A fresh bout of energy

I have spent the better part of this week canoodling with my girl. There was nothing else on my mind but her and that helped me a lot. All my worries and problems became non existent and spent a few good dream like days with her . I really cherish the time i spend with her which is very minimal in the first place. I feel totally revitalized after this and feel that i have enough in me to take on this whole world. Life simply seems so beautiful when one is in an optimistic mood. It makes me want to do everything i can in the limited time i will be spending on this earth. Our relationship has now crossed 2 and a half years and often i find my friends wondering how i could be serious in a relationship. In college i was one of the most flirtatious guys around , though i believe i never really flirted in the true sense of the term , it was more of a good natured , no strings attached type of flirting. I am very serious about her and will get hitched with her . One of my friends once asked me about how i knew that she is the one. Frankly i really dont know and it really does not matter. Love in todays context is overhyped and the true meaning of it is rarely captured. Like everything it has been heavily commercialised and losing its innocence. But the best things about being in love are the simple things and it is these simple moments that i spent with her that has given me this fresh lease of energy which i badly needed. Thanks to Karishma in whose empty house we stayed and to all my friends namely Sriram, Nikhil, Tejas and Yash and imaginary friends namely Kunal, Kanika and Varsha who accompanied me on my imaginary trip to Pune where we stayed at Aundh Road and went to a disc called Xion and ate at a restaurant called Shukriya.

I also got the good news this week that i have been shortlisted for GD/PI at TAPMI and Nirma institue of management. Now waiting for the big one which is MICA that is expected during the first week of febuary. The only sad part is that my friend Karishma who did better than me in CAT could not get through since she her percentile in maths was not upto the cut off level in both these colleges. But both of us are surely in contention of a MICA call since they just see the overall percentile and hopefully we will end up doing our MBA's from MICA...That reminds me, the MICA placements for this year are done and they have notched an average salary of 6.2 lakhs per annum and for the first time there were international placements in a brand consultancy firm in Dubai. I do hope that this trend continues in case i manage to land up in this college as i want to take up Brand Communications as my specialisation.

Got to get some real thinking and studying done for the GD/PI's which are fast approaching. After all this hard work i do not want to stumble over the last hurdle.

Recently i have stumbled upon the website of an advertising agency and suddenly i really feel that i want to work there. Maybe someday in the future i would be able to work in that agency. The agency name is Strawberryfrog, a very wierd name but a nice little philosophy. http://www.strawberryfrog.com/sf/

cheers

Intoxicated Musings

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18 days have passed since New Years and i have been wanting to write this post ever since. This is about my loud mouth during New year's . The prophetic sayings that emancipated out of my alcohol drenched lips were the product of millions of years of evolution . Albert Einstein once noted, "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former". I was the shining example of human stupidity induced by vodka that night. Thanks to jaundice i really did not have much opportunity to drink much last year and New Year's was the night i was getting reacquainted with vodka after a long time. So the utter garbage that i uttered were the product of three glasses of vodka which i usually prepare in the ratio of 2:1 in favour of the vodka. I do not remeber a lot of things that night but the following is a classic that i told my friend Rithika......

' I do not know how to swim. But i am an excellent deep sea diver. Once when i was diving deep in the ocean, i came across a porcupine. The porcupine had headlights and it used the headlights to signal and converse with me in morse code. The porcupine told me that i am an excellent diver'.

Man!!! I really dont know how i ever managed to say something like that. But this is just the tip of the ice berg .. i actually was constantly harping on having or telling others to have Korean Brinzal and African Prawns. Also i expressed my desire to join the navy and kill a Cuban. I must iterate at this point i have no such hidden desires and think Fidel Castro is a great chum of a guy , i especially like the cap he wears. Also i realised that i could never be the foreign minister or ambassdor of India for if i get drunk in a party i might just end up abusing the french president like i did that night. Jacques Chirac would have never heard his name pronounced like the way i did that night , like a sexed up Bangladeshi Cab driver. Also i did accuse him on some homosexual grounds and made fun of him being bald. Well if he wants to extract some revenge then i would advise him to wait for another 10 years till i tun bald and then he can have his fun. There are some other things i did that night but memory fails me.

Oooh yes !! I did have a nice finale lined up though . Towards the end i do remember 'singing' (for want of a better adjective to describe my way of singing, may be moaning will be more appropriate) 'My Humps, My Humps . My ladylike lumps', over and over again.

Remeber all this is on tape , courtesy of my friend Rithika and i assure full stimulation of your laughter muscles in case someone wants to purhase it. I am willing to sell this obscene tape at an obscene amount. Any rich arab weeners reading this post?????

