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This was one company that I’d been looking forward to get in since quite some time. Not that I’m determined to get into it but for the fact that this being first company, it would have been a good ego-booster to crack the first interview. Anyways, after a lot of hardwork, preparation and groundwork, (yeah, I do work hard at times) I found myself cruising along all the strenuous four rounds of

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Like all good things come to an end, so do the torturous things: P. The majors despite being overwhelming and daunting always end on a happy note coz somewhere in our minds we know that the majors can hardly effect the entire portfolio of grades that one expects and deserves. Now here let me caution you, when I say 'deserve' I'm also referring to the non-academic efforts that guys put in pleasing

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The most dreadful period of my stay @ IIT Delhi is back. Yeah ..its the majors. This time majors are no different but the completion of majors would jolt everyone into action. I'm talking about the placements that would begin from the next day of our majors.So lots of things are at stake and cant afford to be complacent atleast at this juncture.So guys its time to study and prepare for placements

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The winter is back in Delhi and like everytime its shivery. Its almost the same every year but then this year its late by atleast a fortnight. Don't know much technicalities about its delay but I was quite happy with it.The chill running through my nerves makes me even more lazy and unproductive (not that I'm otherwise when the weather's good). I really had a tough time clearing the dusty winter

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Gosh..That's probably one of the peculiar questions anyone could ever ask me because...Firstly, you'll end up forcing me to justify a fact that's quite obvious even to the dumbest person imaginable.Secondly, you'll also have to bear the brunt hearing a lot of weird jargon, theories, matrices, analysis, graphs, facts etc. supporting the answer. Don't blame me, that's precisely why I would be paid

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Confused as I am due to the various issues that are currently going through my mind, I seem to be using this as an excuse for my slothfulness. Right now some of the issues that are currently troubling me are...JLPT exam on Dec 3rdMajor exams starting on Nov 27thTerm paper submissions by Nov 15thPreparation for PlacementsCV buildingGuitar classes etc.But the only things I'm able to do right now is

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Phew !!! What a party it was and the timing couldn’t get any more perfect. The party marked the culmination of the torture we had to go through for our minor exams (well ..actually I’m talking for others over here). Well first to get to the basics, this party was thrown by three of our friends who were from the Telecom group and who received scholarships totaling about 1Lakh from Bharti group for

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Strange how fast time flies and am constantly reminded of it during the minors. Every time we have minors, I really wonder if I had learnt anything significant enough to be tested by an examination. But then the IIT system begs to differ with my views and so I am obliged to the system.I better get my act together to hit a decent GPA this semester.So guys again …. Wish me luck!!!

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This is one of my passions that is yet to be realized and can hardly wait for the day when I can strum away songs from my guitar. Here I think it would be appropriate to give some brief history of my tryst with guitar.Class 2 - First time I was exposed to a guitar, prior to that I had only watched in television. This was when I felt and touched a guitar. Looked very interesting and

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Today we had organized a Strategy Rostrum at our institute. (For the uninitiated please visit http://www.iitdmba.com/rostrum). This is a sector-wise full day event where we call upon experts from the industry to educate and enlighten us (read mostly as a part of placement process).This particular rostrum was special in many ways. Firstly, I was the coordinator of this entire event and that meant

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Delhi for some strange reason has never appealed to me as a city to live in. There's no night life as things get shut down after 8 in the night, the pollution, traffic, insecurity, extreme weather conditions and the list goes on. Even the scenic locations, wide roads and the chicks couldn’t make up for it.Anyways coming to the point, I'm talking about the Dengue epidemic in Delhi. What started as

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Day before yesterday, there was a notice informing the students about a possible contamination in the drinking water and we were asked to refrain from drinking the same. Soon all hell broke loose in the campus with students running around to stock as many mineral water bottles as possible. Within a couple of hrs there was a scarcity of mineral water in the campus and lazy ones like me had to go

