Monday, November 19, 2007

trip to wynand, kerala.. part 1..

ours was the only of the four sections which could come up with a trip and even put it to action in less than 24 hours..after much deliberations on deciding the location for the trip, people seemed to have liked the idea of going to kerala.. i do not have very clear idea of why wynand was chosen over back waters..(i think backwaters was not an option at all..considering the 2 days time we had...nobody was keen on spending much time on journeying.)..
i did not take any part in the trip's organization.. the resort was selected ...orchid resort.. n we planned to go by a non-ac deluxe bus.. everything set..we were ready to leave by 11 pm of friday night... n we were planning to reach the campus back by midnight of sunday.. (monday we had to attend a class at 8.30 in the morning.. :(

the trip began... 37 of my section mates out of 65 came..the bus left the campus at 12.15 in the night...thus began our journey to the unknown realms of kerala....atleast unknown to me.. ;-).. the writing on the trip would be meaningless without the mention of our loving class representative...henceforth referred as cr... he was at his best in keeping the crowd lively.. gave us an idea of the places v may b goin to owing to the time contraints...v had to chuck lots of places..
it was with 'sec c rocks'..that v moved out of campus...
we had 7 hours of journey supposedly..(but it took us 8.5 hrs to reach the resort...)..one section of the crowd was extremely enthusiastic with lots of singing all through the night... the remaining of us were saving our energy sleeping ..for the next big day...
i opened my eyes at around 7.00..nnn by that time..we were in kerala...no ...i did not read any malayalam board, neither did i see any beautiful malayali girl... we all could just feel it by the change in surroundings... there were trees, trees n only trees... the color green as if redefined looked entirely special..the only problem was with the roads..they were tooo narrow for 2 buses to cross each other...
everyone was restless to get down n enjoy the pleasant morning.. atleast for some time.. finally owing to some traffic jam (!!!!!)...(remember!! i said something about the roads..).. some of us got down for tea... it was extremely cold.. compared to the slightly convenient warm morning weather of bangalore.. v walked for sometime.. the bus cleared the jam n there v were ready..n refreshed to start again to our resort..
reached the resort...it was beautiful... though out of the city...v were told..(it was really hard for us first timers to differentiate between in-city n out-of-the-city in kerala...).. humans do not seem to exist at alll... (in line with the saying ...'God's own country'.. )..
our guys have booked the entire resort.. if i remember correctly there were 3 types of rooms.. deluxe, ordinary(i doubt if this is the correct terminology..) and tribal.. most of us would have come across one or the other of deluxe or ordinary rooms..(nothing special about them..).. but the tribal ones r TRIBAL to the core.. made of bamboo sticks.. n some sorts of other plant stuff.. i remember seeing some of these kind in discovery channel's program sometime back..
some ppl thought it was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity..n asked for it.. i cant say anything as yet about their experiences with the bamboo houses..
soo there v were getting ready to visit the first place on our long list of sites... long ..atleast at that point of time.. unfortunately later v dint have enough time to watch any of those.. the long list shortened to only 2 sites... :(
will talk about our trip to kuruva island in the next one..

summers done....pheeewww..

dont actually know how to describe the process of summers here...
soo many companies...sooo few people...still there seemed to be tons n tons of tension around..
the summers process this year started on 11th november.. n it went on for 5 days.. on the morning of sunday..every single one of my batchmates were there.. sharp by 7 in the morning..
there were people who got offers, moments after the process started... one can then imagine how enthusiastic the crowd of 250 people would have been... on the other hand...rest of the people who were attending the interviews without getting offers, were sooo hugely tensed that it required every possible effort to console them n inspire them for the new day...
my turn came on the second day(which in our slang is day z point 5)... with giving interviews for 2 companies..to be very honest i cannot say i was not tensed... the faster i come out the better i would be..i thought.... nn the moment i got the first offer..i accepted... happy to have come out blooming.... after all it was only a summer project for me...my plans for finals r different..
now lets come back to the situation of others...
one can imagine the intensity of the fight when the country's best of the best take part...
the one amazing thing about this fight is that the people (opponents or competitors..) support each other...console each other n believe in each other...everyone helps everyone else..
every new day did present us with lots of excellent companies... (watelse can one expect from the summers of IIMB..??).. slowly as the days were passing.. more n more people were getting placed.. n obviously the tension was mounting to unimaginable levels for those who were not placed yet... it is such a pain as can be remembered all thru one's life if experienced once..
finally...the day (thursday evening) has come when every one in the campus was placed.. with all the batch having one or more offers in hand..officially the summers came to an end with a closing speech by our own 'DON', whose speech was interlaced with some amazing achievements our batch has made this time..
then the time of partying began... first in line was a wonderful dinner... arranged in appreciation of the outstanding effort put in by our wonderful seniors.. then the night of l^2..wherein our batch was all out of their minds dancing to whatever tunes were played...
thus i came to see the last day when the preparations which started before 3 months, which involved countless number of modifications to the resumes, sops.. followed by filling up of company online forms n attending ppts...
hats off to the effort put in by all those trackers n placement coordinators..who could manage this humongous event with such elegance..
now can i rest peacefully recollecting all those eventful days.. having experienced such events, life now seems lacking flavor.. lets see whr life takes me to... its awesome to leave control of ur life to randomness.. one has to experience it to understand it...

Friday, November 9, 2007

lets see how much i can do..

around 5 months in the campus..n i still feel as if yesterday was when i landed up into this beautiful campus... not many of my own friends believed that i would be capable of getting into this place after clearing those seemingly impossible number of stages..
now that i m here... this time i would just give an overview of the events that take place here..
first three months into the campus... i knew the place was not all hype... the crowd is extremely talented.. 22 sessions in each of the 5 subjects n v r done with our first term... didnt even finish reading the index..before which the end terms came n went too... one can then imagine how gud my performance would have been...:-( ..
not to worry ..i told myself... dint put the required effort..
a little introspection...n instead of looking at what i missed..i started looking at what good things have happened.. .......made wonderful friends.. enjoyed every bit of last term.. obviously never read.. do u believe that ????? m dead serious here... never read... yup...
stayed awake till 4.00 most of the days ..either wathcing movies or playing baddy...
went out on with the most beautiful of my batchmates... used my newly acquired laptop to the best of the efficiency.. watelse?? u name the thing...n i would say ...i have done it..
2 months into the second term... dont know why i started reading... may b because i just wanted to show the people that getting marks is not all that tough..if one puts in the right boring effort.. i do really miss those fun events of the first term.. nn since the summers r around.. cant find a soul whose line of thinking matches with mine.... the brighter side again..is that in a week ..v r all free again..with unimaginable amounts of free time in our hands... lets wait n see how many people come my way..