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Finally,

we had a first team movie outing.... everything was good except of the fact it was a self sponsored one. Well, one more thing is there :- The pleasure of successful completion of idea proposed me and its execution. The idea for a team outing for a movie suddenly clicked to me when I was coming back from the tea along with Riddhish. So I asked our boss, Satish, we call him "Sarkar" also. To my surprise, he agreed for it and that too on a working day. So we got the green signal.

Recently, all of us in Motorola moved to Google Apps from Outlook, which had one good feature of conducting polls. And we made a good use of it. To our surprise, out of 14 member team 12 agreed to go f

or this. This was definately more than what I expected. The factors which influnced 85% + turnout in the team were

1. It was on a Working Day
2. One who doesn't go for movie can't take it off and will have to work in office
3. It was in English (As our team is a mix of people with different native tongues any other language will have resulted in more rejections for sure)
4. Hype of Avatar and its Graphics.
5. 3D. (Not many of us has watched a 3-D movie)
6. Lastly, Holiday mood ..... ;)

Based on everyone's convenience as well as tickets availability, we finalized the day of Thursday(24th December). The Avatar day arrived and we started assembling and most of us reached there using bikes through route avoiding the Metro-construction route, which was the shortest one. We all reached Fame Cinemas on time and were ready to Avatarised in 3D way.

Movie Review:-

1. Awesome Graphics
2. Nice 3D experience
3. Story was okie-dokie.
4. 2nd half is better than 1st half.
5. Movie is definitely over-hyped.

Fame Cinemas' Review:-

1. Seats were cozy & spacious.
2. Nice Environment.
3. Food inside is very costly. (Which is expected in Multiplexes in cities :(

Somehow, I kept thinking about Avatar. It may be because of many reasons. May be because as I am Hindu and we have always been saved by our deities who reincarnates themselves in form of Avatars. Or may be because my first disposition for patent was Avatar Transformation System, which got rejected. :( Or was it because of the thoughts which kept coming to my mind, like what we have done to the nature of our planet. Ah Ah... somehow I felt the movie was over hyped, but deep inside there was some link with the word Avatar or some of the values projected through the movie "Avatar". Even, I thought about if the 10th Avatar of Vishnu, as predicted by Bhavisya Purana will actually come? If he comes will he be in some horse with wings or this white or it is some aircraft as most of them are white also they are regarded as war-horse.

Origin of the word "Avatar" is from Sanskrit.

1. A manifestation of a deity in Hinduism.
2. A new personification of a familiar idea
3. An icon or animation to represent a participant used in Internet chat and games

Moto Cliq

Moto Cliq

Finally, the much awaited first Android Phone from Motorola has been officially introduced. Though I had a chance of looking it before also as one of the developers.

But had to hold any of the comments till the official release.

I wont say much, just that this is an awesome phone if you are addicted to social sites/blogging, etc.

Unfortunately, its not introduced in India yet. But once it comes people will

definately like it as its feature rich and nice integration of all sites, especially the Blur home screen.

So if you are addicted to social sites and are in US and are looking for a good new feature rich smart phone, don't miss to checkout http://www.motorola.com/Consumers/US-EN/Consumer-Product-and-Services/Mobile-Phones/Motorola-CLIQ-US-EN

http://www.t-mobile.com/promotions/GenericRegular.aspx?PAsset=Pro_Pro_MotoCliqLaunch&WT.mc_id=637m3

Joke of the Day !!!!!

Joke of the Day !!!!!

Don't Trust Anybody !!!

A burglar decided to rob the safe in a store.

On the safe door he was very pleased to find a note reading: "Please don't use dynamite. The safe is not locked. Just turn the knob."

He did so. Instantly a heavy sandbag fell on him, the entire premises were floodlighted, and alarms started clanging.

As the police carried him out on a stretcher, he was heard moaning: "My confidence in human nature has been rudely shaken."

Trying to Love Music !!!!

Trying to Love Music !!!!

Last week, when I was thinking about the things to do, which I always delay for later because of work or other committment, I was able to jort down a list of items. One of the item in the list was Music. I know no-way I can sing well... so was thinking about some musical instruments, and today I took some steps to go ahead with the plan.

