Insti Days

The Otherside

Some mornings are bound to be gloomy..

You get up, browse through the newspaper and the first thing you notice is that a major finance company just laid off 50 k employees! You are all wtf’s, as it suddenly strikes you “Wasn't this company coming for recruitment??"
Moving on with the morning, I went to the bog, while brushing, remembered the conversation I had with a senior the other day (on how a top financial firm goes about laying off its employees, in Bangalore):

Senior: It's not good dude!
Me: How?
Senior: Well, the manager comes to your desk, and asks you for a coffee. You surely go along with the manager. You come back realize that your system has been locked, and its password has been reset. Then, to explain things, your manager takes you out for a drive, which ends up exactly at your residence, with you being told “Get down and move on dear, best of luck!"
Me: Shit!
Though it’s not always that such thoughts come to my mind, but with a little less than two weeks before the placement session begins, it seems natural.

As if the fate had it this morning, I went down to the mess hall, only to find a branch councilor, disclosing that another recruiter has bumped placements this year. And he wisely advises "Listen machcha, it is worrosssttt max this time. Put fight for whatever companies that are coming. By the way, how did you write CAT?"
"CAT?" sounded like a perfect nail to the coffin-box, because I didn't write CAT on account of my application getting rejected. Inevitably, my appetite for the breakfast broke loose then and there itself, and I tried to cheer up myself and figure out other options.
Returning back to my room, feeling like not doing anything, I again picked up the newspaper.
As anticipated, it was flooded with articles on financial meltdown, layoffs, and market recessions. To add to the fury, even talks in the wing and peer groups eventually converge to the same theme.

Its obvious that the placements this time don’t guarantee to be a spectacle , but its just a matter of days and I'll be through with it, again on the other side . Till then, its business as usual. The only positives I can sense from here are that I'll still be from the golden jubilee batch of IITM, after all ours was the last batch to enter IIT's clearing screening and mains both, and the only passing out batch ever to face such a recession.

Countdown to Chinese Democracy

Awaiting the release of sixth studio album of

Guns N' Roses, on 23 November.

7 more days to go.

wishCAT ;)

On 16 November, 2008 , I was meant to write CAT.

Instead

On 16 November, 2008, I am writing a blog post on not writing CAT.

Perfect irony :)

A Hello ... After a long time

Well, the feeling of talking to an old friend and that too after four long years (as in my case) is truly magical.It left me amazed, as I was able to talk to her so patiently and man I was able to recall even small things which were buried deep inside me.It was just terrific.

Well truly speaking , I was really trying to get back in touch with a few old friends, but dunno, whats with me , I never really have the courage to get back to them, not even to say simple words " hi , how are you ?"nways ..long time I guess..

So to get on with the story, it all started with an eventful day>>I was made the Vice President of the institute's E-Cell, followed by winning first prize along with fkd and bachcha, at wavez, the annual fest of naval architecture department, after which I went to stadium for a few quick rounds of running followed by a hockey match in Sangam and then hostel nite in Saraswati hostel( kind of a farewell party for passing out seniors of that hostel) and lastly celebrating moli bhai's festival with wingmates at CCD.(Phew!!! it really was eventful)
Even after a long day like this, when I was finally relaxing in my room, I was not feeling sleepy. Instead my beautiful mind was wandering somewhere.And then it stumbled to a few of my best pics.I browsed through a few more and finally collected the very best of them.Would have been the effect of the long and tiring day and music, that I beacme a bit nostalgic, edited them and posted them on Orkut.

Now the friend of mine, of whom I am talking about happens to be orkut, and even in my friend list.But orkut never really makes you "talk" to anyone.. all it does is help you "chat" with them which does not interest me much.May be I had been right. May be I was wrong.
The next day I received a message from her,admiring the pics and asking about my life in general.To be precise, I had posted a pic of myself with my sis in Bangalore celebrating my last bday, which she took it as me and my "chic" and her message went like this " Hi, nice pics on orkut, girlfriend banayee kya ?? ~~nice chic haaa ~~ and hws life??"
I was busy then , trying to mug for a midterm in one of my friends room, scheduled for the next day .It had been four long years that I hadn't spoken to her without any reason, I thought. And anyhow , I was not very much interested in mugging for that useless midterm. I packed, went to my room,made up my mind on the way that I will call her up.

I did.
"Hello"...
"Hi !@&*&" I said..
"Hi ...tujhe yaad aa hee gayee finally meri itne dino baad"she said.
I could sense that she was a bit scared as expected.
However, I was able to cool it down and what followed was a conversation lasting 17 minutes and one of those I'll be remembering for a long time...