I think i have lost the enthusiasm to blog... Maybe it is because nothing much is happening. Or it maybe 'coz I am enjoying the low profile I have now. Or is it coz i have people around me who i can confide to and speak my mind out. Anyway, i think it is good i take a break from this... Go into hiding...
I don't believe in running out of topics... coz u can write about anything... But it is nice to take a break from everything 'coz i myself has started feeling that my writings are monotonous..
So the next time i blog will be the time I have something that interesting or when i want to scream out to the world what I feel
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Sunday, December 7, 2008
To feel India - fly Air India
I have lots to write... Terrorism to ending the first semester to my summer placements. I havent written about all those stuff... Personally, I am having fun and a hectic schedule at DMS. Thanks to me getting into the Parivartan committee... which organises our annual B fest. That takes up my free time if at all i have any.
So let me write about my flight back home. IC 465 from Dehi to Trivandrum via Kochi. So my friend and I got in to this supposed to be luxurious aircraft to reach back home. We took our seats and i was hoping to catch up on my long lost sleep. I was really tired with the packing ... We have to pack our stuff at the end of each semester and vacate our rooms as if we are never gonna come back.. thts a hell of a job.
Yea, so i sat down thinking of being in the lap of luxury... suddenly i heard something whizz pass me... a fly.. a fly inside the Indian Airlines. It went and sat on the the turban of the sardar sitting in front of me. My friend then rightly said... "welcome to air INDIA"... I wouldn't have been surprised at all if a rat had ran by on the floor...
The seats were pathetic and dirty... The food wasn't upto the mark. When i got out of the flight i saw my hand red and swollen... Guess what... A bed bug bit me in the flight!!!
Everyone to whom I said this was laughing like anything... And my best friend started teasing me coz i had started to support IA coz I had been travelling in it for quite some months now.
Then i heard a news report on Dec 5 - The following is the news excerpt from THe Hindu dated dec 6th, 2008:
Flight IC-465 was initially delayed as the aircraft designated to fly on the Delhi-Thiruvananthapuram sector was coming from Patna and was running late. Since the incoming flight was late, the outgoing flight too got affected.“Once the plane landed, the passengers boarded the plane around 7-50 p.m. That’s when the pilot noticed a technical snag and the aircraft had to be changed. So the passengers had to be de-boarded. Another aircraft was available, but it had to be brought from the hangar to the allotted parking bay. That took some time as the plane had to cross a few taxiways to reach there,” claimed an airline official.
However, two Members of Parliament, who were among the passengers, reportedly refused to board the aircraft.
“The flight finally took off at 10-15 p.m., without the two MPs,” the official added.
I heard in a local news channel that the reason why the 2 MPs didnt get off the original aircraft was that they were complaining of the poor plight of the aircrafts that are to fly in the Delhi- Tvm route. They wanted a confirmation from the minister himself about the change of flight. But in vain and the pilot had to fly without the MPs coz of the rest of the passengers.
The motives of the MPs are genuine this time coz I have had my experience just 2 days before ... This shows the interest with which the aviation sector maintains its carriers. And it is losing its customers 'coz of this. Next time i will try my best to avoid boarding an Indian Airlines flight.
So let me write about my flight back home. IC 465 from Dehi to Trivandrum via Kochi. So my friend and I got in to this supposed to be luxurious aircraft to reach back home. We took our seats and i was hoping to catch up on my long lost sleep. I was really tired with the packing ... We have to pack our stuff at the end of each semester and vacate our rooms as if we are never gonna come back.. thts a hell of a job.
Yea, so i sat down thinking of being in the lap of luxury... suddenly i heard something whizz pass me... a fly.. a fly inside the Indian Airlines. It went and sat on the the turban of the sardar sitting in front of me. My friend then rightly said... "welcome to air INDIA"... I wouldn't have been surprised at all if a rat had ran by on the floor...
The seats were pathetic and dirty... The food wasn't upto the mark. When i got out of the flight i saw my hand red and swollen... Guess what... A bed bug bit me in the flight!!!
Everyone to whom I said this was laughing like anything... And my best friend started teasing me coz i had started to support IA coz I had been travelling in it for quite some months now.
Then i heard a news report on Dec 5 - The following is the news excerpt from THe Hindu dated dec 6th, 2008:
Flight IC-465 was initially delayed as the aircraft designated to fly on the Delhi-Thiruvananthapuram sector was coming from Patna and was running late. Since the incoming flight was late, the outgoing flight too got affected.“Once the plane landed, the passengers boarded the plane around 7-50 p.m. That’s when the pilot noticed a technical snag and the aircraft had to be changed. So the passengers had to be de-boarded. Another aircraft was available, but it had to be brought from the hangar to the allotted parking bay. That took some time as the plane had to cross a few taxiways to reach there,” claimed an airline official.
However, two Members of Parliament, who were among the passengers, reportedly refused to board the aircraft.
“The flight finally took off at 10-15 p.m., without the two MPs,” the official added.
I heard in a local news channel that the reason why the 2 MPs didnt get off the original aircraft was that they were complaining of the poor plight of the aircrafts that are to fly in the Delhi- Tvm route. They wanted a confirmation from the minister himself about the change of flight. But in vain and the pilot had to fly without the MPs coz of the rest of the passengers.
The motives of the MPs are genuine this time coz I have had my experience just 2 days before ... This shows the interest with which the aviation sector maintains its carriers. And it is losing its customers 'coz of this. Next time i will try my best to avoid boarding an Indian Airlines flight.
Monday, October 13, 2008
I’m loving it!
Now my life isn’t that boring. There are lots and lots of exciting things happening. But I just don’t feel like writing because otherwise I wouldn’t know where to start from. The most interesting thing about my life now is its unpredictability. I am a person who used to plan out everything in my life. The last 3 months taught me to take life more easily.
Eventful!!! That was the last 3 months.
I came to know the person who had been hiding inside me. I like her better than the old me. My dad and mum came to drop me in Delhi. And on the eve of my joining, my dad had a heart attack and he was in the hospital. I went to join my new college seeing my dad in the midst of tubes in the ICU. He was then shifted to one of the best heart speciality hospitals in Delhi. He was in the ICU for 6 days and they performed a surgery. I liked the way I handled the whole situation, supporting my mum who was so lost in this new place. I was able to heave a sigh of relief only after they landed in Trivandrum.
So I thought the worst was over. What more can happen? I will just go through the last 1 month of my life. I am unsure of how many people actually read this blog. This serves more as a memoir for me so that I can understand how I was at each point of time. So here goes... I’ll start of from September 3rd , 2008– the day before I turned 22 and the day our first minor test got over.
September 3rd , Thursday:
11.30pm – I get a call from my class mate asking me to come to department as I have to discuss with them about the teacher’s day celebrations. I didn’t suspect anything even though all of us in the mallu gang meet at 12 am for each others birthday because it was no onoe from the ‘gang’ calling and the reason seemed genuine.
11.45pm – I reach department to find no one concerned there and wondering what is happening.
September 4th:
12 am – People appear out of no where and I am taken into a room where there is a big birthday cake! Yea, it was the most surprising birthday celebration I had with almost half the class there.
1 am - I am sitting with the members of the mallu gang at Nescafe where we had a small celebration again.
3 am- I was washing out the cake from my hair
8 am – I wake up for breakfast and start working on the invite I have to give the teachers for the teacher’s day celebration.
10 am – I succumb to the pressure of my friends and go for “Rock on”
2pm- We return back to campus
5pm- I finish the invite and rush to class
9pm – Class is over and I start with the compering script for the next day
Friday , September 5th, :
1.30 am – I am in the lounge with Joseph and still half way through the script
9 am- I wake up with high fever and go back to sleep after taking a crocin.
2 pm – I wake up remembering about the event I hav to compere at 5.30 pm
5.30 pm – I am on the stage dressed in complete formals feeling really tired.
7.30 pm – I collapse after getting down the stage
10.00pm- I am admitted in the IIT hospital with 104 degree temperature and the duty doc wouldn’t allow me to travel in such a situation to my local guardian’s place. I understood the reason once I tried to stand up and fell back in the bed with my head spinning. Thanks to Sreejith who stayed back all night for me.
Saturday, September 6th:
5 am – I left for my local guardian’s place. My roomie packed my bag as I might have to stay there till Monday.
7am – I reach there and went directly to the bed.
9pm – I understand that its not the ordinary viral fever I always get. I don’t feel any temperature but the thermometer shows nothing less than 100 degree at any point of time. Finally, my local guardian and I concluded that the instrument was damaged.
Sunday, September 7th:
10am- I am taken to hospital so that I will be fit and fine to return by monday or latest Wednesday. The doctor says I am having some kind of viral fever and have to take numerous blood tests.
5pm – The result of blood test states that I have a very low platelet count but the dengue test is negative.
Monday, September 8th:
9 am – My father tells me to get into the flight at 4.30 pm from Delhi to Trivandrum.
3.30 pm – I reach airport and am taken around in a wheel chair
10.30pm – I reach Trivandrum half dead with practically no luggage. During the flight I understood that I couldn't even stand straight without someone helping me. All I could remember was being pushed in the wheel chair to my mother who came running to hug me.
That was too much for my family as my dad had returned from Delhi, in the same flight, one and a half months back, the same manner – in a wheel chair.
Tuesday, September 9th:
10 am: I am at the hospital trying my best not to trouble the people there and trying to walk. But in vain, I needed a wheel chair. I fainted in the wheel chair and was transferred to a stretcher and I just remember people running around me, pushing me to get medicines that would revive me. My doctor congratulated me for making it alone in this condition
Nothing much happened in the next 1 week with me in the hospital. I tried to cheer up my mother who was really down by this time. I don’t blame her. Her husband was saved from almost death, her father was hospitalised for the previous 2 weeks and her daughter was now lying, u can say almost dead, with some deadly disease. I was so pale and lost 5 kg in 5 days that people hardly recognised me.
I recovered... my doctor gives credit to my diet and my age for the rate at which I got back. I was so proud. I think he never thought seeing my frame work that I will get over it in such a short time. But then it took me almost a month to be back to what I was and that too with strict diet and not doing anything. Big thanks to all my class mates and even seniors at DMS. Everyone did what ever they could to make sure that I wasn’t missing anything and that I was comfortable.