Well, today when I woke up with alarm at 6 am only to find that I was suppose to wake up at 5 am and get ready to go to Kanteerva stadium. Ahhh... I missed again the bus because of my sleep.... I remember the way I missed the flight for kol in a similar way 3 years back. Actually, today there was a corporate race sponsored by Nike and I was supposed to participate from Sasken. The team size from each company needed to be 50+ and must have included a minimum of 6 female participant. But as I woke up at 6 am, it was already to late for me to even try to reach there. So to add to that action items my Sleep is one more thing that I need to control. :(

Coming back to music, I got enrolled finally for a Music Instrument Classes. The first instrument which I enrolled for was guitar. So now I had to buy a guitar. I contacted Ranjit & Tushar, as they have already bought one so will definately have a better idea in this respect. So we planned to go together in the evening after their guitar classes get over. So I reached on time at the Indiranagar center. There I found Ranjit & Tushar standing up just to find there bikes towed away by the traffic police. So we went to the traffic police station acting as student and gave a fine of Rs 200 per bike...they were demanding Rs 300 initially (Rs 100 fine + Rs 200 as towing charge). Then me and Ranjit left for chickpet. Damn chickpet area was too crowded similar to Bara Bazaar (kolkata). We finally reached to place to find that the shop is closed. But we saw another shop near by and bought a guitar from there. Hopefully now I can start playing something on guitar soon. First target is just to play Sa- Re- Ga- Ma ;)

Its time to close the waiting List !!!!!!!!!!!!

Its time to close the waiting List !!!!!!!!!!!!

Well, seems like now I need to take a stand on myself and start closing the never ending waiting list of the items which I keep planning every month once or twice, but never even initiates, forget the conclusion. But after the PGSEM's disappointing results I'm not going to let the wait continue on other things which I just plan and never do.... Yeah these were the thoughts running thru my mind on last Friday,....after burning my ass-off in the same chair sitting in front of the PC and working like a typical s/w professional....

I'm a Libran...And yes....I'm Lazy by nature and find hard to reach some decisions pertaining to me fast....The above things only prove this :(

I remember a few Fwded mails containing the characteristics of a person based on the zodiac signs.... And some of my characteristic definately matches with the typical zodiac signs of mine....The item which is always on a planing list but never executed were

1> Working out in Gym:-

Ah !!!!!!!!! God knows from when I am planning to do this ...probably from the 3rd year of engineering .....So its nearly 6 years of planning and execution of just a month or two when I was in Sasken, until I moved to the client side, Motorola. Motorola has a better gym than sasken but still I just go there once in a while to measure my weight with Sandeep, my closest work mate... Seems this item will stay as pending and will be probably the last one I will close.

2> Learn Dancing:-

Well, this desire comes up only when I see someone dancing too well and feeling what the fuck I am doing just standing and watching !!!!!!!! Not sure if its the right age to start this ...but its a hidden desire inside ...probably one day I will do ...Atleast before going to the GYM ;)

3> Learn Driving:-

Not sure, what blocked me from doing this. Probably bcoz of my lazy nature ....But yes, this is one of the workitem I am planning as of now to execute soon ... Hope its not the same old planning way ;)

4> Music:-

Well, my voice was never pleasant enuf to be that one of a singer...so its just the ears who have been doing his work... But this aspiration added a new dimension of playing instruments after I watched "Rock On !!!" ...Obviously, Guitar is on the List first of All the instruments .... I have enquired also, and there is a good teacher nearby my flat where I can enrol... next Saturday will definitely execute :)

5> Swimming:-

Oh no !!! One more ... so many items ...pending list is big ...when will I execute all of them :(

6> Come Out of Past:-

Though I might act as I am out of my past, but its never the case it seems....deep inside there is something which sometimes I regret but can never make out what went wrong ....Probably I never understood the emotions of the loved ones...and never knew when I hurt themmm....But its time to be just friends and be back to normal !!!! :x

Lets see when I execute them ....But other than work these are the items which i need to do ....I don't want to be just an IT professional.... Enuf of just work....Life has something more to do....... Its time for a new Phase of Life !!! And better one for sure !!!!!!!!!

Its time to close the waiting List !!!!!!!!!!!!

Waiting to be an MBA continues....

