It has been one of many things bothering my mind since long.. and every time I come across this thought I go on google to see whats new in this context.. and recently I came across this article on bnet.. you might like to read it..

At the bottom line of all thinking.. I still wonder are we really THE mature audience for the words like ETHICS and MORALS.. or we prefer keeping these words for discussion during “high-hydration” times.. or perhaps leave them for the Tycoons to speak about.. or Do we think of them as “It made sense bro” in a public speaking forum.. Because when I try to think about some hypothetical situation, I realize that these terms have high association with the CONTEXT in which we bring them.. and to further add, these are very responsive on the Social Cues..not perhaps one’s own intellectual perception. I would urge you to take this ethical quiz that I have provided at the bottom of article. Well the RIGHT or WRONG in such typical ethical fix is like.. Either you know it OR you just don’t know it.. and the real twist in tale is.. you pretend not knowing it most of the times.. or at least you bend things to suit your say.. and in the latter case you impress your raison d’être either by arriving at them following a logical trap or by tossing coin which gives you equal chances to the Yes/No dilemma.. (well that’s unbiased approach)

Do you think Ethics puzzle be ever as tough as answering which blade of a pair of scissors cuts the paper? No, they may not.. until we enforce some clouds of “This is expected out of you” statement by two voices.. First your career aspirations.. Second your own earned or drafted principles.. ( and here I am assuming a conflict in both voices.. else there is no bone of contention and you simply are the Rock Star at whatever end of spectrum you dwell ).. As for personal opinion.. I myself would be in a fix if at all brought to such an edge of wall.. I will rather jump with closed eyes than picking the right side of my fall.. because in either case  I am on my way to rock bottom..

Why I say the word MBA here is for one reason, that this is the time for one to know the complexity of this English word Ethics.. and being a learner your approach to it has high probability of being  justified in whatever digging you are doing with it.. So here is the link.. Would You Act Unethically on the Job? Try it …

Cheers

Loku

PS: While killing the time has become one of the most challenging battle with us, I tried this attempt to put GTalk status message to ask people to tell me different ways of writing “Mera kya hoga”.. English translation.. “What will happen to me?” and once again I have reasons to thanks GiMBA vella folks.. and some responses are :-

minjo cha theendo
ce qui arriverait à moi
起こる何が私に
ماذا حدث إلى ي
Endhu Enna Aagum
inde inda aawa
majha kay honar
Amar ki Hobe
sadda ki hoga

You need to verify yourself.. I take no responsibility of the correctness of them..

Tags: Ethics, MBA

December 10th, 2008.. We came, we saw and We ARE confused.. 105 dangling souls… 105 different aspirations..105 different dreams.. gathered under one shelter.. the GiMBA.. where everyone wanted to prove he is better than others.. and impress the veracity of doing what he was doing.. The males and the Females.. oldies and kidzz.. all and so many of them.. from.. the land of corporate where everyone waits desperately for last day of month and salary credit..to.. the land of new dreams and new faces where bonds would be made and new couples would emerge ..

October 31st, 2009..We are still confused.. yes we are.. to see people packing their bags.. booking their ticket back home.. final days booze parties.. last days get together.. this one year.. will be placed very special in our lives.. while I met two very special friends and many names that I wont forget.. specially Chandan and Amit Singh.. if certainly they get me placed..

More of this life may come soon.. depends on my hydration level

Cheers

Loku

Tags: General, GiMBA

Yeah.. we celebrate each and every function that falls in a calender “Holidays” column.. and hence we just could not miss the Navratri celebration.. dandiya Night at campus.. no words.. all fun.. and all dances.. Girls.. as always Gorgeous.. Boys.. as always #@$ @#$@..

Enjoy..

Loku

Tags: Dandiya Night, General, SPJCM Celebration

Narad Muni.. haha.. well thats what some people in my batch call me.. and if I be realistic then the percentage of people calling me Narad Muni will probably reach the absolute 100.. oopsi… I don’t mind it.. At least people are recognizing my efforts.. Well said na.. Rajeev, Anirban, Kedia or Bhatti and Kalyani for that matter.. I don’t really try hard to be a cruel nuts.. It comes quite naturally to me and the flavor of life I live in, it perfectly resonates. So after giving it a Well-thorough thought, some batch mates thought of having Ass-kicking ceremony and I to be the special guest at Hot Chair.. If I remember correct the prophecy of a living legend (read the Doctor in some Delhi’s hospital) came true on 20th November, some 26 years back.. but my people here at GiMBA were in a bit hurry to get away with their assembled frustrations.. So 20th October was what they decided… THEY.. actually it was only from Bhatti’s side.. for some reason he has been highly obsessed with me.. (Now don’t run your wild thoughts, its only about REVENGE) so the mail floated and it was all me..I mean they were all over me.. I mean.. well you can understand, how emotions erupt if you keep them under surface for a longer than usual time.. they burst on me.. and on my “Sitting Aid”.. and they busted loud..

