SO IT GOES...

Well days have gone and I just realised its over 10 days in the new company. My first cheque arrived today..reimbursement for travelling from Pune to Mumbai to join ABG..well good..neways expenses are soaring up day by day. So life teaches lessons day by day, be it a bus conductor or a beggar on the streets or your boss. As an SIBM MBA now we gotta realise how we are different from MBA from second rung institutes. When we join, the expectations are really high..so firstly I gotta ask myself where and how I'm different or better..well the answer leads you to a quest for finding your true self. You meet different people, different back grounds, sometimes you bump into an alumnus, the resemblence is too good to believe. The comfort level is so high and you realise its how you project yourself as..You may not by the most knowledgeable coming from premier institutes but you definitely gotta act as if you really are. Then the whole world starts perceiving you as knowlegdeable and your work is done! Plus alumni support always matters! But you always gotta prove yourself as those from other non premier colleges always try to prove that you are not better than them by virtue of your college..every action, word, opportunity they'll try showing you that the lineage doesn't matter and they really work hard, maybe even harder and maybe even better..but still the arrogance and pride of being from a premier institiute needs to be there else they'll run over you..every day a new challenges..I say..BRING THEM ON....

Murphy is real!!!

Well it so happened that we were all walking on the road, five of us. It was a bright and sunny day and one of the guys said that its so damn hot , lets walk in the shade.. So..we walk..only tree..only crow..5 of us..guess who got the dropping!! Man never am I gonna publicly express my desire to walk in the shade after seeing what happened to my friend today!!

Here comes the summer sun, he burns my skin... well that was a song i heard long time back, guess the Mumbai heat goes unparalled! Its the same traffic and BEST buses which was a part of my life before goin to Pune. Somehow the traffic just keeps on increasing and roads shrinking.

The internships goin fine and got good croud from the other college. So its Bullshit Bingo, BTBA and pulling Munim Ji's legs all the way! So we have a Munim and a Cleopatra with us and we operate out of the PPO room and the Recreation room!

So the internship started and I now find myself in the loop of home-travel-office-travel-home. Somehow travel becomes a big chunk with the terrible traffic situtation and the BMC's love for digging up the roads. Guess John Maynard Keynes would love the BMC for sharing the passion for digging trenches!

Bus and train travel teach you a lot about life. The guy taller to you has smelly armpits by default and the guy shorter than you has chameli or some other godamn oil on the damn head! Guess all the "normal" height people suffer the most. Speaking of normal its again time for vote bank politics by way of reservations. I feel we can never develop in real terms as a country as lomg as we have these damn politicians who don't know a shit about running a country.

Speaking of bus travel actually met up the conductor whose bus i used to take way back in 2000 during my school days. The chap still has and amazingly enthusiastic way with which he goes about doing his job in a bus in which you can't move an inch! The courteous mannerisms and the way of talking would show some luxury hotels and airlines airhostesses as novices! The dude is really chilled about his job - the job of a bus conductor - where its so easy to just come up and demand "TICKET" and the job is done but this guy comes up the you and asks "Aapko kahaan jaana hai saab? Yeh lo appka ticket aur yeh lo apkaa change." The guy actually does it for all the passengers. Guess we all can learn something from him about customer service. Neways life's a great teacher always....

More later....