beingdesh

Category: MBA

  • Hardly anything great to Talk about…or maybe

    When I used to read Naresh’s blog while he was doing MBA I always thought it is surely something which I will enjoy. Talking about things which we {include DAIICT E-Wing, Bangalore BakarBandhooze} had made a habit of was about to find its glorious destiny at a b-school.

    At almost of the end of three trims it has been,

    – a fight for marks, dirty one at times, me being a party to this constant usage of rand() function…
    – my database of facts eroding, that too eroding badly. Desipedia is history :((
    – Lack of attention, lack of focus, a future prospect for me becoming a Ghajini hero someday 🙂 (atleast I will get Asin ;))
    – horrible writing skills (blogs, reports, I cant write anything properly now)
    – lack of movie gyan and watching very few movies
    – a whole lot of keywords, but everything is in air. I first thought Fin was grounded, but slowly as I understand it in a better way, that too is highly Airy (financial crisis was bound to happen)
    – loosing touch with zillions of my friends back across India…
    – less sleep
    – no more following news and random data and discussing it over …
    – no more roaming around half the hostel block and doing bakk…
    – no time and no money-> (-5.5 lakhs) and further drain of cash 🙂

    Overall the first year has been a bit disappointing for me, or maybe I expected a bit too much… but there were good moments, and they came in company of my nice of no-brainers like me here. They have been together in all the great fun here…

    Memories from my Div although didn’t make me that senti and all today, but they would linger around.

    Maybe I talk about thing in extreme extremes, maybe its not that bad.

    Just this internship in Himachal and then I am BACK 🙂

    Although the long term plan or Strategy ( as me and my roomie recall, the most used/abused word this year) remains to minimize my un-learning and maximize sleeping time 🙂

    Situation: Studying Convertibles and Business Law before that, have exams tomorrow
    Song: Pardesi, Toshi, Dev-D…the one with 3 dancers and abhay deol drinking, right now my While(1) song 😀

    This movie would have surely triggered a discussion on nihilistic intentions of Dev back in Bangalore… right now they talk only about the music which is good, but something else missing

  • Who Enjoys It?

    Some are doing it, some do not. I always seem to fall in the latter. They do different things, different activities and seem to enjoy it all. For me somehow once the Primary activity starts turning a bit and infact a lot boring I seem to shed the other added ones too.

    Some stand up and like giving motivational speeches, which I think are mostly worthless, some do all the work in life and you never know, and some write sitting in their 3 seater room … 😐

    I sometimes end up drinking along with my similarly-bored friend, same Old Monk with dry peanuts, Chakli and watery green chutney and discuss the same things over and over again. Its all about thinking about those great days of Work. Did I say great???

    It was thinking about BTech days while being at work, although I thought that the next degree would be back to that kind of fun, but I miss something.

    Miss TIME, just to be, just to roam around, discuss stupid stuff with people, read some nice stuff, read books, watch cricket all simple things in life. Taking walks during night-time through the dusty lanes here, me and another of seemingly lost friend, talk about not getting what we wanted here and what we will get after here, thats one of those simple things, but not much otherwise.

    I am sick of those same old jargons, I am bored of people not knowing and saying anything about anything without thinking (ha, they call it thinking on the feet), tired of the same old classroom, excel sheets, mera DELL and writing the most stupid pieces of assignments in the history of assignments.

    New Year, already half a month past and still to add that much needed freshness, because all things tend to become same over a period, especially when you are in this corner of Mumbai.

    Desperately looking forward to March, time for escape to Villages and it would be fun for sure.

    People think that I am frustu, but its just the lack of time and senselessness of what I am doing, I know that I need, a new pair of lenses to view the world.

    Literally, these specs are old and loose now 😀

  • Angrezi aur main…

    Class 4th-5th

    It all started with that, we were given some sort of scholar badges and all (for consistent performances with a particular score in core subjects), there was this English teacher who I didn’t like at all, you know the sorts who went ahead with people who get top marks in junior sections, all those cute looking piglets whom they think are brainiest who get everything right, although I wasn’t that bad but she never gave me marks, maybe I wan not a piglet anyway.

    Class 6th-10th

    Same not so old boring angrezi teacher who gave marks to girls and little healthier sort off pigs and screwed me up again many a times. I also had a fight with her which messed up my relations and so I never got a scholar badge till class 11th as they held me back some way other for English and sometimes Hindi. Maybe I behaved like a dog here, pigs were still in demand. My confidence in languages till 10th had already received a heavy blow though. worst still I became a horrible public speaker in those days due to that.

