Pretty woman...

I believe home is the best place in this world. You must be thinking about the reason behind this statement. Actually, I went to my place on Diwali and really enjoyed the stay. Never before I enjoyed the stay at home so much as this time. The food cooked by my mom was really relishing. After almost two months I was eating at home and it was fun. After all, as in movies we say “maa ke haath ka khana”. I and my friend A left the campus @ 12 noon to catch the train from Panvel. Since his seat was not confirmed so he stayed with me. Actually we had fun in whole journey. We had plenty of time and nothing to do. So I even convinced him to watch my all time favourite movie KANK. I don’t know whether he enjoyed it or not but he didn’t criticise.
Later on, our train reached New Delhi @ 2.30 pm and A went to his home in Delhi. And I was alone now and had to catch my train to Saharanpur. Since it was festive season, so lot of rush was there and I somehow managed to get a seat adjacent to one uncle by making my innocent face (I’m, actually, expert in doing that to grab the seat). Later on, one couple came and asked me to exchange seat with them and like this I got a strategic location from where I could have a view of two girls sitting near me. I concentrated on girl sitting adjacent to me who was really pretty. I wanted to talk to her but she was with her boyfriend or brother. So I peacefully dropped this great idea. But I don’t know why I was consistently staring at her. She was really sweet. I usually don’t expect such things happening to me on that route. But I really enjoyed the journey by gazing her. Hope to see more such journey pleasure in the near future.

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So I’m back after a long time as I was busy with academics etc. of MBA. After all MBA is not an easy job. There are various things I would like to tell you about. So let’s begin:
1. My 1st module exams got over on Friday and with that we all finished 1/6th of MBA :). It felt great also and bit tense too. Tense because from tomorrow (22nd September) company’s pre placement talks are going to start and from 5th October we’ll be having summer intern process. It will be all hectic schedule, at least for 20 days. A fight will start among us. May all win within those crucial 5 days.
2. Few days back I was surfing some astrological site (yes, fortunately or unfortunately I believe in all these things). I was looking at perfect pairs in terms of zodiac signs. It was given that scorpions pair best with Pisces, Aquarius because of common watery nature. Suddenly I started thinking that do people think of all these before falling in love. It’s too weird. I was thinking that if a girl proposes you and you ask her what is your zodiac sign? It sounds so strange.
3. Today, I was looking at some news on net regarding a TV show sach ka saamna which stated that a 32 year old woman committed suicide after watching the show. It happened because the woman correlated her own life with the person in the show. I felt so pity on that woman who destroyed her life just by the influence of a TV show. How can you take decisions of your life by getting influenced from TV shows like this? Even I’m influenced by the movies but only up to certain extent to which I’ll not lose anything in life. After all TV is meant for entertainment and not for destruction.
4. Finally today I got my visiting cards. Actually if you are a member of some forum or committee, then you can have your visiting cards, showing your designation. Since I’m in SPIC MACAY, so I also got the visiting cards. The moment I saw them, it felt so different. It may be a small thing for people having work experience but for me it was like feeling of complete professionalism. I cherished the moments when I used to carry my Dad’s visiting cards in order to influence my friends in school. But today I carry my own tag with me. I’ve come a long way from those sweet childhood memories to professional PG course. Time is changing; people are changing and what not. On this I remember when our English teacher said in the class that:
School days are the golden days. They are never repeated.

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From past few days, I’m living in a dilemma i.e. whether to start smoking or not?? It may sound really foolish. But the environment I’m living in is mostly dominated by smokers. You will hardly find a guy who is a non-smoker. Someday or the other I have to go with my friends to accompany them in smoking and stand like a dumb outside the shop when they are smoking. Let me tell you that this excellent B-school has smoker’s hub just outside the main gate of the campus. But I’m very sure that I’ll not start this. But the feeling of taking each single breath (gush) of smoke with head up in the air really fascinates me.
Next thing is the habit of drinking. People say that you must drink since you will enter the corporate world and there it is the part of life. So we should start at least social drinking. But I don’t agree on this because no one is going to force you for this in your future. People only require a reason to drink. Sometimes I think how a person could taste that bloody thing which tastes like hell. Again it’s my perception where still some people think it’s leisure of life. But I don’t agree on this.

