This is all about my days spent at IIFM, how i miss them every day, about how it all started and how it all ended with everyone being a very special friend for life..........

GDPI: Saw my dear roomie for the first time from a distance........she looked pretty (dnt miss "from a distance" here, sorry babes).....learnt later she had qualified as well.....use bina mile complex ho gaya....kept blabbering to all ki ye ladki bahut sundar hai......reached iifm..........wahan pata chala we are roommates....was a little relieved tht i knew her beforehand........parul came in late...after a week of orientation.....and i was AGHAST.....thought...........ek mahine me itna difference ??? ;)

After selection: Met these 2 guys on orkut......socha pehle se baat karungi to acha hoga.......Sudeep and Stray;) Saw both on orkut....ek to shuru se hi junglee lag raha tha........uska snap kisi jungle wala tha.......ekdum monkey pose wala......he's placed in africa now ;) the other guy looked like a perfect dude.....ye prove karte hue usne ek scrap me flaunt bhi kiya..........."some frnds wait and so does barista" ;)....lekin usko dekha suna and then realised "Light travels faster than sound" ;)

The day i reached: A cute chubby gal reached campus in car looking at the rest like deprived and downtrodden ones....later became my partner for late night talks and all the secrets.....rite shreshtha??

1st day of orientation: Had this quite naive girl sitting besides.......was wearing a nice salwar.........lag raha tha jaise abhi innocence ke bowl se dip karke nikli hai......learnt she is NEHA...............and then i rerun my thoughts :)......the ultimate gossip queen and my confidante no.2

days of orientation: Met Kalps.....the angry young Bihari Woman.....a grt frnd ....itni patli hai ki mujhe bhi complex hota tha......

Kanika: The COMPLEX silent killer

Sonal: Bachi......even if she matures....the people around will never let her....she;s too good being a kid.

Then these interesting guys.....one wearing newsprint and Hawaiian TEES........a great sportsperson who beat TSM ;( and the other mastering the art of sleeping on the chair with specs on............that went on till the end of 5th term...........all envied him...............the great birdwatcher sunil ;)

Literary club days: Was on my toes all the time due to this guy...........An atheist who lives his life by the line GOD WILLS IT..........

Shweta kaku: my dear marathi frnd who never let me miss home.....pata nah wat went into her.......srey is her better half.......imagine.........bechari meri saheli ;)

Basu: Brand freak......uska kapdon ka sense itna acha hai....tht we later started taking him along for all the branded clothes shopping

Kshitiz And Varun: Jab dono aaye the...tab kafi clear tha that kshitiz is docile.....but by the end of 5 yrs...it was difficult to say who spoilt whom.......agree doc??

Soumik and gitesh: kshitiz called them bacche......must be right.......iifm ne inhe do saal eksath rehne diya...taki badon me aake their childhood isnt lost :)

SHail : One who kills with his PJ's but i loved all of them especially this one:

shail: are prans.......

me: chup karo shail warna main TSM ko complaint kar dungi

Shail: are tum complaint karti ho? hum sab bournvita karte hai......

i was almost rolling on the floor laughing....sudeep and srey who were around invited the entire hostel to see me laugh at Shail's joke, it was an event according to Sudeep...how could i LAUGH at shail's joke? ;)

Tarjun: Kalyug ka tarzan.....a confused stylo.......khane ke liye bhi kahega...." soch raha hun ki mujhe bhuk lagi hai ki nahi"...hahahahahah

All the moments.....the good the bad and the most fascinating ones were celebrated with all the above witnesses, from disagreements to quarrels.....its now a friendship....a great understanding of a lifetime.......

All the sunsets, sunrises, trips, bdays were made more special with them along........the canteen gang........the tilli gang.......the IAS.........all will be in memories forever.........all the stories are the ones i wanna keep narrating alwaz..........to my grandchildren as well :)

Miss u all guys.......

Since it was not only a fun trip, we had to accomodate the other planned activities for FDS. So our next stop was at Bhopal to meet some Profs at our alma mater and others. Though we had planned to spend only a couple of hours and then return to Jabalpur, but once you are in the campus (and it is not any campus, it is the beautiful IIFM Campus, everypart of this campus reminds me of the wonderful time I had here. Sheer Bliss.)