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They are back again. This time with a lesser vehemence (courtesy - the subjects that I had chose for this semester). But nonetheless are very important.Also this happens to be my last chance to hype-up my paltry CGPA so that I can look 'worth considering' to the companies which would come down to recruit us sometime in the december. So no way I can afford to screw up this time.So guys...wish me

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Many a times in my life, whenever I had an opportunity to test my abilities, I always used to shirk them. I am still not sure if it was because of the fear of failure or my laziness that should be blamed, but I always comforted my ego with the fact that if only I wasn’t lazy. What if I lacked abilities and was covering up with my laziness ?? Well could be true but that thought was ostracized as

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This is one of the games that had been based on the popular game ‘Notpro’ from deathball.net. I’m sure many of you have tried your luck in clearing the mind-boggling levels in the puzzle game. Well let me get back to the game I’ve been hooked upon for the past 3 nights.‘Klueless’ is a game designed by IIM-Indore guys for their annual b-school festival ‘IRIS’ which acts as a prelude to their

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All the way while traveling from hyd to Delhi, my mind was deluged with errant thoughts about the unsupervised life and biological clock at DMS. I was kinda scared and excited at the same time as everyday in Delhi starts with an impalpable nothingness and it’s only with the gradual lapse of time certain priorities and schedules get fixed for the day.And that’s how things are over here. Had got a

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Well...I'm sorry for the misleading title but frankly, the experience was nothing short of it (not that I had experienced it earlier...but I’m sure about it). For the uninitiated, I'm referring to my vacation @ Hyd which formally ends today and tomorrow morning I head off to Delhi to continue my so-called education.With today, I lose all my privileges of a pampered-spoilt-brat and have to start

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It’s been a one helluva trip to chennai despite being very short. Caught up with my brother and managed to make a quick trip to 'Mahabalipuram' too. Chennai was a bit hotter than Hyderabad and thankfully wasn’t sultry. It was kinda pleasant with intermittent showers greeting me.Mahabalipuram was stunningly beautiful. It was a great sight to view the ancient structures which I always used to

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Yeah...after a deliberate effort to abstain myself from all the distractions until i complete my report, I'm back to take upon life as it usually is for me in Hyd. Ready to hit the streets, watch movies, freak out with pals and burn my pockets. I've been cursing myself for having to work on the project during the times with the 'hyd-weather-at-its-best'. I wonder if I'd ever get bored spending

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Coming back to hyderabad is always a pleasure for me. I get entitled to uninterrupted lazing around with timely delicious food and an accent to satiate my driving passion. I can comfortably let someone pause my life and run it in that mode for eternity without me complaining for more. That’s precisely how I feel @ home...Anyway ...need to shrug off all the laziness till i finish and mail my

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Strange how time flies by. Just seemed like yesterday when we were going through our joining formalities of our summer internship and now we are off back to the place from where we came. It’s been an amazing experience here @ IBM, and giving due respect to Murphy's Laws, things eventually fell into place as I reached towards the end of my Internship. People around me have been very cooperative

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Yeah ..this is very unfortunate. I have been trying to access various blogs since yesterday and have found that all of them were down which i thought to be some temporary problem with blogger until i saw today's newspaper. Here it goes.." Immediately after 7/11, the department of telecommunication (DoT) issued a fiat to the 150-odd internet service providers (ISPs) to clamp down on a handful of

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Dear Terrorist,Even if you are not reading this we don't care. Time and again you tried to disturb us and disrupt our life - killing innocent civilians by planting bombs in trains, buses and cars. You have tried hard to bring death and destruction, cause panic and fear and create communal disharmony but everytime you were disgustingly unsuccessful.Do you know how we pass our life in Mumbai? How

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Thanks to all the words of encouragement and hope I had got from my well-wishers, I could in a way sort out things to some extent.Anyway heeding to the advice, I've decided to take a break and move to hyd for a three days. Hope that should rewind my mental condition which had become fatigued and careworn over the few days. Though this might sound completely contrasting to the need of the hour, I

