finally I got my last interview call from XIME ....and have my interview on 6th colliding with College project review..................

but i am seriuosly giving a damn to XIME as i am really intent on giving CAT this november........... but all in all ...just hoping for a good experience ..........

have a lot 2 say .................err..... blog , but am feeling a little drowsy at 1 am ........

currently listening to the sound track of Shaan's TANHA DIL .....the song actually has so much of meaning for a guy like me on the crossroads of life .........here are the lines

AANKHON ME SAPNE LIYE
GHAR SEY HAM CHAL TO DIYE
JAANE YE RAAHEN AB LE JAYENGI KAHAN
...............................

MANZIL NAYI HAIN, ANJAANA HAIN KARVAN,
CHALNA AKELA HAIN YAHAAN.......

TANHA DIL TANHA SAFAR, DHUNDE TUJE ,PHIR KYON NAZAR ............


Well at least for this weekend I'v got myself busy with my final sem project ....where I need to do some research on EPROMS and some realted stuff(thank goodness there's something called GOOGLE

it's quite a long time since I spoke to the folks at college ,and i guess it's time we guys organize some get together, as these are last few days of our college life...

HIT HOME AND BROKE

well I touched down and chennai and am already broke........to come to think of it I spent 1200 in 3 days flat ..................and to add that today went to KHAKEE at sathyam .......GANGOTREE ........and now am left with just 20 rs in my purse .........out of the 1300 odd , that I won in hindustan last week.........now that the kitty is empty , it's time to refill at HINDUSTAN again with their E&I symposium today (25th feb ) ......must wake up in time to catch up their bus at madipakkam ............as the whole night was soent watching KAAKHA KAAKHA with pras coming home late last night .................


After I 've comeabck from pune the NASHA and hangover of the city , still continues to bother me as I have gotta make that prudent decesion of leaving the symbi admission to sit another yr for cat or to enjoy life at Symbi ................

I need some xpert to advice me on this .................

had a nice and quiet birthday last night with a pune special called SPDP (sev potato dahi puri ) and bhelpuri........today was a lovely experience at SIIB campus with my gd/pi going off well.

I still havent had my food for the night as soon after i came back from SIIB i had to pack my bag and decided to explore pune by foot .........and had cappucino at CAFE COFEE DAY ........and of course the tasty SPDP at a joint called VAISHAli ......THEN RUSHED TO THEIR e-square multiplex(like our mayyajal and satyam complex) and wanted to see KHNH .but sadly didnt get tickets and all other hindi movies were really dumb .......but suprisingly I saw "PUDUKOTTAILERINTHU SRAVANAN" 7 30 pm show here .....paying 90 bucks ......

and then went to my room and checked out and came here ........it's already 11 30 and my train arrives in another 25 minutes , so I cant exactly go out and have dinner ......gotto adjust tonight with some pastry and rasagollas ...................

more on 22nd after i arrive in chennai ........................

My 180 bucks accomadation aint really bad .......as the auto guy at the station put it . He said that my lodge was a red light area (deccan gymkhana ) and i wud have to shell out another 150 bucks for the girl +180 for the rent ..........

all this in the hope that I wud settle into his choice of hotel .....close to the station.........his negative marketing tactics nevertherless stood void as I took another auto guy to have me dropped at my place ........

looks like he shud have attended todays interview . at SITM for marketing specialization .................!!!!!!!!!!!

I am now feeling as bored as i feel in college , have to take a bus or an auto to my place and donno what am i gonna do for the evening all alone ...........

thats all for the day ..............folks.........

I am actually 2 tired to put up a post ......exhausted by the GD/PI sessions at SITM........I had 2 wait 4 a long time before they preponed my GD/PI from tomm to today.....

My gd was at 11 am and lasted till 11 55 , with 2 gd's one being "is india an inefficient country" and the other "is india shining" ....... the second one was literally a bloody war .......more fierce than the ones I have fought at TIME with the GD veterans like Archana,mridula,dinesh.............

and then we had an extempore ....where I had to spk on "money is not everything" ......and then it was zzzzzzz till I was called for my PI which was byfar my best experience as the interviewers made me feel comfortable ..by asking questions about my hobbies and that did the trick .......as I explained to them what Blogging is all about ......and why ppl like me use it .....and of course from the quizzing angle of hobbies.......finally they did come to the technical part by questioning me on my technical engineering part and i felt i acquitted myself pretty well on questions in compilers,linkers and loaders....and had to explain my final sem project ........and soon questions on history of chennai and pondicherry followed.....and that somehow was ok with me ...

