My First Surgery!!!!

Now here's a classic example of how I never get fazed in the face of adversity....(People I have been through a surgery so a little apne muuh miya mithu banna is quite in order...) So I had this pain which had been irritating me since i got to Kolkata last October... and by the first week of November it grew really bad... of course I was taking meds for it so dont you ask me y i didnt do anything abt it...Anyways back to the story.... This pain was really bad... so finally on the 4th of November I decided to be sensible and go see a doctor again... and as luck would have it, the dumb cow misdiagnosed it.... (I have since taken corrective action by warning all my friends against going to her because she is a "totally incompetent nincompoop"... in the words of Captain Haddock) So it just got worse and worse till I could'nt move my legs even a cm.... that's when I decided (I am very quick at taking such decisions you see) to go see if the surgeon could bus=rst the boil for me... (all this while I was under the impression that it was as simple as that thanks to that fool who calls herself a doctor) So Shilpa and I get into a cab and gop for a ride.. a very painful ride as all the potholes of Kolkata seemed to have lined up along my route that day... anyways the surgeon takes one lok at me and goes you have to be operated right now./... Imagine my shock...so far it was just a boil... now i have to be operated!!!! anyways so we got me admitted in the hospital and Shilpa and I sorted out the hostel mess payments.... and then i dozed off happily... no food or water for 6 hrs u see... and then i woke up, saw that minal and shveta had arrived... got wheeled into the OT and it was over before I knew it...The anaesthesia might have had something to do with this factor... anyways the healing after the durgery has taken longer than the surge3ry itself.. In fact i am still getting the dressing done daily... but i am not complaining... at least nothing went toxic in my body like the surgeon said it could if i waited any longer... saved by the cat's whiskers eh!! and that my dear freinds was my first surgery.... Anyways I wouls really like to thank Sayani, Minal, and Shveta for staying with ,me in the hospital for the first 4e days... and Shilpa for forcibly pushing me to go to the hospital.... and I think they have all the fun memories of my surgery.... apparenty I said quite a few interesting things while I was under anaesthesia....Anyways things are now limping back to normalcy and hopefully this thingie will not happen to anyone i know ever again...

P.S: the highlight of the hospital trip was the dude who brought in our food singing for me and mummy...
a close second was when a dude from the class came to visit and this guy came and stood there and questioned him as to who he was, where he came from, and whether he spoke english too...
Well if nothing else at least you cant say the trip was not entertaining...

I'm Back!!!!

Hello... after a long absence on the blogging frontier.. I have decided to make an entry again... and where better to type in my blog from but the comfort of my own (Brother's) chair... Yup I am back in mumbai... and man am i loving it... there's something about this city that just fills up your senses... I seem t have a love affair with this place... No matter where i go or what I do i am happiest when i am here... it may be the fact that its really everything i ever wanted or might ever want is in Mumbai...( though I wouldnt mind checking out New York either ;))...Anyways now that I have gushed about being back home , I can move on to other things...
I Have actually taken to heart the fact that I have been depriving you poor souls of my witty commentary on life... so I have suddenly posted 3 entries in the last 1 hour... Well one of them had been written earlier but posted on another blog i maintain... So anyways... since i have been here, I have had my mom's pani puri which is the best in the world... watched three idiots in ghatkopatr....gone to bandra... love bandra.. had dinner there... fallen sick and had stomach cramos and diarrhoea after the dinner there... gone to watch avatar the next day to south mumbai... not liked it so much... 3-d effect was the only allure of the movie.... hated the story line.... come out gone to gol masjid... had biryani at jaffer Bhai's delhi darbar...Spent the sunday at home... slet mostly... hAd my atya's(Bua's) brilliat mutton liver and curry... and watched ajab prem ki ghajab kahaani which was hilarious only on account of its stupidity....
Nect on the list is a visit to my previous office... meeting my friends and mentor there... going to colba.. a visit to prithvi cafe.... juhu beach... shopping at AND... a new years partyu smwhr .... rocket singh..... bombay blues.... crawford market..
man i have got a lot to do.... chalo cu and tc...

