My Pug Marks

I won't deny that it felt a bit weird when I deleted this blog. Anyway, like most good things, this had to come to an end...so here is the last image of the blog before I pressed that 'delete blog' tab. Adieu...

OK...the title would definitely be misleading [can't help the cheekiness, if u know what I mean...] The point is - My Pug Marks is under major revamp. So all you kind visitors out there, keep visiting and excusing the bricks falling here and there [yet again...]. UNDER REVAMP!!!

That's about it I guess. I will be writing once in a while about my MBA life - but here strictly. Things change in a manner as you go about the course here that..ummm..well, you feel like not maintaining a separate blog for it at least ! Add to that certain other means of expressing myself which I have have been thinking for quite some time now. Finally, it comes to implementation to a small extent. Things are working the way they should. It is time time I start to work in consonance with them. I started that blog writing about being inducted into the system. Now, I can safely say - I am one of the 'system'.

MBA - This 3 lettered monster hexes thousands of people across the country every year. Most of them assiduously preparing for their dreams to be made or broken every Sunday at this time of the year. I did too, though not all that hard core prep. Year almost comes to an end, I haven't written much in this blog-diary of mine as I had initially planned. May be, like everything, excitement at times wanes even in an MBA. High hopes and expectations are a few of the vices that yours sincerely indulges in - with the same ungratifying results [whoof! few things never change!] It has been a pretty decent ride - giving you a nice perspective to build upon and move your way ahead as you may deem fit. No one ever shows you a Red light here - though you may feel like creating your own at times. But there is one thing that you definitely realize - it is no mean task to deal with people. People form a B-School. You steer through them and you are a winner. You get muddled up and all you have is a ...

It has been quite some time now that I am here. And as they say - thoroughly inducted into the system. The picture on the left, at times, seems to be true - me being the little red human being and stuff around here being those dreaded aliens, ready to gobble me up. But then, you learn to evade them. Evasive action to events which could turn disastrous otherwise comes to you so naturally that its almost like you were born to do it. Yes - you learn all this in an MBA. You learn how to prepare presentations, you learn how not to prepare presentations and yet be prepared for them. You learn how not to prepare presentations and not be prepared for them and still seem prepared for anything that comes your way! You solve case studies so deftly that it would surprise even the ones who were actually involved in the case - were they anywhere near you. And if somehow - you turn out to be like me - you learn how to be perceived as a good student without opening a single book of a single subject wh...

Yesterday was terrific. Well, nothing much changed. I am still here, managed not to run away from all those things that are supposed to be done, but still. It was an ultimate paradox. I managed to get into Interim Team of IT. For the guy who has been trying to run away from IT ever since he was born in his previous life, it is no mean thing. Ah well, the different thing is that I won't even bother to be in 1 mile radius of a thing called coding. After the I-Team was declared, the selected guys were taken into a room for a cake cutting ceremony. It was fun to say the least. Amidst all the shouting and introductions, senior team members managed to fill our mouths to the brim with black forest cake (it had been ages...we could almost smell the cakes like hungry dogs while entering). Anyway, the legacy continues. Transfer of gyaan from seniors to juniors, about how to go about it. All in all, am looking forward to it. :)

It is the last day of June today. Though, it wasn't that hectic but I guess the week's accumulation is making me feel tired and lazy. I have interview at 2200 hours for IT Team Interim council formation. It has been raining incessantly since yesterday morning,and how so ever I love rains, murkiness of the clouded greys gets to you at times. Especially when you have lots to do. It is all about springing back from this and fighting the whole next week again. Before my post falls in the category of poor-MBA-guy-pissed-with-work category, I will state some learning of the week : One has to learn to wash clothes fast, faster and fastest. Else, use laundry for everything, and I mean everything. Learn to sleep while sitting, develop finer sleeping positions and aspects so that your closed eyes are not visible to the professor. (I have personally slept on the first bench.) Learn to accept that your room mate will not not change his waking up alarm song Mauja hi Mauja and neither would ...