Finally a Job ........... THERMAX

Dear Friends,

It is been long time since i bored you with some nonsense or my own troubles. Its been more than a month if i can say, that means i definitely must be either really busy or really lazy. Well... it is neither and it was placement season.

After the day one hiccups of Infosys, Wipro, TCS and CTS, i could get through THERMAX, proving that my heart rests in operations and i cannot be an IT guy any point of time. If Infy interview was excellent, TCS procedure of using the governmental procedure to hire was pathetics, Wipro did not know what to offer whom. They were offering me a job in Marketing when i was a hardcore Operations guy. Strange, either they are not focused or some thing is really wrong with me for going to that interivew after being selected in the GD round.

So i can say successfully that the placement of more than 72 students in the fifrst three days was not a phenomenal but an appreciable target. For a 18 month history, the students really did good and the Institute came out great with excellent logistics, suport systems, timely advices for the 3 days.

I got my placement on 17th January,2006 at 6:20 PM. That is going to be there, etched forever because i fought in the interview with everything i knew and i came out great. It was worth the effort fighting with a panel comprised of IIT K and IIMA with great years of experience. That is when i realized where my heart rests. Though manufacturing companies may not be high paying, but i got the profile that said that McKinsey guys will be baby-sitting me and i have to learning from them for the next few months to come.

So i will make a transcript of the inteview sometime later and post it here so that ppl can know that i had to deal with 10 subjects for technical and my whole life for the HR interview. The GD was a separate altogether.

Ciao for now.

Gopal (Deputy Manager - SCM)

L'Attitude and Gravity, the pillars of success

Dear Friends,

I am really sorry that i could not complete the part - II of story that i was writing, Instead of that i have decided to put the success of the Great Lakes college Fest that went off in the best possible way that even many accomplished organizers were astonished at the remarkable way it was conducted.

Management Students from 20 schools took part and the events went off in grand success. The conclaves were excellent with Dr. Chandrababu Naidu, the former CM of AP, Jairam Ramesh, Congress MP in Rajyasabha, Dr. Arunachalam and other dignitaries speaking words of wisdom.



The release of the college magazine, the maiden edition of Gravity was launched with great fanfare. I will be posting many pictures in the coming days.

Here are a few to start with .........

A CONFUSED MBA GRADUATE NIGHT-OUT

Garam Masala - A ruined night

For me the day normally begins at night, not that I don't do anything during the day. It is only that I get sick of the group work, deadlines, the girls with thier boyfriends and the boys with their repeated attempts to get girlfriends, the spamming and other things. So Night for me is a God's gift at enjoying my personal time in my own domain pursuing the unlimited education that I have access to with no finger up my ***.

This night was like a regular night till my room mate called me up and said that we should go for a movie today. He knows about me very well that I am not an ardent fan of movies if it some regional language or anyother. Lets say my movie watching limit is only till the English ones where in I get my dosage of BRAS (Blood, Revenge, Action, Sex) and all that you can think of without any sentiments attached.

Due to previous nights achievements on gyaan, I decided to take a break and go ahead with his proposal. He told me to meet at a certain place and then we both can go out for dinner and for the movie afterwards. My repeated telling him about my navigational skills and map reading capacity fell on deaf ears and he convinced me that I can achieve it (He motivated me by saying that there will be lots of girls).

Finally the prediction came true, I got lost and was somewhere of nowhere and had to call him and convince him to come and meet me at that godforsaken place. Finally after much deliberation we met at a place. We went for dinner at a Jain restaurant and were treated to a meager meal that in no comparison could fulfill me if it was not for the pretty ladies sitting next to our table whom I kept oogling at from time to time.

we reached the movie theatre and parked my car (Yes!! i have a car). Then I scouted for some girls. Found one in a tight jeans, one in a loose top and other with a boy friend's hand on her who was too huge for me. So before I could decide whom to oogle at or go after all of them entered the theatre.

We entered too and god!! could i believe myself; the theatre was some thing like an enlarged toilet with seating arrangement and all for a meager Rs.80 only. The seats were prepared to take in fighter pilots and not me. I finally put my ass in there and wriggled. NO CHANCE AT ALL. So i thought what the hell, let me adjust somehow and I looked around, there was no female in sight and the only female I could see was like a little far (5 MILES away) with a husband and 4 kids trying to argue with him why he is not getting popcorn and drinks already!!!

I resigned to the fact that it cannot get better than this and prayed to god to relieve me from the pain that I was going to face for the next 3 hours or so...

After showing a documentary on how to save water ( every drop...), how to use condoms, and some jewelry ads that reeked of overdone sets and half naked women the movie started.

Hmmm.... This itself is a big thing. So let me stop here and I will put it in the next post.... Till then a few pics from the movie.