Thursday, August 24, 2006

Monday, August 21, 2006

Go Goa ----- A perfect holiday destination

It was fun while it lasted, before it happened, and even after it was done. I am talking about my trip to Goa. It was much needed relief from the work life which tried its best to turn me into a lifeless robot.
It started on a promising note, planned as a trip with 7 people ended up with a group of 4 adventurous guys (Me, Srinu, Ravi and Malli).
It started with some witty comments about my physical appearance (i look good though ;)) that continued for quite sometime. None of us expected what was in the package ahead in our journey. I had a memorable 3 hours of my life, which will be cherished all through my life.
It was journey through the western ghats of our country from castle rock to madgaon. One should see it to believe it, there were valleys, water falls greenery all through, enough tunnels to make us realize the importance of light once we experience the darkness. It was a great moment in my life. It sounds like an exaggeration but should experience it to believe it. It reminded me of a scene from the lord of the rings.
We reached Madgaon at 6:30pm, we were helped by an old man, he came down to receive his son in law (he was our co-passenger), he lent his car to drop us at the local bus station. It took us almost an hour to reach Goa. Once should experience the worst to appreciate the mediocre. That was the feeling i had after I saw the Goan administration managing its transport services when compared to hyderabad’s RTC.
Me and malli were very adamant at going to a pub, disco in particular that night. It was a Saturday day, I was expecting good crowd, little did we guess what was going to happen. We landed at tito’s one of the famous pub around. We were stopped at the entrance as the stag’s were not allowed that night. Goa has a weird rule of not allowing vehicles between 12am to 5am. So we were stuck at the place. The pub was close to the baga beach. Srinu and ravi went to the beach, me and malli went to a near by bar to get couple of beer and breezer. The scene at beach was as expected couples all around the place, deeply immersed in the romantic bliss. Being from a Bschool this was not new for me (I did not experience it but I have at least seen it ;( ), Ravi a Casanova himself did not find it anything new, Srinu with his character did not even notice that there were couples around, and the guy left was malli. Our malli was frustrated looking at guys around enjoying with their partners and pitying about his state, cursing the people around. This made him drink 2 vodka’s large. Things were out of control for malli, barged into every girl in his sight, and enquired if she is ok to give him company to enter into the pub. Tried his guts out to convince couple of girls, but then he realized that he was not alone; he was with 3 other hopeless guys and gave up the effort of convincing girls. Our first day at goa ended in that fashion, returning to our place at 6 slept enough and woke up at 1 pm.
Next day we went to calangute beach, as we stepped into the beach to our horror saw 5 people drowning. The fisherman around went into the sea to bring back the people who were drowning, they managed getting back 3 people, the other two were missing. We carried a guy from shore to the ambulance which was some 300mt away. We left the beach in pensive mood, thinking about the incident, thoughts about life and death, elders advices and others filling our empty mind. That was our second day at goa. The trip till now had extreme highs and lows; it was complete black and white emotions that we faced.
Next day we again went to calangute and near by beaches, went to fort aguada, the dil chata hai location, it was an amazing location. The same day we left to pune, reached the place at 7am.
Reached Lonvla from pune at 2pm, it was drizzling when we reached there, it was 3 -4km walk from the station to the waterfalls. Once we reached there the weather turned overcast it started raining heavily. Stayed back at a place for almost an hour. Then started trekking to reach the top of the waterfall, it was very slippery. The locals out there were running with slippers and sandals while 4 of us with sneakers of adidas, nike, lee cooper. were finding it hard even to walk. Finally it took us almost an hour to reach a decent height (if one can call it so).
That is how it ended, it was certainly fun while it lasted, it was a much needed relief from work. I enjoyed it. i hope my next trip would be better. should choose between karnataka and kerala for my second trip. lets wait and watch.

Monday, July 31, 2006

Can we do something?
These days my allegiance is shifting from melodious and soothing music to rock music. I wasn’t quite a rock fan earlier, but I used to like some of their tracks like metallica’s nothing else matters, linkin park: In the end. These days I started liking most of the pink floyd’s work. Few days back I was watching Vh1 channel, they were broadcasting some show for helping poor in Africa. In one of their breaks they showed this touching documentary which gave the following facts:
We spend $50 billon per year for sneakers.
We spend $75 billion on purchase of fashion accessories
We spend $300 billion on liquor
We spend $600 billion on tours and travels
We spend $50 billion on branded clothes

And the most touching statistics:
$50 billion can save 50,000 lives per day. So can we do something?

This started me thinking, can I do something about it, I came up with all these weird ideas like not spending much on branded apparel, substituting them with the local ones and save the difference for charity. For someone like me who just got his job and looking for avenues to spend money (clothes being one of the major arena to spend) this comes rather as a serious task. Lets see how do I stand on this.