SITM is a pretty ok kinda institute .........but i really must be pinching myself incase i have to get selected as the GD's were quite tough .........

more updates at 11 pm on 22nd night ............

Well its' my birthday today and i intend to celebrate it in my own small manner by having some milk sweets in the restaurant in which I am browsing at pune station......

KILLING TIME

I hear that the auto drivers fleece ppl at 2 am by charging double the rates .......and dats why I am at this swank restaraunt cum SIFY i way ........jotting down my experiences.

I wud be leaving at 5 from here , supposedly by 144 route bus to my place called Deccan gymkhana and after my ablutions ,am supposed to find my wa to SITM (symbiosis inst of telecom management ) who apparently have not recheduled my GD to the 21st as it was clashing with SIIB (symbiosis int of international business ) .....

gotta go and wait there patiently , hoping someone is absent and wud have to plead with them to conduct my GD/PI today and a tool that I am planning to use is my IMT ghaziabad call letter ( whose GD is today at Ghaziabad) ..........

nuthin much ........will come at night to update my blog ........

TOUCH DOWN IN PUNE

it's the dead of the night here at pune station at 2 45 am , but the hotel that I am browsing from is alive and kicking with couples in LOVE mode ........(probably inspired by this weeks edition of the THE WEEK and THE OUTLOOK .....)

My train started today sharp at 6 50 and as soon as it started I went up to my upper berth and got immersed with my TIME material for gd/pi .This was the first time I actually didnt speak to anyone throughout my train journey......as the people were not the talking type , each was busy sleeping in the lower berth and thats why I cudnt sit there and had to find my space on the upper berth.........

I got down once for washing my face , in the basin in our compartment ....and thats when 3 eunuchs (more commonly known as OMBOTHU in tamil ) entered my compartment and targeted me .I slowlly pushed off from the basin to my berth , but my
escapade was noticed by them and they came following me and demanded money.Since my purse contained a few tenners .......but many hundreds I dare not flaunt my purse ....but as an alternative option I had to give away the 2- 5 rupee coins in my shirt + all the change I had in my shirt pocket as "HAFTA" as the eunuch said "AGAR TUM PAISE NAHI DOGE ,TOH BAHUT BURA HOGA,WARNA SADI UTAR DOONGI........." enough I said and sadly parted with my Change ...................

that was at a place called Yerra guntla (as from the name yerra guntla cement ) , where suprisingly my RELIANCE MOBILE showed it as PRODATTUR ..........

then nothing much eventful ..........spent the rest of the day listening to AR RAHMAN'S soft melodies on piano .........and of course sleeping.......
My sleep was often halted by the fact that the volume of air in my air pillow kept having an inverse realtionship with Time and that resulted in a sore back ......(hey srivathsan , if u r reading this , v gotta go 2 that shop at ur place and get a refund back .......)

The one thing I did yesterday was to have a mock GD within myself on a topic that was taking centre stage on the cover of the week"LOVE SELLS ".........and more so bcoz Pune was given as the place and where students come to study and have "fun" .

I feel that by blowing up the entire issue , these magazines are creating unneccesary publicity.......and the so called "couples in love " that they are talking about , are essentially people who dont know to differentiate between crush and love ...and these people influenced by movies,mags try to accost a girl /boy in a very filmi manner . A guy dates with a girl on a given day and dates another the next day ..... such voyuerism is totally unethical as I feel that flirting is OK as long as one is single , but when u have decided on 1 partner , u must be faithfull to him/her thru ur life .......but going by the report in the WEEK , 40-50% of the couples in INDIA are more so in love with the phenomenen of being in love , rather than actaully being bitten by cupid........... some examples of it being people "falling in love" by just over a glance at some road/hotel ..........I just cant help laughing that these people mistake a feeling of crush for love ..Love is more so an aftermath of a very good friendly relationship , where the two ppl get to know each other well and find whether they fit into each one's life and are able to complement each other ................


well thats my take on the cover story of the "WEEK" and I guess I have had quite a solo gd ......upto now...............

