XL parivaar

Heres a poem that i wrote for XL utsav...

Dekho dekho aaj mila hai XL parivaar
mila hai XL parivaar

Naa hai aaj CV banane ki chinta
Naa he sir pe OB assignment ki talvaar
Dekho dekho aaj mila hai XL parivaar
mila hai XL parivaar

Saath hasenge, Saath rahenge,
Saath milega faculty ka pyaar,
Aaj to tumhei saath dikhega BM aur IR
Mila hai XL parivaar
Mila hai XL parivaar

Naa hai aaj F aane ki chinta
Naa hee hai class participation ki maara maar
Aaj to yahan par milenge dilon se dil ke taar
Mila hai XL parivaar
Mila hai XL parivaar

I welcome all our friends from abroad
Aur karta hoon aap sabko namaskaar
Aao dekhein aaj humaara XL parivaar
humaara XL parivaar

If..

If u r a bird,
I shall be your flight..

If u r a candle,
I shall be your light..

If u r a string,
I shall be the kite..

If you are the moon,
I shall be the night..

If u r a soldier,
I shall be your might..

If you be with me,
I shall be your delight!

If...

MBA ka jhol

Iss MBA mei jo tu jhol raha hai,
Dil dagmag dagmag dol raha hai,
aakhir B-school mei aaya kyun tha,
Din bhar yeh sabse bol raha hai..

Law ratne mei kya hee kalaa hai
OB theories se kya hua kisi ka bhalaa hai?
Naukri se hee bhaag ke aaya tha tu,
Ab naukri ke hee peeche pada hai!!!

Last minute mei assignment mail kiya,
Project report mei kuch bhi pel diya!
Mid term mei jab prof ne fail kiya,
Uske dhakke se do din facbooking curtail kiya!

XL ki kudiyaan hongi very very smart,
Par humaari to nahi hai pass hone tak ki aukaat!
kahan hai time ki kisi ke liye try karein,
phir manaa hua to to apna bheja fry karein!

Socha tha ki duniya ka sab gyaan seekh jayenge,
Apna faadu bplan banayenge,
Ab to assignments ka itna dher hai,
Ki sochte hai ki bas waapas kab jayenge!

Iss XL mei jo tu jhol raha hai,
Dil dagmag dagmag dol raha hai,
naukri mei hee achcha tha tu,
Din bhar yeh sabse bol raha hai.

Complicated...

Well...blogging after a long long time...this one was a gtalk status message, which has finally taken the shape of a blog entry...


Complicated...

I am a socialist,
trapped in a capitalist world;
I am a freelancer,
who works for a company;
I am a boy,
trapped in the body of a man;
I am a poet,
who makes power point presentations;
I am a philosopher,
who has an engineering degree;
I am a dreamer,
who lives in a practical world;
I am traveler ,
who has no vacations;
I am a thinker,
whose thoughts do not find acceptance;
I am a romantic,
who has no tale to tell;

well..I am just a simple guy
in a complicated world!

I'm alive

Yeah...I'm alive !!!!!
finding new power plants in amreeka at office...googling for plant names...manually comparing across databases...reading news reports to make sure that plants are operational...manually filling their details in a spreadsheet...
drinking loads of black coffee and diet pepsi...
listening to some good music (oh my savior).....
selling myself for lots of Indian rupees...
which turn out to be just a few US dollars (damn that currency)...
the sale deed is known by the fancy name called a 'pay package' (hey whats ur package??? - the only question we ask abt a job)....
doing the most irritating research here so that an uneducated firang can present it to others...
and thinking whats better - this research or being a garbage collector???
obviously the latter!!!!!

struggling..falling...and then just trying to stay afloat...
cursing...bitching...swearing...

yeah..this is the age of outsourcing...
outsourcing ur filth to poor Indians...
and i get a sadistic pleasure in this recession...
when the firangs realize what it is to struggle...

copying...searching...pasting...
data data and more data...
holding on...
yeah..I'm alive...
just alive

The Answer is blowing in the wind...

