What to write???

Well I was thinking to pen my thoughts this time on the awesome last night that we spent in MDI...but something happened today which swerved my thoughts....

Its none other than the great little master blaster...I don't know what adjectives to put behind his name since each one would demean his stature...Some how I feel lucky to have watched the entire match on television, though I envy people in Gwalior who got the opportunity to watch it live in front of them...I assume all those people who have missed the match, have missed a treasureable moment of their lifetime....

Great great innings....though i liked the entire innings but the way he played post his century, he reminded of the old Sachin, the sachin of 90s..i don't have words and enough space to explicitly tell the greatness of the innings and hence i will save myself from the pain of doing the same...

This was the only record that was untouched by the great man which was true to his caliber.. and yet another step towards CENTURY OF CENTURIES....keep going man....

Kudos to others as well especially Kartik who played a superb innings and to Pathan and Dhoni as well....Ohh this reminds me of the powerful shots hit by him and then Ravi Shastri's comment on that - "Everyone has to keep an eye on the ball, even if he is a spectator"...

Lets c how our bowlers perform...since we can't forget the fact that it was the same South African team which defeated the undefeatable champions, the Aussies, by making 434....

Here is a list of comments on fb....

1) To all those critics who ever doubted SAchin's capability to score at this age:

2) There should be a wine by the name of "Sachin"; gets better with Age and makes everyone die for one glimpse of his performance !!! Cheers !!

3) Today i saw God playing with mortals.....it was ecstacy.....thought about one dialogue from the movie trainspotting.."think about the best orgasm u ever had, multiply it by 1000 times n still u can't beat this shit" perchance same i can say today.....:)

4) To Sachin, who made a difference, who made me his fan, who gave me something to cheer, To you sachin - I bow to thee

5) d moment u think that v hav seen ol d great innings of tendulkar.. d vry next moment he proves u wrong...hats off....

6) sachin 200 ... i think that purpose of my life is fulfilled .. :) :)

7) There is nothing enthralling about it. He was the only one who deserved it...He got it..off course without a runner..:) It is my fortune to see every ball of that inning.

8) For the first time in my life, I envy people in Gwalior...they got the opportunity to witness the great man playing an AWESOME innings....well done...he truly deserved yet another record.....

9) speechless n splendid 200..thanks sachin..

10) i am witnessing God today..:)...am blessed..:)..

and many more.....

Not a perfect ending to the MBA course

Everyone was so happy before something very evil came up in the last two days....though a little sad that the course is ending and then everyone will go back to their busy lives after an awesome couple of years spent here....lemme tell you firstly that we did everything here in these two years except for studying and fortunately got a job as well...

This is exam time and most of us are even done with theirs but unfortunate me has one more to go tomorrow morning...but nobody is getting even a slightest of the feeling that the exams are going on...we are playing TT, cards, involving in hours of something very important of these 2 years of life, "bhasad"...(please note that the "WE" here in the start of the sentence does not involve the regular "Ghissus" which are still "Ghissing, ghissing and ghissing")..so everyone is trying to enjoy in the most awesome way they can think of....

But some events unfolded today and yesterday that has not only disturbed many of us...but has made me think again and again that it is the era of "Ghor Kalyug" for sure...

Well everyone wants to forget that issue and so do we...and therefore we were playing cards...we took a tea break of 10 min and thats when I got the time to write this...the team has arrived on the mecca (my room was rebranded as "MECCA" of cards {seep in particular}) and hence I should bid bbye and get back to playing....this round will go for another couple of hours before we sleep.....I am in no mood of giving the last exam which is scheduled tomorrow at 10:00AM.....but poor me..have to go to write the exams....more later...its cards time first

Not the end I expected to the D-day

Kids........way back in Sep 2008, something happened which was repeated in a similar fashion yesterday. 3rd Feb, a day in my life that I will never forget. Lemme xplain how....

