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Resolutions 2011

2011-01-03T08:58:00.000-08:00

Wish you all a rather belated Happy New Year. New year, resolution time. I really believe in making them so that I know if I failed in planning or execution :P ;) Here's the list :

Take extra efforts to keep parents happy - Any which way. Big, small gestures.
Sports to be pursued aggressively be it cycling, squash, swimming or anything else
Travel more ( Singapore? London? Kerala? Pondicherry? Daman? Outskirts of Mumbai? ). Bungee jumping, Sky diving dependent on this as well
Start investing in stocks, options / commodities and end the year in green
Donate blood at least twice and spend time doing charity, and not just donating
Reduce the time spent on Facebook and online/on computer in general
Learn to play guitar - Post the BT pic it has become even more important :P ;)
Strive for further directional clarity with respect to my desires

Even if I do not write any other post in between I will definitely write about my success/failures of the above.

Look forward to listening/reading your resolutions as well.

'Cool' things I have done in the past 1year

2009-11-24T14:24:00.000-08:00

Been to a 5 star hotel, ate like hell and returned without paying. Did not have cash, and really wanted to eat something nice. This was Prakruti, Kashid near Mumbai. I plan to donate about 2k out of my 1st salary to make up for it.
Rode my bicycle alone for about 80kms to a trip to Diamond Harbour from IIM C campus. Took me a bout 6.5hours including rest at Ramakrishna Ashram and various ATMs that came by
Learned swimming. It was pending for a while
Took gyming seriously, for a while at least
Won my 1st award in any sports...it was a biathlon named 'Tour de Joka'. Was teamed up with Arjun, Tashi and we came 3rd. And for the record, I did not 'free ride', was the 2nd best cyclist after Mohit
Flirted around, evaded a few proposals and am still single
Searched for old school friends (read: female acquaintances) and added them on orkut/ facebook
Internship in Mumbai meant I was able to visit Goa as well
Called up competitors of the firm I was working for, as the representative of a financial advisory with big-shot clients. Helped me understand the standing of the rest of the firms on the particular product I was handling. I still get calls regarding this :(
Visited my first foreign country, so what if it was Bhutan :P
Accepted in public that I am a fan of Himesh Reshammiya
Watched my first 2 TV series Prison Break and 24...and stopped at season 1 itself for both
Made more friends than enemies
Broke 2 window panes with my fist and planning to stop now. If not stop, then at least graduate to a car window

Hope this is enough to justify my absence for the past 1 year. Hoping to do 'cooler' things in the coming year, and still be an active blogger :)

1st term review:P

2008-09-14T00:59:00.000-07:00

With the term ending this week, its an apt time to look back and introspect on the last 3months that i have spent in cal since june mid. Its been a roller coaster indeed what many of my family and friends told me about, but somehow it seems as if yeh roller coaster mein abhi tak bhi i have not settled down.
Academics related issues are there, and it all got worse with a grade drop in BS due to attendance funda...number laane ka bahot mann hai par padne ka nai:( dunno panga hai kya.
Number aaye ya na aaye...waise toh nai aayenge fir bhi...haan toh no aaye ya nai...the bottomline is i dont deserve even a 5pointer.
upar se agar banda is trying to study toh fir kam ban jaaye..par agar bigadne ka no ilaaj besides enlightenment of course or passion for something. Inspiration leta hun pehle ki tarah from everyplace but ders not been many sources somehow...maybe coz of the lack of bollywood movies that i m watch these dayz:P

Also was suffering from viral conjectivitis for the whole week before the exams so couldnt attend much of classes, padai toh bhool hi jaao. But to take it positively..saala achcha hi hua ki 1st term mein hi saara ka saara darr nikal gaya...iim or no iim agar banda marks ko dil se na le..aur end mein thoda bahot fight maare toh pass hona is not difficult to achieve.

BTW going/coming to delhi in about 2.5weeks time...suddenly feeling good good about it all..ki chalo xams se pehle ek baar ghar toh ho aaunga:)

Rest all is fine...bas thoda sa boring ho gaya hun...thoda sa passion kam...but all else is intact...infact well intact. Morality's reached such high levels these days ki kabhi kabhi khud bhi darr lagta hai ki...kahin kuch over toh nia ho raha...but this kinda crisis is good for sure...and i am happy about it:)

BS class aur main !

2008-07-17T04:12:00.000-07:00

Ignorance is bliss ka typical example..hai yeh. All through my life i have believed myself to be in the category of 'good' human beings...not coz i actually am one...but because i am ready to learn and recraft myself according to what i feel is the best thing...matlab just realize karne ki der hai.

And obviously if this is the case then i should have done something on similar lines...but this Behavioural Sciences class i attended today refuted all my prior misconceptions:(
We talked about some personality traits and a caselet on an IIM A grad disgruntled with his life.
Somehow I could cent percent relate with the worst personality trait and this particular guy..the lack of goal setting and haziness of vision did him in...and so might be the case with him.
Optimism hai..bahot hai..itna hai ki tapakta hai :P...but aage ka kya pata..i should have a goal..an aim..woh pura ho ya nai...thats another thing. All this while its been a ganga mein haath dhone wala scenario but who knows whats in store aage...jab crisis situation aayega tab would my optimism be able to steer me clear from it all...or would i buckle under pressure coz i actually never wanted to do what i did...be it MBA, Engg or whatever.
Ajeeb sa self doubt create ho gaya aaj...just hate it..aage se BS ki classes skip karne ka plan:P

Wanted to pen this thing..coz agar baad mein kabhi a case study is written on me toh sabko pata hona chahiye that Rohan had a hint...but was too immature to actually find an answer. And yea in case i find a way out...saala itna bhi immature nai hun, chance hai abhi suharne ka...fir toh i wont be a case study material:(

Song of the post:
'Bakhuda tumhi ho...har jagah tumhi ho..' by Atif Aslam and Alka Yagnik.

STRUGGLE TO WAKE UP AND GET STARTED !

2008-07-11T13:43:00.000-07:00

Still having a hangover of the late night marketing case study discussion followed by the Dramatics club practise, I wake up rubbing my eyes. One look at the watch is enough to put my system on move, the adrenaline rushing through. All this even though I could manage just 2.595783hours of sleep last night....will I, will I not...will I will I not be able to make it on time for the BS class ? The last time Saurabh came a minute late...the door was shut in front of him...sad though, since he was standing on the wrong side of it.
No time to think, just enough time left to brush my teeth, put on my clothes, put jam and butter on the bread and eat it along my 10min walk from NH to the lecture hall. Seems like quite possible in 15-20minutes...doesn’t it? Yes it actually is that ways, given that u find your comb and keys easily, given that there are not more than 3people in the line for breakfast and, last but not the least, given that crows of the campus pity you.
Half jogging and half running is enough to reach L2 in time, meaning just in time. Eyes of the teacher letting me know in a single look about how lucky I am!
Motivation, Perception and group theory might seem boring but when the quiz is scheduled for the next day...one better pay attention. The 3 lectures besides this one, scheduled for the day, go on smoothly.
Lectures pass by, presentations and case studies, discussions with peers and faculty, club meetings, working for the festivals...but what remains is the struggle...the struggle to succeed...the struggle to surge ahead and save that one minute...which would make all the difference.Will I, Will I not...?

PS: Work of fiction...not even remotely related to the dram cell. And also my marketing case study is still a week away.
PS2: Song of the post is th classic 'na jaane mere dil ko kya ho gaya' from DDLJ. Udi sings as if hes the maharaja of the world..with such an open throat...such true feelings ki hadh nai.

Btw ek bad news bhi hai...got chucked out of JBS but good thing is that was chucked out after listening to 4 of my songs:P ohh i pity them so much:)

naam mein kya rakha hai ?

2008-03-01T20:20:00.000-08:00

I somehow feel that in spite of the innumerable raised eyebrows i got from people to whom i narrated the lines written in the last post...its one of the very few succinct posts i have ever written. For some one who understands duress i was under during that time...its completely relevant and makes sense. It conveys much more than reams and reams of pages...on my philosophy, girl psychology, and bollywood:) waah kya combo hai.

Talking about Bollywood, it surely influences my thought process and hence my decisions at more stages than anyone else i know of. Their is so much inspiration to draw from including that of how not to be a bad example:) that i end up feeling elated even after a movie as insipid as Salaam Namaste...yes i really blew up 125bucks on this one.
And yea Om Jai Jagdish still remains my favourite...as far as inspiration quotient is concerned.

Inspiration se yaad aaya...there is this person in Hindu Mythology who on a long journey without any companion felt the lack of motivation...which he eventually drew out of non-living things like trees,leaves,river,flowers,sand grains,fire,sky and also birds,dogs,bullock. And then when he finished this journey of his, he was an 'enlightened' person.

Just like above...i end up forgetting names of most of the people i read about. And sometimes even the people i meet. 'Naam bhool jaayega, chehra yeh badal jaayega...meri awaaz hi pehchan hai' but apne ko toh awaaz bhi yaad nahi rehti:(
Somehow i end up remembering only their current standing, purpose of talking and nothing more than that. Memory loss nahi hai...its just that we end up remembering only the stuff we give more importance to.

Talking about memory and brain functions...According to some studies Albert Einstein had a brain size 15% larger than an average human being. This information i gathered at one of the GDs i attended. GDs according to me are an immense source of knowledge, in 15mins flat one ends up learning about the topic in good detail. If made a regular in classrooms today they would help pupils a long way in life...of course also coz of the behavioural learnings.

I guess that would be enough. This post proves that had i taken part in Spin-a-Yarn this Moksha...the tally would have been 6:)

Song of the Post:
'Humein jabse Mohabbat ho gayi hai' from Border. Sonu Nigam and Akshaye Khanna complement each other quite well...Both deep characters, one in voice...the other in thought...not sure about it though...it just seems that way.

arbit...

2008-02-02T14:04:00.000-08:00

Mere jaise genuine bande jab bus, train ya ladki ke peeche bhaagte hain...then it is not supposed to be called as an act of honesty:(

aur jab role reversal hota hai toh...hum hi hum hain toh kya hum hai...tum hi tum ho toh kya tum ho:)

bas chaabi ghumani hai...

2008-01-22T12:05:00.000-08:00

Life should have become simpler after getting calls but instead the workload has become rather complex. For the first time since school have i started feel that 'onus on me' thing. Shuffling between mock GDs, PIs and classes is starting to become more enjoyable as i take this as an opportunity to learn...not from the perspective of cracking B-school GDs, PIs but just to improve myself. Keeping busy is an activity most NSITians stay away from unless the exams are a week away, so i am kind of happy for myself at this point in time.

Now what i need to do is to pursue my dreams more aggressively and grasp the importance of the safe whose key i have already located...bas ab chaabi ghumani hai.
I completely accept that i am not as smart as my result says...but then i am not that foolish to let it go away too easily:)

This post is just to motivate myself to do well...aapke padne ke liye nahi hai:)

now for the song of the post:
its the song from 'papa kehte hain'....'pehle pyar ka pehla gham'...absolute beauty...kavita krishnamurthy at her best...what attracts me is the melody of the song in spite of it being a sad one. Also i feel a song cannot get as simple as this.

fundas galore...