We spent considerable time, dicsussing many things with Profs, sharing the our concerns about IIFM, talking to juniors and and the visit was earlier planned as 3-4 visits became a two day visit to IIFM. It was nice to know some welcome changes at IIFM.  

We explored Bhopal for some shopping malls, so that we can buy wedding gifts for one of our batchmate, unfortunately (or fortunately?) Bhopal seems yet to get its share of shopping malls. We could not find any shopping malls in Bhopal. Finally we decided to gift 'Gift Coupons' and managed to get them from 'Raymonds' and 'Fab India'. It seems that our batch has created some kind of record as there were as many as 8-10 batchmates (8-10 batchmates, 6-7 marriages) got married within a span of 2 months. :)

By the way, while I was late in updating my blog, Akhand updated his blog about our Jabalpur trip. Though the way I have been described there, I could only imagine to be like that.

Abhishek: "One Man Show"

Email Id: abhishek.iifm@gmail.com

Abhinav: "Deep and Dependent"

Email Id:abhinaviifm@gmail.com

Amit: He stresses too much on "M"

Email Id: amit.mandale@gmail.com

Anurag: "Matrix Trilogy"

Email Id: anunis@gmail.com

Arjun: "....in between Optimism n Pessimism "

Email Id: arya.arjun@gmail.com

Atul : "Life is Beautiful"

Email Id: atul84atul@gmail.com

Gitesh: "Feel Good"

Email Id: giteshg@gmail.com

Garima: "Searching Books in which She will be able to find something about Her"

Email Id: garimabajaj@gmail.com

Jitendra: "Right Hand of God"

Email Id: jitendra.upadhyay@gmail.com

Kallol: "All-rounder"

Email Id: kallolkumarmandal@gmail.com

Kalpana: A Tigress in a bowl

Email Id: kalpanapfm08@gmail.com

Kanika: Here's my question...

Email Id: kanika07@gmail.com

Kshitiz: "To Be Or Not To Be"

Email Id: ksanadhaya08@gmail.com

Vaibhav : "On the Rocks"

Email Id: vaibhaviifm@gmail.com

Lalit: "To love at all is to be a vulnerable Lover"

Email Id: lalitsori6@gmail.com

Manish: The Devil God

Email Id: findmanish0@gmail.com

Neha: "Illusion of Life"

Parul: "Chocolaty Life "

Email Id: parul1411@gmail.com

Pranita: "Emotional Recycle Bin"

Email Id: pranita.bhagat@gmail.com

Prashant: "if u cant convince people...confuse them"

Email Id: luvprasha@gmail.com

Priyanshika: "I am what I am"

Email Id: priyanshika@gmail.com

Rahul B. : "My History Can Beat Up Your Politics "

Email Id: rahul.bharadwaj.18.02.1983@gmail.com

Rahul K.: "Living My Dream"

Email Id: @gmail.com

Ranesh: How's That....?

Email Id: rahul259@gmail.com

Ravi: "Honest Reflection "

Email Id: ravipan4u@gmail.com

Sameer: "Success lies in dream....so go and sleep"

Email Id: samsays19@gmail.com

Shakshi : An Individualist trying hard to change life

Email Id:groversakshi@gmail.com

Shail: He says "I can kill anyone for the Nobel Peace Prize"

Email Id: shail.iifm@gmail.com

Shweta : Its not about "Age", its about "Mileage" :D

Email Id: shweta.bhagwat@gmail.com

Shreshtha: "I think I am the Best....and...... I believe that I will be "The Best" One Day"

Email Id: shreshtha.bhardwaj@gmail.com

Siddharth: "Marketing with Style n Brands"

Email Id: sids617ster@gmail.com

Sonal: "A Protected Candle Light and A Beautiful Mind "

Email Id: sonalpfm08@gmail.com

Me : ♥

Email id: callmesoumik@gmail.com

Srey: The Lost Soul ; Am I what I am ?

Email Id: sreyamsa@gmail.com

Sunil: "Cool Tunes of Life and Nature"

Email Id: rajagopal.sunil@gmail.com

Sudeep: "Our first and last love is....Self-Love"

Email Id: sudeep.kodialbail@gmail.com

Varun: Life is short, Make the most of it!!

Email Id: drvarunbangia@gmail.com

Yes I am talking about Director's Prize for "Best Organizational Training".

