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Night has come n moon too,
The sky is full of star crew,
Now close your beautiful eyes,
Bcoz a sweet dream is waiting for you....
gudnight...

My eyes are not beautiful... moreover my bushy eyebrows meet somewhere in the center... i usually have trouble sleeping these days...

So who the hell sent me this message??

All that Jazz

Between all that excitement i forgot to update that i ve just submitted my application to Texas... i feel good...so good...

Emperor's new clothes!!!

Well something has changed around here... yes ...you know what it is... its the blog template... its more "wide" ...
However it still requires some tweaking... maybe soon i ll put that web counter and other widgets here... hell!!! it feels good to be creative ...

Tarot Card for the day

Wheel of fortune
Well the wheel of fortune brings sudden unexpected events often in quick succession... today was such a day... i got an anonymous mail this morning that had me thinking the whole day...(i still couldn't make any sense of it) ... in the late evening, i got a call from someone who did not want to be identified... now THAT is weird...
Meanwhile, my masterpieces (my essays) are coming along well, thank you for asking... and my cellular still prefers to stay duh... dead...

p.s. ***** i shall soon be switching over to Beckett 3 column layout home here at blogger... designed by me :)... man i am excited *****

Listen to your heart....

Sometimes you wonder if this fight is worthwhile.
The precious moments are all lost in the tide, yea.
They're swept away and nothing is what is seems,
the feeling of belonging to your dreams.

Track my shipments for me...

Yesh.. i ve just sent some shipments to the US... yeah you guessed it right... my love for the univs...in the form of application ... by the cupid (DHL)...
help me track my shipments...
:)
Mc Combs | UCLA

4 down 2 more to go

Go baby go...!!!
hehehehhahahahaha!!!!! I am getting ready for my next one... I think its high time i started working on my Jan round things too...
I think Jan could be a special "Reapp round".... :) ...

Cellphone woes

Well Nokia has done it this time.... they have lost a loyal customer... 3230 is so full of it... the phone has been conking off the whole last week... as a result i had to take it to the repairshop... the guy just formatted everything... goodness... thats like 5 years of collecting cellphone numbers of hottest chicks in delhi and bombay... gawd... they will just die without me... khair..
Nokia ... watch out... i am on a war....

2 down 4 more to go

Hallejulah!!
2nd one completed ...submitted and ....mailed today... precisely 3 weeks ahead of deadline... Now left in front of me is the herculean task of completing 3 more in this month... God give me the power to go on like an Energizer Bunny...amen!!

A tablet of Google before you make new friends

Well these days background checks have become as simple as pressing Enter on the keyboard…as a matter of fact and curiosity I Google all my acquaintances… to know more about them… and the stuff that usually turns up is pretty interesting…
From entrance exams, to house details, to interesting news items, Government of India has laid bare all the records for all to read… the electoral rolls… everything is online …googlexed (Google indexed) and googotized ( Google robotized )

Well I know my friends… how well do you know yours???

of MBA Tour, Married friends and other miscellanies

The MBA tour “happened” today, and I decided to do things differently this time. Instead of going at the start of the tour, I went in after about an hour. By this time the enthusiasm levels were already dropping for most visitors were tired. Right time for a focussed pitch. Grin :)

Received a call from a friend, who is now blissfully married (yeah right!!! that was an oxymoron), who used to say that things wouldn’t change between friends… well he is eating home-made food and his words these days…

The out of whack stereo in my car lets me listen to only cassettes now…no more FM for me… to top it, I have a useless cassette collection… so I am listening to gospel music (bhakti sangeet) these days from old worn out cassettes.

Job satisfaction within closed doors… MBA tour was followed by a panel discussion with alums…applicants poured out their hearts… from why don’t they consider 15 yrs education enough… to…. How much GMAT… the alums were like the nannies… a guy complained of low job satisfaction too…

One Down five more to go!!