2008-01-13T09:55:00.000-08:00

So finally with FMS today, all my written B-School entrance papers come to an end...It has been a long and arduous journey but i am pretty happy with the way i performed all through. Happy not because I cracked all the exams i sat for, because i actually wasn't able to do that, but because i did not buckle under the pressure...i was pretty cool about the whole affair, about peer and parents' pressure...though it is very likely that my decent placement had an important role to play in the same.

Some of the gyan that i would like to share with you all is as follows:

(1) don't take it to your heart, once a winner always a winner...and once a loser doesn't mean you cannot win the next day.

(2) luck plays a huge role in these exams especially when we are in a country like India with more than 2lakh people sitting and only 1200 odd seats to be filled. Luck factor with hardwork + smart work, can be minimized but only to an extent.
So basically any of the exam days can be your lucky day...every dog has its day and so can you...how else can one explain pathetic 2707 rank in jmet one day and iim calls on another day?

(3) Don't take too many exams, i committed a mistake by giving every B-School entrance exam i had heard of. Instead of that the need is to focus on 3-4important ones, because the day you lose your intensity half the battle is already lost and it'll take a herculean effort to get back to winning mode.

(4)pado...zaroor pado...bahot pado but never take the confidence in your studies/preparation/hard work to your head.

(5) I have already mentioned that you need to be lucky to do well...talking about an average Joe like me...so i feel that one should try and ride on that luck...agar luck hoga tabhi admission hoga...so why not take full advantage of it? in short attempt questions if you have shortlisted even 2 options, and give your hunch a lead over intellect.

and yes as far as the CAT result goes...i got 2 missed calls...the rest i was able to pick up:)

shocker !!

2007-12-27T08:33:00.000-08:00

The past 2GDs i have taken part at CL, have been an eye opener.
For the first time in life i have been termed as an aggressive personality, which obviously means coming across aggressive as far as my communication in a GD goes.
Besides that verbose too has been an adjective which has been linked with me...issi line se pata chalta hai...cant i just say that i have been termed verbose too:)

It all started with my initial few GDs where i couldnt even muster the courage to speak, leave alone making an impact. further on when i started to speak, it was like a customary entry...nothing great since even with good content and confidence to speak...i just wasnt allowed to speak.It feels really bad when you become dependent on someone else for being able to speak, and the group dynamics controls the amount of air time you get.
Its because of the above circumstances that i have started to become aggressive at least as far as the GD goes...which is absolutely contrary to my nature.
Dont think it'll take a lot of time to improve but this time round i want it to be just perfect and dont wanna get stuck too much on the other side.

Song of the Post:
Roya Re from the film Dhoka...one of the very few songs which i don't like to croon but just hear.

The God of Small Things - Book Review

2007-12-19T08:57:00.001-08:00

I have been thinking of writing reviews(book/film/newspaper) on the blog since long now. This one is what i wrote as an assignment long time back.
The God of Small Things won Arundhati Roy a booker prize in 1997.

'Set in the background of marxist Kerala it is a story revolving around two di-zygotic egg twins, Estha and Rahel.
It talks at length about their childhood and their various good and bad, learning experiences. A major mistake by both of them leads to the death of one of their cousins as a result of which they have to stay separated from each other for close to 20years.
The relation between their divorcee mother and her paramour, an untouchable, has an important underpinning in the story. the inner cravings of a woman for her lover, and their child-like love has been aesthetically projected. the story warrants our attention towards the way women and lower class have been mis-treated in society since long. The stark inequalities between the male and female counterparts , and high and low classes have been depicted well with innocence of the twins forming the background.
It gives us an insight into the thinking process of a child which is as pure as white snow and seeks no harm for their close ones. Contrasting this is the prudent thought process of their aunt Baby Kochchama which is heavily governed by her antiquated beliefs about the way society should function.
The lesson story teaches is explicitly stated in the following lines from the book itself:
"Theirs no time to lose
i heard her say
Cash your dreams before
they slip away..."

my first poem

2007-12-11T01:14:00.001-08:00

During the 'safai abhiyan' carried out at home recently, i stumbled upon the poems i wrote a long time back.

The following holds special significance since this is my first poem written in class6. The poem goes like this:

"mera ek saathi hai,
woh lagta jaise haathi hai,
uski ek aasha hai,
woh hero banana chahta hai,
woh shadi karna chahta hai,
par kar nahi woh pata hai,
kyunki woh mota hai,
aur thoda sa chota hai"

i know its bekar even by standard of a class 6 child but then it was my first attempt...i worte many afterwards in a span of 6-7months...with a larger perspective of life...amongst them the best one,according to me, was titled 'sikka' which talks about money and its importance in todays world.
Just wondering if i was wiser then or now?

what is it that makes me click?

2007-12-04T08:58:00.000-08:00

Its been a long time since i wrote a post about my bad habits...but modesty itni handle nahi hoti so now i want to talk about my positive qualities...here goes the list i have been able to compile so far:

(1) once our geography teacher inquired about our future plans and stuff. It was wonderful to see an eclectic bunch of replies which included civil engineer,'fighter pilot', neuro surgeon, heart specialist, singer, actor et al. As usual i was at loss of words and somehow in the heat of the moment had a bet with a friend. I won the bet when i said "I want to become a good human being". It was a bet at that time that motivated me but now it is my own choice and still i want to be that elusive good human being...the one similar to ranbir kapoor of sawariya, the one like kareena kapoor of jab we met, the one like salman of hum saath saath hain.

(2) my sanguine nature keeps me ahead of the times. Seldom is there a time i end up sulking(when alone that is, with friends i am just the opposite), since i always keep a back up plan. Eg: if i somehow don't manage to get my BE degree on time...ie if i flunk in more that 2subjects in my 7th and 8th semester toh i can begin my IAS studies and besides that can try my hand at full time singineg by joining some singing classes to hone the already overflowing talent:)

(3) I dream of driving a Ferrari parked in my own mansion, built besides SRK's bungalow. I dream of making a foreign trip per month when at the helm of my career. I dream of making the biggest business leaders wait for me,while i finish off with my meeting. I dream of being busy when i am watching 3films per day and am still able to sleep for 10hours each day.
So basically i dream big, not the biggest, but always bigger than what the current scenario would allow.

(4) The main reason why i get animated during some of the discussions is that i really feel for the topic, which stems from my passion for the same...be it films,cricket,music,CAT or most other things...i just love to talk. 'koffee with CAT' at nescafe has been my longest discussion till date spanning over close to one year:)

(5) I call myself honest...not the sachcha jhootha types...but honest to myself, honest to the people i care about, and honest with my feelings for everybody else.

(6) moving on...i think myself to be a blessed person...somebody who has descended upon this earth to show to others how life is to be lived, how one should always try and maintain co-ordial relations with others, while seeking his own aims. I pray to God to help me become the best example of a human being, the kinds God intended to make when he thought of mankind.

(7) and as Adi suggested...the fact that i have an answer for every situation for every question howsoever weird it be...and that too to come up with it at the right moment is one of the other quality God has bestowed upon me.

That would be all for the time being...will edit the post as and when i think it needs some editing.

PS1: everybody reading the above must also read the post titled 'seems like somethings wrong with me' to put things in the right perspective.

PS2: The shift from Hinglish to almost complete English was intentional. I know it cuts the humour element but still wanted to shift gears this time round.

Now the time for song of the post...but iss baar guys i want to tell you all about 'Jab We Met'...if you haven't seen it till now then you are surely missing out on something. Never knew kareena and shahid could act and look so well:) Its the best 'light' love story after DDLJ. I say light coz veer-zaara was heavy duty:)

2007-09-23T13:26:00.000-07:00

It has already been close to 3.5months since my last post....and i am sure to have lost a major part of my customer base, of about 2-3readers, due to non-delivery of timely thass.

But i have had my own share of roller coaster rides recently....got placed and have a family function coming up soon. Besides that, the D-date for CAT is approaching fast and mock scores are as variant and low as ever and only a hand of God can be my saving grace it seems.

Blogging took a backseat majorly due to limited net-access as my compu which is already close to 6.5yrs old is on its death bed.

ohh and just before i end this rather wasteful post the 2songs which have caught my attention are:
(1) 'aankhon mein teri ajab si ajab si adaaein hain' from Om Shanti Om...i hope their's a good reason for choosing the such a name.
(2)'leja leja...churaake saare rang leja' from a various artists album....Shreya Ghoshal has done a stupendous job and justifies her national award.

PS: i actually wanted to blog just to letya all know that i m very much alive and kicking.

Jhooth bole crow kaate...

2007-06-05T06:49:00.000-07:00

Social obligations and Professional hassles are best handled by keeping itm all straight and honest as far as possible...there is so much of clutter surrounding one these days that being candid is the best way out.
Infact lies according to me are more difficult to utter than truth coz of the following :

(1) The more you lie the more you need to keep it in mind, unnecessary wastage of human hdd.
(2) Manipulation is not something people of my age should indulge in, coz the real hurdles of life are still as far away from us as rakhi sawant is from deciding the mongolian nuclear policy. If we tend to buckle under the pressure right now, then its most obvious that we wont be able to handle it later on.
(3) People who seek the moral highground have a chance to satisfy their ego by not speaking lies at every other instant.
(4) Gandhiji ko khush karne ka isse easy chance nahi milega:)

Some ideals worth seeking...

2007-04-23T14:14:00.000-07:00

Wisdom
Enlightenment
Forbearance
Clarity
Strength
Peace
Humanness

Seems lyk something's wrong with me..!!

2007-04-22T16:08:00.000-07:00

Humility bilkul nahi hai...maybe sometimes i come across as a very down to earth person, maybe sometimes as an over confident fool...but the truth is that success does give me an illusion about myself....its gets into my head...and however hard i try it becomes diffcult to get back on earth.
Lack of a routine...i can sleep at any point of time and wake up at any point of time....my family members have been too supporting for my own good...their filial love doesnt allow them to mind, if i dont take any reponsibility and enjoy all the rights....i dont even know who the 'dhobi' and who the 'jamadaarni' is...the other day i gave 11clothes to the latter for pressing...and she gladly accepted them as a 'baisakhi' gift....4hrs was the tym gap between my realisation of this blunder and us getting back the clothes from her home....it was during this time that i realised ki bhaiyya kuch galat ho raha hai lyf mein apan ke saath.
Ability to focus...cannot concentrate on a single thing for a long period of time...say 2secs:)....my mind flits like a bird from 1 corner to another....and in the end landing up at the same place from where it started.
i indulge in Moral high ground seeking activity everytime...its another thing i need to rectify...and if not rectify then atleast realise that it needs no rectification...yeh toh sounds lyk 'aayega aayega mein aayega aayega kitni baar aayega'?
Jo waqt ki kadar karega, waqt ussi ki kadar karega....i have been preaching this all along...but i need to engrain it into my own system...killing time is one thing i need to get away from...bhaago !
kahin cutting na ho jaaye...everytime some1 asks me to do a work..i make sure if hes doing an equal amount too....means har waqt darr hai ki saala kahin cuttting na ho jaaye...just want to get rid of this....if i can be unequally kind, unequally forgiving....then y not this ?? karma yoga ke upar kitaab padni padegi lagta hai...i need to realise ki 'aakhir thoda time hi extra lagega na, meri kismat toh nahi le jaayega koi...'!!
frugalness is again somehow embedded into my soul...no probs with saving money but feeling bad if i ever do so is wrong, feeling bad if some one eats up the green stuff belonging to me, woh bhi galat hai...i need to learn to jus let it go....ek jaayega toh baad mein 100times multiply hoke aayega...
Sometimes i feel i get too religious/superstitious...it all started from somewhere else but now it seems to have become an integral part of me...maybe its good, maybe its bad...but it drives my faith, and sometimes it hinders my thinking capability...so i m as confused as ever bout this...so bas decide karte hi corrective action leta hoon..so dont worry bout it...k?
Got acquainted with mr tom moody recently....and he told me ki bhaiyya aap bhi meri tarah moody ho...bas difference itna hai that i am one in name while you lived upto my name...pichle janam mein bhai-bhai rahe honge pakka....
searching for 1 more....mil gaya...The surroundings, the environment, the family support, wht people would think, how they would respond...all tend to hav an adverse effect in my decision making...i think its all about a lack of focus...coz thts when one starts to seek refuge outwards rather than inwards.
ek aur yaad aa gayi....egotist,ego-centric,egoist...all 3 r different words...like hepatitis a,b,c and i am afflicted by all 3 of them...koi vaccine hai market mein iske liye toh do temme?
the way i conduct myself in a group sometimes is just not correct, getting too animated and emotional at times is yet another thing bad about myself...

