Last Night @ heLl

It might be a pretty outdated topic by now... but it certainly deserves some place on this blog... and since it was such a memorable one, i wont have much trouble writing about my last night in L

After dispatching my stuff home and seeing off my parents, the last few hours were filled with nostalgia. i can probably divide the period into five memorable events...

there was this walk arouond the campus and a long chat on the bench behind the library with a new found friend in those last few days at L. it was new and was different cos i always heard of others having those memories but me never getting one. It helped me improve my understanding bout others, know things tht i previously didnt and recollect some of the sweet memories at L.

this was followed by a long chat at the "crossroads" (as named by someone) near the mess with one of my closest pals at L, the ending of which gave me pangs of pain bout what i am gonna miss after the next few hours.

then there was the OIG send off party in nitya's room which was the most memorable one. it involveed loads of fun, a senti speech and of course a beautiful cake... that ended up on our faces...saying goodbye to these 'kids' was one thing i wished that never had to happen... and of course there was that strong desire again wishing that i was in pgp22. and also the goodbye i said in room 509 is being cherished even now.

this followed with a walk again around the campus this time with my wingies benkoot, diw, skg and sumit. how much i wished tht this walk never got over. but alas it had to.

then there was all that time i spent saying good bye to my abode for 2 years remembering all those precious moments i spent in tht room. it was an awesome night out.

seeing the dawn was not new to me... but this dawn was surely different.... it brought along the news that i would never see such a dawn again... i would never have a hostel life with all the fun loving friends ever again... there would never be another such beautiful campus and neither would there be all those full volume music waale night outs... no more insti parties to dance away to... no more long lasting arguments sitting in some1s rooming over nothing at all... the last dawn at helL marked the end of the 2 golden years of my life

The Race is finally over....

the rat race is finally over... one thing that leaves me happy is that finally it was the focus that helped ppl get there dream jobs... no guy with a focus could be seen cribbing about his job...

i hope in future this point gets taken note of and a new trend sets in....

as for me, i am heading to reliance... gonna work with their logistics team in integrated materials management unit, trying to improve logistics across their industries... the HR was telling me how interesting this job could be to work with consultants from ATKearney...

with lotsa dreams and apprehensions and excitement i am looking forward for my first job...

A Misfit Rat in the Ratrace...

As the 21st annual rat-race for jobs at IIML draws towards the climax, with just last few laps to go, we find that a lot of rats have already crossed the finish line and are signing out while some of us still have a lot of distance to run.

being a meek and timid creature right from childhood, and being born in the chinese year of the rat i can totally associate with the word rat.

but i seriously feel that i totally am a misfit in this rat race where most rats run the race for the money and nothing else. there are few rats which are not even interested in seeing the name of the company or the profiles being offered before they apply to it. all they need to know is the pay-package. on further thinking it might feel that what is wrong in the same as end of the day what matters is how much money r we earning.

but what i wanna know is, is there no value at all to something called job-satisfaction... seriously this rat race sucks and i feel i am the most mis-fit rat in the race.


but still, crossin' the finish line in this rat race is a must, and wishing myself all the best for the same i sign out... tata...

Last Class @ L

yday i had my last class at heLl... though i never crib about going to class, i didnt want to goto class yday bcos it was by vivek gupta... but still i thought i didnt hv enough attendance to bunk it and also wanted to sit in class for 1 last time. so i dragged myself there...

The class was not tht bad as he completed the class in less than 30 mins... then he put some soft music and started taking attendance. only then i realised that this is the last time i would be sitting in a class room... last time i would be answering attendance... my last day as a student and all the senti stuff... i thought the only sensible thing vivek gupta did was to put the right music at the right time :)

when the attendance got over i saw tht i actually i had enough attendance to bunk this class
anyways... no regrets... i liked this class for a change... how much i wished there were 2 more years in the mba (on second thoughts i hope not:D) but i wish i could spend more time with the GANG... learnt a lot from them...

coming back to what happened next in the class... we took loads of pics from vasava's and baisla's cams... there were ppl standing on the tables and taking pics... there were ppl jumping out of the windows...

i wanted to shout on top of my voice that i am done with my classes... but didnt :( just like the typical me...

i think there are a coupla more blogs coming up....

VDay...

This VDay had been a little different... there was a party which was not really great bcos it happens to be the only insti party i attended but did not do anything :(

how was this time different from the rest of the times? i received a compliment from the fairer sex about my hair-cut (yeah i had a hair cut but that has to wait till my next blog)

Now, what i dont understand is, whether i should feel better at this small improvement or pity myself for being such a loser...

let me hope next time to be better (probably a hug :( )

Need to calm down...

for the past few days (read: since my comp stopped working) i am not being myself... the usual adi who thinks for ages before making any spend was so depressed that he started making hasty decisions...

today i went and bought myself an Apple iShuffle 1 GB... ya it is a very cool gadget and fulfils my need of music (these 2 years i got so addicted to listening to all crap 24X7... even when i am sleeping, the music goes on... hence this huge fear of silence)

But the point is all the haste that went into this... from getting the idea of buying an ishuffle till executing it, everything was executed in just a couple of hours... i am sure i can get back to normal and i will be my own self in the long run... but it is the immediate future (Read: the placements are already here) that is troubling me further ( as if the problems i already hv are not enough)

i dont want to end up taking a job i dont like or miss a gr8 job, just bcos of a hasty decision... may the good lord give me(and every 1 else) the strength to fight for the dream jobs...

now enjoying the music from this gadget which should be a gr8 friend of mine from now... bbye

Retiring...

Operations Interest Group is a special interest group of IIM Lucknow for the field of operations management. its a student committee consisting of 10 students.... i think this is how the intro usually goes... but today its no more the time for intros... it is time to say good bye...

OIG as it is referred to had been close to my heart right from the time i joined it... it was great working for it... it was nice to hear it being discussed... it was awesome connducting events for it...


actually...
OIG defined my passion, ego, enthu, interests and what not... we might not have covered gr8 distances but the distances covered were definitely considerable and worth mentioning... (but of course, there were lotsa milestones tht are yet to be achieved...

the words Opsession, Ozone, Trilogy, etc are gonna stick around for quite some time now...

this senti talk can go on for ever... so lemme put a stop here and convey my best wishes to anand, charan, gagan, hemant and nitya... u ppl rock and keep the enthu levels up as always...

It was really a big surprise!!!

Ya, last month when i received my pre-placement offer and my best project award (i don't wanna mention the name of the award as my case has been taken a million times on the campus using the name) from Wipro, i was totally surprised as i was expecting neither of them in the first place.


the biggest example that i was not in a position to work happens to be this blog which was created during the period and its first entry which received good appreciation was also written then. it was the last one week of effort probably that could have resulted in such an outcome.

anyways guys... the jist of the blog is, i am still totally surprised!!!

Happy New Year!!!

Here comes the new year...
the one referred to as the year of the bond...
the one with the new sholay...
the one with the last harry potter...
the one with the last classes...
the one with the last exams...
the one with the last hostel life...
with the entry into the mechanical world of minting money...
and god only knows how many more surprises are there to be seen...
entering the year expected to be the most happening in so far...

guys...
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!