I'm Mr. Lonely and dumb :(

These days I’m feeling very lonely. The reasons behind this are many. Actually I’m a shy kind of person due to which I usually don’t approach to people in order to talk to them. But that doesn’t mean I don’t want to talk to people. I would love to talk to people but the problem is people take me in a wrong way. They think I’m very much egoistical and that’s why I don’t talk to them. I really don’t know what to say and how to say aimlessly. Many times it happens that I have to go class alone. It really disturbs my state of mind.
People in our batch got selected in various committees, forums, etc. But I’m nowhere. This is another reason which haunts me. People have formed groups. They enjoy in those groups. Again I’m alone in my hostel room. I want to play TT, badminton, want to roam in aamchi Mumbai and what not. But people are busy with their groups. This shows how dumb I am who couldn’t even get in a single committee or forum. Actually the committee which I wanted didn’t selected me and I didn’t applied in which I would have got through. In the end, again I’m a loser. I really don’t know what goes wrong with me in this journey of life where even if I perform well still I don’t win. It seems I should start loving failures and hating success.

Mandi... Once upon a time :)

So I’m back again with a novel experience which I can assure that no one of you ever had. Actually, I’m talking about MANDI which is a yearly event of NITIE in which all students are given bag full of toys from an NGO and they are suppose to be sell by the students on Mumbai streets. There were teams of two and each member was given a mandi t-shirt. We all felt great since this was the first t-shirt we wore on which NITIE was written.
So, in the morning we had our breakfast and we were told to have unlimited breakfast. But there were chhola-bhatura and that too of worst quality and in that case how can you hope to have unlimited breakfast. So somehow I managed to eat 1 and ½ bhatura and moved towards badminton court where opening ceremony was planned. We sat in one of the front rows so that we can have a good view of Preeti Jhangiani, the celebrity and one of the chief guests. While waiting, we clicked some of the pics in different poses. After waiting for ½ hour, the ceremony started and preeti came. We were stunned to see her since she looked bit fat and less beautiful than in the movies. After all the speeches, there was an oath taking ceremony. After this we walked towards the bus by which we were supposed to reach our destination or market. So somehow we managed to fit into the bus but the driver took too much time in starting the journey. We were all pissed off and some of the guys even walked down and took auto. Well, after waiting for about ½ an hour, the bus started and took approximately 1 hour to reach andheri (w) station. So after getting off the bus, we decided to get segregated and then sell the toys.
There were people walking around but all of them were in hurry. So we tried to approach some of the people but were unsuccessful to convince them. Finally I approached a middle aged man who was waiting for someone and I said “sir, can I have your 2minutes please”. He replied positively. Then we said “we are the students of NITIE which is one of the top ten B-schools of India. We are selling toys made by an NGO called navnirmiti”. After that we gave him all the features of the toys and finally , since he was in hurry, he said “achha jaldi batao kitne mei dena hai.120/- theek hai”. But then we explained him that we can’t bargain and finally he agreed to pay the marked price of the product.
Like this we got some motivation that yes we can sell them. Our next customer was a couple where husband took the toys just because he also worked for an NGO. Since we were not able to click a picture with our first customer, so we clicked a nice pic with this couple. After roaming for about 1 and a ½ hour, we realised that this is not the right market to sell and we moved to Juhu beach where many of our batch mates were really trying hard to sell. Here we also joined the race and successfully were able to sell all of the toys till 7.30 pm. At juhu, we met some of our alumni and they gave certain tips on how to sell the toys. I kept one of the units for my nephews. After this, we had our dinner and catched a local to NITIE.
It was a inexplicable experience. I must say that it was a lifetime experience. We are never going to step in the market like this if we opt for marketing but the knowledge about market and customers we got from this exercise is fabulous. I personally realised how tough it is to earn money and even to spend each extra penny. We, at home or any other place, don’t treat sales people in a gentle way. But I realised how it feels when somebody says “NO” to you. We understood how tough it is for a roadside salesman to sell each extra unit of his product. Suddenly we all have gained respect for sales people. All in all, it was a great experience....

