Life at Mumbai --Part1

Been there n back ...
jotted down few things but couldn't upload as I felt bloging at internship would be a bit unethical :D...
So here goes the first post

THE METRO
I remember a professor’s story where he held a jar in the class, filled it with balls and asked “Is this full?” Everyone replied in affirmative and then he filled it with smaller stones , this went on till it was filled with sand and finally he pored 2 cups of coffee ... which if I remember correctly signified that … well we always have time to have a cup of coffee with friends.. the jar being the life .. full of problems, relations etc etc …
When I boarded the metro today from Andheri this story just came flashing by .. but in a different way … the train seemed like this jar filled up to the point where the prof pored this cup of coffee … in this case the compartments was filled with people like a perfect frappe … not an inch remaining ..
As the train stopped at the next station…. I was thinking .. well few people hanging from the door will go .. things will get better .. but to my surprise .. a bunch of people magically managed to get in this already overflowing frappe and everything seemed to be stable again .. 6 people sitting contently in a place for 3 with few more standing on their faces. Everyone looking oblivious of the smelting head and humidity enjoying their journey .. and to my own surprise even I was enjoying it . Then came the next station .. and bang few more got in .. no one seemed to get down .. and the compartment seemed like a magical box accommodating the increasing population . Then came the station Bandra and within a blink of an eye everything was empty … nada.. gone .. zilch.. seemed like a can of beer was opened after a vigorous shaking … everyone managed to get out from the small opening all in merely 10 sec time.. and then the train seemed strangely deserted.. a person or two sitting on a place once occupied by 6 .. the best expression on a face of a small child who got an empty seat ..the one completely empty .. that small girl sat there giving a smile as if the princess has got her throne .. hail thy highness  … and after some time my station came and I got down … happy to have completed my first metro journey alone :D yippee :P.

Dev D

After reading a lot and browsing thru the website Dev D we finally took the chance to watch this first day itself ...
Total people inside the theater 17-20 which included 8 of us iimcians, a couple , a family with elderly people and some bunch of random people.
The elderly people to this movie :O we guessed that it might be the effect ofTOI Review 'cas they din look like the netsavy types.
The movie started with devdas of our times giving a sorta booty call to his paaro asking for her pic of more intimate types :P.. the call of true love makes the lady hunt for a shop to scan her up close n personal pic and send it to mr deol.. makes us wonder the many advantages that ICT(in short the technology, Internet bla bla bla... for those who are unaware of wat ICT means) could have bought to this whole issue empowering my deol of live and direct feed while minimising the net effort by ms paaro..
Having seen her new self makes mr deol aware of the time .... the time has come .... finally he has an aim in his life ....
Dev: paaroo mai aa raha hu ...
Junta in theater: vo mail hume bhi chiye .. hum bhi aate hain
couple in theater: WTF

After few scenes we c ms paaro going to the farm with a mattress rolled on cycle with her love being informed of it ... any guesses y :P... However the couple(here in the hall) seems to have been uninformed abt the movie .. finds the reason for the morning cycling of Ms paaro and cycles out of the haal .. he he he he ..
Somewhere down the line Mr dev having learned abt ms paaro's adventures feels pissed off and run out of the village landing at ms chanda's place who we learn is a victim of the ICT herself... not that c got some bad grade .. but mms case u c ...
later we had the famous emotional aatyachar on full volume .. with us sitting like amir khan of rangeela fame.. with loads of great camera work and nice music ... ending with mr dev recognising the truth ... the true aim .. in short 'THE GYAN'... that its not paaro ... its chanda ... may be 'cas the initial pic was photoshoped or whatever might be the reason with mr dev saying "maine kabhi paaro ko thik se dekha hi nahi "... dev meets chanda again n they lived happily ever after...
Moral of the story ... ICT can empower people and prevent dev from running after some photoshoped gal only to find the truth later

HERE I AM

On the outskirts of a sleepy town there lies a small hamlet that never sleeps.
A place where proffs are respected n revered...
A place whose alums include names like Ajit Balakrishnan,Shantanu Khosla,Mastan Malli ,Indra Nooyi and countless other greats ...
A place where the 'fachhas n fachhis' are welcomed with a BANG .. a BANG which can be heard,felt and lived (yes lived for a week ) but can never be told.. "cas i can tell u but then .. i have to kill u :P"
A place where avg IQ is greater than the avg weight (at least..thats the perception)
A place which the people here call heaven
Welcome to IIM Calcutta ..
Welcome to IIM Chill ..
Chill
'cas ppl can wrk 20 hrs a day n can still find time to play games n pranks :)
'cas ppl manage I-Banks n Rock-Bands with equal ease
'cas ppl play manager n rocker with panache
'cas ppl work hard and party harder

Here I am - this is me
There's no where else on earth I'd rather be
Here I am...........

First week at IIM C

Initially i thought of writing about my first day at iimc which in some way was quite happening ... but then as the days passed every day was more happenin than the previous day and so i decided on this .. the week

Came down to Kolkata with my parents on 16th morning n after a long a slow ride we reached THE place JOKA .
we decide to get fresh in the hotel nearby .. so after the visit to hotel artland .. we entered the hallowed portals of the IIM C
The first impression .. mm well it wasn't so great .. as i came from bangalore (after few days in delhi ) so i found the place tooo humid .. but then there are lakes all around in campus ...
on the gate i met shashank.. our papaji here [:D] he guided me to the reporting place .. ramanujam hostel (aka old hostel) .. the person there .. a cool n smiling man .. made me sign a paper and volia .. i got the room .. the new hostel .. west wing 317 ..
sounded nice .. specially so 'cas it said new hostel .. so obviously new things .. better things then the rest of the hostel ( later we found that its not the case )
....
contd..

