Archive for February, 2006
Return of the……
Yeah baby! Me back again! After a gruelling journey and the first ever interview in my life and may be the first ever serious GD.
The trip towards there was not very good. A family with a 6 month old baby, two smokers who alternatively smoke and a controlling dad. Enough to drive me crazy. Kid is fine, Dad is fine but smokers…not fine. Especially since I was trying to quit and there was no way I could have one with Dad around. A test of patience really. On top of it in Goa, a guy enters selling whisky and brandy for throwaway prices. I could just look on and sigh. *sigh*
Anand was good and IRMA was excelent. About Anand. The place is a large town, but few shops when compared to our towns. May be smaller than Allapuzha or Kollam.
The trademarks: Cows! and Dogs!
The Cows (yeah the capital C) are scary. With big horns. Too many dogs here. But they are very peaceful and playful.
The tea is very milky. Food is cheap but non veg is scarce. 95% Gujjus are veggies.
Cigarette is expensive. Wills cost 50p more.
Gujarat State buses suck man. Our KSRTC look like Bentley in comparison.
The girls are beautiful, amicable and has a good taste(?). A couple of them asked me out to a movie. 😉 I did’nt go. That movie sucked 😛 (Mere Jeevan Sathi!)
IRMA campus is so beautiful.Very green. The temperature is always 2 degrees less than outside. So many birds of many varieties. Many squirrels. (I love squirrels!). And so many Monkeys! Very peaceful variety.
We stayed outside at a hotel. A pretty rundown one. Bad bathroom. I could adjust but poor Father, he suffered. On the day before selection I prepared by reading two novels: Fivepoint someone and One night@ call center by Chetan Bhagat. Loved both. Especially Fivepoint someone. Seems like there are more people like me who got screwed up by not thinking straight.
IRMA selection had two processes. Group Activity and a Personal Interview.
I acquainted with 4 malayalees. And one of them is my collegemate’s brother in law. We had a presentaion about IRMA first. Cleared a lot of my doubts.
4 of us Mallus were in the same batch for GD. So it was very soothing to enter the room. First was a regular GD: The topic being “Credit cards bring more trouble and use”
Really calm GD inspite of the topic. All of us got opportunity to talk and it was lively discussion. Only two guys were sitting mum.
Then we had a group task. 9 steps to eradicate illiteracy in India were given and we had to prioritise them, first in our personal opinion and then in the group consensus. A good discusiion again.
After it was over met up with a girl from the other batch. She told there GDs were total chaos and fishmarket.
After an hour I had my PI. A lady and two gentlemen were there in the panel. Went quite well till the last question about cooperative IT movement in Kerala. I said I had no idea and to my horror the inaugration of the same was held yesterday! Well I always live on hope 🙂
I skipped the screening of the movie Barefoot Manager and decided to roam the markets instead. Bought some stuff for home and was hit on by two teen girls who asked me out to a movie. They probably thought I was some rich guy who would spent on them! I declined the offer and said I had an interview to attend. The birds flew away. 😦
The return journey was also not too good. I was feeling totaly stuffy and bored. Spent my time muching on food and finished a Polo in 30 minutes. May be I am a chain poloist. Well that settles the tooth pain reason now!
There was a Sindhi engineer with us. Spent time chatting with him (rather he chatting with me!) Also an elderly Malayalee man and his wife. To say the least I was bored to death.
Came home at early morning and I found my room totally changed! My cousin had come to stay there to give mother company and he cleaned up the room totally! It was being in an alien land for me albiet a neat one!
Got my exams running now. Feeling totally drained and sick. Has to leave for Ahmedabad again this 4th for MICA. Now I am giving a serious thought not to go. Will miss Sports Day and College Day. More importantly I am not feeling well at all.
I really hope I do get through in IRMA and pray that I do qualify if I get selected! 🙂
I have not forgotten the story. It will come and another post before that I am now cooking up.
ciao
Return of the……
Yeah baby! Me back again! After a gruelling journey and the first ever interview in my life and may be the first ever serious GD.
The trip towards there was not very good. A family with a 6 month old baby, two smokers who alternatively smoke and a controlling dad. Enough to drive me crazy. Kid is fine, Dad is fine but smokers…not fine. Especially since I was trying to quit and there was no way I could have one with Dad around. A test of patience really. On top of it in Goa, a guy enters selling whisky and brandy for throwaway prices. I could just look on and sigh. *sigh*
Anand was good and IRMA was excelent. About Anand. The place is a large town, but few shops when compared to our towns. May be smaller than Allapuzha or Kollam.
