Cycle, Danda, Ball aur BAARISH......

HI ALL!!!!!

well its been a sabbatical of more than 15 days...comp's been down as i mentioned...and really din't have he time to go to the cafe or something and post...so finally got an opportunity to post today...

been an eventful fortnight this...results came out....got decent ones...not upto the mark but i am not one to sit and regret...rather i am one to learn and move on...and move on i did...:D

rest of the stuff has been pretty simple...get up at 5...go for ashtavakra...get bowled over by what guruji says and come home in a daze most of the times....have been grumbling a lot abt the indiscipline in the group...did nothing about it though...should have spoken to everyone but just accepted and kept my hole shut...dunno y...did stop grumbling also actually...dats a gud thing i guess??

had been planning on calling all college people over for lunch or something..been almost 2 years...so invited people over on saturday...as expected many dint turn up..which was a gud thing else i guess i wud have to seel my cycle to feed them all...hehe

amongst the people that DID turn up...mansi was the only girl...and poor soul came from so far away...guess my mom's pav bhaji is quite a lure even for tiny tots like here...haha

oh worth mentioning here is the sheer QUANTITY of pavs and bhajis that were GULPED...

i guess we kept a score coz last time it was a surprise to know KETAN of all people ate more than 10 pavs and countless servings of bhaji....

this time sadly...ketan cudnt repeat....lest surpass his previous ACHIEVEMENTS....and he was beaten hands down by none other than LALIT...him having started with the pav even before the bhaji was served...if there ever was an award for being impatient...it SHOULd go to this guy...the rest of the gang were minions in comparison to the everest of the culinary contest..of EATING...


well so after the lunch and usual banter we decided to play cards(ya BIG surprise there)...i have never seen my friends loosen up their pockets and pay up for anything as fast as they did for a deck of cards...amazing what people do when it comes to their pleasure..hehe

so after a very heavily cheated game of Judgement....mansi and maulik decided to leave..understandable...they had a 2 hour journey and frankly kindergarten kids shudnt be allowed outside the house after 7...hehe..

then we guys were tossing around various plans..let's go to palm beach galleria and hang out one said....let's play football on MY terrace said the other...alas no one said lets throw kushal and mukul from the terrace and watch them fly(or cry) to their own death...

in the end it was decided to go play cricket at the Multi-utility Airoli station parking lot...what followed was the best hour and a half of fun i have had..

also people were very keen to have a ride on my (now repaired) cycle...

we had a half broken but very solid piece of wood as a bat..and tennis BALL...and 11 totally crazy drunk-without-drinking guys...u picture the scene...oh did i mention TORRENTIAL RAIN???

OH YES!!!!torrential it was...when we started out with the teams and everything there was a slight drizzle...which by the mid of the first innings had turned into a potential downpour and by then end of the innings...WAS a downpour!!!


i dont think i have ever done something so crazy...CORRECTION..i have NEVER down something so crazy...

just HOW we managed to save our mobiles by keeping it in a polythene conjured up from mid air and safely into a dilapidated fire-hose box only we know...

i guess we really crossed limits of stupidity tht day...for apart form me almost everyone had a very long journey back home...in completely soaked clothes..and i mean COMPLETELY soaked(hope u get the underlying meaning...haha...sorry...sad pun :D)

but let it be known tat it was FUN...especially the shouting...and boy was there shouting....after almost every ball...the umpire was the cynosure of all eyes....and at the centre of all the shouting....

one of the most memorable aspects was the cheating...with the stump shortening...and the appeals for run outs...man it was some serious fun...also there was a lot of swearing...as expected from us testosterone-infused males...

we finally dispersed after a good 5 game....people headed home and i dried up and changed and started reflecting on how i never did all this in my childhood...had a pretty messy one actually...had just heard people talk about playing in the rains and all...

well for those of you like me who havent done this...DO IT...for those who have..DO IT AGAIN!!!!

cheers guys...

Anupam.

NO SUBSTITUTE!!!!!

Hi all,

2 days ago, got a message from the class group informing about this pre-placement seminar happening in Accenture today. Didn't really have much to do so decided to go for it. As expected no one from my group came. So wasnt looking forward to it so much...just had a hunch though...weird kinda thing...

Started off at 5:15 as usual...went to watch ashtavakara at mulund...left from there at 8 and got to Vikhroli by 8:45

Was a fairly good campus in vikhroli...pretty green and looked homely more than anything....as i entered i thought...i wudn't really mind working in a place like this..

They made us wait in the reception first then in the waiting room and then took us to the cafetaria, through an utterly confusing path of corridors, stairs and what seemed like a MILLION doors, where we were to have our seminar and stuff (with progressively deteriorating chairs actually...was quite funny)


The first session was pretty boring...this manager called Akhilesh Gupta was talking more about wat Accenture is than more about what we wanted to hear (which frankly...we really had no idea about either..hehe)

We also had a QnA session with one of the HR managers...that was a lil knowledgeable atleast...we asked her what generally is the recruitment process and stuff like that...and her answers were fairly obvious....

followed by a short short break for tea...in which i had about the most horrendous medu wada i have ever had in my ENTIRE life....

the second session was expected to be another bummer...and me and anisha were pretty much dreading it...but it turned out to be quite cool actually...this guy was pretty good...he was basically a technical manager of some sort and was explaining about what a project generally is what one is supposed to do in project management...lot of technical garble totally irrelevant here...

so y am i boring u with all these details and such a long long description???

well coz i found out the answer to one really important question that i was dwelling upon....

its like this..ever since i joined IT engineering i had this notion that i really wasn't cut out for it u know...the kinda feeling that tells you sorry boss...this ain't my cup of tea....

incidentally...we were talking to the Sr.Manager in Accenture who also happened to be an ex-VJTIan (thats my college) and an M.Tech from IITB, Mr. Milind Rumade (i think i got the name wrong there...sorry)

one of my friends asked him the same question...that sir i feel i m not going to be good at coding per se and would be better off in management.

he just said...how much of coding HAVE u done..to not like it...and it kinda hit me u know...that i have been NOT liking something that i havent even given a shot to...

he then said...what makes u think u will be good in the management sector...u haven't tried that as yet as well???what if u don't like that also....

and he also said that you be in any field..more than your expertise..what matters is the amount of hard work u put in...there is NO SUBSTITUTE for it...

its funny at some level i thought i always knew it...just hit me when he said it though...one of those things..

its also funny how such (apparently) BIG questions in life have such relatively small(and STUPID) answers...

so lets just say instead of cribbing about y d hell did i take IT....i am gonna give it a shot...and Pray God that i am good at it....

all in all...i must say was a good visit....patted myself on the back for deciding to go...Thanx a lot Sir....u might have just changed my life...hehe


P.S. its funny how sometimes when things dont pan out the way u want them to u get so sad...inspite of knowing never to expect anything...STRANGE

SORRY DEAR!!!


love
anupam.