Its been 4 months since I scribbled something on my blog. What could be the reason ??? To be frank... there is no reason as such. Am I lazy ? Am I ignorant? That is not the case. I see my blog daily and feel like posting many things here. But something/someone really stopped me doing so.
Finally the term has come to an end and thus an end to my college life. Am I going to miss something here? I dont think so. When compared to my college life at PEC, the life at L is nothing. Though I came here with so many expectations, I couldn't enjoy most of the time. Ofcourse the people are different and their thinking is different. I am yet to get my degree and so I prefer not to comment on this at this moment.
What did I do in these four months?
The answer is "something" that I couldnt achieve for the first four terms.
What ever I earned in the first four terms looked small when compared to the achievements that I earned in the fifth and sixth term.
Why is it so special?
It made my CV look good.
Are the CV points ultimate?
I dont think so. "Personal Satisfaction" is the ultimate measure of an achievement and I truly felt happy looking at my Marks sheet at the end of term 5.
I am leaving campus today for a 20 days break and this is the first time I am gonna get such a long break and ofcourse it is not of any use.
I will continue writing my posts in the old style and not exactly the way this boring post has come.
This blog will remain active till Mar 18th.
ruffian.. I just like this word... its not that its different/posh/stylish... its just that.. it made me reach my friend
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Sunday, October 16, 2011
I wish I could wish someone that way
Recently I have come across this video on youtube. It was such a lovely video and I became emotional looking at it. Its really good. I have never seen such a video till this time.
Its about a little girl - lilly. Her parents gave her surprise. The best part of the video is her innocence and her excitement. When her parents told her the surprise she started crying. it was so emotional but very beautiful.
Here is the link to the video..
Till now, I have seen this video atleast for 20 times. I think I cant stop the count increasing. Such a beautiful expressions and such a cute little girl.
Also, she tries to dance even while crying and that shows how pure her love is towards her parents.
Coming to statistics about that video. This video has been uploaded on 10th october and till now it has more than 43 lakhs hits. This figure shows how good the video is. I think in recent past we might have never heard of such an awesome count. Also, the video has been viewed across the globe.The video has 10k comments. Almost every 2 in 3 comments talks about "how emotional they felt".
Even I felt emotional when I saw that video. I wish I could give such a beautiful surprise to someone.
Happy Birthday Keerthi
Happy Birthday Keerthi...
Keerthi was my colleague at HSBC and a good friend of mine.
Since I have given Chaitanya Varma a gift, its time for Keerthi to grab one from me.
I remember what she likes as I have seen her couple of times getting attracted to it.
Once again Happy birthday
Happy Birthday Chaitanya Varma
Finally I am wishing Chaitanya Varma on his birthday.
Many Many Many happy returns of the Day Chaitu.
Here is my gift.. http://appleiphone5newz.blogspot.com/
Enjoy....
From Quizzes to Assignments....
In the first term, we used to have atleast 8 - 10 quizzes in the whole term. Which means 4-5 quizzes pre-mid term and 4-5 post mid term. So, right from 3rd week onwards we had some quiz. This means we were studying for quizzes from 3rd week and goes on till 5th week. After 5th week, we had mid-term exams, resulting in a 3 continuous weeks of love with books. Of all the quizzes, I used to write one quiz properly and that too it must be an easy paper. I never used to concentrate on quizzes.
In fifth term, till now I have written only one quiz. From next week onwards our mid-terms are starting. Effectively the quizzes count drastically reduced by 80%. Then how these marks are compensated? We are now given enough assignments to compensate the quizzes. Its a tradition that is being followed and not new for our batch. Why is such a tradition required? Because of simple reason - we have become lazy. :) . Yeah, people dont want to open books now. In my case, almost 4 weeks are over and I am yet to open a text book. I read only one subject till now just because I am afraid of that prof and I accept that I am afraid.
What is the advantage of assignments? Most of the times, assignments are group tasks. So what?
Group tasks are just for name sake because group tasks are done by an individual in the group, the so called hard worker. One thing that I can see clearly these days is that the count of free riders have drastically increased. I am no exception. Last term I almost shifted my room to computer center. I spent most of the time in CC studying. This term, I hardly went there. Now, the winter has just started and people dont even prefer to come out and with the laziness I have, I think I dont even go to classes !!!!