Why I wrote this was to understand when I read it back I will understand that there are things that are not in my hand or any ones. Things can go wrong however well we plan. When I was cutting that cake, little did I know that I was going to be home in 4 days!
So here I am back in Delhi... I missed 5 weeks of classes on the whole. Today it is the 12th of October and at 11pm I am writing my blog. I have a presentation tomorrow at 10 am for which I hav to start preparing. Then another one on Tuesday at 9 am - for which my group hasn’t even decided the topic. From Wednesday to Sunday we have the minor test 2.
What will I say... I haven’t even attended a single class from 1st minor. Leave alone studying!
I am looking forward to the chilling cold that starts in November. I have never stayed at a place below 10 degree for more than a week. That sounds fun. After minors, we get our sem break and diwali clubbed. We all have to go winter shopping by then. Then there will be major exams by November end. Then we have to start a whole lot of planning for Parivartan – the annual B fest of DMS, IIT delhi and I am in the organising committee of this huge event or “Pari” as we all fondly call it.
Now I know nothing will go if we plan. I am taking life as it comes – not pressurising me or anyone around. I know everything happens for a reason and I trust the person above blindly. He will let only the best things happen to us. I never troubled him or became angry at what He did to me or my dad. I just prayed that He give me and my family the strength to come out of the testing times.
Life goes on... And I’m loving it!!!
Eventful!!! That was the last 3 months.
I came to know the person who had been hiding inside me. I like her better than the old me. My dad and mum came to drop me in Delhi. And on the eve of my joining, my dad had a heart attack and he was in the hospital. I went to join my new college seeing my dad in the midst of tubes in the ICU. He was then shifted to one of the best heart speciality hospitals in Delhi. He was in the ICU for 6 days and they performed a surgery. I liked the way I handled the whole situation, supporting my mum who was so lost in this new place. I was able to heave a sigh of relief only after they landed in Trivandrum.
So I thought the worst was over. What more can happen? I will just go through the last 1 month of my life. I am unsure of how many people actually read this blog. This serves more as a memoir for me so that I can understand how I was at each point of time. So here goes... I’ll start of from September 3rd , 2008– the day before I turned 22 and the day our first minor test got over.
September 3rd , Thursday:
11.30pm – I get a call from my class mate asking me to come to department as I have to discuss with them about the teacher’s day celebrations. I didn’t suspect anything even though all of us in the mallu gang meet at 12 am for each others birthday because it was no onoe from the ‘gang’ calling and the reason seemed genuine.
11.45pm – I reach department to find no one concerned there and wondering what is happening.
September 4th:
12 am – People appear out of no where and I am taken into a room where there is a big birthday cake! Yea, it was the most surprising birthday celebration I had with almost half the class there.
1 am - I am sitting with the members of the mallu gang at Nescafe where we had a small celebration again.
3 am- I was washing out the cake from my hair
8 am – I wake up for breakfast and start working on the invite I have to give the teachers for the teacher’s day celebration.
10 am – I succumb to the pressure of my friends and go for “Rock on”
2pm- We return back to campus
5pm- I finish the invite and rush to class
9pm – Class is over and I start with the compering script for the next day
Friday , September 5th, :
1.30 am – I am in the lounge with Joseph and still half way through the script
9 am- I wake up with high fever and go back to sleep after taking a crocin.
2 pm – I wake up remembering about the event I hav to compere at 5.30 pm
5.30 pm – I am on the stage dressed in complete formals feeling really tired.
7.30 pm – I collapse after getting down the stage
10.00pm- I am admitted in the IIT hospital with 104 degree temperature and the duty doc wouldn’t allow me to travel in such a situation to my local guardian’s place. I understood the reason once I tried to stand up and fell back in the bed with my head spinning. Thanks to Sreejith who stayed back all night for me.
Saturday, September 6th:
5 am – I left for my local guardian’s place. My roomie packed my bag as I might have to stay there till Monday.
7am – I reach there and went directly to the bed.
9pm – I understand that its not the ordinary viral fever I always get. I don’t feel any temperature but the thermometer shows nothing less than 100 degree at any point of time. Finally, my local guardian and I concluded that the instrument was damaged.
Sunday, September 7th:
10am- I am taken to hospital so that I will be fit and fine to return by monday or latest Wednesday. The doctor says I am having some kind of viral fever and have to take numerous blood tests.
5pm – The result of blood test states that I have a very low platelet count but the dengue test is negative.
Monday, September 8th:
9 am – My father tells me to get into the flight at 4.30 pm from Delhi to Trivandrum.
3.30 pm – I reach airport and am taken around in a wheel chair
10.30pm – I reach Trivandrum half dead with practically no luggage. During the flight I understood that I couldn't even stand straight without someone helping me. All I could remember was being pushed in the wheel chair to my mother who came running to hug me.
That was too much for my family as my dad had returned from Delhi, in the same flight, one and a half months back, the same manner – in a wheel chair.
Tuesday, September 9th:
10 am: I am at the hospital trying my best not to trouble the people there and trying to walk. But in vain, I needed a wheel chair. I fainted in the wheel chair and was transferred to a stretcher and I just remember people running around me, pushing me to get medicines that would revive me. My doctor congratulated me for making it alone in this condition
Nothing much happened in the next 1 week with me in the hospital. I tried to cheer up my mother who was really down by this time. I don’t blame her. Her husband was saved from almost death, her father was hospitalised for the previous 2 weeks and her daughter was now lying, u can say almost dead, with some deadly disease. I was so pale and lost 5 kg in 5 days that people hardly recognised me.
I recovered... my doctor gives credit to my diet and my age for the rate at which I got back. I was so proud. I think he never thought seeing my frame work that I will get over it in such a short time. But then it took me almost a month to be back to what I was and that too with strict diet and not doing anything. Big thanks to all my class mates and even seniors at DMS. Everyone did what ever they could to make sure that I wasn’t missing anything and that I was comfortable.
Why I wrote this was to understand when I read it back I will understand that there are things that are not in my hand or any ones. Things can go wrong however well we plan. When I was cutting that cake, little did I know that I was going to be home in 4 days!
So here I am back in Delhi... I missed 5 weeks of classes on the whole. Today it is the 12th of October and at 11pm I am writing my blog. I have a presentation tomorrow at 10 am for which I hav to start preparing. Then another one on Tuesday at 9 am - for which my group hasn’t even decided the topic. From Wednesday to Sunday we have the minor test 2.
What will I say... I haven’t even attended a single class from 1st minor. Leave alone studying!
I am looking forward to the chilling cold that starts in November. I have never stayed at a place below 10 degree for more than a week. That sounds fun. After minors, we get our sem break and diwali clubbed. We all have to go winter shopping by then. Then there will be major exams by November end. Then we have to start a whole lot of planning for Parivartan – the annual B fest of DMS, IIT delhi and I am in the organising committee of this huge event or “Pari” as we all fondly call it.
Now I know nothing will go if we plan. I am taking life as it comes – not pressurising me or anyone around. I know everything happens for a reason and I trust the person above blindly. He will let only the best things happen to us. I never troubled him or became angry at what He did to me or my dad. I just prayed that He give me and my family the strength to come out of the testing times.
Life goes on... And I’m loving it!!!
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
LOST IN TRANSITION
September 23... The last post was in July. This was a transition period and I was lost in that. When I started blogging I promised that I will post at least 1 post a month. I couldn't even keep up to that. But still I could have written something if I wanted to. Every one has just 24 hours and we can do anything if we wanted to. I was going through one of the lowest times of my life these 3 months. It’s just that I didn’t want to write anything.
No, I wasn’t quite mystified by the MBA course or the odd timings it trained us to work in. I was expecting all that... maybe more severe than what it is in DMS. Things in my personal life took quite a turn which affected me, my attitude and everything in what I do. I will never forget these 3 months of my life.
One of my friends rightly told me that once we are out of college we face the life with all its harsh realities. It’s so true. Be it job, higher studies – abroad or here- we move a bit closer to the real life. Inside the college we were so secure... those walls protecting us from the real world.
So September came and I celebrated my 22nd birthday in the 1st week. The next day I got hospitalised for the first time in my life. I was diagnosed with sever dengue fever. I was literally air lifted. I landed back home in a wheel chair on September 7th. I was rushed to the hospital the next day morning and there I lay for 6 long days. I was grumbling all the week before that this will be the first Onam that I wouldn’t be at home. God answered my prayer. I spend Onam in the hospital not able to eat anything but rice soup the whole week.
But all these incidents in the last months made me understood that I am stronger than I thought I was. One good thing that I understood and practise now is never expect anything from anyone. Life becomes so simple after that. More than half of the problems in relation ships, what ever colour they are in, will be solved. I remember a senior at IIT Delhi telling me that you make life long friends at school and degree but not for your MBA. I am not sure whether that is true. I will be in a better position to comment on that after 1 and a half years. Though you can’t generalise this, mostly it will be close friends for surviving the 2 years and the it will be “just friends”.
Now I don’t keep analysing whether I am happy or sad. But I am here. One of the good B schools in the country... I made the choice. No one is to be blamed or absolved. But the feeling of insecurity grows on you.
Well all these shouldn’t confuse anyone about the college that I am a part of now. It’s absolutely wonderful and a privilege to be associated with IIT Delhi. I understood that there is a very different world out there. I came to know that you can learn engineering like this too ... very different from what I saw in MEC. Now I am sitting at home for more than 2 weeks but I hate to take this break. I am raring to go back and be a part of the whole fun... yea, fun in a different way it is. You never know hours passing by there. Hours there are like minutes at home. Maybe my mother was complaining that I don’t even talk to her at Delhi that I was brought back for so long in quite an unexpected break.
Every one should have one period of their life studying at an Indian Institute, just to know the difference. I like my new college. But I can’t compare it with MEC. MEC is one place which gave me lot of things in life – both good and bad... of course; the good out weighs the bad.
And the city is brimming with life. I would have liked everything about Delhi if it weren’t for the climate and the water. And of course the sporadic blasts. I feel no one there is really worried about their safety. They all have learned to live with that fear. For someone who has never stayed outside Kerala except for holidays, Delhi seemed more like a culture shock. But i too am beginning to like that place.