The trademarks: Cows! and Dogs!
The Cows (yeah the capital C) are scary. With big horns. Too many dogs here. But they are very peaceful and playful.
The tea is very milky. Food is cheap but non veg is scarce. 95% Gujjus are veggies.
Cigarette is expensive. Wills cost 50p more.
Gujarat State buses suck man. Our KSRTC look like Bentley in comparison.
The girls are beautiful, amicable and has a good taste(?). A couple of them asked me out to a movie. 😉 I did’nt go. That movie sucked 😛 (Mere Jeevan Sathi!)
IRMA campus is so beautiful.Very green. The temperature is always 2 degrees less than outside. So many birds of many varieties. Many squirrels. (I love squirrels!). And so many Monkeys! Very peaceful variety.
We stayed outside at a hotel. A pretty rundown one. Bad bathroom. I could adjust but poor Father, he suffered. On the day before selection I prepared by reading two novels: Fivepoint someone and One night@ call center by Chetan Bhagat. Loved both. Especially Fivepoint someone. Seems like there are more people like me who got screwed up by not thinking straight.
IRMA selection had two processes. Group Activity and a Personal Interview.
I acquainted with 4 malayalees. And one of them is my collegemate’s brother in law. We had a presentaion about IRMA first. Cleared a lot of my doubts.
4 of us Mallus were in the same batch for GD. So it was very soothing to enter the room. First was a regular GD: The topic being “Credit cards bring more trouble and use”
Really calm GD inspite of the topic. All of us got opportunity to talk and it was lively discussion. Only two guys were sitting mum.
Then we had a group task. 9 steps to eradicate illiteracy in India were given and we had to prioritise them, first in our personal opinion and then in the group consensus. A good discusiion again.
After it was over met up with a girl from the other batch. She told there GDs were total chaos and fishmarket.
After an hour I had my PI. A lady and two gentlemen were there in the panel. Went quite well till the last question about cooperative IT movement in Kerala. I said I had no idea and to my horror the inaugration of the same was held yesterday! Well I always live on hope 🙂
I skipped the screening of the movie Barefoot Manager and decided to roam the markets instead. Bought some stuff for home and was hit on by two teen girls who asked me out to a movie. They probably thought I was some rich guy who would spent on them! I declined the offer and said I had an interview to attend. The birds flew away. 😦
The return journey was also not too good. I was feeling totaly stuffy and bored. Spent my time muching on food and finished a Polo in 30 minutes. May be I am a chain poloist. Well that settles the tooth pain reason now!
There was a Sindhi engineer with us. Spent time chatting with him (rather he chatting with me!) Also an elderly Malayalee man and his wife. To say the least I was bored to death.
Came home at early morning and I found my room totally changed! My cousin had come to stay there to give mother company and he cleaned up the room totally! It was being in an alien land for me albiet a neat one!
Got my exams running now. Feeling totally drained and sick. Has to leave for Ahmedabad again this 4th for MICA. Now I am giving a serious thought not to go. Will miss Sports Day and College Day. More importantly I am not feeling well at all.
I really hope I do get through in IRMA and pray that I do qualify if I get selected! 🙂
I have not forgotten the story. It will come and another post before that I am now cooking up.
ciao
When I am gone…
I had a pretty nasty day yesterday. Fought with a teacher. I even went to extent of telling the truth: He doesn’t teach well and wastes our time. Then had a long, winding and an irritating talk with another teacher. Why are these people so bent upon creating problems for us. Thr first guy is the worst. Telling lies about how he spoke for us. Spineless creature! Be a man dude! I think he has only the moustache as sign of masculinity. Hell, women have got pretty good character. I think I will stop before I embark on a character assassination.
So my sessionals will be in the drains I guess. But I will fight back if he tries reduce my marks. Gonna work hard on his subject. Lucky its not such a hard subject.
In other news I got an interview call from MICA (Mudra Insitute of Communication, Ahmedabad). A long cherished desire. But some problems: financial, academical etc…
Imagine my blog without an entry for one week…
Some would say “Good Riddance!”
Some others “He blogged?”
Some others “Whatever…”
I think (hope) some would miss me…
I post at a regular frequency. May be 4-5 times a week for many months now. Sometimes it may be a (another) poll when I got nothing to write or feeling lazy. Still I posted.
