhaal lunga...shayad...probably with ur help....

guess thats it...this is all that i had going on in my mind and this is all that i wanted to just take out somehow

Team for the World Cup

i was standing in front of the mess the other day when i heard a great roar of spectators coming from the T.V. in the MPH upstairs. Sensing a blistering knock from Tendulkar or Dhoni, I ran upstairs to see the match. What i saw on the screen was something completely different. Tendulkar was dejectedly walking back to the pavilion after having made a painstaking 2 runs from 15 balls. India had lost their second wicket. India went on to lose the match by a record breaking 10 wickets. They had achieved this feat only 3 times previous to this, once before against the proteas. Big deal...u may feel. India is known to be unreliable in terms of cinsistent performances anyways. But the deal is big...this time, it was the first time that a home crowd was cheering for the visitors...and cheering in one voice. It was the first time that a state or a region had taken so much importance over the country for so many people at one place. It was for the first time that just because a Bengali was not playing in the match, the crowd was willing to change their dedication to an alien nation. It was in my reckoning, the first time that the true nature of this regional snake has shown its fangs.

Are not the other players of the team not Indians? Are they not playing for the country? Are they not representing the people of India (which in my knowledge also includes West Bengal)? This is the same team which convincingly defeated the Lankans and had just broken the record of unbeaten south africans. Would they have lost in this way had the crowd behaved as they shld have....For the Country...?

From next time I feel the selectors have one more criteria to fill before deciding on the team for home matches...the venue will have to be decided first and then a reservation has to be made in the team that at least one player in the playing 11 has to come from that state.

If these are the reservations that are going to come to the team...why not have the usual SC/ST etc reservations? Possibly we could even incorporate one for the part of the country....say...2 places for a North paw, etc etc etc etc....and the team for the World Cup is ready!!!

The World as I see it

The World as I see it

This blog belongs to a senior in XIMB...some awesome pics that he has taken. Chk it out

Friends

With so many things at hand, you would never expect someone to have time to just sit idle. That is what I felt like doing for some days now. It is in times like this that the true value of friendship is seen. Somehow, friends will just sense something wrong....somehow they will know that you are not feeling good...somehow you will give urself away even if u try ur best not to. Then that friend will just take in their hand to guide u out of the rut and back on the track. Such an amazing feeling it is to feel that way...to either get urself pulled out or to pull someone out who u really care for.

A friend can easily change ur mind from feeling like nothing could go right to the point where u just start murmuring "I believe I can fly" and actually feel that u can.

Thanks to the world for giving such good friends to me. Hope I can keep upto the expectations of my friends...

Ironies abound

I was going through an old episode of "The Great Indian Laughter Challenge"...it seems to have taken our campus by storm...every dialogue/joke is listened to with the utmost attention and then repeated almost everywhere across the campus. One guy who was not even selected (his jokes were really pathetic...probably that was the reason for his rejection) gave this really nice seeming sentence..."What an irony in life that Diwali has Ali (Diw'Ali') in it and Ramzan has Ram ('Ram'zan) and still the two religions find it so difficult to coexist in so many parts of our country.Cant we just stay together and work together?

Nice thought...I really feel it merits more than a small mention in a laughter show amidst so many other PJ's which are being told at a dime a dozen...