Allright... today was a good day... not just because i wrote three couplets or the fact that i got up very early and enjoyed the morning... but because today my first application is on its way to Hyderabad today...
Its time to get cracking on the next application in line... this one will be going to London...:)
btw here are the couplets...
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Is it me the heavens are crying for,
or is it just the rain,
is it the gods washing my memories,
or is it just me and my pain??
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I wish i could stop this pain
I wish I had the power to heal,
alas i dont know i'd still be human
if i forgot the way i feel
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do we just love misery
or plainly hate ourselves so,
some things in our mind
we just wont let go
maybe they are the meaning of our existence
maybe its just our insistence
whatever they may be,
this i think is true
we are all
fools by our own virtue.
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Another one i wrote for a friend of mine long time back ...

i ll be the ocean ...
i ll walk with you ...
with my gentle waves just lapping at your feet...
and just when you expect the least...
my tides will take you away ...
away from the world... away to me....
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Search and thou shalt find it

Well well well… I found something “wow” while I was looking for something else. It just so happens that I am planning a visit to my colleges today to get my transcripts…here I was looking for my Post Graduation Mark sheet and I stumbled upon.. a transcript of the Certificate course in German Language… wowieee… I had forgotten about my German course in the course of time (pun intended)… yahoooooooo for that matter gooooggleee … I am that much closer to my schools… (

Trust

“I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you”
Friedrich Nietzsche

"It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust. "
Samuel Johnson

Garden State

Garden State : Well if there was any such thing as a Droopy's wall of fame for movies... this one would be somewhere along the ceiling...Zach Braff wrote acted and directed this masterpiece... its one of those rare movies you feel connected to ...the one that voices all those things you never really shared with anyone but that you reassure yourself with....take this one for instance...

Andrew Largeman: You know that point in your life when you realize that the house that you grew up in isn't really your home anymore? All of the sudden even though you have some place where you can put your stuff that idea of home is gone. Sam: I still feel at home in my house. Andrew Largeman: You'll see when you move out it just sort of happens one day one day and it's just gone. And you can never get it back. It's like you get homesick for a place that doesn't exist. I mean it's like this rite of passage, you know. You won't have this feeling again until you create a new idea of home for yourself, you know, for you kids, for the family you start, it's like a cycle or something. I miss the idea of it. Maybe that's all family really is. A group of people who miss the same imaginary place.

The movie is not really extraordinary... $2.5 million dollars dont get you flashy vehicles or locales... but yes if there is something called character... you ll find it here... its a gem... listen to this one....

Sam: You're in it right now, aren't you? Andrew Largeman: What? Sam: My mom always says that, when she can see I'm like working something out in my head, she's like, 'you're in it right now' and I'm looking at you're telling this story, and you're definitely in it.

Incidentally this movie was nominated for 2005 MTV Movie award for the "best kiss"...i am not really sure which scene would that be... but i like both the kissing scenes trustworthy... the one in the rain... and the last kiss before they say goodbye.... Here s another one

Andrew Largeman: You know, this necklace makes me think of this totally random memory of my mother. I was a little kid, and I was crying for one reason or another. And she was cradling me, rocking me back and forth, and I can just remember the silver balls rolling around. And there was like snot running down my nose. And she offered me her sleeve and told me to blow my nose into it. And I can remember, even as a little kid, thinking to myself, this is love... this is love.

Good Lord!!!! I really loved the movie....

Interpreting Dreams

Well apart from the “other” dreams that I have… yesterday night I found myself in a grocery store with huge variety from groceries…muesli, fruits and veggies... so much to choose from … even in my dream I was the strict utilitarian that I am…Well I interpret my dream as the answer to my prayers and my wishes… God has given me yet another chance in this grocery store of life where I have loads of opportunities in front of me… I just have to choose the ones that will make me happy and will be with me forever….Past few days…14 to be exact… have made a terrific impact… I was a huge learning curve… Now I’ve regained my focus… set my priorities right… and am back on track… watch out world…my new maxim...
“Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people”

Essay Time again

First official day of Fall....sigh... I could ve been in Duke today... sigh.... and here i am writing essays once again... all over again.... well this time i ve managed a head start.. staying on top of things as they happen...
From my feedback sessions I know now my strong areas
-- My Acads are solid... dont need to do anything here.
-- Work Experience displayed in good detail through my essays.
-- Long term/short term goals are in place
-- International workex displayed in good detail (I had a client recommendation last year)
and my weak spots
-- Why specifically this univ?
-- What do i do outside of work?
well Mr. Montauk rightly points out in his book (The Bible of Admissions) that engineers/IT guys are known to do notoriously less outside office hours...yeah right ... so it is this mind set that i must defeat in my positioning... hell i do so much reading and career counselling that i can talk about...
Brings me to another lingering question.... LBS essays this year have a compulsory essay on international experiences... does that mean anyone whose not been out of his country is ineligible??