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This is what I am right now... No idea whatsoever as to how to proceed with my project and with no signs of any help has left me frustratingly vella. The picture very aptly describes the state of my project. For a little while everything seemed to be in place only to realize that the project is heading in all directions except for the right one.In view of this, I obviously was vella ...feeling

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Hmm...Quite a time since I've blogged...havent realized that until someone asked me if I was busy coz he didnt find any new posts on my blog. And to my surprise the last post has been almost 10 days back. That did make me feel like a criminal.So what's that kept me so engrossed that I havent been able to keep track of time. Well to start off with...its NOTHING. Yeah literally nothing..Freedom can

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Sticking to our schedule of weekend excursions, this weekend we had planned to shoot off to Lonavala and Khandala. Before coming to pune, many have talked volumes about this place, specially the Express Highway that connects Mumbai and Pune and I had to agree that they were being modest.On a day when weather is on your side, the entire trip could be lot more worth than the effort you'd put. The

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It was just like any other day. Was done with the work (aha..its not what you think) and was back on my way to home. For the past few days things have become very stereotypical (including my food) . Very casually i throw a glance towards the sky and suddenly I noticed a rare sight. It was sunset time and the entire sky was getting bright orange.I stood there stupefied at the nature's artistic

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Yahoooooooooooo !!!The new Yahoo Mail Beta is truly amazing. The final version is not out and still under testing phase.There has been a sweeping redesign of the service's look, feel, and function. Many thanks to the Mail team for getting me in the door. Testers have the ability to toggle back and forth between the old and beta versions. Beta Mail will propogate outward through the membership

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All of the guys who're having our summers in Pune tried to plan up something for the weekend and finally decided on a trip to Mahabaleshwar. It was an exciting trip...Firstly, because it had been quite some time since I had last trekked and secondly because it also had been quite some time since I got a chance to get wet in the rain. (If you've read my initial posts in the blog, then you must be

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The last two weeks have passed like two days and I still remember the first day I reported here. Working @ IBM, I've realized how one can easily lose track of time if not conscious about it. Owing to its remote location from the pune city, I along with my friends have been forced to shift somewhere near to this place. Luckily we've got a fully furnished house with a servant-maid which is just a

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This is one of the forward that I had got. Though I usually dont blog forwarded stuff, this particular article deserves it. The person who had written should either have gone through a lot of turmoil or should be a brilliant writer.?? So, please read this and see if you have some views on this topic.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>START OF STORY >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>She/He...And a love storyFriend: Happy

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The first day of summer internship had been pretty exciting. The office is almost 15 km away from the place I stay right now. So it was quite a journey from my place. The best thing about it is that it is almost isolated from pune and the surroundings are pretty picturesque. The entire IBM is placed in the Ozone buildings and the entire architecture is quite a sight. That means an entire gallery

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Today is the last day of my ten day vacation I had in Hyd :). Tonight I'd be leaving to pune for my Summers which is gonna start from 23rd May. The past ten days have been very hectic .Best part was that I finally managed to catch up with my bro who right now works in Chennai with TCS. And every time I'd been to hyd he'd been busy in chennai and same was the case for him too. So it was nice that

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Majors are over and I am back in hyd. Yeah ...majors passed away without much pain. I could even manage to watch a movie during the majors which should aptly give you a picture about how they'd been.Anyway the end result is always disproportionate to the effort i put in, so it makes sense to delay the preparation till the last min.Today was my parents' anniversary and I hadn't informed them about

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This is that period of the year when people forget sleep and are busy mugging volumes of notes. Yeah ..its the majors. The one which gives nightmares to every IITian. And I am no exception.God knows how I managed to submit all the term papers in the last week, specially with the farewell video.Anyways its time to study and hope some seriousness and sanity prevails over me.Chalo then ..let me end