Coming back to assignments - disadvantages and advantages. One disadvantage with assignment is that the range of marks doesnt differ. The difference between maximum and minimum could be at max 2 or 3 marks. But in case of quizzes, the difference is the maximum marks for which the quiz has been conducted. Ultimately, this thinking results in decrease of the motivation factor to work for assignments because people start thinking that they can put the same efforts in preparing for midterm and endterm exams for which they could get the highest marks. Great thinking. I hope I dont go with empty brain for midterm exams thinking that I could put in efforts for end term exams...Its all my perception....
Its hard to hide...
Few days back there was an incident that happened in the college - which was totally unexpected.
The incident was based on my birthday. I dint tell any of my friends here about my birthday and one of my friends, sai, saw my blog on Oct 13th. He is a regular reader of my blog and I know he would see that. Also, I expected that he would read it completely, especially last few lines, and would not tell anyone.
But as soon as he saw my blog, he posted in a facebook group page, created by telugu people of IIM L, known as TMTAH. The group contains a list of friends with whom I am close. Ofcouse, those are the only people with whom I am close. This really bothered me a lot. I didn't tell anyone about my birthday and when I saw my name appearing in the group as if I did something wrong (My perception).
Immediately I called Sai to take out my name. But he was busy with some-other work and couldnt login. This ultimately led the secret revealed.
The next part was simple. I should start convincing them that I am not interested in celebrating. But, I felt convincing is secondary and primary could be how to face the comments that they are gonna throw at me. I remember how I behaved when I came to know that Raghu was hiding his birthday. I almost yelled at him. But it was then I realized I also fall under his category and so I stopped asking him why he wasnt interested in celebrating. It took sometime for me to adjust and show my face to others and become normal. Now everything is normal as no one has taken it seriously. Dont know how they understood that / left the total matter. Good for me.
By the way, thanks Teja for the wishes :).
Thats it...
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Thanks for the wishes
I thank those who wished me on my Birthday.
The list -
Mom and Dad,
My best friend,
Anvesh, Sandesh, Lokesh (Though called me, I dnt pick)
Imran, Chaitu, Sekhar, Sai Krishna
Arina
Divya
Suma
Chinnana
My cousins
and Lastly Stari (For the last wishes - my way of wishing)
Gone are the Days ......
Personal Trivia..................
On October 11th night around 11.45 PM.. Anvesh, my sister and I were in railway station. I told Anvesh to leave as it was getting late. Actually the train was scheduled to leave around 11 PM and it was delayed by one and half hour.
Anvesh and I were busy talking and discussing about the passengers in and around there. It was almost 11.55 PM. Anvesh dint leave me to go anywhere and he was standing very close by the side of me. I got a call from someone at that time. I was on phone and at 11.59 PM Anvesh almost made cut the phone and wished "Happy Birthday Praveen" and told "Remember it was me who told you the first wish" and then let me to talk on Phone. By the way that call was from one of my Friend's.
Two years back.....
On October 11th at 11.55 PM... It was my best friend. She called me 5 mins earlier and was speaking some random things as if she is not aware of my Birthday. Aftersome time, she started asking me why do you think I called you and was asking what is so special about that day asif she doesnt know anything. She was trying to make fun and also make me feel that she doesnt remember anything about me. At 11.59 she wished me perfectly and it was great given the situation.
Last year....
On October 11th at 11.55 PM... No one has called me. (As far as I remember). It was then at 12.30 AM, my cousins called me and thus the my birthday started.
This year...
On October 11th at 11.55 PM... This time it is again Anvesh's turn. He called me early and dont know what to speak and it went on randomly. Anyways, it was him whom wished me at 12 A.M. I was happy for that.
Though my birthday never changed, the celebration style has changed. From celebrations to partial celebrations to Nil. For the past two birthdays, I have stopped celebrating. Ofcourse, there are couple of reasons for that.
Why am I writing all these? I have few good friends out here and know that they read my blog. All I Wanted to tell them is sorry. I just dont want to celebrate my birthday and thats it.
I have written some more lines and taken out as it may hurt some of my friends, though not intentional
Sunday, October 9, 2011
Friday, September 30, 2011
Nainital...Here we come..
First time I am going out for a trip with my friends after joining IIM.
Will update soon...
Saturday, September 24, 2011
Maybe I was wrong...
This post is about the class room updates.
In previous posts, I made a bigger announcements stating that "The most Leisure Term". I think I was totally wrong.
