Puppets of grades

During the last week there was placement week for prm 31, financial jobs were rolling out the maximum pay-cheque, and suddenly people out of deep slumber got up and realized its the financial subjects which can land them up in the so called best jobs. Nobody questioned one owns interest or choice. The amount have said it for everyone, I personally don't know what to do but i ask a question that is social pressure or rather initial salary is so important that we have to fulfill it at the cost of one's interest. In the same way i sometimes that are we studying for grades so that our cv can get shortlisted for an MNC and we can land up with a fat pay-cheque. Do we give importance to our desire's our choices or are we all puppets of grades and placements. I am searching the answers for myself and is thinking about those who take the road less traveled.

byeee 2011

On this final day of 2011 ....infact the final night....I sit quietly and thnk f the ups and downs that I had faced in the year 2011.......regret certain moments and njoyed certain ones.......many new dimensions of life came across ....that made me strng emotionally.....and sum workouts made me strng physically......

This year made me realise that lifez neva smooth and anything cn hapn at any moment........we have to keep fighting .....I have to keep fighting......

This year made me realize the importance of student/engineering life......as the life after engineering life is totally different......!!!!!

This year made me realize the importance of struggle in B-schooll life.......

This year made me realize the importance of friendship.....care.....

This year made me realize how much parents love their kids.....evn though they dnt show it upfront......

This year came to an end......

2011--- Thanks fr teaching me so many thngs......hoping to see many more in 2012.

and yes love you friends!!!! :)

So much to do so little time

Well to start with i have spent 6 months at a place where i wanted to be since my graduation years, yes i am talking about IRMA. I chose this place not because it instills values in you or makes you understand society, polity, rural etc. I wanted to be at this place because of the amazing blend of management courses with courses related to development, co-operation etc, i wanted to be here because of the faculty and obviously the serene campus always attracted me towards it. When i landed up here i made great plans starting from excelling at studies to performing well at curricular but life at IRMA is not easy or rather i would say there's a way of smart working here which i am yet to learn (damn i am such a slow learner). Every morning i get up promising myself that today i will catch up with studies, extra readings and sports but i don't know where time flies by after 1'o clock. Next day i am standing in front of the classroom complex at 9'o clock. How to do so much in so little time or rather i should have to learn better time management? fellow participants if you all or some of you are facing the same situation please share it and it will be more better if somebody can teach me "smart working".

'The Have-in-small-amounts'

Shouldn’t there be a third category when we talk of ‘the haves’ and ‘the Have-nots’; that of ‘Have-in small-amounts’?  below are a few observations made during a dinner at a restaurant.

·         A typical ‘have-in-small-amounts’ goes to a restaurant, wishes to try those new fancy-named sizzlers along with the main course, but knows not how they would end up like. A ‘have’ would have tasted it, a ‘have-not’ would never want or rather get to taste it, but a ‘have-in-small-amounts’ would be confused. He/she has the power to choose (and spend) but in small amounts; ‘value for money’ being the guiding mantra.

·         Now that ‘have-in-small-amounts’ wasn’t served his soup hot. So he doesn’t enjoy it well. The waiter happens to be a middle-aged man, looking tired after a long day probably, and our have-in-small-amounts is a young one. He may tell the waiter about it, but may not really complain any further. There’s something that stops him from complaining - some consideration for that waiter may be..good old values? He has that anger inside him of not being given what was due to him, but in small amounts-resulting in a mild expression.

·         Another ‘have-in-small-amounts’ enters the restaurant, with his girlfriend. Now the lady is a little conscious-trying not be seen by a lot of people. This ‘have-in-small-amounts’ couple seems to be clear that they are free to date, but their family and the society may not accept it. So they go out freely, yet try to conceal. There’s that notion of freedom- but in small amounts.

·         And finally the very literal example of ‘small amounts’. A kid in that restaurant wants to have an ice-cream bar worth Rs 20. When his father gets him that, he wants another one, so that he holds one in each of his hands and eats them simultaneously. The ‘wise’ father refuses, saying that he can have one bigger one worth Rs 40, but not 2 small ones for both his hands. He seems to be against the display of extravagance of numbers, i.e. of having more than what is believed to be reasonable. So there is that tendency among the ‘have-in-small-amounts’ to show extravagance, yet in small amounts.

All the above seem to be having negative connotations; may lead one to believe that this category is the confused and the frustrated lot of the society. Yet they are probably the most content ones. Don’t they say, ”Happiness comes in small packages!”

(Parneet Kaur)

You are proud!!!

Last night I was chatting with a friend of mine. The topic was “If I am proud?’. This is the adjective which many people use to describe me. But I decided to check it out if being proud is really that big mistake or a crime??!!!!

I posed this question in front of her and the reply she gave to me was enough to settle me down. YES!!!No change is required in me at all!

The most important excerpt from that confabulation is-
me-”I hate wen people tell me about my pride!!”
she-”No need of wasting your emotions on these people!!!I think it’s very good to be proud. There should be something about everyone that they are proud of! You cannot be confident unless u has an ornateness known as pride. Still, there is a thin line between arrogance and pride!  Most people don’t realize this and hence consider it to be a negative aspect of personality!”
me- ” Cant I satisfy even those who think it to be a negative aspect!!?
She concluded it by this-”It’s impossible to satisfy people. Haven’t u heard the story of the old man and the son and the donkey??? ?It said-’U can please some of the people all the time but of all the people sometimes’. The people who think this are sometimes envious of the fact that they see something which they can’t bring about in themselves”.

Well after this i would just say. It’s an individual’s choice! If you wanna really live life according to the wishes of those shams or your own authentic way!!!

Welcome pals!!

What is this life if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare.

No time to stand beneath the boughs
And stare as long as sheep or cows.

No time to see, when woods we pass,
Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass.

No time to see, in broad daylight,
Streams full of stars, like skies at night.

No time to turn at Beauty's glance,
And watch her feet, how they can dance.

No time to wait till her mouth can
Enrich that smile her eyes began.

A poor life this is if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare.  

                                   

   (Leisure by William Henry Davies )                                                                    

‘IRMA is a nature lover’s paradise’ -true, but it has got much more in store, for everyone who wants it. U got a love for studying-there’s plenty of that(undoubtedly!); u wanna sit n talk(aka bakar), there is plenty of tea as a catalyst; u simply want to sit idle n stare at faces, there are plenty of faces too…Every day we see, listen and say. That’s the front end of the picture. At the backend are thoughts, observations, ideas- some that we have held for a long time now, and some that have been generated in the last few months of our course in IRMA; some that were scribbled somewhere (diary, FB, blog included!), some that were shared with others and some that still sit in the back of our minds.

How about we let some of those ideas, observations, thoughts, knowledge see the light of the day, let them be read by others we know (n those we don’t know), be thought upon, be appreciated (or the opposite!). In this process, we may catch a viewpoint, debate over an issue, understand a concept, share some knowledge, question a reality and appreciate the simple act of courage of a person having put his/her thoughts across.

Isn’t this like that Win-Win situation we learned few days back??!!