I am fine :)

Its midnight !!!
MBA gives me many such midnights in my room/forum to be alone and read something. I have started to enjoy this life style, some times there is pressure but I think it boosts my performance. We had a marketing report due last week and believe me... it was one of those most boring experiences, though I like to research and compile data but somehow this time it was different. I am looking forward to the presentation we have to prepare next week, that should be fun. I am enjoying the team I am working with though we are only four (others have six or seven) but a little pressure is always good for my work.
It has become very cold and windy here and I ended up buying a good warm jacket for myself. I am waiting for the snow fall now, I am sure this beautiful place will become more serene with those white particles everywhere.
There is a month left for exam and I will get a chance to be in London with Shekhar during X-mas and New Year, It is amazing ....I used to plan for new year vacations for friends every year back home in India , I hated to be in Hyderabad for new year celebrations. Here I am again, fleeing Cranfield at year end, somehow the tradition hasn't been broken.
There is a nice little market in Milton Keynes, a city nearby and I had some Indian snacks there... and felt good about it. I have been a gourmet always but I am sure the food will taste better when I am back in India.

This is the first evening in cranfield when I do not have anything to read (formally) since the course started. Workload is heavy but managable and I have started liking the place along with playing Badminton. I never knew resume building can be so tough that I spent about 10 hours breaking my head about it and I was still unsatisfied with the outcome however, it is time to move on now , you really do not have time to reflect or think about the things in a years' (10 months to be precise ) MBA. It is also the time when boundries of the subjects have started to merge and everything seems co-related when I look at the so called "Big Picture" (Do not ask me what is that).
I invariable miss home, family and friends when the work load is high but I have been talking to them for atleast half an hour per day which makes me happy and keeps me going. I specially miss not being in India during winters when everything feels so good , no power cuts, food is tastier and the weather makes you sleep longer.
It has started getting cold over here and I suspect it will snow before the monthend, it will be nice experience. Sometimes it amazes me how much progress UK or US have made inspite of extreme climatic conditions and I am sad that India has not done well inspite of bearable weather all year long (I am not India-bashing , its just a comparision).

I think rest in the next post ......

Banvra Mann !! Dekhne chala ek sapna ( Mad Psyche... Dreams)

Here it goes ..........., done with the office now. Iam in UK this 26th to start a new chapter of life. New people to meet, A lot to look forward to and many people to miss. I may be in awe of the opportunities/threat stare at me but there is no looking backward now.
Let us see where the "Road Taken" takes me this time. I have got a few friends now , its welcome feeling afterfew days of solitude , I am not a person to make who makes friends instantly and I am sure that this characterstic is not going to make my mba life easier. We had a nice party tonight. It was called an "international night" , we were suppose to wear our national dress. I do not know what my national dress is but I just wore a T shirt and Jeans since most of the people in India prefer to wear that. Its been only two days but the days have been busier than the ones I spent in office and people say that we will get more work in coming days :))) .. hmmm , I do not want to think about that right now ......................

Begining of the End.........

Time flies. Its been five years. I felt a lump in my throat when I was leaving my college and here I am again .. ready to be back at school. CSC has given me opportunity to serve overseas before and I think I should take the coming year as a tour, but a tour like never before. A tour where I have decided to study consciously unlike my previous studies where the path was already suggested and I was happy to walk down the road which was more travelled. I am currently digesting the fact that I will be away from India for a long time and for longer times in future probably. The decisions will have to measured now. If everything goes per plan, coming Monday will be my last day in office for this year and a new journey to unknown planes will start on next Monday. I think the "unknowns" are also "measured" this time. Lets see how the END plays itself.

Poet.

Again i want to know the meaning of poet and i searched in Online oxford dictionary. it says "a person possessing special powers of imagination or expression"
Makes me think that its a very wide definatinon and takes almost every human to account, Dont you think everyone of us posses special power of imagination or expression ???
I am no good at english ... so i will accept what they say ! they are the experts.

What good a poet is ? Someone who writes something not because they want the world to be a better place but because they can not resist writing when the moment comes.
Look around and you will find many poets ( My defination of poet is someone who is writing poetry here ) and ask them who you are ??? most of the repiles which have come to me are : I am a software engineer. :) .... well this is what they do for a living .... i am not sure if that is what they are ! i belong to the same catagory.

anyway it is mid night and i should sleep now.

Hectic Days

Last few days have been very hectic here ! Lots of work and pressure to cop up with Professional as well as personal front. I think its good, Good to have a training beforehand or early in life rather than late.

But then so little time to stop and think about the things going on in life makes me question the worth of all the work i am putting up. Though the humor is .. Your boss will always think " You could have done better " , hmmm.... sorry sir i dont share the same point of view with you and dont argue with me about this.

Work will never end .. someone will do it and at this time it just happens to be me. I have realized i call India more when i have a lot to do. Hope my family does not find out this , They would wish me happy long working hours then !

Badlaav

Jeevan ki raah na badli humne ,
Baton ke sandhan humne badal liye,
Mann ke bhav na badle humne ,
Bahar ke paridhan humne badal liye .....

Neenv na badli apni humne,
Bachchon ke nirmaan humne badal liye ...
Manavata ki paribhasha na badli humne ,
Arajakta ke kirtimaan sare badal diye...

Prem ka varnan ( Krishna ??? ) na badla humne ,
Jeevan ke anusandhan sare badal diye...
Na mein badla , na tum badle .....
Jeevan ke sangram humne sare badal diye...