Dating with Nature :)

Few days back, we had a photo shoot @ NITIE for placement brochure and also for the individual photo for the NITIE website. It was suppose to be in full formals. So all of us nicely dressed in blazer, tie etc. went to the NITIE lawns. It was real fun because before the main photo shoot all of us started posing for our personal photos. So I was also not behind in the race and asked my roommate to click some of my poses. At last, we were made to stand in rows according to our height in which I tried to stand in one of the front rows. But unfortunately I was pushed back as people said “yeh lamba hai, isko peeche bhejo” and like this I was pushed in the second last row. As soon as photo shoot ended, it started raining (By the way, while I’m writing this post it is still raining:P) since you can’t trust Mumbai’s rain.
After 5-10 minutes, rain stopped and we went back to our hostel. Then in the noon, we had our individual photo shoot. After that, I and my friends Am, D, S and Ab planned to click some of the photos in NITIE campus which is one of the greenest campuses of India. On our way what we found was really beautiful. Since there was no sun, so weather was pleasant and cool breeze was blowing making us feel good. We clicked at every niche of the campus. Actually behind NITIE campus we have Vihar lake which is really huge and is a part of Sanjay Gandhi national park and it is said that in recent times leopards have approached NITIE campus from there. Well I think leopards also wanted to have some management gyaan and some technical knowledge too since they also encroached in IITB recently.
Vihar Lake gives a real picture of scenery since there are no urban areas behind it. There are sahyadri ranges around the lake and on some of the ranges clouds were seemed to be sitting. You really can’t say that we were in Mumbai by looking those photos. We found beautiful butterflies sitting on flowers and we caught them in our camera. They were of different colours mainly blue, red, yellow etc. The environment reminded us as if we were on a hill station. It seemed that budding managers were inspecting Nature. But trust me, this time managers were not looking for some profit but to laud Nature’s beauty. It was awesome. By looking at photos you can easily imagine what our experience was. It was really a nice date with nature. Felt great!!!!!

Pyar, Ishq aur Mohabbat !!!!

From past few days I was observing some of the people around me and their love life. And after much thought process I derived some of the astonishing conclusions which might not be true according to you. To begin with I have a friend called A and he is with me in Mumbai. He had various girl friends before and presently also he has one. But when I asked him about marriage his reply was “shaadi to mom ki marzi se hi hogi”. And that forced me to think is love a game of enjoyment played before marriage? I mean how can you spend your time, energy and emotions with a person who you think is not going to stay with you for a long time. Here I want to quote a dialogue from KANK in which SRK says to rani “Mohabbat ke zamane guzar gaye janab, ab chhote mote pyar se hi kaam chala lijiye aap”. So love is time pass or mere enjoyment. Another friend A in Delhi is in love, as he says, with P. But he is always fascinated by his old female friends and even goes to meet them. As I asked him why you do that, his answer was really interesting. He said “Deepesh, there is always a girl in your life for whom you want to avoid your true love, may be for few moments”. On this firstly I was stunned but later on agreed as I too have done this once or twice. After all men are dogs. They are never satisfied with one true love. They are always fascinated by passing by fancies.
Next comes my friend K who did love marriage by going against her parents. But today after 3 years of marriage, she says there is no compatibility between them. On this my persuasions asks me that is love so fickle that it can’t last for whole life? If you are not able to tolerate each other even in initial phase of marriage then how would you be united when more responsibilities will be there. In such cases it’s better to finish it off. But still it’s not easy to face that trauma of divorce and break up.
At last, the finger turns to me since I’m in a relationship from past four years. On this I want to say that you have no right to destroy someone’s life and also you should not give this right to others to do the same for you. I personally feel that love demands commitment and it’s all about care. The more you care more the bond will get stronger. And if still nothing works well, then trust the words “marriages are made in heaven” and “someone, somewhere is made for you”. You will have that lucky one with you may be today or tomorrow. I think I’m sounding much filmy so I should shut my mouth....