Happy New Year: Summary of year 2009

Only few hours left of 2009 and it’s time to reflect on the year that was. I thought 2009 would be a big one for me, but I don’t think I realised how life changing some of the events would be. When you face the year ahead you make goals, plans and set targets for yourself, having direction is a great thing. Often though, it’s the unexpected and the changes, the things we never could have foreseen that really make us.

This was a year of friendship, success & failures, love & hatred. This was my supposedly final year of my student life atleast for near future as I have no more plans to study. I need a break. I am studying since last 25 year now it’s time to do some real work.

I’m not making any really big New Year resolutions. I made a list of plans and things I would ‘like to’ achieve as I feel this is a much more flexible and approachable way to look at our future. So I’m saying for 2010, give it all you got, have a blast and make mistakes, it’s the best way to learn. Most of all enjoy! Nothing is a waste of time as long as we learn from it and at differently in the future. Now it is time to face the cruel world and do something that you are good at.

These are of few of highlights from 2009:

1) CollegeKhabar: One thing that seems impossible if someone had seen me and Hemant some years ago. Naveen and Praddy has definitely amused how can these two idiots (not stupid) driven by completely different counterviews can start something together called entrepreneurial venture

2) Placement: Job offer from Trident Group (but my Rona is still on). Year is ending with good news from Manoj and Suruchi.

3) Jhatpat Pyar phatapat Breakup (gsmnit can understand it better!!)

4) I met MNIT friends throughout year and cherish moments that we spent together.

5) IMT moments: In 2008 I was hardly socializing in IMT but in 2009 I made good friends, enjoyed partying together, Passion-09, chit-chats, sharing moments of placements, exams, project, competitions etc etc.

6) Memorable Pune holidays in April

7) The Manali trip: Again in Jan 2009 I went Manali with IMT friends enjoyed a lot but was missing the gang of 4.

8) Two months of summer internship in Gurgaon in extreme summers (read- heat + humidity) was one of most tough time of year.

9) Stood first in class – only in one trimester and no hope in future (People might say is it an important event I say it is something which I haven’t seen in past 10 years)

10) The second home “IMT- library” during exam time.

To sum up all I can say: ALL WASS WELL!!

London Dreams: Mocking Rock band life

I was feeling bore since past many days and life was seem to be stagnant. College, CK, Competitions and blah blah blah.. were sucking fun out of my life. This week even having so much work pending (specially Sales Management one- it is insane, evoking a freak out of me) I decided to watch a movie outside (my fav activity). I booked ticket a night before for LONDON DREAMS as I didn't want to comeback due to house-full problem.

Movie was decent. Salman was funny, interesting and entertaining. Role of Ajay Devgan has dark shades which suits him but movie went much ahead. Rest all were okay types. Movie mock life of rockstars but failed. Climax was too dramatic to digest (matches with any Priyadarshan's movie). One thing which went wrong in my opinion is itself star cast. 40+ (in age) heroes as upcoming rockstars difficult to digest yet both tried hard to be convincing. One can watch movie for once. Not great but watchable.

Now I am waiting eagerly for 3 idiots as promos are out and movie is releasing next month.

काँच की बरनी और दो कप चाय

Recently I come across this philosophy of life and I feel it worth sharing so here it goes:

जीवन में जब सब कुछ एक साथ और जल्दी - जल्दी करने की इच्छा होती है , सब कुछ तेजी से पा लेने की इच्छा होती है , और हमें लगने लगता है कि दिन के चौबीस घंटे भी कम पड़ते हैं , उस समय ये बोध कथा , " काँच की बरनी और दो कप चाय " हमें याद आती है ।

दर्शनशास्त्र के एक प्रोफ़ेसर कक्षा में आये और उन्होंने छात्रों से कहा कि वे आज जीवन का एक महत्वपूर्ण पाठ पढाने वाले हैं ...

