http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQsT0Anooyw&feature=youtu.be
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Sunday, May 22, 2011
A good read for B-school graduates..Importance of a well-balanced career !!
Saturday, May 21, 2011
Reliving the MBA dream..
Though MBA has been done away with, and with student life gone, I have moved back to the corporate world,but there are few things about the place which I feel just can't be forgotten.
I have written few lines about my alma mater IIM K and here in this video,I attempt to recite them,during our IIM Kozhikode's alumni-fresher meet"Sangam" of 2011 at Taj Deccan,Hyderabad
Would like to have comments from you guys !!
Thursday, August 12, 2010
Life Still Has Meaning
Another beautiful poem from pravsworld :-
If there is a future there is time for mending
Time to see your troubles coming to an ending.
Life is never hopeless however great your sorrow
If you're looking forward to a new tomorrow.
If there is time for wishing then there is time for hoping
When through doubt and darkness you are blindly groping.
Though the heart be heavy and hurt you may be feeling
If there is time for praying there is time for healing.
So if through your window there is a new day breaking
Thank God for the promise, though mind and soul be aching,
If with harvest over there is grain enough for gleaning
There is a new tomorrow and life still has meaning.
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Summers of 2010 : Chennai Summers continues..
In this life ,one passes through many such periods when he does weird things: some of them out of compulsion artificially created in the disguise of priorities,some you never did coz you either hated them or always felt yourself too good to do such a thing,some just don’t comply to your typical nature and there are few others which though you did in the past but vowed never to do again in order to find yourself a solace by designing a facade of “learning” and "improvement” for yourself.
Well,Summers of 2010 at this company in Chennai is one such period for me.I am going to chalk out a few such things and share with you my notion that how sometimes one has to go against his own rules to succumb to something called "adaptation”
Cribbing - The worst thing which I have seemed to regained during this time.According to my fellow interns and some of my close friends,I have been untypically cribbing a lot these days which surprised them not too pleasantly.
Sleeping at the top of the water tank in the night to tackle the scarcity of power in this part of the world.
Room Sharing : The budget constraints forcing me to share a room with an unknown person reinforcing my notion that it’s not my cup of tea – something I hate to the core and which is certainly not the one way I should be testing my patience :( It’s one thing which teaches me to behave in the weirdest of ways more than anything else.Nothing against my roomie as he is a really nice person but just that probably I value my privacy too much.
The game is on again : Temporarily breaking my resolution of not playing cricket(a game with which I hold a relation quite different from what other Indians do) – and actually enjoying playing it after a number of years.Not only that,even managing to show to my fellow South Indians what balle balle means on a cricket field :)
Party and me ?? This period has seen someone like me,who may not even go to a neighbour hostel for party,planning to go(cancelling at the last moment though) to a city about 6 hours away and spending around a good sum of money in travel just to attend a party in another city.
Punctuality taking a back seat for the first time: This period has also seen me being routinely unpunctual to office - a more of a deliberate attempt though ;-)
A step towards angrezi : Watching quite a few English movies and actually preferring them over the Hindi ones : those who know me would get the revelation in this point.
Bruuuahhh !! Savouring few glasses of beer at the institute annual meet and doing some cheap but mesmerising dance steps in front of few hot ladies \m/
Embarrassing : An ugly quarrel with my landlord – something which I generally avoid to the best of my ability.
Still few days to go and I have still not started discussing my project at work. Like other things in my life,even the project carries a story :)
Well,Summers of 2010 at this company in Chennai is one such period for me.I am going to chalk out a few such things and share with you my notion that how sometimes one has to go against his own rules to succumb to something called "adaptation”
Cribbing - The worst thing which I have seemed to regained during this time.According to my fellow interns and some of my close friends,I have been untypically cribbing a lot these days which surprised them not too pleasantly.
Sleeping at the top of the water tank in the night to tackle the scarcity of power in this part of the world.
Room Sharing : The budget constraints forcing me to share a room with an unknown person reinforcing my notion that it’s not my cup of tea – something I hate to the core and which is certainly not the one way I should be testing my patience :( It’s one thing which teaches me to behave in the weirdest of ways more than anything else.Nothing against my roomie as he is a really nice person but just that probably I value my privacy too much.