PGSEM - The Wait Continues

Its has been a 3 longs years since I am trying to get into the elite IIMs, but seems like my wait is going to continue for another year. :(



This year I just gave CAT and PGSEM. And fortunately got an interview call for PGSEM on March 9, 2009. On March 9, I got a mail from PGSEM admissions that I have been shortlisted and should be available for an alumni interview, to be held at the IIMB campus premises during 15th March, 2009. I was pleased to read these mails and there started all the anxieties for the alumni interview. I went for the alumni interview to IIM-B, my first visit to IIM-B, praying to the Lord that it should give me with the opportunity to be a regular visitor here as a student. IIMB's campus is sorrounded by trees and once u enter u will feel like that u are not in bangalore, the atmosphere is so quite and silent, a perfect one to study without any outside interference. My Alumni interview was about to begin as we were waiting for the Alumni's to arrive. Then suddenly someone asked for my name and said me to come along with him in the interview room. There were two panelists, one was from Wipro (13 years + exp) and another one was from Tech Mahindra. Both were IIM-B PGSEM passouts. Alumni interview was very interactive and good one and I was preety sure that they were happy with the interaction we had.

On March 24, I got a mail regarding my faculty interview schedule on Friday, April 3, 2009. So I reached there on the designated day. After doing the pre-interview formalities I was called for the interview. Again two faculty members were there. They asked a range of questions like
-- Asked about my company, Are you happy with it? Will you move to other company given an option? ....
-- About Singur Issue and what solutions I can give...what should I have done being in CMs chair at that time?
-- About my marriage plans in case I join course? and how do i plan to cope up with it.
-- And lot more.

The interview lasted for 30 mins. One of the faculty seemed happy in his expression after my interview and other one was okie-dokie. After the interview I tried to catch some present IIMB PGSEM students and got some more information.

But it seems that I was not good enough, I got a mail saying "I write to inform you that you have been waitlisted for IIM Bangalore’s Post Graduate Program in Software Enterprise Management, for the session commencing in June 2009. Your position on the waitlist is currently at No. 7. In the event that we can admit you into the PGSEM program, we will get in touch with you and convey our offer." on April 9. I was greatly disappointed after that. But got info from PGSEM groups that last year upto 10 waiting List were cleared... Now the hope was alive....

But Hope was for a short duration... I got a mail on saying May 5 saying "We regret to inform you that we could not accommodate you for PGSEM 2009 batch since we have limited seats and no cancellations. " Seemed like none cancelled. :(
Later from groups I got info that like no waiting list candidates were offered seats...few defered candidates prefered to join this year probably 4-5 in number....

The crux of the story is my waiting List continues ......:(

Bachelor Beer Party

Bachelor's Beer Party

Well, some events execute well and is more memorable if unplanned & happen with momentum. Yesterday was one of such events a gathering of 3 team mates just after the work. None of us would have thought that we would be landing up together at a common place holding a can of beer.

Yesterday was the same usual day arrived at 9 am (my usual time is close to 10 am)and leaving office at 10pm as I had a call. While leaving I thought to curse Chandan who had his reviewed planned today early morning (Two continous day to come to Office early ...common guys we need some extra sleep.....) ...So we thought to leave together and I will drop him near my home to take auto ....then the plan changed to having dinner together ... then to having beer together ( cheeerrrrrssssssss !!!!!!!!!!!)... While having beer we just thought to call up the 3rd face of our bachelor Trimurti of our team - Ridhish... We called him up and as usual we played the prank about us drinking at office and Ridhish as usual because of his innocence believed us....This poor chap is too innocent now ...I should say "Devil in the making" instead ;) . After knowing that we are at home and my home is near by...He dropped in too with a pre-condition that we get a beer for him before the bar closes (It was 10:30 pm and generally bar closes at 11pm in Bangalore.......ohhhhh yuk.......11pm all bars close :( Bangalore still sucks in this regard)...we got a beer for him & three of us landed up in my place with Beer...





Now everyone can imagine the topic / discussion happening when 3 bachelor team mates meet with a jar of beer ---huh !!! We did discussed chicks in our company and how we are sufferring at the hands of our Mgr, and whole lot of shit which we never thought would discuss.....Ahh !!!!!!!! But that was a good time felt like I am back to my Hostel days ....:)

Cost Cutting...

