Long time since i blogged. 3 months since. One more quarter passed ....one more step towards those three letters.....MBA .....or......JOB. Means one and the same to me. Pretty confused as to what to do. One and a half years back me in the same position. Trust i took a wise decision of doing an MBA. Now its a question of a job i like or one which i am good at. Unfortunately the both dont seem to converge. It just makes taking decision all the more difficult. Kya karoon kuch samajh mein nahin aata hai.
Me in Hyd now. Had 4 days off and wanted to rush back to hyd. Just thinking if i have got so lonely that i wanna be back in hyd even for 3-4 days. Nothing interests me in chennai anymore. Life has become boring. Shud try and spice it up. Once i am back will definitely join swimming. will try to keep myself occupied.
For now....Yunhi Chala Chal rahi......hmm...hmmm
Saturday, October 09, 2004
Wednesday, July 07, 2004
had a long day today. finally leaving for london tmrw. will have lots to write when i am back.and this trip to hyd is one i will never forget especially 8p.m. 6th July. Do i sound like "timetable" of DCH. anyways, .....check this out.....my grandpa was big
Wednesday, June 30, 2004
Getting really hectic nowadays. Towards the fag end of the project. Lots on my mind right now. Who will take up the backend work? Who is going to take care of the brochure once rohin and ritu leave? Got to get a backup team ready soon. Have i already started to sound like a manager. Well atleast my MBA is teaching me something.
Grounded for 4 days now. My bike has been locked at the department. I just dont see any logic behind banning the bikes. By tmrw if it doesn't get released i am reasonably sure of breaking the lock. Had enuf of it.
Reading this article makes be feel these guys dont know about Nithyanandini. She definitely can do better.
Grounded for 4 days now. My bike has been locked at the department. I just dont see any logic behind banning the bikes. By tmrw if it doesn't get released i am reasonably sure of breaking the lock. Had enuf of it.
Reading this article makes be feel these guys dont know about Nithyanandini. She definitely can do better.
Saturday, June 19, 2004
Another month has passed in IIT Madras, Chennai. Still no photograph of me in this wonderful forest campus. Looks like this is going to be my crib till i leave this place. Too lazy to jugaadofy one. Will surely miss the moments i have had here.
6th week starting for my project. Quite a bit learnt.........er well.......not much actually. Did some marketing collaterals for BETACO.Planning to build a DSS over the next week. will try to avoid going to TCS.Kinda getting boring. Anand will not be there as well.I have got used to his "No...i understand what u r saying...." stuff. Shahul getting inaccessible by the day. Only reason for me to go to his cubicle every 3 hrs is for watching the girl three rows in front of him. She is one of the very few good looking girls in TCS. The rest - the lesser said the better. God doesn't make them like he used to. Maybe he too is bored doing the same work, should try something new.
Placement work has gone really well over the past week. Really proud of myself that i have been able to keep up the commitment. The content has come out really well and just the design is left. Had really slogged my ass off, going to TCS in the mornings, coming back around 6 or so. Dinner by 8.30. A game of Black Hawk Down and i was ready to go on my placement shift for the next 4 hours or so. LSG. thats the only word that got the enthu in me to put in that kinda effort. This man was screwing up his personal life for this program. I felt i had to do my bit for the program as well. 5 yrs down the lane if IITM appears in any ranking i must feel proud to be a part of it during its growing years. I must thank rohin, ritu, pilla for all the backup they were giving me while i was in the office. If not for them probably the brochure wudn't have shaped up as well as it has.
In between all this project and placement work came JUNE 15th. Another birthday. This one was very special. It was the only birthday i was going to have in IIT. And thanx to all my friends who made it extra special arranging a party at gurunath (asking him to keep it open after 12 )and to all those innumerable SMS's and phone calls. Shishir( being shishir ) literally started dragging me from my chair sharp at 12, when LSG,me and ritu were giving some finishing touches to the brochure. Once at the spot, started the worst time of my life. My ass got kicked for its sorry existance. I really regretted the day i was born. Some CUSTARD kicked me so hard with his bloody shoes that i was not able to sleep for 3 days. In fact my bottom is aching even now.