Everyone I know has moved on in life... Some even getting married. It’s a transition phase for all of us. We are all getting used to the new life and also the lives of others around. Most of them have gone serious, unlike what I saw them in school or college. It will be childish if I say I want to come back to MEC. That phase is over and I should be careful to make sure the next phase is the best in my life. And I hope IIT D leaves a smile on my face, when I look at the snaps after 3 years of the time I spend there, just like what MEC does to me now.
No, I wasn’t quite mystified by the MBA course or the odd timings it trained us to work in. I was expecting all that... maybe more severe than what it is in DMS. Things in my personal life took quite a turn which affected me, my attitude and everything in what I do. I will never forget these 3 months of my life.
One of my friends rightly told me that once we are out of college we face the life with all its harsh realities. It’s so true. Be it job, higher studies – abroad or here- we move a bit closer to the real life. Inside the college we were so secure... those walls protecting us from the real world.
So September came and I celebrated my 22nd birthday in the 1st week. The next day I got hospitalised for the first time in my life. I was diagnosed with sever dengue fever. I was literally air lifted. I landed back home in a wheel chair on September 7th. I was rushed to the hospital the next day morning and there I lay for 6 long days. I was grumbling all the week before that this will be the first Onam that I wouldn’t be at home. God answered my prayer. I spend Onam in the hospital not able to eat anything but rice soup the whole week.
But all these incidents in the last months made me understood that I am stronger than I thought I was. One good thing that I understood and practise now is never expect anything from anyone. Life becomes so simple after that. More than half of the problems in relation ships, what ever colour they are in, will be solved. I remember a senior at IIT Delhi telling me that you make life long friends at school and degree but not for your MBA. I am not sure whether that is true. I will be in a better position to comment on that after 1 and a half years. Though you can’t generalise this, mostly it will be close friends for surviving the 2 years and the it will be “just friends”.
Now I don’t keep analysing whether I am happy or sad. But I am here. One of the good B schools in the country... I made the choice. No one is to be blamed or absolved. But the feeling of insecurity grows on you.
Well all these shouldn’t confuse anyone about the college that I am a part of now. It’s absolutely wonderful and a privilege to be associated with IIT Delhi. I understood that there is a very different world out there. I came to know that you can learn engineering like this too ... very different from what I saw in MEC. Now I am sitting at home for more than 2 weeks but I hate to take this break. I am raring to go back and be a part of the whole fun... yea, fun in a different way it is. You never know hours passing by there. Hours there are like minutes at home. Maybe my mother was complaining that I don’t even talk to her at Delhi that I was brought back for so long in quite an unexpected break.
Every one should have one period of their life studying at an Indian Institute, just to know the difference. I like my new college. But I can’t compare it with MEC. MEC is one place which gave me lot of things in life – both good and bad... of course; the good out weighs the bad.
And the city is brimming with life. I would have liked everything about Delhi if it weren’t for the climate and the water. And of course the sporadic blasts. I feel no one there is really worried about their safety. They all have learned to live with that fear. For someone who has never stayed outside Kerala except for holidays, Delhi seemed more like a culture shock. But i too am beginning to like that place.
Everyone I know has moved on in life... Some even getting married. It’s a transition phase for all of us. We are all getting used to the new life and also the lives of others around. Most of them have gone serious, unlike what I saw them in school or college. It will be childish if I say I want to come back to MEC. That phase is over and I should be careful to make sure the next phase is the best in my life. And I hope IIT D leaves a smile on my face, when I look at the snaps after 3 years of the time I spend there, just like what MEC does to me now.
Saturday, July 5, 2008
Self-contemplation!
When angry, count four... This is a famous quote by Mark Twain. Now when some one is angry, people say that the person loses his rational capacity. Anger is a short term of madness. When I am angry, I also forget that I have to start counting. But this definitely works, but the problem is more than 90% of the time I forget that I have to count. Personally, I get angry very fast and cool down faster than that. I blurt out something, thanks to my short temper, but it takes me less than half an hour to regain my old self and I am full of apologies. All my close friends know this, and only they can understand me.
I have met people who are worse than me (though, that group is a minority ;)). Every one has the right to feel irritated and wretched at some point of time. But when someone starts shouting at me angrily, I just keep quiet and listen. I think I have immense patience in hearing out people when they are in a wretched situation.
There will be lots of things going in my head at the same point of time. So there will be many instances, when I may appear thoroughly attentive but I won’t be hearing anything that you are saying. But I replay it after storing in my buffer. So there will be lots of instances when my response can be too slow and you can call me tube light.
Another problem is that if I get into a hassle with anyone, that will stay in my mind and I will have no peace of mind until I sort it out. The biggest problem is that when something like this stays in mind, it adversely affects my dealings with others. That frustration comes out in the form of anger even to the slightest folly that any one else does. This is a very childish and immature behaviour of mine. And I am sure that everyone will feel insecure at some point or the other. I am trying out things that take me out of that situation. Sitting alone, not talking to anyone, taking a drive, listening to music and now writing this blog... yea, that’s definitely helping :).
I take a lot of time to get close friends with anyone. Maybe, it’s because I have been taught never to trust anyone and I am prejudiced about some matters. But once I am friends with I claim to be the most sincere person anyone can find. I’ll see through any flaws of my friends. But the best complement that I have got from my friend (who is my worst critic, as well) is that I have improved so much in the last 4 years. I thank my life in Cochin for that. And that’s one of the main reasons why the last 4 years is so dear to me.
Everybody who knows me will have a different impression about me. The thing I hate the most is that most people is too judging. Unfortunately, my home town is also filled with a bunch of narrow minded people, worse than anywhere in the state. So that’s my policy, I don’t go after people begging to correct their impression about me. I think there is no need to do that. We cannot convince anyone about anything if they are already convinced themselves. So I tell myself that they just missed the opportunity to be my friend. Sometimes, I lose it. Everyone does at one point or the other.
So this will be how I’ll react to the most pathetic situation I am in. Hmmm... I think everyone will be in the same situation at one point or the other. But, the reason why we are all unique is because we all react to these circumstances in a totally different manner. I am a 100% predictable person and my close friends can guess what I will do next with a probability of being right equal to 1. But I am not at all a bad a human being :). I am very emotional and a tough nut at the same time and I like it that way.
I have met people who are worse than me (though, that group is a minority ;)). Every one has the right to feel irritated and wretched at some point of time. But when someone starts shouting at me angrily, I just keep quiet and listen. I think I have immense patience in hearing out people when they are in a wretched situation.
There will be lots of things going in my head at the same point of time. So there will be many instances, when I may appear thoroughly attentive but I won’t be hearing anything that you are saying. But I replay it after storing in my buffer. So there will be lots of instances when my response can be too slow and you can call me tube light.
Another problem is that if I get into a hassle with anyone, that will stay in my mind and I will have no peace of mind until I sort it out. The biggest problem is that when something like this stays in mind, it adversely affects my dealings with others. That frustration comes out in the form of anger even to the slightest folly that any one else does. This is a very childish and immature behaviour of mine. And I am sure that everyone will feel insecure at some point or the other. I am trying out things that take me out of that situation. Sitting alone, not talking to anyone, taking a drive, listening to music and now writing this blog... yea, that’s definitely helping :).
I take a lot of time to get close friends with anyone. Maybe, it’s because I have been taught never to trust anyone and I am prejudiced about some matters. But once I am friends with I claim to be the most sincere person anyone can find. I’ll see through any flaws of my friends. But the best complement that I have got from my friend (who is my worst critic, as well) is that I have improved so much in the last 4 years. I thank my life in Cochin for that. And that’s one of the main reasons why the last 4 years is so dear to me.
Everybody who knows me will have a different impression about me. The thing I hate the most is that most people is too judging. Unfortunately, my home town is also filled with a bunch of narrow minded people, worse than anywhere in the state. So that’s my policy, I don’t go after people begging to correct their impression about me. I think there is no need to do that. We cannot convince anyone about anything if they are already convinced themselves. So I tell myself that they just missed the opportunity to be my friend. Sometimes, I lose it. Everyone does at one point or the other.
So this will be how I’ll react to the most pathetic situation I am in. Hmmm... I think everyone will be in the same situation at one point or the other. But, the reason why we are all unique is because we all react to these circumstances in a totally different manner. I am a 100% predictable person and my close friends can guess what I will do next with a probability of being right equal to 1. But I am not at all a bad a human being :). I am very emotional and a tough nut at the same time and I like it that way.
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
FM - Free Music!!!
At least now I should write something about that topic that I claim to be I am most passionate about i.e., music. I am an ardent lover of music. People find my tastes in music quite confusing. I have been trained in Carnatic Music for about 10 years during my school days, under Perumbavoor G.Ravindranath. My guru is a well known musician and I consider it a big blessing that I at least got a chance to say this. Music is something I got from my father who himself used to play the mridangam and tabala and was part of the music troupe, that he and his friends organised in their college days.
Since I am trained in carnatic music, it doesn’t mean that I enjoy only that. I listen to all types of songs and albums in any language. But the problem when I listen to songs is that most of the time I just care for only the music and not the lyrics. And most of the time, the kind of music I listen to depends on my mood. To me, that gives amazing results and its the way I rejuvenate.
I listen to all A.R Rahman’s albums – be it English, Hindi, Tamil or even Malayalam (Yodha). Even if his critics write off one album as not reaching the usual standard, I will possess it. I think he is one person who is a phenomenon in himself.
We don’t have a dearth of singers in Kerala these days. Thanks to the ongoing reality shows. That reminds me of the news I saw in a national news channel about a 16 year old girl who is suffering from depression. She was one of the top 10 contestants in a leading channel’s dance reality show. This calls for a serious introspection as to whether these reality shows are just the glitz and glamour that we see. It seems that this girl is now out of the competition and she has stopped even having food from that day. Should we have something like an age limit to participate for such reality shows? That’s food for thought.