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After a disappointing experience on the Farewell day, we had planned everything in place for the screening. Brought the speakers, had UPS in place and a spare LCD projector. All was set for the screening by the time seniors started pouring in .I was pretty tensed, coz I had tried to make the movie as sensational as possible by accomodating all the controversial things that our seniors had to say

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The day had finally arrived. The last two days have been very torturous and I'd slept for about 4hrs in the past 48hrs. This should tell you volumes about how I get excited to do things like these. Last I remember doing something like this was for Parivartan. And this time the partners in crime are the same. Rakshit, Pravin and me. Our farewell event started off in the auditorium with the

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We are throwing a farewell party for our seniors on 24rth Apr. That means a rocking party with unlimited booze. For the lazy bums like me, its one helluva time coming up. It should be good break for all of us as most of us have been working late nights to finish our term papers which don't seem to show any hopeful signs of completion.Specially for people like me (who believe in delaying things as

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Usually I dont like to blog the god-knows-what-tests that claim to tell you something about you, that you probably might have never heard in your life.Most of these tests seem to lack credibility by asking you some unrelated questions. But this seemed to be different and credible to a large extent. So here it goes ...this is what it has to say about me...Overall, you scored as follows:

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We had a wonderful time together pedalling through the muddy and bumpy roads.It was my only hope whenever I used to get bogged down by the distances I had to cover. Though it deserved much better treatment from me, it never failed me.And today I wake up to find it missing. It had been stolen. My BICYCLE.FlashbackDuring my first month @ IIT, I had to do a lot of walking (about 5km everyday) and

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This is one day when.......you can look forward to have food in your hostel mess.....girls are allowed to come to boys hostel.....you can invite them to your hostel, ogle at the others and if you're lucky and courageous enough you can take them to your room too.Its the season of house days in the IIT where everyone's invited to every hostel for its house day (read as good food, ice-cream and lots

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A.W.E.S.O.M.E - That's how our Rafting trip was. One hell of an amazing experience and a must for everyone. Started off on Saturday and reached there by afternoon after a tiring journey.Our base camp had a series of tents just about a fifty feet away from the river. It was totally surrounded by mountains with the river flowing beside it. The lovely surroundings and the scenic beauty mesmerised me

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Woke up at 11.am and started my usual routine of checking my mails and orkut scraps when i get call from Anu."Vicky, where r u ?? can you come down to the main gate ?? We've got channel X and Y at the main gate for some media coverage and come down ASAP."That ASAP (As soon as possible) sounded very genuine, so pulled out a shirt and a pant from the pile of clothes (that i had set aside for the

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Sumit's B'day - This was special one for many reasons. But mostly coz , its the first b'day that was celebrated properly ( read it as pizzas, cake, chox and most importantly B'day bumps) that I witnessed in DMS.We gorged ourselves on the cake and guys were having a tough time finishing it. Once we were done with that the actual action started with the birthday bumps and smearing Sumit's face with

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Phew..Just back from our alumni meet and it really rocked. Though it might sound cliched, the pic to right will speak volumes about it. Started off late but picked up momentum as it progressed. Then the alumni was given a presentation about how DMS has evolved over the years and the changes that they couldn't witness.The jazzy classrooms and a dedicated building were something new for most of the

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The title of the above movie should be rather read as"Being Screwed - What you watch can screw your night"After the exams we've decided to take a break and go for a movie and someone (desperately trying to figure out the culprit) suggested we go for this movie as he had read some raves of the movie.We were a group of seven and somehow managed to fit into a car and rushed to the nearby theatre.

