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The Dhak & the pandals..

Durga Puja wishes to everyone. Celebrations have already started in Kolkata. People rather than vechiles have swarmed the roads as gangs of friends, families and love birds go about puja pandal hopping. In the evenings, various song and dance events are held. The performances include classical and traditional themes as well the new age moves and sounds. Age too is no bar, yesterday I saw a performance by a respectable old man, singing a Bengali traditional song. The enthusiasm and joy is everwhere to be seen. Today I woke up early, to the sounds of the 'Dhak'. I am feeling good today. :)

May this season of devotion and celebration bring joy and happiness to our lives.

The flag of success flutters,finally!

Camera,Lights,action: Yo!Meminem is here to share his moment of happiness with you all for achieving a big breakthrough in his life .
Folks,I appeared for the GMAT yesterday and scored 720 on the exam .Honestly speaking,I wasn't expecting this much .A String of failures over the past few years,disappointments after disappointments, finally culminated in an awesome success!
Unlike other times when I could write a whole big article on some damn topic,today I'm really out of words to express the sense of relief ,euphoria and victory coz no words can do justice to the level of contentment and elation I feel.I appeared for the exam yesterday and till now I'm still telling myself "Oh man! Did you really score that much and that too in the first go ?Damn!"And what makes me more happy is that I had a lot of plans on hold coz of the exam,and finally I'd be able to execute them now.Anyway,soon I'd be kicking off with the application procedure for the universities in the US,maybe Europe too!It's hell lot of work but I'm all game for it, after all the GMAT was the biggest hurdle! The days ahead are gonna be quite busy coz of other commitments but boy,I feel relieved,content and on top of the world.Feel like I've been just released after a hundred years of imprisonment.Feel like I have returned from the battlefield ,victorious!
Life,here I come!

Life of Freedom...Life of Choice...

Its 9 am & the ph rings...
Me: hello
X: Good Morning ... are u sleeping ???
Me: no ...good morning
X : I have received my products ...Can u plese tell me how to use it??
Its one of the call that wakes me up ...
From the day i left my job i have permanenetly switched off my alarm..every morning some or the other call wakes me up ... it feels so good.. Il get ready to meet few of the people or do net or whatever i feel ... no more pnching at 7.30 or giving infinite nos of excuses to take a holiday ... Recently my dad gifted me a lappy on reaching the next level in business.. I encouraged him saying keep growing like this so that we can get more gifts..

Now i can daily see movie ...infact any damn movie...My count of watching LOTR series has gone to 10 times ... I donno why but whenever i see it , i feel something different from inside ... While writing now , i am feeling to see it again ..probably il start tommorrow..
Life has changed a lot after job ..Now when people ask me wht I am doing then I feel proud to say a Businessman ... for all u guys I am a Certified nutrition Advisor too ... I had passed the exam with 92% marks ... After all engineers can excel in any field ... I have got solution to any health problem through proper Nutrition supplements ... Through experience I am becoming an expert in this...

I tried a bit of cooking too but I cant do it alone so its better to eat in mess...

In this time of freedom there is no girl in my life :( ...

For all the NCR residents I am il be in delhi on 30th & 1st ... hoping to see all of u...

A girls life- In a Messy situation...

Your's truly i.e. Me, has been having quite a few close shaves with destiny/ fate or whatever else that you may call it.

Yeah- life may not be super exciting. But yeah it has its moments.

Shayon and I almost got caught in my bhanaas, that I give at home when I am out with him.

It so happened that that I had to go to college on Monday, last date for filling the examination forms etc. And, well, Shayon got stuck in traffic, got late for work, thus, chucked office for the day.

Yeah, that meant we could meet. So, I made the usual excuse back at home, that I am going to office from college (I have used this excuse before as well, and it works just fine); but I had forgotten a HUGE thing, that on that day my sister had her dance practise and her dance class is like 5 minutes from my office, so it was decided, that I would go pick her up from her class and come back home. (Simple straight plan, Shayon and I had decided, that we would go and pick her up)

Both Sis and Me forgot, that the timings of her class 7-8pm, will not be comfortable with my dad. And this is exactly what happened... Shayon and I are lounging around, not bothered about anything, when, my sis messages me- Dad is dropping me to class and coming to pick you up from office- RUSH.

And, after that- Shayon and I, actually mostly me freaked out.

We ran to catch an auto (bless the auto stand near his house) and just hoped and prayed that we don't get caught in the bluff. All the while I was urging under my breath that the auto go a little more faster, we were hitting traffic... and on top of that sis decided to message every two minutes giving moi a panic attack, Shayon was the calm one, trying to find humour in my face expression (which was very stricken, my face) Oh, and did I tell you, that he hardly freaks? I just adore his calm when I am freaked.

And, we made it in the nick of the time, thanks to the Delhi Traffic.

Dad got caught in traffic while coming towards my office...

