Placements and other stuff...

Its placement season, so how could I resist writing about it?

Paranoia has set on campus, and you can see instances of people losing their minds and giving up on prep for one whole minute, or sometimes 2, depending on the level of stress and madness...
But if you give up on prep for more than that, you will see horrified faces around slowly shaking their heads in deep disapproval..trying to say that even God cannot forgive the sin of not prep'ing'.

Ofcourse there are the really smart ones too, who just need to prep in order to prove that they jumped from the helicopter to save a wild boar from the jaws of a tiger in the wilds of Africa(as stated on the resume).

Resume reminds me of Action words.These are small ominous words which are supposed to spice up the recruiter's life by making him laugh and hence get you a chance of being called. Like this:
'Awarded' the award, or 'researched' the research paper, though it gets sticky when you feel like mentioning that you went rafting....and end up with something like ' drowned the raft and being a team player, drowned all the people too'...

Which leads to the fact that all 400+ people on campus are team players and have amazing team spirit....we would love to request the recruiters to interview us in teams too...that way we perform 'best', though ofcourse sucking up to the recruiter is a solo activity much to our displeasure....but we do what we have to do....

Another phenomenon, the PPTs....where people ask really tactful questions like 'what if A acquires you...?' or 'I dont think you are valuing your acquisitons properly?'or better still, 'Y are attrition rates so high in your company?'...Ahh...the intelligence of mankind...

Exciting times ahead, and things are just getting better and illuminating by the minute....now only if I could get Him to forgive me for wasting time on the blog instead of prep...

Travel blues

I hate travelling especially by air and rail (and road if someone else is driving), though I love seeing new places...

Someone please invent those sci fi zap rays soon....I forget wot they are called....teletransporting or something...

Mixed feelings...

Had been to mumbai for a quick visit ...1 day to be exact...
Its so funny that I love both ISB and Mumbai, but every time I leave Mumbai, I feel an unexplicable sadness, as if I'm leaving it forever...or am I? It gets more and more difficult leaving Mumbai for ISB every time...and now my niece is not making it any easier...

I wonder if I will ever feel the same tinge of sorrow when term 8 finally ends? I sure hope so...because it has come to mean a lot to me...

Days that give a warm feeling..

Like today...inspite of the madness of placements, I feel totally happy and on top of the world(cliched but still..)

Yesterday night's call has made all the difference between 'being' and 'being totally purely happy'..

Congrats to my sister and jeeju....and to me....finally I'm not the youngest any more...

Aimless scribbling..

Had a really relaxed weekend after the submission and exam madness...
Did absolutely nothing other than sleep and watch TV, went almost mindless watching really crappy Hindi movies...
Hm, I could and should have gone to Mumbai...I wanted to, but I don't know why I didn't. Well I do know why I didn't, but that is beyond the point of this post.
The point of this post,is that....hmm, actually there is none, but it seems like a good thing to write down. Makes blogging feel like an important activity.
I think I'm tired of the weekend, doing absolutely nothing is not my style. Which also reminds me that I would love to go to Mumbai and do something worthwhile, but this seems like a circle of good reason, which I broke by staying here, and writing nonsense on my blog.
I could delete this post, but I won't, because it's posts like these which give me the pleasure of seeing people tear their hair out...

New Year....New Tidings...

It's new year...2007 and I dont feel too different..So what did I exactly party about?

Maybe the fact that finally the torturous never ending 2006 was finally over, and hope that the change in digit from 6 to 7 would actually bring something atleast resembling good luck..

Normally each year has ups and downs, but '06 was the only year where I went so downhill, that it is hilarious. A lot of stuff I'd rather not say(to keep the reader from comitting suicide) happened and in general I was waiting endlessly for December...

Well as things go, come december and I was finally hopeful that the saga of my endless accelerated drive down the slope was finally braking to a halt, when someone up there decided that No, she needs one more tiny reminder about her year being crappy...and on 30th december, when I was so close to stepping into a bright sunny year, someone flicked my beautiful newly replaced(the replaced thing is another story altogether) mobile phone....and I spent one entire harrowing day trying to get myself into the elite circle of mobile people again.

Well, whats the point of this post....nothing, except that though the incident is nothing compared to what's been going on in '06... it's significance is what matters....after all someone else had the Last Laugh....