Kerala is listening to radio now. We have got so many FM stations that sprung out of no where in the recent past that most of us who have been allergic to radios have started listening to it. It’s nice in a way. I can talk about Trivandrum, my home town. It was a sudden transition. One day 3 FM stations started broadcasting. Till this date, we have Big FM, S FM, Radio mirchi, Club FM and our very own Ananthapuri. Trivandrumites are waiting for Best FM and Radio Mango. I was so proud when the channels started broadcasting here before Ernakulam. In my mind, there is always a conflict between Cochin and Trivandrum. Trivandrum is my home town (my parents are also from Trivandrum) but I owe a lot to Cochin for making the person I am now. So these 2 places are very close to me. I also find lots of people debating about which of the two places is better, but in vain.
So back to these FMs, I think it’s a superb idea to have something that offers music for 24 hours. I listened to the channels at Trivandrum and Cochin. Here I have to go with the ones at Trivandrum. I found that more than half of the broadcast time by the stations at Cochin is taken up by the commercial ads. Of course, Cochin is a bigger commercial place than Trivandrum, but when it comes to FMs I am happy that I hear it from Trivandrum.
FMs started dominating God’s own country only a few months now. I was really proud to say those times that Trivandrum had 5 FM stations while Cochin had just 1. I went to Chennai and my family friend turned on the FM station. She started changing the channels one by one. To my disbelief, I saw that even after she changed more than 5 channels it wasn’t repeating. And then she said that there were 11 stations there. All right, there went my FM war. It was even bigger when I went to Delhi. The sweeper at IIT-Bombay does his work listening to the FM in his walkman. Of course, FM has created a revolution especially in hotels, retail outlets etc.
But I don’t approve the standard of the programmes in these channels. Some are hilarious and entertaining, but all radio jockeys (RJs as they are fondly called) should be themselves rather than trying to imitate those in the other national channels. If one listens to the channels in Trivandrum one will find that a good number of programmes have the RJs doing a mockery of the Trivandrum slang. Yes, it is done in good humour and they do succeed in doing that to a limit. But when it crosses a limit everyone starts feeling a bit monotonous.
And the prizes, that is one thing that we shouldn’t forget. They are doing a good job roping in sponsors. But when we sent a single message worth Rs.3 they won’t even let out the probability that we can win. Another good thing about listening to it from Kerala is that we can hear Tamil, Hindi and Malayalam songs. I think that is our speciality. The youth here are familiar with all the latest films and music in these 3 languages, while a person who knows Hindi will just stick to Hindi or English.
But the big question is how long they will survive? With passing time, more channels will come in and tighter will be the competition. They have to keep on innovating and changing according to time avoiding plagiarism. As it is rightly said in “It happened in India” by Kishore Biyani, that the main way to survive in business is changing them according to the customer’s needs and keep on innovating. There should never be a shortage of ideas and also spontaneity among the RJs. The same applies for the advertisements being broadcasted. They should be catchy and convey the information to the customers they target. For this, they have to keep on changing their strategies and sales promotion tactics.
But good or bad, God’s own country now has a musical atmosphere. This is one media, like the newspaper, accessible to the rich and poor alike. We can listen to music 24*7. And we can listen to it when we are driving, working in kitchen etc. But the same doesn’t apply to television or any other media. My uncle was telling me that when he is caught in the infamous traffic jams in Cochin these days, he is unusually cool. Thanks to FM, its RJs and the wonderful songs they play to ease out our tension. Music does wonders! My mum listens to it for a totally different reason on her drive to her office. She listens to our very own Ananthapuri on her way to office in the morning. Her sole reason for this being, they are the only channel which gives the time at 9.15 a.m. So she will be able to know how late she can be. Nevertheless, the FM stations are doing a great job. The broadcasters are careful to please their audience in all generations. Personally, I feel it’s a very exciting industry and I definitely want to see how each channel will respond to their competitions in the long run. Of course FM can now be rightly expanded as Free Music.
Since I am trained in carnatic music, it doesn’t mean that I enjoy only that. I listen to all types of songs and albums in any language. But the problem when I listen to songs is that most of the time I just care for only the music and not the lyrics. And most of the time, the kind of music I listen to depends on my mood. To me, that gives amazing results and its the way I rejuvenate.
I listen to all A.R Rahman’s albums – be it English, Hindi, Tamil or even Malayalam (Yodha). Even if his critics write off one album as not reaching the usual standard, I will possess it. I think he is one person who is a phenomenon in himself.
We don’t have a dearth of singers in Kerala these days. Thanks to the ongoing reality shows. That reminds me of the news I saw in a national news channel about a 16 year old girl who is suffering from depression. She was one of the top 10 contestants in a leading channel’s dance reality show. This calls for a serious introspection as to whether these reality shows are just the glitz and glamour that we see. It seems that this girl is now out of the competition and she has stopped even having food from that day. Should we have something like an age limit to participate for such reality shows? That’s food for thought.
Kerala is listening to radio now. We have got so many FM stations that sprung out of no where in the recent past that most of us who have been allergic to radios have started listening to it. It’s nice in a way. I can talk about Trivandrum, my home town. It was a sudden transition. One day 3 FM stations started broadcasting. Till this date, we have Big FM, S FM, Radio mirchi, Club FM and our very own Ananthapuri. Trivandrumites are waiting for Best FM and Radio Mango. I was so proud when the channels started broadcasting here before Ernakulam. In my mind, there is always a conflict between Cochin and Trivandrum. Trivandrum is my home town (my parents are also from Trivandrum) but I owe a lot to Cochin for making the person I am now. So these 2 places are very close to me. I also find lots of people debating about which of the two places is better, but in vain.
So back to these FMs, I think it’s a superb idea to have something that offers music for 24 hours. I listened to the channels at Trivandrum and Cochin. Here I have to go with the ones at Trivandrum. I found that more than half of the broadcast time by the stations at Cochin is taken up by the commercial ads. Of course, Cochin is a bigger commercial place than Trivandrum, but when it comes to FMs I am happy that I hear it from Trivandrum.
FMs started dominating God’s own country only a few months now. I was really proud to say those times that Trivandrum had 5 FM stations while Cochin had just 1. I went to Chennai and my family friend turned on the FM station. She started changing the channels one by one. To my disbelief, I saw that even after she changed more than 5 channels it wasn’t repeating. And then she said that there were 11 stations there. All right, there went my FM war. It was even bigger when I went to Delhi. The sweeper at IIT-Bombay does his work listening to the FM in his walkman. Of course, FM has created a revolution especially in hotels, retail outlets etc.
But I don’t approve the standard of the programmes in these channels. Some are hilarious and entertaining, but all radio jockeys (RJs as they are fondly called) should be themselves rather than trying to imitate those in the other national channels. If one listens to the channels in Trivandrum one will find that a good number of programmes have the RJs doing a mockery of the Trivandrum slang. Yes, it is done in good humour and they do succeed in doing that to a limit. But when it crosses a limit everyone starts feeling a bit monotonous.
And the prizes, that is one thing that we shouldn’t forget. They are doing a good job roping in sponsors. But when we sent a single message worth Rs.3 they won’t even let out the probability that we can win. Another good thing about listening to it from Kerala is that we can hear Tamil, Hindi and Malayalam songs. I think that is our speciality. The youth here are familiar with all the latest films and music in these 3 languages, while a person who knows Hindi will just stick to Hindi or English.
But the big question is how long they will survive? With passing time, more channels will come in and tighter will be the competition. They have to keep on innovating and changing according to time avoiding plagiarism. As it is rightly said in “It happened in India” by Kishore Biyani, that the main way to survive in business is changing them according to the customer’s needs and keep on innovating. There should never be a shortage of ideas and also spontaneity among the RJs. The same applies for the advertisements being broadcasted. They should be catchy and convey the information to the customers they target. For this, they have to keep on changing their strategies and sales promotion tactics.
But good or bad, God’s own country now has a musical atmosphere. This is one media, like the newspaper, accessible to the rich and poor alike. We can listen to music 24*7. And we can listen to it when we are driving, working in kitchen etc. But the same doesn’t apply to television or any other media. My uncle was telling me that when he is caught in the infamous traffic jams in Cochin these days, he is unusually cool. Thanks to FM, its RJs and the wonderful songs they play to ease out our tension. Music does wonders! My mum listens to it for a totally different reason on her drive to her office. She listens to our very own Ananthapuri on her way to office in the morning. Her sole reason for this being, they are the only channel which gives the time at 9.15 a.m. So she will be able to know how late she can be. Nevertheless, the FM stations are doing a great job. The broadcasters are careful to please their audience in all generations. Personally, I feel it’s a very exciting industry and I definitely want to see how each channel will respond to their competitions in the long run. Of course FM can now be rightly expanded as Free Music.
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Inevitable transition!
Phew! Inevitable transition it is. Life goes on at such a fast pace and I end up noticing that only after a good half of it has gone by. And by that time it will be too late. Live life to the fullest every moment, enjoying every detail of what ever you do. Personally, I do like to go back and change here and there. But on the whole I am thankful to Almighty for where I am now.
One group who were not bothered at all about CAT and the other exams. I wonder why they come for classes. But they are the group that pumps in the money to the coaching institutes. A majority of them end up not even taking CAT.
Then there is another group, they start off. Very deceptive! Once the first company comes to campus to recruit them, they disappear.
Then I have come across people who have been preparing so hard for this particular exam, which is the mother of all exams, for over 4 years but each time they lose out because of a 0.5 percentile short in 1 of the 3 sections. They are the unfortunate of all.
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
All is well that ends well!
“You have the power to act, only act. You do not have the power to influence the results. Therefore you must act without the anticipation of the result without succumbing to inaction.”
This is a quote from Bhagvad Gita.. And true it is… However qualified we are or what ever profile we have there are moments of distress and doubt we go thru. The perfect example of such a situation is when we are sitting in front of the computer having typed our roll number and waiting for the result page. I feel helpless and we definitely don’t have the power to influence the result…
Now, Indian Institute of Science spared me from that anguish. When I landed from
I had been through the same state at
So on
Then on April 9th IIT-Madras came out with the results. I made it! I was pleased. Any convert feels good. Then the wait started for IIT-Delhi.
Everyone unanimously agrees that IIT-Bombay and
My parents were not keen at all on me going to Kharagpur. The results were supposed to be out on April 11th. I was preparing myself as if I am going to some unknown land. I used to ask about Kharagpur to anyone has been at least 500km near that place. People tell me all horrifying things about that place.