I still remember the color.. the PURE RED.. when I was tempted to see my butts that pained for first 5 kicks and then went into eon of being senseless.. While I happily declare that I am 100% Anti-Obese human, that day I regretted of it.. My highly adjustable and accommodating structure not only made it easy to be lifted with bare minimum two persons at a time but also showed equal respect to fair gender community.. My butts were humbly signed by two of my most darling heart foes.. The Gunjan and The Sanjana.. But fortunately for me.. it happened after my first round of “Lets kick his bloody Ass” so any extra count went unnoticed by my “Pain Recognizing” nerve network.. Diminishing Marginal Pain.. Concept to suna hoga ..

Off the topic.. Chandan had been very demanding since last few days regarding my take on the word PLACOM.. and every time I thought about sharing my feelings.. A fear of ..”Loku you are still jobless” .. haunts me.. but my friend Chandan, that will not stop me from putting across a blog about you and your committee.. All I need is the A4 size sheet printed with Golden letters “We are happy to offer you ……. ….. ….. at a annual compensation of ….. …. …” and merrily signed by some big shot in some big shot firm and accepted by another big shot.. Mr. Me..

Just till then we both need to suppress our earthly desires for a better good..

Cheers

Loku

PS: Bhatti and Gunjan.. the worst combo of WORST PJ.. and each time they start I bet I bleed through where ever possible.. because when they ask you what is “Marketing” you better not give it a thought rather run for your life.. I swear.. Its contagious and deadly…

Tags: General

I have nothing to do.. absolutely nothing.. except watching India losing its first ODI against Aussie..Com’on we have done it in past and we will done it again..I thought so..anyways back to my nothingness.. So I thought of putting the PICS of GiMBA journey online and in the sequels on this blog.. one by one.. i have a huge collection.. thanks to Goli, Chandan, Bhatti and Mine Nikon L16… i will be posting it one after the other.. this way I will keep myself busy for a little while..By the way I must tell you end of this week, 31st October.. I will be officially graduating as MBA-IT.. and Gosh!! it looks like I am all set for those Matrimonials.. and lately my spam folder is all full with Matrimonials.. I wonder how quickly news spread in this age of Digitization and Internet…

Well for the first series I am posting the pics of my recent trip to Abu Dhabi to attend a Job Fair..well that was total loss because every door we knocked.. we found “House Full” .. that very much defeated the whole idea of this fair but whatever it was… but the key take away was the “I love this part of the world” feel.. I have to tell you all.. if you ever been to this place.. You can not (until you are like most of my batch mates who want to go back) think of moving back to your hometown.. This place seems so attractive to me for its sheer creativeness and will to be what it is today..

So cheers and keep coming for more pics… Next would be My Birthday Pics…

Loku

Tags: Abu Dhabi, Pics Abu Dhabi, UAE

“Mausi.. Do you know we are planning to go to Desert Safari.. You must be knowing its one of the best thing to do in Dubai.. And somebody told me its damn costly.. No no.. Don’t take me wrong.. I am just telling you.. Nothing else interpretations please.. Com’on you know I wont talk in riddles to you..” Well that’s how I got my Dh 110 for Desert Safari… not that I didn’t have them.. But when it comes to partying out.. U bet.. Nothing in this world will give you more pleasure that partying on others money.. And for me my others account is generally.. Mausi, Mom and my dashing group of 8 friends.. (lukha people, I know)… Things cut short.. Lets get talking…

What a awesome experience that was.. Though I am late to put it on blog.. But better late than never.. Some 50+ I would say.. Boarding the cruiser OMG!!! Just imagine 10 Cruiser standing in front in one line.. That was some scene.. Well first thing was to make sure you sit with right people.. Its very important for such a public trip.. And I needed Rajeev to be there with me.. I needed someone to kill my time.. And lately he has been my favorite victim.. And love screwing his happiness.. He is a darling.. (ok. He is not.. But he is for sure an easy victim.. Haha.. Now I know why people call me Narad Muni..) some 40 minutes of drive and we were there.. All desert and sand.. I will again reiterate here.. I love this place more than I loved Singapore .. So once we get to see that we can not afford the biking we quietly moved to safari after taking all the possible snaps in all possible permutations of poses..