उन्होंने अपने साथ लाई एक काँच की बडी़ बरनी ( जार ) टेबल पर रखा और उसमें टेबल टेनिस की गेंदें डालने लगे और तब तक डालते रहे जब तक कि उसमें एक भी गेंद समाने की जगह नहीं बची ... उन्होंने छात्रों से पूछा - क्या बरनी पूरी भर गई ? हाँ ... आवाज आई ... फ़िर प्रोफ़ेसर साहब ने छोटे - छोटे कंकर उसमें भरने शुरु किये h धीरे - धीरे बरनी को हिलाया तो काफ़ी सारे कंकर उसमें जहाँ जगह खाली थी ,समा गये , फ़िर से प्रोफ़ेसर साहब ने पूछा , क्या अब बरनी भर गई है , छात्रों ने एक बार फ़िर हाँ ...कहा अब प्रोफ़ेसर साहब ने रेत की थैली से हौले - हौले उस बरनी में रेत डालना शुरु किया , वह रेत भी उस जार में जहाँ संभव था बैठ गई , अब छात्र अपनी नादानी पर हँसे .... फ़िर प्रोफ़ेसर साहब ने पूछा ,क्यों अब तो यह बरनी पूरी भर गई ना ? हाँ .. अब तो पूरी भर गई है .. सभी ने एक स्वर में कहा .. सर ने टेबल के नीचे से चाय के दो कप निकालकर उसमें की चाय जार में डाली , चाय भी रेत के बीच स्थित थोडी़ सी जगह में सोख ली गई ....

प्रोफ़ेसर साहब ने गंभीर आवाज में समझाना शुरु किया –

इस काँच की बरनी को तुम लोग अपना जीवन समझो ....

टेबल टेनिस की गेंदें सबसे महत्वपूर्ण भाग अर्थात भगवान , परिवार , बच्चे , मित्र , स्वास्थ्य और शौक हैं,

छोटे कंकर मतलब तुम्हारी नौकरी , कार , बडा़ मकान आदि हैं , और

रेत का मतलब और भी छोटी - छोटी बेकार सी बातें , मनमुटाव , झगडे़ है ..

अब यदि तुमने काँच की बरनी में सबसे पहले रेत भरी होती तो टेबल टेनिस की गेंदों और कंकरों के लिये जगह ही नहीं बचती , या कंकर भर दिये होते तो गेंदें नहीं भर पाते , रेत जरूर आ सकती थी ...

ठीक यही बात जीवन पर लागू होती है ... यदि तुम छोटी - छोटी बातों के पीछे पडे़ रहोगे और अपनी ऊर्जा उसमें नष्ट करोगे तो तुम्हारे पास मुख्य बातों के लिये अधिक समय नहीं रहेगा ... मन के सुख के लिये क्या जरूरी है ये तुम्हें तय करना है । अपने बच्चों के साथ खेलो , बगीचे में पानी डालो , सुबह पत्नी के साथ घूमने निकल जाओ , घर के बेकार सामान को बाहर निकाल फ़ेंको , मेडिकल चेक - अप करवाओ ... टेबल टेनिस गेंदों की फ़िक्र पहले करो , वही महत्वपूर्ण है ... पहले तय करो कि क्या जरूरी है... बाकी सब तो रेत है ..

छात्र बडे़ ध्यान से सुन रहे थे .. अचानक एक ने पूछा , सर लेकिन आपने यह नहीं बताया कि " चाय के दो कप " क्या हैं ? प्रोफ़ेसर मुस्कुराये , बोले .. मैं सोच ही रहा था कि अभी तक ये सवाल किसी ने क्यों नहीं किया ...

इसका उत्तर यह है कि , जीवन हमें कितना ही परिपूर्ण और संतुष्ट लगे , लेकिन अपने खास मित्र के साथ दो कप चाय पीने की जगह हमेशा होनी चाहिये ।

Month of August- Lucky

I am not writing since launch of CollegeKhabar.com. These two months were most hectic ones I ever felt. Life was exciting but hectic. I find it difficult to manage between studies, CK and other activities like movies. But this period taught me big lesson that we can sustain with minimal of sleep if you involved yourself in something creative, something that excite you.

Month of August was lucky for me. We officially launch CK, I got a scholarship (for academic excellence, surprising) and many friends visit (Shiv Singh) in that month.

