Coorg…Coorg…Coorg

Three days in coorg…it should sound amazing…around 15 degree temperatures…in between hills…amazing roads…nice drive…good company…what else do u want to make a perfect holiday…let me explain the whole coorg trip…first day we left early in the morning…so much I would have love to go on bike but the car was not bad either…those roads were fun…guess what…got a flat tyre…tyre actually burst…but back on the roads in 15 mins…off to madikeri…m telling you…that place have bad food…bad to the power ‘n’…now its turn for other basic necessity…that’s shelter…”papa” got a place somewhere 30 kms away from the central place and was ready to go there alone…but we searched and searched and finally got a place in the central…it looked shabby but then now it doesn’t even matter…we can stay any where…so then after resting for a bit…we were off to a waterfall…that fall looked amazing…people went on top of it but I realized that I am not still recovered from the innate fear that got into me when I cut my leg…so I stayed down…and then back to hotel…the day came to an end…I stayed in my room…slept early when people were playing cards…somehow I was feeling a little left out in the crowd…pretty strange na!!! but then I decided not to let this mood hamper my holidays…I need to be happy next day to enjoy my vacation…so I started afresh the next day…was talking to everyone…the day seems good…we went to a safari some 60 kms far but there were only deer and more deer and nothing else…that visit was really bad but then it happens…it was good to see the conflict between papa and tulli…two completely different persons…so after then off to another fall…it was Irpu falls I guess…it looked really nice and we sat on a rock pretty high…the view from there was preety cool…so with loads of snaps…we are finally on our way back and then its food time…and then bingo…my mood go bad again to realize that my existence doesn’t even matter for the people who matters so much to me…what should I do…I choose not to speak the other day and to my expectations they didn’t even bother…that day we went to monastry and an island…pretty decent places…everybody was enjoying so much and I was wondering about the reasons for me feeling the way I was feeling…I tried to maintain my composure but then it was difficult…the journey back was simply awesome with weather, roads and speed completely in sync…so we are back…from a vacation…few people too ignorant and too happy…and others simply confused…but believe me I tried my best not to be affected but then m a human…so all in all a nice break but not so good vacation…I wish I could have lied…

Kudloo Teerth(named by Sandy)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sG8pQHOvNv8

This is on demand by Shakun…to give a little elaborate explanation on our Kudlu trip…we ll like to call it Kudlu Teerth…just imagine the fun we had that day ki inspite of being in cast for 2 weeks after that I can’t say that I should not have gone there…it was that amazing and intoxicating…so to add on to last blog let me quote some interesting incidents…pehle to bungi aur sam ko chalne ke liye manana apne ap mein ek kaam tha…believe me…it has been always difficult…after that in the morning it was amazing…we didn’t let kavi ride his own bike and he is damned pissed of that…ya can completely relate to him…how does it feel when somebody else ride ur bike…sam is sam…went to completely opposite direction and when came back forget to get the fuel…I just felt like saying “I love u sam”…mein kisise kam thodi hi hun…was trying to overtake a bus from the left…and as expected it cornered me on to a small peeble hill on the road…it saved us from a early ending to our teerth…we went ahead…now not to look back…crossed through some really bad roads…ya it was bad…alpesh ki bike ki to lag gayi thi us din…but usne apne naye tyre ko pura pura use kiya…so we were on the foothills of the waterfalls from where it was a trek of 1 hr or so…guess what…heard of leeches…ya those small sticky creatures who stick on to ur body and suck the blood…there were plenty of them on the way up…paddy was the saviour with the salt…Tata can actually market their salt as “leech resistant” salt…this is the budding MBA in me getting restless…went up that outbound type climb…was too tired on the way but once we reached there…WOW!!! Were the words we can think of…that waterfall is mind bogling…we couldn’t hold…undressed…almost and JHAPPAK!!! In the water…sandy was a ll late but then we pulled him…taught him how to float…and then 2 hrs of pure masti with no one around we were the kings…don get ideas…please…it was heaven with blue butterflies, white water flowing through green ranges…believe me it was the most amazing scene I have ever witnessed…we were taking views of the falls from different angles to get the maximum out of that beauty of nature…we were so happy…now it was lunch time…bread, banana and bhujiya…it was good and filling…so we are moving towards our shoes and OUCCHH! C A stepped on a stone…got a cut and now is getting nervous over it…everybody sort of worried…m not that light ki people can carry me till top…but it seemed to get fine in few mins and we moved up slowly…who knew this is going to put me on cast for a 2 weeks…but courtesy KMC they gave me a stone and a cast…but I still don’t regret that trip.

Simply Amazing

Chote chote sahron se, khali bore dupaharo se...

hum to jhola utha ke chale...hum chale hum chale...ramchandra hoy!!

nadiyan kam kam lagti hai, baarish madhyam lagti hai...

hum samandar/waterfall ke andar chale..