This week started off on a bad note. Pulled a prank on soumya which, trust me, she did not like one bit. My partners in crime -Ritu and PJ. Not much of my fault but cud not help hear lots form srt. i wont go into the details. but one thing this incident taught me - Men are from Mars, Women are from venus. Incidentally, this was one of the books i got for my bday and cud not have got it at a better time. Boring it is but still trying to read it.
Talking of gifts, got some cool ones. A ganeshji on which i had my eye for a long time now, a key chain, a momento, a gult cd, a t shirt and lots more. The best of the lot was five point someone. for the first time felt like reading a book and i am planning to finish it tonight. wonderfully written book. it does bring back memories of my engg days and the time we spent on vijay's terrace.
well that was the month gone by and the link for the day www.fivepointsomeone.com
6th week starting for my project. Quite a bit learnt.........er well.......not much actually. Did some marketing collaterals for BETACO.Planning to build a DSS over the next week. will try to avoid going to TCS.Kinda getting boring. Anand will not be there as well.I have got used to his "No...i understand what u r saying...." stuff. Shahul getting inaccessible by the day. Only reason for me to go to his cubicle every 3 hrs is for watching the girl three rows in front of him. She is one of the very few good looking girls in TCS. The rest - the lesser said the better. God doesn't make them like he used to. Maybe he too is bored doing the same work, should try something new.
Placement work has gone really well over the past week. Really proud of myself that i have been able to keep up the commitment. The content has come out really well and just the design is left. Had really slogged my ass off, going to TCS in the mornings, coming back around 6 or so. Dinner by 8.30. A game of Black Hawk Down and i was ready to go on my placement shift for the next 4 hours or so. LSG. thats the only word that got the enthu in me to put in that kinda effort. This man was screwing up his personal life for this program. I felt i had to do my bit for the program as well. 5 yrs down the lane if IITM appears in any ranking i must feel proud to be a part of it during its growing years. I must thank rohin, ritu, pilla for all the backup they were giving me while i was in the office. If not for them probably the brochure wudn't have shaped up as well as it has.
In between all this project and placement work came JUNE 15th. Another birthday. This one was very special. It was the only birthday i was going to have in IIT. And thanx to all my friends who made it extra special arranging a party at gurunath (asking him to keep it open after 12 )and to all those innumerable SMS's and phone calls. Shishir( being shishir ) literally started dragging me from my chair sharp at 12, when LSG,me and ritu were giving some finishing touches to the brochure. Once at the spot, started the worst time of my life. My ass got kicked for its sorry existance. I really regretted the day i was born. Some CUSTARD kicked me so hard with his bloody shoes that i was not able to sleep for 3 days. In fact my bottom is aching even now.
This week started off on a bad note. Pulled a prank on soumya which, trust me, she did not like one bit. My partners in crime -Ritu and PJ. Not much of my fault but cud not help hear lots form srt. i wont go into the details. but one thing this incident taught me - Men are from Mars, Women are from venus. Incidentally, this was one of the books i got for my bday and cud not have got it at a better time. Boring it is but still trying to read it.
Talking of gifts, got some cool ones. A ganeshji on which i had my eye for a long time now, a key chain, a momento, a gult cd, a t shirt and lots more. The best of the lot was five point someone. for the first time felt like reading a book and i am planning to finish it tonight. wonderfully written book. it does bring back memories of my engg days and the time we spent on vijay's terrace.
well that was the month gone by and the link for the day www.fivepointsomeone.com
Sunday, May 09, 2004
May 6th 2004 – one day I can never forget in my life. Last exam of 1st year of MBA and I was leaving home for a short trip of 4 days. Had to submit hell a lot of reports – marketing, erp, wcm and scm. Thanks to my teammates much of the load was taken by then. I did not have much to do but really felt bad for not contributing as much as I cud have. Also wanted to attend vipin,sudeep and kini’s presentation on retail. The slides looked really fundoo. At 3.15 I was still at the lab.My train was at 6pm. PJ, Nadeem and mama had to literally push me out of the lab to get ready to leave. Finally got ready by 4 and PJ dropped me to the auto stand. All thru was having a strange feeling of messing up somewhere. As I got into the auto, I looked at my ticket. To my horror it read “Chennai express “ Dep – 16.00 hrs. For the past 3 days I had been reading it as 6 o’clock. Well, it just confirmed my belief in Murphy’s law “ If anything has to go wrong, it will “.
