Thursday, June 29, 2006

JOB !!!!

After all those interviews (more than a dozen of them for me !!) here i am finally ending up with two jobs....and finally joining one of them. The call came on 8th June that I was to join on 12th of June itself. So im placed in delhi with a decent enough package...the first week went in training and from the next i was on a live training with one of the client projects. It turns out that Friday is a very crunch day because the reports have to be sent to the client on that day after all the Quality Checks and stuff (no extended weekends it seems :( and we even have alternative working saturdays)....neways thankfully there are four more guys from my college and in fact 2 of them are very close pals with whome ive spent 4 yrs of coll life so adjusting was pretty easy more so with te completely informal attitude of the employees here.
Next stop getting a new SIM...which turns out to be a harrowing experience ecause I ave no proff of ID and hence im not eligible to get a SIM...what follows is a big persuation effort to let the shopkeeper give me a sim based on my driving license alone....thankfully it got activated and hopefully it will remain activated for some time now.....for those who still havent got my number its 9810268039.
And yeah we have full acess to internet in office but unfortunately orkuts blocked so scraps will take some time to get their replies.
The work isnt too much right now because our trainers temselves have too much work to actually trrain us into anything :P but its just expected to increase in the coming few weeks.
Oh and btw tonight is varad's farewell night out at his house since that guys going to Indonesia's quake prone areas ad we all have to meet him at least once more in this lifetime :P
And well the affect of this job is already pretty evident on me as can be seen in this blog itself....read the last few pnes and read this...u'll get the hurry in finishing it off pretty evident...ive changed a bit in just these 2 weeks...and that too when i didnt want to change...dont know whats in store in te future....Guess thats life.....

Tuesday, April 18, 2006

When I was drunk

"im drunk with i have no idea what ??? shud be vodka....ok i just went and puked.......thats supposed to be good because it takes off that druinken feeling from you...........now the reason why im writing this inspite of being drunk is that this is probably the last time im getting so drunk in my life...and since ive started bloggin this dhould go down as one heck of an experience. oh btw we had our graduation party and thats the whole reason why im drunk.....
Gosh this hangover is sure a tough thing to conquer....i can feel that im drunk and i can feel the effort im making to resist it. I can still remember a lot of things that happened ....from raghuram helping me out to the present when im writing on varads comp...this shud be enuff stuff for a blog....i wish i could write more but i guess ill go to sleep right now..best thing to do when ur drunk...g'night peeps."
This is what i wrote immidiately after coming back from the graduation party in varad's room because i was too drunk to log on from my own comp........that was one hell of a party...and oh yeah i was nominated in the writer's category where the award went to haider of course......now we're about to shoot for the batch video where again we are totally blank as to what to do but then again.....when have we given any exam with full preparation since entering this college....

Sunday, April 16, 2006

SILICON JUNGLE

SPOILER WARNING : Slight revealing of the plot.

Ok so yesterday was a special exclusive and the first show of this movie Silicon Jungle, produced and directed by Rabi Kisku, a 2005 batch passout from IITM. Our audi still being under construction the movie was on show in the senate hall which despite its 1000+ capacity was so packed that ppl occupied every bit of space they could get on the ground.
The movie isnt something too great, it follows the standard IIT guy no girl damn profs storyline which was there in 5 point someone and is again there in a new short story written by a 4th year student of IITD (although it has hopefully got something more to it because of the girl being in a different city altogethor). But yeah, IITians are going to enjoy the movie because they can relate to each and every experience shown there......from doing small chores for your seniors to trying out something called food in the mess....to those first quizzes and the times when the prof calls you to the board and you are completely oblivious to what has been happening around you.
One more thing which really surprises me is the amount of books that are being written about IITians. There were books written even earlier but 5 point someone really opened floodgates........now we have a movie coming on FPS....we have had silicon jungle and we have another short story not to mention the various documentaries and other books..
Are we really so important that everybody else will want to read and see what goes on in the life of those IIT nerds ?? and all that we guys do is getting frustrated by girls and profs alike ??

Saturday, April 08, 2006

Farewell !!!!

