Making profits yes papa…
Telling lies, no papa,
Show your balance sheet,
Haha haha
(thought of sharing this rhyme written by my friend)
Hope people don’t find fault with this Raju’s (Rajesh I mean) balance sheet for the calendar year 2008. Guess I won’t be having any confession to make after posting this balance sheet. Here it goes
Q1. CAT results kick started the year, showing that 92 percentile is my vertical limit and other exam results following suit. Applied to IFMR due to my friend’s advice (which turned out be a monumental decision) and awaited for GDPI calls from other b-schools. Finally TAPMI, IMT Nagpur, BIM and IFMR had the heart to interview me. Work side, was just performing marginal work and trying to develop my sporting skills in table tennis and basketball. Jeeves and Wooster (TV series – adapted from the plays of P.G.Wodehouse) was a real stress buster during this testing time. Oh boy! Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry were too apt in their respective roles.
Q2. Applied for leave from the office stating that I had food poisoning (food poison to me??? Not in my lifetime) and travelled to Bangalore and Manipal for the GDPI interviews. It was a mixed experience in GDPIs, getting to know how years of work of many CAT aspirants gets converted to success or failure (though I just took the mock test for preparation). Finally got selected in TAPMI and IMT Nagpur with IFMR in the waiting list. Didn’t accept both the b-schools for specific reasons and finally ended up taking PGDM-DSF at IFMR though they didn’t offer me that course. Counted the days literally for the d-day on which I would drop the bomb to my manager. After saying the news about my resignation, felt like as if I have stabbed the man and was happy for quite a few days. Then as my last at work came nearby, felt low as I had to leave my colleagues turned friends, who were a part of my life for 1 ½ years and the project of which unknowingly I have become a nagging necessary part. At last, left my first job on 2nd June peacefully. Spent the whole month of June watching both good and bad English movies (Finding Neverland, Top Gun, SAW, My first 50 dates, The Truman Show, You don’t mess with Zohan)
Q3. My second innings in college life started on 7th July. Got a truly pan India classmates with people from all the corner of India. Finally was attracted towards the Tamil speaking crowd as my English was too bad to converse with the Northies (though I did know toota foota Hindi). Shared my birthday celebration with a innocent soul and guessed that the creator should have correct the mistake made on my birthday the next year. Got a best friend (unlucky girl for she got a friend like me) who inspired me a lot and helped sailed smoothly in the ocean of MBA. Learnt jargons here and there (courtesy My MIS professor). Started watching lots of movies and forgot that I have created this blog. Gave my first end term exams with least struggles.
Q4. Bad end to a year that started well. The sub prime crisis took its tool around the world, with my seniors finding hard to get jobs. More serious than the subprime, one of my classmates met with an accident and passed away which I am still not able to accept. Such a short ending to beautiful life. Preparations for Abhyudaya and second term helped me and my classmates forget about the incidence. This term too watched lots of movies. Year ended with a presentation week for the second term subjects and boozing out in hostel. The year was quite fast moving, with major decisions of my life being taken. Hope everything goes alright….