First trimester Ends

It wasnt very long ago that we landed here... in the city of joy.... We had stars in our eyes.... hopes and dreams of successful careers being built up and seen everyday.... Man what a crazy ride it has been so far... I have learnt that getting into a good b-school is just the tip of the iceberg.. thatmore than 95% lies below the surface..... so my dear friends ... dont let the gloss and glamour of the life which u see the friendly neighbourhood CEO of a multinational leading fool u.... he works day and night for that... and the moment u enter a b-school u will have to do the same... get ready for a fulfilling life with the biggest challenges you could imagine... bcos thats what your going to be doing... After all running a business is not for the faint hearted.... It requires a lot of determination, innovation,Firm decision making skills and the ability to stand by them....

Well I can tell you one thing the rigour of a b-school is amazing... it keeps u on the toes... whether it is the class room, preparation for lectures, dealines for assignments or the various b-school events.... and its all a lot of fun.... Thats the best part of it all.... The subjects are all interesting.... The teacheers are the best... The pedagogy is very different from what you have been through so far... to make the best of these lectures you best read your material before attending classes else your fighting a lost battle...

And then come the b-school events.. Man are you spoilt for choice here.... you can do so many things.... write papers on topics of your choice, participate in debates, have strategy forming competitions, Create marketing plans, come up with ideas for your own business and explore the entrepreneurial streak in you.... SO MUCH SCOPE TO EXPLORE WHAT YOU WANT TO DO AS AN INDIVIDUAL!!!!! One may wonder why do all this... but participating in a good mix of these competitions gives you a feeling of what it would be like to actually work in these streams.... Also the thrill you get from participating in these and then winning a few is comparable to nothing else... after all you are pitting yourself against the best brains in the country....Just the whole idea of competing with them gives you a high....

But the thing is one has to be wise enough to choose only the things one is interested in... else it is equally easy to get lost in the flow of competitions and stress yourself out so much.... I guess the one important thing is to know where you are and where you want to go in the future.... If you are clear about that half of your battle is won....

Anyways now that the first trimester is done I feel I am at least clear about what i would not want to do. It hasnt been the smoothest period of my life... there have been major ups and downs..... but I know what I did right and what were my mistakes..... and the thing now is to learn from them, work hard at not repeating them and improve upon my strengths....

Well enough of this gyaan.... I am not in the habit of writing something serious for such an extended period of time... So especially for Swati..... I will introduce some humour....

Tips for a budding MBA

1) Do not let you accounts prof think your sleeping in his class.

2) Try to pay lesser attention to your meals and more to your studies.

3) Do not sit anywhere beyondthe fourth bench ... people here are usually playing computer games in their free times and you will be typecast as a nerd...

4) do not sit on the first bench either else you will be typecast as a snivelling rat who is always looking for favours from teachers....

5) the optimum seats are on the second and third benches

6) If you fall asleep in class when you wake up listen to the prof carefully for 5 mins and ask a super intelligent question based on the proceedings(picked from some of my classmates not implemented yet)

Well thats all i can recall now.... will keep you updated with more in the future as they come to me... :P

But on a more serious note... i can easily say this has been my most interesting learning phase of my life... and i am left gasping for more.... Well got to go.... tc.

Height!!!

Before I say anything let me just inform you guys that tomorrow i have my Business economics endterm... and i have been in college the whole of today attending some seminars which could have been avoided if the attendance was not compulsory(I knw thts a weird thing to say but still ... try and understand ) well i really dont have much to say apart from the fact that my college is giving us a break of only 4 days due to which i cant even go home fo rthe vacation... wat the heck.... not done.. so i will continue being homesick for a while longer... however my mom will be here soon... so yay!!!! Our seniors are done with their exams and have gone off for the port visits... plus now they will be seen relatively less in college... Must get back to studies... in the words of my mom "Ab Ghoda aur maidan nazdik hain"