Duke deny feedback

“I got spooked” – Brian Flanagan, Cocktails (1988)
Duke University spooked me today with the shocking revelation in my Deny Feedback. The average years of professional experience has climbed a notch higher to 6 years. With it came, the pat suggestion, “I am sure you would have gained that extra experience between the time you applied and now.”
Elsewhere it was mentioned, “You should apply in R1…but there is no guarantee… (Slight giggle)... Considering that the applicant pool is always strong and competitive”…
Had i known this about 7 agonizing months ago (the ones i spent waiting in the waitlist)... would have withdrawn it myself...

Pool Tourney

Was just editing my Essays for LBS when this incident came to my mind. First year in PGDCA, soon after the ragging session got over, the “organizing” bug bit me. My roommate and I decided to organize a 7 ball Pool (Cue stick and ball and 15 balls).
With about 200 odd MCA and 220 odd MBA students we had a potential market. Now the minor question, how do we rope in people we hardly know? Putting a poster up on the notice board would go unnoticed and get far too less airtime.
That’s when the advertising devil visited me. Our team of 5 pasted the following notice on each rest room door, bang opposite the WC. The first few took a little while but we patiently covered all 5 hostel blocks and all 3 floors. In all some 60 odd WCs…. phew….

PSSSTTT.... SORRY TO DISTURB YOU AT THIS TIME….BUT... Would you be interested in playing with 8 Balls, a Cue Stick and getting rewarded for the same?? Then rush in your entries and Rs XX entry fee. You can drop it in Room XXX. p.s. : Please dont forget to wash your hands!!!

Net Result : Instant Hit. Enough Airtime generated to last a lifetime. Enough nominations received for a decent pool tourney…
p.s. For all those curious about how we covered the Female Hostels… we had a female member helping us…:)

Memory Feat for the day!!!

Well today I will try to do something that hasnt been attempted by anyone till now...for all those people at home... some of the events you are about to witness are hazardous to health.. they are performed by experts...we urge you not to attempt to duplicate them...
Having said that... i am going to list all 28 classmates from T13 batch of ITP from the confines of my brain...
Here We Go

1. Uday Kiran hung out with
2. Shiva
3. Sirisha Shetty
4. Saras Krishna Kiran knew
5. srinivas reddy sabella who was also a haddu (now married)
6. Vineet goyal and
7. sajuvendra singh sekhon were roommates just like
8. Neeraj monga and
9. Saurabh srivastava
10. Now Ritu Singh and
11. Savita Upadhyay were close friends... but could never make up their minds..as opposed to
12. Parul Jain and
13. Maa Saab - Vineet Aggarwal.
14. the official Bards deserve a mention Mr. Bibudh Lahiri and
15. Ms. Surya Kanti Pratyusha who was teased constantly by
16. Mr. ramnish bhandari.
17. the silent entities of the class were Vani tekumalla
18. and the cricket guru Shridhar
19. we had a dreamer ...now a management grad at SPJ... Sujay
20. and a follower* Tanuja Gupta....who;s also at SPJ
21. Fellow Bengalis Md Hassanuzman Sheikh and
22. sandeep da.
IS MY MEMORY FAILING ME??....
23. surabhi Baisawar... the lady on a tough mission and
24. Shashi (who was forever with Vani tekumalla..right??)
25. I know this guy... used to bite his lower lip... come on... S
26. Ahh my project mate... Venkat... the hardly working venkat....
WHO ARE YOU???
27. NITIN PAL (i am extreemely sorry i misplaced you...:)
28. KAVITA?? (I'll confirm on monday)

26/28 Not bad....