Farewell to Mech02b Batch
Date: April 7th , 2006 (Friday)
Time: 5 min
Please speak on the following:

  1. Introduction (Name, About Family, Home Town, Hobby etc)
  2. Where have you been placed
  3. Happiest moment at IITG
  4. Most embarresing moment at IITG
  5. Internship related memories
  6. Your future prospect/planning (Job/MS/PhD/MBA etc)
  7. About girlfriend etc. at IITG
  8. When you are going to get married
  9. Coment about faculty/staff/etc from Mechanical Dept.
  10. Message to juniors

This is the print out we guys were supposed to be given by our juniors but dont know what happened and better sense prevailed.....it was good to get a farewell though attendance was pretty thin....less than 40/46 seniors and even lesser number of juniors (3rd yearites were hardly to be seen)...we have the usual stuff, guys bieng called out one by one and then fishing for their embarrasing moments in their four years of stay....oh yeah the dinner was great though paneer parantha, paneer kofta dal makhani pulao gulab jamun and ice cream.....neways here are some of the answers to that questtionare which we never got..
  1. Raghav Malhotra, home town > karnal/chandigarh
  2. Presently TCS, hope to get a good job by giving some walk ins in delhi
  3. Happiest moment was actually just before reaching IITG..after reaching here all happiness vanished...
  4. Most embarrasing moment never came, its still yet to come..may be when parents come here for the convocation somehtings going to go wrong
  5. Internship...well did industrial; training at TATA motors....made some good friends there and learnt to never go in a mechanical industry ...
  6. Future prospect lies in Delhi and MBA for sure after an year or two
  7. A question about girlfriend @ IITG, this guy has ben hit pretty hard by the work load here i guess
  8. Again, hes asking about marriage before even graduation.....whose the guilty faculty ???
Rest two, well some other time, guess im not the right person to give comments on fac and messages to juniors....
Wow, so we are finally about to graduate andleave this place...seems kinda unbelievable, still remember the first journey with my parents to this place.....met a few other guys in the train, got a room in the hostels....meeting new guys...that hated word ragging....and then we are the seniors....another year.......... final year..........final month of final sem......and now i dont want to leave this place.......its like a stage of your life gone by never to return again......



Wednesday, March 15, 2006

Holy Holi

Here's the festival of colours. Though we had two holidays to begin with, I still have no clue what we had the holiday on tuesday for, all we did was sleep through it. So we're making plans for the last holi in college. We sure want to drink bhang this time and feel that euphoria. Its already been three years since we've been drinking thandai and this time we want the real stuff. So off we go on tuesday night from the back gate of the coll into the small shopping complex, our localite Barua Bhaiyya conversing in Assamese asking for bhang. The deal is struck, 25 packets for 300 bucks. a small hint for the rest and about 50 glasses for those who dare.
The D day, well for starters i woke up surprisingly early, shaved, had breakfast followed by a quick oil application session. Then comes the bummer, everybody else is sleeping in the lobby. Slowly they wake up and get ready with the oil and cream and stuff. Watch out world, here we come !! There's the pit we had dug up the day before and how pretty it looks so full of water and mud. One down, two down, three down and slowly one by one we all go down. What now, this dude gets the craziest of ideas and goes and stands inside a shower to get a bit cleaned up, we throw him back again. This time we just washes his face, we throw him again. But who learns easy here, this dude has to be thrown six times before he finally learns that washing is futile. Then comes the matki, hung out at second floor hieght. First layer all strong first yearites, second layer, all fourth yearites and the third layer the lightest guys in hostel. There just a swing of hands and its broke...hey wait, its just been pulled up to the third floor level !!!!!! Right, so now the base flutters and we all fall down. Another attempt, this time we have almost made it when we discover our man building is just a metre away from the matki so our man cannot reach there.........phew another fall and some guys are injured and tired now. The water which our grateful juniors have been throwing has begun to take effect and we're almost out. One final try first years bottom, fourth years next layer and lightest man on top, alas the weight is so much that we buckle once again but just while falling we throw a stone and break the matki, voila, that was it. hehehe surprisingly no serious injury to anybody. then back again to the pit for some relaxing and mud pack application, we're conscious of our skin u see :P neways then we get the REAl thing of bhang and surprisingly nothing really happens, we need a lot of that to actually have a serious effect, so much for the real stuff.
Sigh, legs dont move and u need to have a bath and have lunch. somehow u drag through all this and get to ur bed. no idea what happens for the next 3 hours and here i am back again. now im feeling too hungry with so much exercises the same day
time to catch something to eat id say.