This is the term wherein the submission started as early as at the start of second week. Its something very rare. Normally profs give some time for students to start working. Also, in today's lecture one of the profs insisted for weekly submissions. That is something terrible to hear !!!
I mentioned about a prof in my previous posts stating that he got irritated since we laughed in the class. In the same class he mentioned that he knew about our profile. I dint take those words seriously. But he mailed to one of my group-mate quoting that "he should personally take care of involving me and two others in this project and should contribute to the project. Also, he mentioned our names in the mail with internship details". I was shocked when my friend, to whom prof has mailed the details about us, has forwarded the same mail to us. Its sad that prof has taken the things too personally. I am worried on how to rebuild the trust.
This time, in team building class, we had an exercise on "introduction to teams". It was a scenario case. The scenario was that a set of people with certain background were stuck in a cave and who has to be rescued first and in what order need to be sorted out by our team. It was a funny exercise wherein we were all arguing with each other with a variety of inputs on giving priorities. Ofcourse, I have seen a guy in our group is arguing just for the sake of arguing. Also, we had one girl in our group who is from Italy(Dont know exactly the place). The total team was in dilemma when we were to choose between a lady with two children and a guy who is potential enough to develop a cheap drug for cancer patients. It was like whether to go with present scenario or need to think about future. One thing is that there is no correct answer. It depends on individuals. Whom do you chose?
Apart from these, I have seen few ads about Gujarat Tourism. It was awesome given the fact that the videos contain Amitabh and also shot in multiple languages. Its a good strategy to attract both Indians and Foreigners. Good Learning. Here are the links -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQXNiFC3YE8 - in Hindi
Have a look at it. The video clarity is good and also the theme.
Welcome home Anvesh and Happy Journey Lokesh
Finally, Anvesh is back. He came back last weekend. I am so happy to see him back but at the same time, Lokesh is going to US. Its like a tie.
Actually, I wanted to meet anvesh at Delhi. Also, I booked the return journey ticket. But finally he said "no" to my visit to Delhi.
Now Lokesh is going to US and it is going to be a long stay. He waited so long for this offer. I wish him all the best and happy journey.
Also, I have seen Sandesh buying a new car. Thats really a great news. He is the first guy in our batch to have a car.
Party Time !!!
This week I went out to city twice just for the sake of food. That doesnt mean that I am not being served food here. Its just that we are bored of eating the same food daily.
First, it was index party. This year again I am part of index team. Everything, except the fact that I am in second year, is same. I mean to say the work I did and the work I am doing hasn't changed much. Its the same photoshop work that I hate. At times, I feel that I am cursed and at times, its a differentiating factor. Anyways, I cant change anything at present.
Coming back to party, it was a good one. Though the food was not good, I enjoyed the time, that our team, spent there. It was fun. Ofcourse, it was first time I was interacting with the whole team given the fact that the team was formed long ago. I dont know the names of any of the first years. So, initially it took sometime to break the ice and as of now it is partially broken. :). One thing I understood was that they are very curious to know about the placements. All I could tell them is not to worry. But it is very difficult to control our nerves during placements, including me. But everyone knows that he/she is gonna place in some company but what is that "some" is a question mark.
Here are few pics..
The team 5Ps
Scream 5 ???
Juniors
Second time, it was sai,gopi and me who went to city. This time it was Dastarkhwan. After a gap of almost 6 months, I went to the city by bus. Nothing new and its the same old roads with lot of dust. Wherever the bus stops, I can see a kg of dust falling back in to the bus and slowly getting distributed onto the passengers. You would be lucky if you were sleeping with your mouth open. Before people get any kind of doubts, let me clarify one thing - I dint sleep during that journey.
Thanks to Gopi for paying the bill and thanks to Sai for paying the bill at sports shop for my wrist band. I bough a wrist band to play TT with out any interruption caused by excessive sweating (Assumed to be). But after purchasing the wrist band, I havent played TT.
Again, tomorrow we are going to City.
Monday, September 19, 2011
Classes.. Term 5
Finally I can feel some seriousness in attending the classes. The classes are a bit interesting.
In team building class, there was an activity. It was about understanding ourselves. There were certain attributes given and we are suppose to rank them. After ranking them, we will come to know about the scores for different personality types - tiger, eagle, turtle, solmon, Chameleon.