Cost Cutting

Seems like party for the IT software companies are over now.They won't be getting the same kind of growth of 40-60% as they were getting sometime back. Different companies are adopting different strategy to cope up with this situation. Some companies are on hiring freeze mode, some are on firing mode, some are in cost cutting while some are in salary cut mode. Or to say in simple terms most of them seems to be planning for short term or are just in survival mode. But is industry really low? Well, if you ask me, answer is both yes and no. Let us look to some specific industries, say Telecom. The sales of mid- & low-tier phones may be down as compared to last year, but it is being projected that smart phones will show a huge growth, projected around +50%. Now, smart phones category is a totally new segment and with the price of smart phones being on the higher end means that it will bring more revenue. So even if the number of units sold will be less, the revenue will be more. Same for auto-industry, though sales of more generic petro-automobiles are on downtrend, but consumers are now looking more inclined towards automobile which runs on Bio-diesel / Electricity / LPG... So for me no industry is down we just need to look for opportunities.

Whatever I might say or think but I fall on the side of being affected by one of the survival modes adapted by my company. AHhhhh ......no.....but yeah....there has been a salary cut of 10% through out my organisation .....& if you are in bench your cut will be 40%.........Thank God I didn't take any loans so don't have to pay any EMI's....But when I think of some person who might have taken a loan and has some EMI's to pay ...how will they cope up with it.....

With bloodbath all in the market...it seems right time to upgrade my skill - may be for an MBA....

Lets see ...Hope for the best

Nandi Hills Trip @ 28th September

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Rang my phone... Abhishek on call ... time 3 am on 28th Septe

mber ... Abhishek says, "Aeee ekhone uthi ni .....tara tari kor ekhon teen ta hoye che.... Borete hobe Nandi Hills jonene ...Na hole Sunrise miss hoy jabe" (Wake up its 3 am already, hurry up we need to leave soon for Nandi Hills otherwise we will miss the sunrise).....

Ahhhhhhhhh....... Wished sunrise used to be at 10 so that I could have slept peacefully till at least 7 am...But Brahma had make the world like this... :(

After Abhishek's call, I really felt a sense of urgency to get ready and leave for nandi Hills fast ....And I was preety much upto the mark to leave by 3:25... 

Naww.... I messaged all the people that I am leaving and be ready....

Picked up Nitu, went to Sandy's Place , got along with him reached Domlur where Abhishek was waiting for us. Now we were 3 bikers.... Then our next destination was National Games Village to pick up two more persons, Pragya and Ankita. 

Picked them up then moved to Paramount (Koromangla) to get Alongwith Shradda and Rachna. Also, Nitu's friend - Sourabh and Navin - who were also coming alongwith us. So everything seemed to be going right on time.

Now we all 10 people - 5 bikes - started our journey at nearly 4 am.... Then I recalled Abhishek's bike was on reserve and we tried few 24-hours petrol pump until we found one on hyderabad highway.... It was preety chill at that time....my fingers were nearly freezed... But It was great to ride on the Hyderabad Highway, the road was quite smooth other than one or two unexpected bumpers.  

We reached the ticket counter at 5:45 am, and the rush at the ticket counter was way more than I have seen in any of my previous two visits here. The queue was long, but we got some girls in our gang to collect it for us and we were able to reach peak by 6:30 am. Hadn't we got tickets by some other means we wouldn't have reached the peak before 6:45. Everyone seemed to be in fine fettle.

The scenic beauty from the top was great. We went to various places of the peak including the suicide point, Sweet Water lake, etc.We had a lot of fun there and we were ready to leave. Every thing seemed to be going great as planned, none of us had any intitution of the adventure waiting for all of us. 

After having a good time there, we were ready to leave the hills and move towards the city. And during I ride back we got all short of probable thing which could happend to a bike.

As we were going down, Navin's Bike was out of fuel, incident no. 1 :( Thank God we had one shop nearby with petrol. And we could refill it. everything seemed to be going smooth and then Sourabh's bike got punctured. We searched for the puncture shop nearby and then finally ourselves got the rear tyre removed and send sourabh and Navin to puncture shop. Once they were back from puncture shop, we started again. In hyderabad highway, then we had 3 bikers caught by police for general checks and overspeed. two of them were fine with all documents so they got freed easily. However, Navin didn't have all the documents and he finally bribed them with Rs 350 to get free.;). Now after another 10 kms Navin's fuel was again empty. He got it refilled from some petrol pump within a radius of 1km. After all these incidents we had our group in 4 different places. I was with Navin as he had no petrol. Abhishek went through some different route. Saurabh was at different place. And Sandeep too at a different location. Thankfully Sandy completed his Doctors work while those police and fuel refil activity of Navin was taking place. Finally we all assembled at Brigade road and we were back to the full strength together. By this time everyone seemed tired and Hungry. So we planned to go to Prayag, koromangla for lunch. And adding to the adventure it was fully crowded. We got a table, but that was outside and then there was a scorching sun above our head. Somehow we had some thing to eat there and then we left for home. Most of the people in trip might have just went home and slept coz it was really tiring and adventourous journey.