Tuesday, June 27, 2006

Rendezvous with a typical Hyderabadi:

Strange things happen to you when you travel in Hyderabad’s busses.
It was 7:30 at night, had a pretty boring day at office, there was a drizzle for few minutes, so it was damn humid when I got into the bus. Sweat dripping all over my face, and a feel of the Hyderabad crowd. Was pretty disgusted and was off for a long time. Then some guy asks me if he could hold my bag, I said its quite heavy, still he insisted. While taking my bag he asked me whether he looks like someone who is drunk. I was taken aback by this statement and was wondering as to why he asked me that.
May be he thought I was ridiculing his generous offering, or do I look like a bar tender who can find out who is drunk and who is not. I did not reply anything, he started narrating his story. He bunked his office and went for a party, had a couple of beers according to him its not at all considered boozing. He was apprehensive as to his parents might find out that he is drunk. He continued telling me about his daily itinerary.
Now I know who are in his family, where does he work, when will he be at a particular hour in the day.
I was amazed at the openness with which he was sharing his information. I thought may be I could reach that stage where I do not have any inhibitions sharing my information with others and just talk to others without any pride.
This conversation made me think as to why does he need to tell me all this, how am I related to him, will I be of any help to solve his woes, any answers??

Thursday, May 11, 2006

hmm back again after a long time
Now its some arbit discussion

Reasons why I dont booze:
As a child i used to hate people who are drunk and behave shabbily, n i did not want to be one of them ( too trivial to be a reason right )
Now the real one , i dont like the taste of any of them , i have tried vodka, rum, beer, whisky, takila. But none of them were good.
I am not loosing out on the kick thing because there are other venues where i get that kick .
I get that kick in dancing, watching a close cricket match, reading a good book, watching a close encounter in any sport.

Do you people realize the advantages of travelling in a bus , I get to think about all this arbit things on earth.
Chal thats it for today will come up with something next time

Thursday, February 16, 2006

TERM 1
This was the day where i felt really bad about my fate for the complete day, Reason i was put in section A where as all the good looking girls were in section B (dont judge me on this :)), added to this my mentor was G.K.Nayak (look out for him in the future story) seniors adviced me its better if i leave the college for this, but the saving grace was sriram in the same section.Then started the b-school education, it was fun on the first day. Everything seemed fun and interesting, Govindarajan looked like sachin tendulkar at his best (when he score 183 against new zealand at hyd). I started appericiating myself for my decision of selecting MBA against MS or a Job. Then came the first assignment of forecasting methods by G.K.Nayak to be submitted by 12:00 am the same day. I thought there should be some mistake in the notice, assuming that its impossible to submit an assignment at night at 12. Then came to know that we were supposed to upload the assignment onto AIS(accademic information system). I thought this was fundoo. My group mates were jacob, kamal, gunjan, himanshu. Again was unlucky not to have roll no 26 in my group ( my fate keeps on cheating me on this aspect). Already knew quite a bit about kamal as he was always participative in the class discussions(in fact major part of the 90 mins consists of his involvement), but was not very much familiar with other three people. Jacob is a very nice guy from kerala, somehow felt he came too early to a b-school on the first time i saw him. Gunjan a graduate from Shriram college, feared talking to her much relying on the vast experience i have talking to girls ( now u can pity my condition).himanshu was a guy of his own world. It was fun to work in the project, i could contribute atleast something to the group. Days passed with classes taking most part of the day, with Geeku flooding us with his assignments. Then suddenly one day marketing quiz was announced, one should see the seriousness with which people were preparing for the quiz. It was a quiz for 20 mins, there was a word limit, extra word will be penalised with a negative mark. it was fun preparing for the quiz.
Orientation programme:
Had a first time chance to look at all pgp-1 girls together. Had some gyaan session in the start then suddenly were asked to put all the chairs aside, i was waiting some one to pick them up for me, but had to pick it myself to follow the suit. Then there were some really cool games, i never expected such games to be played in any educational institute. But was a good start up to know each other, and nice way to start talking to girls. Made lot of friends in these few days. Could not stop myself from writing this, me and sriram were talking in telugu about good looking girls( i guess you people know what talking about girls mean) who were performing on stage as a part of a HR game. Suddenly we here a telugu voice from behind, it was aparna. I really hoped that she did not hear whatever we were talking about. Now we became a good friends. Already during this session had a taste of faff-masters on rampage, while they were explaining their experience in these 3 days
My room no: B-147:This was my room in the first year strategically located with 4 seniors and 4 juniors. First guy to meet in the block was Kishore lanky south indian from coimbatore. There were lot of similarities between both of us, both from south , both were freshers, both were engineers, both had job offer from syntel. Then there was Shakti, a hulk from Bhubaneshwar was very docile in the first few months then donno why he turned out so violent after that. He is a very nice guy, who is always there to help you, he helped me out and familiarised me to bhubaneshwar. Sudeep, a short guy with 2 yrs of work exs, though he does not seem so. these were the juniors in our well. Seniors Pabs, maximus, adonis, attila. I had real fun with all these people though i was the element of fun most of the time. I have experienced the hardships of life literally, where people used to thrash me up for the sake of fun. I miss those people.
My two yrs at a b-school:
This is part of the series which talks about my experiences at XIMB.

