Bill n placements
Heard from someone that Bill Gates gave a statement saying something like - "I wanted to take some rest in my life now. But it seems that Google won't let me do it. Time for me to get back on work"
He's tough.. He really seems to be.. Google may be doing an awesome job but beating M$ is nothing less than a dream (it only MAY come true)..
Neways, finally the placement policies were made in our favour.. Madam' Padmaja finally agreed.. Thanks to her.. It really is a difficult task to convince her.. I tried my best for an hr or so.. I didn't expect nething to come out of it but still I gave it a try.. And chalo finally, she had a meeting with Sangal sir, me and Priyanshu (our Placement Secretary) and decided upon things that seem to be best for most of the students.. Priyanshu really is some guy.. I've never seen a guy more patient than him.. Its damn difficult to handle this thing especially when most of the ppl concerned don't even listen a word to what you say.. Khair, now there are 2 sections and each student can take one job in each of them.. Section A mostly has companies below 4 lacs pa, while Section B mostly has companies above that.. Hope for the best to come out of it..
Adobe's probably arriving this Saturday.. Hope that things go great.. Can somebody around here teach me DIP??? [-o< I beg you, I really do.. Any vision ppl listening?? Anything you want in return..
Tagged again..
Tags are running good, it seems.. Here's another one (its
Rastogi this time) for u to read and know more abt AK84..
Seven Things I want to do in my life: - Own a chopper and a jet
- Maintain a perfectly fit health
- Own the finest piece of machinery in automobile industry
- Be a fine entrepreneur
- Learn atleast 2 foreign languages
- Be a great drummer (who could play some rock music too) and a violin player
- Be little more hard-working to achieve all the above
Seven Things I can do: - Organize things really well
- Lead people
- Bcing around the whole day
- Sit with a book in my hand without actually reading even a word for hours
- Anything to maintain my self-respect
- Speak and understand Punjabi to some extent (m in love with the language)
- Motivate people
Seven Things I say the most: - Bhains ki aankh
- Ultimate
- Sexy
- 'Saab' and 'babu' (to greet most of the people i meet)
- Baby
- Fundoo
- That's fine
Seven Things I can’t do: - Win a racing competition (Except when its only me running around :D)
- Play violin (i plan to learn this in near future)
- Tolerate people's bullshit without getting frustrated
- Share my secrets with anyone on this earth
- Be with people all the time (I need atleast an hr or so, all alone )
- Stop myself from getting senti and emotional ( This is changing with time :) )
- Understand people and their taste for hard rock along with all the head banging activities that they do
Seven Things that attract me to the opposite sex - Presence of mind (It's very rare in them)
- Short hair
- Height (shorter than mine :) )
- Fair complexion
- Somehow I like spectacles on them
- Voice
- Dressing style (One that's more inclined towards Indian style)
Seven Celebrity Crushes -
Sushmita Sen -
Katrina Kaif -
Lara Dutta -
Meg Ryan -
Maria Sharapova If you people keep a pure mind, I'll add men in here :)
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Al Pacino /
Amitabh Bachchan -
Donald Trump Seven People I tag -
Musey -
Rams -
The Sage -
Shetty sir [Blogging karo sir jee]
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Sam sir -
PKJ sir [so, I give u a longer form to fill in here ;)]
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Jaya sir [Are u really reading / writing blogs these days /:)]
Tagged..
Got tagged by
PKJ Sir ..
Five movies which I like the most.. tough to decide on 5 but still - Godfather / Sarkar for
Al Pacino /
Amitabh - DCH for
Aamir Khan - Scent of a Woman for
Al Pacino - Cast Away for
Tom Hanks - A Walk to Remember for its
story .
. the list really continues
Five things I can never live without - My Computer
- Music is a must all the time
- Self-respect
- A Diary and a pen in my pocket
- A Wrist Watch
Five most favourite celebrities -
Donald Trump -
Dhirubhai Ambani -
Bill Gates -
Al Pacino -
Sachin Tendulkar Five things I miss now - My room at home
- Indian culture in ppl around (Everyone's trying to be western these days).. [Ppl, try to be a good cultured Indian first, then try to be western]
- Our pet bitch at home (Cherry)
- Good food (especially what Mom used to cook)
- Those days in first year when there wasn't any compulsary attendance X-(
Five things I plan to do in near future - Get recruited for a good company
- Improve my general knowledge
- Improve my english
- Reduce weight like hell (Paresh sir, we share this as common :D.. Lets start running after my placements)
- Learn economics, stocks and shares
Last movie I borrowed to watch & still not given back - Not a movie really, but borrowed a Windows XP cd and passed it on further, never returned back to the owner ;)
Five books I love - The Zahir by
Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist by
Paulo Coelho - Rich dad, Poor Dad
- The Godfather
- My personal diary (Not really a book but i like reading it over and over again)
Five people I pass this HIGH FIVES to -
Musey -
Rastogi -
Nappy -
The Sage -
Sam sir
My cell phone deserves a post
So, finally it seems that I've lost my cell phone.. well, it happened long back on 21st of this month.. But I probably kept a hope of getting it till now.. yeh sochkar ki may be USKA (arey bhagwan ka) koi chamatkar ho jaaye.. but no, its not easy to get back the stolen/lost cellphones.. they are probably the most sought after product by us youths and probably the most sought after by those bloody thieves too :(
neways, my dad's great.. when i told him abt the news, his answer was - "dont worry beta. main soch lunga ki mere GE (Garrison Engineer) ne zada commission le li".. there wasn't any second talk abt it except that he wanted me to either search for it soon or buy a new cell immediately.. its not really easy to live without a cell phone once you get in a habit of using it..