Phew- It was close.

In retrospect, it seems like a scene from a movie- but, Thank you God, for saving my ass. It would have been a very difficult to make Dad understand, in this situation.

Oh, and in the other situation- one Mr. N.K. an associate at FML, is just getting on my nerves. He has asked me to meet him four times, I have turned him down on all the counts. I have no idea what to do with him??

Oh, I know, I can tell him about Shayon, but the conversation never goes in that direction. I can't mess this up, because he and I are in the same profession, any wrong move- I'll be ruined(big words... ), before even enrolling in the Bar.

Uffo- Yeh kya ho raha hai??

Even though, the whole Shayon- Me Fiasco, is very filmy and above all; I am sure that when one of you narrates this to the next generation then; its going to be a laugh.
As of now I am more concerned about the whole- Mr. N.K. thing. All of you have jobs, and I am sure that if not experienced it first hand you must have known about all this office politics etc thingy.
What do you guys suggest as to how do I handle this guy??

Hitler, as Nvidia's CEO, gets informed about ATI's Evergreen series

Okay, this one is an extremely hilarious video piece (taken out of the legendary movie DownFall) where the editor depicts how Hitler would have reacted to the news of ATI's EverGreen Series Graphics Cards' Launch, had he been the CEO of NVIDIA, the rival computer graphics card company. An absolute must-watch!!

This is the power of Social Media

My City..My Life.. 2

Part 1: http://www.twmonline.net/2009/07/my-citymy-life.html

‘Yes, please provide the snapshots of the various scenarios by next Monday. Asok will then be able to provide an analysis report and then we can discuss and frame the roadmap for the project’, said he.

He sees Peter nodding in the screen in front of him. It's the weekly status meeting after which everyone cuts away from the office for the pursuit of everything and nothing; some just sleep, some do sports, some read, many go for dates and movies and also few do come to office on weekends occasionally.

'Yes, I'll provide the inputs. Anything else', said Peter.

He's all ears and concentrating to decipher the English accent. He replies, 'That's it, so have a great weekend'.

At the back of his mind one George Bernard Shaw's quote crosses his mind, "It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him".

Peter. "Thank you very much; you too have a good time. Bye.'

He collects the meeting agenda sheets, and dashes towards his cube from the conference room.

One more turn left and then he'll be at his cube.

That wasn't supposed to be. Instead all papers that were in his folder; now had taken to the air and were flying like kites in Kabul sky (Kite Runner - Kite flying is a passion in Kabul). He had banged into a new glass door that house-keeping had put in place to segregate the floor into two zones. As the kites were falling all over him, two small eyes and a lovely little nose appeared at the background of the sky.

In order to cut short the description of this angel and without any intention of racial remarks; she is a chinky from Chungju near Seoul in South Korea and is one of the international recruits in the company.

'Are you okay?'

He was still coming to terms with this chinky angel in a Kabul sky.

A coarse voice, 'Hhey aare youu okayy'.

Thick moustache and a big face. Asok.

Finally, he gets up and Asok helps him to his cube.

His friends had booked a bowling alley for the Friday night outing, but with an aching back, he decides to head for home.

'Hey, mister...hey hello....listen..'

He turns while he was just about to get into the lift. It's the chink.

'Here take your paper planes', said she as she handed the folder to him.

'Slumdog..AR Rehman..fan huh..by the way thank you very much'.

'Actually Paper Planes is by M.I.A .. But yes I am big fan of AR Rehman'.

'Hmmm okay..So not finished yet on a Friday evening.'

'Well, I was almost done with my last mail of the day when you crashed in front of my cube', she starts laughing.

'Oh....anyways thanks for your helping hand', he gives a smile.

He continued,' well if you are done for the day, shall I walk you till the tram depot.'

'Okay, thanks'.

Chink in the armour!!

'So you are new in the office, I guess you are one of the international recruits in HR department.'

'Yes, you are right and I am Michelle from Chungju, South Korea'.

'Michelle..I am xxxxxx.. and I'm in the Consultancy department..well I Know only of one city in Korea, which is Seoul'.

'Ban Ki Moon, the UN secretary general, he is also from Chungju..it's a small town near Seoul'

'Oh really, Moon has taken over the Earth and another is on the trail already'.

They walked till the bus depot and before they bid good bye, there was exchange of mobile numbers.

She wanted to explore the city and he was already on a free fall with his latest crush.

Will the jinx of a single status be broken by a chink?

To be continued..

:)

Does anyone remember the incident !!

Boastful avatar..

Hello folks, I reached a new height in my non-illustrious quizzing career :) . The Tata Crucible, Kolkata round was organised last saturday and me & Rajneesh Kumar(tronix) made it to the stage round..

The link: http://www.tatacrucible.com/corporate/report2009/Kolkata.html

Njoy..

The princess celebrates her birthday...!!