We did engineering because everybody was doing it and it looked good

We dreamt of getting into IIT coz people in IIT were the best

We chose colleges on the basis of reputation

We chose branches on the basis of cut off ranks (not me though :) )

We chose to do an MBA coz it was the ‘in thing’

We prepared for CAT because IIMs are the best and IIM grads get the best jobs

We tried for software jobs because they paid the best.

Some of us took Consulting jobs coz its great for a Non MBA to get a consulting profile

We took Science in 11th and were happy and proud of the fact and the same 'we' are now studying Economics and are happy and proud of the fact.

We want to get into I Banks because Finance is the big thing
And If the Finance bubble bursts we shall surely migrate to the next big thing

We read novels when we have to prepare for CAT

We do social work so that we can build our profile for B Schools

We write in our resumes, things we never did

We talk all nicely to our bosses because we have to impress them

We do good things secretly(study/prepare for CAT) and publically deny any such efforts

When we do not crack CAT we say "I was not preparing"

When we cannot face the insult of rejection we say "I could not clear the DI cut off..baaki sab clear hai"

We never say that we didnt clear English cut off coz one who doesnt know English is considered backward

We study coz we want to get marks

We look at the package when we apply for a job

We say that a girl is "sahi" coz of her looks and not her intellect

We spend more time on orkut than on actually meeting friends

We (girls) do not want 'fraandship requests' on orkut but we never lock our album and always put our best pics

We spend more time worrying about losing weight than actually exercising

We are in love with the feeling of being in love

We spend more time wondering "How he is doing so well" rather than "How I can do well"

We shout at people who do not follow traffic rules and we ourselves break them when we arent in a mood to follow

We change our hairstyle after an Aamir Khan movie

We start body building after a Shahrukh Khan movie

We can get up at 5 to watch India-Australia match; We cannot get up at 9 to watch the Republic Day parade

We worship our cricketers when they win T20 World Cup; we paint their houses black when they exit from the World Cup

We get senti after watching Taare Zameen Par but we never pursue our interests

We watch Rang De Basanti, get inspired and forget about it

We read such articles, think for a while and then forget about it....


Will we ever listen to ourselves ?

As Dylan wud have said -
The answer my friend is blowing in the wind
The answer is blowing in the wind

My Corporate Resume

After slogging it out in a leading Consulting Firm of the world it makes a lot os sense to prepare a Short Corporate Resume which can be used in various project proposals of the company. Being an employee committed to excellence, i have prepared a small document enumerating my glorious professional career. It is a token of appreciation for the invaluable opportunity provided by my employer.

So here goes My Corporate Resume -

Mr ABC joined #@% International, a Consulting firm based in New Delhi in June 2007 as a Research Assistant. His main areas of expertise include copy and pasting any form of data. His core competency includes manually matching varied data sets from different sources and designing colourful templates for them. Mr ABC currently handles the entire data for #@% International’s PQR Tool (Name Changed). Mr ABC not only checks the database for inconsistencies (which are in abundance) but also spearheads the Herculian task of entering the data in the database. Mr ABC has till now matched about 10,000 units and is expected to overtake the stock market index (approx 21,000) by mid of 2008. Mr ABC has also made an onsite visit to Fairfax and has done copy paste in USA. Mr ABC also displayed the qualities of a world class call centre executive when he undertook the task of Fuel Tax Research in which he worked at night and called up all the 50 states of USA. His interests lie in copy paste, capacity matching, firm builds. He has presented a paper on “Efficient Copy Paste Techniques” and “Copy Paste without sleeping” in various reputed journals which could never come up in the market. Mr ABC, being a socially responsible citizen, participated in Sundar Lal Bahuguna’s ‘Chipko Movement’ which protested against deforestation. He is also the brand ambassador for several world famous glue brands like ‘Fevi quick’, ‘FeviStick’ etc. He is currently involved in authoring the book titled “Copy Cat” which shall be published by Nand Lal Daya Ram Publishers.

Mr ABC holds a degree in Copy Paste Engineering from NSIT (sister concern of DCE), Faculty of Technology, Delhi University.

CP @ CP (Copy-Paste @ Connaught Place)