hello everybody.....whoever's thr... :P
...like i promised last time i finally managed to come back to the blogosphere. actually i did think of making this trip quite some time back but like i said the last time round procrastination often gets the better of me and so it did :P..
..anyway for starters lets update this blog with some of the developments in mah life...well i quit my job...& before anyone starts getting any dramatic or heroic ideas i would like to clarify i quit my job to pursue an mba....not a very useful course and in the same breathe a very very useful degree as the employers out there attach a lot of value to this attribute...nway so i have landed in mba college...i for one took the addage "once an iit-ian, always an iit-ian" a bit too seriously and here i am at school of management, iit bombay...
..the best thing about being here is that i got to go back to a iit and the life of peasssshhh that i had foresaken 2 years back (i agree mba is not that peassshhhful but i think at iit it is a bit more peaceful than at other colleges) and the other good thing is that i got to stay back in good old mumbai that means i had a lot fewer headaches while shifting from professional to college life...
coming back to the iit system after two years the full ramifications of the games the honchos at delhi have been playing with one of the most successful education systems in the country hit me like never before....i am not at all against establishing new iit s in other parts of the country but to set up any new college or expand existing ones any rational being would build first and then make it functional...but apparently indian leaders have a lot more sense other than common sense and they tried to have it the other way round...the results being that a lot of students have to share cramped quarters and other infrastructure meant for a lot less number of folks.....its a pity that a lot of the current students wont know how the iits used to be just some 5 years back...
..coming back to school is a great feeling..out here its a much more peaceful world...far far away from the real world of the past 2 years...shouting with the contractors,reasoning with the employees and the boss,the daily tests of patience while attending the afternoon communication meetings with boss..etc etc :P..actually i didnt feel that i had been away from this world for 2 years, getting back to student mode was easy but the difficult thing is to remind myself repeatedly that theres no paycheck waiting in the bank for me at the end of the month :P...
..well i am back to college and i am back to sports...the old bones are getting their fair share of exercise once more...tt, football & ..............pool...yessssir for the last few weeks i have been learning this game, though i am still pretty lousy at it but i enjoy playin it.. :)
..nway thats more or less how my lifes shaping up at the momment....and if any ones's wondering how i am getting the time to write such loooong blogs, fyi iit bombay has been closed down for the weekend because of the swines with the flu...though its a welcome holiday theres not really much to do as people including me are averse to a lot of travelling with the pigs flying about in the air...however i wonder what good a 7 day suspension of schools and colleges is going to do as people are going to work all the same and are quite capable of bringing the virus to their children at the dinner table, maybe closing down all offices and work for a week would be a better solution but the costs are too much...interestingly though some people have been trying to say that this is almost like normal influenza and is not worth all this panic, i just checked wiki for the historical facts and found that some different strains of flus do have the capacity to wipe out populations...the spanish flu of 1918 wiped out 10% of india and 90% of some polynesian island...anyway i feel the panic is serving its purpose that people have become a lot more conscious and are taking precautions...
...nway yesterday i sent across a message to my green friends in the nearest earth like planet in the libra constellation!!!(http://www.hellofromearth.net/)...it is a very silly thing but since i had the time i filled it up...but i kinda liked the idea that the message will take 20 years to reach the destination and another 20 to come back if there is some reflection....where will we all be in 40 years?? :P who knows...but the message will still be there travelling at the speed of light through the universe....kind of gives me a different feeling...
...thats it folks, i managed to write my second looong blog and like the last time time i promise to be back, an empty mind is the devils workshop;the result is this blog but sometimes even the devil does surrender to a greater force..hunger... :P and i am off for lunch now..
p.s: if anyones reading this then please take some time out to fill up this survey:
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Thursday, August 13, 2009
Saturday, March 28, 2009
Take 1!!....the silver jubilee
At last i am finally writing out the first few lines of my first blog....i dont know if i will see it through to its end but at least its a start :) --- firstly a few lines bout meself--well i kind of started this blog account in the 3rd yr of college thats bout 3 yrs back with the truly good intentions of becommin a passionate blogger :P, i always feel i have lots to say..but it has taken me a good 3 years to just write down the very first lines---that itself should give some sort of idea of yours truly---in bengali theres a perfect word for that--"ladh"...i dont know if i got the pronounciation right in english...i gss it means someone taking it easy... and a procrastinator par excellence yessir thats me :) .... i dont know if procrastination is supposed to be that bad after all procrastinators are supposed to have good time management skills, and you know you get some good exercise what with all the hurrying and rushing in those last few minutes that you had judiciously allocated for any job :P....
