Life Reloaded!!!

For past 1 week I have missed 95% of my calls and I can’t figure out how!!!

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/on-the-same-watch/571689/ I remember this issue coming up during one of the test matches in Kolkata when the match starting at 9.30 would mean losing some daylight. It would usually end early because of lack of day light.

आयुष्य हा चित्रपट मानला, तर त्याच्या दिग्दर्शनाची संधी आपल्याला मिळत नाही.

My dear old friend Sidscope has been chosen to represent XLRI in the Numero Uno competition at IIM B. All the best to him and our very own NITIE candidate Tejas Deoras who is also my classmate in NITIE :) Let the best person win!!!

I may not be the best of people to generate original ideas but I am the original Copy Ninja :)

It all started when my dear friend Abhiram sent a mail to vjcomps about “Tying A Knot”. It was a prank mail with a photo showing the procedure of how to Tie a tie (It helped me to learn the technique). I thought I might also try to fool some of my friends like that. But damn!! Except for one person no one replied though the mail backfired on me when Ayush forwarded the mail to the whole section C of NITIE. Some people in my class actually believed it and came to my room running :) While telling this to Susmit, we got an idea, to use a similar prank on my school friends. Since I had already sent the mail, I could not be the person being “engaged”. Susmit took that task :) We started making a plan about how to convince people that he is actually getting engaged. We wanted to the news to be spread but at the pace which we wanted. Finally we came up with a strategy where I was going to have a mail conversation with Susmit where he will confess that he is getting engaged and I will then f...

Life seems to have become a little slower nowadays. I am not saying it is dull but the pace has slowed down a bit. And yea I am not really complaining. I was just wondering what is the reason- Is it because of the rapid pace during Module 2 exams ( 6 papers in 3 days).. Or is it the Module 3 is actually so much chilled out in NITIE.. Or is it because I am lazy enough not to participate in any case study competition Or may be because I am not writing any certification exam Or is it the effect of my chat with 2 of my best friends where we concluded that we are trying to be part of the rat race started when we went to college. We want to do things because others are doing it because if you don’t do it you feel that you will remain behind. You forget about the basic enjoyments, going for “building the future” but “forgetting the present”. Ahh, I have also started becoming philosopher it seems :)

There will be few changes coming up in the “theme” of this blog, so stay tuned.

There they go again!!! We are again forced by the animators of Naruto to watch few more filler episodes so that Anime does not catch up with Manga series. The fight between Sasuke and Killer Bee had just ended and I was eagerly waiting for the Naruto-Pain battle. But that would have meant getting too close Manga storyline. There in the Manga series, writers remind me of Indian Television soaps like “Kyonki …”. They have their own way dragging the fights from one chapter to another. Before taking 2 weeks break for new years they show Itachi appearing at the end of the final chapter of the year. Everyone is excited as to how Itchi resurrects himself from the dead. And it turns out that he was just an illusion created by Sasuke to distract Danzo. Anyway, the “Izanagi” thing was something new that has come up in the series and next week’s issue will be interesting with finale of fight between Sasuke and Danzo.

जगण्याच्या वारीत मिळे ना वाट साचले मोहाचे धुके घनदाट आपली मानसं आपलीच नाती तरी कळपाची मेंढरास भीती विठ्ठला कोणता झेंडा घेऊ हाती…. (चित्रपट: झेंडा)

२ आठवड्यांपूर्वी मी माझ्या मित्रांना गवालिया टंकला भेटलो होतो, त्या वेळीचे हे संभाषण… मित्र १: अरे त्यादिवशी आपल्या मध्ये क्ष गोष्ट ठरली होती ना. सिध्देश तुला माहित नव्हत काय? सिध्देश: (प्रश्नार्थक चेहरा ठेवण्यचा प्रयत्नात) नाही रे… मित्र २: माहित आहे रे त्याला, acting करत आहे तो सिध्देश: ही काय फालतुगिरी आहे? तूच तर मला म्हणाला कि १ ला सांगू नकोस की तू मला हे सांगितल आहेस. मित्र २: अरे हो पण नंतर मी सांगितलं त्याला कि तुला माहित आहे जे आम्हा दोघांना माहित आहे मित्र १: पण मला त्याच्या आधी माहित होते कि सिध्देशला माहित आहे. तोच मला म्हणाला होता. सिध्देश: मी कधी म्हणालो? मित्र १: त्या दिवशी, blah blah सिध्देश: ohh, त्या वेळी!!! पण मला तर blah blah अस सांगायचा होतं तुला. तू काही भलताच अर्थ घेतलास. मित्र १: हो आणि मला वाटल कि तुला सर्व माहित आहे. सिध्देश: (नेहमीपेक्षा जरा जास्त confused होउन) अरे हो पण मला माहित नव्हतं की तुला माहीत आहे कि मला माहित आहे तुमच्याबद्दल….. (Now totally lost in what he said) (हशा)….

The badminton court in NITIE is being demolished, where a new hostel will be built in next few years to take care of the increase in the intake. This was the place where we all gathered during Groove ‘09, where we had our first batch meet, where we performed for TOPA, where we had our Mandi meet, where we were scolded by PlaceCom 15 for being lazy, careless, where we organized DENOVO ‘09, where we had our fresher's party, where we gave Farewell party to our Seniors. That place is no more part of NITIE, but it will always be part of our memory…

Manish Pandey at his best!!!