Next week is in its entirety devoted to the train journey to and from Anand and the selection process at IRMA on 23rd. I will be back on sunday the 26th. So what can you expect then? I had been contemplating a story for a long time and was saying the same to Meenu while we were chatting. I had fallen asleep today evening and saw an incredible and surreal dream (Though I could’nt see it completely). In came the creative juices. I told the juices to hold your horsies as my friends would flay me if I write a story now. They are quite angry at me for a lacklustre attitude at interview preparations. I promise a story later. I have’nt kept many of my promises. Like my kindergarden days or my biased review of harry Potter. I hope to keep up with this one.
So what you can expect?
Made a compilation of my best posts (according to me basically!)
Lets call it…
Rockus Narus: So far so good
1. Why Rock? (Scroll down!)
2. The Big Dog’s Dawg (Adieu my friend...)
3. The Edge of Reasoning…
4. Series Sam
5. One Wild Night-I
6. My Music
7. Skeletons Crawl out of my closet
8. Ten Commandments
9. My Self…
10. Out In the cold-I,II,III
11. The Forbidden Places…
12. Manmohan Day!
So Adios Amigos till I return…
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I had a pretty nasty day yesterday. Fought with a teacher. I even went to extent of telling the truth: He doesn’t teach well and wastes our time. Then had a long, winding and an irritating talk with another teacher. Why are these people so bent upon creating problems for us. Thr first guy is the worst. Telling lies about how he spoke for us. Spineless creature! Be a man dude! I think he has only the moustache as sign of masculinity. Hell, women have got pretty good character. I think I will stop before I embark on a character assassination.
So my sessionals will be in the drains I guess. But I will fight back if he tries reduce my marks. Gonna work hard on his subject. Lucky its not such a hard subject.
In other news I got an interview call from MICA (Mudra Insitute of Communication, Ahmedabad). A long cherished desire. But some problems: financial, academical etc…
Imagine my blog without an entry for one week…
Some would say “Good Riddance!”
Some others “He blogged?”
Some others “Whatever…”
I think (hope) some would miss me…
I post at a regular frequency. May be 4-5 times a week for many months now. Sometimes it may be a (another) poll when I got nothing to write or feeling lazy. Still I posted.
Next week is in its entirety devoted to the train journey to and from Anand and the selection process at IRMA on 23rd. I will be back on sunday the 26th. So what can you expect then? I had been contemplating a story for a long time and was saying the same to Meenu while we were chatting. I had fallen asleep today evening and saw an incredible and surreal dream (Though I could’nt see it completely). In came the creative juices. I told the juices to hold your horsies as my friends would flay me if I write a story now. They are quite angry at me for a lacklustre attitude at interview preparations. I promise a story later. I have’nt kept many of my promises. Like my kindergarden days or my biased review of harry Potter. I hope to keep up with this one.
So what you can expect?
Made a compilation of my best posts (according to me basically!)
Lets call it…
Rockus Narus: So far so good
1. Why Rock? (Scroll down!)
2. The Big Dog’s Dawg (Adieu my friend...)
3. The Edge of Reasoning…
4. Series Sam
5. One Wild Night-I
6. My Music
7. Skeletons Crawl out of my closet
8. Ten Commandments
9. My Self…
10. Out In the cold-I,II,III
11. The Forbidden Places…
12. Manmohan Day!
So Adios Amigos till I return…
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 11 so far )My Hate list…
Been tagged by Arti and Poison…It about the things I hate. I am a very gentle person and hates hate…But sometimes I feel the dark emotions surging through my mind…:-P
So here goes nothing…
1. I hate incompetent show offs. I have been seeing a lot of them these days in college. Had the “fortune” of working with one guy last colloquium and he almost made me swear in public and knock his teeth out. And now we have couple of teachers like that who behave as if they are the best but knows nothing…
2. I am a pedestrian most of the time and I enjoy my walks. Some rash drivers make my life difficult. I hate them.
3. I hate people who are prejudiced against my taste in music. I don’t force anyone to hear my playlist. (Except for my unfortunate project mates :-D) Live and let live.
4. I hate the very notion of reservation for the so called “oppressed classes”. Might be true in North India but certainly a false notion in my state.
5. I hate people who don’t care about the environment.
6. I hate people who don’t pay taxes.
7. I hate people who make a scene deliberately to show they had been drinking. Learn to hold your wine!
8. Smoking in front of children. Did I mention self loathing somewhere?
9. I hate girls who dress up like vamps and behave like one.
10. I hate guys who were low waist just to show their underwear. I hate it.
11. I hate the insurgent terrorists in India. LeT, ULFA etc.
12. I hate communists and marxists in Kerala and also the Muslim league.
13. I hate the pseudo secularist policies of political parties. They are sowing the seed for a big disaster in future.
Now I am stopping at the number of the beast!