12 is a big number no doubt...intially wanted to write just 5....those close to me might have already been able to guess them all....its just introspection, retrospection and planning ahead that would earn me a shackle free life...hope to be as pure as a child, as white as snow and as happy as a bird....

Fab hai yeh gaana toh !!

2007-04-08T01:08:00.000-07:00

The following is a song from 'Kashmir Ki Kali':

Ek thaa gul aur ek thee bulbul dono chaman mein rahate the
hai ye kahaanee bilkul sachchee, mere naanaa kahate the
bulbul kuchh aise gaatee thee, aise gaatee thee, aise gaatee thee

fem-kaise gaatee thee

bulbul kuchh aise gaatee thee, jaise tum baatein karatee ho
wo gul aise sharamaataa thaa, aise sharamaataa thaa, aise sharamaataa thaa

fem-kaise sharamaataa thaa

wo gul aise sharamaataa thaa, jaise main ghabaraa jaataa hoo
bulbul ko maaloom naheen thaa,gul aise kyon sharamaataa thaa
wo kyaa jaane usakaa nagmaa,gul ke dil ko dhadakaataa thaa
dil ke bhed naa aate lab pe, ye dil mein hee rahate the
lekin aakhir dil kee baate,aise kitane din chhoopatee hain
ye wo kaliyaan hain jo ek din, bas kaante ban ke chubhatee hain

ek din jaan liyaa bulbul ne,wo gul us kaa diwaanaa hai
tum ko pasand aayaa ho to boloo,phir aage jo afasaanaa hai

fem-bolo na chup kyon ho gaye

ek duje kaa ho jaane par, wo donon majaboor huye
un dono ke pyaar ke kisse, gulashan mein mashahoor huye
saath jiyenge, saath marenge, wo dono ye kahate the

fem-phir kya hua

phir ek din kee baat sunaaoo,ek sayyaad chaman mein aayaa
le gayaa wo bulbul ko pakad ke,aur diwaanaa gul murjhaayaa
shaayar log bayaan karate hain,aise unkee judaayee kee baatein
gaate the ye geet wo donon,saiyyaa beenaa naheen katatee raate

mast bahaaron kaa mausam thaa, aankh se aansoo bahate the
aatee thee aawaaj humeshaa, ye jhilmil jhilmil taaron se
jisakaa naam mohabbat hai wo, kab rukatee hain diwaaron se
ek din aah gul-o-bulbul kee, us pinjare se jaa takaraayee
tootaa pinjaraa, chhootaa kaidee,detaa rahaa saiyyaad duhaayee

rok sake naa usko milake, saaraa zamaanaa, saaree khudaayee
gul saajan ko geet sunaane, bulbul baag mein waapas aayee

fem-raja bahut achchhi kahanee hai

yaad sadaa rakhanaa ye kahaanee, chaahe jeenaa, chaahe maranaa
tum bhee kisee se pyaar karo to, pyaar gula-o-bulabul saa karanaa...

Just a Side Note:
Had some1 put these lines into Bharti Yadav's ears, the pertinent case might have taken a different route altogether. She did try to strike out an optimum balance by not belittling the truth and yet maintain a certain stance which would hold her family in good stead. But still i feel that had she paid even a scant regard to the
fact that Nitish had to die coz he loved her, the tilt might have been towards the deceased's family.
His bros are not agents of death sent from hell,they must have tried to persuade Nitish out of the situation. The fact that he died is ample testimony to the fact that the heer-ranjha, romeo-julliet, and sohni-mahiwal that we are so proud of, our still somewhat embedded in the social fabric of our culture.

Moksha'07

2007-02-26T11:08:00.000-08:00

Our 3rd(for me) inter-college festival 'Moksha' came to an end yesterday....but for me it has left indelible marks on my memory.

DAY1: not many people came for the fest on the first day resulting in dismal attendance( though i never cared for attendance in my classes). The whole day of mine was spent taking part in an event called 'Rang De Basanti', hence couldnt take part in any other activity. Even though i came second in the event and got 400 bucks + a reebok t-shirt as prize i wasnt kinda impressed by myself. I rate my performance as poor since i fumbled too many times to be considered as eloquent. Had it not been for the reading desk/lecter i dont think i would have been able to do half as good as i did with it.
Also a special thanks to manish for motivating me to take part in the event, and for supporting my idea in the prelims. Had it not been for him i dont think i would have reached so-far.
All in all a good learning experience which taught me that i still need to polish my skills as far as public speaking is concerned. Even after a few of certis now, still i get jittery infornt of the mic.
There were positives too, wherein i realised that i normally do have good points to put forward + my conviction and ability to be able to persuade someone else is also above average, when language is not a barrier that is.

DAY2: Took part in English GD, and the Bigger B. The latter was a marketing event wherein a team of two had to sell and buy stuff at the maximum profit. I has Sunanda as my teammate, and i thought she did a pretty good job by hiding my 'money laundering' and 'black marketing' trails....aur abhi toh MBA ki nahi hai.
I always want to be/talk of being truthful and upfrontly honest to every1 around us(including myself) hence was quite disappointed later on as the feeling dawned upon me of having done something wrong. Surprisingly we came 2nd in the event, and realised that had we not indulged in the cheating stuff we would still have been at the same position.
Hence lesson of a futile effort of cheating which puts unnecessary mental pressure was learnt and hopefully stored as ROM.
English GD dint go as good as i would have liked it to. As far as my evaluation is concerned i thought i was 3rd-4th in my group of 12 out of which just 1 person was selected for the finals. This definitely no where close to the standards that I had set for myself. The feedback I got corroborated my earlier belief of 'nice points but poor timing to put them forward'.

DAY3: It was the worst day of the lot. Got selected for the finals of 'youth parliament' and completely fucked up the event....yea i mean that. I missed my CL class, 2-3 other events for something that got my confi down to almost the ground-level in just one go. Was very poor in my was of conveying my point across to the 'hounourable speaker sir' and the judges. It took me more than double the time limit to finish all I had to say....hence dint event wait for the results to be declared. Just rushed back home and hid my face in a quilt on my bed.
Went back to the college with a hope to start it all afresh....JAM jammakar attend kiya and had some real fun with everyone else in Rags room where we spent out night. We ended up disturbing him a lot...to the limits that he wasnt even allowing me to keep my bag in his room the next day...sorry dude.

DAY4: Pissed off with the whole affair of attending day events i went to my class in the morning at CL...after a mere 1 hour sleep. But since the timings suited my body clock it wasnt much of a problem except that I had a bad throat + dint get a comb to tidy my hair.
Reached college by around 8:30 and the next 6-7hours were simply awesome coz it was d first time i drank with an aim of getting completely high. A visit to a nearby shop and 2 friends was all I needed...and the scene was set for entertainment...for if caught on camera it would have had the ability to embarass me for months without end. Waise have already made a list of about 25people to whom I intend to apoligise for my behaviour.
At the end of it all...I feel its fine if I dont indulge in it too often. As it is I have realised my poor ability to handle the hard stuff, and hope it remains that ways always.

All in all had nice fun. Hope the fun I had in Moksha help me get back on track as far as academics is concerned.

hat-it up

2007-01-14T13:08:00.000-08:00

This is with reference to an interesting article i read a few days back.
Often we get caught up in situations which call for a fast and effective solution, to exit the problem gracefully without causing any hassles to the near and dear ones. At that particular juncture we often tend to get carried away with thoughts that play on our mind and we often end up taking decisions, which make us regret later.

Edward De Bono offered a simple solution to this crisis. Just like we have wear many faces for diferent situations in life...we need to take a holistic view of every situation in life which we do by wearing different 'HATS' to give a different perspective from all angles...

In theory there are 6 hats namely:

WHITE: no conjectures and surmises, just try and look at the situation from the perspective of a 3rd person ie just pure,basic,undiluted facts.

YELLOW: Optimism, and all other positives and benefits of going one way or the other.

BLACK: talks about the negatives and other problems which might arise.

GREEN: to try and give birth to an out of box/creative notion to tackle the situation at hand.

RED: this hat deals with all emotional aspects.

BLUE: this once is like a manager, which tries to decide the order in which the hats are to be worn and also the weight associated with each hat which varies wid situation.

PS: In what order we wear the hats depends on situation to situation...like in a love-relation we should always try and wear the RED hat before the WHITE one. Also more weight should be attached to the RED hat in this case.

PPS: no song iss baar, so that i dont leave you the song but the HAT theory prefessed by edward de bono to ponder over....so keep hatting-up till i find something else worth posting.

28th of december'06...registered for life!!!

2007-01-14T12:20:00.000-08:00

I know I promised u all to bring to an end, writing stuff bout myself and hence put a full stop to all the negative vibes. I am being forced to flout my promise, ie if u treat it as one, but you all can be rest assured that the day was as horrid as it could get.

I spent the 27th night busy trying to configure my flashget, downloading s/w and stuff. 'Being Cyrus' - one of the very few 'good' movies which i dint get to see this year- was being downloaded. Inspite of the stalling and megaupload problems i persisted with the download but could'nt complete it.
It must have been 6:30am by then and as i was shutting off my computer, i heard the loudest sound byte of my life. Little did i know that it was going to be by far the most horrid 3-4secs of my life.
I thought it to be a 'real bomb' --coz the sound just seemed so real-- which had exploded outside the house. Unforutnately i was wrong, the sound had come from completely the opposite direction, from the kitchen...yes thats the place where all the drama rather action took place.
On hearing my mom's voice or rather meek crying or sobbing,whtever u may call it, just seemed that something trrible had happened to her. While i made a dash from my room to the kitchen, all sorts of thoughts filled my mind to the hilt, was she ok?was she on fire?did the cylinder burst?
But thankfully, it wasnt to be the case. As i rushed towards the kitchen i saw a whole lot of mess, and mom reaching towards me. On not being able to control my speed, we both just fell on each other.
It was then that i realised that none mischief related to fire took place. This brought an end to the most horrific 20secs of my life till date...
This was followed by intense clensing of the kitchen with the tiles,roof,floor,walls all covered with rajma...and yea i went out and after some persuading got some burnol from the next door chemist who was still in deep slimber...while all four of us had been shaken out of the dream called life, to get us back to the hell called life.

