Ups & Downs @ SDM life.....

Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once ....................

Now I am standing at a point, where next step will take me to a new aspect of life. Next 15 days are going to b my last few days’ left in Student life. So before moving forward I decided to stand at this point for a moment and look at my last 18 beautiful months @ SDMIMD, which showed me the best part of my life till now. 14^th Jun 2008, I came to a beautiful campus covered all along with greenery. For the first time in my life I was out of my home and so struggling to stay in hostel. I somehow managed to win that battle by making few good friends in and around me. After next few days the so-called MBA life started with all its surprises and fun parts. Assignments, projects (individual & group) were thrown at us as if we are machines and most of us accepted the challenge and did our job quite comfortably. Then came exams and CGPA war where students adopted their own way(of course new to me) to win the WAR!!!. Initially it bothered me a lot but then I realized that I should focus on my core competencies:). In the mean time with the help of my friends I tried to overcome my weaknesses (obviously one of those being speaking Hindi properly :) :) :)). Celebrating all types of festivals in the campus starting from Navaratri, Pongal, to Holi, Onam & Christmas to say a few was an altogether different experience. Then I stepped into 2^nd yr wherein I chose courses of my interest (for my SPECIALIZATION). During 2^nd yr the interaction with my classmates increased as we were out of the sectional division by then. Here life changed me from a person who never gave a second thought while making friends to a person who becomes very judgmental in making friends. In the process few misunderstood me but I am happy about the fact that I made atleast 5-7 very very very good friends those who will never break my trust & will trust me too. I don’t know how much bookish knowledge I got in these 18 months but I m sure of the fact that I have grown myself as a mature person who can withstand the toughness of the corporate world. Going places like Ooty, Kodaikenal, Wayanad with friends and Playing CS, walking around the campus after dinner, pulling each other’s leg in small talks, telling lies to security guard for going out of campus during late night, irritating friends(2 or 3) by my deliberate continuous talks have already injected some golden memories into my mind and soul. Then came a period where everybody (I mean 2^nd yr students) on this campus was fighting with each other to get a placement. Few by their luck (like me :)) got into some companies and few by their talent. Still few are fighting with their luck & I m sure they will definitely conquer by their effort. Now when only few days are remaining everybody is trying to enjoy their time to the fullest extent. Now the thought of leaving (after 20th feb 2010) this place gives a fear of loosing something very precious. But the life has to go on. So with these sweet memories I am closing my last post @ SDM....& thanking all my mates those who made my life so beautiful in SDM. I wish all my readers all the best for their future endeavor and request them to forgive me for all my deeds those hurt their feelings by any chance.....

Road trip to Wayanad......

Happy New Year to all. This time I had a great ending to the year & at the same time a sterling start for the New Year. With 7 of my very good friends I went to a place called “Wayanad”. Flourished all around with Tea plants and waterfalls, it looks as beautiful as a newlywed bride. I felt as if I am seeing the paradise on the earth. 8 persons riding on 4 bikes through a serpentine road at reasonably good speed gave the true feeling of a road trip. We were invincible by the rain, as there existed a strong desire for enjoying the natural scenery. The tantalizing aroma of fresh tea was enough to make us more active on the way without a tint of tiredness. After a long journey of about 150 km we reached at a place called Chundel, where we halted our journey for giving sayonara to the Year 2009. We all stayed in a bungalow located on the top of a hill surrounded with tea gardens and hills all around. We got a king-size treatment in the bungalow, which none of us has expected, all thanks to Mr. Pankaj (Internship guide of one of my friend). And finally we all welcomed the New Year 2010 with few glasses of drinks in our hands and few shots on snooker table and obviously not to forget few steps on the dance floor!!. We started our journey next day morning with a fresh shining mood. On the way we had been to a Dam, where we had speed boating, then to Minnemutty Waterfall, where we took bath, then to an Island. After all the fun we started our journey back to Mysore through a road, which has enough ups and downs to get all of us tired. But the euphoria of enjoying the first day of a New Year with all my good friends kept me away from tiredness till I reach onto my bed. This is a trip that I’ll always remember for all the things that happened over the two days......

Showbiz.....