27th September ....Its my Birthday !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well, thankfully this birthday didn't turn out the way Last two birthday's i had in Bangalore. Few of my friends surprised by being there at 12' o clock.....And then the birthday celebrations.....

With my face also having the taste of Cake.....It was yummy .........

Not much different than what one can expect ...lot of calls & calls through out the day with the wishes....

Had lunch with my friends in Bangalore....

Then we made  plans for Nandi Hills the next morning which really turned out to be an unexpected adventorous trip ... 

Will tell u about the trip in the next post ....

Thanks all for the wishes !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Magic Of Dabbawalas Unfolded by Dr. Pawan Agarwal on 25th Sep 2008

On 25th Sep 2008, Motorola India Planned a session by Dr. Pawan Agarwal, who shared his insight on Dabbawalas of Mumbai. Lot of Town halls have taken place in our work place, but I never saw the number of people attend it in that large number as it was that day. Only townhalls of a CEO or CTO of our company can match that gathering. The session was very informative and was well communicated by DR. Agarwal.

dabbawallah is a person in the Indian city of Mumbai who is employed in a unique service industry whose primary business is collecting the freshly cooked food in lunch boxes from the residences of the office workers (mostly in the suburbs), delivering it to their respective workplaces and returning back the empty boxes by using various modes of transport. Most of the Dabbawallah's are illiterate, but still the perfection with which they do their work with nearly zero error without using any of the technology is simply awesome. They even got the Six- sigma certification without even applying.... That's really cool.

Examples of few incidents revolving them during the session was humorous and realistic at the same time it showed that sincerity, honesty and simplicity with which dabbawallah's do their work. Simply Hats Off to them..... :)

MOTO Raas Dandiya

On 26th of September'2008, Motorola organised a Dandiya function called "MOTO Raas" Dandiya. It was great success. Many of the motorolans shaked there legs and few were "papus" (where only spectator).
The Dandiya function started at 4 p.m. with a typical dandiya song, and it was great to see employees and contractors dressed in colourful traditional dress with a dandiya sticks in there hand. They all were dancing in the beats of dandiya together alongwith the ocassional performance of garba.

But initially participating seemed to be lacking and there were more of Papu's then we were expecting. So they get all of them shake there legs, we switched over from Dandiya to dandiya + Bollywood ... and as expected we saw the participation increase a lot. It seemd to be a 50:50 ratio now. Though I didn't like this sudden change from dandiya to Dandiya + Bollywood, as I wanted more of Dandiya ... but I knew my logic was flawed in this case... So I started up with the new mixed tunes... Then some songs from Kannada was also played, which was great and make us all dance with much more enthusiasm and made us feel tired much faster.Though I didn't understand it , but music was great and make me dance tirelessly. It added few more dozens of people in the dance floor. What we observed was switching between different modes of Kannada + Bollywood + Dandiya music. This seemed to be more proper with the way this cosmopolitan city Bangalore is made up of. It showed us the true mix of flavours from different region.

Before I give conclusion the question that may arise to you can be :
Who were "Papu's" ? And why they are refered like that?
Well the answer is all the spectator who were not dancing and just watching were Papu's.
There is a song like "But Papu can't dance saaala "....so once that song was played ..all the dancers were pointing to the spectators with the signature step that Bappu (or Spectator) can't dance saala ...... ;)

Finally the event ended and was a great success even though a bit of reluctance was observed on parts of people initially. The only time I was not seemed to be very happy with the way event went was between the event closure and the time I went to sleep. Coz the event was so good that made me dance hard and as a result made few of the spare parts of my body to feel the brunt of those high energetic activity. I was really tired and had a great sleep. Hopefully we will have such events more frequently at our workplace. :)

Lost & Found My Mobile..... :)

I actually can't believe it ....... and after this incident ...... I do believe in destiny n luck...........

