Anuj and Soumya.....and Bangalore tomorrow

yesterday i had two great frnds getting married. Anuj and Soumya had never talked during all the years in school together. and finally decided during a small meeting in a small meet in another frnd's place that they were made for each other. surely marriages are made heaven. as anuj was saying sitting on the dias yesterday waiting for soumya, "I had never thought that i will be marrying a girl from AFBBS!!". Sure anuj...neither did i thnk about you that way.

All the best to a great couple and may your love blossom as it has till now. u 2 make me feel like getting married fast now ;)

though i wil have to convince someone else for that and she is not in any mood right now...i know that :D

i am leaving for bangalore tomorrow. lets see what happens in this new place. Till date i have learnt something worthwhile in all the new cities that i have been to. Hope blore is only different that it teaches me a LOT of things and not just afew.

Till next time (which i dont know when will happen)

frm bbsr to bglr

Things change, locations change. But such changes do not happen so often. It seems just yesterday that i was leaving home to joing XIMB in Bhubaneswar thinking of another new city that i will get to explore and another new life that i wil be able to live. and now after having gone thru bbsr, ctk, puri and a host of other places..not to mention kolkata in my summers, i am now going to leave delhi in 3 days time for going to bangalore...another new city to explore and another new life to live.

What is that place like? their seems to be at least one person from each indian family who is currently working in bangalore. wherever i have gone in these past weeks..after my convo which itself was such a big event in my life that the excitement kept me away from my blog for all these days...there has been someone who is "currently in bangalore" or has "just gone to bangalore" or is "just shifting to bangalore". How much place does that city have???? i wonder!!!

My XIMB...i do miss it a lot

This was something which was always going to happen. We always knew that we will have to leave XIMB...for good. Then why is it that after leaving campus last week, after coming home to the same 24hrs net connection, after getting all the home made food that i was longing for all this while, after knowing that i will soon be one of those ppl in the world whose first salary will be in the top income tax bracket, after knowing that a completely new and hopefully as exciting life awaits me in Bangalore, I still feel as if i have lost a huge and important part of myself by coming out of XIMB?

The Ashoka trees lining the roads, the professors whose classes were better for catching up on our sleep, the rooms where we spent most of the time even if it was to chat with the guy living in the room next to ours, the mess which was more famous for the things it did not serve rather than the ones it did, the stairs in front of the mess and the culverts where we added all those spices to the already flavored gossip that we heard, the flowers that studded the campus as the placement season neared bearing a reminder to the days to follow the placements, the payiks and the mess wallas sitting thr always looking at u as a person who has come for a short time and in this time, they try to become ur family...in this time u become thr family.

Have a great time my XIMB....and all the ppl who come in and go out of those gates which changed so many things...inside us and outside us.

Left XIMB for good

working on my comp from home seems to be such strange occurance for me right now. no ppl coming over to disturb me and no pops to reply to. this life is going to be difficult to adjust to...sply since this net previlidge may not stay for long as have to join itc in less than one week now. things are actually getting more senti with meetings with old frnds (school and college) and this creates a greater feeling of being away from ppl u love....sply after leaving them. man was created by god and by putting these emotions into man, god gave him a huge responsibility. now i m starting to understand it. but soon ximb will also become a memory and a beautiful incident in my life which will be thr to remember and cherish and the feeling of having to leave it will go away...after all this is part and parcel of everyone's life...ain't it?

And on...and on...

My neighbour left today...now i feel that i never talked to nitin (gambhir) as i shld have...no heart to heart talks...nothing. feels as if we missed out on knowing each other even more during our 1.5 years of night outs together, 1.5 years of staying in adjacent rooms, 1.5 years of listening to each other...but now he is gone...and i am going today. hope i meet him again and am able to tell him this.

Mickey also left today. this guy has been such great help...any problem and inevitably his name will be first in my mind as in most of the other ppls minds. i just feel that i get more time with these ppl in the future...and they stay happy wherever they are.

miss u guys...b-top looks and feels strange without u and without the usual shouting and banter

And the days go by....