PS: I started writing this post on the 28th of december itself but coudn't
complete. As things stand right now, we in the family have faced 4
different situations/real-time crisis which involve getting out a
horrid experience of kidnapping, and striking a sort of lottery which
has the capabilty to fulfill one of the longest wish of my parents !!

Alright as for the song now...though i should post a nice song which teaches us to put both happiness and sadness at equal footing, and its not that i cannot figure out one...still i shall deviate and tellya about a song thts on my lips these dayz. Its from salaam-e-ishq one of the most waited flicks this year.
"pyaar hai ya saza
aye mere dil bata
tootha kyun nahi, dard ka silsila
iss pyar mein ho kaise-2 ye imtihaan
ye pyaar likhe kaisi-2 hi dastaan
ya rabba de de koi jaan bhi agar
dilbar pe ho na, dilbar pe ho na koi asar"

its gotta be now...or never !

2006-12-24T13:13:00.000-08:00

Its been 2months since my last post....and i m feeling bad, inspite of the fact that i dont even know 10people who visit my blog regularly. Maybe because the outlet of my thoughts is being slowly put to death, itna slowly and painfully that polonium ko bhi sharam aa jaaye....:)

My 5th sem exams have got over and i have joined my CAT coaching. Hard-Work, Focus and Inspiration are three things that i consider essential to performing well in any phase of life. I have squandered most(read all) opportunities that came my way during the past 2.5years, coz i was busy cribbing about something or the other. This biggest impediment to my will to do well right now is the stagnation thats constantly pulling me down. par as i they say " hausle woh hausle kya? jo sitam se toot jaaye". If i m good then the whole world would aside and gime a way....bas i have to be positive and let my actions do the talking.

Besides all this stuff, my blog seems to have taken a very grim, personal insight into the happenings of my being...or rather the non-happenings. All my posts end with inspirational songs, which are not for the readers - as i intended it to be- but for my own good.
In short, i completely acknowledge the fact that most of my posts, off late, have negative vibes attached with them,including the first half of this post. I intend to rectify it, dunno if i'll suceed.

From now on, i want to comment mostly on what i percieve of the outside world, and lesser reflections of my inside self.

And the irony is that i want to end it with another inspirational song:
"yeh honsla kaise jhuke,
yeh aarzoo kaise ruke,
manzil mushkil toh kya,
dhundhla sahil toh kya,.
tanha yeh dil toh kya...."

time to move my own cheese myself...

2006-10-23T14:55:00.000-07:00

It has been a difficult and testing period for me since the mid-sems ended. I have learned about new flaws in my ideology but am happy to have accepted them gracefully. I fully understand that theres a great need to make an indeological shift to accomodate a wiser soul in the mortal me.
My actions have been very different from what i profess. The modest me hasnt been exposed to nature since a long time ab...this stark reality dawned upon me after a nice discussion with friends one evening, and the constant introspection due to life in general and the follies i have been committing off late.

Academic pressure needs to be taken a lot more seriously now and i dont want to be caught up in the shackles of a confused mind. My sole aim is to be as candid and honest as possible....and try and apply the theory of all the good i talk and believe in, into practical.

The new me would be a better human being in practcal not just for the sake of it, to boast infront of others....but because he/it would really feel that ways.
I know all this is being done to earn GOD's loyalty and nothing else...but if to enter GOD's good books is my driving force then let it be so...
Hope to have GOD back on my side soon.....

the song i feel like humming right now --
" allah tero naam, ishvar tero naam
sabko jag mein, sanmati de bhagwaan"

PS: i have been searching for this song unseccessfully for quite some time ab...it would be great to hear the full song....anyone having it, plz mail it to me at rohan.mahajan@gmail.com

the present...

2006-08-30T12:53:00.000-07:00

My present state of mind can at best be described as restless....not that i am involved in a plethora of activities which i envisaged myself to be doing but its just mental pressure which is causing this restlessness.
going out with friends, music, plenty of sleep i have already tried out most of the things to find some piece of mind, some solace without much success....maybe these are the repurcussions of not having a well defned hobby.
my plans of starting a film/music review blog beside other1s also seem to be falling in the bin due to the lack of effort from my side....its so easy to think about the output but the toil that is needed should not have been ignored at the outset.
anyways it would be a new dawm tommorrow, i might rise to the occasion, i might fail again. i might be conquer the world, or may be i'll be beaten to the dust but atleat i would have tried.....if at all i do so i.e.
"Every Adversity Breeds an Opportunity" and i hope to convert this haar into a jeet....

2 set of dialougues which i would like to tellya all about:

"haar ke jeetne wale ko BAAZIGAR kehte hain"....by SRK from baazigar

"arre madam aisa haar dikhaaonga ki aapke gale se lagkar haar nahi jeet lage"....by dev anand frm jewl thief.

now at the end of this entry, keeping in sync with the previous post's promise of dedicating a song to the current post....here's the song from 'Iqbal'
"kuch aisa karke dikha
khud khus ho jaaye khuda
aashayen khile dil ke
umeedein mile dil ki
ab mushkil nahi kuch bhi nahi kuch bhi"

ZINDAGI ZINDADILI KA NAAM HAI.....

2006-07-23T13:15:00.000-07:00

Seldom does one find real life examples which justify the aptly placed title above, seldom do TV channels shift their schedules to incorporate stories as unbelieveable as this one, seldom do emotions erupt in form of prayers cutting across boundaries of caste,creed,religion for some1 we dint even know till a few hours ago.

Prince of Kurukshetra,Haryana is the protagonist of this simply amazing real life script which ran for 50hours straight, without any cuts and retakes. The so very significant 50hours for the whole world(BBC,CNN were all there) though we cannot say the same for the child as well coz he seemed so oblivious of the happenings outside but then what else can you expect from the child who quite ironically turned 6 today.
This guy fell into a borewell which was about 16square inches wide and 60feet deep while playing. And only after almost 2days of struggle the indian army along with support from the local police/fire brigade experts were able to rescue the child.
No signs of major physical injury have been observed but his condition is being monitored.

how could he manage all this ? what was going through his mind ? would the ordeal have lastng impact on the life or mental condition of the child? if put in a simiar condition, do you think an older person say 12yrs+ old would have been able to face the stark reality of being in the situation the way the child did ? questions galore but amongst all the commotion its the child who has taught us how to come out(both metaphorically and literally) of the most difficult situations of life....He truly symbolises triumph achieved through deep embedded patience for me.

And yea not to miss firefighters from Mumbai were called upon to overlook the whole crisis at hand and to put their expertise to use which they must have gathered from the Bomb Blasts that have been shaking the city out of the i-am-like-shanghai dreams.
I dont want to comment on how to tackle the ever-growing fear of not coming back to home after work but just one question to dear mr leader :
Why couldnt CCTV cameras be installed at the ever vulnerable stations....?? lack of funds may be ?? But then 15 Honda Civics for the honourable MPs cost much more dude...get a life man....n plz let us savour what we have.

I have decided to end each of my post from here on with the lyrics of a song which i relate with the writing above.
So here goes the song for all us from Prince:

jeena kya jeevan se haar ke-2

kaali ghaneri raat mein, chaandni khil jaayegi
tujhe andheron mein kahi roshni mil jaayegi
rehta nahi saari umar, saathi yeh gardish ka safar
deti hain manzil ka pata, kaaton bhari mushkil dagar

how ironic....!!

2006-06-16T10:53:00.000-07:00

I ASKED FOR STRENGTH
GOD GAVE ME DIFFICULTIES TO MAKE ME STRONG

I ASKED FOR WISDOM
GOD GAVE ME PROBLEMS TO SOLVE

I ASKED FOR COURAGE
GOD GAVE ME DANGERS TO OVERCOME

I ASKED FOR PROSPERITY
GOD GAVE ME BRAIN/BRAWN TO WORK

I ASKED FOR LOVE
GOD GAVE ME TROUBLED PEOPLE TO HELP

I ASKED FOR FAVOURS
GOD GAVE ME OPPORTUNITIES TO GRAB

I RECEIVED NOTHING I WANTED
I GOT EVERYTHING I NEEDED

my take on d reservation debate...

2006-04-13T15:18:00.000-07:00

PROS:
(1) lets not take a short term perspective into consideration, after 200-300yrs d whole scenario would certainly improve.
(2) OBCs dont fare as bad as the SC/STs hence we should further investigate their performance taking into consideration various parameters like their social, economic background b4 generalising.
(3) breeds equality coz it nullifies the wrong done in the past
(4) even though the global status of our best universities wud cum down still sum of the not-so-gud colleges may recover their lost glory coz the pvt firms would lessen the importance of a 'college brand'. maybe then we would eradicate d situation of any1 getting stuck up in a better college wid a branch of not his liking.
(5) for those who think our economy would suffer, well it might happen for say a decade or so but then with education spread all over d country, wid more equality, wid even our peasants' sons/daughters educated; economy is bound to regain(assuming it gets effected) the lost numbers....isnt it?

CONS:
(1) brain-drain but then v ppl have an option due to none of our efforts but majorly due to our parents and their background, y shudnt they also get a benefit....??(here i m nt ignoring the toil our parents go through or went through during their struggling tyms)
(2) status of institutes all over the country would come down on a global scale.
(3) breeds friction b/w different grps already i have heard bout the 'meena grp' n all. but isnt it the problem of the implementation n not of legislation.
(4) studies have shown that 'corruption' plays a more prominent part amongst d ppl who get thru reservation. but then again thts an altogether seperate problem tht the executive has to deal wid.
(5) doubts over the whole policy of 'reservation' coz it has failed in raising standards(though i m not sure of this, do u have any figures to back me up ??) during the past 50yrs, hence maybe its time for more innovative measures. but i think the problem was with lesser initiatives from the govt to get rid of reservation like by providng free and compulsory education for kids, by further subsidising the education and need-based schols..and more such measures i m not aware about.

MY SUGGESTION:
(1) a gradual increase for sum tym so tht the institutes under limelight can cope with the lack of infra n then after say sum decades decreasing d reservation at a rate determined thru surveys.
(2) free and compulsory education till class 8th or 10th maybe so that we can witness the day ven their r no reservations, but i dont think it'll happen b4 we pass onto the next
level.
(3) also MBCs are the true inheritors of mandal and should get the max benefits.
(4) as mentioned by DOOM reservation shud b applicable to those whose parents hav not been subject to it and that too only once. we dont want a person whose father is an IAS thru reservation, n he gets into IIT thru reservation, then gets after a 2yr stint at a govt firm which he got thru reservation and finally IIM mein also he gets thru the 'R' word.....

during the 'big-fight'(a show on NDTV) itself tht person said ki our ancestors fought for reservations under the british raj so y not now....??

i know of ppl in our own college where 1 category person's father is an IAS officer n he changes his cell every 6months, but then i know another person whose father works at a petrol station n who hadnt worked on a computer b4 coming to college. so theres a lot of inequality within a certain section of ppl also, hence clear demarcations need to be specified for seperation OBCs, MBCs, dalits and furhter divide them into grps so that the our energies can be diverted
towards those who need them most. this especially is called for when they form the 80-85% of the whole population.

also if anybody feels tht coz the so called 'creamy layer' inspite of arrangements debarring them from the reservation take most of the seats then i think tht has got nuthing to do with the law, its got to do with the implementation. legislation n executive are 2 entirely seperate entities.

d last week...

