Things to do

I never believed in the New Year resolutions because I could never keep them.... But in the coming year I thought that let's give it a one last attempt....So here I present the list of Things to do in 2006 :- (not necessarily in the order given below)

1. A trip to Goa and spend a moonlit night on a lonely beach all by myself. Just me, the beach, the moon and the stars and nobody else.
2. A new job.......Gosh I am so desperate to make a shift from my current job.
3. Read a whole lot of books from Kafka to Anurag Mathur, there is a long list of books that I want to finish off in the coming year.
4. Take some time off and go for bungee jumping and white water rafting.
5. Go for swimming often....One activity that I really miss after graduating from the B-School.
6. Save some money.
7. Be connected to my friends.....At times I take them for granted because I know that they are there always for me.
8. Thank heavens more often.

Creativity

I am always intrigued when somebody talks about Creativity and Innovation. Are they one and a same thing. If they are the same then why the hell are there two words in the English dictionary. What are the factors that lead to craetivity or innovation; is there in your DNA inherited from your parents who in turn inherited the same from theirs or is it that it can be nurtured within you by careful thought and perseverance.

A dotcom recently caught my fancy while I was just browsing about. You either like it or you don't but you just can't ignore it like any other dotcom.

www.dontclick.it

The Visit to Hyderabad

Vibs and Me Dancing away to glory( that too when I am no good at dancing)

Crazy Pooh

SCMHRD Gang @ EAT STREET

Wow! Am back after a whirlwind tour to Hyderabad! It was a long overdue and I finally decided that it was high time that I take a break from Pune. I left on Friday and was back on Monday morning. Before I realized what Hyderabad was all about the trip was over but then the duration of the trip is not directly proportional to the enjoyment and the satisfaction one may derive from a trip. 'You may live a lifetime in a second or you may decide not to live for the whole of your life.' Had a great time visiting places like Charminar, Laser Show at Lumbini Park,Hussain Sagar, Dinner on the roof-top of Eat Street, Hi-Tech City and a lake there err....I forget the name....It was nice to see fellow SCMHRDians out there busy with their lives. It was really nice to see good old Niyogi Dada. It seems that time hasn't brought about much change in him; whatever change has happened is for good. I could seem him ooze with a lot of hope and optimism. He still is a gem of a person at heart and hats off to him for that. Niyogi Da, I wish you all the very best in your life and the kind of grind that you got through was worth everything.

Thank you to all the people out there in Hyderabad for making my trip a memorable one.

PS: Niyogi Da makes an amazing cuppa tea.

Day Before Yesterday

Life never ceases to amaze me. At every turn it throws up something suprising. Surprises over the course of time have been used with pleasant feelings but in my case that's not the case always. Surprises at times are really surprising when you really can't hold that chuckle back, at times they are depressing but you can't really help wondering at them.

During the course of my education I thought that I am the only aimless vagabond ( I know that it is inappropriate to use aimless and vagabond together but then at time you can't really help). Rest of my batch seemed to be eloquent about their future plans, dreams, ambitions as if they had seen their future life in a 70 mm Coloured Movie. They seemed to know the year when they would be getting married, when they would be having kids, when they would be switching jobs, when they would be CEOs, CIOs and CFOs. The other day after a brief discussion I was surprised(evoked no reactions but just a chuckle) when after a brief discussion with my friends I found that I am not the only one who is marooned in this ocean of uncertainity. Feels good when you have company.

MBA Gas

Management education in India, I believe, still has a long way to go. Education in India is a lucrative business and management education is all the more thriving. Out of the 1000-odd so called B-Schools only a handful offer you which can be termed as world class.

In most of the B-Schools the concepts are not properly imparted and that's where the root cause of all problem lies. When the fundamentals are weak one can't expect a strong superstructure. This problem then snowballs into something worse; poor application of concepts in the work life.

The B-Schools raise the expectations of students to such a level that they forget to walk on the ground and tend to lose the connection with the reality. Furthermore, they bloat the bellies of students to such an extent that they no longer can hold it back for more than 2 Years. Once they step in the corporate life their bloated bellies release something dangerous call the 'MBA Gas'.

Rendezvous with Solitude

Past few week have been turbulent, can't handle my mood swings. I feel depressed at times and at times I am back to my normal self. There seem to be too many loose ends hanging which need to be attended to but at the moment I really can't single out a cause(s) that is responsible for such a behaviour. The other day, Ramu(Vyom), my roomate and I went for a movie; we thought that would be a constructive way to spend the Saturday night. For me it offered a chance to keep aside my worries for sometime; unfortunately the movie remedy too did not work.

"Misery begets misery"; similarly "Frustration begets frustration"......All of us seem to be like a rudderless ship, we know that we have to set sail but what we don't know is our destination. "What do I want in my life?" What is that would bring satisfaction and happiness back into my life?" I am unable to answer these questions because I really don't know and hence I try to evade these questions....My motto in life nowadays seems to be very simple 'When in doubt I quit'.