Semester I Ends

I would like to start this blog by apologizing to the matka phod girl…….. After reading my blogs she felt that the name was describing the village idiot. She is far from the village idiot, she is one the most intelligent and ambitious girls I have met. So from now on she will be known as Ritz in my blog.
During Milap and after Milap a lot of interesting things happened. One of the few things that happened I started getting a lot of attention from Ahen and Ritz. They sat on my lap, gave me hugs and kisses, I really started enjoying college. Few pictures were taken and they were called soft porn in the boy’s hostel (Guess the guys were really getting frustrated). But the question which stays not only on the two girls mind but also all my friends who do I like? I guess that my future blogs should answer (Probably when I finally graduate from college. I am really enjoying the attention of the two girls; I really do not want to miss out on that.)
Another really interesting episode which happened was the night of the freshers party. After dancing all night and a couple of drinks down I had to finish a group assignment with one of my group mates. So we sat down at 1 am and completed it at 3 am. After completing the assignment I went to my room and asked Gujju who was fast asleep that whether he wanted to go for non-academics in the morning he said yeah obviously. Being the morning alarm for the room I woke up Gujju at 530 am. We finally got up at 550am. I said damn we are late. When we reached the hostel gate it was locked. Gujju looks at me and says Bhenchod yeh to lock hai. After waking up the security guard we decided to run the 1 km stretch to campus. On the way I tell Gujju that the aerobics instructor will not let me in late and is going to bolt the door. When I reach the Health center the door was locked I said to myself all this effort for nothing. Gujju had yoga that day therefore he got in late, I decided to knock. To my surprise the door opened and there were eight girls and after seeing me (For the reason that I was the only guy) they started clapping for me. I thought to myself thank god I did not miss the attendance. After 45 minutes of aerobics I walked out of the hall and decided to see what Gujju was doing. I peeped into the yoga hall and was surprised even further, he was the only one doing yoga with the instructor. After waiting for him for 5 minutes we were walking towards the campus gate, where Gujju’s eyes fell on the college bus. He sat down on the ground saying that today he is going to take the bus. The bus driver was doing some kind of ceremony and it was taking time. But we kept waiting. I think we waited for 15 minutes and decided to walk towards the hostel. (Later I learnt that Gujju had slept at 11 pm) We were thrashed by the batch for being the only 2 guys to go for non academics that day.

The first semester kept going on and on with assignments and quizzes. I started enjoying myself until summer placements week. I was preparing myself for the worst case scenario that I will not get placed during the week. During the mock group discussions I was not opening my mouth. Everyone who was present for the mock gd’s were wondering what was wrong with me. I was only preparing for only one of the companies which were coming on campus. Ritz also wanted that company badly. So we were working together. Her resume did not get shortlisted for that company, mine did. Before I went in for the group discussion of my dream company, I had also applied to a pharmaceutical company which I was really not interested in. Gujju was in the same gd as me. We decided that since we were not interested in the company we shall not open our mouths. During the course of the gd which was not really making any sense, I looked at Gujju and I understood the message start talking. So we both together took the discussion to a whole new level. I got shortlisted for the next round. I even got shortlisted for the next round for my dream company. By the end of the day I was shortlisted for none. Lots of companies came and went in the next few months. Did not get through any of them…….. My ego got and is still hurt. The walks became longer and longer. I started questioning my abilities whether I deserved to be here. What message was I sending during the interviews? I saw people change; I really do and still feel that some people’s attitude did change towards me. I started spending my time alone. I was back to my Bombay days. When I reached here I knew it deep down that eventually I will get bored of this place. Nothing really is keeping my interest alive here. I feel that instead of improving my abilities, my strong point of strategizing and thinking about the future was going down the drain. We were and still are doing donkey work.
The only funny part in this entire process during summer’s process was that I used to shout aloud poems which Gujju had taught me. One of them was Symbi mein ayah bhoot, Suubu ki ma ki choot and the other one was Gand phati to BhXXXr bola Hajmola Hajmola.
The entire week took its toll on me mentally and physically. I was really looking forward to the Diwali break. Basically get back home and enjoy all the luxuries I was used to. I was travelling with Ahen and told her that I wanted to go to the airport early as I wanted to drink in the bar. She agreed, but to her disappointment the only drink available at the bar was beer. She is the sophisticated type only wines. The only time she does not drink wine is when she is given the option of Jack Daniels. Her claim is that she does not get tipsy with both, she only gets happy…..Anyways as I touched Delhi, my brothers were fetching me from the airport. The best part was my brothers did not recognize me……too much weight had been shed. Time really goes fast when you are enjoying yourself. On the way back I had another guy accompanying Ahen and me. He had the worst smelling feet in the hostel. Anyways it was quite an eventful journey back. He dropped juice on Ahen’s skirt and in his words flirted with the air hostess. If I remember right her name was Ruchika. Now how did he flirt by asking for the airhostess for a napkin, a glass of water and since he was hungry he wanted an extra plate of food. On the way back we shared a cab with other students who are coming back, one of the girls said that she enjoyed drinking so much at home that she even enjoyed puking after drinking. It was a long journey back to the hostel!!!!!!
Exams were going to start in a few days. Studied my ass off……… But still got two back logs one in marketing management and written communication.
And I was off to start a newspaper.