I had my worst experience at
So came April 11th,
Thursday, April 3, 2008
The capital
I couldn’t think anything better than this for the title because that’s the first word that comes to my mind when I think of Delhi. So here goes my experience from March 27th to March 31st at IIT, Delhi.
It couldn’t have been worse... In just a sentence that was the experience. But that is very relative... Compared to what I had gone thru, my gd/pi at IIT-D was the one where I had a hard time not only during the process but also the stay. I will start off with the flight that was scheduled to depart at 16.30 and was half an hour late... We landed at Delhi right on time. The car that was arranged took me and my mother to IIT. This was the only place where no one I knew had gone before.. The stay was at the ground floor of a prof’s residence... The place had been cleaned up for us and so had its own inconvenience... I won’t talk about something unimportant like that coz I am thankful that I got an accommodation inside the campus itself. We reached there by 10 pm on 27th.
The next day we woke up. By 10 am we were feeling so bored sitting inside that we thought we will just have a look around the campus. As soon as we stepped out we realised our folly. The sun began to burn our skin... It was piercing deep into my body... With the map I tried to get to Department of Management Studies (DMS). We walked for about 25 minutes asking for direction every minute. We even crossed a small bridge on our way and ended in front of DMS. It was in front of the JNU gate of IIT, Delhi. The building was remarkable... It was huge... maybe I underestimated it. After talking to a senior, we walked back to have lunch. The whole day, I was idling in the room... I also met a few friends who had come over from Kerala for the gd/pi process. The guys were complaining that their accommodation was poor. Each one had a single room at the new hostel at IIT-B and the facility here was opposite to that. They were literally shut in a basement where many mattresses were scattered on the floor. At night, I went to the girls’ hostel and found that only 3 girls were there for the next day’s process. The seniors were very warm and I also met a mallu in 1st year.
On 29th morning, we had breakfast and came back before the sun came out too hot... We had realised our folly only after seeing the sun burnt faces of ours that no one go outdoors in the summer there. My spirit was a bit dampened seeing my face black washed. We had our lunch and walked for 10 minutes to catch a cycle rickshaw. It was a 15 min ride to DMS. We had to register and the document verification was done then itself. It was 1.45 pm and I was thinking I had just 15 min for it to start... The whole process was supposed to finish off in 2 hrs.
Different people have different ways to relieve tension... If one sees me biting the nails then one can be sure that I am tensed to the core... I know it’s a very bad habit but then it’s how I fight tension. Another moron like action I do is skipping food... I won’t eat anything before my interviews. Not only for the present interview season, but this has started right from the first one I attended for my job, 1 yr back. So there I am sitting in the seminar hall, waiting for the presentation to start with a half-full (quarter to be exact) stomach. The volunteers came forward and asked a few of us sitting in front whether we were the 2pm batch... Of course, I thought, it was 5 minutes to 2 and will the 1 pm batch be sitting there... To my surprise, one of them asked the candidates in the 1 pm slot to come out. They were just going for the gd!!
The presentation lasted for 15 min. It was pretty impressive. After the long wait (the senior allotted to our group was trying his best to make us at home) we were called for the gd. I was in panel D and I was the 4th person. Only 7 in my panel were present... Thanks to all other B schools except IITs and IIMs coming out with the calls. The panel comprised of 4 gentlemen and a lady. They were looking very tired. One of the panelist wished us... we all wished him back. Then he mocked back saying won’t you wish the madam?
Now the fun starts... One of them said that since we were the last group of the day, we get the privilege to decide the topics... Now, the panels before us had all sorts of topics like ... ‘To decide not to decide’, ‘Left, right, 123’ etc. So the group (not me) was happy to decide the topic... A self appointed leader said a few sentences and said we should discuss on “whether gd/pi process is essential for b school admission”... I had enough of it.... I felt it was like piercing ourselves with a sword... If someone had walked out of the room I would have followed. I couldn’t believe my ears when the same person said “I don’t think we need time to think about that, we can start”. But we were told that we should think for 5 min. I couldn’t mess up this one and so I said that we should be given some time before starting to discuss. So everyone agreed. Then the panel said, ‘we were just having fun... we had the topic ready... So your topic is Reservations- good or bad’. It fell like a bombshell on me... Of all the topics, this one??
I knew that I was at a disadvantage as anyone prepared will have the same topics to talk about and hence there wasn’t much fruitful discussion. So it went on to be the most ordinary discussion ever with 2 people dominating. I couldn’t put up a good show coz of the situation that it was. It came out to be the worst gd that I had to go thru this season.
It was over by 4.30 pm and I was having a severe migraine by then. The weather was also very unfavourable. I met 2 mallu seniors. They were telling me that this was “pleasant climate” and that the summer is yet to come. 36.7 degree and pleasant climate???
I was called for my interview by about 6.15 pm. By then, I have had enough of Delhi. I was so tired and my head was breaking... I went in and thanked all Gods that it wasn’t the same panel as gd. It was supposed to be a friendly panel that I was in.
There was a lady and 2 gentlemen. One (the industry person) was going through my mark sheets.
The questions asked were:
Tell us something about yourself.
Why MBA?
What is the foreign exchange rate of dollar, pound and euro?
What is the effect of appreciating rupee on import and export?
Since I had written my interest as HR in my SOP, the industry person asked how I can be successful.
He was trying to state that HR managers are failures and now that everyone gets guides to study what will come to them for the HR interviews, its nothing innovative and that anyone can get thru an HR manager fooling them.
I was also asked about my preference and the other calls I got.
The whole process lasted for 15-20 minutes. It was 7 pm when I reached back the room. We went to a friend’s place and the flight back was only on 31st. I call this the experience of the season. After the sun burn and black wash, I have severe migraine. The next day I was down with food poisoning, vomiting even the water I drank. I reached Cochin, only God knows how, the next day.
There ends my season this year... Waiting for april 7th that will bring me good news (fingers crossed). On the whole it was a fantastic experience, something that I had never experienced. 5 interviews in a span of 1 month (SJMSOM was on Feb. 29th and IIT-D on March 29thJ) ... The most exciting one was SJMSOM as it was the first B school interview I was faced so it will be my personal favourite. I was too naive then, not knowing anything ... not even how a B school looks like. So it was definitely the one I was looking forward in the beginning and it was the best call I have. IISc went very smoothly. IIT-Kgp and IIT-M were the ones I was very cool. I wasn’t tensed at all and that was the sole reason I was tensed there. IIT-D tested my physical perseverance apart from the GD/PI.
Each place I visited was unique in its own way and each had their unique advantages to boast about. Where I will spend the next 2 yrs of my life is written before hand by the person who knows better than me, what’s best for me. So where ever I get thru I know it will be for my good coz that’s the place where I will be able to do my best.
Friday, March 21, 2008
Chennai!!!
From Bangalore my mother and I caught shadabdi to chennai... It was raining... Well, i felt like the place was welcoming me :)
So we reached chennai on march 14, 9.30pm... My gd/pi process for iit-m was on march 17th morning...
I was so tired by 14t that i was even telling my mum that we will return home straight frm bgl without going to chennai...
The last time i visited chennai was when i was in the 10th std... But the place has changed so rapidly...
The culture there is very different... complete contrast to the other metros... It has got its pros and cons... You get everything now in chennai... from food courts, to ccds to pizza huts... Now these r the main things which bother me ( food outlets)..
We stayed at my mum's friend's place... We went to the city centre, spancer plaza and t nagar... It was more like a holiday for me... shopping all the way..
On march 17th morning we left for iit-madras.... The campus is so huge... But the department of management studies was near the gajendra circle... So we just had to take the straight road from the entrance...
There was a presentation after the registration.
The group task was conducted shortly. We were divided into groups. The panel was the same for the gt and pi.
The topic for group task was about choosing a political party and how to bring about professionalism in it. We were given 5 minutes to write our points on 1 sheet. Then there was open discussion for about 15 min. There was not much co-ordination. Everyone was adopting diplomatic stands not criticizing any party as such. The prof gave the feedback that no one was assertive and that none of us were straight.
PI was by the prof frm doms and another frm civil engg department.The questions asked were:
Explain the main project.
Whether there is a problem in engineers choosing mba after their engg?
Since I had written interest in hr in my sop, I was asked to explain how much I knew about it.
Compare the hr in a small office to that undertaken by the human resource development in India.
How to eradicate poverty?
Why funds are going wasted even though it has been properly planned?
Which all books do you read?
I was asked the story line of one of the books.
There was a brief discussion on my extra curricular activities.
The interview lasted for 20-25 min. The whole process was very well conducted. The seniors were managing everything very well. They were all very helpful..
After the process, one of the seniors frm kerala took me to her hostel and gave me a tour..
I also met my school mates doing there B.Tech there...
On the whole it was good... But then there is the wait till april 7th...
So we reached chennai on march 14, 9.30pm... My gd/pi process for iit-m was on march 17th morning...
I was so tired by 14t that i was even telling my mum that we will return home straight frm bgl without going to chennai...
The last time i visited chennai was when i was in the 10th std... But the place has changed so rapidly...
The culture there is very different... complete contrast to the other metros... It has got its pros and cons... You get everything now in chennai... from food courts, to ccds to pizza huts... Now these r the main things which bother me ( food outlets)..
We stayed at my mum's friend's place... We went to the city centre, spancer plaza and t nagar... It was more like a holiday for me... shopping all the way..
On march 17th morning we left for iit-madras.... The campus is so huge... But the department of management studies was near the gajendra circle... So we just had to take the straight road from the entrance...
There was a presentation after the registration.
The group task was conducted shortly. We were divided into groups. The panel was the same for the gt and pi.
The topic for group task was about choosing a political party and how to bring about professionalism in it. We were given 5 minutes to write our points on 1 sheet. Then there was open discussion for about 15 min. There was not much co-ordination. Everyone was adopting diplomatic stands not criticizing any party as such. The prof gave the feedback that no one was assertive and that none of us were straight.
PI was by the prof frm doms and another frm civil engg department.The questions asked were:
Explain the main project.
Whether there is a problem in engineers choosing mba after their engg?