Every Year, during Kalpataru (Annual Fest) in IIFM, Director's Prizes are given to students who are judged for Best Organizational Training. Students are judged on the basis of Host Organization's recommendation, IIFM faculty and vote of Batch mates.

This year, I along with Ravi got the award for the training we did in Development Credit Bank Ltd, Mumbai. The project was on Urban Microfinance.

Life at IIFM once again proved to be full of surprises and once again echoed the expression " Its the Best Days of My Life".

It will be absolute injustice to myself if I don't thank everybody specially my batch mates who voted for me (and also to those who did not), dearest alumni, faculty and most importantly Kartik Sir, Deepika Mam, Vidya Sir and Sandeep Sir of DCB.

I participated in all the possible events........from group dance (my first group dance after class V....)..........Antakshari........... collage making........Graffiti Competition and guess what..........i won prizes as well First Prize in Antakshari(me, parul and shreshtha as a team) ........First Prize in Graffiti(me, parul and rahul b as team)........Second prize in collage making (me and pawan as a team) ..............i felt like a winner for the first time at IIFM :)

Happiness Strikes You When You Are Least Expecting It !!!!!!

This certainly has been my experience during all the days at Kalpataru . Last year since we all were juniors and it was our first Kalpataru we were al enthused about it and I still remember all Associate Club Co-ordinators working diligently.....I was one of them.......Literary Club last year had praises from all and sundry and so I was very hopeful about the Prestigious "BEST CLUB" being awarded to my team......but it went out to the Cultural Club and ironically I was the one to give the shield to the chief guest :)

 But this year, since the beginning all the team members had a strategy planned to use the budget completely and boy how did the efforts and harwork pay.......the BEST CLUB  this year was awarded to LITERARY CLUB.......... :) :) :)

As Rahul B says there is no "I" in the word "TEAM"........it is certainly the joint efforts of all the team members, the past ones and the present that has been awarded in such a fruitful manner..........And this is because of Rahul B that we have the award today...... he is the brains behind the Literary Club and I am just the Facilitator....who is constantly pushing all the members to give their best :)

It was the moment which I will consider as one of the achievements of my life, a moment to cherish for years to come, a moment which i will narrate with pride........and most importantly a moment which will make TSM a little proud of me for the very first time :)

Placement 2008 is over and like the previous years, we have been able to maintain 100% placement at IIFM. PGDFM 2008 rocks!! We started where our seniors had left and with great satisfaction I declare that we have been able to maintain almost same average package. Our batch’s placement is more precedent in a sense that almost everybody got the job they wanted. Be in Microfinance, be it Corporate or Environment, every one has gone to his or her desired field. IIFM is best on this aspect that it offers equal space to everybody and our batch has been able to fit itself in the desired space.

The placement process was over in two days as almost the whole batch was placed in those two days. Though one org. delayed the declaration of result but surely when it confirmed the celebration got intensified and more “spirited”.

Microfinance is most buzzing word and being a specialized institution, IIFM has been able to maintain this niche area that has been built up over the years. This year almost 16 people are directly dealing with Microfinance. Fourteen students in SKS Microfinance and two students in Development Credit Bank Ltd. Package for SKS is Seven Lac while it is Six Lac for DCBL. On corporate arena, one is joining ICICI Bank with package of 6.1 Lac while five are joining HDFC Bank with package of 5.5 Lac. Another Organization FINO recruited one student and its package is 5.5 Lac.

Thanks to our alumnus, Marketing Research Organization like International Market Research Bureau (IMRB) came down to campus and recruited four students with package of 5.6 Lac.

Apart from DCBL, the organizations who made inroad this time to offer diversification in placement are Indian Oil Corporation, IMS Learning Resource, Emergent Venture India (EVI) and Cantor C02e India. IOCL took two for its Biofuel operations. IMS has selected two and EVI also same number. Consultancy firm Cantor C02e India has recruited one for Carbon Trading related operation. Another research institute, IFMR has selected one.

The  only oversea placement was offered by Global Timber Trading Org. Olam International with package of  about 25 lakh and in the forestry sector the only Job was offered by Harihar Polyfibre (Part of Aditya Birla Group). Both the org. has recruited one each.

