And Kipling with whom I share my Bday( only a random coincidence)

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 wornout 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 breath 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!

One more I like

Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of night and light and the half-light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly, because you tread on my dreams.

-- William Butler Yeats

Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind

"How happy is the blameless vestal's lot!
The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!
Each prayer accepted, and each wish resigned."

-I dont know who

Popper

Sir Karl Popper says- The notion that one can begin anything at all from scratch, free from the past, or unindebted to others, could not conceivably be more wrong.

It is difficult to practise popperian philosophy although it is so logical and independent.

Life could be so much easier and simpler if u can erase everything in ur mind when u find it is wrong. In that case we shall possibly be able to begin things from scratch.

This idea was used in the movie "Eternal Sunshine of the spotless mind". Amazing movie it was, the erasing was again not 100% successful leaving some ash behind which rose again.

Never ever drink again

Rome at a distance

Today I feel unusually calm and composed. From past few weeks things have been tipsy topsy and have been little sad and doing stupid things. You can not just keep doing the same things and feeling bad about it. You need to make changes.

A little courage and sense should prevail. Have a distant view in perspective and in a disciplined way keep moving in a direction. If you know you have to reach Rome, keep moving, eventually you are going to be there as they say all roads lead to rome.

Ode to the nice guys

Written by a girl who knows too much:

http://www.stwing.upenn.edu/~jenf/writing/rant04.html

Illogical Manipulative Bitches :))

Useful

The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think.
- Edwin Schlossberg

Irrelevancy principle

As time passes, things become more and more irrelevant and more and more things become irrelevant.

Ironical

I got placed in a start up during campus placements. I had my joining date on 1st April 09 in Bangalore. I reached just in time for joining taking 2 flights from Indore- Mumbai - Bangalore as I had no other option coz I had my convocation on 30th March and Mr. CEO Hari Rastogi after a lot of requests did not postpone my joining date.

Anyways when I reached Bangalore on 31st March, I called the CEO and informed him that I have arrived and please let me know the address where I have to reach exactly.

So kind of him he said that you can take a day break before joining work. I thought nice fellow. So on 1st of April, he called me in the afternoon to meet him in CCD in IndiraNagar. I said, great.

I got ready in my formals and reached there. We had a long chat about different things and his company and the discussed about the project I was slated to work upon. Also discussed about politics, nano( where we had our differences) etc etc. In the end he says that the project is delayed by two months so he will give me another joining date.

Its been two and a half months now with no response from Mr. CEO Hari Rastogi. And recently company's site is also closed.

The irony is incidentally all these happened on fools day.

I am a free man, I will walk away

Date

I took a beautiful girl for a date today. She still doesn't admit its a date. Anyways it was very good and I forgot to take my wallet (stupid me) probably in overexcitement. And she paid :))

No nostalgia

A time comes when u know its time to leave. When I was leaving KGP, i never really felt sad. I really loved the place but it was time to move on.

Same is here, I want to leave IIM Indore now. Its really a bad time here and i am still not placed and I dont know at a situation like this where would i end up. I have no doubts that I am going to do well and love the place and job wherever I will go but still the things dont seem to end up as they were expected and a a lot of anxiety and tension is building up.

Probably, whenever I have to move on, the place doesnt want to leave me so easily and smoothly. The last day I had to leave KGP, I got an F in my grand viva ( in the last 5 yrs no one got an F in Grand Viva and only in my panel 5 students out of 14 got an F) and then had to stay there for 20 more days, gave a Re- GV and left.

When I was supposed to leave Tata Motors and join IIM Indore, again I did a stupidity and didnt pay the joining fees of IIM Indore, I tht my waiting at K would clear and then I will go to K. And probably the first time in the history of IIM k W/l 6 didnt get cleared. And now I was kind of stuck and then after a week I got a mail from IIM Indore that they are still waiting for my draft as my dad has already sent a fax of the draft. IIM Indore allowed me to deposit the fees and accepted my admission.

Now the placements, again I am stuck for few extra days. I cant really help it. Probably if things start happening a bit smoothly for me, there could be a bit of nostalgia while leaving but the prankster(no offence God) sitting above always has some funny plans :).

Keep faith

Placement season(2009)

For all the passing out this year from best of B schools in India.

I am one of you and I know that despite all the efforts you have put in last two years, despite all the competencies and capabilities you have it in you, most of you are facing the lowest time of your lives.
Many of you will end up confused and stranded without a job or with a job you would never think you would be doing. Most of you who studied with loans on your head will be facing a perpetual struggle every month if you still stand on your virtues by not going for a default.
I suggest the only thing you can do is be strong, prepare yourself mentally to do all the jobs with low salaries which you never thought of doing and keep ensuring that you create value consistently more than you are being paid for.
Go to those sectors which needed the best of talent to grow and were not being able to afford you. Show the world what you can achieve for them by being loyal and justifying every penny they are going to pay you. Keep faith, be courageous and be ready for the struggle you are going to put on. I am sure the things you will learn at these trying times will bring humbleness and the knowledge and efforts you can put will help you grow a long way and make you the brightest and smartest of leaders the world will ever see.

The most loosely used word in MBA

Strategy