How not to enter a B-School !!

School mudikum pothu... itho mudinthathunu ninachu yemanthu ponen.. marubadiyum college.. college end la appa ini padipuku oru kumbudunu ninachen.. again I was wrong ...

My dad really has good memory espeically when it comes to me. He remembered my 'Asai' ( !!! ) to do an MBA that he promptly sent the application for BIM and I wrote the exam just for his sake than for anythingelse.. romba mattama mark vanthida koodathunu slight preparation panninen. I forgot all about the exam after writing it. There was only one month for the training to get over and to be full time employees... bang came a call letter out of the blue for interview. Sari naama thaan interview sothapal king ache... enna perusa aga poguthu?!

Normal interview sothapals thaan... but this interview was different... I almost had a job in hand and this was only a formality for the sake of my Dad and Mom. So I went in without any expectations. All through the interview I never had the end result in mind because I didn't really care. It ended as a very funny interview for me. The GD before the interview was slight sothapal but kind of OK.

I was back in chennai for the final stint and the training came to an end and the job was offered and we had few days to join. Coming back to Trichy I informed my parents about my illness and I was promptly operated. BIM results were out when aiya was on hospital bed recovering. By this time my parents were very worried about sending me to chennai and were praying that I'll get through BIM so that I'll stay nearby. On the other hand I was not sure whether that funny interview would be enough to enter a well known b-school.

Though I was told that b-school standards are coming down I never realised it until I saw my name in the BIM list :P . Now this result has put everything into confusion... whether to go back to the company where I'll be reporting to those two buggers and wait until some customer really chooses us and risk my career in that place or go do an MBA. The choices in front of me was really hard caz all my struggle would go to waste if I decide to do MBA but on the other hand the writing was on the wall... the dept was heading no where.. at the end I had to take the hard decision of doing my MBA.

B-school ulla pona kanna kati katla vita maathiri irunthathu... more on that later.

Ulagam Urundai - Friedman was wrong :P

I have moved to the same locality in chennai where I was staying after three long years. My friend KKP is kind enough to accomodate me in his house. Lot of things have changed since I left the place three years ago but every place I see reminds me of those magical nine months with my friends here... Ulagam unmayilaye Urundai thaan!!

Now that I've told about this place I'll tell you how I came here almost 4 years back....

Engg final year.. vanthathu just naalu company for campus interview ( number thappa iruntha naan porupu illa!)... antha naalu company layum kotai vitachu.. antha nerathula u need to have some motivation to continue illaya... besides I was desparate to come out of electronics.. there was only one way to come out.. do an MBA... eureka!... and that is how I informed my dad that I'll do an MBA but I didn't proceed solidly on that front beyond a point... it had it's impact after a long time though.

Engg um mudinthathu.. enna seiya... velai thedalama? At that time I had an eye for embedded systems caz that was one field that would take me closer to my dream field Automobiles!!.. so I decided to do a course in embedded systems and that is how I came to chennai to this place for my training. The company promised me a job once I am successful in the course. So now aiya was a trainee in a CMM level 5 company (koncham peethikalam ... thapilla :P )

But things weren't easy after coming to chennai. After coming here my health detoriarated. I came to know that I'll have to be operated but didn't really want to tell anyone about it. If my parents come to know they'll discontinue my stint at the company for sure and take me back home... the worst thing possible caz I wouldn't get my dream job and my future will also become a question mark. So I took the boldest decision of my life (looking back it also looks to be the silliest!! ) - to postpone the operation and keep the whole thing to myself until I get my job.

Things were already difficult... but as if that was not enough we had a bugger above us in the training. One thing came to light after interacting couple of times with him - this guy is definitely a fake and all his 'experience' were only on paper. Add to that there was another bugger who completely lacked practical knowledge of anything in the field and if at all this guy was really working somewhere before it would have been as a teacher (ofcourse thappa teach pannitu thaan). All the trainees in the dept were locked in the company politics between these people and there was hardly much happening and whatever we did were out of over own interest without any input from them.

Disillusioned other guys started applying outside but I was stuck in a dilemma.. applying outside at this stage would only jeopardise my chances of working in anything related to automobiles as the jobs on offer for someone like us was predominantly in application software. Many left before the training was over.. I somehow held on hoping goodtimes will be back... goodtimes were back but there were lots of twists to it.

Missing Hyderabad... this time for real

My scooter time and again proves that it is out of control.. if my previous post from Hyderabad was unexpected this post is a complete surprise for me... yes I am posting this from chennai :D . I never thought I'll move to chennai so early nor did I imagine that the whole process would take less than a week. Somehow things fell into place so fast and here I am.
While it is natural that you'll tend to have positive things to say about a place only after you leave ... there are many things in hyderabad I really miss. In the past 8 months I've come to know more places in Hyderbad than I know in chennai. May be I will go back to Hyderabad someday ( hope it is not for a stint like the one I had just now :) ).... but looking at the pace of change hyderabad will also become just another overcrowded jungle like other metros by then.

Still bidding Adieu to Nizam's City

I never even dreamt that this post would be from Hyderabad. I've heard about uncertainties in hitech companies but the kind of confusion about my location is ridiculous.. my travel has been rescheduled n number of times in the past 5 months. While I say this thoughts of me leaving the city this weekend also lingers ... yeah there is also a plan to send me to Mumbai by this weekend. I had some work until now (no no definitely not busy :D ) and even that is not there for me this week. I never thought being idle would be so difficult for a person... yeah it's really hard to just whine away ur time doing nothing!! Certain other things stopped me from posting for the past 3 months - 'Don't waste ur time with this' nu niraya advice..... atha comment a potu iruntha kooda yen blog a yaravathu paduchu irukanganu santhoshapatu irukalam ;) Anyway.. I have sometime today to post this and I hope to post more frequently as long as my status 'unknown' continues.