Prof. Biswas as Placement Chairperson has done amazing work for our placement and if he was not there, we could not have made it. Kudos to the Placement Committee, especially Abhinav (placement Cordi) and Prashant (OT Cordi) for their hard work. Guys, we are thankful to you and you both deserve treat from each of us.

Now its party time, so getting ready for the blast!!!!!

 
[The figures are approximate and exact figure will come on Official site of IIFM- www.iifm.ac.in]

In between I did some constructive work (I think so.. you might differ...) and created a community for my alma mater and the community attracted almost 60-70% of our elusive alumni on one 'active' platform. A byproduct of this effort, I started getting more visits to my profile, more friend requests and more request to be an unofficial PRO for IIFM admissions.

But the best part of Orkut for me was Testimonials I wrote for people and testimonials I received. There are some testimonials which I have written with utmost of sincerity and some 'template' testimonials which can be assigned to any one!. But testimonials written about me... OMG. I never realized that they are about me. So ignorant of my own virtues...  These testimonials (or testis as they used to call on orkut.. without wondering what exactly it meant and how the habit of abbreviating everything can produce some really brillieant gems..) can be a replacement for confidence boosting steriods.

Here are gems.. sourced directly from my profile .. talking about some virtues and vices, which I only wished they were right..

"saw a storm coming from North, and then i saw a man walking head on from south..facing the storm bare chested, up front and conquering the devil in its full might".....  The above lines are about me.. and for those who have not seen me.. If I go bare chested,I think I carry the risk of getting blown by the zephyr, forget about storm.. The weight of my clothes used to  give me some weight...... (This testimonial was written 15 month back... ). I must say this guy (one of my fav juni at campus) had really wild imagination and this was probably  result of some highly 'spiritual' thinking.

"Was the real Dark Horse in our batch at IIFM whether it b excelling in the Academic Performance or gaining Popularity among the Fairer Sex.." ... Here the only thing which goes with me is word 'DARK'.. nothing else.. . A similar testimonial " has been admired n loved as well by majority of people in IIFM" .. probably the writer forget my 'behali' in GBMs (General Body Meeting).  And this one should be really the best.. ".His list of Girlfriends will leave you in AwE!! (but I ll still say he s not a Casanova a wonderful Friend (truly-in-deeds)" ...Hmm.. my list of girlfriends.. I am just looking for the list.. I would love to move from "Havnots" to "Haves" status. (and  those who are moving to comments section after this line.. the definition of 'Girlfriend' is key here.. and it is surely not about ALL  THE FRIENDS WHO ARE GIRL.). 

In nutsell, the testimonials were as true depiction of personality as Musharraf's poll stats  about his popularity in pakistan. But anyone you love reading/receiving  them....

(The post is getting long.. so rest in next posts... or whenever I am free to do some BC..).

Suddenly the other day while reading documents at work I started missing IIFM…. (don’t be shocked people, I know its very unlikely of me).

 The events celebrated here, the fights (lets make this sound subtle) errr…..misunderstandings I had here………the late night talks……….the bonfires…….litti chokha chicken parties…………sipping coffee sitting in front of the library stairs with an Agatha Christie in hand( rereading it)……..the evening and after dinner walks…..the badminton court…….the GBM’s J, lukkhagiri in the canteen……………watching the sunset from the hostel terrace……………..working late nights on the group assignments at different places………..in the lawn……in library…….in the computer centre……….in the girl’s hostel lobbies……………gossiping with Shreshtha and Neha…….barging into their rooms anytime of the day J being on IP late nights and early morning during the exams and irritating all J (man am good at this)…………working at the eleventh hour of submission….stretching the rules to the maximum extent possible……..graduating into nocturnal creatures………………..

I could just go on and on with the list…………..

I can feel it all the more since I have only 3 more months left to be spent here………I guess at the end of the course I wont be able stop myself from saying as Kalps always does

“I love IIFM though I hate the people around” J

This all started with the inception of an idea of having “diversity” in my resume…which would eventually give me more choice when it comes to placement………but NO…….no MF or banks for me…….. J

Chose vimo sewa…..as of now its just the orientation and my understanding of the project…field work is to be followed in the later part……..

Vimo has a Gandhian philosophy to follow…where people religiously follow it (though they behave hypocritically as and when the situation arises)….