Sunday, March 05, 2006

Football Shutball hai rabba

Exams over, final sem, kya kare? Baithe Baithe kya karein karna hai kuch kaam, shuru karo ab football leke prabhu ka naam. So we go down to play football in our newly filled with sand hostel ground in block 2. The place is more fit for playing beach volleyball than football with so much sand bieng filled in. So off we go onto the field. A few kicks and passing and all the Beckhams and Ronaldo's are ready to start tge match. The supposedly 'oldest' guy in the team (and the one teased as a grandad) comes out with full intensity, its almost as if he's fighting for us to acknowledge his existence (Yeah thats what happens when u watch too much naruto. For the uninformed, Naruto is a cartoon related to ninjas and narutos fight to prove his worth) .
A few tackles here and there and this guy tries to hit the ball so hard, misses and kicks my foot instead. Slight wobbling but i get back to senses play for another half an hour when the match is called off due to the arrival of refreshments from the rest of the group which had gone to the city.
I have a bath, spend some time online, feel a slight pain in my right foot and doze off. Had to get up ealy @ 6 to leave for a mountaineering trip. I wake up and voila, my foot refuses to touch the ground. Just at the pretext of a contact with the floor which I had just cleaned in my dreams a few nights ago it shoots a huge pain right up my entire body. I can't go for the trip :( So the rest of the group leaves for the trip and the only two who stay behind are me and the extra vigourous grandad who seems to have developed some trouble in his bone from too much kicking around.
A call from home, do i tell them, no dont, yes no problem do, no dont, but yes i do tell them and here I get a huge list of do's and dont's. Go to the doctor, don't go alone, keep ur foot in warm water, dont keep it down.....................
So I get a friend to call up the dispensary and call for an ambulance. It's been almost an hou waiting for the ambulance since I completed my tirade of climbing down the first floor hopping on one foot. Getting bored again, so I check my medical history with my medical card and there's a new fact to be discovered there. During my entire four years ive always visited the dispensary in the month of August ans this time ive added another new first to add to my previous blog. So this pal of mine suggests that i should never get married in August. I come up with a brilliant plan for my marriage, I'll get married on my birthday so that on each anniversary it's going to be me who gets all the rest and affection because its my birthday in addition to the anniversary and i wouldn't have to do any stupid make your wife happy stuff !!!! Nice plan but here comes another rider, if my anniversary is going to clash with my birthday then that day which is probably going to be the only day in the entire year when im going to get pampered and all is also going to become a make your wife happy day, so I come up with another brilliant plan, I'll marry the girl on HER birthday which means two days when I would have to do a lot of work and give gifts would now be reduced to just one and even on that day I might get something in return bieng my anniversary too :D
Anyways we meet the doctor, who turns out to be a gyneacologist (gyneac my foot, literally !!) and she says get an X Ray tommorow since it can't be done on a Sunday. I'm given a crutc, crepe bandage and some pain killers and anti inflammatory to help me pass off the day in peace. Sheesh back in room I have to make a few minor adjustments like pulling my bed close to the comp and using my crutch as the stopper to throw away the need for any latch.
So now im downloading a few movies from the LAN to get over the next few days, sitting in front of the comp and lying on my bed at the same time and getting my fod delieverd to my room by the mess guys. Feels like a true David Beckham treatment doesnt it !!!!

New firsts in last sem !!

Ah my last mid sems got over. Another two months and i'll be out of this place. Come to think of it this sem has seen a lot of news and the ends. For the first time we had our winter break crossing into the new year allowing guys to spend new years at home. And then again for the first (and last i think) time we had our placements starting from 20th december which meant we final year guys had to be back and spend another new yeasr away from home. Then i got my first job. And after unofficially getting my second job I got a taste of corporate world when for the first time i got a job cancellation. Apparently i wasn't good enough in the interview, a fact they overlooked when selecting me in the first place and then rediscovering after reaching their head office !!!
Then our hostel mess has just started functioning and that means no long trips to another hostel for our snacks and dinner (we miss breakfast and lunch anyways). I had my first trouble with my computer when the monitor and UPS blew off and the last trouble with my smps which had to be changed.
Wow, ive discovered a new first, not really a first but i think this is the most boring blog ive ever written !!! so ill just stop ur torture and end this right here.

ps : My greatest first >> I read the Bhagvat Gita, just about to finish the last chapter

Wednesday, January 25, 2006

Love N Like

Since we are on this topic of love, I thought ill post this piece i found on a friends blog..