    Class 11th

    Probably one of the best teachers I ever studied under was Mrs. Biswas, elegant and caring are the words which come to my mind. She had such an awesome persona and like others, her marks were not based on pre-conceived notion of an individual. All notions of animalism chucked off for the time being.

    Class 12th

    The year I cherished most in the school because my favorite teacher Mrs. Ratnam taught me for the first time (sounds unusual but true). She is the one I knew throughout my school tenure, the bestest teacher there ever was at DPS Korba. It was delight as she taught English in an year when no one thinks about it. She took my interview way back in 1988 and its quite ironic that she retired the same year I left school, 2002. Best year for English and me 🙂

    College Days, one Cat, workplace, blogging etc etc.

    Everything went fine, reading speeds were good, although I was regualr reader earlier I improved, did more discussions, turned from a hand shaking- leg breaking speaker to a nice confident aggressive presenter. Did all of this stupid writing, all dung, read dung, ate dung. See now I became a Pig.

    Good days for English were obvious.

    CAT & XAT this year

    Similar percentiles of 84.16 (84.13 in other) (Overall 97.7 in CAT, 99.42 in XAT) help me secure a missed call from IIM’s and XLRI. All the AIMCATs I hardly got below 95%ile, my worst performance coming up in these two examinations.

    Although I am disappointed I would like to add that my English is not that great, its just the way people judge your language skills, the kind of exams they look for, I don’t know.

    In that regards the best language teacher I had was my French teacher at Ahmedabad, she had an amazing persona and I really excelled when it came French learning.

    Although disappointed I am not broken, its enough of these exams for me, maybe something better out there for me. No one is an authority to comment on what I am like in anything, English has screwed me for a long time and hope it enjoys f**k*** me again and again. At least the language will get some pleasure out of it.

    Living in Bangalore has made me a dog again, pigs are the most intelligent ones, thats why there English is good.(George Orwell says so, although both the species should control there reproduction rates :))

    Technorati Tags: CAT, XAT

  • Billi aur Chooha

    Read this,

    Billi aur Choooha

    Not another Tom and Jerry though…:)

  • the two month itch…

    Almost two months without a blog post…horrible.

    I haven’t been busy at all, because being busy means – watching movies every week, going for food outings in Bangalore, playing volleyball in office, meeting new people, writing a few stupid blogposts now and then, talking nonsense most of the times, going home and getting stuck in 4-5 books at a time.

    Nothing like that happening, the only good things that have happened for sometime now,

    • Billi form reached safely, hope 1st October goes fine too(when the form is rejected/accepted)…

    • I tasted almost the Best Wine of my life, some Italian stuff, we had that along with some Port wine from Pondicherry. Awesome stuff which went well with Pizza and Maggi, now I know why people love wine so much. By the way vows have been already broken once. Also maggi is always good, although same can’t be said about Pizza. We watched Golmaal with it and again got into a debate regarding dahi-vade it might be post modern dilemma of love, food and women & gender… 🙂
    • Some good test series scores, some not so good ones.

    • Our project team getting like 2-3 awards within a week.

    • Me scoring a goal, yes a GOAL in my company’s annual football tournament. Believe it or not it was a last minute goal hit from half-line. It was fun. Followed it up with a penalty too.

    • I have somehow rekindled my interest in Mathematics, its a lot more fun nowadays, like the good old days of school.

    • Saw Chak De…awesome movie, Shahrukh is Baap of Bollywood.

    Although most of the changes can be attributed to following factors,

    • Billi, padhai has taken me over quite a lot, I have started studying quite a lot, though the scores are not hitting a good tone, but still atleast I am giving it a shot. Have joined a test series plus a coaching and its eating up most of it, i.e. time.

    • Work at office, that speaks for itself.

    • Me shifting from up to down at home (because of Nihar and Sandy moving out), although that has made no difference at all.

    • No Sandy at workplace is a lot boring…:(

    • I have had my Sardi Khasi month of the year ( a period where I can be spotted in sweater, with a hanky, smelling of Vicks Vaporub, gargling with hot water before sleeping, popping Sinarest, Crocin at a threatening pace, choking in dreams etc etc…)

    And some of the things I have chucked due to work, Billi etc.