but not having a cellphone saves a lot of time too.. no more forwarding of mssgs, no more calls, no more disturbances at moments when u don't really wish to get disturbed.. and most importantly, no more playing of snake 2 :D
khair, it was surprizing to see that I wasn't really worried abt the lost of cell phone.. i don't know but somehow i seem to be more mature and controlled at my thoughts these days.. or may be i get more tense once i lose things bought from my own earnings..
sometimes i feel that a man is suppossed to behave like a GODFATHER and if he's not doing it, he's not really a complete man.. afterall GODFATHER is the son of all wisdom.. you are bound to succeed in life with the possession of such high degree maturity.. watever..
I understand..
.. I really do.. Its so disheartening to see oneself not performing upto the mark.. its sad to see ppl around doing better.. not because they've done well but because one hasn't done well in comparison..
i rmr the time when I cudnt clear IIT.. one of my best frnds did.. infact he got a great rank (something arnd 250)... both of us prepared together for 2 years.. both of us joined the same coaching.. both of us went together on one bike which most of the time was mine.. we shared books.. i don't rmr even a single book that i had bought alone.. we used to get almost the same marks in those coaching exams.. hmm, he used to get higher than me in arnd 60% tests .. but we were always close.. he got something arnd 1000 in screening and i got 1900.. isn't bad, right!! but then finally he made it and i cudnt.. its ultimately the result that matters.. it was so depressing.. i just cudnt stop myself from crying.. but then I got IIIT and today, I feel myself 'blessed' by coming over to this place.. i really do..
We aren't that intelligent to understand what HE's set aside for us.. and whatever HE has, it's definitely better (for us) than what we didn't get.. afterall, its not just the IITians who are the richest ppl in this world.. its not even the IIITians.. similarly, not all ppl who get into IIMs get on the topmost positions in this world.. m not sure of the stats but i don't think that even 20% reach those positions that they hope to get in before actually joining..
there's no use getting sad abt what's happened.. Jagannathan sir sed this after their batch's placements - "Understand that if a company doesn't recruit you, it means that you may not be suitable for the organisation. then be u enuff capable or not.. ".. Inspite of he being great, he didn't clear CA interview.. strange, isn't it.. and finally he got into Adobe.. Nitin sir didn't get thru ne company till almost near the end of placements.. i rmr times when seniors used to talk abt he getting depressed and all but finally, it took nothing of him to get into M$.. similary, Ankit Kumar cudn't make it for long.. finally he's into Sarnoff.. and to tell most of the readers here, he's already got a hike.. he's probably going to get another in few months.. rmr, its not been an year since he's joined that organization.. So, you never know, wat's kept aside for u..
my mom used to say that may be getting in IIT may not have had let u show ur capabilities.. may be u do something better in IIIT.. may be i did or may be i didn't .. but i don't regret now.. today, when i see the placements coming up, it is exactly the same feeling that comes up to my mind.. i may get the company which i wish and at the same time, i may not.. but i will get wat's great for me.. i'll get wat's best suited for me..
Its a human nature to feel sad after he/she loses.. but then that's not the solution.. may be working for the new upcoming events is.. Today, it was sad to see some of my batchmates feeling really bad abt how they performed in CAT.. That's not really the end of the world.. infact that's just a beginning.. think of it as a hard beginning and feel urself motivated to work harder.. harder than u did for the CAT.. harder than u've done for nething ever..
yeah, it's easier to say for others than to actually think for urself at such times.. but i guess, there's no other option other than feeling easy abt watever happened.. sooner u have a calm and composed mind, sooner will u be able to achieve success.. failures and successes are parts and parcels of life with former more than the latter..
may be this post helps me too to feel ease at times of failures.. but keep in mind, that's only a failure according to oneself..
Aah..