Everyday the schedule follows a half an hour prayer in the morning at the start of office hours which includes YOGA sessions on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays……

The most interesting (very inconvenient and highly irritating for me) is that the organisation has a dress code………..SALWAR KAMEEZ …..only cotton or khadi………….and not to forget…. No sleeveless allowed L….that calls me for a added expense since I don’t have much of salwar kameezes L

The city is all good trying to compete itself as being like other cosmopolitans……..

But lots of places to eat…to shop….to roam………..

Hope these 2 months……. I have a blast in Gujarat J

This post is dedicated to all the sweet memories about my Kerala trip which I would want to cherish all my life and most importantly all my team members – Amit, Ravi, Srey, Priyanshika -  who accompanied me in the trip…bore my tantrums ….my cribbing…….and yet took utmost care of me……. (Srey - One of them being my diehard blog fanJ)

Planning of tickets: 2 South bound teams….5 members to Karnataka and rest 5 to Kerala. People apparently wanted to plan the journey together(my diehard blog fan had started liking the female in the Karnataka team then J), but I refused L Doing so would mean leaving right on the day the end terms of the 2^nd term ended and also that would mean loss of an entire day of being with someone in the campus before we part away for 40 long days!!!!

But the others were adamant about it and I had almost taken a stand that I wont go with the team but will take a flight instead and reach the same day to Trivandrum as the others would…..but then I somehow did budge and did go with the team…. (thinking on a positive note that I would be able to meet mom and dad for like 5 mins at Kalyan Station in Mumbai when the train changes its track J )

Tickets were booked on the Mangala express which took the Konkan railway route and all were so excited for all the stupid and scary tunnels that the route would have…….kisise bahut gaaliya padi thi….and comments too that I don’t have convincing power and how the hell can I be a good manager??

I remember packing my bags in just 15 mins as that was the only time I had after I gave the stupid FO exam…..jisme likhne layak kuch aa bhi nah raha tha L

The most freaking point in these planning was the availability of tickets…since the institute was to reimburse tickets of sleeper class only all decided to book them even if the waiting lists were reaching the sky (need to mention this because 3 AC tickets were available the day we booked the tickets)

But then finally………the escapade to south commenced with tickets in hand bearing WL 125 & on upto 10 members ………………….. (FREAKY!!!!!!!)

Train journey:

Reached station….as usual just 20 minutes before the train’s departure time (with srey in your team I was fortunate enough not to miss the train as he is the one who goes for a bath when the auto taking you to the terminus arrives at the institute) only to learn that train was delayed by an hour and half (SREY ko sabse jeevandaan mil gaya J )

Almost everyone who were in the institute and who had their travel plans in the following day had come to see us off……

The WL had come to 55… (Sigh of relief, eh??)

The train was finally there….with everyone occupying their seats…off to sleep already and no room for us wait listers. We got into any coach that came in front of where we waited for the train………and I was very angry (just angry would be an understatement here). This episode can be very well explained by ravi who was with me to Kerala…so leave it here hoping that he will complete it in the comments that he writes for the post J

And there we were, wandering in all the coaches to find us a place to rest our asses…..and finally success……we managed to find a place outside the trains LOOS !!!! (me freaking out again)

That night somehow passed and next day after some of the train’s population got down in Konkan the corrupt TC made arrangements for our tickets. The Karnataka team got down at Karvar the next night of our journey, after 24 hours. And the rest compensated for the sleep we lost onto sitting outside the train LOOS…….

At Cochin:

Reached Cochin on Sunday morning….and we were warmly greeted by sunil’s dad…..our very comfortable journey in the car he had specially rented for us……at his home which is very very beautiful…still feel like going and staying there whenever I get a chance to J…….sunil’s mom and very pious looking grandfather…….

That day we spent at sunil’s home will never be forgotten ever…….aunty ke haath ka khana…..uncle’s warm homely gesture and the pious and pure aura at sunil’s place…………..wish I owned a home that beautiful.