Happiness has very short life and thus we require small small doses of moments which bring smile on our face and month of August was full of it. I got my first appearance ever in Newspaper(for CK). That was quite exciting, got many calls from friends in Jaipur, messages congratulating for my efforts.

But in all these thing I left blogging which I feel was not right. I need to keep writing(I know no one other interested in what I write but still....) and I will.

Marketing Article: Collegekhabar.com

“One important key to success is self confidence. An important key to self confidence is preparation.”

You have reached final year in college, placements are about to start. Your brain is riddled with worries. You are wondering what qualities a company coming for campus placements would be looking in you. What would be there selection criteria? How many students would they finally recruit? What would this company offer you? How would be life there? You are wondering if only you could get these answers from an expert! The answer to these questions is Collegekhabar.com.

Collegekhabar.com will help you in looking for information that best suits your placement needs and provide a distinctive edge in kick starting your career. It is an attempt to bring the placement information for all top institutes of Engineering, Management and other streams on a common platform. It is a portal where news related to placement activities, admission details, events and competitions in educational institutes across India (including IITs, IIMs, NITs and other top engineering and management schools) is updated regularly.

One of the good features of their website is the company pages where students can get knowledge on transition from college life to corporate life. CollegeKhabar.com provides inside information on the companies which might not be available elsewhere.

Another unique feature of their website is the Compare. In this section one can compare the educational institutes in terms of seats available; fees; highest, average and lowest salary package and ranking, thus helping an individual in making an informative decision.

CollegeKhabar also provides detailed placement news, featured college pages, Resource section and Collegekhabar forums. Resource section provides placement papers, help in resume building and article for preparation of interview and GDs. CollegeKhabar forum provide space for asking queries and posting answers.

Though time is tough but "When you get lemons, make lemonade" and Collegekhabar.com will help you in squeezing that lemon.

A morning in library!!

Life sometimes teach you lesson that if you don’t work on time and wait till your a$# put on fire certain consequences will definitely be there.

Yesterday I had midterm exam of strategic management course, as usual I started studying after 10 pm. As soon I started I come to know that syllabus was too vast to study in a night. Before exam in morning I had to attend the classes of TQM (not Total Quality Management but QTM: Quantity of Time is Murdered). So have to read whatever possible in that night. All thanks to previous day schedule that I haven’t got chance to sleep for 4 hours. So in total I was sleepy sleepy yet weepy to go through course.

With 4 coffee breaks in 4 hours and 1 full hour healthy discussion (read crap) with Messcom the task to finish the required reading had become mammoth task. I decided to follow great Mr. Newton who proposed their first law: Law of inertia and started reading without break until I was forced to do so. I burnt lamp whole night in library (read tube lights) suddenly someone came to patted my back. I was scared!!! But he was the librarian who said "dude it’s time to pack up" I looked around I was the only one there and watch is showing 5.45 am... I packed up and went to room. Syllabus was still not completed moreover need to attend classes in morning (which was already there). I twit, update status watched video of “India Got Talent” on YouTube and finally down on bed hoping for some luck for next day. This sums up an average night during exams in IMT for me.

Sankat City: A saga of co-incidences!!

I just watched movie "Sankat City" starring KK menon, Anupam Kher and Rimi Sen.

In movie anupam is Don and KK is a car thief. Story moves around a lots of characters. Movie is all about chasing money and how so many characters are trying to pay back loan to don (Anupam). I don't want to write story otherwise it would make more loss to producers (Already they were feeling losses).

Whole movie is a saga of co-incidences. It remind me novel "Anything for you ma'am" where there are so many coincidences that one of my friend that time said that it is too difficult to digest the story. Same is the case with Sankat City, script is tight but so many sequences and scenes changes so fast that it is difficult to catch the pace and to understand the role of every character.

I recommend movie to those who are hard core fans of Hindi movies and watch it online good print is available.

