Do you smile frequently? Think again!!

Three people are sitting on the other side of a round table and looking right on to your face asking one simple bloody question: Can you give us explanation why your results are not correct and most importantly, delayed?

Do you have any idea what expression in these kind of situations would perfectly fit. As far as I knew, till today, a smile can bring no harm to anyone. And so i did - a smile which i always wear on my face. But i had absolutely no idea that the saying did not say anything about you and what consequences it can bring to you. What it meant was for the sake of others. Try smiling in such a scenario and the most likely answers, rather questions, you gonna hear are:

"Why the hell are you smiling?"

"Does your smile mean that you are not at all serious about your work?"

"What do you think you are?? Are you out of your minds?"

"I haven't seen a ridiculous guy like you before"

"Do you think what I just said was a joke?"

"Well gentlemen, I don't see anything constructive coming up from this meeting. So, lets call it off for today. Lets give this chap a little time to save his ass in explaining the big managers about the loss of 2 million dollars"

blah blah....

But did you realize something. They have forgotten the fact that we all are engineers who haven't done anything right at the very first time. And if they mess it up in the first place, they dont touch it the second time. And if at all they do, write it on rock, that they gonna fail the third time too.

Now I really think: Does that old saying about smile have to be modified a little bit? If yes, in what respect. After a few googling, i ended up analyzing some of the quotes that seemed to be famous to me till now :

• "No matter how small, a smile on your face tells all" - This is what affected me i suppose. A big smile refers to a big blunder that you made and in addition to that, it also conveys that you are not even sorry for it.
• "If you find a friend without a smile, give him one of yours" - Well, i would certainly like to give 50% of my smiles to the one i hate the most so that he gets screwed daily. Any takers?
  
• "A smile a day" - And literally means exactly one smile per day. You go beyond it and O'boy you are in a deep trouble. Most of the people took this proverb otherwise and twisted it such a way that nobody thinks about what it really wants to mean.
• "If you smile you can change yourself, others and your future" - One thing missing in this statement is '....for the worst unimaginable things'.
• "Everyone makes mistake and thats why there is an eraser on every pencil" - I just want to kill the guy who wrote this or even uttered it for the first time. Its the mouth and the voice thats gonna keep your ass moving if you do a mistake, not a speechless smile.
• "A smile is worth a thousand words" - Surely it is but not a thousand words. Its just three words that it translates in such a mess 'I dont care' !

There are millions of these proverbs which do not at all make sense if applied in such situations.
The best one that i liked and has got all the intelligent thinking behind it:

"Every tear has a smile behind it"

I dont think anything other than this would better suit the situation that I am talking about. I really need to find the guy who quoted this and congratulate him for his great achievement and the intensive research that he did for coming up with such a wonderful one liner.

So, the question still remains. Do you really need to smile all the time? If yes, then why does it screw you up? If no, what are the criteria when you shouldn't be doing it?

Taking life seriously

First things first.
After a long time, almost after 6 years, I became serious again regarding my life ahead. The engineering job that i have been doing for the last 2 years is interesting but I dont see much of a jump in the career. At this point of time, I am not at all worried about money. So whatever is coming into my pocket is way more than enough to pay for my parties, petrol and buying things to have fun. But sooner or later, I think i will be in need to much more money when i think of getting married and having a family. Whole lot of responsibilities which ask nothing but money. Afterall, love is not everything in life...to sustain it one needs money.

So, last night i was thinking what are the options left with me. One of the alternatives that I always have is to get into one of the IIMs and get a Masters in Business Administration. But the only problem that I see is, its not gonna make much of a difference. One cannot get an instant jump in his career even if he gets admission in one of these coveted colleges. Moreover, the exam is too tough and i have been out of reading and sharpening my analytical skills which can get me through with this bloody exam. The funny thing is, I have been thinking of giving CAT from the last two years, bought all the materials to prepare but never was albe to buy forms and actually sit in the exam. I dont know but CAT seems to be a too difficult task to bell it.

Another option which seems quite feasible and the most easiest way to get into the top management of any big company is to give GMAT and get ur MBA done from a college abroad. GMAT as compared to CAT is very easy and as soon as u finish your degree you get paid in dollars which is apparently 40 times of whatever you would be getting in India. Thing is I had already given GRE two years ago and I guess this makes me quite confident about cracking this exam without much tension.

So from now onwards, this website will mostly contain everything one needs to know about GMAT, processes of getting admissions in the top colleges abroad, the materials needed to prepare for the same and stuffs realted to it which i am yet to figure out.

That was a weird but kool experience 6 years ago - (part 1)

Now what I am gonna write here is totally for adults. So, if you are below 18yrs or arent done with your puberty thingie or have any kind of awkwardness while listening and talking dirty, please back off. Back off right now because what follows is a sheer prose containing explicit language that will surely be undigestible to you.

Manytimes this thought comes to my freaking mind that why on earth specially in indian colleges there is so much usage of slangs. Slangs which you have never heard of till ur 12th grade but suddenly after finishing your schooling, you are put into a college where all kinds of people come together. There are varieties of languages, cultures, people with pagdi, people wearing kurta pajamas in night and not the lest people wrapped up in lungis. There isnt just a diversity in outlook but also the manner in which a person speaks and pronounces words. Biharis, Lucknawi, Gujraati, Delhites, Bangalees, Entraas, Asamese, etc and all having a different style of accent while speaking hindi.