Guess what...another long trip...ofcourse we can't have a trip longer then a day...but when the whole day we are on bike...its simply amazing...today it was one more waterfall...last one was hanuman gundi...today it was Kudlu...the ride was good but there had been incidents...sam going to the opposite side and then not getting the fuel...thank god that i reminded him...it was not far away when, while overtaking a bus from the right...i was almost banged...went up to a pebble hill along the road...but then back to the road...the good roads are good to ride...but today i realized it also feel good at times to ride on the bad roads with lot of pebbles and mud...thoda psychology ho jaye...sometimes its good to go on the difficult paths...sometimes the bridges will be very narrow...sometimes you can't carry anyone with you and you need to move alone...but life goes on...bas bas abhi ke liye itna kafi hai...so we went ahead...a trek of around 1 hr...suddenly back to outbound days...but what we witnessed after that much trouble was something which cannot be explained...let me try...around 200 fts waterfall over our head at its full blow with its vapor and droplets coming to our face...ofcourse we went into the water...neck deep water and slippery rocks...but belive me for a minute i felt like am i still alive or am in heaven...i did forget about the world for that particular moment and believe me that is worth remembering...i just felt like saying "this is life". So now on our way back...got hurt...a small cut on the leg...but that's the fun...the ride back was good but not to forget pain in the ass...anyways all in all it was our way of celebrating diwali...away from our home but close to nature with our friends...

We are convicts

Yes we did it!!! finally after all the hard work and slogging we are finally in the jail!!! ya m serious...we have committed some grave crimes...crimes like thinkging of liberty, free thoughts, education etc etc. Gone were the days when some educated people bought us our freedom...here people are trying to behave in a exact opposite manner...it seems more education makes you more confine to your boundaries and this is not mental boundaries but the actual walls of cement. In our thoughts we may be asked to be liberal and to adopt a "global" view but as far as our body is concerned we are allowed to move within 2 kms radius of such beautiful place called manipal. Even if heaven is small it will be diffcult to be there for too long without going out once in a while. We should celebrate our festivals with our friends, ya we should but what about our parents with whom we have a little longer relationships, is it possible for everybody to get placed in their home town, definitely not. What should they do, wait for that perfect year when he can meet his parents on diwali, bow down to take thier "ashirvad", if so called educated people think it is still important..we are indians and have some family ties..some people don't seem to understand at all...i thought 100 percent attendance is for the classes...didn't know that hold good also for holidays...attendance in hostels...Ha!!! Can we call the whole education system a hypocricy.

Why it is the way it is…

Ofcourse this is my personal thoughts but I would like to ask why the people are the way they are…this is purely dependent on the people I have seen in the last few days…the best days of my life till now…they say its about finance…its about marketing…its about HR…but I think its about people…it is surely about people…that world does not exist where you can try to find the meaning of “One man Army”…u would simply end up doing everything and then wondering why u have done all that…and then you won’t have a reason for that…there can be a state where you succeed by working alone and on the other hand there can be a state where you succeed with 10 people around you…which is more satisfying…just give it a thought…is it so difficult…but who are this 10 people who are around you…do you have a choice of them…sometimes may be…most of the times no…you may want all these 10 people to be selfdriven and motivated…who are like you…who thinks like you…but is it possible given the fact that each and every human being have its own way to do things…some people are like those who just don wanna let others count on them…they just make it impossible…even if you try to trust them they would make it sure that u don’t…ofcourse they have the reasons to do so…the noble fact of being away from responsibilities…then there are people who try to succeed in whatever is done around them with a pride which the sun would be having being the center of the universe…but they don show the brightness which sun emit…they just can’t lead by example…which if they get…believe me would be difficult to compete with…then there are some poor souls who try to fix everything up…be reasonable to everything and everybody…try to do their best…try to make things better for everybody and then ready to be blamed by somebodies of these everybodies…ya I didn’t use “poor” with these souls just like that…these poor souls do succeed…may take a ll longer but for this poor souls the only happiness lies in doing their best in what ever they do…they like to lead by example…they don mind pulling up their sleeves to get their hands dirty…they take responsibilities and stands for it…they believe in analyzing the things rather then criticizing and to me this third type of people are most reasonable…this is the quote which I just heard from one of the most unreasonable person(he calls himself one)
“There are two types of people in this world: reasonable and unreasonable
Reasonable succeed by adjusting himself to the surroundings and the unreasonable succeed by adjusting his surroundings to himself”, its your call whom you want around you reasonable or unreasonable…