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Hah....at last I'm finally through with my minors...(as if it matters....anyway )This was the first time in my life that I had to take three tests on a single day and believe me I've never been so relaxed...why ?? coz hardly anyone knows what to read for the exams.Its like ..you'd get anything in the exam except for what you've prepared burning the midnight oil.And strictly abiding to the above

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Date : 27 Mar 06.Time : 9 pmPlace : My room, Zanskar HostelUpcoming tasks : MIS exam (28th Mar 06) 10-11 am BECS exam (28th Mar 06) 2 - 3 pm BSAD exam (28th Mar 06) 7 - 8 pmCurrent Status : Confused, Tired and Sleepy and with enough energy to blog this post.This is how things are right now. We've got 3 exams coming up

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Hii again...I cant even dare to say "Back again" coz i'mnt sure for how long i'll be able to blog but then could muster enough courage to resume my blogging. To be frank I'd have liked to resume it after a few days (my minors are starting from saturday) but then due to impelling threats and abuses, I've decided to resume it right away.Had been to hyd for my mid-sem break (was supposed to be for 3

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Finally , me back again to blogging. Its been more than a month since i blogged last. Though i had too much to blog, I had been constrained due to lack of access.To make up for that. Let me just put a brief updates from my side for the past one month or so... Dec 16th - 27th wasnt anything special except for the sleepless nights and endless trauma we were going through for our project. Me

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Who is a consultant ??A consultant can be defined as a person who takes your watch and to tell you the time and doesnt even return your watch.If you've heard this before and laughed your heart then you should note that this is as close as anyone can get to define a consultant. But this being my first LIVE project I want to put in whatever it takes...but..Job of a consultant is no easy job and

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This is a very interesting post which will surely stay in my memory for ever. Why ?? Coz I've actually met a person who told me that he got inspired by me. Sounds so cool na ... and i bet it would sound the same if i hadnt asked him further questions. But then not everyday you meet a person who says that he/she is inspired by you. So i decided to dig a little deeper on what aspects of mine had

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Yaaaaaaaahoooooooooo...now i totally agree with nature as I finally got something that I actually deserve ;)I got placed in summers with IBM - Global services. Just within 3 hrs of knowing my disastrous result of my first semester, this news had given me enough reason to blog a new post on the same day. First the basics...Stipend - Rs 18000 per monthExpenses - Rs 1500 per monthTo - fro air fare (

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For the uninitiated the title above suggests my C.G.P.A ( Cumulative Grade Point Avergae) of my first semester :(( . Now one caveat is that it isnt as good as it might seem to you in the first look coz the topper scored 9.3 and I almost topped from the last ....almost - but not actually.<?xml:namespace prefix = o />I was shocked to know that I performed so badly ( or maybe others performed so

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Yeah...I know it sounds very funny but it is true. I always cribbed to myself that I deserve better things in life and on a handful of occasions it was genuine too :D.<?xml:namespace prefix = o />But this is really awesome. I'll tell you why....To cut the story short - My prof got a consulting project with XYZ Ltd. which wanted him to assess its manpower requirement as it is planning to expand by

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Ok. Officially I'm done with my first semester and hope that I actually get through it also. Yeah, you got it right...I've screwed up some subjects so badly that the prof will find it easier to get himself nominated to Nobel prize rather than giving me an A grade in any subject. :(. <?xml:namespace prefix = o />Having said that there's some good news… I've got a winter project with a company and

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Finally the majors have arrived. <?xml:namespace prefix = o />We have successfully ( or rather would like to call it so ) managed to submit all our term papers and atlast we can finally start preparing for our majors. That’s too bad considering that we need to start right away as the majors are starting from tomorrow.We are again relying on my self-proclaimed-original-philosophy of S.H.I.T (Refer

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Before your mind starts wandering, it would do a deal of good to know that S.H.I.T actually stands for Some How In Time. Now doesn’t that sound like a quality of a good manager “Some How In Time" ( though the acronym sucks ). This was perfectly executed to the last bit during our term papers and I can safely bet that you cant find a better person than me to tell you best about this philosophy. To

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What to do ???I'm always left wondering as to what the companies look for in the students coz in most of the cases the deserved candidates dont get what they really deserve and the underdogs walk away with a plump share of the placements.Do i need to work hard and see that I've a very good CGPA ?? Do i need to give more presentations ?? Do i need to do more projects ?? Will these ensure decent