Now what set me to finally writing this blog was that recently i crossed a landmark in time...i completed a quarter century of life on the planet....and i decided to gift meself my own blog on the day..but as it happened as usual i am completing this blog 7 days later...nway lets get down to business..25 yrs is a long time and i was trying to think of some of the more important phases during the period---
durgapur - an industrial city in west bengal and the one of the best places to grow up :) ....there were lots of open spaces and greenery....those were the days before computer / video games and our leisure hours were spent completely out in the open...football in summer, cricket in winter....and some other things which cropped up intermediately...
xaviers dgp - a wonderful school with yet more wonderful teachers, huge grounds and exciting jungles... 11 years and some of the happiest moments of my life were spent there....a "quiet" transformation took place there...one of the wildest and naughtiest in kindergarten passed out in class 10 as a quiet & shy guy almost always considered the best candidate for the conduct and application prize!! :P nway xaviers was real fun and the only worry in those days being the terminal exams...
dav - though me and all my batchmates were constantly cursing the daylights out of this goddamned place when we were there --- on looking back i realized that i had had a jolly good time over there.. for the first time the rules back home were slackened a bit and i got more independence....the first taste of booze and smoke....bunking classes in school and hiding from the principal when he was hunting down class bunkers with a stick!! :P ...pretty happy times except for the fact that all of us had got busy preparing for all sorts of entrance exams and had started thinking about the future and careers..
rec-dgp - 1 year at rec - this period i will probably remember for the rest of my life for the "interaction period" with the dear seniors ;) ... terrifying days and terrifying nights..we were all frightened at the time but the effects of the slaps and sessions have long healed by now and have left behind some fond memories...
iit kgp - i discovered the art of being at "peasssssssssh".... spent 4 years of my life at "peassshhh"....always managed to get a decent grade, did not bother to plan anything for the future - played my heart out in football ( i discovered that i was actually quite a good dribbler, it was only my lungs which betrayed me in football and came in the way of football glory :P)....anyway i had quite a nice time in kgp..never worried about the future (it was only after the first few days of placements that i started worrying)....good friends, food,booze......nd of course love :) !!
love - in the slam books which we used to fill up vehemently before leaving school i used to describe love as "a feeling which when you feel you feel you have never felt it before"---the credits for this line go to my good friend mayukh i think..but being too lazy to think of anything else i felt it was quite apt and adopted it ;D....well i realized its aptness in the 2003 december holidays in the first year of kgp....i met a girl at a marriage ceremony in dgp...not for the first time but after a space of almost 15 years....we used to go to kindergarten together...nd i felt something i had never felt before :) and we discovered later that the feeling had been mutual :D!! theres something stranger about my l... story..maybe a some kind of telepathic connection but the fact is one day i was actually sitting down and thinking of D... (and never in the last 15 years had i ever thought on those lines) thinking in the sense wondering what happended to her,where she is now etc etc...and would you believe it, i still find it very strange, the very next day i meet D... and she looked as cute as ever!! :) well cupid got busy at the moment and he has been busy ever since with us generously giving us his dosage/pricks of cupid arrows and the magic has continued... i guess thats the most important event in my life so far, we have lots and lots of plans and i just cant wait to get started on them :)
bpcl & mumbai - this started off pretty unpleasantly, and i hated it in the beginning, working in bpcl, the mumbai climate, crowds, the typical mumbai smell-theres a definite smell thats characteristic of mumbai for the uninitiated...but after 2 years i must say i have got used to them...in fact i have grown to really like mumbai..it is quite similar to kolkata in some aspects but a lot more developed...but mumbai has a buzz of its own i must say...as for bpcl i must say though i am not particularly fond of this kind of field job it has been a good experience definitely...as one my managers once said if you can manage things well in a psu you can manage things well almost anywhere...and i am still learning....
....well thats it i guess...a big load off my shoulders..i have finally managed to write my first blog!!! :D WHIPPPPEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!! congratulations to me :P!! if anyones reading this....sorry to have bored you with my life but its my blog and i can do pretty much anything that i want here!! thats the beauty of a blog i guess.....since "the rubicon has been crossed", the first blog that is, i will try to put up a few more blogs in the future....lets hope for the best...adios!!