Since I had written interest in hr in my sop, I was asked to explain how much I knew about it.
Compare the hr in a small office to that undertaken by the human resource development in India.
How to eradicate poverty?
Why funds are going wasted even though it has been properly planned?
Which all books do you read?
I was asked the story line of one of the books.
There was a brief discussion on my extra curricular activities.
The interview lasted for 20-25 min. The whole process was very well conducted. The seniors were managing everything very well. They were all very helpful..
After the process, one of the seniors frm kerala took me to her hostel and gave me a tour..
I also met my school mates doing there B.Tech there...
On the whole it was good... But then there is the wait till april 7th...
3rd one of the season
The third one of the season.... Being the superstitious and optimistic person I am I believe in numerology... Superstitious coz i want my lucky numbers to be my panel numbers... Coz i am optimistic, almost every digit turns out to be my lucky number...
1,5 - coz i have read somewhere that its my sun sign's lucky numbers
3,6,9- multiples of 3 are lucky for most people
2- its my roll number at college... so far it has been lucky for me by God's grace
4- my personal lucky number.... thats my birth date (sept 4), my dads birth date, my parent's wedding anniversary date and my dad considers it lucky to the extent that every car we buy will have the digits adding to 4...
The others are ok ... I used to consider 8 as my unlucky number but then my mother reminded me that its her birth date and its my birth date *2 (yea, my mother has her unique way of convincing people)... Neverthless now 7 and 8 are my neutral numbers :D
At IISc i was 2 nd person in the 4th panel and at IIT-Kgp interview i was 2nd person in the C panel ... ok i do look into such small stuffs... anyone reading it may think i have completely lost it.... But no.. i am still sane...
So back to IIT-Kgp gd/pi at iisc bangalore... on march 14th. Reporting time : 7.30 am...
I skipped my breakfast as the long walk to the restaurant took up our time and we had to run back to make it to the department of management studies, iisc at 7.30 am. I get there to find that more than 30 people in suits standing outside. I found 3 other girls there, all in suit. I asked someone who said that there was iisc interview also going on... So it will not be in that building..
We all waited till 8.15 am. There was no clue of any volunteers frm kharagpur. One guy called iit kharagpur... They told him to move to gate no. 2 where there was an sbi atm.. So we all, perfectly dressed, walked to this place... When we reached there still no clue of anyone from iit kgp... The security shooed us from the entrance as some people were filing the campus. So we were all standing on the road side, most of us sitting on the pavement side in full suits ( it was a wonderful sight). It was 8.30 am and then we again called iit kgp... they said to go to choksy hall ( yea, that was the name of the hall... i mentioned it here coz then i found it absolutely funny... A place very serious... trust me the atmosphere at iisc is very serious..... having such a name for their hall) .... This hall was a walk for almost 10 min... But we had to walk thru a path which had climbers all over the shade .. i felt like naming it hanging gardens of IISc...
So we finally reach this choksy hall... I didnt even have breakfast and most of us were in the same condition... Then the co-ordinators of iit kgp took another 5 min to get the hall opened...
We all went inside and sat down...
The next thing what happened is the funniest of all.... My mother was with me... We walk almost half of the whole campus without food and most of us had our stomachs growling.... My mother was really bothered with me skipping breakfast and going to attend this process.... The process once it starts can go upto noon... And we cant have a break once it starts... She teamed with another candidate and went to the director who was present there. They told the director that most of us are there without having food and the co-ordinators have delayed us so much... The director came and announced that we all can have breakfast and come in 15 min...
So i got in after having food for the presentation. The presentation started at 9.15 am. But after that everything went on very smoothly. The presentation was pretty impressive.
Then they put the list of the panels... Mine was at instrumentation dept... That was another walk from the hall.... By now i knew the whole campus and was practically leading the others too...
GD:
It was a business case study. The strength of the group was 12 of which 2 were absent in mine. I was the only girl in my panel. About a loss making company which had to cut down the employees’ benefits. Everyone was given around 10 min to think. After that everyone had to speak their points for 1 minute separately. After that it was open discussion for 10 min. Even though there was a fight for the air time in the beginning, towards the end there was not much left to speak as the case was very much restricted.
Over all it was good... 2 of the candidates were helping the others by not speaking at all.... I understood by then that i love case studies...
PI: My panel had a prof and a madam. The same panel was there for the gd as well.
The questions asked were:
Introduce yourself
Explain the main project
There were some basic questions asked about the main project.
Why do you want to pursue management right after engineering?
What are the problems faced by the women managers?
Who is your role model?
Which all colleges have you got call from?
They asked me why I prefer to go north and not IIT-M
Then there was a brief discussion on my extra curricular activities.
The whole interview lasted for 15 to 20 min. The panel was very friendly so i didnt have much stress or anything.
After that we roamed around the campus and returned... I wasnt able to spot any mallus for this process
1,5 - coz i have read somewhere that its my sun sign's lucky numbers
3,6,9- multiples of 3 are lucky for most people
2- its my roll number at college... so far it has been lucky for me by God's grace
4- my personal lucky number.... thats my birth date (sept 4), my dads birth date, my parent's wedding anniversary date and my dad considers it lucky to the extent that every car we buy will have the digits adding to 4...
The others are ok ... I used to consider 8 as my unlucky number but then my mother reminded me that its her birth date and its my birth date *2 (yea, my mother has her unique way of convincing people)... Neverthless now 7 and 8 are my neutral numbers :D
At IISc i was 2 nd person in the 4th panel and at IIT-Kgp interview i was 2nd person in the C panel ... ok i do look into such small stuffs... anyone reading it may think i have completely lost it.... But no.. i am still sane...
So back to IIT-Kgp gd/pi at iisc bangalore... on march 14th. Reporting time : 7.30 am...
I skipped my breakfast as the long walk to the restaurant took up our time and we had to run back to make it to the department of management studies, iisc at 7.30 am. I get there to find that more than 30 people in suits standing outside. I found 3 other girls there, all in suit. I asked someone who said that there was iisc interview also going on... So it will not be in that building..
We all waited till 8.15 am. There was no clue of any volunteers frm kharagpur. One guy called iit kharagpur... They told him to move to gate no. 2 where there was an sbi atm.. So we all, perfectly dressed, walked to this place... When we reached there still no clue of anyone from iit kgp... The security shooed us from the entrance as some people were filing the campus. So we were all standing on the road side, most of us sitting on the pavement side in full suits ( it was a wonderful sight). It was 8.30 am and then we again called iit kgp... they said to go to choksy hall ( yea, that was the name of the hall... i mentioned it here coz then i found it absolutely funny... A place very serious... trust me the atmosphere at iisc is very serious..... having such a name for their hall) .... This hall was a walk for almost 10 min... But we had to walk thru a path which had climbers all over the shade .. i felt like naming it hanging gardens of IISc...
So we finally reach this choksy hall... I didnt even have breakfast and most of us were in the same condition... Then the co-ordinators of iit kgp took another 5 min to get the hall opened...
We all went inside and sat down...
The next thing what happened is the funniest of all.... My mother was with me... We walk almost half of the whole campus without food and most of us had our stomachs growling.... My mother was really bothered with me skipping breakfast and going to attend this process.... The process once it starts can go upto noon... And we cant have a break once it starts... She teamed with another candidate and went to the director who was present there. They told the director that most of us are there without having food and the co-ordinators have delayed us so much... The director came and announced that we all can have breakfast and come in 15 min...
So i got in after having food for the presentation. The presentation started at 9.15 am. But after that everything went on very smoothly. The presentation was pretty impressive.
Then they put the list of the panels... Mine was at instrumentation dept... That was another walk from the hall.... By now i knew the whole campus and was practically leading the others too...
GD:
It was a business case study. The strength of the group was 12 of which 2 were absent in mine. I was the only girl in my panel. About a loss making company which had to cut down the employees’ benefits. Everyone was given around 10 min to think. After that everyone had to speak their points for 1 minute separately. After that it was open discussion for 10 min. Even though there was a fight for the air time in the beginning, towards the end there was not much left to speak as the case was very much restricted.
Over all it was good... 2 of the candidates were helping the others by not speaking at all.... I understood by then that i love case studies...
PI: My panel had a prof and a madam. The same panel was there for the gd as well.
The questions asked were:
Introduce yourself
Explain the main project
There were some basic questions asked about the main project.
Why do you want to pursue management right after engineering?
What are the problems faced by the women managers?
Who is your role model?
Which all colleges have you got call from?
They asked me why I prefer to go north and not IIT-M
Then there was a brief discussion on my extra curricular activities.
The whole interview lasted for 15 to 20 min. The panel was very friendly so i didnt have much stress or anything.
After that we roamed around the campus and returned... I wasnt able to spot any mallus for this process
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
I went to one of the most beautiful campus in India... That was IISc, Bangalore... The campus is unique in its own way... Nuthing like the other IITs i have seen....
We reached bangalore on march 11. We were staying in an apartment (which itself was very cozy) which was just 2km frm the central railway station and iisc.
I reached the campus at 7.30 am on march 12th though the reporting time was 9 am. We had breakfast from a good restaurant inside the campus and had a long walk back to the Department of Management Studies. There was even an underground subway inside the campus (which is the same size as the one you can find in Trivandrum).
We were supposed to register before the presentation and I found many absent. Here there were 6 girls including me. Around 60 or so people were present.
During the presentation, the prof gave a statistics... Total of 30000 were supposed to write Jmet. A total of 28000 odd took the exam. Of the students who qualified, IISc got 650 odd application and they chose 250 for the process. After the gd/pi they will select 20. The unique thing about IISc is that they have no waitlist.... So those 20 to whom they give the call are the only students who join there. If they happen to not join for any reason then they will leave that seat vacant wasting another student's chance...
I met 3 mallus during the process of which 2 were frm MEC, 2006 batch and 1 a pass out frm CET. There was no active participation of the students like what I saw in Bombay. The seniors there were mostly interacting with us and very willing to help us out for anything..
Everyone was split into groups. There were a total of 5 groups each with around 10 people.
GD:
Since mine was the 4th group we had to wait till the 1st 3 finished their gd.
The gd topic was ‘Bollywood heroes are poor role models’.
