Life Reloaded!!!

After listening KK, Piu, and Manoj I thought I should also try my hand (or voice??) at singing. So when no one else was present at home yesterday I recorded one Marathi song. Try listening to it, it can be really funny to hear your own or friends voice singing a song without music alone!!! You can download the song from here if you want.

Recently, I had a problem with Gmail account. I got 1000 mails from my own email account saying that this is your diwali gift. All the 1000 mails were sent in the space of 20 minutes. I still have no clue regarding this. I thought my account may be hacked so I have changed my password and till now that thing was not repeated. Do you know how someone can do this?

My brother says I am too sarcastic.... Is it... Is it true?

Hi, I always wanted to add the slide shows of various Picassa albums which I have. Cant believe that I never noticed the "embed slideshow" link in that. Anyways, here a look at my last day in college. I will add my school photos also, as Kiran has scanned all the photos.

Its been a complete mess in Pakistan with the emergency imposed. As an Indian if you think that you live in better place, then think again. Look at the “state” of Karnataka. I mean, the way BJP and JD(S) have been functioning for last 2 months or so, its really a shameful chapter in Indian democracy. If you still what I am talking about then listen to this. JD(S) cheif Deve Gowda had established a coalition govertment with Congress 3 years ago. But 12 months in to power, his son decided that they had enough of secular agenda and went to BJP. Now, initially Gowda opposed this move, but later retracted his statements saying it is for the betterment of Karnataka. They had a power sharing “agreement” with BJP, which meant first the Janata Dal will have its CM for 18 months and for next 18 months BJP. Everything was going along nicely until, the time to handover the pwoer to BJP came closer. Gowda father and son accused BJP of trying to kill them and refused tranfer power. Now, in such ...

Thanks to the Thanks giving day in US, we had no work at all in the office. I played Table Tennis for almost 2 hours(I have turned into a good TT player, just that I need a booming serve with fiery top spin). 1 more hour for Indo-Pak Test. Again one hour or so for breakfast and lunch. And if you are thinking that I spent remaining time working then you are absolutely WRONG. My colleagues and I spent rest of the time discussing various topics from mandatory leaves to Bollywood Vs Hollywood. In all it just another day at office doing nothing other than but still earning you around Rs. 800 a day.

Abhiram…. This guy from Nagpur is always full of energy, and is always ready to help others even if he himself is in a mess. During our final semester exam he was wrongly marked as absent, so he had to come all the way from Nagpur to Mumbai to get the result corrected. Fortunately, the matter was resolved and he got 70+ percentage. Anyways, I am not here to discuss his life here. I want to share one joke of his with my friends in vjcomps. It goes like this. .. In the final year of my BE, I used to work (???) for final year project with his room mate Pratik, Sankalp and Sidscope. Since Pratik stayed in hostel, we decided to do development in his room (D-108, if I am not mistaking). Now, Abhiram is all guns blazing when Kapil (another hostelite) is around. Kapil is a shy guy who rarely speaks about girls, forget about other stuff. So when Kapil started talking about some boring topic, Abhiram used to say, “Tell me the truth Kapil, tula ‘TA’ avadate ‘TA’……… ”. As you know we sometim...

“As a successful venture capitalist, Peter Morgan Kash has raised zillions of dollars and started up dozens of successful biopharma companies. He has also lectured on entrepreneurship at the Wharton School of Business and Japan’s Nihon University. One of the earliest lessons he learnt was that there is no success without failure. He started working on Wall Street at the age of 21 and by 30 made a sizeable fortune. “But in no time, I lost virtually all of it,” he writes in his book, Make Your Own Luck: Success Tactics You Won’t Learn in Business School. “What made the loss particularly difficult was that my setback was due entirely to my own poor judgement. No one had squandered my success except me.” As it turned out, this period became one of the richest and most educational times of the New York businessman’s life. He went on to have several successes. “But I do believe that I would never have had them, if I had not failed so spectacularly early on,” he told this writer recently, dur...