These last few days have gone in nothing but parties...from junis to seniors or vice versa...from one individual to the other...or in any other form or fashion (including one between me and manu ;-)) but the days still go by...thinking about what next is going to come in our lives. it seems to be just yesterday when i was writing a blog post wishing my seniors best wishes in thr lives...now i m in thr position and the same seniors are telling us that they will be thr to help us and our junis are wishing us in the same way as we were...

i leave campus day after tomorrow...to surely come back once to attend the convocation baraat that tells the world that we are corporates now. i dont know wether we are actually or not...seems like MBA shld be not 2 but 3 years long. since we were told in the beginning that we will unlearn what we have learnt till then and then relearn...i guess what we have done in 2 years has been all unlearning...so we shld need at least one year to do the other part i.e. relearn. Plz make it 3 years.

dunno what i m talking about.. i dont say that my posts have some sort of a format in terms of a head, body and ending but today..i know that this one does not...so anyone who has cared to drop by and actually read this post till this time..plz excuse my banter

all the best everyone

YOU CAN TAKE AN XIMBIAN OUT OF XIMB BUT YOU CAN NEVER TAKE XIMB OUT OF AN XIMBIAN.

Truth and now i understand why.

http://maloyvilla.blogspot.com/2006/02/last-day-at-ximb.html

this one says most of the things that i would want to myself.

Everything is nothing

These words seem to have come from the mouth of some great thinker in a very high class gathering. If i say that they came from a waiter in Chilka Dhaba...a small highway dhaba near the Chilka lake, it will seem like a very strange thing. Actually the reference in this case was to a query about any cold drinks which they may have and his reply was "Everything is nothing" meaning that all the drinks that we asked for, none of them was their. strange eh? stranger things happen.

The above incident occurred on our night tryst with Oliver Ridley Turtules which was arranged by Prakriti the nature club of XIMB for us a couple of days back. These turtles come on the coast in these 4-5 days at a place near the Chilka lake to lay their eggs...and they come in thousands. A nice adventure and some good company was what made the trip a really memorable one. Entire B-top along with Meera and Manu and Satyen were in one car and we had some great fun inside as well as on the beach. Apart from the turtles which surely were scared seeing so many ppl thr, the beach during night with the waves shining and the foam glimmering made for a spectacular view. The stars also seem to have a way with expression specially for ppl who come from the city. u might just be stunned into silence if u see a night sky in the wild for the first time. the sheer quantity of the stars is enuf to make one think about his place in this universe again. The eggs of the turtles which our guide quitely dug out and kept in my hands felt and looked like TT balls. The guide told us that we could keep them in formalin and they will hatch. none of us was interested in that kind of a pet so we gave the eggs back to him and he promptly slid them into his bag....most probably to make an aumlette in the morning.

Some great experiences i have had in these last few days of my stay in ximb...sure hope that these continue forever.

It feels so good to talk about having been placed and going to start earning and all the different things that come along with that. what we forget or feel like overlooking are all the things that we are going to miss after we go out of ximb. I had never been in a hostel except in the navy and surely this experience has been absolutely amazing. No words are sufficient to describe the amount of learning that i have gained and the change that has come in me that i myself has felt in these 1.5 years. (even my typing speed has increased manifold)...

After yesterday's party (I feel like me and the other 4 Bad Boyz troupe have become an item performers...when nothing else is thr then send us in on the stage.) it seems that the time has reaally come in now. I hope that everyone in this place gets what they want and get it fast so that they get enuf time to enjoy it as well.

And by the way...plz my acting yesterday left a lot to be desired and i m thankful for that since the role that i got did not exactly suite me ;-)

Ode to XIMB Batch of 2006

Remembering my class mates after few years
My eyes were filled with tears
Everyone now is busy a lot,
No one escaoed destiny's plot

Project reviews to campus interviews
Nicknames to last bench games
Cultural rehearsals to love proposals
Short term crushes to class room blushes

Everything is fresh in our mind
Wish life could just rewind
Let's laugh play and rejoice
Once again become college guys

Chatting and laughing. we all were in elation
Till the painful moment of seperation
When it was time to part
We returned with a heavy heart

Today life is full of commitments
And too many worries
But those cherished moments
Will live forever in our memories!!