I'V DONE IT

Finally .. i can say proudly . yes i have done it :D
Starting with the last blog down this one .... surprisingly .. i converted that as well
and that makes 4 of em .. and it feels heavenly to CHOOSE A COLLEGE AMONG LIST OF IIMs
Dad n Mom are excited :D .. calling each n everyone and m getting a million calls of congratulations ...
Feels heavenly ... feels like a dream come true ..But THIS BIG dream i haven't even dreamt of .. Its like things falling in all the right places and the whole world is working just for me ..
So here i come IIM .. calcutta ... sorry L I K but I'll reject u guys :( kya karu .. hope they don't mind it :D
Now its time to PARTYYY ...
n how i feeeel

after the todays afternoon treat by yours truely .. we went to some shopping .. me n ma friends... went to landmarks and were seeing some books .. then they ask me abt some book :D
and i say .. abe 'its all abt words' le le .. mere ko ek IIM wale ne suggest kiya tha .. now an IIM guy is suggesting you ... saying that .. i felt on top of this world ..

now i'll hover above the top of this world for many more days to come :D

LIFE IS PARTY
ENJOY

मेरी यात्रा ---- भाग चार

This time i thought of not writing this
'cas i was virtually raped (sorry din get ne better word to express my feeling) in the interview
.. reasons ...
1: m stupid
2: i panicked (ya .. i did .. don't konw y)
3: forget it ....

so thats all
no transcript this time ...
will be back ...
Soon

my journey so far 3

met the demi gods on 24th itself ... the interview was such that i felt wat to write ... but couldn't resist penning it down ...

so here it is
24th feb
Monarch Bangalore

GD: nahi hota .. sabko pata hai

Essay topic : Managing climate change ...

easy on ... and one of the panel member was giving us 20 min but the lady member of the panel corrected him .. got the usual 10 min

writing was ok i guess ..

now the great PI

ours was a panel with a lady ... and by the time 2nd interview was over .. the rest of us were completely scared of her ... it was a real bad stress interview ..
my number to the gulliton was very late ... and we all were prepared to face the storm
. ok so there were three members

A the guy who asked acads
G the guy who asked general n political stuff
L the lady ..
M: yours truely ..

L called me in ..

i went behind her to the chamber
M : good afternoon sirs . mam
G:ok.. Mr deepak ..
M: sir .. m not deepak ( ab bolenge ki mistake se tere ko call letter gaya to mai nahi jaane wala .. interview to lena hoga aapko)
A : no no he his Karmendra ..
G: o ok .. found my profile sheet .. ok ok
G: so where are u from
M: jharkhand

G: when was it formed

M: 15 nov 2000

G: good good .. very exact

M : (m wondering .. how come no one is doin ne stress part .. its all so cool)

G: cm

M: bla bla

G: wait .. not of jharkhand .. bihar

M: bla bla

G: major politiciand of jharkhand at formation

M: told

G: where is sibu soren now

M: told . donno .. but all detials abt him .. was cm for 13 days

G: Y

M: told .. and he ws in some murdur case also ..

G: good

G: other states formed with it

M: told

G: capital of uttrakhand

M: blank

G: capital of chattisgarg

M: indore ...

G: is it ..

L: he dosen't know .. u got call frm there ?

M: ya ...

L: n u still dont know

M: its in mp .. i got confused

A: where else is a new IIM

M: shillong

A: applied?

M: ya ... bla bla

A: where is new iit

M: .. none guess

L : he dosen't know .. y will he care abt iit ..

M: (now i am understanding wat is stress interview .. n they are all laughing now)

G: at least you know abt jharkhand .. wats its capital

M: told

G: karnataka

M: told

G:kerala

M: told .. (ab aur mat poocho capital ke baare me please ... )

G: sure ..

M: pucca ... kasam se

G: IIM kaha hai waha

M: IIM K ...

G: ok

L : now .. u got to tell me abt chattisgarh ... it starts with r as well (i said abt ranchi jhar)

M: .. raipur

L: thats good



M:

G: who is meneka gandhi

M: mp// more known for animal right activist

G: animal rights .. ya ya .. good

M:



L: work related

M: bla bla

L: learning from wrk ex

M: told ..

L: only good things .. nothing bad

M: nope

L : grilled on wrk ek

M: convinced em (at least i feel)

L: 2 good goods .. (that when i felt .. they are ok with it)

A: cheking my marksheets

L : m done .. he is too optimist . wat to ask then

A: said abt stayin in company if its so good ..

M: i started with y mba and y iim

L cuts me short .. ya ya we know this

M :

A: you got good marks in graph theory

M: (hat sala . maine dekha hi nahi .. nahi padha )

A: ok wats graph theory

M: (sala aacha marks kaise aaya ) .. cant remember nething. blabber . travelling salsman problem

A: its in graph theory

M: no its in algo

A: wats graph

M: collection of points

A: points ????

M:

M: b/w i got highest in civil

A: y not civil engg then

M: marks not everythin .. its the interest

A: wats ur fav sub

M: os ..ds

A: diff b/w windows n linux

M: user based diff .. then open free bla bla ..

A: thats all user based .. wats in tech

M: mostly same .. monolithic n microkernl talk .. but both now mono.. and L was shaking her head positively

A: ok .. but he is not convinced at all

A: m done

L to G : you wanna ask some more

G: nope .. m done

L: ok ..take a chocolate and go

M: cadbury eclairs (abhi bhi rakhi hai )



thats all

so ab pata nahi

this is it ...

Basically i thought it will be grilling interview ... but it wasn't .. they laughed once .. triedn twice or thrice but i kept smiling ..just the thought that i was attending the IIM A interview was thrilling enough for my teeths to stay out ..
SO thats it ...
now rest 3 more IIM to go

we'll c them [:D]
cheers
K