Finally I got back my lost Mobile in some extra-ordinary way ......... Thank God.... Got back all the informations stored in it...... alongwith with this I got a phone with which my fingers are prolific.

So here the story start of the recovery .......


My childhood friend Ritesh called me up in my new number .....
And started scholding me of not even sharing my new number and giving my old phone to some unknown person..... I was astonished on hearing these words.....

So I asked him, did u called in my old no. I lost the phone.....He told me that somebody answered the call also but he couldn't understand what he was speaking......
I told him that I will callu back and then put down the phone.....
Then I called back in my old number and someone picked up and same problem happened ...he was speaking in Kannada and I was not able to understand (I should have learnt Kannada by now....after staying so long in bangalore approx 2.5+ yrs)....

Then I asked one of my friends in office ...Sandeep to call at the number and get the address and if required offer some money also....
Sandeep called and got the address tooo.... The address was of some place near the new Bangalore Airport (BIAL).....

We went there the next day...again Sandeep gave me the company ...coz without him I wouldn't have been able to interact with people there .....We went for a long ride and after asking few people finally reached the place after a ride of 1 hr....

there we reached one shop and a old man came......he said that his son is not there who got my mobile phone and he will bring it .....we waited there for 15 mins and after that the same old guy came with the phone ....we offered him 50 bugs ...but he wanted more ...so gave him 100 bugs....

Now I had my old phone in my hand ...... was quite glad to get it back ..... :)

Now when I see the whole episode I think the things which resulted in successfully recovery of my phones are :-

1> Outgoing calls were blocked.
2> It was a CDMA set, so the user just can't throw SIM and use some other SIM.
3> The handset has password Lock
4> The user can receive only calls when passowrd lock ...and can't see details inside
5> And timely call of my friend in my old no. and informing me....
6> Lastly, the willingness of the guy who got it ....and thought to return coz it was worthless to him.....but may be worthy for someone like me......

Still Outgoing needs to be enabled...... Already requested Twice in Reliance World.... These people are really slow ..... I saw a lot better service by vodafone guys ............

Lost My Mobile ....... :(

Last Friday, I lost my mobile . While I was riding bike, it fell down from my jackets pocket in Madiwala..... As soon as I realised this I turned back breaking traffic rules as it was a one way (madiwalla Oneway)..... But as it was already 8 pm so it was dark .....spent 30 -40 mins searching on the road...but couldn't find it ..... then called to my mobile thrice from STD booth....The response was "Mobile is not reachable".... This response did upset me ...as i thought it might have fallen down and its parts might get dispersed..... but also there was sense of relief that it should go into someone's wrong hand ..... then finally gave it up ...as i couldn't find....

Went ahead to my destination planned --> Total in Madiwala, bangalore to meet S*****, just when I reached she told me that just now she called me and I was disconnecting it ....I tried again and to my surprise someone had already taken it and was ending the call when it was ringing ...... and finally it was switched off after 2 rings....... Now I was scared for the wrong use of my mobile..... Thank god I had locked my phone with some passcode ...and hopefully the person to took the phone is not smart enough to break the code...... Then was with her for some time waiting for her bus to come........

Now the worst part I realised was the increasingly dependence of all of us on Mobile phones nowadays..... I was having trouble to recall the contact nos. of people and also didn't have any back up.....
So I thought lets go to Lalit jiyaji's home from there I can block my reliance no. and also other things ...and atleast inform at home that I have lost the mobile... I reached there ...but it was already past 11pm and it seemed they had slept .....door was locked in the Ground floor and to get the key from them (@2nd floor) I need to call .....though I can go to std booth but ...I dont recal his contact no. ...... what a tragedy .......so much of dependence on Mobiles....

went to meet Ajay (kallu) he was also not there at his PG.........Damned ...nowhere to go......

So came back to office and got outgoing blocked from my no. .......
Mailed to few people that I have lost my cell so please send me there nos......

Updated profile in Orkut (gateway for social contacts nowadays) that I have lost my number and also in Gtalk..................



seriously Now I realise how much more we have become dependent on mobiles....
I didn't lose only contacts but also my password and id for various bank and credit cards....It gave me huge tension...so got my password reset for credit cards also...

Now what abt the Birthdays of my friends.......


In simple words , Losing a mobile means huge risk of information within them and loss of connectivity with people around you........

Now got a new connection of Vodafone on a mobile phone lended by one of my friend.....

Try to get connected to all friends again..................

