This is gotta be big!!!!

Writing a blog after quite a lot of interval.Probably a complete month.
Life has taken the much awaited turn...I have got into campus selection of Tata Consultancy Services.And there are other 309 students that have made into the legendary company.This is a feat for my institution,Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology(KIIT),as it has surpassed the last record of 297 by any company on a single day(that was also for TCS).The process was very tiresome basically because of the "Uncertain long Waits!!!" but now the only thing that is in my mind is that I have made it!!!
Thanks to our placement dept the written test was a cakewalk.Their research and guess work is tremendously commendable.Around 570 candidates sat for the test and around 520 cleared the written.We were speculating about what figure TCS is going to take from our college...and somehow I was certain from the very beginning that I m gonna make the band-wagon.But thats probably my tendency to dream the best of everything.Then when it came to the interviews....I was not interviewed the first day as it had turned quite late and hence we were told to come the next morning.It was a respite in disguise as I was severely tired and moreover the next day we got a lot of insight into the interview process by the candidates that have already appeared the night before.I waited and waited and waited for my turn to come.When I was called down stairs for the interview I saw around 25 ppl already waiting their turn.After a while I sat in front of a glass door from where I could see other candidates getting interviewed.I saw the interviwers' faces and somehow I felt relieved that they were not scary!!!
I always feel that I have been lucky through out my life 'coz I meet great human beings and I can say this more strongly this time as my interviwer was also a nice person to talk to...and I m not saying this merely because I have been selected.I felt the same when I left the room.Anyway when I first greeted him ,he offered me chair and asked me if I m fine.His smile was enough to tell me that I m not under butcher's knife.Then he asked if I was upset with the "waits".And I suppose I replied the truth I felt about the "Waits" with some sugar coating.Then he asked me to say something about myself for which I was quite prepared.But somehow when I started speaking I found myself expressing a lot more than I had actually written in my diary.And when I felt that I may end up boring him...I ended the "short" description about myself.The he again asked similar question on which I can go on speaking,"What are the things you are proud of?" Hehe.
I kept this answer pretty brief.He asked me why I haven't mentioned any projects and again I found myself speaking the truth rather than what I would have prepared if I would have thought of the question earlier.He then gave me a hypothetical situation related to corporate life.Simply put,it asked me to answer if I would feel bad if a colleague gets a better piece of meat "undeservingly"!And I said yes I would but rather than wasting my time thinking about that I would like to move on and wait for a better dinner to be served to me the next time.He seemed impressed and said "good answer!".What kind of relief that was ... you can understand if u have ever appeared any interview process.His next question was almost same ...just he made me the team leader and the less lucky guy was asking for the job(of the project) reshuffled.And I was to motivate him to stick to his job.I personally feel I was not very convincing in that one but I think that was not bad either.I was not asked any tech question that was another respite although I was equally prepared for tech questions too.I greeted him and came off the room.I saw people gazing at me and my big smile.If I too would have seen someone coming out of that room with such big white-line I too would have thought the interviewer has already assured him of the job.
After coming back to the hostel there were thousands of stories about the interview panel...speculations of "Elimination Panels" etc...and I was also one of the persons taking pleasure in listening and talking about the interviews.Earlier the results were said to be declared by 4 P.M. but the long chain of wait was still left and we were said that we have to wait 5 more hours before we can know it.We returned back to hostel and went back only at 9 PM.The wait continued...
Finally the results were declared at around 11:30 PM and as said "All well if Ends well".I was in the 310's list.Few of my really bright friends could not make into that list and that was a bit disappointing but thats how life is...I too wish them to get a good job ...may be in Wipro as it is the next company visiting our campus...probably on 1st april.
After all this was over...the days of 1st semester were back with bigger dearths.It promised physical pain for getting selected!Our seniors and batchmates were waiting near hostel-gates with leather belts and "Bamboo" sticks to welcome and wish us.The next 3 hours were really terrible.As we say,in a riot, the mob has no face...it just knows to decimate.Same happened here...people we haven't seen in the three years were there expressing their "Happiness" with leather belts.I could not do anything except for getting "red-lines" on my hips and back.Anyway thats a part of hostel life.can't help it.
Tomorrow I m gonna break the "good" news to my parents,relatives and friends.But I 'll miss a person whom I wanted to thank and hug for standing with and for me always without doubt or question.If you are reading this now,thankyou for being the most wonderful person I ever met in my life.

Doston ne "Maa tere haathon k sparsh ki kami mehsoos karta hoon" kavita ki kaafi tareef kar di hai...ab isliye kuch aur kavitaaon se unhe impress karna chahta hun.
Sacchi!!!
Ye poem maine apne life k one of the most 'Rondu'(Weeping) days me likhi thi so iska tone bhi 'rondu' hi hai!!!