From Trivandrum to punaloor:

The following day we were to report the CCF in Trivandrum and we boarded a shuttle bound to Trivandrum at 5 in the morning (again a loss of much wanted sleep). On reaching Trivandrum we were asked to stay in the guest house for some time and leave for punaloor – our first destination scheduled as per field trip itinerary. We were to go by State Transport bus (me freaking out again). Reached the bus stop and was nauseating there itself. Just the mere thought of taking up a 3-4 hr journey in a state transport bus made me pass out L. Srey then called up the CCF informing him that one of the members wasn’t feeling well and the man graciously sent us the FD vehicle. That was some saving grace….but the entire road journey was spent me PUKING at very interval……….(yucks………..and that made ravi, amit and pixy believe that main naatak nah kar rahi thi….but that I really cannot stand public transport)

Reached punaloor…our bookings were made in a lodge……(too cheap a version to be called as a hotel so am rightly mentioning LODGE)

Talked in the night to TSM and off to sleep. Meeting scheduled next day with the DFO, punaloor.

At punaloor: Reached late to the DFO’s office …….were thinking of reason to be given to the DFO for reaching late…Ravi mastermind: “there was no water in the lodge so it took us time to get ready and reach the office.” The DFO actually bought this reason and apologised that we were at inconvenience. He explained as to how the FD guesthouse was 12 kms away from the office and how it would have been time consuming if we were to commute from their to office everyday for almost a week. The itinerary was chalked out and we were treated with a grand lunch by the DFO followed by dessert – ICECREAMJ

Places visited in punaloor:

Athirapally waterfalls – the Indian Niagara falls, very huge and very beautiful J

Timber depots – many of them……learnt measuring the girth, the bole, the dbh and all, the classification of timber according to quality (wish had done this prior to appearing for FMN exam…grades hopefully wouldn’t have been that bad then)

Some place where we were taken for a boat ride…..lost my cell there…us gham me I did not go onboard to enjoy the cruise……..only to learn in the end that had left it in the FD vehicle J

At konni: the most interesting experience…the DFO had no clue that we were arriving and so no arrangements being made for our accommodation. Konni was basically a small town but the RO to whom we reported during our stay there called it “Cosmopolitan konni”…….a place nowhere to roam about and no good places to eat…we eventually landed up in a decent place to stay and a eating joint -  Pixy’s favourite restaurant “Guravayurappan” and more than that the smiling waiter there. Pixy then developed some kind of allergy and needed to be taken to a hospital..when enquired about one in konni there was none…even the local physicians were not available and then we were derouting to Patnamthitta about 12 kms away from konni – how badly we all wanted pixy to get admitted in the hospital J, because patnamthitta was the extreme of what we had at konni………all big shops….eateries everything…so we really wished if pixy could get admitted and we get to visit the place everyday…but unfortunately NO…she was all fine L

The next 2 days when we were to move to next place, a transport strike was called in…..so we were stucked up in the stupid place for 2 more days………

At kodanad: sheer Bliss staying right next to the mighty Periyar River…experiencing and enjoying every mood of the river……in the morning till the evening and through the night, all the beautiful sunsets and the humorous sunrises that we witnessed while being there, visit to a beautiful church by boat…..making magi at the guest house………

At kottayam: the most decent place till all the ones visited till date, great lunch on arrival…….many good places visited and above all…being in a city after a long time

At Periyar: all antic and woodcraft shopping…….for TSM……how one particular painting took so long in being made that it almost became a farewell gift than being placement gift (as it was meant to be)

At munnar: Escaped freezing by the skin of teeth………

Back to Cochin: desperation to get back to Bhopal now J

Only me and pixy came back early (for obvious reasons) and the rest three people planned further to kanyakumari with shweta and kalpana from the Karnataka team (dont ask me how they managed to make this plan….but later on this evolved out to be a obvious reason too, right srey?? J)

The whole trip was really good and very exciting…………especially the forest treks where we got lost and all the times that I slipped and fell on ground during that trip….how tired I was walking heading nowhere and then sat at a place saying am not going any further J…….crossing a small bridge the later day in another forest when amit announced confidently that I will fall but he did instead….straight into the drench…….saying “meri haye bahut jaldi lagti hai J”

This was a trip I will want to tell stories about to all over and over again……….

and.......4th term is on its roll......an uncanny start though......was weary if the elective i wanted very badly would get floated......but it did!!!! 5 electives being floated this year...............breaking the record of 4 electives of the senior batch.........lectures going on till 6.30 in the evening.............