Wanted IMT-GaziaBad getting Nagpur..................

It seems one section (English screwed me like hell).....
None of the desired B-School is giving me call....

Yesterday recived Call for IMT-Nagpur, I desired for Ghaziabad, now I am taking a call not to attend the interview. First of all the interview is in kolkata , secon even if I get selected chances are very less that I will take admissions there ....

So Now what are the desired options I have : --


Only one PGSEM from IIM-B. Instead of running after CAT year after year

CAT 2006 -> 89.xx %ile
CAT 2007 -> 92.xx%ile

its better to get into best of the B-School. which you can get .

Though PGSEM might not have that great brand in the public as PGP from IIM-B might have....But the good part is that ...

• Its faculty will be from IIM-B ....

One can't expect better faculty in India

• I can work parallely....and earn ..while keeping in touch with the industry...

All those academic things can be applied in practice ...and also you will get experience....

so after 3 years (assuming I get cleared in CAT next year)

PGP (MBA) + 3.5 yrs Exp
or
PGSEM (MBA) + 5.5yrs Exp

Second one sounds better as first one is not 100% sure.....

So my traget is PGSEM ..test is on 3rd march ' 2008

Don't empty your spam mails without having a look

Most of us generally don't check the spam mails folder frequently..Even I don't .. just a few days ago I read one of the forwarded mails from one of my friend regarding -- a possibility of important mail coming as spam mail....

To my Surprise, after logging into my yahoo account I just thought to check my Spam Mail folder ....
I found that it contained mails from IIM - Bangalore .... That mail had my admit card for the PGSEM test.... Oh my God!!!!!!!!!! Had I deleted all those mails in spam folder or it might have got deleted by itself after 3o days ...I might have missed the admit card for PGSME test from IIM-B....

-- So, guys make a habit to check your bulk folder atleast once in a few days lest you miss out on some important mail..

Tour of Hyderabad + ICFAI (1/2/08 - 5th Feb 2008)

First Trip of Hyderabad

Though I had a prescient knowledge that Hyderabad trip will not be fruitful regarding the objective to get admission to a Good Business School, I wilfully went ahead with the plan. I started on Friday i.e. 1st Feb ' 2008 from Yashvantpur R.S. for Secundrabad by Sampark Kranti Express. As usual in Bangalore, Auto wallahs don't agree for the fair price, they always want double or 1.5 times or fair plus 20 or 30 rupees. Was able to catch one who got ready for Rs 200 bugs. though the distance is nearly 23-24 kms. That means Fair price is 120 and he was ready only for 75% extra. Anyways after reaching YPR , told "BaBye" to Bangalore for few days.

Reached Secundrabad, again the same thing common in most of the Railway stations in India -- Auto Wallahs Making one fool regarding price even if the person knows that he is making you fool.But what can one passenger unknown with the city do....rather than doing some bargaining..
Somehow got in one of the autos and booked one of the lodge for a temporary stay.

My interview was on Tuesday still I reached there on Sat morning so that I can meet up my college buddies(Avijit, Sudhir, Sandipan, Sankar, etc) who are in Hyderabad. Few juniors are also there like shruti, Jaya. After entering the lodge called mishra and sandipan to meet up....Sandy was busy while mishra was available. We meet up at Punjagutta (Equivalent to MG of Bangalore) and there I got a great Shock. Mishra, this guy was very thin and I suddenly see a person coming towards me with red specs, big Bisceps and l----o-----n-----g hairs. At first I was not even able to believe that he is mishra though I was able to recognise. From Punjagutta we went to Begumpet the place where Avijit stays alongwith Sudhir Pathak , Asutosh and Ashwini. And the secons shock was waiting for me , Mr. Sudhir Pathak , You wont believe it this guy has made a good physique like the one of Partho and he now cherish Grill Chicken though earlier he used to be a Sudh-Saka-Hari.

After having a big chit chat, I went along with Avijit for Charminar. Though Charminar looked good, but somehow I didn't find it that impressive. From the charminar area bought some Hyderbadi Pearls which are famous in India. Before that we had a lunch in Paradise, a famous restaurant in HYD, and as expected we had speciality of Hyderabad i.e. Hyderabadi Biryani and a grill chicken.