I know, I am the birthday girl... and some one else should put up this post..

and that someone has actually puit up the post... but on my own page. By that I mean MY VERY OWN DOT COM page.

Shayon bought me a domain name for my birthday- Here is the link to the post that he put up.

Its cheesy and its mushy- but it is DIRECT dil se...

Just Like that

Even though I have never written an entry I have always followed it since the past couple of years. Its been quite sometime since I have been planning to write something but laziness comes in my way.Let me try talking of my stay in UK for the past 8 months or so. Its been a wonderful experience and I enjoyed every bit of it. Was a bit wary about the 'not so friendly' britishers initially, but to my surprise that did not seem to be the case. I do admit that they are very formal and polite and would never speak out their mind and that would mean that you would end up spending a lot of time reading their mind rather than concentrating on work. But all the people whom I have met have been very helpful and kind to me. There are a hell lot of cultural differences which probably most of my Inidan colleagues do find a bit odd at times, but having been NIT Jamshedpur for 4 years meant that this was just nothing. In fact I love it.

There are lots of work culture differences but I am sure that would not interest you, so I would limit myself to the general differences which I could see. One really cool thing about the way people live here is that they really don’t care about what the other person does, they just get on with their job and that’s it, would not care about the other person, unlike most of us Indians who are more bothered about the world rather than us. I know, every trait has its own positives and negatives, so it may not be right for me to say that this is right or that is wrong, but I liked almost all the things about my stay here. The pollution free environment, the not so busy life, the great weekend walks and the most important of all the great friends whom I will miss once I would be back. But life moves on doesn’t it. What makes me cringe about my life back in India is the rat race in there, everyday is a struggle, Over here I get to see people coming to office at 8 and leave the office at 4-4:30 and it gets dark quite late (in summers its 10 and during inters its 5) so its not too bad either, compare this with an software programmers life in India leave home at 8 reach office at 9 ..leave office at 6:30 reach home at 8. What time an individual is left with after all of this. At times its quite amusing when I see people appreciating me sitting up till 6:630 and even after that I get bored( that’s probably because I have nothing else to do here). Its quite funny isn’t it. you come to county like UK expecting things to be lot more competitive (because its a developed nation) only to realize that its quite relaxed. The project which I am in is pretty busy, but even then its not tough and I at times wonder what would the life of guys in other projects be like. People have time in UK to pursue their hobby which I think is really think is great. On the contrary you might have to do something like what Raj or Mannu ended up doing (quitting job) to do what you like. Sometimes I envy the lifestyles of the people here, but again the belief that you make your life prompts me to think that I can make my life better. As far as my own life and me giving CAT and other exams is concerned, I will be giving CAT again this time, but being honest with you all, my prerps are far more worse then ever before and with every passing day I just don’t care, I think I am a bit jaded now. Having worked my ass off in the college and the year after I have now lost all the interest in it. Its not that I don’t like my current job, it’s a problem with the way inidan sw industry which demands an individual to have the necessary experience without even giving a damn about what he wants and what his skill sets are which is forcing me to do an MBA and more importantly the meagre salary which they pay will not be enough to satiate my future needs( Don’t ask me what my needs are ..coz I don’t know). I have a million ideas and I am sure all of you have and of all these ideas I aint sure which one is the best. Only time will tell if what I am doing (or in other words following ) is right or not.That’s it from this boring person. Will be back in India on 7th Oct . Talk to some of you then.

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This a distress call to all TWM folks. This has been the longest duration of inactivity for TWM. So is it that we are all too busy or have all of us hit the writer's block.

Let's break the spell of inactivity....HOW??
WHAT SHOULD I WRITE ABOUT??

I have an incomplete draft, shall I post that?
May be I will do a recap of the past few days..No mood to write paragraphs..

Connect the dots yourself..

* Kaminey - Movie was good, the ending could have been better..The bong mafia coming with a long gun to the fight scene was really comic..Fahid Kapoor ki acting mast thi..waifey aap log ye movie dekhey kya??

* Books - Finally I read the book Love Story by Erich Segal..Hmmm the story is good but the effect of the classic book has not yet got into me..Meanwhile I am also reading 'The Great Indian Novel' by Shashi Tharoor..I will surely recommend this book..Tharoor has splendidly blended the tales from Mahabharata into the modern Indian history..

*Movies - I watched 'Little Miss Sunshine' and 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' few days back..Good movies..Liked them..You can listen to the 'How it ends' track by Devotchka'..It's in the 'Little Miss Sunshine' movie..The concept of 'Eternal Sunshine....' was too good..Initially you can be bored but later on it will bind you..

*People - We in Kolkata had the same masti and fun as in college..But as time flies by..Some have left to do Masters in business studies..Some are going to different locations for professional work..People are leaving Kolkata..Memories will remain..May all get success in their endeavours..

*Time - Its 0015 hours..Time to doze off..

Good Night Folks..