"Kal tak bin mere karaahe bhi tum,
Marham tayyar rakhti thi;
Aaj mujhe zakhm dene ko
Khanzar uthaye baithi ho!!!

Jo bhi ilzaam madhe tumne
Hum sar-aankhon pe lete hain;
Jo bhi saza ab chahe dedo,
Hum adhikaar tumhe ye dete hain
Bas waapas laut aao tum
Tum bin akela ho gaya hun main
Bhatak raha hun tanha tanha
Jeevan ki raah bhi kho gaya hun main

Sang tumhare,
Mere hothon ki hansi bhi chali gayi
Mann ka josh bhi madhim hai
Nashen bhi shithil si ho gayi!
Kaise main ye maanu ki
Main tumhare liye kuch nahi raha!
Sach kaise ho sakta hai
Wo sab jo tumne mujhse kaha!

Kya ye andhera bas ek amaawasi raat hai?
Ya suraj sachmuch gart me chala gaya hai?"

Writing a post after more than a month....a lot happened in between this period....mostly for good.And there were incidents not so good too.But utna chalta hai.Results aaye ....acche rahe.Then I worked for my frnds on their Ad campaign Events(In Techfests) and I think I did a preety good job....And then met with few of old friends ...kuch jinse contacts toot sa gaya tha...aur kuch jinse thodi an-ban ho gayi thi...& then recieved one of very exciting news which I am not allowed to divulge now.Let the time come.Academics me bhi sab kuch accha chal raha hai ...infact better than before.Phir bhi kuch purane aur kuch naye 'faans' hain jo nikalne ka naam hi nahi le rahe....may b inhe abhi aur samay chahiye!!!!
3rd se Mid-sems shuru hone wale hain aur ab campus se pehle unke liye tayyari karni padegi.Enggineering me ye ek tension hai...ek exam se mukt ho ki nahi dusra seena taane khada ho jata hai.
Koi baat nahi.Dekh lenge ise bhi.

Today,we were told about the rigorous training schedule we are going to be put under.This is for our placements recruits that will soon be flooding our college campus.I am pursuing Electronics & Telecomm at KITS,KIIT university in Orissa(India).I remember,way before I joined this college I was told so much about the placement potential of different branches in a technical college...and obviously E&TC was said to be the best by all means.Thus with a good rank in Orissa JEE,anything apart from E&TC was never in question...anyway,coming to KITS was also out of question...but probably I sat in the wrong Examination Hall and got the different question paper...but anyway,3 yrs down the line I dont regret my decision...but rather I m more than happy to be here.Okay I m not going to start up with the long list of Virtues our college but it is really one of the finest colleges of this part of the country.
So,our rigorous placement training program is going to start from day after tommorow and it really going to take a lot from us...but I am really excited to get grilled...and emerge out of it to find myself placed in one of the better companies of the country.May be that will be the beginning of the biggest dream I ever saw with my eyes wide open!And I know that is surely gonna come true someday.

Something about the (Beautiful) Life...

Sometimes it keeps me thinking as to how our lives are designed or run by the one
sitting above...!How he decides what to give you and what to me....or may be take
away from you and me!Why he makes some people really lucky while others not so
lucky?Well u know I really dont think these things so often 'coz I 'believe' that
I take life as it comes (Which History shows I really dont!But everyone has the
right to think good about himself...) and don't want to indulge myself into the
questions which do not have obvious answers.
I read an article today and it basically dealt with the concept of 'Unfair Play
of Life' and how most of us expect life to be good to us...which does not happen
all the time.Everytime something wrong happens to us ...we think within our
souls,"This is not what I deserve!!!" Don't we?
To this the author quoted Marcus Cole's words,
" Wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair and all the terrible things that

happen to us,come because we actually deserve them?So now take comfort in the
general hostility and unfairness of the Universe."
Cool!Isn't it?I mean I had a worst breakup once...I feel indifferent towards it
today although at one time I was so depressed that I actually tried to kill
myself.That was insane,i know.And everytime I used to question myself why it
happened with me when I didn't do anything wrong...or rather "I didnt deserve
it!"

But now as of today my life is back on track and I am doing just fine again.
Things that happened at those time made me learn a lot about life and
relationships.And the breakup do not make me lament anything anymore.

May be I have understood what Bill Gates once said,
"Life is not fair;Get used to it!"

Well just uploading the Google Earth images as it seems they are not pretty visible on the previous blog...


The Badlands Guardian




Giant Pink Bunny




Crop Circle




Oprah Winfrey's Celebrity




Bondi Beach,Australia




Car parked on the Wall





Blood Red Lake

Well,these are few of my Abstract Wallpaper collections...