assignments piling up each day.....too many projects and many textbooks (am not implying that am studying but as "someone" says i still do continue issuing and reissuing books without even flipping a single page of it........)

dunno if the schedule i underwent during my OT is making me lazy.......but am not studying the way i shud be.....especially at this time when "everything" is at stake :(

i just hope i wake up really soon from my lazy world and start studying...........................

its that time in iifm when we are just back from OT 1 and the crucial time of presentations.the first day of the new academic session, we were summoned by a faculty and we shared our OT experiences with him...on my turn...."you received nothing in return of a cheap labour" was the response......a bell rung there that my two months of hardwork (delusional????) was a waste........

i do realise that i am no one extraordinary to have all praises from everyone, but this was the first sincere attempt i had made to be in the field for which i had come to iifm........but the remark totally shattered me and i am totally demoralised now.......

waiting for the day of my presentation now where i will be totally grilled............

Let’s start with my story…I was not actually sure where and what kind of project I would like to do. Then, IFMR interview happened. All went good and I was through. Was excited… really was. At the same time I was free of that speculating game. Blessed I was I thought.Well, with that started my preparations. Chennai was supposed to be a new place for me. I was coming here all alone. Bit nervous… ya agreed I was.

14th of April was the D- day. Started with packing… lots of things intervened… finally boarded the train early morning. Could not sleep the previous night so slept as soon as I settled in the train. Newspaper, coffee, bla bla… but nothing did bother me. I slept slept and slept. Then around 2 I got up… a little later I asked the boy for lunch… Madam no lunch… time over was his reply. Ooohhhh…. Damn hungry I was… did not had breakfast as well. I rushed down at

Nagpur and got myself two alloo wada and two daal wada. I was so hungry that I did not realize how the first alloo wada tasted, just gulped it. Then the second one… man it was good!!!

Now I made sure that I ordered for dinner this time. But yuks… it was bad!!! Anyways had it and off to sleep again. I reached here the very next day. And then began my tryst with Chennai :)

i mean who on the earth would be so eager to have their examination results? (am sorry if any of the intelligent and the confident masses happen to read this by mistake!!!)

two terms have passed in iifm, and i had almost lost hope that anything better would happen or the scene with my grades would change. i had made up a picture for myself about my life after iifm, with no good grades there wont be good placements and my whole life would go on...... slogging my ass out!!!

but shud i say now that miracles do happen???? or shud i just brag along saying I AM BOUNCING BACK????????

i hope these good days continue......for a really really long time!!!!

i know its a little too late wrting this almost after 8 months since am here,but this all came over me suddenly when the new batch is coming in for their gd's and pi's...thts when i remembered about my time!!!

this one year at iifm has taught me a lot and will teach a lot too in the coming days...these are the days i will want to cherish all my life....

• Life is a bit different right now after that decision. Some changes I could feel right now.
• India seems to be more dear that it was earlier. I never knew I would miss India that much.
• Indian movies… though I did not watch much in my last 2 years stay here at IIFM, Bhopal, but right now I am not letting any opportunity to see some good movies.
• A regret that I could not see places around Bhopal and now I am leaving Bhopal. But really I loved this city. I’ll back to explore.
• I feel scary thinking of a life where I have to search to get some good English books (what I could find were only French books.). My god.. how will I survive. Let’s see whether Amazon.com has shipping facility there or not.
• People are saying I would be a changed person in Africa.. I don’t believe them. An Ass will be An Ass anywhere.

Going to miss a lot my friends .. and student life..

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The last day of the examination was a nightmare, it was a Black Friday. The worst exam i have ever given in my life. Though i am not very studious type, but i hope to do well in most of the exams (my friends dont believe that i am not studious!!). The Communication Method paper was a *#$%^&* ly tough.

And then in the afternoon session of exam, i got a paper which was as easy as falling in love, but i channelise all my resources to put my worst efforts in the paper, i did a blunder solving the question that i taught to most of my friends. I think I need to i need some lucky stones to revive my dead luck.

By the way, the memories of the nightmare are still haunting me, but now i am more focussed, at least for the time being.

Currently Reading -- The Tao of Physics,
Listening - Melodies on www.raaga.com

I am going to finish the book - A bend in the road - By Nicholash Sparks, and then have a look at the Statistics for Management (Levin & Rubin).