Building dreams

Mumbai, here I am. Dreams begin to build up, wishes begin to pile up, adrenaline rushes faster. Everyone is on the move here, everyone is in a hurry, everyone values time here. But having stayed out of home for such a long time, it isn't much hard for me to adjust. Except for the long travels for some work on the bus or train, and the humidity i love every part of Mumbai.

I have finally registered myself for an iPhone yesterday on the Vodafone site. With my first salary in hand, i just kept piling up the things i wanna buy. iPhone was one among the top list which i wanted to own, and here i am...going to get myself one soom. would love to flaunt with it ..
Another thing i have in my shopping list is Digital SLR with Lens (a very good one - to support my interest in photography). Lets keep it short till here, less i become more greedy and end up losing what i have.

Post MBA Life

I am working in one of the second largest private Bank in India. I would say back office job, siting before the glare of desktops and attending meetings. I was in a shock today when i gave a thought about my work in the organization. A management student doing a technical work, i thought!! As of now, i am working with the "Backup Solutions Team" for HDFC Bank. along with some vendors like Symantec and Wipro . Symantec team looks after the agent installation and policy creation for the data backups on a regular basis. Wipro team looks after the technical difficulties in the process.

Today i was tired of working, following up mails after mails.....asking Symantec team to do agent installation and make policies......confirm this and that... a normal office work. I thought where has all the learinings of MBA gone? Thought of doing this and that when i was in MBA and what i was doing there at the moment! Then a person from Symantec team just told me.. "i know it must be hard for you to realize..what we have been taught in MBA and what work we are doing here. Thought of running the company and all..and where we land up eventually".

His words shocked me. I have been thinking that my work is all technical and not what i had expected for an MBA student, until i realised that the other person who was in Symantec, who has been doing the installation and all the real technical works is also an MBA !!
I guess the moral of the story is that - no matter how hard it seems to you, there is always someone who is worser than you.

The last look or the first look?

It was about time when i had to leave Imphal for Mumbai..for my job, for a career and for some fame. When i was leaving, a sudden rush of mixed emotions came into my mind. I did not know how to react at all and smiled all my way to the aircraft. As i climbed the stairs to the aircraft, i bent down and scanned the place around to take a last look of Imphal- my hometown as if i have left it in hands of another for perpetuity.

I was about to become emotional and sad at the same time, when the air hostess wished me good afternoon. I turned around to see a nice looking air hostess and lost the emotional feeling for a while. I took a seat inside the aircraft and then thought if i was true to my emotions? was i really sentimental about my hometown or did i just blew it up on the sight of a beautiful girl? I did not have any regrets at all. So i guess it was just a distraction in my flow of thoughts.

Life in Mumbai

As i had feared, less it happen - it happened. I am posted in Mumbai now and maybe i wont get any tranfer to another place until i change my profession or job. Well its not that bad as i thought, i murmured. But the most thing i hate about Mumbai is not the traffic but the exhausting travels. It was too hot when i came for joining in Mumbai and i thought of buying an AC or a fan at least. As anticipated i preferred the fan due to less price and maintenance charges. But with time, i scrapped it too ! Now the pre-monsoons are here, showering every now and then and spoiling my dress.
I had to return home drenched and walking along the dirt of the Mumbai rains. I thought, this is too much. "Mumbai..Mumbai..kaha ka metro" i thought.

Maybe its about time. lets see what life has in store for me as i go along in future.

Old realtionships can be scary !!

I was at home for a few days before coming back to my place of work. When i was there in Imphal, i could see some changes in Imphal. Everything seemed old to me except one thing which was so uncommon. There was a black Gypsy of Commandos parked near Khagempali. It is indeed a very uncommon sight indeed. I smiled to my own surprise, recollecting the fact that my ex- girlfriend has become a DSP (Deputy Suprintendent of Police) now. My friends would make fun saying not to go in her area of operation or she may have a different thinking.

I pondered for a while and recollected that its Manipur and anything can happen here. Better not stir the emotions and come face to face with her i thought ! Funny right! I know it is. We were good friends at one time..shared thoughts, exchanged plans and did whatever it takes to be in love. Today the thoughts of confronting her makes me think of another fragile indifference of thoughts.
Life can be that strange, i realize. Life indeed. Hope to meet her someday soon though. :)

Project in Baroda

I am going to Baroda for a months time for my project. Will be in Mumbai in Apri for a weeks training. So i guess this will be my last post for time being. M glad m traveling to a new place with my fren, will get to explore new place,new people, new experience. Had not traveled for a long time.. Hope my stay will be fin there.
Adios amigos

Unlimited things you can do on Gtalk

I came up with this new method to listen to radio in Gtalk. I was so excited. I can even change and select channels, make conference rooms,call someone on mobile or phone (charges applicable) and many more things. This is coming true with the help of VOIP (Voice over internet protocol).
There are unlimited things you can think of with that.. send SMS, call landline,mobile, Yahoo users, AIM users or any IM users online, call from landline to Gtalk , listen to radios worldwide, redirect your calls on websites to your mobile fone, customer support of websites from mobile or landlines, (work from home eh!) , call toll free numbers from Gtalk free etc and lotss more.
Check out the site http://gtalk2voip.com

Amazing clarity of radio too. Try it out following the steps given in the site. Have fun then folks

Insomnia again!!