We are celebrities

We are celebrities…one professor of our says so…what does this mean…its simple…u r praised for ur success and 100 times more criticized for ur failures…Winner may end up getting something but losers are surely expected to loose everything…believe me or not its like that and its going to happen day in day out…can think of Jerry Mcquire at this moment…everything is so artificial so phony to say…u just keep wonder where do u stand in these scheme of things…r u expected to act in the manner which most people potray or u wanna be different…different from mass…a class of your own…a distinct personality with self belief and confidence…somebody like the protagonist in the Fountain Head…or Mahatma Gandhi as to say…may be too young to make conclusions about life but seen a lot in past few days…its just observations and more observations about people…about your own self…about the way you like to do things…the way you like to mould your life…the way you wanna attain success…its all about thinking and more thinking and attaining means to make ways for your thoughts…make roads for your thoughts to glide over them towards your destination…this anxiety is I suppose called the fire in the belly…but this anxiety should not be wasted…should be channelised…you may not be aware what you wanna do in ur life…ya that’s true…believe me still a lot of us don know what they wanna do…they don know what and why they are doing whatever they are doing…its like running endlessly towards something…something you have never seen…something which you thrive to see…something which will give you THE happiness…THE happiness of your lifetime…yes I am anxious to get there…yes I am…and I am also among those who don know how…but I know that I would touch that moment when I can say “This is my day”, “This is I always wanted to be”, “This is the place which owns me” and “This is the world in which I wanted to be in”…

beach!

It was Kapu beach...not that i went there for first time but yesterday it was something really amazing...its true that i went there after quite a long and the ride yesterday was the longest after coming back from summers...the beaches are at there full blow at this time of the year...so the beauty was expected...we went on the rocks from where we can see the sea just down our feet...looking to the sky we can see the rains far away on the sea...the wind was awesome and was blowing at such a speed that our feet were not able to stay stable on the ground...i wish i could have blown away with it in eternity...i think explaining it further needs Rabindranath Tagore...hmm so suddenly it started raining on the rocks...then we have to come back to shelter...it took around 10 seconds but believe me those 10 seconds were the most amazing experience i had in recent past...so the above 70km/hr ride plus the rain on the beach i think was much more intoxicating then the best of wines which people can have....