One thing which every student of a college wants is a satisfactory job with good profile and handsome package in a great company. But my preferences were somewhat different. I wanted a job which could offer me a handsome salary, in a reputed organization and then yeah...some known and reasonably well profile (the three points mentioned do have a priority order)

So I jumped into the war which was more intense than the freedom struggle (looking at the way some of my DEAR friends behaved during the GDs that we had). I had a few processes scheduled for the day and my friends had lot of confidence that I'll get placed easily in these companies on the day zero.

But I was tensed and this led me down in a couple of processes. When I came out of this fear and agony, I had only two important and one ok-ok types company in my hand. So I went for the GD of the ok-ok types and trust me giving that the name of a GD will be a sin. It was scheduled for 10 min and I was forced to keep quiet for 9 minutes. Then I spoke a point and then was asked to summarize by the moderator. So this was more of a war since there were persons (though i DESPERATELY want to name them, but ETHICALLY i shouldn't) who had just one thing in mind - they had to speak and speak and speak and not let others do this one thing which I believe everyone was good at, obviously except me (am i getting modest here??? I guess not !!!)

So being eliminated from here, I had to rush to the process of the company which I wanted to join at any cost (note that I haven't used the word DESPERATELY and this was intentional). But the GD had already started there and I just got 2 mins to read the case as against 5-7 mins taken by others. Well not to blame neone here, the discussion started and I spoke decently well since I analysed it decently well and surprisingly I cleared the GD.

Now comes the most interesting part of the entire day: tussle between the last company's(Comp A) PI and the new company (comp B) which just came to campus. Comp B takes interviews and leaves the campus in a short time and does not wait for neone. Comp A is taking 30 mins interviews. In the interview list, I was 7th or 8th for A, but suddenly the order changed and I was neither called for A nor for B. So, after a long wait, i was called for A and then I made some "jugad" to go to B first and give the interview. So I reached company B and the interview started:

I: Gold medalist..hmmm Tell me different layers in road

Me: there are 3 layers

I: there are 6. tell me 6

Me: Don't know

I: tell me difference between Bitumin 50 and Bitumin 500

Me: don't know

I: tell me different types of footings

Me: Column, Isolated, stepped,......mmmmm......

I: ye to koi bachcha bhi bata de,...tum to CIVIL Engg aur GOLD MEDALIST ho....aur batao

Me: Don't know

(Thinking in mind - what profile is he hiring for - something related to construction????----doubtful...)

I: What do we do

Me: Told

I: how do we do this

Me: Don't know

I: why do you want to join us

Me: Don't know...just looking at a different kind of profile and faff

I: some technical questions

Me; toote foote answers with lots of don't knows in between

I: do u have any locational constraints

(Shocked by this question - since the interview was comparatively pathetic but they asked this question,,,,in excitement i said no, i can work anywhere)

I: thanks, we will let u know

So the person handling the company goes in and tells more abt my candidature but the company calls in next candidate and my chances of getting thru get blurred

So I move to comp A where I was the last one to enter the interview process and

I: so ankit, u r late again

Me: (smile....nothing else that i can do)sorry sir

I: some technical questions

Me: Some technical very satisfactory answers......by far the best interview I had ever

But the company had already taken "n" (they came with a mindset of "n-1") and they can't take more. So i was disappointed and heartbroken. Everyone was with me consoling that Ok, u'll get placed tomorrow ......no issues....but human behavior- "It hurts more when ur friends are placed and u r not"...so I was in extreme pain...

I went to my room, changed, cried (not literally but figuratively) for 15 20 mins and then went back downstairs. After another 20 mins or so, came a phone call which completely changed my life. The person was my roomie and he said that u r thru in comp B. Ohh my dear lord.....this was the last thing that i expected to come to me......thank god...i rushed to confirm and then a huge huge sigh of relief towards the end of the day........

Then my T-shirt was torn and got my ass kicked (the most hardest of my stay here) but I was elated and was feeling no pain.....I finally got a job...but was not sure of the PACKAGE and less importantly profile they offered....so I asked someone and then was extremely joyful to hear that both these things were way above par.....

So overall the day ended in an exciting and thrilling way for me...

So kids...never lose hope because it ain't over till its over......chillax njoii