.. finally landed up in the last semester.. Had my second and the last end semester exam (cryptography) today.. don't ask abt how it went.. there isn't much to tell abt what i wrote :D .. the whole paper seemed encrypted to me.. neways, i'll probably pass the course (heard that Dr. Kannan is lenient at grading)..
just one day (yesterday), i didn't check the blog updates and there were soooooo many posts today.. nearly 5 to 6 ppl blogged and most of them had more than 1 posts.. they must have been all considerate for me to finish the exam, i guess ;) but neverthless, soon after having a nice sleep for abt last 2 hrs, reading posts was the first activity.. so now, now is the time for me to write... and u to read my dear friends :)
was wondering if maintaining and reading blogs could be considered as a hobby.. i don't have much of those coin collection, stamps collection and reading books kind of hobbies.. though i try to read more and more books these days.. most of them are course books :-s placements approaching doods..
i was talking to one of my frnds in IIT Kanpur abt the placements etc.. And he was like, what do u need to study now.. Just prepare a good resume and u'll be through.. those ppl have such mindset i guess.. though we've had nearly 100 percent on campus placecements too for the last 2 yrs, we hardly tend to think that way.. most of us are definitely worried.. atleast i am.. not by the fact that i won't get placed.. everyone does get placed.. someone once sed to me, job aur gaa*d sab ki lagti hai .. ;)) but getting worried is a human tendency, I suppose..
i seem to write lot abt placements these days.. i hope to make them happy by talking abt them.. and may be they in turn make me happy :P .. i know that was a bad joke but neways hope for the best..
Something's definitely not right..
Today, it's the third inefficiently passed day.. At times, it happens that something disturbing is up our mind and we can't really figure out what the hell it is.. There's no concentration, there's no sitting tight for long hrs, there's no hard work being put in.. The whole day passes by and one just doesn't notice that till its time to go to bed.. This is so damn irritating.. Now, this is when the countdown has already begun.. Sometimes, it's so hard to look at the date.. It is so hard for me to look at the calendar right now.. And this is because, I didn't keep up to my schedule.. I made one, did follow it up for a day or 2 but then that feeling of 'it doesnt matter', that feeling of 'let it be', a feeling that says 'dekha jaayega' is what makes one a loser.. Loser, at a stage of life, when u can't even afford to stand second.. ppl at times say that look at what u wish to achieve and move backwards towards the path which'll lead u to that goal.. once u know the path, things are definitely going to get easier.. may be such a frame of mind helps..
Lets see.. May be reiky, meditation or yoga helps.. But who knows.. May be there's a feeling of indifference for that too..
had such a nice..
.. sleep of 10 hrs.. didnt feel like getting up at even arnd 10 in the morning today.. but that was cause i wasnt well :( .. aah doesnt matter.. m not that worried abt placements these days :D these ppl in the wing had their fun [not really my kind] last nite.. everyone was totally tun with booze.. shouting arnd.. abusing arnd.. was worried abt the obh guard as he might complaint.. hope so he didn't
need to cover up things that i left in past 2 to 3 days.. kaash ki i would have had a control over time so that i cud make one day into something like 2 to 3.. ppl say that u cud put in more time to do a work of 2 days in 1.. is there an easier technique arnd /:)
gayrav gave a little overview abt wat the stocks are all abt... thot that may be having an idea abt it wud give an edge over others for companies dealing in finance.. but actually, de shaw ppl clearly mentioned that they wudnt go for someone who's not techie.. being good technically is a must for their current requirement.. but who knows.. is there someone arnd with a good tutorial for stocks and exchange :-s
few days left for CAT to get over.. good luck to all the aspirants.. hope that IIIT ppl are selected in large numbers.. most of them wud definitely clear the interviews and gds once they are through with the written exam..
paresh sir gave me an invitation for wordpress but i luckily got another one from wordpress too.. so now i have another blog:
http://ak84.wordpress.com .. wud use it for something.. ne ideas wat a person wud use another blog for..
had such a nice..
.. sleep of 10 hrs.. didnt feel like getting up at even arnd 10 in the morning today.. but that was cause i wasnt well :( .. aah doesnt matter.. m not that worried abt placements these days :D these ppl in the wing had their fun [not really my kind] last nite.. everyone was totally tun with booze.. shouting arnd.. abusing arnd.. was worried abt the obh guard as he might complaint.. hope so he didn't
need to cover up things that i left in past 2 to 3 days.. kaash ki i would have had a control over time so that i cud make one day into something like 2 to 3.. ppl say that u cud put in more time to do a work of 2 days in 1.. is there an easier technique arnd /:)
gayrav gave a little overview abt wat the stocks are all abt... thot that may be having an idea abt it wud give an edge over others for companies dealing in finance.. but actually, de shaw ppl clearly mentioned that they wudnt go for someone who's not techie.. being good technically is a must for their current requirement.. but who knows.. is there someone arnd with a good tutorial for stocks and exchange :-s
few days left for CAT to get over.. good luck to all the aspirants.. hope that IIIT ppl are selected in large numbers.. most of them wud definitely clear the interviews and gds once they are through with the written exam..
paresh sir gave me an invitation for wordpress but i luckily got another one from wordpress too.. so now i have another blog:
http://ak84.wordpress.com .. wud use it for something.. ne ideas wat a person wud use another blog for..