Hii All…it has been long till my last post , so now many things are there upon which I am pondering. Finally Mid term exams are over and I got an opportunity to scribble out the plethora of thoughts and ideas tumbling around in my head. Out of those things the first thing that is coming to my mind now is a 4 letter word “LOvE” or can say “dhai aakshar”. In particular I am going to talk about so called “LOvE” between a boy and girl. I can’t understand why there is so much of “showbiz” of having one GF among boyz and same for girls having one or more BF. Even if you love somebody truly she doesn’t understand. Rather she prefers materials to love. Somebody said that the purest thing that one person can do (& have) is “LOvE”, then why do most of the person are self-centric??. Love (between a boy and girl) behaves exactly like a stockmarket where you can’t predict what is going to happen next minute.If she is smiling at you now then the next minute she goes and says something against you(although it’ll nt b called as love anymore). I am really confused about all this. I feel Paradise isn’t a place you can find on any map. It can only be found when you are in love and when you spend time with your partner but what happens when somebody judge you wrongly and doesn’t understand your feelings. I can’t figure out whether I am in love or not? Personally I don’t know if I even know what love feels like. This post may b little bit confusing as I am myself is confused I don’t know what do I want. Even I am unable to fathom my friends’ behavior. Why there is always a swing in behavior. Somebody is saying that he/she is in love then why that love is turning out to be lust so quickly. We hardly saw this type instances in our past but why today’s generation is more oriented towards this type of LOvE? Is this the effect of western culture being imbibed by us or it is something else that actually drives the sense of true LOvE. In this small world around me LOvE is not any more a sense of tenderness its more of so called a medium for “showbiz” because we are students of “business”. We are not anymore “emotional”, we can only talk about Emotional Intelligence per se…………"Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love".

Is it good to have a Religion..????

Hii everybody.... Today I watched the movie “New York” it really left an imprint on my mind. Though the impact came after I left the theatre that’s because I was completely mesmerized inside the theatre by Kat-rina’s beauty. Apart from that one thing that really touched my heart and mind is last 3minutes of the movie. The fact that I saw on the screen left me amazed and forced me to think for a while on those facts. I can’t understand why people in this beautiful earth impute so much concern towards Religion. The fact that 3000 people were suspected as terrorist and been captured by American government (after 9/11 incident) and surprisingly most of them are of one Religion..!!! I really feel bad for those people who can think on this trivial line.

One Religion can’t be of “one type”(so called terrorist). Only if somebody has a name, which signifies that, he/she belongs to a particular Religion that doesn’t mean that they all are Extremist. Although U.S has the award of being most powerful country in the world but I think the country is full of power-fool individuals who can really invest their time making such type of assumptions. I know that some of my readers would agree that this also happen in India to an extent. But I want to pose few questions to all my readers that whether this problem has any solution? Can we change the line of thinking of people? So many riots and war happened in the history based on the Religion and forced the innocent people to suffer from the consequences. Is it a baby’s mistake that he born into a particular Religion? Has he said God to send him into a Religion? Should he think that it was his fortune/misfortune that he is into a particular Religion? These questions are there in my mind from last many years but they suddenly cropped out of my subconscious space to conscious ones after I watched the movie. So I am sharing it with u all.

About the movie I would definitely like to eulogize the acting of Neil Mukesh. And ofcourse my favorite Kat’s.

Neither I have any hard feelings about any country nor I want to show sympathy towards a particular Religion. So I want to know what a Religion signifies? Can’t we have Basudheiva kutumbakam that can make this earth a better place to live on?

Dawning of My thoughts....

Hi all!!! This is my first blog I am ever writing. After undergoing a hectic SIP (3-5 days of visit to corporate office in 2 months) now I am back to my second home at SDM IMD, Mysore. I cropped up here just 11 days before. All my family members have also arrived (obviously my FRIENDS!!!). In between these days I already had some good and painful memories that I want to share with you all. First the good memories are congregation with all my loved pals, resuming classes as before and above all these, attending those enthusiastic lectures of NRP sir. And ofcourse those informal talks which mainly contain sweet flavors of our most loved friend PnaPna (Deepansh) and playing late night CS on LAN. Among the painful memories that also contain tinge of love is the celebration of my belated B’day by my friends at college, which was full of hard, excruciating B’day Bumps and loads of love from all of them. I am sure that, this will remain as the most memorable B’day in my life.

And now also our juniors have arrived and started interacting with us. It seems that they contain a well mix cultured batch. I had few good interactions with some of them. And I am optimistic about the fact that there may be a change in luck for me. It really gives a sense of happiness that during this particular time one year earlier I arrived at this beautiful place, although it proffer a sense of loss of one more year of student life. We all are now into our specialization courses and the classes have started with full swing. It really leaves us with very few instances of interaction with each other, everybody being busy in their respective schedules. I am truly finding it difficult handling two major specializations like Finance & Marketing both being pretty much demanding courses in all aspects. But I am confident that I’ll be able to handle this pressure with the active support from my close friends (no need of naming them though). Finally I would like to end my talk with a promise of sharing important feelings of my life in future writings.

**Offence to anybody is not deliberate in this article, so if it affects anybody’s sentiment then I am sorry for the same. And please feel free to write your valuable comments about the writing.