Funny thing called life...

Let me start by describing my day today.. 25th of Dec. Christmas Day.. an extended weekend.. The first feeling that i had the moment i woke up was, cool it's not a saturday or sunday and still no need to go to office, and u know the best part is Saturday doesn't arrive for the next 24hrs (i know technically incorrect, but watever its my blog, i can write anything)... Yup, thats true. I finally managed to move my lazy ass off my comfortable bed by 12noon with the aroma of aloo parantha in my nostrils, cooked by my bhai who i feel is too quiet to the point of being rude, i guess thats called laconic (thou not using it, coz donno how to use it actually). Anyways, as soon as i woke up, i recieved a glad glad news that one of my special friends has purchased a new car, their first car, a cherry colored WagonR.. Awesome.. pretty cool haa.. 1st car.. that send me to another dream wondering when would be my 1st car and that too which one would it be.. i kept dreaming around it for around half an hour or so..

suddenly remembered that i had put in my clothes in the washing machine around 2 days back and i had forgotten to take them out to get them dried.. hurriedly i did the graceful thing of spreading them on my balcony.. but most of it was already dry anyway.. but still managed to do the graceful thing

By the time, it was around 1.30.. and the smell of paranthas still strong.. i decided to have an early lunch.. again, just managed to remember that i havn't yet brushed my teeth.. but this time i around i did something which wouldn't have made my BDS younger brother very proud, decided to do it post my paranthas.. had a lavish lunch.. followed by brushing of my teeth and then ate a Green Apple.. I donno what it is, but i like Green Apples.. i don't think its the taste that i like, but the color may be.. something different isn't it.. a bit funny also, if u look from a different angle.. It was supposed to be Red, but no it's green.. Nice

Anyways, it was already 3.30 and i opened my closest friend, who never gets angry at me and always makes me happy when i am with it.. my sweet Laptop.. the poor thing was ON the whole night, downloading some crap for me.. but anyways.. after checking my mails and chatting with few good old friends, i decided to watch a movie "Wake Up SID".. it actually put me to sleep.. was wide asleep when the SID in the movie woke up.. Quiet ironocal i thought...

Time was 6pm.. This time i managed to remember on time that i had a wedding to attend.. a collegue's.. was not that far from home, so got ready and went ahead.. on the way i decided to get down at a near-by temple.. was entering a temple after a long gap.. and that too without anyone forcing me, i guess almost a year or 2 would have passed by.. anyways, felt very calm and peaceful.. i guess thats the reason why people go there.. felt like doing something for myself.. a different kind of peace, where after a long time the thought passed my mind ,"I am actually alive, awesome" .. Interesting feeling..

Anyways.. went straight to the wedding.. nice ambience, pretty girls, bride and groom looking really cute together, good food, some office humour.. things went pretty good...

Now, something i found very interesting and funny in a way, which also made me write this blog was just the comparison between my day and the day this dude standing next to the Bride (obviously i mean the groom and not the waiter serving cold drinks).. I have not the slightest idea what the Groom had been up to, but still...

Such a super-normal day for me, some might also call it boring but and this guy its the most important day of his life.. simply amazing.. thousands of people wishing him, having a smile the whole day and waiting a final showdown which was being planned for the past 6 months or may be more... A day which this guy would remember for rest of his life and a day which I would remember only thru this blog.. I guess that's wat makes us humans and moments that make us realize that we are so alive.. No words can describe the feeling...

The wedding and my events the whole day, made me wonder just 1 thing, how just a normal day in 1 person's life could be the most imp day of the other...

Funny thing called life...