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SOME FOOD FOR THOUGHTChange Your Point of ViewImagine you're in London's Heathrow Airport. While you're waiting for your flight, you notice a kiosk selling shortbread cookies. You buy a box, put them in your traveling bag and then you patiently search for an available seat so you can sit down and enjoy your cookies. Finally you find a seat next to a gentleman. You reach down into your traveling

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Back from the dussehra break. Was in hyd during the break and that should explain the break in my blogging activity.Life in Hyd and the people are really laid-back and this strikes you blatantly when you're coming from a city like Delhi. Really missing hyderabad. I hope i get placed in Hyderabad after my MBA or atleast i get settled there later.Time really flies like an arrow, specially when

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Ok...its not as horrifying as the title sounds but nonetheless it could have been worse.Today earthquake shook most part of North India and Delhi in particular. This was my first experience of witnessing an earthquake and was an amazing experience .Slept at 3:30 am in the morning and was in no mood to wake up before 11am but then nature decided to gimme a rude wakeup call. Roughly about at 9:30

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Minors are back and back with a vengeance... Minors are no "minor issue" and that means sleepless nights follow without any doubt.Suddenly sleeping becomes the most precious and scarce commodity.And neither am I able to think anything other than minors. So its better to sign off with the line..."Minors are here - Will be back soon !!!"PS: For the uninitiated, Minors are mid-semester exams in IIT.

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The much awaited IT Rostrum finally happened and rocked without any glitches and hiccups amidst lot of speculations and last-minute preparations. A lot of credit goes to us (Rostrum organising team) who somehow managed to get the things right just-in-time.Things were in a big mess and no one was sure if this much taunted event would happen. The seniors took their own sweet time in finalising the

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Yeah...At last...finally ...pulled up myself together and got this going...Why ??Dont know...someday back I happened to check my blog ( its almost one month since I have done that the last time ) and was going through the previous posts which almost made me feel like packing my bags and leaving Delhi to resume my good-old life @ Hyd.Strange but true..inspite of having a great and busy time at DMS

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HelloSorry for not being to update the blog as I intended to. Life's been through a lot of ups and downs since I've last updated it and wanted to update the blog with each of it .For the uninitiated, I'm put up at a horrible apartment in IIT-D and have no access to the net. I've been trying to sort out the problem but then IIT System is stubborn that even GOD wont dare to fix it (Will blog about

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The other day we decided to take our Accent to a temple for its pooja and we reached there by 3:30 . Now the temple is generally closed between 3pm – 5pm so we decided to finish off with the car pooja first and by the time it got over it was 4:30 and we had full 30 min before the temple doors opened for us. I was hoping for someone to call me so that I could while away the time. At this

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Wooow…seems like god has read my previous post and its raining cats and dogs in Hyderabad. Cyclones seems to have heard the prayers of the farmers and the roads are flooded. The happiest lot seems to comprise me and the farmers with this timely and relieving rains but it has brought its own share of woes to some . People can hardly get out of the house. But I’mnt complaining. For the past

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For the past two days..I've become more of a nocturnal creature....Getting up at 9 in the morning and sleeping at 3 in the night...No ..its got nothing to do with my joining b-skool(that's gonna start after 20 days ) I'm still in Hyd . Its been very long since our gang has met and freaked out late nights on the road and with Abhi coming from pune...we went on a full spree of movie-watching and

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Phew .. What a day it has been . Started at 5:30 a.m in the morning (something which I havent done in the past 6 months) got ready and travelled almost 150 km just to visit a temple (did someone say god's omnipresent ?).Anyway thats not what I'd like to write about here. Its the journey that made the whole day pleasant. Off late for the hyderabadis, rain had become as frequent as snowfall in

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At Last...I'm done with the weary job of blog-designing and tweaking the template and I'm here with this final layout and design. This post almost resembles the template of the posts that're going to come.. Hope you all like it.Got some minor updates to be taken care of in the sidebar and except for that this blog is almost set to take-off. Comments and suggestions are welcomed.For now ..This

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