Live in the moment
I woke up early to study. I mean I woke up at 9AM. A surprise quiz was to be. But then the lecture is cancelled. No lecture for the whole day. I don't have anything to do. I mean I cannot think of anything to be done in the next 24 hours. It feels so good to be like that. Its amazing weather this morning. The campus looks like a tropical forest in the monsoons. The randomizer in winamp is playing good songs for last hour. For a change net is real fast. I have clean clothes for a week !!:P. Lets see how long this lasts. But till then don't worry be happy !! Enjoy!!
Ashes Beckons !!
The mother of all cricketing battles is here. The India-Australia series didn't live upto the expectation last time around. And India once challenging Autralia do not inspire that confidence now. Also England has played like anything last year and have climbed to no.2. The way they are enjoying their cricket. It looks similar to the way Australia enjoyed there dominance on the world over the last decade. The famous Indian huddle is now England's too. The talk is not of what will be the series score in favour of Australia but whether it will be in favour of Aussies at all. The mental battles have begin long before and England is upto it this time. The smiling Flintoff is enjoying all the attention he is getting as the key to England's succsess. The new kid Kevin Pieterson looks like he will handle the Aussies. Simon Jones and Steve Harmison are bowling well. On the other hand the Aussies are aging. Gillespie was almost out of the team. McGrath has become iffy. Warne is still to be seen. But his name still sends shivers down English-men. Ponting is scoring and Gilchrist is as usual blasting. Hayden is conspicuously out of limelight. The wonder kid Clarke has not been talked about this summer. Aussies do look stronger but I think it is more reputation then current form. England have the best chance since 1987. My heart says let England end the last 20 years of humiliation this time. My head says a close contest that will go Australia's way. Let the sledging begin !!
Whats up ...??
Nothing much. This will be the routine answer I will be blurting out. Should this be like at this palce? Where banks welcome "Future Corporate Leaders" and coax them into THE cheapest loan on campus. Thanks to the ousted HRD minister they have got ample eager leaders-to-be.
Just in the evening me and a batchmate were wondering why things are so easy here. We have got weighty named courses with elaborate contents but in the end I think I don't get much out of it. Yeah I do work for that illusory grade and they do teach good stuff. But after the brief stint in the industry it got more difficult for me to really work for it. But then we are in for a MBA and I didn't have the guts to go for a PhD. A few of the PhD type bachelors' batchmates quit it after masters so I guess that was a good decision. I wouldn't have survived a PhD. Its back to that missing passion or atleast some interesting thing in life I would like to end up doing.
I have begun to realise more and more that the interesting things are the things which you are not supposed to do. I get a job and the work I am supposed to do will be or become boring. The interesting things will be the things I am not supposed to do but I still end up doing. The basketball game in the bunked classes at school. The treks in the Western ghats ditching the bachelors studies. The late night cards at during job-life@Bangalore. When I come to think of it I can't recall many of these:P.
Ahhh the exam blues are getting to me. Will take a break from this place and will try to go North-East. Till then it is the ever loving cribbs. This late night blog reading-writing is good while it pours outside wetting the basketball court day-in and day-out.
Bizarre Questionnaire
Got this from
Jaat boy's blog. Interesting way to express things.
Three names I go by:Chamad, Asun & PJ (Few call me Pankaj these days)
Three screen names I would like to have:Munna bhai (atleast on screen can be the tough guy), ever cool Rahul & Rohit(Badjatya's and Johar's favoutraite). Two of my school friends share these name with the dudes.
Three physical things I like about myself:Height - it gets me into basketball and volleyball teams with absolutely no talent :P, Torso - I think it looks good hidden in a T-Shirt & Huge palms - It helps in experimenting with things mechanical which I love to do. Met only one guy who got bigger palms than mine. Incidentally the current captain of our Basketball team.
Three physical things I don't like about myself:Hair - they just won't settle down once the cut gets 2-3 weeks old. Looks like I am carrying a nest around. I get my most famous name from this ugly nest. I don't hate the name though :), Feet - Its difficult to find the shoe size. I always look for the size first and then choose the look & The Pointy Ears - People will just won't stop noticing them :).
Three parts of your heritage:Patience with anything under the sun. Be it the Japanese guy explaining for 10 minutes how to use a card key when I checked in after an exhausting journey or standing like a fool beside the trader's desk waiting to get his attention. Kind of - "in the family", Home cooked Indian food. I have not had the pleasure of this for a loooong loooong time :( & Cut your own path as if nobody is there for you. May be not I want to express. But quite close.
Three things that scare me:Fear of the dark. I find it difficult to venture into the unkown, make mistakes etc, A trader in one of those foul mood & Walking on the highway outside Joka land. Believe me the trucks out there just rock!!!
Three of my everyday essentials:Caffine (Coffee, Tea or Mountain Dew), News & Idly lying, thinking crap.
Three things I badly want to do before I die:Swinging like a pendulum hanging from a huge crane. I don't know the name of this sport if there is any. Its the stunt there in that Pardes song "Yeh Dil", A trek through a glacier & Kick the shit out of the oh-so-high receptionists in 5-star Indian Hotels.
Three careers I'm considering:A quiet I-Banker earning discreetly in the noisiest office that can be, A nice desk job crunching away numbers & pub-chain icon of India(later in my life).
Three places I want to go:An African Safari, Sahara Desert & an Eskimo settlement.
Two truths and a lie (in no particular order):I had my first crush in 7th standard, I have never had an accident & I absoluetly love MBA education.