One year in TAPMI

This one year had been the most amazing experience of my life…a whole new paradigm…a whole new world…atleast not too much similar to the world I was accustomed to or in other words the world I was brought up in…it has been a truly learning experience as far as life at TAPMI is concerned…not much so academically but more on the overall development per se…Actually this one year have shown me places, make me meet a lot of different people, adjust to different circumstances and believe me this is the best time to write on this topic as I am sitting at home now at the same time when I was in TAPMI last year and now its very easy to compare and contrast the two lives… Let me start from the start as far as I can remember, I can try my best anyways…the induction, lot of insecurities and complexes and more so confused as far as I remember with people worrying about the placements from the first day, people like me were more so worried about the communication skills and that I remember distinctly…I was concerned about it a lot and made the conscious effort to overcome that and to a large extent able to achieve that….induction over…fresher’s party, episode, another extravaganza, can be regarded as over emphasizing but it was truly a big event and more so enjoyable…interaction between seniors and juniors…haan it helped….and then the life started moving….college, hostel, mess and manipal…these four had been the pillars around which the 140 people were seen running, some quietly and slowly and some with distinct pace…a hell lot of discipline…no doubt it is must for working hard and more so better but it get onto ur head sometimes and when u feel like breaking free and running away from it and then u feel the need of ur home… I was trying my best to secure good marks but somehow got this fitted in my mind that marks doesn’t matter too much and I realized that its true…there is life more than the books and the marks....there is life by playing volley ball, by reading fiction, by dancing in parties, looking smart and more so talking smartly…all these were somehow missing in my life…I was kept aloof of all this things from my childhood…I feel like that I have grown up 5 years in the last 1 year and that’s the biggest achievement and smartness came along with it…I feel happy when people say that I am smarter now…it really feels good than a million complements on your studies… So we are back to the college after 15 days, a long 5th theme waiting for us, supposingly the toughest and the most important theme of our course, it was good working in the 5th theme and those 3 months had made me see lot of changes in my life, I started taking a lot of initiative in the group work and end up being one of the few hardworking persons in my group, I somehow enjoyed doing the group work more then my individual work, the group work give me a sense of responsibility and a sense of satisfaction on fulfillment of same, I turned out to the financial manager of my group, with almost all financial assignment being assigned to me, even I think I am best at that only…I don’t mind either…these theme was important in more than one ways…I got my best friends in TAPMI, Sandy and Kavi, no doubt there had been a lot of misunderstandings between us on lot of trivial issues but I think we have been able to sort that out, though not comfortably, we had really great fun, we went to a lot of places and believe me this 3 months had been amazing. The 5th theme made me a lot more confident and a hard working person, but one thing still missing is focus in my life, I still can’t decide how to decide what I want to decide, that sentence itself show how indecisive I am…finance that comes as a default, beyond that I don know…I have been regarded as the finance champ of the college, I don know how much of that I deserve…this makes me really nervous but I think that would be always there, the pressure to perform more than u have got and than do it with hard work and zeal, I took one class and believe me it gave me immense confidence, I talked continuously for 1.5 hrs in front of say 20 people, that had been amazing experience making me now that teaching is one of my hobby… So here again comes the holiday time, girls are off for outbound and we are moving to our home, 7 days in home, I took a flight this time, my first flying experience, it has been a another amazing experience, when the flight was crossing the clouds I couldn’t stop myself from giving a A+ to that picturesque scene, more so at the time of coming back when the flight was just above Bangalore with well lighted streets, it was as if u are moving above several stars, stars of different colours, city lights had never been so beautiful…so another 1 month waiting for us in college before we move on to do our summer training and go back to college to finish the course…I would get a job, I would be earning money if 1 year from now…that would be the beginning of another endless battle, another fight for superiority, competition and making sense out of my life…this had been another peaceful 1 month with life now getting adjusted to manipal and TAPMI. We are a bunch of 140 people who running together from one pole to another, it all looks so fancy, so phony, everybody try to be so friendly with each other, so familiar so comfortable, I doubt whether it exist at that level or its just a temporary phase. We have seen the placements and the convocation of the seniors. They came here, lived their life here for 2 long years and then everybody parted with last minute photographs and the sweet memories in their heart. They didn’t know that how many of them would meet again and where…with 24 hrs of being together to complete break off… I could see myself at that position 1 year down the line, lot of people may want to run away from these place to their respective priorities but not me for sure, I am enjoying best of my life and actually living my life here so even a thought of leaving the place make me think twice… So I am off to Mumbai, all set to experience the corporate life…the much talked about corporate life…there has been a hell lot of comparisons made between the education and the work place but u should experience it to feel it…u would keep working and keep wondering how much of ur education is making sense to the work u r doing…life is beyond PPTs and deadlines…my work here had been highly unsatisfactory, with not much to learn and enjoy…I tried my best to fulfill my aim of doing something great but somehow it couldn’t worked out, in the end I was able to do the job expected of me but to my utter dissatisfaction. If I leave aside the wagaries of my work, I think Mumbai had been a really great experience and I sincerely believe it would act as a practice for my future stay in Mumbai and then these would really come handy, m more self dependent and responsible after my stay in Mumbai…there had been quite a few unexpected things that happened during this two months which are worth remembering…so finally at home…there has been changes, people have changed a bit, place is changed a bit, my priorties have been changed, my spending habit has been changed and at best my approach has changed, m more open and assertive now…a little smarter (yeh mai nahin kehta log kehte hai bhai!) and more fulfilled and happy human being, this 10 days stay have shown me that if I wouldn’t be there I would have been joined some company doing a 9 to 9 job with ll or no time for myself. A lot of obligations and restrictions in the house need not be mentioned. I would have missed a lot of things which I have otherwise seen and experience in this one year. Who would have imagined that I would 200 Kms on the bike or dance parties or to sit with people who are “bewras” or in other words “social drinkers”…there has been changes no doubt and of course for the better…I owe it to TAPMI…

My first Blog

My first Blog...not necesserily the first time i am writing...i love to write about myself and happenings in my life...it actually takes a lot of tension away from you and you can actually know the reasons of lot of things which happenned to you...I am sitting on the 13th floor of IDBI Towers, Mumbai. This is a public sector unit, otherwise what make you think that i started blogging in the office and m writing this blog during the office hours...it may sound a little paradoxical but this is the way it is, i finished my work days back and from then was trying to do something and that led to this blogging...today i stand on a platform which is mid way between my mba and to be a part of the corporate world...one more year...to be precise less than that even...and i would be an MBA, Master of Buisness Administration, sound nice, isn't it...but it seem more rosy than it is i believe, my summer training has taught me that...no doubt u need ur eduacation and learning and all that but when it comes to work...i think the picture is completely different in the work place...u learn while u work and i think my friends who r working would also be feeling the same...working teach you how much is the difference between the education and the real world...that' doesn't mean that education is no less important but different no doubt...there are lot of other things i have learnt during my stay here in mumbai...i think m more matured and self dependent after this stay, i stayed alone with lot of new people and environment...it was a good experience no doubt...one more thing i learnt is that i would be going to enjoy the rest of year in manipal to the maximum...these 1 year won't be back and i need to do something more than the studies and believe me i would try my best to do so...i know this 2 months had not been much beneficial as regard as work and knowledge is concerned but a true learning experience though on other grounds...a little long blog but kya kare pehla hai na...