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u know what, i end up spending too much and always onm things i didnt go out to buy in the first place... somebody please teach me how to plan these things out.... life at college should finally start settling down to normal.,.. the induction sessions are almost done.... so now ill be back to the grind... albeit after a fresher's party... i hope i can give it a miss.... im never comfortable at one of these events... i hate dancing and im definitely not doing anything of the sort in front of my seniors..... especially since some of them are really cute too.... its weird... anyways the girls out here are already fishing for the cute ones...... life sure is lonely here.... but i guess im more or less used to tht now... i really miss all my mumbai friends... i wonder if i go nto some sort of a comfort zone with having just a few amazingly good frnds... spoke to sachin,sharyu and shipra yest... what touched me the most was that they are being so affectionate and supporting even from that far... thanks guys... i love u... u r the best.... i hope i find many more friends like ull ... anyways keep watching this space for further updates... will be making my work ex ppt... gn and god bless...

My first post from IIFT Kolkatta

Hello....
I dont know who i say that to every time i make an entry but watever... pardon the sms style writing... but everythign goes these days.... plus its my blog.... so who cares.... so i am at the indian institute of foreign trade(IIFT) Kolkatta.... The full form was for some of my ignorant friends who wud not have understood what iift was otherwise.... ab pata chala????? DUBAARA MAT POOCHNA.... :P

Well i am in the city of joy... but so far apart from the first ever cycle rickshaw ride in my life this city has seemed pretty normal.... kucch toh karna padega.... and if ur wondering even by the minutest chance that how did I decide to blog today... its because im supposed to be studying for my maketing lecture for tomorrow ... and im as usual procrastinating as much as possible....

So i think i will list down the pros and cons of my decision to join IIFT apart from the normal reasons... u see normal reasons toh sabke jaise hain waise mere bhi hain... want to get an mba, start up my own venture... etc etc....all very muc the real reasons par apart from that here are some more reasons which are like at the bottom of the list somewhere and if u tell me u never thought abt this at least in passing i'l say "don't lie men" total goan christian style... love them .. given a chance id buy a hut on a beach in goa, go fishing everyday for food and just basically enjoy life ....:P...
1) i no longer have to work for another 2 years at least and i definitely do not have to code again.... thank god!!!! :P
2) I get to go away from home for the first time and see what it takes to live on your own....
3) Mummy finally realises how much she misses me when im not around... :P
4) Kaustubh(my brother) gets a chance to play the only child for a while and see what i went through when he was at iit delhi for the last four years.... enjoy dude.....
5) The people in my previous organisation(though u probably knw where i worked if uve been reading my blog carefully...) realise that they miss me too... yay!!!! thts wat i love the most....

cons....
well theres no food here thts abt it.... and ohh ya im always sleepy which i shudnt be considering that this is the make or break period of my life... if anyone has any suggestions on how to stay up please feel free to leave them in the comments to this blog....

well thats it...
have fun
tc...
lots and lots and lots and lots of love,
(see how happy youve made me by just reading the blog ... now be a good kid and leave comments)
Kshitija...
:)

Ramblings of a Sleepy Person.

the previous post had been written a long time back and not posted... so i decided to publish it anyways... hey Swati.... I cant leave comments on ur blog either... read the story... I am glad u managed to flush out ur problem so easily( Pun totally intended)... [:P]... As you can see this is really the ramblings of a sleepy person... God i dont know what im upto... i had a plan to continue my IT conversations... howeevr the log of my conversation which i sent from my office to here is corrupt somehow.....U knw being completely honest with ull i actually met D recently... he really is a piece of work... i do not get him... maybe im just not willing to accept that ppl like him actually exist in this world and i happened to meet him of all the ppl... wat happened to the world is such a nice happy safe place????????and i seem to have turned into some sort of an insomniac these days who cannot fall asleep till 3 in the nyt... i think i need to start exercising... btw i finished Brisingr by Christopher paolini... its damn good... however he haspulled off a prison break and decided that the book will not gt over in this trilogy but will actuallly go on to a fourth volume... AHHH... anyways.. am gng to try to fall aslp now... plan on waking up early and gng swimming... heh... been planning this for a year... lets see what i do tom... gn ppl...