    • A trip to Cochin and nearby villages, to attend one of my team-mate’s wedding. All my bags were packed, my tickets were booked, but Billi came in…:(((
    • A trip to Ooty and a nearby Forest Reserve, staying at a resort, going for midnight forest tours with rangers and ofcourse Ooty tour. Btw all free of cost as a part of Happa’s Party (he going to Stanford…:))) again billi came in the way of me watching the Big Billi…:(((
    • A burrp meet which I said would go but didn’t show due to office…:((, imagine me missing loads of bak-bak and good food…:((
    • Partner, Transformers, Cricket Matches(although I hate Cricket nowadays), Hey Baby, RGV ki Aag etc etc
    • Blogging, no more of it.
    • Haven’t started the seventh Harry Potter book yet, somehow crazily wrapped up all the other six in one month, and then didn’t read the last one.
    • Started and chucked, Henry Kissinger’s -Ending the Vietnam war, Harper Lee’s To kill a mocking bird, Moby Dick and some Peter Drucker book.

    Things that will never change,

    • Me not having a Girlfriend.
    • Kapil not having a Girlfriend.
    • Stupid lunch time discussions dealing with Nihilism, work life balance, sex life of IT professionals, extreme programming, signal processing, mother boards, bluetooth, Who will die when you cry, cheap bollywood stuff, how great Satyen Kappu was, How pathetic was the food today, why cheese goes well with wine, there are three kinds of things in this world argument, why postpone GRE dates, why some people don’t work, Why grass is green, Why Public Policy is hot, I want to work for UN, I don’t want to work at all….huh

      Although Nihilism is quite interesting, enjoyed reading a bit about it. Thanks to the quark for triggering half of the above mentioned discussions. And also Kapil and Akshat for chipping in…

    • Sleep and alaasya live on…

    Moral of the story, get a girlfriend, get a good college for higher education, get a job with high paying salary and you will start watching movies and India will start playing cricket.

    p.s.- Don’t think I have gone insane, just that I am not getting time to do my stuff, I am used to talking nonsense, so that would keep happening.

  • Dahi Vade and Women

    An excerpt from the conversation between Pushpa and Urmila(Bindiya Goswmi) from the 1979 Hrishikesh Mukherjee classic GolMaal.

    Pushpa: Le Dahi Vade kha le
    Urmila: Nahi Mann nahi kar raha
    Pushpa: Arre Dahi Vade khane ka Mann nahi kar raha. Agar kisi Ladki ka Dahi Vade khane ka mann nahi karta to do cheeze ho sakti hai,

    • ya to woh dheere dheere ladki se ladka ban rahi hai…
    • ya to usse PREM ho gaya hai

    Ek din mujhe bhi Dahi Vade khaane ka mann nahi kiya, teen din baad pata chala ki mujhe Bunty se Prem ho gaya hai 🙂 (and bluntly blushing)
    Bol ri! Kya naam hai unka

    Urmila:(sharmate hue) Lucky naam hai…continued

    Some questions arising from the same,

    1. Is it true? Girls visiting the blog may share there own experiences with Dahi Vade, boys may just share there opinion?
    2. If a person doesn’t it Dahi Vade how can a she become a he, and is the process reversible, maybe a new innovation in the Gender Change operations?
    3. What if a boy rejects to eat Dahi Vade, what are the possible scenarios?
    4. Why Dahi Vade, what if Sambhar Vade was the rejected entity?

    That’s enough for now, I am no expert on Woman… Wooooo… Man! issues like Naresh neither am I a philosopher of the rating of the quark. But I want an answer. Maybe if the theory is found to be authentic next year we will have girls throwing/eating away Dahi Vada plates in response to Valentine Divas proposals.

    I have my own way of resolving issues and maybe whatever sounds complicated to me is best resolved by relating it to food. My favourite director maybe just gave me an opportunity to do the same.

    Do answer the questions, additional practice for the RC section at Billi this year.

    p.s.- Golmaal is one of my favourite movies, yesterday night while watching it along with Kapil and the quark, we realised this is the only sequence in the movie which didn’t make sense to us. Rest of the movie we had a great time playing Karaoke with the dialogues and songs in the movie. Error rate of us getting the dialogues wrong was minimal.

    Update: In the words of the quark

    Regarding dahi-vade it might be post modern dilemma of love, food and women & gender… 🙂

    Technorati Tags: Hrishikesh Mukherjee, GolMaal

  • Bahut kuch ho raha hai…

    Its been a while since I have blogged at length, I mean they haven’t been one -liners as posted on the quark, but not much of self-generated data (don’t take it literally as people do tend to assume in my case) these days.