2006-03-28T11:22:00.000-08:00

well tym flies by n i m still standing at the same cross-road. what to do n what not to do is something i just cannot decide. sometime i feel ki the faster time flies the more restless n hence undecisive one becomes.

A lot of stuff has happend in the last week so here goes n overview for u all :

Papa got operated for cataract in his second eye at ganga ram hospital( yess..wahana nirulas bhi hai ie inside the hospital) but thts not a highlight. Operations like that of cataract r no more a big serious issue wid d medical advances in the last 2 decades or so but the emotions attached have maintained status quo as far as my family is concerned. Both my maternal n paternal grandparents turned up along wid my chachaji n one of my father's closest frends for a 1/2hr operation. And not to miss tht most of them had to go disappointed for being able to meet papa coz only 1 person cud go in at a tym n tht too at some interval.
You all are in for a big surprise when i m going to tell u ki even this is not the highlight i m talking bout, yeh sab toh indian families mein hota hi rehta hai. What actually happened was that when i was waiting outside the check-up room i saw a child aged around 10 with both his eyes heavily bandaged. He had a major operation carried out on both his eyes d previous day. The kid did not want to leave his mother for even a second. His father was sitting besides me n was looking for some phone numbers in his diary...it actually seemed like their financial condition was not tht gr8 n he was desperately searching for some monetary help( this mite not be possible but my bollywood adulterated mind forces me into it)... dunno what happened next but in an instant tears were flowing thru my eyes like anything, the pain the child had to suffer, the number crunching analysis his father had to carry on, made me cry my heart out. i hav always considered myself an emotional person...yess i actually cried during 'rang de basanti' when madhavan dies...if it had to do with the emotional turmoil tht i was going thru tht time or the 'bollywood' effect is still unknown to me. so it was the first time i cried for someone besides myself or my family. i m proud ki atleast i have a heart which can, if not anything else, atleast understand other's pain. also for the first time did i realise the actual stature of d 'medical profession'. and finally i found the justification for the climax of 'munna bhai MBBS'.
my mid-semester exams also started n finished last week. this was my worst performance but ab toh 'aadat si ho gayi hai'. i m sure ki more profound depths await me...seriously speaking i need to really pull up my socks as far as academics is concerned.
went to ludhiana n amritsar this weekend with massi n her family. visited golden temple n wagah border for the first time. i think all of u must visit both these places atleast once. golden temple to try n get closer to god besides experiencing all the stuff associated wid the place and wagah border for that adrenaline punch. teh finally main bas enna kehna chahnda haan ki 'punjaabian di sachi wich hi gal wakhri hai'.

A sweet romantic note to end this post :
" tu hi meri shab hai, subah hai, tu hi din hai mera...
tu hi mera rab hai, jahan hai, tu hi meri duniya...
tu waqt mere liye, main hoon tera lamha...
kaise rahega bhala hoke tu mujhse juda ? "

moksha'06 25-28th FEB

2006-03-01T11:12:00.000-08:00

today it was didi's b'day. may all sisters and brothers in the world be as lucky as me...

also moksha'06 ended. and engifest'06 has begun, we'll be going on 3rd nite to DCE for attending the fash p.
moksha dis time was a truly enriching experience. i organised 2 events, the golden oak and the eng vocals(solo). Both the events went fine, but with some last moment glitches like non-presence of judges and no snacks/conveyance for judges. But thanks 2 all my friends and co-organisers who helped me out in all situations.
Also this was the first time i organised an event, and frankly speaking its an experience one would not like to repeat... its so damn tiring and u miss all d other events bcoz of it.
i came 3rd in mr n ms intellect and 2nd in mad-ads competition...n now i seem to have come over my stage-fear !!!touchwood!!! also i regret not to be present in the guess d mp3 finals after being selected due to my event.
chalo no panga thers always a next time...

i will never forget moksha'06 due to a lot happenings or rather mishappenings that took place during, n before the fest.

lesson of the day...

2006-02-22T14:28:00.000-08:00

always keep a check on your words...
Never be over-confident of urself, and never take anything for granted.
Never utter words which make you sound like an over-confident fool, coz life will throw the same thing/event right across your face the next moment.
always be defensive in life coz u never know what is awaiting you at the next turn...
learn this lesson now, or learn it the harder way. its upto u.

lyrics to die for.......

2006-02-17T14:57:00.000-08:00

"mahia ve aaj mainu aiwe kyun hai lagda,
aashiq je sacha hove roop honda rab da..."

this song would go down as 1 of my best...everybody check out the song 'janeman' from aryan-the unbreakable.

kuch meetha ho jaaye !!!

2006-02-07T12:19:00.000-08:00

Yesterday was a landmark day in the Indian Economy. the BSE stock exchange ended at a mark above 10000 for the first tym in history of Indian Finance.......yippi!!!!!
the economy boom, the souring of the stock market are all due to the hype(which is absolutely justified) created around the brand 'india' in the several circuits in india and abroad. the BPO,KPO, the culture embedded in the people here, the sharpness of our mind is all a reason for this immense rise in such a small amount of time.
we are now the 4th market in asia to touch the 10000 mark and surely we have miles to go...not b4 sleep coz i know we will never sleep.

also i came to know that this is the 2nd time in history of BSE that the number of digits have changed. during the harshad mehta episode BSE first kissed a 4 digit number......and now its a 5 digit number.
harshad mehta for those who dont know was a trader who single handedly with his networking skills, his cunning nature played volley with the stock exchange. it was bcoz of him tht the then chief of vijaya bank committed suicide after he came to know of his blunders. he was actually 1 of the many fooled by mehta. this guys is behind the bars now, though the way he manipulated with the indian markets is still a well-known case study.

also b/w all the hoopla we hear the voice very well known. we hear the voice which commands respect. we hear the one n only rakesh jhujhunwala....oops do u know who he is??
hes the single largest investor in BSE stock exchange. " i invest not in the firm/company but in their idea" he says in walk the talk with srinivasan or the well known beard guy of NDTV. haan toh i was saying ki jhunjhunwala has suggested the market investors to excercise "caution" coz BSE has been expecting a 'correction' for quite sum tym now.......

Cheers for now....

i am a SUPERMAN.....am i?

2006-02-03T12:22:00.000-08:00

Your results:
You are Superman

Superman		60%
Spider-Man		60%
The Flash		60%
Hulk		55%
Robin		47%
Catwoman		40%
Green Lantern		40%
Supergirl		35%
Iron Man		30%
Wonder Woman		25%
Batman		20%

You are mild-mannered, good,
strong and you love to help others.

Click here to take the Superhero Personality Test

a 'really nice way' to explain !!

2006-02-01T07:27:00.000-08:00

You're in a shoe shop, second in the queue for the till. Behind the shop assistant on the till is a pair of shoes which you have seen and which you must have.
The female shopper in front of you has seen them also and is eyeing them with desire.
Both of you have forgotten your purses.
It would be totally rude to push in front of the first woman if you had no money to pay for the shoes.
The shop assistant remains at the till waiting.
Your friend is trying on another pair of shoes at the back of the shop and sees your dilemma.
She prepares to throw her purse to you.
If she does so, you can catch the purse, then walk round the other shopper and buy the shoes.
At a pinch she could throw the purse ahead of the other shopper and, *whilst it is in flight* you could nip around the other shopper, catch the purse and buy the shoes.
Always remembering that until the purse had *actually been thrown* it would be plain wrong to be forward of the other shopper.
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Congratulations - You have just learned the offside rule!

laut ke buddhu ghar ko aaye..........

2006-01-25T12:21:00.000-08:00

so i m back frm a week long vacation at andamans and kolkata. its been an experience of a lifetym and i m nt exaggeratin 1 bit.some ppl with whom i interacted during this 1 week include the ppl who went wid us, our cook selvum, our guide vikramsheel, our driver sandeep, the manager of the guest house muttiah. everybody was fun to be with, and i enjoyed a great deal. i dont remember the last tym i spent 1 full week wihtout caring for studies or anything. the point is tht during this whole 1 week i dint feel lyk a student but lyk a traveller in itself.
my first flight was also fun, more so coz a pair of beautiful gals were sitting infront of me.

places we visited at kolkata:
botanic garden
victoria memorial
kali ghat temple
birla mandir
nico park
gariahat

in andamans we visited:
samudrika museum
a saw mill
viper island
fisher's museum
cellular jail
ross island
north bay island where we did snorkelling
science centre
corbyn beach
havelock island
anthropological museum
a rubber plantation
wandoor beach for the sunset
sagarika for sum shopping
mount harriet which is the 2nd highest peak of andamans. on the way we saw the scenery which is present on the 20rs note.
a gurudwara where we sat for a nice langar.

i can state wid full confidence tht after this trip:

i m more a more honest and truthful person.
i m a less jealous person which is a very odd trait for a scorpian.
the picture of the girl i want to spend my lyf wid is also sumwht clear now.
the trip infused sum confidence in me too.
n last but not the least, i m a bigger fan of himesh reshammiya now.

u all mite wonder wht all the above points hav to do wid the trip. i dont feel lyk going into the details. several small-2 events hav resulted in the above 'improved' traits of mine.

well back to college, and tensions hav already gripped me. inno is cuming up and a lot of catching up work is to be dun. i still havent made my winter training project report.
ohh n alsoon 24th i attended a fuction to mark the foundation day of SAIL. ehsaan qureshi n naveen prabhakar of GILC fame, shibani kashyap, shaan blessed the evening with their presence.

will write more l8r hoping tht i can assemble sum more happenings in writing tht i'll cherish for the whole of my life.

andaman !!!

2006-01-15T23:09:00.000-08:00

so today mummy, papa n me along with 2 of papa's frends along wid their families leave for andaman. the rough itinerary is as follows:
16th 17:00 :: board a train for kolkatta
17th 10:00:: arrival at kolkatta
18th 05:30:: board a flight for port blair
in b/w we'll travel to whtevr places r covered in the package which surely includes a visit to havloc island.
m not very sure of the exact departure but we'll be back to delhi by 23rd evening if everything goes by plan.

this wud be my first tym in a plane and a beach too. chalo more bout this l8r ven i return.

the last week was sumwht hectic due to sum inno work but i had to work coz i m leaving them at sucha crucial tym. this is the first tym i m doing sumthing worthwhile for my college, hope i do full justice to d job at my hands.
chao 4 now.

happy new year !!