We had been given 5 minutes to think, 15 min for discussion and 3 minutes to summarize. The panel will just give the topic and ask you to start. You will have to time yourself and carry thru the different stages of the gd. The gd didn’t go too good as people were practically shouting without showing any lenience to anyone. Even though some people tried to bring some useful points there were mostly repetition of points by the same person or irrelevant points. All together it was not a good one.
I tried my best to be an active participant thru out but in vain... People were practically cutting you and speaking... so it was more like a war of voice... The person with the loudest booming voice can survive there.... Just like any other field... Survival of the fittest !!
PI:
I had the PI only by 3.30pm even though my gd got over at 11.45 am. So we had a relaxed lunch... There were 2 panels for the PI. I was in the non statistics panel.
The panel had 6 members including a lady panelist. ( 2 of them were mallus). The panelists of the gds need not be the ones for the pi. But for me they were also present.
Some of the questions asked to me were:
Introduce yourself.
Why mba?
What is the sum of the first 100 natural numbers?
What is the sum of the cube of first 100 natural numbers?
What is fourier transform? Why do we need it?
Rank the IITs according to your preference.
Compare IIT B with IISc. (Most of the candidates were asked this)
What role should the management assume to deal with the union problems?
Why is the industrial growth very low in Kerala?
Overall it went ok
... the other panels were even asking basic mathematics like fourier series, differential equations and integration 
There were people who went in the beginning who were asked to explain CMOS manufacturing
... Hearing this question me, Iyas and Anand (both 2006 batch EC, MEC) were running to meet a batch mate of their's who was doing his M.Tech there ( after quitting Nvidia)... yea you can find all sorts of people at IISc... He was explaining the whole process of manufacturing over lunch....
The campus is really beautiful and anyone interested in research will find IISc the best place. One will find plenty of options there....
We reached bangalore on march 11. We were staying in an apartment (which itself was very cozy) which was just 2km frm the central railway station and iisc.
I reached the campus at 7.30 am on march 12th though the reporting time was 9 am. We had breakfast from a good restaurant inside the campus and had a long walk back to the Department of Management Studies. There was even an underground subway inside the campus (which is the same size as the one you can find in Trivandrum).
We were supposed to register before the presentation and I found many absent. Here there were 6 girls including me. Around 60 or so people were present.
During the presentation, the prof gave a statistics... Total of 30000 were supposed to write Jmet. A total of 28000 odd took the exam. Of the students who qualified, IISc got 650 odd application and they chose 250 for the process. After the gd/pi they will select 20. The unique thing about IISc is that they have no waitlist.... So those 20 to whom they give the call are the only students who join there. If they happen to not join for any reason then they will leave that seat vacant wasting another student's chance...
I met 3 mallus during the process of which 2 were frm MEC, 2006 batch and 1 a pass out frm CET. There was no active participation of the students like what I saw in Bombay. The seniors there were mostly interacting with us and very willing to help us out for anything..
Everyone was split into groups. There were a total of 5 groups each with around 10 people.
GD:
Since mine was the 4th group we had to wait till the 1st 3 finished their gd.
The gd topic was ‘Bollywood heroes are poor role models’.
We had been given 5 minutes to think, 15 min for discussion and 3 minutes to summarize. The panel will just give the topic and ask you to start. You will have to time yourself and carry thru the different stages of the gd. The gd didn’t go too good as people were practically shouting without showing any lenience to anyone. Even though some people tried to bring some useful points there were mostly repetition of points by the same person or irrelevant points. All together it was not a good one.
I tried my best to be an active participant thru out but in vain... People were practically cutting you and speaking... so it was more like a war of voice... The person with the loudest booming voice can survive there.... Just like any other field... Survival of the fittest !!PI:
I had the PI only by 3.30pm even though my gd got over at 11.45 am. So we had a relaxed lunch... There were 2 panels for the PI. I was in the non statistics panel.
The panel had 6 members including a lady panelist. ( 2 of them were mallus). The panelists of the gds need not be the ones for the pi. But for me they were also present.
Some of the questions asked to me were:
Introduce yourself.
Why mba?
What is the sum of the first 100 natural numbers?
What is the sum of the cube of first 100 natural numbers?
What is fourier transform? Why do we need it?
Rank the IITs according to your preference.
Compare IIT B with IISc. (Most of the candidates were asked this)
What role should the management assume to deal with the union problems?
Why is the industrial growth very low in Kerala?
Overall it went ok
... the other panels were even asking basic mathematics like fourier series, differential equations and integration There were people who went in the beginning who were asked to explain CMOS manufacturing
... Hearing this question me, Iyas and Anand (both 2006 batch EC, MEC) were running to meet a batch mate of their's who was doing his M.Tech there ( after quitting Nvidia)... yea you can find all sorts of people at IISc... He was explaining the whole process of manufacturing over lunch....The campus is really beautiful and anyone interested in research will find IISc the best place. One will find plenty of options there....
My first ever B school interview!!!
Shailesh J Mehta School Of Management (SJMSOM), IIT-Bombay... This was the first B school from which I got a call from and where I attended the interview. I got the call on february 9th. I remember the date well as its just one day after my mother's b'day and the day i got my new laptop!!
My dad accompanied me to Bombay. That was my first visit to Mumbai, the city which i have heard so much about and which is my father's fav city. So my dad had to take leave and come with me. These are the one of the very few situations were I wish I was a boy... I could have gone alone without disturbing anyone. The slot allotted for me was february 29th, afternoon slot.
We reached there on feb 28 by 6.30pm. The campus was well kept... everything in order with sign boards at every nook and corner. We stayed in the staff hostel as we were late to get the guest house... The guest house over looks the lake.... There is a small pond in front where we can find the gaggle of geese.
We had an early dinner and slept off.... I woke up early to luk thru my main, mini proj and seminar.... did a thorough revision. Had lunch, got dressed and went to SJMSOM.
I had the fright of my life wen i got into the seminar hall. About 55 candidates were sitting inside and just 4 gals including me. About 85% of them were in full suit. About 90% of them having work ex of 2yrs +.
There was a presentation by one of the students at SOM, which i found out was an ex-MECian, Prasanth Narayanan :)... I had also contacted another ex-MECian, Joe, who was studying there. But since he didn't have duty that day, he didnt come over. After the presentation, we were asked to assemble according to our panels. My number was A4. It means I am the 4th person in panel A.I had reasons to feel intimidated.... when i was there i knew that they will chick me out, if at all they do only coz of 2 things ... my jmet rank ( which was the last rank to be called) and coz i am a fresher.
The whole process was very well conducted and bang on time. So at 2 pm we were send in for the group discussion.
GD:
As some have discussed, it was a case study. A group of hourly based workers were not motivated and hence they have poor productivity.So what will you do if you were the personnel manager?
The gd was ok. I started first. Then i found it difficult to get in for the next 5-10 min. After that i got in with 2-3 more valid points. (valid .. for me ;)) It was not exactly a fish market but there were at least 2 ppl trying to put forth their point at any point of time. So it was hard unless you had a good voice to fight your way into it.
After the gd we were taken back to the seminar hall.... we were supposed to fill up a form. We have to enter each sem's marks... just engg marks.. The extra curricular column has to be filled only if you have certificates and that too no school level achievements... only those starting from college... The certificate shud also state clearly whether it is state, national or college. Each entry is thoroughly verified by the students in charge.
We were provided snacks (samosa) and tea.... My father was also allowed to sit thru the presentation and all the students were very friendly and helpful.
PI:
There was a professor and an alumnus.(the same panel as the gd) ... one was the hr head of deloitte and the other was the prof who takes international business and ipr for the students ..
Some of the questions asked were:
Introduce yourself.
Seeing that I was electronics and communication engineering student, one of the panellists asked me to start by explaining mobile communication.
I left it half way as I haven’t learned it till last sem.
Which all papers have you studied last sem?
What did you study in electronic product design?
Explain aesthetics and ergonomics.
Tell me how to design the room aesthetically.
What are the different types of layers? Explain physical layer.
How does google come up with the search results so fast?
What is the basic features differentiating linux and windows.
How is linux maintained free from virus attacks?
I answered wat ever I could. It didn’t go too good as the questions were way beyond my comfortable zone. ... But i tried my best to make an attempt to wat ever i cud...
The interview lasted around 15 min. The other 3 who went in had it for about 20-25 min... i guess the prof had made up his mind in the 1st 5 min he saw me.... Have to wait till april 7th for the results...
The whole process was so conducted so well that everything went right on time... Just Perfect...
We left the campus next day m'ing (me looking longingly to come back )
My dad accompanied me to Bombay. That was my first visit to Mumbai, the city which i have heard so much about and which is my father's fav city. So my dad had to take leave and come with me. These are the one of the very few situations were I wish I was a boy... I could have gone alone without disturbing anyone. The slot allotted for me was february 29th, afternoon slot.
We reached there on feb 28 by 6.30pm. The campus was well kept... everything in order with sign boards at every nook and corner. We stayed in the staff hostel as we were late to get the guest house... The guest house over looks the lake.... There is a small pond in front where we can find the gaggle of geese.
We had an early dinner and slept off.... I woke up early to luk thru my main, mini proj and seminar.... did a thorough revision. Had lunch, got dressed and went to SJMSOM.
I had the fright of my life wen i got into the seminar hall. About 55 candidates were sitting inside and just 4 gals including me. About 85% of them were in full suit. About 90% of them having work ex of 2yrs +.
There was a presentation by one of the students at SOM, which i found out was an ex-MECian, Prasanth Narayanan :)... I had also contacted another ex-MECian, Joe, who was studying there. But since he didn't have duty that day, he didnt come over. After the presentation, we were asked to assemble according to our panels. My number was A4. It means I am the 4th person in panel A.I had reasons to feel intimidated.... when i was there i knew that they will chick me out, if at all they do only coz of 2 things ... my jmet rank ( which was the last rank to be called) and coz i am a fresher.
The whole process was very well conducted and bang on time. So at 2 pm we were send in for the group discussion.
GD:
As some have discussed, it was a case study. A group of hourly based workers were not motivated and hence they have poor productivity.So what will you do if you were the personnel manager?