Up and down..drifts..tracks on sand.. That’s just a little of desert safari.. No doubt we all went mad.. And if that wasn’t enough.. The show of the day.. Belly Dancing.. And I will keep my mum here.. Only thing I can share here keeping my excitement to a bare little is.. What a female she was.. And what control she had.. If ever given  a chance I wont miss her seeing again.. Well I love curves.. And she was THE epitome for my love.. .. Haha..

Cheers guys

Loku

PS: I was asked to keep my words limited about that Belly Dancer.. Zipped..they are..

Tags: Desert Safari, Dubai, Pics Desert Safari

I have been struggling since I remember last…. How so ever hard I could try to recollect my memories.. I met this friend of mine some time back (ok.. 4 months back.. I was only trying to make it look like a nice story plot… but you ppl.. Com’on stop raising eyes..) and while talking to him, he started with his usual ups and downs of life… and like all human’s innate characteristic he too started with the Downs.. And only after I got tired and started bleeding through my ears, I finally had to stop him saying I needed to go to washroom.. ( sorry, I know it was the lamest excuse but after bearing non-stop hitting of the most uncommon negative thoughts any human brain can inhabit in it..this was more like much needed life for me… ) now the point is.. After listening to him I actually went to rest room to make sure I have nothing of “negativity” left in me.. Because as per my reputation I can’t afford to risk my rapport by having even the “x -> 0″ where “x” is the counter part of my happy self… (x -> 0, remember Limits and Differentiation in pre-university courses.. My favorite part of calculus. ).. Now what made me write this blog was the curiosity that I dwelled in me about why would some one be sad or demotivated, if we can put it this way…

Once my dad told me “do your best and then improve your deliverable of the BEST and keep doing so”… he never mentioned to me about anything that would even remotely meant or sensed as “Failure”… believe me this is no Geeta Saar that I am reiterating here… where you don’t worry about the result…. You think you won’t worry about result??… You would… and if you don’t.. Then you are not the one to read this blog …. On serious notes, all my dad wanted to tell me was…. Once you are done with effort for the current cycle.. Make sure you find some area of improvement and then work to fill that gap… now imagine an effort that falls at wrong place and unlike Lord Krishna or The Arjuna.. You do worry about Result.. What would a failed attempt educe in you… two possible emotions… (as they were for me till I focused on the last one only)

• Why me…?? And exaggerating this to “Oh Almighty, why me.. Why only me.. Why again.. I am such a @#$@3 @#$@”
• Ok!! Lets deal now… (no.. I am not exaggerating this one.. This is mine ok!!!!!!! And I am, ummm ummm, a narcissist.. )

Why would I tell you all this.. And why would I expect you to go further reading this whole.. I don’t know.. May be you need to just see that when one can deal with any CALAMITY… OMG.. What  a huge huge word.. Ok .. Lets keep it plain.. See friend, my point is when you have a possible (even if chances are far lesser than worth the thought) roadway to tackle tough times then why not give it a try… after all someone said once “When you have lost everything you are free to do anything”… See I am no preacher who has figured out the True meaning of life and nor do I want to be a saint in the Himalayas of India… all I want is to tell you.. That never ever get yourself in the black-hole of “Why me??” syndrome.. WHY??? I am not sharing the gyan that I have assembled mediating in deep resonance of my thoughts and mind.. No way.. I better booze during the meditation time.. That anyways keep me in complete resonance with my thoughts and motions … Its very basic involuntary action of human body that the moment you see the failure, you ask “why” and this why can be then added to “me..again..and etc..” and then….