    Recently its been lots of work Putting my legs in too many boats

    Still Billi rules the priority list. Had an amazing weekend with sleep, LOTR, good food and finally no Bangalore outing (though still had a short one to newly opened McD). I am quite sick of moving around Bangalore now, especially the buses are hopeless and the autowaalas looking like looteras (no offense meant).

    Friday as usual was movie day, Jhoom Barabar Jhoom (rhyming with Shakalaka Boom Boom, both in name and content) was quite simple horrendous. Actually its the worst movie I have ever seen. Maybe not as I only saw half of it, don’t know what stopped me till interval. I simply hate my namesake (not because he took ash, but chumma[1] I hate him).

    Anyway last week I met Puneet Rajkumar on the sets of Milana. Amazing guy and so down to earth being quite a big star in Kannada Cinema. We talked a bit about places we come from and Kannada Cinema. Mast person!

    Along with him was the actress Parvathi, and as I heard its her first Kannada flick after a small stint in Mallu cinema. Amazing Girl 🙂 !!! And the handshake was really amazing ;).

    (Parvathi on the sets of Milana)

    This pic posted just to jalofy the male readers (me not sharing my pic with her though ;)). In the movie Puneet plays a Radio Jockey. Oh by Radio last week something else also happened,

    12th June, 2007 will be remembered as a day when Desi or Daisy achieved media moksha, finally. In the words of Kapil who broke the news,

    Desi popular ho gaya, sahi hai

    Desi(National)se ab InDesi (International) ho gaya 🙂

    Today morning after a long wait and persistent efforts desi was able to talk to RJ Vasanti (Radio City). He has given correct answer of a movie question and won some prize too. Desi was on radio city around 8’O’clock whole Bangalore was listening to him. (ab tak ham hi sunte the)

    Anyway it was not Vasanthi but Aviva who I met. I was just out of bath and listening to Radio as Aviva asked this on Radio,

    Whats common in the movies Cheeni Kum, RDB, Delhi Heights and Khosla ka Ghosla?

    Fir ekdum se dimmag ki ghanti baji and I SMSed 4646 as I have done for so many times this past year in Bangalore. Answer was that all the movies either fully or partly have been shot in Delhi. While ironing my shirt I got a call from Aviva, here is how the conversation went thereafter,

    Aviva- Hello!
    Me- Hello!!!!!!!!!!!! (a girl calling me at 7:40 AM :O)
    Aviva- This is Aviva from Radio City and blah blah blah…

    and it went on…I won’t bore you with the rest of it. But just two things,

    • I forgot most of what I was supposed to speak, I was Live on air yaar.
    • It was Aviva and not Vasanthi, I would have loved to talk with Vasanthi but it was fun talking too Aviva too.

    Ok the post is getting too long maybe and turning a bit baasi now. So closing it off.

    [1] chumma doesnt mean a Kiss, it means just like that in Tamil, some say its written as summa but who cares, its pronounced as chumma.

    p.s.- hamesha hi bahut kuch hota hai, nothing new about it. And I am desperate to watch Sivaji, someone please get me tickets.

    p.p.s- Also met Naresh this Friday, it was great meeting him after a long time.

    Technorati Tags: Abhishek Bachchan, Puneet Rajkumar, Milana, Jhoom Barabar Jhoom, Parvathi, Vasanthi, Radio City, Bangalore

  • Padhai

    Thodi si, a bit of it, it is difficult but kya kare…

    In school people could have easily related the act of Padhai with me. I enjoyed padhai, it was just another thing which was necessary for me to live, like food and sleep. Now it seems like a burden.

    Billi Season-3 is up, but given my capricious nature I am toggling too much between things. Office, Work, Blogs, Mails, Food, Sleep, Phone, Ayn Rand, Books, Weekend timepass, just too many things clogging my mindmap at the moment. I need to be focused, Billi is much more than getting a degree, its my last attempt to enjoy studies, to be a part of that world which seems even farther from Neverland. To put in a bit simpler terms, it’s escape route from working.

    Inspiration: The Great Escape (1963)

    Just want to runaway like Steve McQueen, just hoping that after getting out of here I do a bit better than facing Nazi Guns. Have seen the movie around 10 times.

    Maybe I am trying to hide it behind the pretext of my poor run in the last two seasons but the reality is that my Mind has rusted. Still looking for a good way to Galvanize and save it, because what has gone of it won’t come back.

  • Desi aur Uski Pyari Billi

    Billi Do Hazaar Saat
    Ek Lagan Nayi

    Sawaal- Billi Do Hazaar Che main kya hua, diya kyon nahi?
    Jawaab- No Comments!