God knows how long it's gonna continue like this

Before doing MBA, life felt so beautiful (not that it's become ugly now), but the point it FELT so beautiful about the future prospects. I never knew what, it FELT nice. There was something to look forward. The word CRIB never existed in my dictionary (feels like i am talking about Nepolean, in whose dictionary IMPOSSIBLE never existed), what a pathetic dictionary i used to think it was. But nevertheless, things were some how much more pleasant and relaxed. The only thought was, by any how let me get into a B-School and life would be heaven like.
Alas, i guess i was wrong. The only comparison after engg., was with my collegues. Some of whom got into TCS, some into Wipro and so on. After MBA its not just the company name or the money that mattered, but anything and everything the other other guy has starts a new crib. Profile of the job, location of the job, superior's behaviour, travel or no-travel, laptop provided or not.. blah blah blah... You feel someone is lucky, someone feels you are lucky and the circle goes on. I fail to understand, why is it so. What has changed, is it ambitions. If it would have been ambitions then it should sound positive, right? But, why does it have a negative connotation then... what's wrong.. someone else feels you have all the happiness and everything.. everyone feels so, except you...
Is it the people who surround you make you think so, i guess the other person also thinks the same.. Why can't we be like our parents, accepting what we got and staying their for rest of our lives. Is it wrong? Why has this eternal unhappiness crept into almost everyone. Why does everyone feels suprior to the other, or makes the other feel inferior.. something is not write. Is it my fault, can i change others attitude, why do i start talking like them when im in their company, whom am i trying to prove myself to?? I guess these questions never get answered..
We talk the atmost pleasantness with everyone we absolutely detest and can't stand and take out our anger and frustration on people we love and care the most.. Isn't that hypocrisy. We read in self help books, live everyday as it comes by, make the most out of it, be happy as the time ones passed shall not return... i wonder if even the writter is able to follow his/her own philosophy. The fact is we are not alone, we live in a society. The only behaviour we can control is our own. You can't take out a baseball bat and crack everyone's skull who takes out his frustration on u, u just can't. So what do u do when the other person does that.. Do u maintain a smiling face and later crib about him to someone else... is that it!!! That's what we all do, do we.. but the question is, is that the right thing to do.. Then what.. i guess the only solution is give him bak the way he gives you.. the MBA degree atleast makes sure that you get a decent job post the current, so why be afraid and listen to people's shit..
Nothing has changed a bit, only the stakes have risen. The ego has gone up, things that never bothered has become our sole concern.. Work profile never bothered earlier, so why now.. Why the obsession to become the best, when all you need to be is a good person and be happy.
i have no idea what crap i am have written, but i guess i had to get it out.. that's the only way to have a good night's sleep.

Memories for a lifetime

Even today I remember, the “Things to bring” list when we were about to join the college, some 150 odd item, right from safety pin to hanger to ball point pens to photographs. But today, I glance back at my journey of 2 years and try to note the things that I am taking back with me. The feeling has not still sunk into me that we finally are going to be an Alumni of this college from being the FT (Full Time) batch. It has been eventful undoubtedly, ups and downs, crests and troughs, but we all came out all right, I guess. Some say the journey is yet to begin, but then somewhere I feel the Golden days have come to an end!!!
Listing down are the items I am taking with me, in memories, of course. As we have been time and again reinforced that Brevity will be aptly rewarded, waha to kabhi marks nahi aye, hope to strike a chord in your hearts here. So, here begins the list:

• Gera ka khud ke joke pe hasana or Vineeta Sahay ka sensetize kerna
• Wo placecom ka notice board pe kabhi naam na ana and Mess ka sada hua chinese khana
• Pahalwaan ke dabbe ka aloo ka parantha or makani daal
• Abbas ki tapre ki chai ke sath feen or apmhi ki daaru ke baad sube uthne ka pain
• DLP ki maggie or mazza ki batli
• Chole kulche wale ki bheed
• Sunday sube ki jalebi miss kerna or phir guilty feel hona
• Chander dwara rape, phir uske peche ki hassi
• Bankim or archit ka OM project ka dance
• Ati ka baddapan or Chote(Manu) ka chichorapan
• Misra ki poem or Himanshu ka PPO
• Class ki nind or Bindu Gupta ki dant
• Pahali Class party pe talli hona, or muje logo ka uthake leke jana
• Ann ka class me late ana or miri ka CR ban jana
• Avik Sarkar ka “Yeh kya chutiyapa hai” or har mail me likhna “Regards, Avik & Amrita”
• Chetan ka sona or Shinde ka chup rahna
• Manoj ki dharmendar wali awaz or Deepak ka accountzz
• Tau ka bulk deal karana or Saraswat ka score batana
• Himanshoo ka shopping ke liye dubai jana or Divakar ka bhai chara
• Guneet ka darwaje se chupke se ana
• Meera ka economics sikhana or aditi ka teacharo se dant khake dubara bhasad machana
• Raato ko bina matlab jagana or Chai pe NA jane pe Dosto ki galiya khana
• Arjun ka accent or abhinav ki Barron’s wala vocab
• Gaurav ka paris jana or saxena ka French se katwana
• Dewan ke scientific statements or cheete ke German sentiments
• Akansha ka dheere se class me ghusna or peche peche, so obvious akshat ka ana :P
• Avinash ke pyar bhare cakes or avnish ke hath uthake infinite takes
• Arsh ka bandana aur Damani ka roll. No 11 miss ho jana
• Modi ka retail gyaan or anand ka laga dena har chez me apni jaan
• Manas ka OM ki class me bina soye answer dena or Gaurav Singh ka Dritarashtra ban jana
• Meri gf ka “Love” ka naam ph book pe dekhke badakna, usko kya pata saala Ladki nahi ladka hai
• Uppal ka tora marna or bharat ka kaan pe phone rakhke ankh marna ;)
• John ka baar baar exchange pe jana or amit arora ka raat ka patty khana
• Ashish ka SAIL or ashwini/aseem ki parties me khel ;)
• Deep or Ashu ka mark-up pe senti hona
• Gopal ka shikar per jana or Chandresh ka Gera ki tarah Tehtahana
• Batra ka Cosmetic pe gyaan or Dashmeet ka loud-speaker pe gaan
• Roll No. 1 ka har quiz me 5 lana or atul ka chander se bhid jana
• Volley ball ka final jeetna or b’days ke baad ka DLP me cold drink peena
• Kya kahu yaaro, sabse baat kerte kerte uhi 2 saalon ka guzar jana or bus yahi umeed kerna, ‘zindagi bher dosti rakhna’ or kabhi alvida na kahna ;)

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I have missed many many names in the list, but ab zyada bore nahi ker sakhta sabko. I will miss u all… Each and every one of u has a very special place in my heart for sure.

And as someone great ones said ,”It’s not the GPA u take from a B-School but the people added on ur GTalk.” So here I am with almost everyone on it :D

Finally FT-A rox hardest and we are the coolest...

Thy Commandments after placement

• Thou shall not even try to study or even open the text books

• Thou shall watch at least 1 movie everyday

• Thou shall at least pick up the newspaper lying on the floor each morning

• Thou shall stop thinking about even to try to have breakfasts everyday

• In case of 2 consecutive lectures, Thou shall go to the 2nd lecture punctually

• Thou shall stop making fun of the professors and concentrate on thine classmates for the same

• Thou shall restrict the discussion with friends to highly sensitive and important issues like द्रौपती Cherharan, Katrina Kaif and upcoming B-Grade movies like Deshdrohi

• Thou shall be seriously casual about thy life

• Two things Thou shall never switch off, thy laptop and thy speakers attached to it

• Thou shall not visit home just for washing clothes and when thy needs money

• Thou shall not mind thy own business

• Thou shall not let away any opportunity to put thy leg into any small torn part (फटे में टांग डालना)

• Thou shall never refuse a friend who wants to have a drink with thy

All the above rules are to be followed religiously and the sanctity of the commandments should be maintained. In case of a conflict among the points, the last 3 should be given at most priority.

- Someone who has nothing else to do