I thot that I wud board charminar if I don’t get late canceling the ticket.
Landed up in Central with about Rs.500 in my purse. I always thot it wud be enuf in case of any emergency. Wud get another three or four hundred on canceling my ticket.
The ordeal starts here. First I am asked to go to the reservation complex where I stand for about 20 mins after which appa rings up and asks me to go to current cancellation counter. Had no clue where that was. Asked a police for instructions. As expected he gave me the wrong directions and I stood in another q only to hear the guy ask me to go to another q. after 2 more q’s I finally manage to get my ticket cancelled. The clock show 6.15. Now I have about 800 still not enuf money for 2A ticket so no regrets that charminar had left. What cud be worse than standing in chennai central with my phone showing min battery indication with an ICICI card. I have money on the card but no atm around to draw the money. That day I realized one of the toughest things to do in chennai was to find an ICICI atm.
In the meantime, Sridhar Bhaiyya rings up and tells me that the IA flight is delayed by ½ an hour and is going to depart at 8.30. Still 45mins left to check in. I decide to go to college pick up some money from the atm and leave for airport. After going in the traffic for a while I realize there’s no way I wud make it to airport on time. So decide to take a chance and go to airport directly with a hope of finding an atm on the way.
On the way I spot spencer’s and remember abt the atm in foodworld. I ask the auto to wait and go into foodworld. A beautiful signboard reads “ATM not working”. I cudn’t have been happier. My entire day was getting screwed up. All not over – I come out and don’t find the auto. Luckily I have my luggage with me. But still try to search for the auto driver( MBA still hasn’t made me heartless). Locate him and start moving towards the airport. Find an ATM on the ways and get the ticket just in time. Although its 7.35 the lady gives an open ticket.
9.45 and heaven. I am in hyderabad. All the pain I took paid dividends.
Today it’s the 10th of may and I have done nothing worthwhile in 3 days. Quite frankly too short a time to meet all my friends. Nagesh was kind enuf to spend time with me after a long days work. Feel really bad for some of my friends who work late night and go back early in the mornings without any weekends off. Recently heard ratna telling me that she went back at 12.30 in the night and was back in the office at 7am on a Sunday morning. Looks like I am having a 2 yr extended vacation. Not that my life is any easy. But hopefully it will be a lot less hectic this summer.
Got to spend time with appa, amma, arati, bhaiyya and my sweet lil niece aishu. She has picked up a lot of English since the last time I came down. Only it wud be better if she cud say “ra”. Thanks to her, I come by “tlain”, eat “blead” for “bleakfast” and sing “hal gadi badal lahi hai loop zindagi”. Well a part of that song does seem true. I keep getting into vicious “loops” every now and then.
moral of my trip: ask somebody to look at ur ticket and tell u the time . always ask friends in IT companies for appointments atleast a month before and be ready to miss out on meeting them.
My link for the day eye4u
I thot that I wud board charminar if I don’t get late canceling the ticket.
Landed up in Central with about Rs.500 in my purse. I always thot it wud be enuf in case of any emergency. Wud get another three or four hundred on canceling my ticket.
The ordeal starts here. First I am asked to go to the reservation complex where I stand for about 20 mins after which appa rings up and asks me to go to current cancellation counter. Had no clue where that was. Asked a police for instructions. As expected he gave me the wrong directions and I stood in another q only to hear the guy ask me to go to another q. after 2 more q’s I finally manage to get my ticket cancelled. The clock show 6.15. Now I have about 800 still not enuf money for 2A ticket so no regrets that charminar had left. What cud be worse than standing in chennai central with my phone showing min battery indication with an ICICI card. I have money on the card but no atm around to draw the money. That day I realized one of the toughest things to do in chennai was to find an ICICI atm.