Grounded: Tequila Sunrise

While grounded I started spending more time in the library and the computer lab. Attendance being taken till 9 in the evening was a pain….. I would come back all grumpy and was in bed by 10 in the night. Gujju (the other room partner) thought I was a snob because I did not talk much….. It was not that I did not like him or anything it was just that it would take me time to be my talkative self with a person…….One day while in the library (reading a book called The Empire, must read for anyone to get into the real estate business) the director enters, and was checking out the new books. Then his eye fell suddenly on the non-functional washrooms of the library, his brain wave was to make them into sound proof rooms with curtains so that the students could watch the CD’s lying in the library.
At the same time Milap was announced all the class representatives had to get the batch together so that we could welcome our seniors back from their summers. I never knew that ahen (the one with intriguing eyes) was one of the class representatives (actually I never knew that she existed). So we organized a batch meet where different people signed up for different duties (I signed up for backstage work). Ahen and matka phod really took charge. I was sitting in the cafeteria and a meeting for Milap was scheduled, asked ahen if the meeting is on her reply was prompt yeah the meeting is on even if it is just the two of us. She grabbed me by the hand and took me to the work out hall; we sat there alone for a while before matka phod decided to join us. The agenda for the day was to decide the name and the theme given to the event…. I was quiet through out while both the girls were trying to think of a theme… I was going through my music folders and saw a file name Sceneric Sunrise by jalebee and shouted out aloud how about Sceneric Sunrise as the theme. Both the girls had a twinkle in the eye and said together how about Tequila Sunrise and it was decided the theme for the event would be Tequila Sunrise………..
We were walking towards the lift and ahen did something which I probably cannot write about in my blog……..It turned out to be the most embarrassing days of my life…….

Law: Grounded

The guys used to find one class very interesting business law!!!! The subject is very dry but all the guys used to look forward every Tuesday to attend her class!!!! Why because the professor used to stimulate their interest……… First few classes even I used to look forward to the sex jokes but after some time it became a drag………… One of the examples she gave was how a company in Punjab had infringed on the copyright of the Mercedes Benz logo where the person had used the symbol as well the name for its underwear company. Our division would extra-hyper in the class, by the end of it she branded our class as a class of hooligans.
I usually in the first semester would try not to sleep in class, like my room partner and pakahndu. But one day I made the mistake of sleeping in her class and I was rudely woken up by her voice…. Mr. Malani pleas wake up…… Apparently I was sleeping like I would have been sleeping on a Hawaiian beach……. After half and hour she shook me up even further….. She says those boys in the last bench stop staring at me….. especially the one at the aisle I said oh crap is she talking about me……. I said to myself I have seen better and I would rather look at girls of my age…….
In the first class she made a comment that after a few months the true colors of the person will come out…… And I saw it happening, how selfish people were. Probably the values which I grew up with were a lot different. I saw my mother and father sacrificing their life and doing as much as they could for others, that is where I guess I learnt the meaning of being selfless…… This was one of the reasons why I was not liking the people around, found them too artificial (was enjoying my work though). I guess this will be one of the lessons to be learnt from a MBA college, how to deal with people and in different situations……
When the director came back from one of his trips, he was in a bad mood and was looking for the assignments he had given….. The division he went to before was grounded and could not leave campus till 8 in the night…. My entire division was shitting bricks, the worst happened in our presentation he picked on a point and took us to the cleaners we were also grounded…….. I think it was good for me as I started interacting with more people from my division and other divisions as well.