In front of the person u love,ur heart beats faster.
But in front of the person u like,u get happy.


In front of a person u love,winter seems like a spring.
But in front of a person u like,winter is just a beautiful winter.

If u look into the eyes of the one u love,u blush.
But if u look into the eyes of the one u like,u smile.

In front of a person u love,u can't say anything on ur mind.
But in front of a person u like,u can.

In front of the one u love,u tend to get shy.
But in front of the one u like,u can show ur own self.

U can't look straight into the eyes of the one u love.
But u can always smile into the eyes of the one u like.

When the one u love is crying,u cry with him.
But when the one u like is crying,u end up comforting him.

The feeling of love starts from the eye.
But the feeling of liking starts from the ear.

So if u stop liking a person u used to like,all u
need to do is close ur ears.

But if u try to close ur eyes,love turns into a drop
of tear & remains in ur heart forever.......

Sunday, January 22, 2006

why a guy loves a girl

One thing which always troubles me is why would a guy actually fall in love with a girl....ive never fallen in love so this is probably something i can never know but at the same time this love thing seems too irrational to be fallen into....
Now this friend of mine fell in love with this girl and even though he got rejected he's still deeply in love with her......over an year now (boy, tht girls missing something !!)..and this guy actually started listing out the reasons why he's in love with her :

* Cracks great PJ's
* Drinks a minimum of half a litre of tea per day......... in her own unique way
* Looks just awesome especially..and has a great sense of dressing
* Creates a lot of fuss about him (and he loves that !!!!! )
* Has a sweet melodious voice
* Has thin lips ( ?????????? )

Just for his sake i wish that he gets this girl .... or at least gets over her
O.K., now will any SANE guy plzz post a comment down here if its normal to actually HATE all these characteristics (except for the dressing thing)..who actually likes all these things...oh and may be i should add a bit more of background to it all, the guy fell in love with this girl and then after he was rejected he decided to think as to why he STILL love her.
LOVE might be blind but it surely shouldn't be insane !!!!!
Can anybody plzz shed some light on why a guy would fall in love ????? 'cause from my friends condition i think i'd prefer watching love on the silver screen than on my friends blog :p

"How similar the pattern of love is to the pattern of insanity" - Frenchman, Matrix revolutions

Saturday, January 21, 2006

Senti's galore

Yesterday was another DP..this time for the placements....everybody in the lobby had a job now, at least a back up job even if not a dream job, whatever that means !!!
Three of us decided we weren't gonna drink and the other seven, which inluded a few surprises drank quite a lot. Though we always have some senti stuff in our DP's at least from one guy, this time around we had quite a lot more of that.
The evening started with a beer and surprisingly even that got a bit heavy for some, then followed a bottle each of Rum and Whisky. What followed after that exceeded a lot of expectations, we had ppl getting guilty feelings abt drinking !!!!! and then ppl all drunk up trying to explain that there should be no guilty feelings !!!!
Now follows the fun part, apparently somebody got a guilty (???) feeling about pulling each others leg too much, so now some of us guys (including me) will not be bothered much by their wise cracks while we can always put in our own show :D

blogging ??? me !!!!

Right, so im going to begin blogging all over again...dunno how this fad started inme but i guess it was an year ago tht i thought blogging wud be a really cool thing to do...i mean u have everything tht has gone into ur life on the net and u can share it with whoever u want to...most so for net frnds 'cause they always miss out on the action in each others life.But then again there are things u better not tell everybody abt, after all "kuch batane me maza hai to kuch chupane me"...
So here's one thing i wud REALLY like to say tht if u have the link to this blog ur free to read it and ur free to post all the comments tht u want, they arent going to be deleted, but at the same time DONT forward the link to this blog to any other person who might have an outside chance of knowing me...hehehe...some of the censored stuff goes in here so i dont wanna be dead by sharing this blog with everybody..
Oh and yeah abt the title of the blog..well my frnds say i quote a lot of what they say right back at 'em and since my brains not really working at high speed in searching for new names ill just settle for bieng The "Quoter" for now...