Poetry

रंग दुनिया ने दिखाया है निराला, देखूँ,
है अँधेरे में उजाला, तो उजाला देखूँ
आईना रख दे मेरे हाथ में,आख़िर मैं भी,
कैसा लगता है तेरा चाहने वाला देखूँ
जिसके आँगन से खुले थे मेरे सारे रस्ते,
उस हवेली पे भला कैसे मैं ताला देखूँ

Hectic days !!!

"Hectic" word that I often use to fool friends showing that yes! I am doing something...But suddenly it has taken the life out of me. I am worried when I put this much of efforts in my life (except first few days in IMT, PDP days :) )

Schedule for trimester is very hectic in July as having classes from 8.30 am till 9.00 pm. Classes like PDM takes much more than it seems. You need to well read the cases, supported readings and "mentally prepared" to attend a single class. I don't know how much will I gain from Brand Management course but I am sure at the end of this course I will be killed by CBBE ( Not Consumer Based Brand Equity but Cadaverous By Brain Explosion)

I am trying to study SPSS from last 6 months(academic record say so...) and by end of every session it goes more complicated. Collegekhabar is a commitment that I do with myself only. I want to complete project in July but now it gonna be more difficult with as schedule. All this is happening only because of Strategy Course. Classes more SM are too much as course need to be completed in 10 days ( 3months course in 10 days, imagine the kind of pace this course will take) as taught by Prof Mallock from France (English guy). He need time to understand bunch of guys who need a insight for the sake of insight! (confusing!! even I remain confused in same way in his class)

Don't know what is lying more in this month....

Amazing Video by "Trueroots" from Tata Communications Ltd.

NITs Ranking : 2009

I am willing to share this article to help admission seekers in some sense.

Article goes like this: (Source : http://www.collegekhabar.com)

NITs Ranking: 2009

It is well known that after IITs, NITs are most sought colleges for admission in engineering streams. They are much ahead than any other engineering institute in terms of placements, faculties, infrastructure and more. After AIEEE 2009 we found many requests for helping students in ranking these institutes.

Many of admission seekers are confused over rankings of various NITs. We discussed with our team and on basis of placement during last past 5 years, infrastructure (future plans included), faculty - student ratio, industry interactions and workshops, industrial training and alumni network we tried to figure out some rankings.

Finally the ranking looks something like this.

Rank	Institute	Ranking
1	NIT Trichy	Trichy
2	NIT Warangal	Warangal
3	NIT Suratkal	Suratkal
4	MNNIT Allahabad	Allahabad
5	NIT Calicut	Calicut
6	MNIT Jaipur	Jaipur

For more institutes and their rankings please check : http://collegekhabar.com/showdetailedkhabar.php?id=200

Summer Internship Experience

Summer Internship started after a awesome week spent with friends.

Doorstep Retail was my employer for this summer. For the first time I was doing some job. My project include designing a sales training module for the employees of the company also devising marketing strategies for the organization. Company's director was our project guide and we report directly under MD of the doorstep. In this summer for the first I travel a lot in buses, autos, tempos, cabs and rikshas. Convence was the biggest problem. Every time when I went to Gurgaon or Faridabad to visit a store I kept crying as summer was killing me. Really traveling in hot days in NCR is a lot trouble. I stayed with Aakash in Gurgaon.

I talked lot with employees as well as customers and got insight about retail business. I'm not that inclined toward retailing but definitely a exciting sector. Most memorable moment of entire 2 months was when we gave a marathon 4 hours presentation for sales training module.

We got also a lot of free time and I used to went to Ghaziabad and watch movies. This was a memorable experience and hope in future also I will get some challenging work to do.

AIEEE 2009, Online counselling choice preferences

Congratulations to all students selected for Online Counselling !!

We are going to post soon the choice preferences ( a complete list of which branch and college to prefer first) provided by Aluminus of various NITs including MNIT Jaipur, NIT trichy, IIIT Hyderabad, DCE etc.

Keep Visiting http://www.collegekhabar.com

I am back on blogging

I was lost in some way as I was not doing any blogging.

Last few days were really not that exciting for me. Summers in Delhi killing me like anything. Mercury is touching 43-44 C and political temperature is also rising as new cabinet will be sworned in few days.