I cannot speak for others so lemme jot down the story that happened with me. I used to be a simple and shy kind of guy way back in school days whose only motive in life was to mug and bury himself up half the feet into books. Then life took a U-turn and got a chance to move out of my parents' house and went to a hostel. The first three days were normal as my father came with me to settle me down. But he has got a job to attend to because of which he went back where he came from leaving me all alone in this cruel world to fight by myself. The very next day, my wing mate ("wing" is a set of 10-12 rooms in an aisle or floor) came to my room and asked excitedly "Madarchod, kahan se hai tum?". I was able to understand what he was trying to ask but i wasnt able to comprehend what he said in the beginning of the sentence. So after replying back what he wanted to know i just asked him out of curiosity "Ye madarchod kya hota hai?". And i cannot forget the laughter on his face the very next moment i asked him this silly question. I wouldnt say it silly at that time because it was entirely new for me.
Then he sat besides me, took a sigh of relief and pointing his finger to the wall of my room, politely asked "Do u have any idea what is written all over on ur wall?"
I looked at it and stared at it again but it was out of my knowledge. It said "Assholes, fuck the shit off my room!!".
I said "Yes, i am able to udnerstand the point that the statement makes which is to stay away from this room. But i am still not able to understand it completely"
He went again "Okay, now i get you. I think you are not that exposed. You have to be polished from the beginning then only you will become a perfect diamond"
"Would you please mind telling me what is the meaning of that. Its written in my room and if I am not not able to understand it, what i am gonna tell people who will visit my room and ask about it.
"Seriously dude, nobody is gonna ask you about this. They will just laugh when they will read it. You dont have to explain to them at all"
"Okay...you are not at all helping now"
"Badka chutia nikla be tum to!! Asshole ka meaning hota hai stupid and dont just go around and say them assholes instead of stupid."
"Then why didnt he wrote stupid instead of asshole which would have made sense to everybody"
"He is not doing a social service in here. Those who can understand, they gonna appreciate him and those who dont, they will always remain looser just like you."
"I got you. But it would have been great if you would have told it. Anyways, its 10pm now and its time for me to go to bed. So if you can go to your room, may i head towards my bed because we got a class to attend at 7am tomorrow. Good night"
And he went back to his room wishing me a great night.

Next day, it was a pretty hectic day as for the first time in my life i attended class for continuously 9 hrs without any SUPW, Games or Library periods in between which I used to have in school. Exhausted I came back to my room and out of tiredness went directly to bed. At around 1:30am, there was a big knock on my doors which was enough to wake me up. As soon as i opened the door, there were six people standing right on my face, one of them being the same one who came to my room last night. They told me to get dressed quickly and come with them, they had something to show me. I hesitated a little bit as the next day I had a class to attend right at 7am. But then they forced me and pulled me with them.

We entered into a dark room which was there in the opposite aisle of the same floor. I had never been there. The only thing i knew about the hostel was the canteen, my room and the exit of the building. There were chairs all over the place. Two carrom boards tables were also there with nobody attending it which was obvious at such a weird time at night. Suddenly the TV went on. And then i gotto know that it was nothing but our hostel's TV room. One of the guys went near to tv and did something with VCD player.
I said "Guys, i am glad that you called me up to watch a movie but right now i am not at all in a mood to see one, Lets wait for the weekend to come and then i can watch with you. I need to go now."
One of them replied "Just watch for 5 min. After that if you still think you need to go to bed then we wont stop you at all. Moreover, in weekends this room would be full of people and its normally the week days when you will find this room empty"
I agreed as 5 mins is not too much of a time.

The movie started and they all sit in front of the TV. It was murky eveywhere which i hate the most. I looked around a little bit in the dark as it was totally a new place for me. One of the guys was sitting right besides the door as if he was a watchman. When i turned back to the TV, my eyes were stunned, my mouth wide open and my mind completely shut..............

........[ to be contd ]

Life is freaking fucked up!!

It would not be a lie to say that at this point of my life, everything seems to be so pretty fucked up. Reasons being:

1. Lots of work and dont even get a single time during the office hours to enjoy a bit or take a break.
   
2. The colleague of mine who was helping me to get some indian home made food has left this place today. As I am very bad at anything related to kitchen, dont even know when is the next time I'll get some good food
3. Adding to the previous point, there is not even a single Indian restaurant in Waterloo or even in a radius of 60 miles around it. So, the option of taking some food outside is also closed
4. Went to have an hair-do today after two months when i realized that my hairs have grown sufficiently and long enough (10cm) to give them a treat of shaping up. But the lady who was appointed to cut my hair, dealt with them pretty harshly and what she left with me is a 1cm long hairs all over my head. Man, it sucks...Need to buy a funky cap pretty soon.
5. Missing my friends a lot over there in India. Aww man! cant forget the memories of screwing boss and messing up with the sweet lady from the other department during the lunch time and in front of everybody.
   
6. And last and the important one being I dont even get a 5 hrs of relaxed and tension-free sleep because the person whom i love more than anybody else in my life has posed some questions that freaked me out completely. So, always my eyes are red and burning when my mind is blank and confused.

Everytime I am involved in some fun, God invariably interferes and does something which makes all the enjoyment go dissapear. I just hate him!! Why cant this fucking life be pretty simple and laid back?