The later part of the night was bad , bcoz my all too familair stomach ache cropped up and i was literally crouching in pain .........had to vommit all the stuff that I ate ......a case of GIGO ..........finally touched down Pune at 2 15 am ... .......Any body wanting to contact me can msg me at 32695453 or call me at this no ..............

hmm........ I am supposed to leave tommorow morning at 5 from my place to reach central station by 6 am to catch my 6 50 dadar express.It's the first time I am actually travelling alone as earlier parents or friends accompanied me .........

and my stomach has started to rumble once again .......donno whatz the problem , just hope that the change in eating from home to outside dont bring any problem in health related to stomach...........

I shall keep updating the page daily ..........in case u ppl are interested to know the musings in pune .........

till then it's tata ..........

One of my institute friends quipped that I am in a state of confusion ......and that made me think .has anything seriously happened to me , whereby I am not able to conclusively make a decision.A lot of my friends find me these days in a state of confusion, haste and lack of patience . I just thought about it , and found it to be more or less true , so I have decided to do some meditation and some jogging to retain my composure .

Today on the whole was boring .......got up at 6 15 dropped prassana at his place , after his nightstay at home , then the chillness of the morning got to me and I was feeling a little uneasy ....slept till 9 30 and then ate and I pushed off to Hindustan engg college in my bike, to attend CHARGE 04 their ECE dept symposium. It was the most sleepy symposium that I have ever attended in my life .......as I literally slept thru their paper presentations......but got up after a sumptous lunch to attend their GD/PI event where I came 2nd today .............I'l know abt the cash in tommorow's valedictory function............

Got a interview call from IMT ghaziabad , and have to make it there on my birthday (21st feb ) and this news has upset all my pune plans as i have to now call up symbiosis and ask them whether they can give me a postponement of dates for the interview... and if they do I've gotta cancel my DADAR express ticket and book a flight ticket and a rail ticket to delhi..............

man.....This is one hectic week , where in between I've to start my GD /PI preparation in advance .........by going thru BW and ET ...........and ....also travel across the breadth of India , anyways i dont mind, I simply love travelling ..............

CAT MANIA OVER FINALLY

I am glad the CAT is over , bcoz all along uptill 15th feb I was feeling damn guilty about the fact that I had not put in enough effort in my verbal section and the way i actually wanted to prepare for verbal just never materialised ..............and thats why I decided that I shall do a "PHOENIX" and prepare afresh for the november CAT , where something within me tells me that I will do well that time.

Generally I dont belive in astrology, but I just happened to remember some time back ( 4yrs back ) our family had consulted an astrologer and he predicted my future and gave it in a recorded form in a cassette and it very clearly said that i will never have luck going my way till the age of 21 , where There would be lots of chances to succeed , but I would lose out coming very close to achieving something .......but practically not achieve it. I see every damn word of his coming true....... let me just hope that the post 21 age part also come true and as he said that I would be back in reckoning after a period of struggle and come out trumps ...............

anyways yesterdays CAT was quite easy , but since i was a little bovine in my thinking , I made a few unpardonable errors...............

anyways looking forward to begin a new chapter in my second innings follow on and hope I do a "VVS Laxman " act beating the CAT (AUSTRALIA ) .....

CAT MANIA OVER FINALLY

I am glad the CAT is over , bcoz all along uptill 15th feb I was feeling damn guilty about the fact that I had not put in enough effort in my verbal section and the way i actually wanted to prepare for verbal just never materialised ..............and thats why I decided that I shall do a "PHOENIX" and prepare afresh for the november CAT , where something within me tells me that I will do well that time.

Generally I dont belive in astrology, but I just happened to remember some time back ( 4yrs back ) our family had consulted an astrologer and he predicted my future and gave it in a recorded form in a cassette and it very clearly said that i will never have luck going my way till the age of 21 , where There would be lots of chances to succeed , but I would lose out coming very close to achieving something .......but practically not achieve it. I see every damn word of his coming true....... let me just hope that the post 21 age part also come true and as he said that I would be back in reckoning after a period of struggle and come out trumps ...............

anyways yesterdays CAT was quite easy , but since i was a little bovine in my thinking , I made a few unpardonable errors...............

anyways looking forward to begin a new chapter in my second innings follow on and hope I do a "VVS Laxman " act beating the CAT (AUSTRALIA ) .....

