The path to nowhere

Wher r we all headed???.....well, thats the question that often disturbs me. (Me here being an average middle class guy who has just got his first job). The question disturbs me bcoz i m unable to distinguish my future from any tom, dick or harry. The question disturbs me bcoz all this education sometimes seem to b totally crap. The question also disturbs me bcoz time is running away faster than i can imagine. So, m i moving on the path to nowhere???

But on the pursuit of your dream (remember alchemist????), the learning actually happens in the journey and not at the destination. In other words, learning or life itself is a continuous process. We cant sacrifice 'now' for some 'future' benefits. If we r doing so, then we actually don't understand life. So, "the path to nowhere" is rather desired so that one knows how to enjoy or rather how to talk gibberish for hours...lolz.

Life at crossroads....

Why do i find myself at crossroads???.....and why always?? It is as if i stay in crossroads....unable to decide which way to go.....and finally move in the direction the traffic moves....

Sometimes I think, Life would have been so easier if we didnt had to make choices. Yes, choices....thats where our source of misery starts. Do we choose our parents?...No, so we accept them and love them. Life is so cool, so bindas in our childhood days. But, as we grow old.....we need to choose....choose between which college to get admission, which bike to ride or to which girl should we propose....

Well, all this choices are biased. They are hugely affected by the way the world is going to accept our choice. Imagine the world of adam and eve.....no choices, still they enjoyed life....

But then, without choice.....just think how dull and monotonous the world would have been? All the fun, all the enjoyment of doing new activities, meeting new people or visiting new places wld hv bn missed.....

Well, again i m at crossroads.....unable to decide which argument has more weight??????

A business School called "ICFAI" - Part II

Well, placements or rather the most important criteria for determining the success of a B-school is directly dependent on the economy of a country. And the corelation is very high in case of ICFAI. But before getting into that, let me accept that the rating given by these magazines is simply bullshit.

The placement buzz started suddenly when the post mid-term evaluations were going on. Guys were also busy in preparing for 3rd sem exams since only some 15-20 days were left.

D E Shaw was the first company and I sat in the entrance test. The result, as expected, was negative. The next company that I applied for was ICICI bank and I hope there is no need to say about the result. Well, they have confirmed about the credit and risk profile in the interview but the actual confirmation will be only after the induction. Anyways, I got the "placed" tag very early which led to a negligence to whatever happened in the college.

Many good profiles for equity research and all came (like Adventity, Irevna, Batliwala, UBS, etc). I don't know whether going for ICICI is the right decision. But at the end, it doesn't even matter. After all, isn't all this things pre-decided by someone??? Or is it just a lame excuse from my side???

Anyways, the placements (Avg 5.5 lacs p.a.) till now had been decent enough to attract MBA aspirants. One should look at the ROI before making the final call.

A business School called "ICFAI"

"Love me or Hate me, but u cant ignore me." Well, thats truly applicable to ICFAI Business School. An institution which seldomly acts as an institution (talkling about the discipline and curriculum). But still, its an institution....lolz

Well, don't be so pessimistic about the school. I have learned a lot in the past 20 months at ICFAI. Learned how to do CCP (well, u kno the full form, rite?), how internal marks are assigned at face value and how students are selected for representing the school in fests.

Its not so bad after all. I believe its just the right training for the bad bad corporate world. Things are pretty much the same there (I m not talking about exceptions)

Yes, I would have loved to have a hostel life, much better faculties and much better infrastructure. But, ICFAI has made me learn how to adjust and how to stop complaining.

One of the key features of ICFAI is that they are not goin to make your life a hell, unlike other B-Schools. Its your initiative thats going to count. So, lazybones remain as they are.

Will write about placements and all in the next post.

If....a masterpiece by Rudyard Kipling

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream -- and not make dreams your master;
If you can think -- and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools;
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings -- nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run --
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And -- which is more -- you'll be a Man, my son!

The rational and the irrational

The irrational is supposed to enjoy a penchant from the heart and not the mind. But then, isn't the heart a hollow muscular organ? How is it supposed to have feelings and intuitions?

Do hell with the answer....I wld still luv to b irrational....I wld still luv to go out alone in the dark nights, in the lonely streets.....I wld still luv to argue with anyone on something i know is unjustifiable....I wld still luv to luv all the beautiful gals in this planet

So, when the rational said that why create another blog.....like just another brick in the wall....the irrational didnt agree, it kept on pushing for a blog. Well, for a moment, i thought aren't most of us just like one of those bricks in the wall???