P.S: Do read my close friend Sriram aka Heyz's post , 'Bald Frog with a wig', a perfect example of the kind of company i used to keep during my college days and hence explains part of my craziness...The college life was amazing since for the first time in my life i actually met people with whom i could connect totally..:)))

http://03121984.blogspot.com/

Gujju Ahoy

So there i was ambling along the road from KC college to the station along with my classmates who never stop speaking in gujrati. I do not understand this language though can follow it in bits and pieces. So usually when they chatter amongst themselves in guju toungue i drift off with my own thoughts. And as i was busy thinking about pratically nothing, my intense thought process was jolted by a slap on my back. He was one of my gujju clasmates who thumped me on my back and congratulated me , as if he had known me since ages and had changed my diapers, on my performance in CAT. And the whole group started to pester me for a treat and i assured them that it would be due once i get a final call from somewhere. At this juncture the back thumper told me that i could give one right now and he would lend me the money if i don't have any and would charge half the interest rates the banks charged. Though he told this jokingly , i am sure the conditions would have applied if i had actually taken some monye from him.

This little anecdote is just to highlight the commercial instinct of the Gujrati community which is simply great. I guess after Mom and Dad, 'Profit' is the word the young of the community learn first. Every single Gujrati i have known has always looked to invest somewhere and improve his financial standing. This community is responsible for the growth of the Indian capital markets. Just like the Jews who are the worlds best bankers , the Gujrati community has to be the most capitalistic and profit oriented community in the world. It is just in their blood.

In contrast i am a south Indian and people from my part of the country are not known for outr buisness skills. One can argue that Narayan Murthy is a big buisnessman but i really dont think he fought too many odds and set up what he has right now. I am not undermining his performance in any way , he has done a great thing but more because he was there at the right place at the right time. Contrast his style of functioning to that of the Ambanis and one can clearly see the demarcation in their leadership styles. The Ambanis advocate extreme capitalism whereas Infosys is more about socialist capitalism. My friend Srinath who is doing his masters in london went there along with a gujrathi friend of his to study. And that guy is more busy worrying aboput recovering his investment than studying and is doing two jobs and placing bets on football matches. At this rate he will break even, end up with a degree and mostly come back to India after making a decent profit. Even at the finance diploma classes i attend, students from this communtiy spend a majority of their converstaions discussing about investments , shares and company performance.

Ahh well in the end at least i know whom to approach next time i need a loan......
P.S. - Gujju girls are hot... err so are Punju girls...:))))

The King's Shadow

Today was the last exam of my MBA season .. Now I have to just sit back and wait for the GD/PI calls. And as I sat back and idled about in gay abandon I came across this show on Animal Planet where the host goes in search of the King Cobra in the Indian Jungles. The largest venomous snake in the world with an average length of around 16 feet and is known to grow upto 24 feet. I am a real wussie when it comes to snakes and they thoroughly petrify me. Guess that's the reason I am thoroughly fascinated by them. I have watched a hell lot of shows on snakes and think they are wonderful creatures.

About the King Cobra the story goes... ( Mind you , do not confuse the King with a normal cobra which is much smaller in length , by small I mean about 7 to 8 feet )
There are two marks behind the King Cobra which look like eyes and it is said that once when Gautam Buddha was meditating a King Cobra raised its hood and provided him shade from the sun. Buddha was pleased when he realised that and touched the King on its head and hence the marks. The amazing part of this snake is that it is not aggressive like other snakes and is very calm and collected. It retaliates only when someone tries to touch it or comes near its nest. In normal circumstances it will simply glide by your feet showing no interest in your presence though if that actually happens with me I am sure I would have peed in my pants at the sight of a 16 foot long snake . The amazing part of this snake , as you can see in the picture , is it can stand upto 1/3rd of its body length and look you straight in the eye and if need be can move ahead in the same position. A snake that long is enough to strike fear in any person's heart but to have the snake stand and look you in the eye is pure torture. One bite from this snake has enough venom to kill 20 people or an elephant.

Now for the people thinking that I have lost it , it is just not the snake that fascinates me . It is its appearance and confidence. Just look into the eyes of the snake in the picture and tell me how long can you gaze at it without feeling a chill run down your spine. You know that you can't mess with it just by the look in its eyes, forget the remaining 16 feet of the body. This is what I call POWER and there are a few of us who have eyes like that , full of confidence and desire. This made me wonder how this creature can have so much cocky confidence and the reason is simply that it has fully evolved and is capable of exploiting its poisonous venom. So in a similar fashion the day we realize what a truly wonderful machine we are and what untold capabilities we have , is the day we step out of the King's shadow.




(I ain't the only one inspired by the King Cobra.. This is a yoga posture known as King Cobra)

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Yeah baby
The Wall Exits No More

Invisible wall

This is what it feels like now .. an invisible barricade ahead of me .. and dunno what went wrong.......

The heartbreak continues....

Today the NM results came .... though not officially released...got through a hacked link ...and i did not make it . Extremely hard to digest this more so the fact that i have actually scored less than last year..no idea how that happened . I hope this does not set the tone for the remainder of the week since i have CAT results on friday and SNAP on saturday. If i do not land up anywhere decent even this year then will go for my third attempt along with a job ..... i hope i am able to avoid that situation though.....

Zilch

So i have been out of action for a while now , it aint because i had no desire to post but simply cause of the darn inefficiency of MTNL ( my ISP) which disconected my phone for no rhyme or reason. But today i myself feel a little disconnected....did not make it to any IIM, not that i was expectant but somehow it pinches.