2006-01-01T00:42:00.000-08:00

i dont know if its apt to do so on a blog or not but i still want to wish all the readers a very happy n prosperous new year.

its been quite sumtime since i last posted on the blog but i am not the only culprit. my net connetcion, my busy schedule( ohh kitna achcha lagta hai na sunne mein) n my travelling so much recently have all played a part in the lag. i once wrote such a nice, long post but save karna hi bhool gaya.
infact at times i felt that this blog has become a liabilty of sorts.......

anyways, its all changed now with he dawn of 2006.
with a new firefox extension named 'performancing' writing blogs seems much easiern its fun. n i suggest all you guys to check it out asap.

My new year resolutions this time round are:
(1) to start gyming
(2) to re-learn french
(3) trying to be master of one, rather than jack of all.
(4) to pay more attention/respect to people who really matter to me ie to those whom i seriously consider my buddies rather than whiling away my time with acquaintances.
(5) to shed all the over-confidence n get rid of the inferiority complex too ie a balanced character.
(6) last but not the least to post atleast thrice per month on the blog.

my new yr resolutions do exhibit sum change in my mindset coz last yr my new yr resolutions were:
(1) to have a girl friend (which of course did nt happen)
(2) to stop using foul language

chalo tym to leave now, gotta go out.
hope this year brings more fun, more prosperity n more liveliness for all of us.

quite sumtime.......

2005-12-16T04:51:00.000-08:00

its been quite sumtime since i have started noting a very absurd trait of mine. if i meet some person after a very long time, or at a place where he/she is least expected i have a major goof-up... i try n ingnore that person at first n then even while talking i am at a loss of words, hence end up saying sum 'cheeky' things.
People i have ignored since d past 1yr : ms s, mr r, mr r, ms p, mr n, mr a, mr f

All of the people above are wonderful people whom i respect from the bottom of my heart hence i have been trying hard to figure out the reason for my unusual behaviour.
This might not be a good trait of mine, but i m happy that at least i have figured it out which i hope is the first progressive step ahead n i would try n eradicate this 'disease' of sorts.

anyways songs of the week are:
(1)'sapney' from shhh...found this one finally.
(2)'billo rani' from goal....i am happy that anand raj anand is back wid a bang:)

the past 1 month...........

2005-11-11T10:43:00.000-08:00

first of all sorry to all the readers for not having posted anything on the blog for so long now. its been 1 month since i posted last.
this 1 month was an experience of sorts, n i proudly proclaim myself a bit more wise after the events i witnessed during this whole month.
from my friend's mother's funeral to meeting a lot of relatives during the festive season, n a whole lot of things kept me away from this blog. on top of that had a big fight with the sify provider whose connection has started giving me a lot troubles of late.
also for those who dont know, 1st november was my b'day n after 19longs yrs did it clash with diwali once again. i was born on a diwali day itself. mummy says tht next time it wud be on my 34th b'day.
i am awaiting my results of the second sem n also the end sems r quite near. have to make 3sheets too before the exams n all of it looks a real daunting task. especially when u dont feel like studying at all.
will post more after the exams .........or maybe pehle bhi.

so much of confusion !!

2005-10-16T23:31:00.000-07:00

The past 1week or so has been complete mess. have not been able to achieve a single positive thing out of my life in this time. my head is aching,eyes r paining, dont feel like sleeping but who wud after having slept almost d whole day. i have 2 sheets still pending ( big ones), so many holidays have gone by. i havent attended a single class in d last week.
i went to college on saturday by car( all alone for the first time) to collect sheet from neha. not tht i topo a sheet but still i prefer another person's sheet rather than studying from the miniature print in the buk.
every new thing seems to be a burden these days n i m sort of getting cocooned amidst my own self. interaction with frends n family seems to have touched new lows.
i have been watching TV like anything off late, saw 6 films in 2days. all except paycheck n day after tomorrow were CRAP. even my hrs on compu have increased, have been trying to reduce it but in vain.
End-Sems wud arrive in another month or so, but this time i havent even started a few of my prac files. this sem till now is the worst sem i have had, but i hope to make a turn around.

oki so kal i m supposed to make 1sheet n chart out my plan for the rest of this semester.

language converter

2005-10-08T10:08:00.000-07:00

hey guys!!
check out this site tht converts english into an indian language of ur choice.
link : http://www.iit.edu/~laksvij/language/index.html

also to surpass the banned messengers problems check out http://webyahoo.e-messenger.net/.
will mail bout this 2 param n adi(freinds 4m DA-IICT) maybe their problem wud be solved....

PS: i have recently noticed that i make loads of spelling errors in my posts. would try to avoid these in future.

CSE v/s CAT

2005-10-03T22:29:00.000-07:00

yes guys after striking off GRE from the list, civil services examinations is the next big thing which seems suitable 4 the scheme. the power, the fame is all there to check out.
definitely CSE >> CAT but the problem is the entrance. i personally speaking consider myself more suitable for the CSE type of exam still the compettion is a bit tougher in CSE as far as i know + for CAT we have various other institutes like XLRI, FMS,NITIE,IITs unlike civil services where the number seats is limited to a meagre 400-500 including the reservations.
the generality nature of the IAS examination is attracting me.
the examination details r as follows, rigourous they r.

Examination

All India Combined Competitive Examination for the Civil Services conducted by the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) comprises of two successive stages:
(i) Preliminary Examination : It is of objective type, which is a qualifying examination.
(ii) Main Examination: It consists of written examination and interview.

The Preliminary Examination is held in May/June and the Main Examination in October/November. One must begin preparations of the main exam along with preliminary exam. This is because there is little time for the Main exam if one waits for the results of the Preliminaries.

A candidate is permitted 4 attempts at the examination. If a person appears in the Preliminary Exam or even appears in one paper, it is counted as an attempt.

Selection to the Indian Forest Service, on the other hand, is on the basis of a written test held in the month of July/August every year. The test comprises: two compulsory papers (General English and General Knowledge); and additional papers in any two subjects chosen from the following options: agriculture / botany / chemistry / physics / geology / zoology / mathematics / agricultural engineering / chemical engineering / civil engineering / mechanical engineering , excepting combinations of agriculture and agricultural engineering , chemistry and chemical engineering.

Examination Papers:

Preliminary Examination
The preliminary examination consists of two papers:
Paper I -- General Studies 150 marks
Paper II -- An Optional subject 300 marks
Subjects for Paper II (one subject to be selected): Agriculture, Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Science, Botany, Chemistry, Civil Engineering, Commerce, Economics, Electrical Engineering, Geography, Geology, Indian History, Law, Mathematics, Mechanical Engineering, Medical Science, Philosophy, Physics, Political Science, Psychology, Public Administration, Sociology, Statistics, Zoology.
Both the papers will be of objective type questions (multiple choice). The question papers are set in Hindi as well as in English. The course content for the optional subjects will be of the degree level. Each paper is of two hours duration. Blind candidates are allowed an extra time of 20 minutes for each paper.

Main Examination
It Consists of the following papers:
Paper I - One Indian language (selected by the candidate) 300 marks
Paper II - English 300 marks
Paper III - Essay 200 marks
Paper IV&V - General Studies 300 marks each
Paper VI-IX - Any two subjects (optional papers to be selected by the candidate) with two papers each 300 marks for each
Each paper is of 3 hours duration.
Optional Papers: Agriculture, Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Science, Botany, Chemistry, Civil Engineering, Commerce, Economics, Electrical Engineering, Geography, Geology, Indian History, Law, Mathematics, Mechanical Engineering, Medical Science, Philosophy, Physics, Political Science, Psychology, Public Administration, Sociology, Statistics, Zoology.
The following combinations not allowed are:
Political Science & International Relations and Public Administration
Commerce and Management
Anthropology and Sociology
Maths and Statistics
Agriculture and Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Science
Management and Public Administration
Animal Husbandry & Veterinary Science and Medical Science
Any two branches of engineering.

Interview

The final stage of selection is the interview which is conducted in April/May every year. Candidate will be asked questions on matters of general interest. The object is to assess the personal suitability and judge the mental caliber of the candidate. The candidate must exhibit an intelligent interest in events happening around him so that he appears to be a complete personality.

There is also a medical test, especially rigid for IPS. Out of the final candidates selected top rankers are appointed as IAS officers.

for CAT as we all know the stress is majorly on logic n english. no technical stuff n no indian language.

TIMES of MIND by subroto bagchi

2005-09-30T03:08:00.000-07:00

WHAT WILL I BE, WHAT WILL I BE ??
by subroto bagchi
I see it in their faces when they report to work on the first day, after being selected from an engineering college or an MBA institute. I see spark and innocence and a desire to conquer the world, laced with a kind of confidence only youth has been granted. Then I look beneath the veneer. Into the recesses of their minds and I swim with their thoughts. Below the exuberance and the self-confidence, I sense uncertainties I sense worries about what lies ahead.
Flashback 1976. In the post-graduate class at Utkal University, at all of 18 years of age, it occurred to me that I was wasting my time. My father had retired. I was living off my brothers. It had been only a couple of months before that I had graduated with a first-class honours degree and was eligible for a national scholarship enough to pay the mess dues at the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) the place I had wanted to go to. But the scholarship got disbursed only twice a year and mess dues needed to be paid every month. I went to many banks, they would not listen. At that time, you did not get a loan to study humanities. So, instead of going to JNU, I took admission at the local university and I didnt like it. So, what did I do? I walked out of class and took the job of a lower division clerk in the secretariat. It paid me Rs 305 a month and in the bureaucracy, I was senior only to the dhoti-clad, elderly peon.
My job started as an intern with the ‘‘upper division clerk’’ a very dignified man who looked like a teacher. I would reverentially call him ‘‘Khuntia Babu’’. He taught me to file letters something taken with very seriously in government departments. One day, I was asked to draft a letter of regret on behalf of the Secretary it ended up being so sophisticated that both Khuntia Babu and the Sectional Head Clerk who was called ‘‘Bada Babu’’ saw great risk and thereafter, I was given a very light load. Given a lot of free time, I found myself often dragged to mediate among warring senior clerks who would suddenly start a furious debate on subjects like whether Sanjay Gandhi was good for the country the debate often led to verbal violence but like receding waves after a crash, they would head back to the brown piles on their respective desks. One day, the dhoti-clad, elderly peon who had a permanently glazed look invited me to a secret club on the roof of the Secretariat building where a chillum was being passed around among his fraternity. In my life, it was the most exclusive, ‘invitation-only’ club I have ever entered.
I worked there for a year before the DCM Group selected me as a management trainee. In a sense, the job at the secretariat had taught me to brace myself for what was coming my way at the seventh largest industrial house in India at that time. Management trainees at DCM were considered to be God’s special people. Except that, I got posted to the oldest textile mill run by the group. There, my induction started at the ‘‘time office’’. At the gate of the mill, at the blast of the siren, thousands of workmen some with bare feet, some semi-clad — would march in with their ‘‘attendance cards’’ in hand. The smell of beedi and sweat from hard working and tough talking workmen interspersed with the noise of the clerks with thick glasses sliding down the ridge of their noses. I was the odd man out.
Cut to 2005. In my office in MindTree Consulting, today I peer down the screen of my laptop, my thoughts are atomized and satellite links move them as bits and bytes across the world. I begin my day looking into the eyes of twenty-something engineers. By midday, I have spoken to customers in different parts of the world. By afternoon, I have sat in review meetings and spoken at training programmes. Finally, ending the day breaking bread with a visiting IT delegation.
I time travel and step into the mind of a young man of 1976 and search for the familiar images. I ask myself: Did I know that things would happen the way they did? In what way is my first job linked to where I am today? I don’t know. In some explainable and mostly unexplainable ways, it is. Sometimes, instead of looking for that link, it is probably better to simply do an outstanding job of whatever one has on hand. The rest falls into place.
Subroto Bagchi is co-founder & Chief Operating Officer at MindTree Consulting

RESONANZ,05

2005-09-30T02:29:00.000-07:00

well reso,05 is in full flow. 2day is d second day.
beautiful gals n wonderful setup seem to brace the event with grace. wow poetry.
me participated in a few events like leg cricket, mock press conference,LL n peotry writing. a few others also but i dont remember ab.
MPC mein we had to go on stage n portray a personality, i was sonu nigam. man this event has infused self-confidence in me n u know wht i mean by this. wonderful experience n BTW i came 3rd. wont get any prizes or certis but i hav got sumting more significant than these worldly things, u know about it na ?? yippy man wonderful, she was there. which she ?? woh wali ya woh wali ...?? keep guessing guys.

jam session was fun as usual though i missed a few of my friends who dint turn up for the event. stayed in the hostel, no prozes for guessing tht thuss maara n raat ko 3:30 pe soye hum sab in anupreet's room.

after all this, a sad news.
vishal'a father passed away due to kidney failure yesterday. i came to know about it only today. its a very sad news for all us n hope he n his family can get out of the shock. i dont know how i will react to him ven i'll meet him. hoping for life to be a better place than wht it has been for this wonderful guy whom i admire from the botom of my heart.

so much in so little time !!