    Sawaal-Kya is baar Fotu Chipkega?
    Jawaab- Ji haan chipkega!

    Sawaal-Billi swasth ke liye kyon zaroori hai?
    Jawaab- Billi nahi nikli to Bill bharne mushkil ho jaayenge, hamara swasth to thik hi hai lekin kahi mansik swasth na kharab ho jaaye. Aji ho hi jaayega. Billi main nahi hona swasth ke liye hanikarini rahega.

    Sawaal-Bangalore main to itne saare kutte hai, fir Billi hi kyon?
    Jawaab- Kisi mahaan vyakti ne kaha hai,

    Bangalore main agar patthar faiko to ya to kutte ko lagega ya fir abhiyanta ko lagega.

    Humen socha kutto ka to yaha khatma ho raha hai, to ab hume hi patthar lagenge, to humne Billi ko chuna. Billi hume Bangalore ki takniki duniya se door jaane ka suvarna mauka degi.

    Sawaal-Billi ke liye aajkal junta main utsukta kafi jyada hai?
    Jawaab- Ji haan, Billi kafi garma-garam ho chuki hai. Kuch varsho pahle yeh nahi tha. Bharat ki nayi artha-vyavastha main in naukriyon ko kafi badhawa mila hai.

    Sawaal-Aap kya sochte hai kya is baar aap “Billi ka Tod” ya “Billi ki Ghanti” prapt karne main safal honge?
    Jawaab- Pata nahi, dekhiye kuch kah nahi sakte, baat yun hai ki aajkal Billi badi anishchit ho gayi hai, yeh ek aisa khel hai jiska nirnay hamare uttaro aur bhagwaan ke aashirwaad ke alawa, mananiya nyayalaya, kuch dangayi aivam mantri bhi nirikshan-parikshan karne ke baad ghoshity karte hai. Yahi saal le lijiye abhi tak Billi ke nirnay latke hue hai.

    Sawaal-Aap to teesri baar Billi dene ki taiyari kar rahi hai, kuch hamare darshako ke liye sandesh?
    Jawaab- Ganit aur Anglya Bhasha prayog hi zaroori nahi hai, lagan aur mehnat zaruri hai. Dete rahiye, ek na ek din Billi aapke kadam choomegi. Jai Hind!!!

    Kya Desi Billi prapt kar payenge.

    SMS kijiye Desi Y (haan ke liye) ya Desi N(na ke liye) 242424 par

    Dhanyawaad.

    Pichle Varsh ke Desi ke Billi-Adventure

    Technorati Tags: CAT, Humor

  • Last few Days…Tough Ones

    Coming Back from Home, SpiceJet, Good Air Hostess, No Food, Good biscuits, Landing, Bangalore Traffic, Coming to Office, Back to Work, JHATKA in the EVENING sitting with Prashant, Talk to Pabari, Talk to Dad, Go to IIMB, Get all disappointed and comeback, Back to Office, Back to Work, Go again to IIMB, Meet the Officer with Pabari, Get all disappointed and comeback, Call Daily to IIMB, Drink Beer with Sandy and Vaibhav and Nihar, Call at IIMB, All Disappointed, Go to Siva’s Party, Drink Beer and White Rum AGAIN!!!, Go to IIMB, Get all disappointed and comeback, Final talk at IIMB…Its Over, Lots of Work, Lots of it again, But It’s over, It is Over, Another Party Yesterday, Lots of Phone Calls during these two weeks, Lots of Explanation again and again making me feel done with, Its Over, I can’t help it can’t get over it, Lots of discussion on adhesive technology and how by making the back side of a photograph rough it sticks better, How the Probability figure of 10 in 2 lakh 25 thousand was reached, How the Bands effected this and made this happen, 2nd Oct-5th Oct was almost holiday they say, but its over, no use going over it again and again and again and again and maybe again, I am tired of listening to people, maybe I am tired of Bangalore, but then I can’t do anything, its over, everything gone, just another year to look forward to, maybe I am unlucky, what maybe I am unlucky, but can’t help it can’t take it, it’s over, leave it behind they say, but I took nothing so what to leave behind, this whole thing is so different, 1000’s of thoughts lingering on your mind, 3-4 parties in a week, alcohol tasting good as never before, its changing, its confusing as ever but its another year, is it worth that much I think or is it just the weak Y-Chromosome, let me try to leave everything, let me, allow me, its not about faith they say, its about lack of it, its about mistakes its about forgetting and looking forward, its over.

    In short me not giving CAT anymore.