In the meantime, Sridhar Bhaiyya rings up and tells me that the IA flight is delayed by ½ an hour and is going to depart at 8.30. Still 45mins left to check in. I decide to go to college pick up some money from the atm and leave for airport. After going in the traffic for a while I realize there’s no way I wud make it to airport on time. So decide to take a chance and go to airport directly with a hope of finding an atm on the way.
On the way I spot spencer’s and remember abt the atm in foodworld. I ask the auto to wait and go into foodworld. A beautiful signboard reads “ATM not working”. I cudn’t have been happier. My entire day was getting screwed up. All not over – I come out and don’t find the auto. Luckily I have my luggage with me. But still try to search for the auto driver( MBA still hasn’t made me heartless). Locate him and start moving towards the airport. Find an ATM on the ways and get the ticket just in time. Although its 7.35 the lady gives an open ticket.
9.45 and heaven. I am in hyderabad. All the pain I took paid dividends.
Today it’s the 10th of may and I have done nothing worthwhile in 3 days. Quite frankly too short a time to meet all my friends. Nagesh was kind enuf to spend time with me after a long days work. Feel really bad for some of my friends who work late night and go back early in the mornings without any weekends off. Recently heard ratna telling me that she went back at 12.30 in the night and was back in the office at 7am on a Sunday morning. Looks like I am having a 2 yr extended vacation. Not that my life is any easy. But hopefully it will be a lot less hectic this summer.
Got to spend time with appa, amma, arati, bhaiyya and my sweet lil niece aishu. She has picked up a lot of English since the last time I came down. Only it wud be better if she cud say “ra”. Thanks to her, I come by “tlain”, eat “blead” for “bleakfast” and sing “hal gadi badal lahi hai loop zindagi”. Well a part of that song does seem true. I keep getting into vicious “loops” every now and then.
moral of my trip: ask somebody to look at ur ticket and tell u the time . always ask friends in IT companies for appointments atleast a month before and be ready to miss out on meeting them.
My link for the day eye4u
Monday, April 19, 2004
had a weekend after a very long time. dont remember the last time. Saw 2 movies thru the weekend. ab tak chappan was just amazing. A typical RGV film - shoestring buget, no songs, good story line, no urmila .....yeah right no urmila for once. had enuf of her in bhoot and ek hasina thi. nana patekar showed again why he is still has a fan following which includes yours truly.
on saturday got absolutely bugged doing nothing till the evening. everybody was going to the OAT to watch cold mountain. lost all enthu the moment i came to know that the movie had 7 academy nominations. that cud put to anyone to sleep......reason for me not to watch the film, i just wanted to enjoy the holiday. finally went to rajesh's place and decided we'll go to nenunnanu. landed up at satyam just in time..........only to see the movie being screened was murder and not nenunnenenunu...(lost count of the n's). not much of an option at 10pm than sit thru the torture. i am still wondering why mallika sherawat does dumb adult movies. she is much more "capable".
just after the interval manrai sms's telling that we got to finish the sad report. i come back to the lab at 1am and see nitin and ajay working on the report. me , ajay and krishna go to dhaba and from there i come back and start working. after some time i am done with my stuff and i find that the dfd's have no link between them. also the e-r diagram has no relationships.
6 am and i am really tired. go to manrai's room and explain him the stuff to be done. then i go to the room , lock it from outside, put off the ringer and sleep. i get up at 12:30 to see a mesg from patti saying that we had to go and reserve our tickets. i take a chance and start from the campus at 1:15am. reach the counter just in time to hear him say "TIME 2:01....counter closes at 2:00" . patti manages to get his onward journey. me not so lucky. got to wait another day.we come back after eating at abhiruchi.
the evening was pleasant........a cool day ( very rare in chennai). me and patti go to the beach. spend some time. patti is ecstatic to find a single ladies sandal hitting his feet. he throws it to the shore. he is further more ecstatic to find another pair. runs around for about 500m and comes back and gives it to me saying its mine.(by now u must be thinking patti is my dog........sort of.......he is my friend) actually he has found another male chappal. not much he cud do but throw it back in the water..... frustated. shud have seen the look on his face when i told him that my slippers were in my hand.