Maxinations 2006

Well!!! words cannot express the feelings that went through me and everyone else in XIM in these last few days that we have here. Maxinations just came to end with a surprise win for us which has left not only the rest of people but also our own block stunned. great team effort along with almost everything clicking for us in the end was what took the game towards our side. From the morning (coming second in quiz when nothing was expected) then following that up with some great presentation skills shown by pankaj and nitin in the brand presentation (we came second in that in the end) then coming second in Sargam as well (I was with mickey in that event :-D...no one in XIMB knew that any of us could sing...i still uphold that trophy :-D) and then to top it all, first in Block Rock!!! and this time our confidence card on the event gave us a huge lead. now i can again say that i was part of the 5 guys in the choreography...again a surprise for not only XIM but for me as well!!!

Overall...personally for me, a very satisfying end to a great 3 days...sply since we were so close to winning last year as well. Here is the win to the entire B Block as well as to the seniors who always wanted to but could never get the trophy. Great play by everyone else as well.

BAD BOYS ARE HERE!!!

Seems like a looong time since i last wrote something on my blog. My "frnd in times of boredom" whom i totally "forgot" during other times...guess that is the reason i put this post now. days seem to have gotten shorter for me for some days. The classes in KIIT seem to have not only got a lot of experience for me but also this great feeling that i could be the result because of which several 100 students get some jobs in the next few months. the students thr seem to be somewhat like in XIMB. A mixture of great and not so great ppl who together make a campus such a beautiful place. I really feel a lot for some guys with just about great skills in engineering but almost no way that i could make them speak. just hope that the companies that come are able to understand this and likewise recruit. i just hope that they all get placed and do not forget to tell me about it. a silent best wish for them all.

Today we start off with our quest for the Maxinations trophy. Something which we Almost won last year but could not because of no reason. The tempo is great and reminds me of the last year when we were all really charged up with that fire in our belly and i am sure we can do an encore this time as well. ALL THE BEST B BLOCK....After all...B A D B O Y S Are Here!!!

Great time i m having

Guess losing friends and getting new friends is a part and parcel of life. but all these things apart, last few days have been really great. First was the trip which i talked about to puri...not exactly puri but to beautiful and empty beaches near puri. The views were spectacular and we really enjoyed a full day of masti. Details about that in the next post since right now i am a bit busy (yep...in these times of excess time ;-)) after all i have a quiz to give and then go on to KIIT for the classes that i m taking thr. It really feels great knowing that u have 2 full hours to urself to keep talking and the poor souls in front of u have no other option to listen to u.

Going to Puri

nice times to get bored in :)...

going to puri to spend a day on the beach with friends...njoy everyone

Khandagiri and Bhittarkanika...my answer

I got a complaint today on my google talk. unfortunately I was not in my room at that time. The problem with this friend was that even though my status message was that i was "extremely bored" I had not bothered to write anything on my blog for a couple of days now. Sorry bhai but this was more because i forgot to change my GT status message :-) These 2 days have been busy like any other nice day should be and the title of this post should tell you just why!!

Yesterday, I went to andhra bank to do a small 2 min work for my NEM project. The fellow told me to come after one hour since he was "busy". I had no clue what to do so went over to khandagiri which was close by and spent an hour in that place eating chanas at the top of a mountain which also had a jain temple and a shiv temple. An hour was spent their and then when i reached back, i spent another 1.5 hours sitting in front of that idiot of an officer just staring at his face. Eventually he simply told me that he did not have the two minutes to spare :-( and could not even give an appointment for the next day. (actually that was good since i had more important stuff to do today :-D)

Today was our trip to bhittarkanika (yep again for me) but this was different and enjoyable in a different way. While the first trip was 4 guys on an adventure with no plans made beforehand, this one had been meticuously planned out by sujesh and consisted of 16 ppl (after richa opted out). 2 Qualis and a huge boat later not to mention the treck and the leg breaking journey in the cars, i have reached the following conclusions:
1. It really matters wether u have been to a place before or not. It could be as enjoyable if not more if u have a different group and/or a different reason for going. I had both, my reason being to keep a better lookout for snakes (i managed to get a glimpse of one in the wild) and to just chill out which i did.

2. Do NOT eat in the new Reliance A1 dhabas...the food is bad and cold and basically more of glamor in the place than anything else (after all how many dhabas have waiters who have left places like Pal Heights to serve u food on a highway!!!) Just does not give the dhaba feeling after the food has come in front of you.

3. Enjoy life!!! :-)

So...really sorry my frnd for not having changed my status message, i have done that now...though it seems that from tomorrow, it is going to be the same old story again...

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