On to the tagging ceremony…
Meenu (let us see what makes u go grrrr!)
Emotions
Illusion
Magneta
Bleak
The fellowship (people do the tags!)
My Hate list…
Been tagged by Arti and Poison…It about the things I hate. I am a very gentle person and hates hate…But sometimes I feel the dark emotions surging through my mind…:-P
So here goes nothing…
1. I hate incompetent show offs. I have been seeing a lot of them these days in college. Had the “fortune” of working with one guy last colloquium and he almost made me swear in public and knock his teeth out. And now we have couple of teachers like that who behave as if they are the best but knows nothing…
2. I am a pedestrian most of the time and I enjoy my walks. Some rash drivers make my life difficult. I hate them.
3. I hate people who are prejudiced against my taste in music. I don’t force anyone to hear my playlist. (Except for my unfortunate project mates :-D) Live and let live.
4. I hate the very notion of reservation for the so called “oppressed classes”. Might be true in North India but certainly a false notion in my state.
5. I hate people who don’t care about the environment.
6. I hate people who don’t pay taxes.
7. I hate people who make a scene deliberately to show they had been drinking. Learn to hold your wine!
8. Smoking in front of children. Did I mention self loathing somewhere?
9. I hate girls who dress up like vamps and behave like one.
10. I hate guys who were low waist just to show their underwear. I hate it.
11. I hate the insurgent terrorists in India. LeT, ULFA etc.
12. I hate communists and marxists in Kerala and also the Muslim league.
13. I hate the pseudo secularist policies of political parties. They are sowing the seed for a big disaster in future.
Now I am stopping at the number of the beast!
On to the tagging ceremony…
Meenu (let us see what makes u go grrrr!)
Emotions
Illusion
Magneta
Bleak
The fellowship (people do the tags!)
Cupid Radio Inc.
I have been bashing Odie left and right through this blog. Make no mistake he is one of my best friends and the same goes to his darling too. I had decided to make it up to him for ‘blogbusing’ him and I had a bell ringing in my brains to do so. Darling was scared to take any gifts as she was afraid to take it home and so she had told not to give her any gifts. The dude was feeling pretty empty without giving a gift. I was recording some sounds in my mobile. Its not an expensive set and you can record small voice reminders upto 19 seconds. I recorded the Beatles song “When i am sixtyfour”. Some lines that I loved. Then I had this notion of sending it an MMS to Odie so that he could sent to Darling. But his set has no MMS support and her set is also the same.(Nokia 2600 sucks! LG 2050 Rulz!) So we were stuck. I had listened to radio dum dum a while back and I had this idea of hosting a radio station so that Odie could recite his Valentines Day message followed by a song dedication. I read upon how to make a shoutcast radio station and we tested it that night itself. I told him to record his message and sent it over.
I went to his place the next day and tried to set the same in his house, so he could say anything without me hearing it. But some problems and he didnt mind me hearing his message. After all I have suffered a lot in the middle of their saccharine talks!
But as the day neared disaster struck! The day in which Odie was to record some inexplicable causes made the recording of his sound impossible. So we decided just the song would do. I told him to tell her goodbye on 13th late night and go invisible. The idiot screwed that up but again Rockus saved the day. By 12 I sent her the playlist and made her listen.
He had chosen the right song. “Nothing gonna change my love for you” by Glen Medieros. He came back visible and the couple shared (must have!) some initimate virtual kissing and hugging (they did not respond to yours cupidly for a while!) and I played my dedication after that “I am a believer” by The Monkees. This song always reminded me of Odie and he too remarked that.
The day thus started pretty well.
I did my presentation pretty decently. May be the blessing of a lovestruck couple…
Nothing gonna change my love
If I had to live my life without you near me
The days would all be empty
The nights would seem so long
With you I see forever oh so clearly
I might have been in love before
But it never felt this strong
Our dreams are young and we both know
They’ll take us where we want to go
Hold me now, touch me now
I don’t want to live without you
Nothing’s gonna change my love for you
You ought to know by now how much I love you
One thing you can be sure of
I’ll never ask for more than your love
Nothing’s gonna change my love for you
You ought to know by now how much I love you
The world may change my whole life through
But nothing’s gonna change my love for you
If the road ahead is not so easy
Our love will lead a way for us
Like a guiding star
I’ll be there for you if you should need me
You don’t have to change a thing
I love you just the way you are
So come with me and share the view
I’ll help you see forever too
Hold me now, touch me now
I don’t want to live without you
I am a believer
I thought love was only true in fairy tales
Meant for someone else but not for me.