Todays Cat was quite tough , I managed only 59 attempts .....spent the rest of the evening at elliots beach in the water . My whole pant is full of sand ....gotta go home and wash it properly..had a so called dinner at marrybrown after enjoying in the water , with kishore and prassana .........

now at IWAY adyar using free coupons ..to browse......I am tired .............

I've always felt like Saurav ganguly as far as form is concerned and I seem to draw an anlalogy between the Indian team's performance and mine ...Take for instance this years VB series , the indians did well in the initial part of the tour but somehow felt jaded and lost focus during the final leg of the tour ........ well with me I did my earlier exams decently , but writing an exam every sunday has just gone a little 2 far , and i seem to have lost that competitive momentum .........last sundays ATMA was disasstrous (FIRST FINAL ) and todays CAT ........hmmmm , I am thinking on the lines of the second final drubbing ..........................

just hope that analogy dosent materialise ....................................

today evening , I plan to go with prassana to adyar to finish the coupons we got in hindustan for internet browsing,gaming (free coupons to be used in I-WAYS ) and eating at marry brown...................

thats about it , I guess I gotto go down to have my bath and reach the CAT centre on Time (ANNA ADARSH ) ....

TROUBLE : my comp seems to be giving me trouble every now and then....

Well it's the wee hours of feb 14th and it's valentine's day ...................... I am feeling hungry at 1 am , so am planning to go down to eat the THATTAI and MYSOREPAKKU that I bought from SKS in vadapalani.....

I am in a way feeling guilty abt the fact that my prep for CAT this year has been NIL sin 90....and thats eating away my head , even as i think of eating and devouring sweets from the fridge ...

after the 15th I wud be a relieved guy , as a great travelling experience is abt to unfold as i am slated to go to pune ........ for my GD /PI ...

and the great mood is partly spoilt by news coming from college . It looks as of we students are militants escaping from the police (coll) , with they chasing us with their bullets (suspension orders ) and heavy tanks (TC order )

Hi folks

I thought I should share an experience I had yesterday which really lifted my spirits .
Yesterday I had been to Hindustan engg college for the second day of their symposium ELUMINATE 04 . I had very specifically come to take part in the quiz and mock placement events. I flunked the quiz , but was somehow able to qualify the prelims aptitude test , as 1 among the 8 out of the 400 odd students who took the test ( one thing that helped me was at least half of that were 2nd and 3rd yr junta ) .

As I was writing my resume , a guy from SATYABAMA ENGG COLLEGE came and sat next 2 me . This guy qualified first with a nett score of 14 , while I qualified 8th out of 8 with 12 as my nett. This guy was endlessly bragging about his exploits and was speaking as though the mock interview was a cakewalk for him . The guy strangely behaved by asking us to preay to god so that the preponed dates of our univ exams get postponed and his manner of talking was absolutely weird . He spoke with an air of arrogance , by asking me my BE percentage , which was 72 versus his 82 odd something

The guy started to look at me as if I wasn’t worth my place in the gd finals . I must admit that his mannerisms got myself and and my friends tickling with laughter , but at the same time ,made me a little uncomfortable , but I somehow consoled myself saying nerds from sathyabama are always like that….


Once I went into the GD , the topic sounded familiar (IIM fee reduction:justify ) , but what was a little debilitating and intimidating was the fact that the other qualifiers were from venakteshwara,anna univ,NITS, RVCE(bangalore),SATHYABAMA etc…..
But once the GD started I was able to maintain my calm and suprisngly the braggart from sathyabama didn’t qualify to the final round of 4 for the interview , whereas I qualified and went on to win the event comfortably

The essence of sending u this mail is to drive home the point that , never underestimate urself in the might of competition even though u may feel intimidated by some of their remarks. As long as u can digest their crap as a bubble gum and spit it out when not required ,and focus on doing ur job well , then that kind of an attitude can just keep u going to the place where u intend going……

This victory was all the more sweet with my SYMBIOSIS interview slated nex week.

Any nice experiences from ur side are welcome….

