Diversified Thinking

Hmmm am just thinking what to write on a boring Sunday afternoon. These days am going through rigorous sessions of economics, never thought a subject like economics would be so interesting all thanks to Mr. Azhar Khan, personally I don’t like his communist and anti-privatisation thoughts & I just hate him when he comments anything against our GOD Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar. However the way he teaches the subject is commendable. You guys must be wondering what the hell am I writing, at one point I say he is good and next moment he becomes bad. But you know Mr. Azhar Khan gave a fantastic definition of Economics in our lecture which I just loved it. Quoting his definition “Economics is a science of Human Behaviour that tries to reconcile between unlimited wants and limited resources that have alternative uses”. So true this is. We deal with economics everyday and we are not even aware about it. The existence of economics must have started right from the Adam and Eve era.

Speaking about human behaviour, coming to Pune for my studies is one of the better decisions I have made in life. I was not at all happy initially to come to Pune because I had never been away from family and was honestly bit scared about how would I manage to gel up with the new people. I have never been an extrovert, so my mom was also bit worried about me. But my bro he always wanted me to stay away from home and I hated him for that. But today when I write this blog, I understand why he wanted me to stay away from home. Am so thankful to him for helping me in taking all the decisions which I have taken so far. Being the youngest in the family I was very arrogant, stubborn and never listened to anyone. But I think am a changed person now, I hope even Ashu thinks the same.

All my engineering days I spent time with people I am comfortable with or in college terms we say “ Jisse frequency match hua uske saath raha “. But after coming to Pune I have understood it’s so important to gel with people of any frequency because these are the kind of people who would come across to you in future at your workplace. You have to be flexible enough to work with any person of any calibre. I never would have thought, thinking approach or the behavioural approach of a person can be so different for people coming from different parts of the country. This is the best thing am gaining from this MBA course, learning their behaviours. Had I taken admission in any college in Mumbai, I would have never got an opportunity to talk to people from states like Kerala, Jharkhand, Gujrat, Kolkata and many more. Man ! these people are so unique and different with their approach. Everyone has its own speciality and expertise. There are positives as well as negatives, but a coin would always have 2 sides. So many things to be learned from them. I always heard of Unity in diversity but had never seen or experienced it. Came to know exactly what we mean by that here. With 3 colleges in the SIC Campus including SIIB and SCMHRD, its great to interact with these great management minds, always a value add to us. It’s so good to learn about the various cultures of people from various parts of India, watch movies of languages which you don’t even understand but still manage to connect with them. It feels so good to be involved in functions like Onam, Dandiya night etc.

The point I want to make is we speak about regionalism, like some political leaders in Mumbai say “Mumbai fakta Marathi Lokanchi “all this is utter bullshit. India would never make progress if we have an attitude like this. We should not restrict anybody to go anywhere as long as it is our country. It’s simple if a child wants to learn to ride a bicycle, let him fall for couple of times, every time he falls he has not lost anything but he is gaining confidence and once he is through with it nobody in his entire life can make him forget how to ride a bicycle.

The unforgettable day eveeerrrrrr !

Okay here's my next one. This is gonna a be a big one so keep patience :D. This would be about this year’s birthday which was the most memorable birthday ever for me. I never in my life would have imagined so many surprises in a single day.

Was back home from pune don’t remember what was the reason for that small vacation which I got from college. So had no plans whatsoever this year for my birthday because of the odd day and all my friends would be working in here. Had decided would go on a quiet dinner with family in the evening that’s it. But little did I know a night before that the next day coming would be one of the most memorable day of my life. So on 10th March 2010 a day prior to my birthday had a good dinner and as usual did by “Social Networking“ and donno how felt extremely sleepy. Generally I stay awake on birthdays to receive calls but this time around I slept at 11.30 pm. Just as clock reached 12 in the midnight, came the first call by my good friend Mayank Vatsal. I was so sleepy somehow answered his phone in like 30 secs and went back to sleep again. Again after a minute or so my brother Ashu came in my room and said get up and come in the hall. I was so freakin sleepy shouted at him will do all the cake cutting the next day please let me sleep. But he forcefully took me out and I could see the cake in the hall. Just as I came in the hall behind the curtains were present two of my closest friends Amey and Karna, they popped out of the curtains and started beating me, man that was a shock of a life experience. I was so shocked that I started giving expressions which generally people give when they become miss universe or miss world :D Everything was bloody planned with my brother and Mom, who also contributed to this event.

