BRAToSPHERE

Tag: depressing

  • >Life at a stand still

    >PPO from Cadbury. I have not yet announced this to my Collegian readers. Yes people, i have got a Pre Placement Offer from Cadbury India Limited – the place i interned last summers.

    My two months in cadbury were very eventful and i enjoyed every bit of it. It made me a frequent flyer with KingFisher, and am also the prowd owner of KingClub Card. I was also made rich by 50K during the course of two months, and had a chance to visit the choicest of the places in India( Vizag – Home!!, Delhi and God’s own place – kerala). Also, i had the chance to reside in the best of the hotels and live life to the fullest.

    tangible things apart, it was quite an enriching experience. The people there were quite friendly and inspite of the huge age differences, everyone was so amicable and easily approachable. The Power Distance (picked up this word in the Advanced Oral Communications (AOC) class today) as such did not exist at all.

    On the whole, my two months in corporate life, my first ones for that, were like the ideal setting for the perfect work experience i wanted. i always believed i worked really hard during those two months, and the PPO just added the cream to all the cherish able moments.

    Needless to say, with my weakness for chocolates, I have accepted their offer and have signed out of the campus placement process.

    All this happened in November first week, during Summer placements. I was given three days to accept, or reject the offer. These were like the most confusing three days in recent past. Accept?? or Reject?? (And chase my dream of PnG, HUL and likes??). After lots of consulting, talking to family,friends, seniors, teachers and everyone possible i just could not resist the tempting offer.

    Cadbury is THE BEST FMCG company and no doubt i always so wanted to join it. My only consideration and the reason for confusion was – What would i do for the rest of my tenure at L? Till then i was busy day in day out preparing for various competitions, participating in all extra curricular events, etc.. Now after the PPO what would be the motivation level?/ Would i still keep myself engrossed with these? Or would i have to search new avenues? Finally i decided – Enough of this mad rush and blind follow the herd mentality. Follow my own dream, nurture my own stature without any kind of Peer pressure. pursue all those activities that i always wanted to do, but could not find the time for..

    After seeing the movie Dasvidaniya i made my own MBALIST (Something like Bucket List with a list of things i would like to accomplish before completing my stint here for MBA). i have made a list. And hope i reach each one of them. hope i be able to tick away on successful completion each one of them. Would disclose my MBALIST very soon, after it is completely drafted.

    Btw, I hav joined Salsa Classes here at Lucknow to learn shake my hops more better!!

    So till i learn shaking my hips to the Cuban tune, have fun watching the new Khan flick Ghajini. Have a look at the poster of Ghazini or Gajodhar..

    p.s.: Going to jaipur, Rajasthan, this Saturday to attend my cousins wedding.

  • >VelaGiri

    >Heard of a lot of RGGIRI when i entered IIML. how rampant it is? How it creates rifts between friends? and the dreaded outfalls of it. BUt never ever thought i would get involved in VelaGiri – Process of doing nothing fruitful and wasting all the time on hand.

    Something that i wrote in my diary last night – “Wasted the entire day, without opening the book for a single minute. 12 midnight now, royalstag bottle lying on the bed seductively, and yesterday’s hangover still looming large in the head. ‘anger Management’ movie ready on the lappy and have just completed ‘Sorry Bhai’.Ah! Now this is how hectic IIM life is!!“

    Especially after this PPO thing i have become quite laid back in life. not interested in anything, be ready to rebel anyone, don’t care attitude. Doing everything which i am actually not. Why? joblessness!! they say it right ” An empty mind is the devil’s workshop”, and amm sue the devil is having a gala time in this workshop. Very active indeed.

    Have an exam tomorrow, and have still not opened the book. Initially i had thought that i have two days of holidays before the exam and would complete the entire text twice and even practice problems on the software. now i doubt if i would even be able to complete the text half way through. Huh! VelaGiri!!!

  • >Now Assam

    >Where is India headed??

    Still when the Mumbai terror war is fresh in the minds, and the city is still in state of reconciliation, there it is – Bomb Blasts in a train in Assam

    From the south west state to the north east, the terror engulfs the whole nation.
    This is what the Indian Express has to say about the assam blasts:
    Three persons, including a child, were killed and 30 others injured on Tuesday in a bomb blast suspected to have been triggered by a militant outfit in a passenger train in central Assam’s Karbi Anglong district.

    Police sources said the bomb, kept inside coach number 8209 of 901 Lumding-Tinsukia passenger train, exploded around 8 am as it entered Diphu railway station.

    They said they suspected militants belonging to Karbi Longri National Liberation Front (KLNLF), which has given an indefinite call for economic blockade in the Karbi Anglong region in Assam from this morning to press their 10-point demand, to have planted the bomb.

    However, no one has claimed responsibility yet.

    But coordinated bomb blasts in Assam in October, which killed at least 77 people, were blamed on Islamist militants from neighbouring Bangladesh.

    After 9/11, travel by air became unsafe, and trains the next option. stay safely in hotels, but then the Mumbai blasts don’t allow you that. And now the trains..

    is staying at home the only option?? Not exactly!! Not heard about Earthquakes, or maybe the criminal assualts and robbery and stuff?

    So, the end conclusion – YOU ARE NOT SAFE ANYWHERE.
    On a lighter note i would say the terrorists need some kind of co-ordination. Harm all places, leaving one, and then by law of human nature, the whole population would shift there. So is pakistan (nothing against the country, just needed an example) safe?? nah! Remember that blasts in the hotel, quite recently.

    In all this turmoil, i guess my room no. 1053 in the IIML campus is the safest place, except for the assault by Himesh Reshamiya songs, and old flop hindi movies which my neighbours have to put up with.

  • >Depressing

    >One ore of my depressing posts. Read further at your own risk.

    It keeps me wondering sometimes. Why do people get depressed?? why is there so much unhappiness around?? is there someone who is completely satisfied with life??

    Then i realise. With so much expectations around why would someone not be depressed?. How can one escape the vagaries of this funny thing called LIFE.

    Just don’t understand why some people behave the way they do. Why do they say things that are not really welcome. Why?? Why??

    For short term happiness they go about screwing their life, and the worse part – they are not alone. They take people close to them, people who care for them, people who wish them luck, along with them in this “ADVENTURE” of theirs. All for that small period happiness which they believe would last forever. Why don’t they realize this? This is not a fairyland. Why don’t they come to terms with reality.

    And actually, when they do realize the reality it is too late. they are too far to come back, and even if a few lucky do come back, they are not unscratched.

    Depressing. Quite depressing. What option are we left with?? Slow songs on the lappy, in full volume, with fellow wingies whining to reduce.

    No Respite!!!