Each animal is defined with certain aspects. For tiger - brave, leadership but doesnt listen to anyone. For Chameleon - works on situation but doesnt posses leadership. For eagle - long vision - but doesnt care about notifying the team. For Turtle - slow and steady - analyzes the situation. For Solmon - rebel. Based on the graph, mam used to explain how a person's character will be and how he responds to a situation. One thing I understood was that people should be very high on eagle but should be low on Solmon. Interestingly, my graph was quite opposite to that of normal. I am rebel as per that activity. I think I should start thinking that way!!!!
In marketing class, I have heard something very contradictory. In early days were soaps were aired, one serial was blockbuster. The main element of the serial was extramarital affair. That concept cannot be used for marketing a product but a company used it in a different way. I dont want to write much about that. But it is something different and unheard of.
Also, when washing machines were first introduced in India it was a big success in Punjab. When company went to see and understand why that product was successful. They were shocked. The washing machine was used in Dhabas for preparing lassi. It was funny. The way people think about certain things that the manufacturing company never heard of.
In today's class, prof was giving an example of "wheel" advertisement. The husband throws the shirt on his wife's face and then wife uses wheel to clean it. Finally the husband gets the promotion. While explaining that ad, professor, in a funny note said this "throwing a shirt on wife's face never happens in India. It is just exaggerated. A typical husband knows what happens when he throws a shirt on his wife's face". "Generally these kind of ads start with a message like - "Attention viewers. This ad is performed by experienced people under a protected environment and viewers should not imitate at home". The whole class started clapping. I think thats true.
For first time, I was caught in the hands of Prof for laughing in the class. Prof was so irritated and was angry. I was lucky to answer the question that he has asked me else it would be have been a disaster. The class was damn boring and so we started cracking jokes. I dint realize that he was observing me and all of sudden he asked me a question. After the class, our project group was asking prof some kind of doubts. We were suppose to implement some crazy ideas and I was laughing listening to those crazy ideas. Prof saw me for the second time and then....
Tremors ???
Recently I have heard news that in USA there was an incident on Earth quake in New York. Then, I heard a similar news in reference to Delhi.
Yesterday, I saw a status message in FB on one of my friend's wall - "I felt the chairs were shaking. Was it an Earth Quake?" I was shocked looking at it. Then I started searching for the news in google and shockingly it was true.
What am I doing at that time? The answer is that I was sleeping, indeed it was a deep sleep. It happened around 5PM. After knowing about that, my brain started thinking something very extreme.
Though nothing happened in my college, later on I found out that so many people were dead near sikkim. That was very bad.
I believe that of all the natural calamities, earth quake is dangerous. Because for the rest of the calamities, atleast we can get some information prior but incase of Earth quake it will be known only after the damage is done.
Interestingly one of my friend has updated his FB status message as "Tremors in Lucknow. My friends, instead of running out of the building, were updating the same message on Facebook." I am wondering how powerful an FB is - more than that of an Earth quake.
Saturday, September 17, 2011
Term 5.. The most leisure term....
If someone asks me whats the best thing that you always want to see in this term, my answer is "Time Table". Even If I see 10000 times, I still feel like seeing it again. I can feel like I am set free from all kind of rigor that we were going through, though its not correct. On Monday and Tuesday, I need not get up till 1PM. On friday and Saturday I have just one class. I cant ask anything better than this.
This term I have 3 marketing, 2 system and 1 HR related courses. Even the courses are not too hectic. But one problem is that, the courses I have taken are highly sought after courses and hence I can see the top 10% students of the college are in some classes. Now the problem would be to get good grades by getting marks better than them. That would be a dream. People might be thinking why am I crying for grades because its ultimately grades that get us to the destination. Dont ask me what destination I am looking for because I am no different from others.
I am so leisure that I have completed the Prison break (4 seasons in 2 weeks time). The first season was awesome and later on I felt bored. The twists and turns that were there in first season were repeated very frequently in the consecutive seasons and so I could guess the plot very easily. One more thing is that - digging a tunnel / passing through a tunnel. I never thought it would be so easy to do such a thing. Where ever the lead actors go, they dig a tunnel there as if it is patented to them. The last season was more like a typical sentimental movie - to choose one between wife and his brother. It is too far from reality. But I should accept that it was entertaining. Now, I understood why parents are so addicted to serials.
Mom, Dad and 8 holidays...
This post is about the holidays that we got at the end of Term 4.
I want to start this post with an example. A lion which was kept in a cage for 3 months and was made to work hard for 24 * 7. Imagine how it feels when it is released into jungle for a week. The happiness it gets cannot be expressed in words. Ofcourse, I am not lion but I dont mind you guys assuming it.