Big development during these days is Manmohan Govt is back with huge support and "Left" wept. Laloo is out! So a new railway minister. Next few days will be very crucial in Indian political circuit and as well as important for corporate.

So hope for some big and good changes that will fight this recession time.

Jung between Delhi and Rajasthan (A must watch)

Kings Education: A great new coaching for CAT

Hi Fellows,

Last week I come across with the news coming from Jaipur. One of very good friends of mine Sudipto (most of you must be knowing him) told me that he joined some CAT coaching institute as marketing head. I enquired details about the institute and came to know that even I know all the faculty members. They are the same who taught me when I was going TIME Jaipur for my MBA preparation. These faculty members are dynamic professionals, very knowledgeable, approachable and friendly as far as I know. I am posting some details of them too. I think you might me knowing them if you are/were in Jaipur and try to persue preparation for CAT.

Anil Sharma has done his B.Tech from IIT Roorkee. He taught me Maths part when I studied in TIME. With an inborn dexterity to play with numbers and a flair for higher mathematics, he is second to none in the country for teaching the quantitative techniques required for MBA entrance tests.

S. S. Bhati did his B. Tech from MNIT Jaipur (Ah! my college)  and MBA from SYMBIOUS, Pune. he has his grip over the field of Mathematics and such is his passion for teaching his subject that he is often referred to as “Maths Wizard”. Winner of many awards at the national level, including the “INDRA GANDHI PRIYADARSHANI AWARD”. 

R. K. Singh is a B.A(Honours), an MA and an MBA and is an alumnus of the famous institutions like St. Stephens & Hansraj College (Delhi) and IRMA (Gujrat). He is the one whom I suppose the best in his field. His teaching methods are very unconventional and very interesting!!

Anil Shrimali received his B.Tech from MBM College Jodhpur. Popularly known as the wizard of reasoning; he mesmerizes his trainees by teaching them quick fix solutions and simplification of seemingly intractable problems. He has a fetish for creating and solving agonising puzzles and head spinning problems. 

I think one must consider Kings Education a good option to prepare for MBA Entrance.

http://www.kingseducation.in

Pink chaddis Vs Pink Condoms

The Pink Chaddi Campaign

 

"CONSORTIUM OF PUBGOING, LOOSE AND FORWARD WOMEN".

 

The Pink Chaddi Campaign kicked off on 5 February 2009 to oppose the Sri Ram Sena. The campaign is growing exponentially (20,035 members at this point in the life of our Consortium of Pub-going, Loose and Forward Women) and that is not surprising. Most women in this country have enough curbs on their lives without a whole new franchise cashing in with their bully-boy tactics. They campaign their protest by sending the Sri Ram Sena some love. They will send them some PINK CHADDIS (some number has been expected to increase in thousands) . 

Make sure they are PINK. Send them off to the Sena. This is their peaceful way to protest SENA about what they did in Mangalore Pub.

 

Link  http://thepinkchaddicampaign.blogspot.com/ 

VS 

THE PINK CONDOM CAMPAIGN

"CONSORTIUM OF ASSERTIVE AND PROUD HINDUS WHO ARE SICK OF INDIAN SICKULARS CONSPIRING TO ATTRIBUTE EVERY VICE IN THE SOCIET

Y TO HINDUISM"

 

This campaign has been started as a response to some self righteous and progressive people who started the Pink Chaddi campaign. They claim that they are more democratic and transparent that the Pink Chaddi walas. They don’t claim inflated figures of support. There is a poll at the right hand corner of this page, which shows how many people support us, and how many don’t!

They say that 'Condoms' are necessary to save yourself from AIDS and to lead a progressive and secular life and as  Pink Chaddi walas claim themselves to be pubgoing, loose and forward - a condom will help them maintain being that.

They claim that they are the ordinary Hindus, who don’t bark on television channels to defend their faith, but they definitely get hurt when some people bark against their faith. 

Now it is big question which campaign you want to support , one is proactive for women’s right in country and another is saying that something should to done to protect culture and believes of the Hinduism. Choice is Ours!!