A birthday, exams and ME!

Long time since I wrote...been kinda busy with presentations and all....What with all our ppts getting postponed...very frustrating..! but managed to finish it at last.....went OK...Wrote my financial services exam and i need to confess....I have absolutely NO CLUE as to how I have performed.....!Ab SAB KUCH Bhagwan KE HAATH MEIN hai! (The right time to get religious!)

The placement season is nearing and I can see that the placement team is working day and night! Wish you all the best guys...our careers depend on you!:)

Well...to come to the point...it was my best buddy Sheetal's birthday on 25th....We tried to give her a surprise and let me tell you she did a fairly good job of acting surprised to make us feel better!:) We got her a nice cake and it was really cold but we still managed to cut a cake at 12 midnight!! And wait..the best part is...SHE GOT BUMS!! ha ha!! that was fun....Pics included.....


My exams start tomorrow...and here I am doing the most important thing in the world..BLOGGING! aaaarrrrggghhhh...am out of my mind..:O...so much to learn and so little time...(ah! there I go all senti philo again...)....I am sure everyone is with a sweaty brow and pouring over their books...(or they could be absolutely jobless as I am!) ...Anyways...ALL THE VERY BEST too all ...Do well...and will post again before holidays....

Adios!

Multiple Personality disorder....or is that the only way to order in this world?

Let's begin with defining what MPD is....the WWW defines it as " A dissociative disorder in which two or more distinct conscious personalities alternately prevail in the same person, without any personality being aware of the other". Makes it sound like a really BIIIIGGGG problem .....but on second thoughts .....is it?

I have a cousin who is constrained by various rules and regulations at her house by her dad....sometimes she wishes she had a pair of wings so she could fly away.....an alternate personality maybe.....if she knew about MPD, she could break rules and get away with it....blame it all on MPD....she could watch movies day in and day out and claim that the 'other' her was a movie buff...she could wear jeans and sleeveless tops and party all night and claim the 'other' her loves to party, so what could she do.....

At some level, I think even I would like to have multiple personalities.....another me who has the relaxed, don't- carish, not so anxious and the carefree I-dont-give-two-hoots-about-the-world attitude...maybe thats my ideal alternative personality.....It makes me wonder, was this whole concept of MPD chanced upon by some individual who wanted to break the shackles of a stereotype and then give it a name....a nice and medical sounding name...MULTIPLE PERSONALITY DISORDER! I say this because there is no proven case in medical history that claims that MPD exists.....

Well, this could be the panacea to all problems of the individual mind....there would be no wishes left unfulfilled.....no constrained feelings.....everyone could speak their mind and it would not to brushed off as gibberish.....or considered scandalous.....just some food for thought...chew on it....MPD or MPO - Multiple personality Order....Chew on it.....:)....

till the next blog....Ciao....

'I'.....

Its amazing how it is so easy for us to spot whats wrong with someone else...while equally or even more difficult to understand and accept what might have gone wrong with us.....and when one fine day, truth dawns, its a HUGE and bitter pill to swallow.....

This may sound like one of those rants about self-revelation and self- realisation albeit, I believe it is one of the most stark truths in life.......and ironically we revel in the thought that nothing exists beyond us.....when one fine day, the ground beneath slips and it is understood that whatever existed, was totally beyond us......

The root cause of all problems is the individual called 'I'......someone once put it very beautifully when he said....."A for Apple..." and he drew an apple, "B for Banana..." and he drew a banana.....then came I...." I for 'I'...." ...he gave the pencil to one of his students and said...."draw 'I' ..."...the student drew a body...." but that's B for body...." he said....then the student drew a face....." but that's F for face ..." he said...." When you are not even in a position to define 'I', are you secure enough to credit this 'I' with all the happiness and all the pain that your body undergoes??" he asked......

I am on this philosophical rampage because I managed to see it today...that somewhere along life, we all tend to focus on the 'I' which is not even definable....we use this 'I' as a shield to protect our own insecurities.....the key to this is to throw open our own insecurities to ourselves....life would be much simpler then....at least we would be able to work on to overcome these insecurities ...even if not overcome, we could always make them inconsequential by moving beyond 'I' and thinking about the 'Big Picture'....