Love was out to get me
That’s the was it seemed.
Disappointment haunted all my dreams.
Then I saw her face, now I’m a believer
Not a trace of doubt in my mind.
I’m in love, I’m a believer!
I couldn’t leave her if I tried.
I thought love was more or less a given thing,
Seems the more I gave the less I got.
What’s the use in tryin’?
All you get is pain.
When I needed sunshine I got rain.
Then I saw her face, now I’m a believer
Not a trace of doubt in my mind.
I’m in love, I’m a believer!
I couldn’t leave her if I tried.
So the Cupid Says Ciao!
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I have been bashing Odie left and right through this blog. Make no mistake he is one of my best friends and the same goes to his darling too. I had decided to make it up to him for ‘blogbusing’ him and I had a bell ringing in my brains to do so. Darling was scared to take any gifts as she was afraid to take it home and so she had told not to give her any gifts. The dude was feeling pretty empty without giving a gift. I was recording some sounds in my mobile. Its not an expensive set and you can record small voice reminders upto 19 seconds. I recorded the Beatles song “When i am sixtyfour”. Some lines that I loved. Then I had this notion of sending it an MMS to Odie so that he could sent to Darling. But his set has no MMS support and her set is also the same.(Nokia 2600 sucks! LG 2050 Rulz!) So we were stuck. I had listened to radio dum dum a while back and I had this idea of hosting a radio station so that Odie could recite his Valentines Day message followed by a song dedication. I read upon how to make a shoutcast radio station and we tested it that night itself. I told him to record his message and sent it over.
I went to his place the next day and tried to set the same in his house, so he could say anything without me hearing it. But some problems and he didnt mind me hearing his message. After all I have suffered a lot in the middle of their saccharine talks!
But as the day neared disaster struck! The day in which Odie was to record some inexplicable causes made the recording of his sound impossible. So we decided just the song would do. I told him to tell her goodbye on 13th late night and go invisible. The idiot screwed that up but again Rockus saved the day. By 12 I sent her the playlist and made her listen.
He had chosen the right song. “Nothing gonna change my love for you” by Glen Medieros. He came back visible and the couple shared (must have!) some initimate virtual kissing and hugging (they did not respond to yours cupidly for a while!) and I played my dedication after that “I am a believer” by The Monkees. This song always reminded me of Odie and he too remarked that.
The day thus started pretty well.
I did my presentation pretty decently. May be the blessing of a lovestruck couple…
Nothing gonna change my love
If I had to live my life without you near me
The days would all be empty
The nights would seem so long
With you I see forever oh so clearly
I might have been in love before
But it never felt this strong
Our dreams are young and we both know
They’ll take us where we want to go
Hold me now, touch me now
I don’t want to live without you
Nothing’s gonna change my love for you
You ought to know by now how much I love you
One thing you can be sure of
I’ll never ask for more than your love
Nothing’s gonna change my love for you
You ought to know by now how much I love you
The world may change my whole life through
But nothing’s gonna change my love for you
If the road ahead is not so easy
Our love will lead a way for us
Like a guiding star
I’ll be there for you if you should need me
You don’t have to change a thing
I love you just the way you are
So come with me and share the view
I’ll help you see forever too
Hold me now, touch me now
I don’t want to live without you
I am a believer
I thought love was only true in fairy tales
Meant for someone else but not for me.
Love was out to get me
That’s the was it seemed.
Disappointment haunted all my dreams.
Then I saw her face, now I’m a believer
Not a trace of doubt in my mind.
I’m in love, I’m a believer!
I couldn’t leave her if I tried.
I thought love was more or less a given thing,
Seems the more I gave the less I got.
What’s the use in tryin’?
All you get is pain.
When I needed sunshine I got rain.
Then I saw her face, now I’m a believer
Not a trace of doubt in my mind.
I’m in love, I’m a believer!
I couldn’t leave her if I tried.
So the Cupid Says Ciao!
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I liked this picture a lot! My new Yahoo profile pic… 
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The Background I made for our project. “CoCo: The Collaborative Content Creation Tool”. Me and Dinkan were thinking of names and I was fooling around playing Steve Jobs (he named apple) and forwarded names like Manga(mallucised version of mango) and some pretty obscene names as well. Then I came up with ‘Thenga’ (Coconut). Dinku said Coconut and then thunder & Lightning struck in the brains! Viola! Heres the name CoCo complete with two coconuts for Os!
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