The game is on again : Temporarily breaking my resolution of not playing cricket(a game with which I hold a relation quite different from what other Indians do) – and actually enjoying playing it after a number of years.Not only that,even managing to show to my fellow South Indians what balle balle means on a cricket field :)
Party and me ?? This period has seen someone like me,who may not even go to a neighbour hostel for party,planning to go(cancelling at the last moment though) to a city about 6 hours away and spending around a good sum of money in travel just to attend a party in another city.
Punctuality taking a back seat for the first time: This period has also seen me being routinely unpunctual to office - a more of a deliberate attempt though ;-)
A step towards angrezi : Watching quite a few English movies and actually preferring them over the Hindi ones : those who know me would get the revelation in this point.
Bruuuahhh !! Savouring few glasses of beer at the institute annual meet and doing some cheap but mesmerising dance steps in front of few hot ladies \m/
Embarrassing : An ugly quarrel with my landlord – something which I generally avoid to the best of my ability.
Still few days to go and I have still not started discussing my project at work. Like other things in my life,even the project carries a story :)
End Of The Day
A gem shared by pravsworld
Is anybody happier because you passed this way
Does anyone remember that you spoke to them today
The day is almost over, and its' toiling time is through.
Is there anyone to utter now a kindly word of you
Can you say tonight in parting with the day that's slipping fast,
That you helped a single person of the many that you passed
Is a single heart rejoicing over what you did or said
Does one whose hopes were fading now with courage look ahead
Did you waste the day or use it Was it well or sorely spent
Did you leave a trail of kindness, or a scar of discontent
As you close your eyes in slumber, do you think that God will say
You have earned one more tomorrow by what you did today.
Sunday, April 25, 2010
Chennai Summers !!
Hey guys...Finally I’ve got access to my blog and a chance to post something.Let me just share my experiences of Chennai where I am doing my internship for last 3 weeks.
Some points regarding the goods and bads of this city:
Chennai’s Weather : I’ve found a lot of people cribbing about this a lot and I believe that a good majority of them would answer ”heat/hot” if asked for “Chennai” as the input in the Word association game.
My take on this: Yes, there is a lot of humidity in this area and it does play a spoilsport in your life many a times but for that matter ,summers in even a Delhi or a UP also doesn’t give you many favourable experiences - just compare the temperatures of these cities over the last week (which is hovering around 44-45 maximum) with that of Chennai (around 6-7 degrees lesser).I think while talking about Chennai’s heat, most of us tend to be biased towards the supposedly favourable weather conditions of the northern part of the country.
Rating: 6/10
Language problem: YES!! this is a BIG problem and can be very frustrating at times too : For instance I went to buy an electric kettle from a nearby supermarket kind of retail store.First they didn’t understand what I asked for.When they did,first thing I was shown was a COT !! Well,I just couldn’t find out the relation between a kettle and a Cot and then if we add the word “Electric” to it ( which i m sure means the same in delhi or chennai), the situation becomes all the more laughable..okay..then i started explaining the functions of the kettle: It is used for making tea..ahh tea !! then came Tea Cups !! or were they electric tea cups?? Laugh was slowly giving way to frustration now..But still lets try once more : see kettle is used for heating water...seems now they finally get it: the keyword ‘water’ forces them to showcase this time...guess what ...A Water purifier and yeah this time an electric one too !! Now you don't need to make a guess about my further movement...next thing I did was just to find the first nearest exit gate and run away.
Rating: 2/10
Autowallahs : If you ever believed that Delhi autowallahs fleece you,then surely you haven't met their Chennai counterparts.Take this: I want to travel about 3 kms distance from place A to B by auto,so I try for one.Guess the asked charges for this luxurious travel : 170 bucks only !! For a 3 km travel !! Total paagalpan…And here comes the best part which defies all the marketing logic taught in a B-school which says "customer is the king". Come to South India and this notion gives way to "Let the customer go to hell..Here Status/Ego is the king" How?
Okay fine that someone asks you an outrageous sum of money as charges for an auto ride but in Delhi you would still find autowallahs coming down to a lesser sum on bargaining or on facing the prospects of losing a customer..But here in our Anna land,they wouldn't budge at all.They wouldn't mind returning home without earning even a single penny but they won’t reduce the price they initially asked for,to a considerable extent, even if that means losing the customer.
One of the most horrible things here is an auto travel and the corresponding communications and if you add the language barrier to it,the rating goes somewhat like this:
Rating: 0/10 ( sorry just couldn’t press even 1)
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