Although I dint do any productive work in holidays, I enjoyed to the maximum extent as there were no worries about grades nor project-work nor extra curriculars. Just eat and sleep. A continuous sleep for more than 6 hours is something rare and I achieved it consecutively for 8 days.
BTW I went to Tirumala on foot. I walked all the way (2400 steps). It was amazing. When I was walking on steps, I have seen couple of times "Praveen and Sravanthi". Its written on the walls which is a pathway to temple. Does it mean should I fix with Sravanthi? Where is she?
Jokes apart, I met my cousins and other relatives. It was more than a gala atmosphere.
One thing I couldn't escape was the committee work. Though I was on vacation, I was given some work with a strict deadline. Its my fate.
When I was going to Triupati, I met a guy in the train who has just come from US. It was very nice meeting him who is in a very good position at IBM. Interestingly, he too appeared for CAT and got some info about IIMs. He believes that people in IIM are inclined towards setting up new ventures. But I hardly see that here. He also gave me some insights about US politics and it was very interesting. I also understood that he is not that good at networking but a very hard worker. During the same journey, I met a old lady who has a very bad impression about software engineers. She feels that we dont enjoy life and work very hard. Partly it is correct but I dint feel like agreeing with the "hard working" part. We carry personal works during office hours and so it looks asif we are continuously working for 8 - 10 hours but it is not so.(Half the time we spend doing "some other" work. Its just my opinion !!!
Friday, September 16, 2011
Tiresome Journies
The exams were over on 2nd september and I booked my ticket for the train that leaves lucknow at 10.35 PM. I had an another connecting train that leaves jhansi at 5.30 PM. The time gap between the arrival and departure of first train and the second train was just an hour. Moreover my tickets were in waitlist till 2nd morning. I thought I would face hell before reaching home. It was more than that. The train left lucknow an hour late but reached Jhansi at 5 PM. I couldnot sleep properly that night. The total journey time was around 32 hours. I reached Hyd at 5 AM in the morning and was the only person left sleeping in the coach after the train had arrived at the final station.
One interesting thing that I felt during the journey was these dialogues - "Bloody.. what the hell? I need to sleep. Dont call me. Why are you like this?". It came out from a girl. Please dont think that it was me on the other side. The girl was on a phone call and I was eavesdropping on that conversation. Though it doesnt sound interesting to others but it is to me as it reminds me of my past :(.
Another interesting thing is that the conversation that I had with train attendants. It took hell out of me to explain the importance of IIMs. They have idea on IITs and not on IIMs. They talk about MBA colleges in Andhra Pradesh and say that they are great in India. I was caught in dilemma. It was an interesting conversation.
But they gave a good logic about marriages in India. He said that he had three daughters. He says that if his daughter studies till degree, he can find a match for his daughter equivalent to that of degree or greater than that. But if his daughter studies till post graduation and now the question is he needs to find someone equal to that of PG or more than that. The problem doesnt end there and continues with increased expectations in the form of dowry. Though its hard to digest but its true in case of lower middle class people in India.
Though the return journey was also bit a lengthy, I had the company of my friends. Around 10 other friends were there with me and we all were there in Mumbai airport for the whole night. It was such a tough time to be sitting on the chairs for the whole night.
BTW the day started with a krusher at KFC. Sai (both) had chicken popcorn at 6 AM in the morning. Well, I have no comments on that.
Funny.. May not be... Part 2
Sitcoms... Contd...
In strategy class, Mam was asking questions to selected people and especially to those who sit in the last bench. It was a kind of tricky question. First person answered it to some extent and next person added a bit to it. But one student gave a very smart answer - "Mam, whatever he told was correct". Mam started laughing and told us that during exams write the answers this way -"Whatever the person, sitting by the side of me, has written is correct"
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Apart from these sitcoms, I have seen few examples of selfishness in movies/serials/books but for the first time I have come across a guy with such a character. He is too selfish to give chance to his own team members and I hate those kind of people. May be selfishness is required but a selfishness of such an intensity leads to destruction. Luckily, I am not part of his time till now.
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These days I am confining myself writing small posts. I got feedback from srilu quoting that my blogs are too long and sometimes too boring. I cant deal with the boring part but at the same time I can deal with the "lengthy part" and as a result you can see "the conitnuation parts" for the same post.
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