While retruning saw the Sagar with a Statue of Buddha on an island in the Sagar. That was really a beautiful view. This Lake is sorrounded by a road called necklace road. And also had a restaurant beside it called "Eat Street" which is quite good to come after evening. Nice atmosphere prevails in the restaurant.


When we came back, it was already 9 ....It was party time as Sudhir was medically cleared for a onsite trip to UK. Earlier he was blocked on Suspicion of TB, which actually came as negative in report. So they called up many friends of there...and we all were boozing out, cracking jokes, having chicken , dancing....overall a great fun..... At 1 am, I went to sleep... After that some them went for ride and the tragedy was waiting to happend, mishra fell down from bike along with Sumanta, my college friend. And both of them sustained minor injuries. Sunday just went sleeping , watching moviews, etc.

Now Monday arrived, and I had interview ,...I just prepared the content in span of 2 hrs and choosed the topic as SEZ,,,,...and again started fun.....as if I had no interview tomorrow.

Tuesday I had to wake up at 5 am -- the thing which I hate most --- waking up early....
Went to IBS admission office, got into a Bus and then reached IBS campus....which was quite far from the main city....Got registered myself and found that my Presentation was at 12:45 .....that means being idle for 3-4 hrs doing nothing .....thats quite sick......they could have alloted some timing earlier by themselves..instead of calling such a huge number of people at once... In those idle hours I already had formed a group with few people and was having fun.practiced for the presnetation. Now, when the time came for presentation I gave it and I gave it fairly good contrary to my expectation. interview was very very brief...though good...but only God knows know what they can make out in an interview of less than 5 minutes....

Now the result was expected at 7:30 - 8.... I cant wait till that as I had train from Kachiguda at 9:15 pm...so left from there early at 6 pm.......and din't collected the result.............

and here my trip to hyderabad ended...... though i missed to see ramoji City and Golconda fort ...am planning to see it next time I go there....


This wednesday morning I got my result through mail......The college which was alloctade was ICFAI MUMBAI..... in which I am not going to take admission.... Even ICFAI HYD was doubtful...but it was thinkable..... So now doors for ICFAI is also closed.....


So only two options left from here
1> WOrk + PGSEM
2> Work + CAT next year .............


:(

MBA dreams Seems to be getting shattered.....

Year 2008 seems to be a disappointing year w.r.t. MBA aspirations of mine.....


All the results misses the cut-off some-how :(

CAT - 93.18%ile - The Gateway for the most aspired B-school in India - with such a low percentile the dream of being in the esteemed B-school (IIM -> A, B, C, K, L, I , and .....Shillong) made a nose dive.... With them also went the chances of SPJain, NITIE, etc.....

XAT - 88.**%ile - Better not to discuss not worth telling even.

NMAT - Score 79 -
Cleared Sectional cutoffs but plunged in the total cut off which was 85.


SNAP - Score 82 -
SCMHRD - Didn't get call from it...God only Knows what are they looking in the profiles...I was really pissed off...........

SIBM - Cleared All Sectional cutoffs....Didn't clear the total cutoff 85....
















JMET Rank 2416 - In JMET "Doors for MBA through IITs" got preety low rank and I wont get IIT Mumbai or Kharagpur for which I aspired , so didn't apply for others....

IBSAT - Got call for Interview.....Which I guess 50% of the applicant gets.... I am not sure even if I am going to join id i get ICFAI - Hyderabad / Mumbai.......


Now results to be announced :-

FMS :- Preety low chances....helll less no. of seats with huge number of applicants ...beats even IIM's in seat to applicant ratio...


Seems MBA @ good college -> less chance....


I am trying for PGSEM also ..lets see....what happens.........

Hopefully will get some good new @ year 2008................

Gotta Spot Award @ SASKEN :)

I got my first award from Sasken...Thanks to the great wrk mail from our client.....

I got it on Jan ' 08 .......

but didn't have that pleasure of receiving it ....as much I would have ....had I got it before our Client's great work mail.....

Well then any how all the awards are welcome.......

It also had a Gift voucher Worth 1000Rs ....with the expiry date of 28 Jan '08 ....

so had to rush to a shop to use it even though the purchase might not have been required...........

Great Work mail from Client !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Great Work !!!!!!!!!!!


Its always a great feeling to be acknowledged for the effort you are putting in ....
It was special fro me as it came from Client's Client....

Sam Ligget, whom I adore a lot as a very efficient manager and a very straight forward person.

I am really feeling elated...... :)