I AM BACK

Guys first of all let me tell you the reason i wasn't writing for long. Life was going on great and as always i became complacent with everything that "seems" to be going well in life. For what it's worth let me tell you that this is my first post after coming down to XLRI.

My first term break is about to see it's end in a couple of days and i was supposed to leave my home today. KORBA, my hometown (ya metroites you heard it right...i said TOWN... and i am proud of it ) as always provided me with nothing but boredom with almost none of my friend here. Had nothing to do but sleep and eat. There was this status on gtalk "Eat till you feel sleepy and Sleep till you feel hungry" which most aptly suits me.

But as the moment of separation draws near, each time my home beckons me more emphatically. It somehow makes me feel that i want/need it "now more than ever". Do hell with the booking do hell with the plans. If, not for even once i can listen to my own hometown then what good can I possibly do to myself. As i was standing on the platform waiting for my train, almost spontaneously, a sudden rush of blood pumped thru my veins and i grabbed my luggages and started back on the route which otherwise i would have taken 4 months hence (i.e. back to home). Now i have got 24 hours (exact 24 hours) which i have tacfully drawn out for myself from the fast paced life. A full day for which i am not accountable to anybody not even myself. Relaxing and trying to take a nap, a fumble idea struck me and i pounced on my laptop and here i am trying to publish a post after 6 months or so. The last "period" with which i will conclude this post is going to give me immense pleasure which surely can't be quantified or compared with anything else on this earth because who knows when is it the next time i get to post something on my blog because tomorrow again am going to be in XL, a place which takes away your life and gulps it wholly in one go, the moment you are there but still promises a new life, which is really what we all dreamt off since days of yore (i mean when the rsults were out). period.

D-Day...just a start...

hmmm so where did I leave you last time?

oh yes, i was dreaming and fantasizing about all the things i like in that short and hardly attained sleep of mine. Each and every effort that i had put up that night was paying its returns and just when i started

collecting some bonus my cellphone's alarm rang! what the HECK ! i thought "There it goes, the first disturbance and annoying thing of the day !". But i was damn sure that the day had many more plausible experiences in store for me ! The process of cutting thru my sleep and standing on my feet generally takes 15-20 min but this was no ordinary day (i took just 8-10 min for the same that day). Getting up at 9.30, u cant expect anyone to serve u breakfast. You have to experience a BUffet in ur own house with lesser items on the menu ofcourse. Anyways i picked up the Cheese Chilli Spread (as if i had some choice but who cares, i just love them) and ran through like gazillions of them (as much as i could have stuffed) within a practically negligible time duration (oh ya! i am also sincere about my career and tried to save a time here :)). All the usual things followed after the breakfast except only this time i dressed up in formals (a really rare and an "assembled" attire for Engineers). By the time i got ready it was already 11. Time to go !!! Face the challenge !!! Throughout the journey from my uncle's house to the venue,i was just pondering on my"self",what is it that i want! what is it that i like ! and all kinds of stuff like that. I don't look very usual when i am using my think-tank (and that too to the fullest) so my uncle tried to barge in giving some confidence boosters. I am sure that they were great and they would have helped me a lot if only i would have listened to them.

Listening to the mixed jukebox of my uncle's "Pravachan", the FM and my own thoughts (oh ya i do have them although i hadn't realized it only until that day) i reached a HOTEL which read "THE RAINTREE BUILDING", the place where my future was going to be decided based on my deeds in another couple of hours. I felt like touching the ground (as if i was entering a Football field) but going by the reputation as well as to hold on to the impression created by my uncle's MAGNA i10 had to restrain myself. All my fear and hesitancy disappeared hitherto. The Hotel was GRAND. All of a sudden i started feeling like a VIP. It was then that i thought "This is the life i have always wanted" (although for a majority of time i thought that somehow I don't belong here). All set to rock i asked the receptionist "I am here for XL's interview. Can u furnish me the direcions of the execution chamber !!! "

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A DAY BEFORE XL GDPI.

It was around 9 o'clock or something and i was struggling to prepare (others rehearse the answers at this point of time for the 50th time may be and try to reproduce it in a manner which doesn't sound mugged up and all) the B-SCHOOL patented questions starting from an innocent killer "INTRODUCE YOURSELF" and going way deep into what even they can't imagine beforehand. So anyways i was trying to frame out answers which would sound farthest from the truth as only this deed done successfuly could possibly fetch me a seat i thought! So i tried to nullify each and every pinch of truth that could possibly show up in any of the deciding answers tomorrow! It was then that i got tired (happens a lot... am too lazy to work for 30 min straight !) and said "WTF ! i have one more left out ! Lets take a chance in this one and if i fail badly in this i will try and do better in the upcoming one (SP JAIN),totally a false promise that i made to myself, but it's a thing that comes naturally to any lethargic mind. That being said, the very next moment i saw myself pouncing towards the computer (my GF since may be 7th or 8th class and i can assure u it will be for many more years to come ;)) So anyways i reached the destination within a fraction of a second i.e. the most comforting chair in the universe with a gr8 back rest and like a PANDORA's BOX in front of it ready to be opened and get amused. Signed up on Orkut (no new scraps :(), tried to open up some conversation with some of my really OLD FRIENDS (God i miss them so much) but after failing to do so, browsed back to the EPL site that i had opened already. It's a general theory that i believe in. Generally i have noticed that the position of ManU (1st Fav) and Liverpool (2nd Fav) on the Standings table has always had a close resemblance to my FATE too. Silly as it is (i accept) but i have found this OUT OF THE BOX to be drastically true to a large extent during my whole life. Looking at the way both of them were rocking gave me an assurance that "K yaar ! Will see tmrw !" (asif if they would have been in bottom 2 or sth and even if they would have been so low on the table,i would have closed everything immediately and went back to prepare my crucial answers) Anyways being OPTIMISTIC (as it supported my laziness that time ;)) i then went on looking at various team profiles and managers in UEFA and EPL. Saw various NEWS on these sites and then thought of atleast scraping through the Political NEWS also. But the very few ones i read on the headlines again reminded me of the Hopeless Politcians and their terrible Blame Games. Browsing thru some of my favourite site (which by the way whouldn't have helped me in the GD/PI even to the rarest of Possibilites) i happened to gaze at a wall clock which was constantly trying to tell me that "SLEEP MY DEAR ! It's already 2 A.M. and moreover you are already on the edge, ready to fall off it ofcourse". Urged by it's (clock's) altruistic suggestion i decided to go to bed. Set the temp to 18 deg C (thought of having a cool night to smooth out the rough day ahead that was waiting to pounce upon me and tear me apart (atleast then i felt this). However my assumptions proved to be wrong and i had to wake up all the way amidst my sleep to interfere with the cool night (i dreamt of) which was otherwise turning out to be a FROZEN one! I guess 4 years in TN has made me prone and vulnerable to the PAST DARLING of mine, the "COLD WEATHER".Anyways i switched on the light and the very first thing i saw was my LAPPY, pleading to be placed at the TOP of my LAP. It would have been a cold day in Hell if i would have turned my back towards it. Quickly browsing thru the Folders, the icon kinda started drooling automatically over the "MOSCOW UCL FINAL". The apparent coaxing proved influential and i saw the penalty shootouts of 2008 and 2005 UCL finals (these are the only two videos which really lead to GOOSEBUMPS for me atleast). Filled with determination and satisfaction i closed my eyes (only this time it was the last one of the night) to prepare it to see the consequences of the D-DAY ahead and help me walk past IT !


A REALLY PEACEFUL ALTHOUGHT NOT A LONG SLEEP !



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