I tried hard not to be awake but in vain.Maybe its the thousand thoughts i have in mind about the near future or the remembrance of my school that kept me awake till this odd hour . Made many plans..or call it thoughts about the future. Life has not been hard on my part,yet i am wide awake as if i need a reason to be awake.Scratching my head over and over again, i thought it might be a good time to write my blogs. Thoughts came pouring in when i was in bed,but believe me when i began writing this blog....i have to think twice what it was all about. Maybe they were all just plans and dreams i had all these time!

I thought of saving money monthly and donate some of it to school as developmental funds.
Thought of taking loan and start looking for a nice home. Thought of those many people from whom i can borrow money to lend someone for his urgent needs. Thought of those savings certificate schemes and bonds which i can invest on. Maybe coz i am not much financially sound,i am making such stupid thoughts and plans about my future! Maybe thats what other people also do naturally ...an instinct for survival...or maybe for a good life. Eventually i realised that there are so many possibilities i can do in life. Lets see what time decide, whats best for me!

Women's Empowerment - Women's Day

A few minutes ago i had went to SBI ATM center in Infotech Park,Pune which was a walking distance from my hostel on my roommate's bike. I did not want to walk till the ATM in the warm evening weather so i took his bike. I parked the vehicle before the ATM whose parking area was not necessarily demarcated. I thought it will take 5 mins and ill go away. Suddenly this tow away truck came and i had to rush to the bike breaking the ATM line. The tow away guys told me to meet the officer at the front.

I went at the front seat to see a woman sitting there. Her complexion darkened by the daily visits in the city, and seemed warming lady. I told her its just a matter of 5 mins ma'am and above that there was no demarcation line telling till where the parking space was but she did not listen. She asked my driving license, then PUC and then the vehicles certificates just to make me at guilt. I showed the former two but didn't carry the vehicles license so i told her its in room there. She asked me to pay 250 directly and i was shocked. What misfortune it was i thought, caught before the ATM itself where i cant deny having no money. After some bargaining she told me 200 final.

I saw no more point in arguing with her and she meant business so asked her to wait. As i took our the money from ATM, the ATM receipt showed something like this..

"Women's Day: 8th march
Survival to success: Celebrate her life"

Oh yeah! Happy Women's Day indeed.

Rambo man and local grandmas

When i woke up this morning...feeling lazy to wake up..i lay there in bed thinking of small incidents in school when something got my attention! There was this Rambo man who used to come everyday and sell pictures of Rambo,actors and movie posters at a nominal price. He yells at the top of his voice and did attract a lot of children's attention... Ramo... rambo...

He would come early morning before the school assembly and then back during break and he still was there when the school ends. This was quite a pain in the neck for the local aboks (grandmas [plural] in manipuri) who sold food items nearby. They used to scold him everyday saying that he snatches poor childrens money, which their parents give for food items. One day, one of the local abok got so pissed at him and threw the dirty waters of the drench nearby and told him to go. There was a series of scoldings that followed and poor rambo man was standing there like a defeated war hero..listening to them. We felt bad for him. They were angry at him for no reason we thought.

I felt bad for rambo man that time in school days because i knew that the local aboks wanted him out so that they can earn more for a living. I was angry at the aboks thinking that it was our choice of preference that we buy his posters..he didn't drugged us to buy them! Some of the children even shouted at the aboks for doing so. But then i realized that they all are fighting for one thing - money for a living! I knew how it feels to be rejected....and if you are rejected from your way of earning a living how will you feel? I felt bad for them all when i was a child.

This morning...i could actually see their faces so distinctly. It was as if i was dreaming and i had drifted back in time to witness all those incidents before my own eyes again. I could see his eyes...red and swollen from the treatment of local aboks. The aboks, leaning a bit due to their age..were still yelling at him and telling the children not to buy from him as it wont fill their stomach. Some children were still asking for new movie posters, some asking for rambo, and some for posters of arnold. It was quite a spectacle.It was a fight for real... a fight for power... a fight for ones living...a fight for their lives. No matter why, rambo man returned back after some days. He had already decided his fate.... i guess i did hear him say, when he was leaving after the brawl," i'll be back" like arnold.