finally we come back to the campus only to be stopped by the guard at the main gate. i say "visitor".......he says "you r wearing IIT T-shirt". then i tell patti is the visitor. he refuses to believe. he asks "why r u riding the bike". i said" if thats the prob patti will drive it". he gives the visitors pass knowing very well that both of us r students. patti kicks the bike once........twice.......thrice...it just wont start. after a lot of effort vimal starts the bike only to put it in the wrong gear....darn.....the bike wont move. all this in front of the gaurd to whom we had claimed that it was vimals bike. anyways the day was good fun. come back and think of studying marketing and it stays only at that .....THINK. went back to room and hit the sack. get up in the morning. got a good reason not to start the week by seeing GAK's face.....need to go to TCS for a briefing by the project leaders. land up at 9:15 with satya,nithya and rohin . we go into the training room and get heavy gyaan about tata and tcs from mr.anant( guy with a real sense of humor). as luck wud have it all the project leaders except mine arrive. so after listening to all that gyaan and wasting 2 hrs at cathedral road, i got to go to tidel park along with 3 guys from bim,trichy.
after landing up at tidel, i find out that these guys want to start work immediately which suits the lady fine. she says she wud take 2 guys from bim for the project. i am refered to another guy whom i will have to meet tmrw. i come back only to find out that i have a marketing mid term. i dont know how i manage to screw up all my marketing and systems exams. now its 9.43 in the night and i got to read for tmrw's MIS exam. looks like another systems exam royally f***** up.
so as things stand i dont get the project i want coz i can start only by mid may, i screwed up my marketing exam, got another exam tmrw, feeling really sleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeppppppppppppppppppppyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy................................
on saturday got absolutely bugged doing nothing till the evening. everybody was going to the OAT to watch cold mountain. lost all enthu the moment i came to know that the movie had 7 academy nominations. that cud put to anyone to sleep......reason for me not to watch the film, i just wanted to enjoy the holiday. finally went to rajesh's place and decided we'll go to nenunnanu. landed up at satyam just in time..........only to see the movie being screened was murder and not nenunnenenunu...(lost count of the n's). not much of an option at 10pm than sit thru the torture. i am still wondering why mallika sherawat does dumb adult movies. she is much more "capable".
just after the interval manrai sms's telling that we got to finish the sad report. i come back to the lab at 1am and see nitin and ajay working on the report. me , ajay and krishna go to dhaba and from there i come back and start working. after some time i am done with my stuff and i find that the dfd's have no link between them. also the e-r diagram has no relationships.
6 am and i am really tired. go to manrai's room and explain him the stuff to be done. then i go to the room , lock it from outside, put off the ringer and sleep. i get up at 12:30 to see a mesg from patti saying that we had to go and reserve our tickets. i take a chance and start from the campus at 1:15am. reach the counter just in time to hear him say "TIME 2:01....counter closes at 2:00" . patti manages to get his onward journey. me not so lucky. got to wait another day.we come back after eating at abhiruchi.
the evening was pleasant........a cool day ( very rare in chennai). me and patti go to the beach. spend some time. patti is ecstatic to find a single ladies sandal hitting his feet. he throws it to the shore. he is further more ecstatic to find another pair. runs around for about 500m and comes back and gives it to me saying its mine.(by now u must be thinking patti is my dog........sort of.......he is my friend) actually he has found another male chappal. not much he cud do but throw it back in the water..... frustated. shud have seen the look on his face when i told him that my slippers were in my hand.
finally we come back to the campus only to be stopped by the guard at the main gate. i say "visitor".......he says "you r wearing IIT T-shirt". then i tell patti is the visitor. he refuses to believe. he asks "why r u riding the bike". i said" if thats the prob patti will drive it". he gives the visitors pass knowing very well that both of us r students. patti kicks the bike once........twice.......thrice...it just wont start. after a lot of effort vimal starts the bike only to put it in the wrong gear....darn.....the bike wont move. all this in front of the gaurd to whom we had claimed that it was vimals bike. anyways the day was good fun. come back and think of studying marketing and it stays only at that .....THINK. went back to room and hit the sack. get up in the morning. got a good reason not to start the week by seeing GAK's face.....need to go to TCS for a briefing by the project leaders. land up at 9:15 with satya,nithya and rohin . we go into the training room and get heavy gyaan about tata and tcs from mr.anant( guy with a real sense of humor). as luck wud have it all the project leaders except mine arrive. so after listening to all that gyaan and wasting 2 hrs at cathedral road, i got to go to tidel park along with 3 guys from bim,trichy.