I strongly feel that it is possible to live an easier life by considering another's goodness and your own faults. It would help you focus on just your own faults and set them right....you simply would not have the time to focus on the other person's faults....

a thought, a journey waiting to begin....

Until next time.....

Placements, SRK and RK.....:)

Another day , another blog.....it's just five weeks for the placements season to begin.....and I am already getting the jitters....Today, one of the many companies had come down for a ppt...all these ppts are very inspiring....and more inspiring is the stuff they give out after the ppt....:).... I got a t-shirt, one pair of green colored chappals (probably to camouflage my feet from the mosquitoes), an extraordinarily bright pencil and some other stuff...whether you apply or not, you get to collect t-shirts.......
For those of us who get all paranoid at 7:45 am because they dont have anything clean to wear for the 8 '0' clock class and some others who would inspire you to sit at one corner of the class while they sit at the other, priding themselves as water-saviors of Chennai....while there tee's giving us a sneak peak into what they ate from sunday till saturday,such events are blissful.....Hurray! now I have new clothes!:)
Ate dinner at Hot chips with a couple of friends, watched a Rajni Kanth movie...a little bit.....that man is GOD!:D....

Ok, RK is a case in focus......He differs by just one initial from the king khan.....but both share quiet a few similarities.... Both are chain Smokers..... Mr. Kanth is No.1 and SRK is at No. 2 , both are devoted to their wives and both have two children....but the south indian 'Thalai' is 50 yrs. old while SRK is nearing 40 i think...(need to check with sheetal, my buddy on that...she is an avid SRK fan...she actually has to be wished every year on November 2nd -SRK's birthday for those of you who do not know!) ....So the crux of the matter is that SRK hath nothing to worry for another 10 yrs. at least....Even when he is 50, he will be able to pull off stunts such as chasing a Scorpio on a cycle rickshaw, flying from one end of the room to another to save a man about to drink poisoned coffee (RK did that in 'Chandramukhi' and people still buy it!), dodging bullets- matrix style (if Keanu Reeves can do it , so can SRK and RK!)....and people would still flock into theatres to catch a glimpse of the MASTER !!


Just for the record...I am a BIG Rajni Kanth fan.....:)

until next time.....adios amigos....

hello there....

My first blogging effort was an disaster....forgot my username , my password and then...no new post possible.....well....nothing is lost....I learn....(could help to learn from others' mistakes than my own....too dear!)

Well, the weekend has passed...and peacefully I must say...though we had lectures on saturday and sunday..but thats cool...I enjoyed them....especially the TQM ones.....

I must reiterate what I mentioned in my previous blog that noone got to read...:)
Ok...here I am....Inspired by anand ..read his blog...liked it...thought i should write too....Thanks anand!

I made a presentation on Canon on Saturday....(at 8 in the morning...which implies that I had to wake up at seven in this $%^@#&* freezing weather....it is too much to handle for us chennaiites you know)

Interesting stuff this industry analysis is! (Ok....with due apologies to all those who are barring there teeth and shaking their fists at me now)....I am learning..though at a slow pace...I am still learning....and after one and a half years here...I feel I have grown....grown in terms of the mindware I possess....For one who had no clue about options, inbound logistics or Integrated Marketing Communication, I can now talk at length (to the extent that someone asks me to shut up!)....Its ultimately about the pride of knowledge.....The feeling that "I know"....its a good feeling...I am sure everyone who has been here at some point felt that pride....Its not vanity and so what if it is?No matter how much I crib, I enjoy every little bit of what I learn...adding to my database... I learnt that CavinKare is into 17 different products..most of which I have no clue about (though it is a Chennai based company and I have been a Chennai-vasi for almost 10 years!)... I also learnt that Ryuzaburo Kaku was the president of Canon and he died in 2001 when he was 75 years old....How might that benefit me you may ask.....but it does....it gives me a feeling of knowing something ....something that I would like to share with others....though it might not excite them as much as it excites me.....thats all i have to say for today or tonight should i say...and i feel sad when I realise that in 6 months time I would be ending this journey and then I would be devoid of this pride.....at least I would not be in a position to learn so much....But then hey! Make hay while the sun shines.....:)