Finally, I took the Common Admission Test on Sunday, 18 th November. I liked the way I worked my way to the CAT center. On the previous day as well as on the D-day, I didn’t show any signs of tension or pressure. It was going to be just another test. And it turned out to be one…. The test started at 10.30am. Interestingly, the person with Test Registration No. previous to me was absent, similar to last year. I started with Math, then Verbal and finally DI. Unfortunately my performance in none of the section was satisfactory. Even though, I have got really good marks in Quant, it did put some pressure on me. Quant was really tough, but I should have told myself to calm down as most others would be having tougher time than me. It didn’t really affect my English, but severed my DI. I should not have skipped the 4 DS sums at the start of the section. But it’s always easy to say after the test, what “should” be done and what “should not” be done. It’s all about what you do in those 2 ½ h...

SimCAT 8 has been THE BEST performance by me in all my SimCATs. I was really impressed the way I attempted most of my questions. It felt so much identical to the way I used to write papers in 10 th and 12 th . Even the verbal section was good. I guess the real trick for performing well in verbal is to start off well. I had prepared well for the JFI (Judgment-Fact-Inference) questions and it actually showed in the exam. Previously, I had never got a single correct JFI. This time 4 out of 5 correct answers. In fact I got the last one wrong because I made a mistake in one of the 4 statements. It feels really good now, as I wanted to do well JFI since last year. Ironically, I got less marks in DI as compared to other sections. I wasted 1 5 min on a set which fetched me just 1 correct answer and nothing else. Also when I was left with 5 min with 2 sets to go, I attempted the difficult one which restricted my total attempt in DI. Still if you really look at the marks in DI they are good. ...

Yesterday was my first Night shift in Citi. It was a different experience, totally. In my whole life I have never studied beyond 1.30 am(and that was only once in 10th). So it wasnt going to easy for me. I reached the office at 10 pm. Tried to solve some CAT problems with my colleague. At 10.30 we (actually not me but others, as I am yet to receive full access to the system) started working. I started feeling drowsy post 1 am. By that time others were also bored. So we ate Diwali Mithai given by Citi ( Mast Kaju Katri ). We even listened to some fine Marathi music on YouTube. The best song among them was sung by Abhijeet Kosambi- "कैवाल्याच्या चांदन्याला भुकेला चकोर ". Now I know why he was recalled by the Judges in that competition. He was simply majestic. At 4.30 Ankur gave up and went to sleep. I also took a nap while sitting on the chair. Sleep was getting irresistible. I was waiting for the clock to show 7 am. While returning in the car, I was so unaware...

Thanks to Citi group I know my blood group. It is A+.

I remember Arun Nair who got into Morgan Stanley, narrating his adventure on the day his interviews. He had reached to the Morgan Stanley office along with other students from our college. Most of them were thirsty. So when they reached the Cafeteria, one of them went to get the water. He filled the glass and drank that water only to find that it was HOT AND NEARLY BOILING WATER....... I really used to wonder how can someone be so stupid to make such a mistake. From last week I have stopped wondering about it. Why??? Because I made the same damn old mistake. I wasn't able to taste most of the eatables for nearly a week. It was bad, really bad.

Many people are wondering why I joined Citi Group over IBM. I must say it was not an easy decision to make. The problem was that my parents were completely unhappy with the way I had resigned and started studying at home. They wanted to start working as soon as possible. The feeling then intensified with the demand that I try to take up a job in Mumbai. I applied at many places but most of the companies had completed the placements for the year 2007 with the exception of Citi. The job profile in Citi wasn't really attractive, but the name of the company was more important to me than anything else. It would really help when I apply for management institutes. So I thought it would be good to join Citi. And till now it has been a good experience. Most of my peers know that I am trying for MBA and have said they will help me to study CAT. If you ask me about IBM, I told them the reason and have returned their "Offer Letter". I have night shift today, so lets see how it work...

I know its little late now, but didn't have enough time to Blog.

I have started working in Citi Group. I will tell you more about my first week on Saturday.