From one why me.. We can recollect so many of such instances which would only staunched any possibility of hope.. From one failure, you better believe me, we all have the talent to dig out many more such failures…that’s the universal law of addition which would never fail… and while I truly believe in “Secret” that one creates one’s universe by one’s thought…I admit its not really as easy as said…but surely worth the try…so after keying in so much… all I request to everyone is to see the positive side of all the things… and if not succeeding then at least keep trying… nothing is impossible in this world where we watch Surrogate and claim that its very much in near future… Agreed that toughest thing to control is your thoughts but imagine the game if you learn how to steer through the race court of your life canvas…

And finally jumping to first two line of this blog… I still need a reason worth enough to be SAD… a bad interview, a broken relationship, a lost job, blah blah would never be a reason.. As life extends beyond all such things… just keep yourself in right mode and keep cleaning the mirage of corrupt thoughts… and you will be there at the right place on the right time…

Like my Prof said to all of us.. “May God be with you”

Cheers

Loku

PS: you really need not look for a rationale of me blogging.. It’s a exercise I do to keep myself contained…

Tags: General

Finally, like all things, our GiMBA comes to an end.. Or at least approaching an end… and Gosh!! Are we happy?  No not really… Sad? No ways… Frustrated?? Ah com’on we already were…Excited? Wtf, who calls it excitement when you have 100 prints of your resume in your hand and posting them like advertising your features for a newly opened JOB market and certainly as a paid advertisement…argh..then what is that we are feeling… Are we witnessing the intimate spree of execution? Hahaha, very well said Loku, well at least many of us would have someone or the other on our shoot at sight list and no surprises a few names will be repeating with bold and strikethrough font… Nostalgia? Well…. very obvious that’s the by product of any college life so nothing olympian about it also…then WHAT?? Why the clock’s tick tick is educing an anxious ado today.. Yeah I know, this Saturday it will all end.. And it was always destined to end some day.. I knew it would come…

A day when I would catch the flight again back to India, and perhaps, never to see some faces again in my life… about whom we bitched… with whom we laughed.. With whom we cursed some authorities… with whom we spend nights talking about dreams, girls, boozes, and any thing that has no sane connection to any living body on earth.. With whom we fought.. With whom we said “tu to mera bhai h, tere liye jaan bhi kurbaan” and “arre ruk ja.. Wo junior teri bhabhi h.. Aise na dekh.. Bhai ki family h…” and “saala seniors ka maal dekha..” and never to forget.. “4 can freeze mein daal de bhai.. Aaj exam phod ke aaya hu…” and for some special guys.. I will dedicate a complete blog….

Well the point is.. What is GiMBA going through when the clock signals the last of a beautiful year.. Let me reiterate here.. That if none then at least PLACOM will be remembered for the longest time until the haunting memories faint away or we are absorbed in the daily ups and downs of THE life…

I know the mettle GDEC08 contains… and I know 5 years down the line many of us will be making some headlines in some newspaper.. Punjab Kesari for example, of Delhi times page 3, or Aaj Tak .. Well sorry aaj tak was a little too much.. But the gist is I know we may have to wait but we WILL get to what we have been longing for in our hearts… and what has GiMBA returned to us in lieu of our sweat, our sleepless nights, our Online Streaming of Movies, Facebook, Mafia, Farm Villae and others small efforts like scoring grades, studying.. Or networking.. Well  for me GiMBA gave …..

A lot of memories that will give me a reason for a large scotch in nostalgia, many friends that will always appear in my forward mailing list, a MATURED friend who made my life hell (I swear, he fu**ed my brain out…), a sweet baby panda friend (Though she is generally high on her notes and ABSURD in her reasoning and Disgusting in choice of YELLOW color.. But still she is very dear to me), nice roomies.. (though Anirban was always interested in Rajeev, Anda manani never loved anything other then his bed and warm little eggs he was hatching most of the times, Shayam.. OMG!! I cant make the content of this blog look ADULT.. But he surely was.. hehe.. An all time FOE for any item that runs on electricity, Pants that would go down as soon as he would enter the room… coffee mug that smells like spoiled flesh.. And blah blah…), and blah blah… the list goes lonnnnnnnnng …….

Just waiting for things to come to an end.. So that I may actually feel what I want to feel.. The Nostalgia of GiMBA..

Cheers

Loku

PS: Spark, the best thing happened to me, I guess .. And some girls I could never talk to.. I know that’s their best take away from GiMBA..