2005-09-24T07:04:00.000-07:00

well sorry for keeping u guys(if any) waiting.
my worst mid sems till date have cum to an end. finished yeaterday, went to see salaam namaste with arun n simran at our favourite hangout place DC. boring film. n haan also by chance met tarun who also had cum to catch the flick with his college friends.

as for my exams, i'll get sumthing arnd 65 this time round. but i dont know why but the value of marks has suddenly decreased. maybe vecause of the placement scenario or maybe because of sumthing else. have decided to venture out in new n more exciting activites which include gyming n learning drums. bas ek companion ki der hai, but pura last yr issi mein nikal gaya. time to get going alone i guess.
got my license made aaj, monday ko collect karna hai. maybe thi swill infuse sum independence in me.
fri, sat n sunday ko the biggest fest in the country 'rendevous' of IIT is being held but me not going due to the worst characteristic of my personality, sumthing which cums naturally to every scorpian 'jealousy'. iit is nt the place i 'deserved' so y go there n sulk. i dont c a point in going if every next person i see, n feel tht hes richer n more intelligent, better future than me n feel jealous. f u c k the damn fest.

emotional i m

2005-08-29T02:23:00.000-07:00

i havent completed any of the MD sheets since last week, 1 big one is pending. i dunno why. even though i have tried to develop an interest in the subject still off late i just dont feel like standing for hours on the trot with a paining neck n back.... now i'll have to complete the sheet by wednesday.

today is komal's bday, already wished her. man i have been late,very late in realising the worth of relations, the worth of true friends n the amount of pleasure love brings in one's life. my attitude was just so self-centered that i dint even realise what i was upto. but now i have understood the wrong i have dun till now n its time to rectify every sin i have committed unknowingly though. its gud that i have realised, no panga if i m a bit late. i m sure i would be able to tackle things well.

also i became a bit senti after reading stories bout POWs. one hiralal whose daughter could not be married of due to financial constraints n whose wife,son n daughter of course are living life the 'maimed' way. this person just a fisherman, who entered the prohibited waters to earn his living. though he was not a prisoner arrested during war still this is a typical POW case coz he has been lying in various paki jails for sum 13yrs now, since hes been tortured in the most inhuman way, because now he doesnt even remeber his own name( as told by one of the fellow jail-mates) forget remembering his family.
POWs of 1971 still havent seen their motherland which now boasts of unprecedented economic growth second only to china. their are being brutually tortured, their nails are being completely removed n pins struck into their bodies.

no1 sees a chance that these people woudl ever be able to return to the country they fought for. still these majors, lieutenants would remain embedded in our hearts till humanity prevails, till our sane minds dont fail us. geneva pact has been made a fun off not only in pak but several other countries incl india if i may say so.

let us all hope that des people subjected to immense torutre catch up witha new dawn in their respective motherlands. the war' unfinished business......is still not over......

getting bored??

2005-08-25T13:37:00.000-07:00

well the height of AI, its doesnt even let u get bored...
check out virtual humans chatting with u as normally as any of ur frends wud.
the link is : www.botspot.com/search/s-chat.htm

if anyone knows how one can go about making sucha bot plz help me out......

magal mangal

2005-08-24T14:02:00.001-07:00

well, finally today we went for the much awaited movie "mangal pandey- the rising"at our favourite hangout DC. it was anu,adi,rishabh n me. the rest even after much persuasion dint agree to join in. and frankly speaking the whole day was a big let off.
the movie expecially was not upto the mark, obviously u tend to expect immaculate portrayal of the characters of the long forgotten history, when u know that AK is back after a gap of 4yrs. the whole scenario never gave me the feel of the india of 1857. anyways, i know that if i would have not seen the flick i would have always cribbed for missing it.

moving on,college is not the fun it used to be in the 1st n 2nd sem coz classes are being held pretty regularly, though tht doesnt guarantee my attendance to be rated a 'good'.
files n MD sheets though incomplete still end up eating a lot of my mind space. also now that i have been thinking long bout my higher studies, i have been pre-occupied by various other absract thoughts ranging from girls in skool to page3 people whom i have always found worthy of being jealous about. also i have more or less decided on MBA rather than sitting for both GRE n MBA. still i dont think it would be appropriate to land upon such an important conclusion without even experiencing the MPAE stuff a bit more. as if i know a lot about MBA.

placement season is in its full groove in the college. resonance is from 8-10sept n inno also is in this semester(mid october).

whtsup?

2005-08-22T13:11:00.000-07:00

i switched on the computer expecially for making an entry here, but i dunno why now i dont feel like making one. i m feeling sleepy, have a class test tomorrow but i dont think i would be able to study much n neither do i feel like doing so.
anyways, life is boring as hell aajkal. sheets n sheets n more sheets n more of them are just bakwaas. even though i have made just 2 of the 4 given to us the pressure seems to be building upon me. i know this subject can be pretty interesting but still the hardwork one has to puts in to achieve the joy of completion of a sheet just kills d fun.
mid-sems are from 19th sept n i have decided to start studying from the starting of the month itself.
chalo i'll sign off now, feeling very sleepy will study 'technology n society' in the morning. hehe whts wrong in hoping so....

time 2 settle down

2005-08-12T23:50:00.000-07:00

with the suspension officially finished today, thts friday now its time to settle down for me. classes have been missed, time has been wasted, fun has been made, life has been enjoyed but the tag would remain with me. so what? i m proud of it.

anupreet,anu,rishabh n urs truly( all suspended ones) went for a movies today. shashank(another suspended fellow) cud nt join us coz hes holidaying(yea..) sumwhere out station. anyways our plan was to catch the first day first show of THE RISING at our very own DC. but an amir khan movie in bollywood after 4yrs it was, no chance to get a ticket except the first row seat. so we switched our plan to watch the THE INTERPRETER. though the craze was much more for catching up with the rising still i muct say that the hollywud film had lotsa substance. a well made flick n nicole kidman n pienn acted well. though mr hero sien pienn looked drunk in the WHOLE movie.

well the freshers n orientation for the freshers concluded today also. maine woh bhi attend nahi kiya. anyways, its gud that things r pretty much over with respect to all freshers jhanjhat in college. now its time to wake up to a new dawn. opportunities galore, n my real test begin. have to sustain this newly discovered agression.
have to make 3MD sheets n cover all the lost work in the last week especially pracs.

suspension day 2

2005-08-10T00:36:00.000-07:00

i feel like an unemployed youth.
my college doesnt need me, they dont want me to attend the classes.
chalta hai...

sprite advertisement for compu people

2005-07-24T08:38:00.001-07:00

Imagine ur self in a Sprite Ad.....

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karta rahta hai yaar !! Naye packages dekh.... Naye
language seekh. Night out Maar....Fundoo programming
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will be a Director of the Company man !!

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Your Colleague : Abe phir tu aish karega! Koi kaam
nahin karna padega ! Araam se office aayega aur MAIL
check karega.

You : To ab main kya kar raha hoon????

"Dikhawe pe na jao, apni akal lagao.
Programming hai waste, trust only copy-paste "

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my first Business Plan

2005-07-22T16:31:00.000-07:00

hey ppl!!
sorry for an entry after around 1 n 1/2 month.
lotsa activty taking place in life, which unlike all my other holidays is keeping me busy. though i wonder if it would be of much use coz it doesnt seem to add any value. well i guess this is what life's all about, once u get what u had always wanted that is keeping myself busy for a stretch with sumthing or the other but when i m doing all i wanted to do whenever i saw a vavcation coming, i dont think its worth its salt.anyways, lets leave that for sumtime.
one of the things i indulged mytself in a few days back was to compile a business plan for DBTEL,INDIA a taiwan major's entry plan into indian sub-continent. i always knew that itrs all about searching on the net and still being able to out an original composition. though intially i was pretty much excited about the plan, it dint turn out that good. i had planned to make a real kewl plan n also thru the course of it learn new things about the mobile industry and management in general too. but as always due to lack of time i ended up hurrying up with the plan, infact submitted it a gud 2days late. god knows if it will be accepted or not.

besides all this, CEE councelling took place over the last week or so. shaunak got DCE ECE,ravinder got DCE MECH, and also a few of my friends from FIIT-JEE n skool got thru much better ranks in their seocond attempt. all this makes me think if i took the right decision by not waiting for an year. well, but i know whats important is that i do well in whatever condition i am out into, perhaps this is the game all bout. who knows when i become successful in manufacturing and automation field after a MS, i'd be more than happy to not adopt the now common compu approach. man, i just rock when it comes to finding reasons for justification of anything and everything. isley i do things first and then care to think baad mein,kuch na kuch justify toh kar hoi dooonga u know.

the 2 month long summer hols end on 1st august. college will open with a bang, fuchchas n ragging and wht not..man it all calls for sum excitement...hurray....

verbose, hoon main

2005-06-13T13:23:00.000-07:00

hello readers!!
i have been writing a lot these days, here are my posts and letter i wrote yesterday.

(P1)one of my dear friend got 325.
now i am suggesting him to go for DCE COE and nothing else.

so first of all, is their any chance of him getting NSIT COE??
secondly, u talked of some 2 problems, u had diagnosed regarding DCE COE. wht were those????
u seem to be persistent with it, coz even in the list above DCE COE is far below than normally expected. whts d reason??
sirji, it might be a matter of my friends career hence kindly justify ur stand. yes, yes u can fully support DCE this time round and we wont crib about that.

also i still dont have any clue regarding my branch either. i very proudly call it MECH+ECE, am i right in doing so?? what exactly is the problem with MPAE? i for one dont see any major one. i very strongly feel that the growth of our college depends on this very branch a lot coz we gotta attract more MECH based firms. like DCE we dont have a gud MECH base na. we are very famous amongst COE related companies but its the MECH stuff which must get going now.
the problem stems from the fact tht we have only a single branch related to MECH here, while at DCE its not the case. another major panga being people like me who are forced into it who wanna run along the COE/IT people.

yeah i was talking about shaunak here.