after landing up at tidel, i find out that these guys want to start work immediately which suits the lady fine. she says she wud take 2 guys from bim for the project. i am refered to another guy whom i will have to meet tmrw. i come back only to find out that i have a marketing mid term. i dont know how i manage to screw up all my marketing and systems exams. now its 9.43 in the night and i got to read for tmrw's MIS exam. looks like another systems exam royally f***** up.
so as things stand i dont get the project i want coz i can start only by mid may, i screwed up my marketing exam, got another exam tmrw, feeling really sleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeppppppppppppppppppppyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy................................
Saturday, April 10, 2004
Back after a long time. Had gone to hyd in december. Came back in Jan. Pretending to be busy after that. Well, all well in life. Finished my third quarter.......almost done with my 4th. Time does fly fast. Feel like i have just finished my engg. and hanging out with my friends.Life has changed quite a bit now. Have got used to late nights and early morning........quite contrary to engg.
Coming to cricket. Finally india posted their first victory on pakistani soil only to get pitaofied in the second test. Awaiting for ganguly to take charge in the 3rd one.
Scene at lab.....time 10:20 pm.
Rashmi and Ritu screaming on the top of their voices.Patti sitting next to me and chatting away to glory(only until he gets a call from ....). All the others working except my group. They are busy doing better things.
Finally link for the day........ www.sulekha.com
Coming to cricket. Finally india posted their first victory on pakistani soil only to get pitaofied in the second test. Awaiting for ganguly to take charge in the 3rd one.
Scene at lab.....time 10:20 pm.
Rashmi and Ritu screaming on the top of their voices.Patti sitting next to me and chatting away to glory(only until he gets a call from ....). All the others working except my group. They are busy doing better things.
Finally link for the day........ www.sulekha.com
Saturday, January 31, 2004
Finally i have created a blog. It took me some time to figure out what a blog is all about. Well now that i have figured it out i guess i got to fill it will something interesting. How about something on accounting. Cud anything be more "interest"ing.
Jokes apart( if u considered that a joke), contrary to my title today was definitely not the best day of my life.Was supposed to go with my friends on a short holiday instead what i had was 6 hours of classes on a saturday.Its a different issue that i attended only 3 hours. Cudn't bear the lecturer for more than that. Things dont appear brighter in the week to come. Apparently the same guy is going to take 8 hours next weekend.
Got midterms starting. Two on tuesday. Marketing and HR which means lts to read. Managed to jugadofy the books necessary on time. Padips( will slowly introduce all the characters i have to put up with) next door is really giving me a tough time. Anytime i see he is with a book in his hand. The Babumoshai next door is the other extreme. The only time i get to see him when he goes for his daily dose of sutta.
Quite sometime since i saw Bulk in the corridors of the hostel. Long time since i heard his kgp fundas.
Jokes apart( if u considered that a joke), contrary to my title today was definitely not the best day of my life.Was supposed to go with my friends on a short holiday instead what i had was 6 hours of classes on a saturday.Its a different issue that i attended only 3 hours. Cudn't bear the lecturer for more than that. Things dont appear brighter in the week to come. Apparently the same guy is going to take 8 hours next weekend.
Got midterms starting. Two on tuesday. Marketing and HR which means lts to read. Managed to jugadofy the books necessary on time. Padips( will slowly introduce all the characters i have to put up with) next door is really giving me a tough time. Anytime i see he is with a book in his hand. The Babumoshai next door is the other extreme. The only time i get to see him when he goes for his daily dose of sutta.
Quite sometime since i saw Bulk in the corridors of the hostel. Long time since i heard his kgp fundas.
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