Ode to CEO, Deccan Airways

One great swashbuckling karate kick in the face of the company "dubba peetofying about being the second most famous airline in India" in so few years!!!
http://smilesnsmiles.blogspot.com/2006/08/to-ceo-air-deccan.html#comments

This one is a must read though I apologize to the author to have put this link on my page without her permission. I am sure that she will not be averse to any miniscule publicity that this post might get for her blog.

Phone calls

So many new things hapenning in life that I almost forgot to put this in...but anger and frustration apart, blogs should be updated with (in my case) anything that my dimaad thinks about...

What do you do when you are called out of your office by a very good friend of yours and then just when you two start talking, this friend gets a phone call? Nothing...right? You just stand their and wait for him to end it as soon as he can and restart his talk with you...right?

This is just what I did today...waited and waited and waited and finally found that I had been doing that wait for more than 15 minutes (let me assure you if you do not already know that these 15 minutes are longer than most years that you have lived on this planet). All that I do is grin at anything which sounds remotely familier even though I have no clue about the person at the other end of the line who is taking the time which was supposed to be yours!

Finally decided that I had enough and since nothing else seemed good to be done, I started walking away slowly only to find this friend of mine following me....OK...so now what? Start walking with him!!...And this guy did not stop talking on the phone...finally I just took off leaving him to do his chatting making sure that next time something like this happens...I will not do anything.

What I am going to do now is that I am going to send the link of this post to this good friend of mine ;-)

Chill guys!!!
Nishant

Mast zindagi hai...meri nahi...unn logo ki jo normal times par kaam karte hai. I came to office at 9 in morning yesterday and felt so bad about having to come at odd times to work. If only I could work at the same time as every single normal person....guess that is not going to be the case for some time to come. Still felt such a different feeling. Now I will definitely understand the improtance and the special feeling of working at these times more than any person who has been waking up at 7 just to be in office on time. My roomie shouts and screams about having to go early in the morning....ab ussko kaun samjhaye ki kaash main bhi aisa kar sakta... :-(

Hope I will do the same one day........one day

dhoom dhadakka

could not thnk of any better heading for this post. after all this is what is going on in my head currently...24X7....day in and day out. Have so many things to think about. Earlier it was the daily targets that I was thinking about...now since I have taken myself away from them, it has become the "other" things (best left unsaid till a better time since I dont know who all must be reading these posts)

I never thought that my head could ache so much just because of some stupid things going on inside. actually cant exactly call them stupid since they have more to do with the thing called my career than anything else has ever been...and that brings me to the reason why i have been blabbering here for so long.

I was thinking about all the things that we have done since we were born that we have been told or we have thought "are the last things that we need to work hard on to become something"!!! I remember the first time that i was told this was in class 8th. My mom went after me saying that if i work hard, i will get enough grades to see me through the rest of my life...and I BELIEVED HER!!! Then class tenth boards, class twelth boards, medical entrances, navy SSB, air force SSB, medical entrances again, all enggineering years, MBA entrances....and then I went away to XIMB hostel and no one to say anything and hence i started the completely useless work of blogging...but now this thing comes up and again i start thinking...had all those things really been so important? if i had secured a li'l bit less marks in any of them, would I have been worse off...or vice versa...had I been better off had i got something better in any of them? guess i will never know since i did not get anything less or more.

Strange world...we work so hard to get what we get and then dont have a clue what would have hapenned had we worked less hard....or we do not work and get what we get and again have no clue what we would have got had we worked harder...!!! Simply...as I said initially...my brain is going crazy and making a sound....DHOOM DHADAKKA

My GOD...WHAT IS WITH ME?

yesterday a gr8 frnd of mine writes a testimonial for me on orkut saying that he loves to read my blog....opened my eyes...i forget to write stuff on it and thr is at least someone here who likes to read it!

I decided that i have to do something for this lone customer that my blog has...i am not going to let him down and am going to write with new vigor and josh (is thr any diff between the two words? i dont know)

anyways...i decided that i will write about orkut today. seriously an amazing creation of human brain. i met up with a loooot of old long lost frnds thru this thing.....

as i said...getting so late now. have to log out but i dont want to lose this nice habit of blogging....used to take so much tension away from me....actually feeling better already

Seems like my posts at this blog are decreasing by the day. :-( life is taking a toll on me....kya karu

on a serious note...i have nothing worthwhile to contribute to humanity and hence i feel that the only reason why i m writing this seems to be my all encompassing statement that i m perfectly useless to any process that i going on on this planet...hence possibly i m the best person to be sent to the moon whenever the next trip goes there...maybe i will do something usefull thr

blore is good....as far as the weather is concerned at least. my job is stressfull...as far as i am concerned at least. my bike is flying...as far as the roads are concerned at least. but things are very very dull PERIOD

update on my side...working in office at least between 4 to 1 and stay back and come early since nothing to do at home. play snooker, almost started to go to the gym (this i do daily ;-))...

and a news flash...first couple from my XIMB batch to get married- Sujesh and Sudeshna..sure hope that the message on yahoogroups is from Sujesh and sure hope that they find the true everlasting love for each other in this relationship not just in this life but all the future ones to come.

now i get back to my work!

Bangalore.....

Here I am...This is me...i guess i had no clue as to what i will be....

in bangalore for arnd 10 days now i feel as if i have been thru so many things. Events are the ones which drive ur life and not time. this is what i get to understand now. same 10 days without any events would have been just a blip on my life's radar. these 10 days in a completely new place, among completely new ppl, being (literally) thrown out of a guest house and then going on to another, joining a company which is changing by the day, going on a leasurely (though official) tour to Bandipur Wildlife santuary (earlier more famous for Veerappan but now the elephants and tigers and leopards seem to have taken the place)...all these things do seem to change things.

Then getting to do things which i had never thought will be something i will be interested in (thinking of finance as i was during most of my mba...though later turned to sales) now this feels like a completely new challenge that i have to take and succeed at.

we have also taken a house (me and bisu) which is more of a duplex and ppl are actually shocked at how we could get it at such low costs. and now i am planning to take a bike very SOON...cant go back to my place at 1AM or later without the auto walla taking 2-3 times the actual money.

lots of crap have i said today...take care all the vella junta reading this crap column

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!!!