The gd was ok. I started first. Then i found it difficult to get in for the next 5-10 min. After that i got in with 2-3 more valid points. (valid .. for me ;)) It was not exactly a fish market but there were at least 2 ppl trying to put forth their point at any point of time. So it was hard unless you had a good voice to fight your way into it.
After the gd we were taken back to the seminar hall.... we were supposed to fill up a form. We have to enter each sem's marks... just engg marks.. The extra curricular column has to be filled only if you have certificates and that too no school level achievements... only those starting from college... The certificate shud also state clearly whether it is state, national or college. Each entry is thoroughly verified by the students in charge.
We were provided snacks (samosa) and tea.... My father was also allowed to sit thru the presentation and all the students were very friendly and helpful.
PI:
There was a professor and an alumnus.(the same panel as the gd) ... one was the hr head of deloitte and the other was the prof who takes international business and ipr for the students ..
Some of the questions asked were:
Introduce yourself.
Seeing that I was electronics and communication engineering student, one of the panellists asked me to start by explaining mobile communication.
I left it half way as I haven’t learned it till last sem.
Which all papers have you studied last sem?
What did you study in electronic product design?
Explain aesthetics and ergonomics.
Tell me how to design the room aesthetically.
What are the different types of layers? Explain physical layer.
How does google come up with the search results so fast?
What is the basic features differentiating linux and windows.
How is linux maintained free from virus attacks?
I answered wat ever I could. It didn’t go too good as the questions were way beyond my comfortable zone.
... But i tried my best to make an attempt to wat ever i cud... The interview lasted around 15 min. The other 3 who went in had it for about 20-25 min... i guess the prof had made up his mind in the 1st 5 min he saw me.... Have to wait till april 7th for the results...
The whole process was so conducted so well that everything went right on time... Just Perfect...
We left the campus next day m'ing (me looking longingly to come back )
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Calls out
Atleast one blog a month!! I cant manage even that these days...
Things have been going smoothly last one month and i am terrified to see the speed with which time is running out. In the last 2 weeks i got calls from SJMSOM IIT-B, VGSOM IIT-Kgp, IISc and IIT-M. The only one left is IIT-D. I am gearing up for touring all these places starting from tomorrow.
I have been praying that even if i get SJMSOM call i dont want it to be the first one. Still remember the day when i was standing in Thrikkakara temple when my friend called me up and said that I have got the call. That was the least expected call. And guess what... My rank was the last one to be called. So off I am tomorrow to attend the first B-school interview of my life.
Will definitely post my experiences after returning.
Things have been going smoothly last one month and i am terrified to see the speed with which time is running out. In the last 2 weeks i got calls from SJMSOM IIT-B, VGSOM IIT-Kgp, IISc and IIT-M. The only one left is IIT-D. I am gearing up for touring all these places starting from tomorrow.
I have been praying that even if i get SJMSOM call i dont want it to be the first one. Still remember the day when i was standing in Thrikkakara temple when my friend called me up and said that I have got the call. That was the least expected call. And guess what... My rank was the last one to be called. So off I am tomorrow to attend the first B-school interview of my life.
Will definitely post my experiences after returning.
Saturday, January 26, 2008
MEC.... the place that happened to me by mere chance
January 26.... I didnt even notice that more than half of the 1 st month of this new yr is over until now.... I was soooo busy these days. But when i look back and take account of the productive work that i have done, its a big zero...
I wonder wat the idea behind writing blogs are.... Coz these days this serves as an open diary for me....
The last semester at Model Engineering College started .... It will b almost over in 3 weeks time.... When i think about leaving this place i feel a bit sad somewhere deep inside which actually surprises me... This was one place that i thought i will never feel sad to leave.... But now i am so used to this place that it will be hard for me to get out of it... But thats me... And i feel thats a big problem with me... It takes me lot of time to get attached to a place or person... But when i get emotionally bonded i cant let go of it.... That particular person or place transforms into my whole world.... I can stay for ever in that closed shell... I dont like anythin coming inside and going outside...
Never ever in my wildest dreams did i think that i will spend for years for my degree course in cochin.... This place was nowhere in my academic map.... I was sure that even if i get some 35k odd rank i will make it into some college in trivandrum city itself.... But then even wen i cud have studied just 5 km frm my home i choose MEC. Thanks to my dad's sis who promised me that i will never regret my decision... And now with just a few months to pass out i dont regret my decision to be part of this wonderful instituition..
I didnt even hear of MEC till i reached my 12th... PPl back home ask me my college and i try to limit it saying that i m studying in Cochin. Then they will have look in their eyes (contempt, sympathy... i dont know wat. I never felt it was going to affect me in anyway wat ever they think). Some even ask me, 'poor gal, how come u didnt get admission into even a single engg coll in trivandrum'. Even now wen ppl stare at me blank faced after hearing my college's name, i don't feel any change of feelings towards them as i was in that same situation a few yrs before...
But this college was one of the most wonderful thing that has happened in my life... I still remember the first day in college so vividly... I used to hate my college those days with the ragging, the separation from my family and everything.... But i learned to live alone, to be independent, to regain my lost confidence, to gain frnds, to lose some, taste of victory, failure...Everything has happened to me in these 4 yrs which has made me the person i am today... I am so proud to say now that I am an MECian...
I cant stop saying about my engg days without mentioning thrikkakara temple... Thats the place that i visit a minimum of 3 times a week.... I feel like home once i go there.... The person sitting inside like my mentor, frnd, parents, grandparents and everything together.... I have never been spiritual during my school days... But when i was rooted to cochin i used to feel so lonely. Even though i have many frnds, only a handful who are very close... And i vent out my frustration, happiness and anger on them... which do sometimes have negative effects also... I understood that i am being too selfish if i depend on them alone coz they also have the same and more probs of their own.... Its futile to go discussing everythin to ur parents as it will only add to their woes about us.... So thats how my Neighbour who lives 1 km away frm me became the whole world to me.... When i am happy or sad, thats the place i will b at .... And thats the time that i can speak about myself, weigh and see what all i did was rite or wrong.... And there is a miracle in that environment... When one goes and completely include Him, He will help u with a solution for everything.... Thats true... I have experienced it... Not once, many times... All u have to do is be sincere to u and others around u..
Wen ever the image of my coll comes to my mind, the temple is also included as its the place that i hangout the most apart frm coll... So regularly that everyone in the temple premises also acknowledges me... This will be one place I am going to miss the most wen i bid adieu to this great city.... And of course MEC which made cochin such a great city for me.... My college rocks!!!
I wonder wat the idea behind writing blogs are.... Coz these days this serves as an open diary for me....
The last semester at Model Engineering College started .... It will b almost over in 3 weeks time.... When i think about leaving this place i feel a bit sad somewhere deep inside which actually surprises me... This was one place that i thought i will never feel sad to leave.... But now i am so used to this place that it will be hard for me to get out of it... But thats me... And i feel thats a big problem with me... It takes me lot of time to get attached to a place or person... But when i get emotionally bonded i cant let go of it.... That particular person or place transforms into my whole world.... I can stay for ever in that closed shell... I dont like anythin coming inside and going outside...
Never ever in my wildest dreams did i think that i will spend for years for my degree course in cochin.... This place was nowhere in my academic map.... I was sure that even if i get some 35k odd rank i will make it into some college in trivandrum city itself.... But then even wen i cud have studied just 5 km frm my home i choose MEC. Thanks to my dad's sis who promised me that i will never regret my decision... And now with just a few months to pass out i dont regret my decision to be part of this wonderful instituition..
I didnt even hear of MEC till i reached my 12th... PPl back home ask me my college and i try to limit it saying that i m studying in Cochin. Then they will have look in their eyes (contempt, sympathy... i dont know wat. I never felt it was going to affect me in anyway wat ever they think). Some even ask me, 'poor gal, how come u didnt get admission into even a single engg coll in trivandrum'. Even now wen ppl stare at me blank faced after hearing my college's name, i don't feel any change of feelings towards them as i was in that same situation a few yrs before...
But this college was one of the most wonderful thing that has happened in my life... I still remember the first day in college so vividly... I used to hate my college those days with the ragging, the separation from my family and everything.... But i learned to live alone, to be independent, to regain my lost confidence, to gain frnds, to lose some, taste of victory, failure...Everything has happened to me in these 4 yrs which has made me the person i am today... I am so proud to say now that I am an MECian...
I cant stop saying about my engg days without mentioning thrikkakara temple... Thats the place that i visit a minimum of 3 times a week.... I feel like home once i go there.... The person sitting inside like my mentor, frnd, parents, grandparents and everything together.... I have never been spiritual during my school days... But when i was rooted to cochin i used to feel so lonely. Even though i have many frnds, only a handful who are very close... And i vent out my frustration, happiness and anger on them... which do sometimes have negative effects also... I understood that i am being too selfish if i depend on them alone coz they also have the same and more probs of their own.... Its futile to go discussing everythin to ur parents as it will only add to their woes about us.... So thats how my Neighbour who lives 1 km away frm me became the whole world to me.... When i am happy or sad, thats the place i will b at .... And thats the time that i can speak about myself, weigh and see what all i did was rite or wrong.... And there is a miracle in that environment... When one goes and completely include Him, He will help u with a solution for everything.... Thats true... I have experienced it... Not once, many times... All u have to do is be sincere to u and others around u..
Wen ever the image of my coll comes to my mind, the temple is also included as its the place that i hangout the most apart frm coll... So regularly that everyone in the temple premises also acknowledges me... This will be one place I am going to miss the most wen i bid adieu to this great city.... And of course MEC which made cochin such a great city for me.... My college rocks!!!
Saturday, January 5, 2008
New Year!!!
This new year kick started with good news for me :)... My JMET results came out yesterday.. 345.. that's my All India Rank.. Just now praying that the whole of the new year will be as good like this....
I guess i badly needed to put up a decent score in atleast 1 exam .... Co z i myself was starting to feel discouraged ...
But i guess what is destined for us will come to us .... We needn't run around or search for it.... We just need to stay calm and be ready to accept it ....
I guess i badly needed to put up a decent score in atleast 1 exam .... Co z i myself was starting to feel discouraged ...
But i guess what is destined for us will come to us .... We needn't run around or search for it.... We just need to stay calm and be ready to accept it ....
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