Next up I found my face covered with the sheath of delicious cake. Then me, Amey and Karna decided to go for a drive, as usual these 2 “rakshas” were hungry and wanted to eat. I was driving and these 2 a**Ho*** decided to sit in the back seat and gave me feeling of a driver. So many calls were coming as I was driving and these 2 were just making sure am not comfortable at all, peeping in all my calls. Anyways it was around 1 Am we landed at Gugils gave the last order and had gr8 food. Had a nice happy diwali dance after dinner by amey n karna. Came back to my complex and decided to sit in garden for some useless talk. Karna was on the call entire time with my new friend Kausar  while me n amey had the most foolish talk ever. Next what we did was unimaginable. We came out of the garden, lot of dogs where staring at us, we decided to teach them a lesson that night and make sure nobody barks on US. We sat in the car with steering in my hand, we went over all the dogs in my complex (not killed) just threatened them and amey was talking to each and every dog through window asking questions like “ What is your problem? Tell me I will solve your problem “ hahaha that was hilarious. We drove until there was pin drop silence. Finally got a call from my bro at around 3.30 Am , asking where we were. We returned home and amey n karna went home next morning that is on my birthday around 10.30 am.

I went back to sleep, little did I know at this time that my day was just about to begin. Bell rang, I opened the door and got the second shock that day, my closest friends from SCIT had come all the way from Pune to meet me n give me a surprise. Megha, Som, Sachin, Lovey, and RR came home. These people had never ever even seen where I stay but still manage to reach safely at my place. Thanks to the Jugadu RR, he found out my address donno from where. Biggest surprise ever this was. Then somehow I manage to brush my teeth and take a shower as my house was on fire wid the arrival of “taarebaaz’s” :P We decided to go to Poptates for lunch and got into RR’s international car which is awesome from inside and awful from outside. We had nice lunch in poptates with the most hilarious discussion as always. Then Sachin and Lovey decided to go back home. We said dasvidaniya to them. Now came the real twist, the plan was to drop everyone in vashi and go back home. Suddenly on a highway at around 5 PM we decided let’s not go back to pune today, let’s party at my place tonight and then go back to pune the next day. I remember now, I was home because it was my PL going on :P We decided that we would study in the night, we called up abhirup who was not able to come due to interview and he too agreed to come to Mumbai. So we were all set to go back have some fun and then study later that night. Came back to my complex, we directly went to the club, had rocking time till 8 Pm there. I must mention the “Massage Chair” it was splendid. Then we decided to go and pick up abhirup. So we started again in the car and guess what we got “the most horrifying traffic ever”. I thought “entire day was so good but everything now would be spoiled by this traffic” but I was wrong we had one of the best times ever in that traffic jam. RR made some mallu friends who were truck drivers and started speaking like them. Remember guys the best dialogue “ Mai jara dhar marke aata” hahahaha poor megha, but she is used to all dis shitty talks. We somehow manage to take a U turn and get out of that traffic. We called up abhirup and asked him to take a bus. All of us were starving now it was around 10.30 pm. We went to a place called Nandi Palace where we found soothing ghazals were being played. It felt so good after the tiring journey we had entire day. Abhirup soon joined in, he made some new friends on the KDMT bus. We requested some ghazals which the singer sung so well. Another surprise which I got was a Happy Birthday song sung by the singer in Ghazal’s Manner. That was awesome. Had nice food came back home. Megha slept with my mom in my room and Som, me, abhirup n RR in hall. Finally the most eventful day ended. Just to mention we didn’t study a single word as planned :D. Next day by the time we all woke up everyone at my home had gone to their offices. We woke up and ordered megha to prepare breakfast and tea for us. Som ordered the most, chuuza kahika. We had lunch and then Som, Megha and abhirup went back to pune and RR went home.

This was my birth day this year, the most memorable one ever. I can’t express my feeling how much I felt special that day. I just love you Amey, Karna, Som, Megha, Sachin, RR, Lovey, Abhirup. Always be my friends guys come what may. But one thing which I felt extremely bad about was that I was not able to give time to my family that day. Will regret this. My brother Ashu always says “I think too much for my friends but do they care about you?” Still unaware of this answer “ I Hope they care “. Sorry and Love you Mom, Ashu, Bhabhi and my future niece/nephew coming in our family. Muuaaaaaah 

Networking to me…

Social networking has become such an important part of our lives, at least I can say about mine. I cannot stay without being on facebook (fb) a single day and there would be many of us who would agree with me. But guys have we ever thought about this that being on fb is not what networking used to be 10 years back. I used to go for social meetings wherein we had people from all the ages. I never knew people around me but still there was some bonding with them. I still remember my first day at that this social gathering wherein I was asked to introduce myself and talk about my hobbies, I was so shy then but as time moved on I got the courage of speaking in the crowd. This was the place where we did so many things for the society right from arranging cricket tournaments to helping people affected from earthquakes or floods. Man I miss those days. This is where we learn the real management, which a book can never teach us.