(P2)but sir, we want to minimise the input but still want the best output.
also for people who dont have any hobbies this period might get a bit boring.

anyways my last summer was full of tensions regarding my admission into college. after the results were out and i dint get a very decent rank(824) that would have guaranteed my admission here. it was all about singling out the options i had, but finally pata nahin kaise i landed up here. this is the first time in 3yrs that i can myself decide what i want to do in d 2months i have.
summers after 10th: fiitjee/vmc papers and classes
11th: admission chahiye ya nahi??
12th: lag gayee yaar, ab kya karoon??

so this time round i want to just go with the flow. nothing is pre-decided, will do what i want, hence just have figure out my choices. isnt that difficult??. so who'll help me out??

here i was talking bout y i dont wanna do anything this summers. i have a few things to do whihc i cudnt before but i hust dont feel like going for them. pata nahin kyun??

(P3)starting with the poll stuff. advani might want to alter his image in the eyes of the pakis but how can he behave differently to the people of both the countries. his long forgotten love for secularism could have resurfaced in india itself rather than at pakistan where he knows that all his speeches would be scrutinized thorougly.
anyways the rest of the discussion we can continue at a thread specially made for this purpose in the news n politics section.

my parents want me to join some compu course. i went to NIIT centre a few days back and am planning to join them, no not for studying but for teaching over there. hows that for a summer job?? or maybe only the centre i went was bad.

foreign language?? haan i studied french for quite some time in school. since i dont remember anything right now, i would like to revise it soon. we all have an insight knowledge of the education system prevailing in our schools. i ended up giving total preference to theory hence my pronounciation is simply pathetic. and i dont think, i can gain expertise in it without an external help. ab french sikhane wale would charge a lot. so how can i spend so much of my parents' money even when i am not sure if i want to pursue it or not?? achcha bahana hai na??

reading novels?? yeah i started one by alistair maclean on 31st itself, having read 19pgs of the book i decided to start it all over again yesterday. me at pg5 right now, plz plz wish me luck.

musical instrument?? i always wanted to learn drums, but am too lazy to search for a guru and yaar guru dakshana mein if he asks for my thumb. wht will i do then??

training?? yes i can do one, but again its of not of much use as stated by most seniors here. though i have always endorsed the idea of training still i wont go for it in my first year itself.

aur koi option hai ?? basically problem lies in not having a hobby. i dont have one, infact never cared for one untill the day some senior asked me : apni life ke 18 saalon mein abhi tak kuch bhi hai ya nahi??
i have been desperately searching for nice hobbies but i know it must come from inside. trying to read newspaper and lounging frequently(though i know i m already over doing it).
wht else??

when sum1 asked me about what advani. and also telling fellow loungers y dnt have anything much to do these days. though i m on a project still its not very demanding and its sort off lost the momentum now. still we 3 are very well prepared to make sure it doesnt go down the drain.

(L1) hello !
having talked to a few of my friends about an exclusive MPAE forum i would like to take an initiative of setting it up. though i always expected a nice repsonse from my dear batch mates but this time round it seemed a bit lazy except from a few. but i m sure once they get into the habit of posting regularly it'll be difficult to stop(same has been the case with me).
there have been many issues like that of changing the name of our branch, but we people till now have been kept in dark or perhaps no one ever tried to enqire bout them. once we get a forum to discuss all this stuff openly it might just prove to be helpful. hopefully u'll also ask all ur MPAE frends too to join it.
having said all this kindly help me figure out more things which can be discussed.
i have always maintained that the success of our college immensely depends on MPAE itself, coz COE/IT stuff is already going great guns.
thru the medium of the forum we can gain info on crucial matters straight from the horse's mouth thts our seniors.
even though it all seems gudy-gudy right now, bitter things might as well re-surface later on hence a cool attitude from all the admin members would be highly regarded( though i dont need to specify all this), and i also understand what is expected of me.
i havent seen many MPA senior ppl here except ankur jain n zigzigler. hence the road ahead is steep but we'll try and live up to ur expectations. of course we can always take inspiration from ur side.

yes, u did lay down 2 very important conditions na. talking bout the first one , since we all just enter into the second yr its now that most of us get a hint of how important it is to interact and share ideas. most people i know dont have broadband right now, but a few will be shifting to it soon.
vaise we like most other branches have a yahoo grp too, it has 14 memebers till date. maybe this can give u a bit of info bout how net savvy our class is or is not.

and yes u have kept ur IT user group as private, if for a day or two u can gime an entry i would love to check out the things u discuss privately and not openly. if u dont want me to have a look at it, kindly gime an insight into it atleast.
one more thing, i dont hink there's a chance of sushant getting back. he used to be online quite frequently and would have been an asset to us. vaise he can make a new id na??

another very very interesting thing i just noted, in the thread 'results', i asked a few queries bout my branch, but no one seems to talk bout it. this clearly shows how problematic the situation is. no one here seems to know wht MPAE branch is all bout and neither do we have a hint bout it. a very desperate situation indeed it is.
vaise y do u think MPAE people do not come here as often as other do??
i assure u that this is the last long letter that i m writing to u.

regards
rohan

this was my reply to lord_it for an exclusive MPAE forum

chalo cya

lets see

2005-06-10T13:44:00.000-07:00

its d 10th today. the project work with pranay and akshat is on. we are making the best efforts to pull it off as soon as possible, but i do now understand that things like these must be given ample time. we went to lajpat rai market to buy a few components, its such a sickening place that i wont like to comment further. the biggest driving factor behind my taking a project up my sleeve seems to be just gadre sir. the charismatic personality and the down to earth attitude are just amazing.
another reason being that having wasted a few bucks for my linux course( ab yaad mat dilao uski, do u know whom i m talking bout??) i feel like utilising this one. my group members are also the friends with whom anyone would luv to work.chalo lets see wht happens.

and yea rishabh, shashank,arun,anu, n myself visited fun n food village a few days back, my first visit to a water park. slated to be just a retreat from the ever worsening delhi heat it rather turned out to be a very enjoyable outing. such nice gals in skimpy outfits were a treat for the eyes, but nahi we are shareef people, and not we but gurls luk at us. hai na?? and haan i do now realise that their is no dearth of class girls and i'll find my match if ever i embark on a mission of doing so. ohh no no, luv to happens just like that na.... lets see what happens in this case too.

i still have to start a lot of things i planned before the holidays. come on rohan n dont act like a @#$^%#$!#%^&
a college trip to nainital is also on the cards, if all goes according to plan. i m trying to persuade more n more people to join. ulti fun ho jaayega na. i have never been to camping or rappeling before. infact koi bhi adventure sport nahi kiya maine, poor me. hence i m sure if pulled off, it would be a nice experience. but lets see if it ever happens this way.

dentists + mothers + friends

2005-05-29T03:02:00.000-07:00

yesterday i visited a nearby hospital for my dental check-up. must say that these smart internship gals really rock. anyways the doctor wants me to get 3 fillings done. he sits in the hospital only on wednesdays and thursdays hence the whole procedure will take time to complete. these dentists are absolutely impossible people, they expect u to answer their innumerable queries even while ur mouth is flooded with their instruments of varying sizes. this makes me remember a peom by 'ogden nash' which we read in school.
whatever be the case the profession of a doctor comes with immense responsibility, which i dont think i could have handled.as it is the studies are a lot harder and a background, which i dont have is of great help too.hence engineering zindabaad.

another very common aspect of life i pondered over today was about the relation b/w a mother and her son. the bond is simply unbreakable. u can catch a sight of mothers of young kids running behind small notorious creatures every now and then, "beta khaana kha lo", "abhi dhoop hai, khelene 4 o' clock pe jaana",not to miss the famous one "dhoodh pee lo" and many many more. i feel like laughing when i think about the sleepless nights i must have given my mom in my early days in this world.
now this goes to my mother "sorry, i m very sorry for those days, now is the time i will get u the max riches of this world, vaise i know ur riches include my love"
now more on the bond i was talking bout, let me put it this way---->>
max envy : when due to financial constraints a mother is not able to give her son the best of everything.
max pride: when her son gets .2% more than the neighbour's son.

my holidays are in complete ruins right now, so much of work to do but still havent started a constructive thing.
rohan(mittal) might come home today. all my school friends are meeting 2day but poor me, i have an embedded systems class. wont be able to skip it, but would surely catch up with all of them. i have spent the most wonderful days of my life with my school mates,i have been very lucky in this context atleast. be it bout my new found love or regarding my pathetic singing skills never did anyone upset, just unconditional support. though thodi si to masti chalti hai, and i never had a prob with that. i guess this is what schooling is all about."sorry guys, u have fun, and miss me".

end sems end

2005-05-21T01:41:00.000-07:00

first things first i m sorry for not having made a post for the whole month. my end sems ate up most of my precious time. anyways now that i have a 2 month long break, i will surely try and improve my post count by leaps and bounds.

got my first college result, scored 69.5%. was expecting to cross 70 easily but no probs, if i m smart, if i have the talent i know i'll not stop even without my marks backing me up.
the results was out just a few days before the start of my second sem exams, no no it proved beneficial for me coz i was more geared up before the exams than usual. was ready to burn the midnight oil and toil as hard as possible. exams went better than last time. but with teachers like rajneesh sir checking ur paper u do not want to expect anything other than an average grade.

my much awaited holidays have arrived, will be completely free for a 2 months for the 1st time since 3 years. no FIITJEE and VMC exams and no IIT sword hanging on my head. i would still not like to waste my holidays doing nothing at all. chalo dekhte hain, btw pracs still on. hence i cannot call myself entirely free though i m acting as if 50 saal ke baad jaan chhooti hai.

why blogging???

2005-04-17T07:54:00.000-07:00

hello readers!!
it was pending for quite sometime now. i just wanted to write something infact everything that takes place in my quite easy going life( as of now, touchwood for that). i started of with a diary but whats the fun if no one sees what u have written and u do not get kicked on ur ass for writing crap. now since it is up on the net i will atleast write bout events that make some sense.
i know of one more advantage of maintaining a blog, it can become my hobby. yea people u got it right i still cannot boast of having a full time hobby. i love to call myself a 'jack of all trades' kinda person, but sometimes think if i deserve to be called one. anyways i would love to call myself an avid blogger, say 2 years from now.
i very strongly believe in the strategy of studying intensively a week or two before the exams and thats it. hence i am left with lots of free time on my hands. this time i usually waste just loitering around or seeking entertainment for myself. also now that i had a little fight with the admin members of my college's website (over some trivial issue), i do not actively take part in the discussions there. hence another reason for starting this blog.
like most of the next door indians i also lack discipline. i just hope that u keep a watch on me like my parents, my sis and my friends do, through the medium of this blog.
my wildest of dreams and my biggest of passions will develop while i am with you all. we will make a journey that will never stop, that will seek the impossible and perhaps will leave us with memories we can cherish throughout our lives.
so lemme see whose the first one to post a comment....