Tags: General

Ten months back, I never knew we have something like 4 AM in the morning… it always used to be 7 AM or any hour after it and thinking of any hour before 4 O’clock was like solving the P = NP problem. So I generally used to pity my brain. Though at some time (read the time of our Project Delivery) we used to stay long hours but never did we touch this figure of 4 AM. The other day, I happened to watch the TED talk about this 4 AM and man, I was just flabbergasted with the facts that guy presented there.  And he just inspired me to write something on this 4AM story.So lets begin first time I happened to witness the 4AM in GiMBA. It dated back to probably the first day at GiMBA after landing on the clean and serene soil of Singapore, the first day when I realized that I was a part of the herd which had long lost its sense of direction and was dwindling with “where to go” surviving motto or “what’s next” discussions. A Hope that was working as ventilator for almost all Placement eligible guys and a Search of tunnel with some light at the end (our Prof. said one day we all would find that… I again emphasize the word .. one day) Well the search still continues for many of us and some seems to have found it, but nevertheless the reason for the First 4AM was the excitement of being away from the daily morning meeting at office and knowing the batch mates with whom we would live our one year of insanity.

After that day I hardly remember 4AM having any relevance or significance as it might have without us all being in MBA training. 4AM was all about getting a cold Coffee or hot, lemon Tea, Red Bull, or any sane liquid which can drip down the throat (read it as most sought after drink for students and as we would say it always… chilled cold beer). And not to forget, 4AM always served as benchmark for all kind of excuses as well… I will sleep at 4AM, lets watch the movie first… we will start the assignment at 4, lets go for a walk… we will study at 4AM, lets watch youtube…I will get up at 4 to read the case, let me sleep…we will stop at 4, lets get one more round of beers…we will go out for smoke at 4, lets smoke in room now… and the most amazing one…shucks its 4 and I am hungry, where is the Maggi da… and its the 4AM.

So in short the 4AM was the marking figure for many in its vivid explanations.

Loku

PS: Trin trin.. Mobile rings at midnight.. Your girlfriend…Lets talk no honey.. And you keep talking until its 4AM and then .. Oh shuks.. Lets sleep we have to go office/college etc etc… and the boy… Thank God.. She sleeps… .. Why doesn’t she realize all this on time…

Tags: General

So here it starts, the first campus interview for me. Well as the word would have it, I am excited… nervous..?? Naah.. Never actually heard this word.. Close to 10 months here with GiMBA this was perhaps the first word to find it exodus from my life.. Yups anxiety can find its presence by its sheer virtue of meaning. Though I stand confident with every step I put forward, but as chrysalis would grow to be a butterfly… its wandering motions make me a little anxious… and while I prepare myself for the best guard possible, the battlefield seems to be a new place… specially after some three years of inhabitation in a comfort zone… and the best part… it took me well over 30 minutes to explain to my mom about the profile I have applied… because she till the last moment was trying to see some C++, JAVA, or in short some sort of software building in this profile.. And explaining her that all I am trying is a switch was I hope a futile attempt… Rightly said.. Moms.. They have their own thinking mechanism and you better never dare to counter argue.. As they always know the best and the right.. Haha.. That’s mom for you…

Well I took this break to help myself understand about what I have always heard from the people who claim to have wisdom-tooth that the only thing MBA does to you is to escort you nearer to what you really want to do in life.. And this realization of “really want” is the only gift one will get out of MBA… rest, we all know has always been on-job learning.. Yeah if you wish to count the decline in sleeping hours and increment in consumption of caffeine then yes these are two more stats to keep in calculations.. (I am ignoring the Liquor part as that’s obvious) ..

All in all, my experience of The First has not been so great to boast about and this time I am expecting to break this jinx.. Whether I succeed or not will depend on Singapore’s like or dislike towards me.. Because I am definitely going to give whatever I have…sounds like desperation.. No!!! Its not.. Its determination.. hehe… how easy it is to lie to yourself and create a mirage of belief.. Thanks to all philosophic reading I do.. But truly.. Being positive is certainly an achievement which I am literally proud of.. And bet you me.. This is indeed the toughest challenge one can throw on oneself.. I have seen people breaking their Laptop chargers and shouting on someone  whom they believe is present somewhere.. Well this blog is no gyan else I would have keyed in some 1000 more words on this topic… but abstinence from the evil for the time being is the best alternative..

So guys.. Keep your finger crossed until I share the news.. Good or else.. Whatever that is..

Love you all

Loku

PS: to shave and to iron clothes.. Yuppa nothing can ever be as painful as these tasks…  and by the way.. Dil bole Hadippa.. Don’t watch.. But do listen to songs.. I have been doing the same for last 3 days and the more I listen the more I want to.. And to height… each and every track seems easy on ear drums..

Tags: Job Hunting