Episode – I
Its been quite sometime now since I left Bombay. Almost a week. And about the new place that I am at, I can say only one thing. Its gonna be a hell-hole.
What with no more than 4 hours of sleep everyday!!! And I think its become a regular feature now, people sleeping in B-School classes. I read sometime on Elysia's blog about, how she was sleeping in the class. At that time I was wondering how can someone actually sleep in class. But when college started yesterday, it dawned upon me, that I almost fell down twice before nodding off to sleep.
Less than 4 hours of sleep is something with which I have never coped up before. And well, now I have no choice but to accept it the way it is.
When you come to a new B-School, there are egos to tackle and things to do. Well people come with a fixed frame of mind that they should be leaders. They go to the extent of imposing themselves, or atleast trying to, in order to show their leadership. I remember back then in engineering, things were better (I never thought I would say this). And I being the youngest in the batch, am sidelined most of the times. Most of the students have 2-3 years of work experience.
Thats how things go for now. Theres not gonna be much blogging and bloghopping for sometime now. Exams are already around the corner in a months time and there are shitloads of things happening all around. To give a fair idea, there are 10 subjects to be completed and tested till november.
I’m on the road tonight
Yeah, we're runnin' a little bit hot tonight
I can barely see the road from the heat comin' off
You know what I'm sayin'
Ahh, you reach down put it between my legs n' ease the seat back
She's runnin', I'm flyin'
Right behind in the rearview mirror now
Got the fearin', power steerin'
Pistons poppin', ain't no stoppin' now
Its time go after a 2 month long vacation. I (finally) leave for IIT Kharagpur. And free time, as I know, will be a thing of the past. It'll be two years of slog. And some more slog
So its a goodbye to the blogosphere for sometime (atleast till I get my new computer there). So long people.........keep in touch and keep it real. I'll blog as and when my clock allows me to.
Adieu.
Days go by
It was a warm afternoon, with strains of 'Its Been a while' playing in the background. It was probably our final meet at Cafe Coffee Day. Hearts were sullen, yet faces lit up as bright as possible, to greet each other goodbye. These were by far the best of the times we've had together. Siddhesh, Sudarshan and I, three buddies from our old classes, way back in the 12th standard.
The memory is still fresh. I still remember the first day we met. I already knew Sudi and the first day we walked in, we sat on the second bench. Sid was staring at us with his oh-what-snobs grin on his face while reclining on the very last bench. And we were with that first-day-be-a-good-boy kind of attitude. The very next day, we were back there at the last bench and it so happened that we became real good friends, and from then on, its all our own history.
There comes a time in everyones life when you have to part with friends. However cliched it may sound right now, its something that is the most difficult thing to do. Maybe even more difficult than committing suicide. You want to hang on to that moment forever and never part with your friends, hoping that life would work out a way to keep us all together. But it never does happen.
Sudi boards his flight for the US tomorrow and the next day Sid flies for Australia, while I'll be in our good ol' India.
We've had some wonderful times together, including the night we spent at Sid's place. God!! I'll never forget these.
Sometimes, it makes me sad, though. I just have to remind myself that some birds just arent meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, a part of you that knows that it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice, but still, the place that you live in is that much more drab and empty when they are gone. I guess I just miss my friend.-- The Shawshank Redemption
I guess a few years down the line, we'll meet again. Changed men we will be, but I hope not too changed for us. So long my friends......
By hook… no, by crook
"Its been years now since the government started imposing restrictions on advertising through the Television media.
But its intriguing how the companies still make sheer mockery of those rules and the officials sit on their chairs doing nothing about them. Take the case of 8PM Apple Juice. I'm sure if we even go to a shop and ask for it, it wont be available. Do these companies even make the so-called apple juice that they proclaim on the TV?? Well I'm sure many of them dont and even the officials might know about it. But they sit there doing nothing about the loop-holes in the laws they make.
To say more, companies like KingFisher give out ads saying they make mineral water. I had been to Goa a few months back (KingFisher's biggest market) and I tried to test it out by asking a shopkeeper for KingFisher mineral water. And he was like ""Sir, we only have kingfisher beer"". I wasn't surprised.
Another issue that has always raged is the sheer in-human ads made by the fairness cream companies. I mean how can you proclaim things like if a girl is fair then only she can become an air-hostess. Or if shes fair only then she can get married to a good guy..!! This is utter nonsense!! I believe something should be done to completely ban these kinds of ads.
Its been quite some time since I last wrote. Been completely busy with preparations to leave for IIT Kharagpur. In the meantime I've uploaded my snaps from my last trip with my college friends to Lonavala. You can check them out here"
The Clubs
"OK. I am frustrated. I'm starting three new clubs. If you want to join you can leave a comment, why should we (okay, so right now its I) consider you for the membership.
So Ferrari once again had two cars on the podium. And it really got me thinking, does Michael Schumacher deserve any of the recent credit that he has been attached. It is solely on the basis of the car strength and the pit strategy that he has won so many races in the past few seasons. Well in the meanwhile, I continue to hate ferrari and Michael Schumacher for reasons plenty. I support Renault and Fernando Alonso. And the debate continues.... Join the club today. Membership open.
Well its one notion that I have never understood. People say the Indian corporates are almost in their prime now, but i still wonder why is that narrow-mindedness still rampant in the industry. Have very small hair and a clean shave have become like the killer un-written rules for the people who go for interviews. If a person who has longish hair and a goatee, there are very clear frowns on the faces of the panel. Why?? I mean cant you recruit a person for who he is rather than what he looks like? When a person with the looks i described, walks into an interview room, theres a typical mental block that sets in. Its something that I have begun to hate time and again. The saddest part being I have to go through the whole thing once again...
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