Things have changed so much these days, back then I used to remember all my friends birthdays, telephone numbers but honestly not anymore, have to login to Orkut or Facebook to check if there is anyone’s birthday today or not. So sad I can’t even remember a date. Back then I used to personally meet or atleast call and talk to the person whose birthday was. But these days just a sentence on the wall on fb or a scrap on Orkut, That’s it…Honestly speaking we don’t even take the pain of writing the two words of “ Happy Birthday “, just copy paste it from someone’s scrap below and we are done with it. I know this isn’t right but this is how we have become these days. I have no point to prove. Its just that I feel we have lost the touch of practicality in networking. The so called “e-networking” is great but it can never take place of the text book networking which is not present in any textbook.

My day starts off with logging in to twitter and facebook and checking various updates and giving my expert comments on them :P Sometimes I tweet as Good Morning tweeple or Gn tweeple as if am a celebrity and thousands of people follow me. These days am having war with people on these networking sites whom I haven’t even seen. Getting into petty fights, supporting some of your friends, making fun of your friends when the upload their pictures etc. All these minor things are such waste of time but is so much fun to do all these things. So all my facebook and twitter friends, we rock but don’t forget my point of practical networking. See you all in sometime on fb. Till then.

Peace…

I donno what I did this Summer…

Let me begin to begin with writing my first blog ever. I know am bad at writing but still I always wanted to try this blog thing. Since today being my last day of summer training i.e from office, am gonna write about my about my past 2 and half months.

As the name of my blog says, if I think at this moment of time what I did exactly this summer it’s really confusing to answer. So many things happened, some good… some bad… but job hi tha accha tha. It started off with saying good byes to my newly made friends “ The Tarras “ is what I call them after our semester 2 exam. They are a like an organ in my body cannot live without them. Love u and miss you muaaahhhh J

Came back to Mumbai was extremely happy to be back home as I was gonna get the home food everyday. Aww such a relief that was. Ashu my bro planned so much about doing this and doing that but as always I was as lazy as Garfield and didn’t do a single thing as planned. I was so excited by the news that a new little member is going to join our family as bhabhi being in the 5^th month. Finally I would be elder to someone in my family J

These days my favorite pastime at home had become to watch HIMYM or to play wid my lil niece Khushi who is my cousin’s daughter and stays in same building wid us. She is my sweetheart. Recently she started speaking and now she calls me “ Amuul Kaka “ and I just love to hear that.

Met my old friends which r like gold to me Amey, Karna, Shweta, Hojo, Koka and many more. Had so many legen…wait for it…dary sessions with them whenever we met. The lonavala ride was truly amazing. Love u guys and my bro Karna, he must be smwhere in ladakh now on his bindu – the bike. Love u bro. Every time I was having fun somewhere it made me miss all d supreme sessions wid the tarras. I always remember you guys whenever am having fun and miss u guys. We will be back together and have loads of fun in Pune.

In the meanwhile my interns got started in Godrej. Being such a huge brand I was very excited and my excitement rose to the fullest when I came to know that I would be working for a Business Intelligence project. But all my excitement was cut short in certain span of time as the people whom am working seem to be pretty “Old” I hardly could find anyone of my age in here and these old people had major attitude problem. Had to listen to lot of taunts throughout my internship. Probably SCIT played a vital role for all dis taunts. Talking of SCIT my result came in and I flunked in one subject, was devastated with this news. But all my friends and family helped me in it and am back as normal again. Going back to office first month I hardly did any work, was frustrated to the fullest. But later I came to know that this is the speed at which these people work. One guy told me “ Yeh aisa hi chalet aa raha hai aur aisa hi chalet rahega “ u cannot do anything about this. But finally after a month or so got some quality work and I enjoyed doing that. Aur time nikal gaya did so many thing in this one and half months that am not sure exactly for what I was hired here. But anyways my mentor inspite of being so rude gave decent marks to me in my assessment. This gave me a reason to smile.

Finally I will be relieved today and when I look back at this 2 and ½ months back its really confusing to tell what exactly I did this summer. Good day everyone sorry if you thought it was boring and not written properly. Peace !