Reason why i came to a b-school : got bored of engineering and related stuff. This was one place and phase in my lifetime i have learnt a lot, which i can treasure for lifetime. I feel fortunate enough to be here along with all the great people around.The best part of XIMB was there was no competitive pressure, which would have detered my relationships with my peers. Everyone is cheerful and do not mind to share their knowledge and experience with others (as is not the case with other b-schools esp:IIMs).
My first day at XIMB:I was accompained by my dad (he thought i was too chicken to take care of myself), here i am now where i can claim to take care of my self at any foriegn land, gyaan apart. First guy whom i met on campus was sriram (naturally being a telugu guy). He is a stud from IIT, kgp, very modest soul, talks very less about IIT unless asked. Then met a dude from delhi , Arpan was a flambouyant guy with a fluent english speaking ability, looking at these two i thought i am at a wrong place felt inferior when compared with these two. Three of us went for a walk, both of them started talking about novels ( still an unexplored area for me), sports played at their college, only thing i played till then was cricket n cricket. In a chat of 20 minutes i was able to speak twice or thrice. Then met Samiran (called as jamadar dont know why?) then i thought there were some people like me as well, We were talking about GRE, MS other b-school calls and about other stuff regarding engineering. I was feeling comfortable talking to him, then sudenly he started talking about his girl friend and other stuff . Enquired about if I had a girl friend , then my xpression was there to be seen ( i can count the number of girls i had talked to in mylife time till then). But the best thing was everyone was down to earth. Then we all gathered to play cards. It was fun!!!.I reached my room at 12 where my dad was waiting to talk to me. Then i guess he realised that i got myself (too) comfortable with the place.
uff i did not knew i can be verbose as well......
continued.......

Sunday, February 12, 2006

Trip to Satpada:

Yesterday i visited satpada and puri.
It was an awesome experience, there were some really cool things that happened.
I got a chance to see the puri jaganath from a close proximity(pious side of me :))
Had a great time at the puri beach, one of the safest beach in the country. If i did not get drowned then no one can get drowned in this beach. Went to satpada from puri, were a bit late, by the time we reached there. Was able to see ( fins) of 2 dolfins. they were barely visible . Again it was ambitious to expect to see them in full flow as seen in TV shows.
Boat journey was great had some good prawns at the sea mouth,
At the end of the day i could not stop myself from appreciating the beauty of nature.
Most important thing was the company i had all along was really cool.
I was along with my friends Ram, Venky ,Richa, Seema ( they were in different car)
Me, Satyen, Manu, Sudeshna (we were in one car).

Did not inform parents about the trip. Planning what to do in march whether to go for some trip.
I feel that i have spent enough of dad's money and should think about extravagant spending once i start earning, but donno whether i will get this oppurtunity in future, can i meet these friends in future.

so chill ppl bye for now

Tuesday, February 07, 2006

Its individual brilliance :

I had a small chat with my GnG prof yesterday. It was after the class for some doubts :)
One cannot stop admiring at the depth and the breadth of the knowledge this man has.
It ranges from global economics, war economics, governance issues , yoga and firms in particular. There are some people who talk about different issues in the world and complain about them, there are very few who try to understand the reasons behind the policies , try to find the alternative designs. And our prof falls under the second category.
If one could achieve atleast 10% of what he has achieved , then that can be considered quite an achievement.

Tuesday, January 24, 2006

Hmm Nature all the way

Few days back i went to satkosia, a wild life santuary
It was an awesome trip, it made me realise the true beauty of nature, and how trivial man is when compared to it.
Two back to back trips of araku and satkosia, bought me close to nature's beauty.
The places were too great to be believed. It made me think whether man can make atleast 1% of what the nature can create.
How important is nature in ones life, I guess we are loosing something by living in these concrete jungles.
I felt we got ourselves so used to civilization its very difficult for us to keep away from them, dont know whether thats for good or bad, ( We had to travel 60 kms all the way to make a call)
On the other hand there are some good things this civilization has bought us, for eg a digicam which makes me capture the nature's beauty , and cherish it for a longer time.
Now can one make a judgement on whether civilazation is good or bad, hmm not very sure.
bye for now then

Sunday, January 22, 2006

My first post :
I was getting bored so i thought why not write something.
I am jobless from the last few days and its such a pain.
I am planning to go to satkosia (i could not remember this word even after hearing for 100 times) in 3 more hours. Its going to be a bike ride, hope this should be good.
Ya one more important thing I got inspired by venky, maloy and meera's blogs and started my own blog today. So you people know whom to blame.