Bye ppl
KARTIK KANNAN

A FULL CIRCLE
Life's just spun a circle of circumference 8 semesters ( 4 yrs) and to be released from this circle is happy but at times sad.
I am released after having served a sentence for 4 yrs for the crime of not taking my 12th entrance exams seriously


10 REASONS TO LEAVE THE COLLEGE I AM IN .........................
1 prescence of chicks negligible : if there , then no attitude in them , if attitude there , no aptitude in them .................

2 I am leaving a place that 'promises' to build " a site for........(u name it , u have it )

3 I am leaving a place where even an ordinary lecturer can become a HOD ( vice versa too) or on the other hand a catering head can become a principal.( not even narayanamurthy's INFOSYS can promise such fast promotions !!!)

4 I am leaving a place that has fully automised and computerised system(that's what they say) run by barbaric baboons ( egg jam cell)

5 I am leaving a place where I have seen 5 HOD's in my department in the last 4 yrs.(CHANGE IS THE ONLY THING THATS CONSTANT IN LIFE , thats our dept motto )

6 I am leaving a place that cannot earn the respect of the students and belive the only way they have to earn the student's respect is to snatch the ID cards and make them wait endlessly to get it back.

7I am leaving a place where one dosent even have an enquiry or a say in the matter when suspended.

8 I am leaving a place where the 20 marks internals where once put randomly by the accounts dept bcoz the higher manangement didnt have faith on the respective depts.

9 I am leaving a place that has scant respect for quality and and an insatiable hunger for size and numbers.....( fudging allowed) .

10 I am leaving a place that belives that weekly tests,assigmnent tests,mid sems and models are the only means of attaining moksha !!!! and ppl who have done that with alarming consistency of eighty plus aggregate , suprisingly find themselves as lecturers in the same college. ........


10 REASONS WHY I MAY MISS COLLEGE ::::::

1 Since the classes were terrible and drove me mad, I was literally forced to seek refuge in other colleges in the garb of a symposium .....and that brought my talents to the fore.

2 no more THIRITTU LUNCH while class is on ....

3 No more will i get the marry band of comedians (ok they are also called as lecturers) to tickle my laughing bone ....

4 no more will i get the KOOTHU PODARA COMPANY as in our 2-3 rows where each class we guys plan some mischief during the class , by commenting something or having a quiet giggle ....

5 no more trips with friends , in the name of ON DUTY

6 no more of SPICY SAMBAR as served in the college canteen. even though it was initially horrible i've quite got used to it .................

7 no more bunking classes ( in the garb of saying excuses like "princi's called me to his room ") or roaming aimlessly in the corridors when classes are on.

8 most important of all , NO SLEEPING openly in class, and no more can i put up a sick looking face to give an excuse to sleep in the last bench with the bag as the pillow ...

9 no more can i have the camaradrie of friends in college , where we enjoyed going in groups to cultural fests and symps ......., no more OC lunches in other colleges...., no more outlets for cash prizes ......

10 and finally no more am i a MAMA or a MACHAN or a MACHEE...........

COLLEGE LIFE SUCKS BIG TIME

Well just 2 be on the safe side I dont intend naming my college , but I feel that each day a damocles sword hanging over my neck , as the management is intent on suspending all final years for any silly ,small reason. Life in such murky situations isnt a bed of roses , but it is a bed of thorns .............

I ve got so bored writing all these MBA entrance exams every sunday . It;s all the more boring bcoz i have got into a decent inst , but still not got admission , I have only been shortlisted for the GD.

anyways I guess it's time I went back to my books for the last 2 battles (SIBM tomm and CAT on the 15th ) ..

I had just been to SBI nanganallur branch and went thru a nightmare as far as cancelling my draft was concerned . these sloths took 2 hts to cancel a simple draft and to compound it was the problem of power cut in that are for maintenance work......

life for now seems interesting after the SIIB call. Got my Xat SCORE CARD , I have done exceedingly well in the GK section(95 percentile) and ok in the quants section(82 percentile ) but suprisingly poor in verbal (59 percentile ).

So I realize how close i was to get a call from XIMB and XLRI ... so that strengthens my resolve to take a second shot at these exams later this year...

well I have booked my tickets to PUNE , and also begun my 8th sem project in the right earnest. I so far have sat the whole night to prepare the preliminary documentation.

whooooo it's already morning and i have to rush 2 college