Now what set me to finally writing this blog was that recently i crossed a landmark in time...i completed a quarter century of life on the planet....and i decided to gift meself my own blog on the day..but as it happened as usual i am completing this blog 7 days later...nway lets get down to business..25 yrs is a long time and i was trying to think of some of the more important phases during the period---
durgapur - an industrial city in west bengal and the one of the best places to grow up :) ....there were lots of open spaces and greenery....those were the days before computer / video games and our leisure hours were spent completely out in the open...football in summer, cricket in winter....and some other things which cropped up intermediately...
xaviers dgp - a wonderful school with yet more wonderful teachers, huge grounds and exciting jungles... 11 years and some of the happiest moments of my life were spent there....a "quiet" transformation took place there...one of the wildest and naughtiest in kindergarten passed out in class 10 as a quiet & shy guy almost always considered the best candidate for the conduct and application prize!! :P nway xaviers was real fun and the only worry in those days being the terminal exams...
dav - though me and all my batchmates were constantly cursing the daylights out of this goddamned place when we were there --- on looking back i realized that i had had a jolly good time over there.. for the first time the rules back home were slackened a bit and i got more independence....the first taste of booze and smoke....bunking classes in school and hiding from the principal when he was hunting down class bunkers with a stick!! :P ...pretty happy times except for the fact that all of us had got busy preparing for all sorts of entrance exams and had started thinking about the future and careers..
rec-dgp - 1 year at rec - this period i will probably remember for the rest of my life for the "interaction period" with the dear seniors ;) ... terrifying days and terrifying nights..we were all frightened at the time but the effects of the slaps and sessions have long healed by now and have left behind some fond memories...
iit kgp - i discovered the art of being at "peasssssssssh".... spent 4 years of my life at "peassshhh"....always managed to get a decent grade, did not bother to plan anything for the future - played my heart out in football ( i discovered that i was actually quite a good dribbler, it was only my lungs which betrayed me in football and came in the way of football glory :P)....anyway i had quite a nice time in kgp..never worried about the future (it was only after the first few days of placements that i started worrying)....good friends, food,booze......nd of course love :) !!
love - in the slam books which we used to fill up vehemently before leaving school i used to describe love as "a feeling which when you feel you feel you have never felt it before"---the credits for this line go to my good friend mayukh i think..but being too lazy to think of anything else i felt it was quite apt and adopted it ;D....well i realized its aptness in the 2003 december holidays in the first year of kgp....i met a girl at a marriage ceremony in dgp...not for the first time but after a space of almost 15 years....we used to go to kindergarten together...nd i felt something i had never felt before :) and we discovered later that the feeling had been mutual :D!! theres something stranger about my l... story..maybe a some kind of telepathic connection but the fact is one day i was actually sitting down and thinking of D... (and never in the last 15 years had i ever thought on those lines) thinking in the sense wondering what happended to her,where she is now etc etc...and would you believe it, i still find it very strange, the very next day i meet D... and she looked as cute as ever!! :) well cupid got busy at the moment and he has been busy ever since with us generously giving us his dosage/pricks of cupid arrows and the magic has continued... i guess thats the most important event in my life so far, we have lots and lots of plans and i just cant wait to get started on them :)
bpcl & mumbai - this started off pretty unpleasantly, and i hated it in the beginning, working in bpcl, the mumbai climate, crowds, the typical mumbai smell-theres a definite smell thats characteristic of mumbai for the uninitiated...but after 2 years i must say i have got used to them...in fact i have grown to really like mumbai..it is quite similar to kolkata in some aspects but a lot more developed...but mumbai has a buzz of its own i must say...as for bpcl i must say though i am not particularly fond of this kind of field job it has been a good experience definitely...as one my managers once said if you can manage things well in a psu you can manage things well almost anywhere...and i am still learning....
....well thats it i guess...a big load off my shoulders..i have finally managed to write my first blog!!! :D WHIPPPPEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!! congratulations to me :P!! if anyones reading this....sorry to have bored you with my life but its my blog and i can do pretty much anything that i want here!! thats the beauty of a blog i guess.....since "the rubicon has been crossed", the first blog that is, i will try to put up a few more blogs in the future....lets hope for the best...adios!!
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