Formals at last...
Bought 2 shirts - ExCalibur and a trouser - Grasim.. bought a pair of shoes and a belt.. all the shopping costed me around Rs.2000/ or so.. not really expensive haan /:) but what, mom didn't like the fact that i bought a dark grey shirt.. :( The other one is cream in color. I got a dark color thinking that atleast I'll have a choice.. to be true, i don't really like wearing light colored clothes.. Those, who've seen me arnd, must have mostly seen me in black.. well, there's another reason for that.. dark garments make u look slimmer ;)
watever!! And then mom sed that she'll courier me another shirt from Ambala.. And that's not really bad haan.. it'll get me a new shirt and definitely an expensive piece.. dad doesn't go to anything less than Raymond :D hope for the best.. i had to buy 1 or 2 vests too which i basically forgot in this last shopping, so i asked mom to courier that too.. So, my undergarments (along with a shirt) are basically travelling some thousands of kms for me.. seems funny.. i must say that i have
great parents
Cold Eid..
Assalamu' Alaikum Wa Rahmat-Allaahi Wa Barakaatuhu (Peace be upon you, and the mercy of Allaah and His blessings) .. Happy Eid :)
I'm so fed up right now.. This nose has got all fkd up today.. Such high degree of cold.. i dont understand wat the hell is up.. till evening i cudnt even look str8 in front as this thing just started flowing thru my nose soon i str8ned up my head.. i dont know what do we call 'this thing'.. eyes are all watered, mouth's open (i can't breathe from nose right now) and head's aching as if somebody's hitting fkng hammers, shawl's on, towel in one of the hands (handkerchief cudnt handle the wetness ;), another handkerchief arnd for cleaning my eyes.. condition's bad.. i hope i dont get a viral or something.. i don't wish to waste all my time.. :(
Placements Placements
I really want this thing to finish off soon.. 'Placements' is all we think abt these days.. i have such high plans for my next semester.. so many areas that i need to improve on.. so many new things that i need to learn.. so much to do in life.. my english is getting horrible day by day.. sometimes I feel as if i have so much to speak but i just don't find the appropriate words.. frustration is all that pops up that time..
Great companies are coming over.. no doubt abt that.. and our batch is going to get the finest opportunities.. but i m still not able to figure out wat's best for me.. the pay obviously does matter.. but i don't really wish to join something that i m not passionate about.. i dont wish to join a company that demands from me to be a 10 hour coder per day who doesnt learn nething except sitting in front of a terminal with a black screen.. i don't want to waste my time in a company that I m not PASSIONATE about.. Trying to get a job in some company just because it's got a high pay package doesn't really sound that good to me.. it matters, it does but not always... I hope that i get something great.. something i like.. something i am hungry about.. i don't wish to waste ne more time in my life.. have already done so.. have done that like hell.. sometimes i feel so miserable abt it.. but then may be I need to learn things from all the mistakes that i've made/will make..
Current background music:
braveheart theme .. i think i love it..
Days getting busier..
With the complete waste of time in the last 2 days, i need to keep up with my schedule again.. was so tired when i got up in the morning.. didn't do much exertion yesterday but still felt such high degree of body ache.. probably its the affect of me not going over to gym these days.. used to feel so energetic till sometime back when i used to workout regularly..
Suddenly felt like watching Braveheart yesterday.. Was postponing it since long.. Finally I managed to sit for 3 hrs but believe me, i just cudn't figure out where did all that time go.. the movie was so damn gripping.. i've been listening its theme since morning.. and it's one fine piece of music I've ever heard..
Need to plan something for FYP too.. work's not going great in there.. and we haven't had our viva yet.. god knows, when Dr. Sangal sends a call for it. I pray God that we have it directly in December now.. [-o<
Had one of the best Diwali celebrations yesterday.. IIIT did rock.. People looked enthusiastic towards the festival.. We cud see more ppl out on the roads and not like as always, hidden in their rooms.. Though I love my seniors a lot but is it that the 'boring' batches have passed out ;) Hope that ppl keep up the enthu for all the future celebrations.. Any occasion needs ppl / audience for its success .. Felicity'05 was a disaster, lack of audience and participation being one of the major reasons.. Heard that felicity'06 is going to be at a much lower scale.. I hope that faculty doesnt do this or else it'll definitely demotivate ppl who might not want to work for it at all..