“I don’t believe in Right Decisions… I take decisions and then make them right” -Alexander The Great

Let me talk about the teachers and the subjects we had in the previous Trimester.We had 8 subjects. Which were- Marketing Management   – II : Dr. Neeraj Pandey took this subject and was decent in teaching us the fundas of B2B Marketing. What I like about his teaching style is his case studies. Due to time constraint he could give us only 3 cases but the way these cases were discussed by every group was amazing. I liked this subject more than MM –I, even though we had the award winning Prof. Ranjan Chaudhari for MM –I. Organizational Behavior : Whenever we will talk about case studies, we would think of OB. Dr. Sumi Jha gave us an opportunity to boast in front of other sections about the number of case studies we got for OB in the whole Mod. At least one case study per week was the norm here. Again I liked this one more than CS in previous mod. Operations Research : One of the easiest but still the toughest subjects of the Mod. The kind of syllabus we had, anyone would ...

Mumbai lifted the Ranji trophy for the record 39th time!!! Here is the news - http://www.cricinfo.com/ranjisuperleague2009/content/current/story/444048.html Something from the archive which shows the spirit of Mumbai Ranji Team - http://www.cricinfo.com/magazine/content/current/story/331177.html

  तिळगुळ घ्या आणि गोड गोड बोला :)

It is so sad that the badminton court-cum-place where we used to have all our parties and functions would be demolished to build the new Hostel :(

कैसे बताये क्यूँ तुझको चाहे यारा बता न पाए बातें दिलों की देखो जुबां की आँखें तुझे समझाएं तू जाने ना तू जाने ना तू जाने ना तू जाने ना   मिल के भी हम ना मिले तुमसे ना जाने क्यूँ मीलों की है फासले तुमसे ना जाने क्यूँ अनजाने हैं सिलसिले तुम से ना जाने क्यूँ सपने है पलकों तले तुम से ना जाने क्यूँ  कैसे बताये क्यूँ तुझको चाहे यारा बता न पाए बातें दिलों की देखो जुबां की आँखें तुझे समझाएं तू जाने ना तू जाने ना तू जाने ना तू जाने ना   निगाहों में देखो मेरी जो हर बस गया वोह है मिलता तुमसे हूँ बहु जाने तेरी आँखें थी या बातें थी वजह हुए तुम जो दिल की आरज़ू तुम पास हो के भी तुम आस हो के भी एहसास हो के भी अपने नहइ  ऐसे है हमको गिले तुम से ना जाने क्यूँ मीलों की है फासले तुमसे है जाने क्यूँ तू जाने ना तू जाने ना तू जाने ना तू जाने ना   ख्यालों में लाखों बातें यूँ कह गया बोल कुछ ना तेरे सामने हुए ना बेगाने भी तुम हो के और के देखो तुम मेरे ही बन...

It was day 2 of module 3 and we already had our first free lecture. After seeing the timetable, I realize now, why my seniors kept telling me that Mod 3 the most chilled out mod of NITIE. On all five days we don’t have more than 3 lectures. Teachers on the first 2 days were good. Good as in, they seem to have knowledge and experience of the subject. Most teachers of course at this stage of their life can be a bit boring :) Attendance was 18 and 22 for the first 2 days respectively(out of 51 students). People would start coming from tomorrow with most of them coming on Sunday. Tomorrow I have my first elective which I selected myself – we were never allowed to select the electives in VJTI, they were thrust on us by the computer department!!!

I seriously don’t remember the last time I watched a Marathi movie in a theater, so according to my memory this was the first time I saw a Marathi Movie in a theater. And where?? The center point of recent controversy, Bharatmata, whose owners have been asked by NTC to vacate the place. Well, I will discuss that point in another post. Now, let us talk about the movie. I must admit it was a pleasure to watch Natrang in Bharatmata. The theater is located in central Mumbai near Lalbaug, which was dominated by Marathi mill workers in the yesteryears. Viraj had gone to PVR Lower Parel to buy the tickets. But since it would have cost us Rs. 150 each, I felt that it was too costly and asked Viraj to watch the movie in some other theater or on some other day. Since, Bharatmata was the nearest theater he decided to go there. I also left from home to join him. When I went there, there was a huge line for ticket. I didn’t tell Viraj but I had just 30 bucks in my wallet at that time, but what y...

Came back to NITIE yesterday evening. It is time to get back to study and start blogging again :)

Just saw the Aussies beating Pakistan in a test match. Australia were bowled out for a paltry 126 and conceded a deficit of 206. They were 260 odd for 8 and it looked certain they were on the verge of losing a home test against Pak after 14 years. But an amazing century by Hussy (with a help from Kamran Akmal who dropped him thrice in a day) who pushed the score to 381 along with Siddle and Bollinger. And then an all round performance by their bowlers brought them an unlikely victory. Congratulations to the Aussies!!!

Interesting article about Dravid - http://www.cricinfo.com/page2/content/story/436289.html