Well……enough of the blogs with my sexual adventures in Frankfurt………actually adventures with no sex…………..After living for 2 months all alone I just cound not handle it……I had started talking to myself and was watching a little too much of Smallville(completed 5 seasons in 2 months)……….Was tired of the pornography which used to be aired on the television………….It was a small freaking city………..Besides shopping there was really nothing to do…….I used to look forward to every Sunday where I would randomly call up friends in India…..But most of the time they would never pick up the phone!!!!!!!! Really irritating one you make an effort to find a cheap phone booth to make calls and then make the effort to go….and to top it all most of the time they would never pick up the damn phone………Thank God for a few people though who actuially made the effort of sending me emails now and then………….Really made me feel good that atleast people have the time to write……….So finally I told my mom that she should join me here since she would never get this oppurtunity again and for the fact was really lonely……It was decided she would have a 18 day holiday………Out of which I would be on vacation for 3 days where we would go to Paris………….Paris was beautiful……One of the best trips of my life…………..I loved each and every moment of it………Went to Versailles for a day and saw the palace……..After seeing the palace and the gardens I decided that I want to be KING!!!!! And kept singing to myself ohh I just can’t wait to be KING!!!!!!!!..........The Paris public transport system was the only low point of the trip…….You have to walk for hours and hours to get to the station and the flights of stiars you have to climb…….CRAZY!!!!!!!!!!!! But the only advantage of travelling by public transport wsa that you could observe the people around you…………And the women in Paris………PHEW!!!!!! Guess now I know why it is called the fashion capital……Really gorgeous………So I decided that I am going to marry a french woman (sorry ahen,ritz and dazzler)………..Just cannot help it french woman are really hot!!!!!!!!! Louvre was the high point of the trip……..never knew that I appreciated art so much………Even my mom and massi were surprised………The disappointing part………the section which kept Rembrant’s collection was closed…………And the prints available were also fewer this time………But my mom went crazy………she bought 4 sculptures………My bags are going to be heavy on the way back……….And I have never drunk so much wine in a week……..One night finshed a bottle by myself………..

Then the last week of work came………..I was really excited that I was going back home………..Lots of thoughts were racing across my mind……….When I enter college who will be the first person I meet……How is dazzler doing…..its been a while since I last spoke to her……After hearing that I am only a good friend……I have started killing the feelings I have for her……………..Do not want to loose a friend in the bargain…………..How are Ritz and Ahen doing…..Would I get the same lap dances that I was getting at the beginning of the semester………..Was Tattya still making an impression on his bed and did finally Bhaskar change his red coloured chaddis…………Guess the answer to these questions will be answered sooner than later………

Finally the day arrived…….The first day of internship…….I had been asked to report at 9 am and contact a Mr. Deppe…….. Still being in the Indian time zone I got up at 5 am…….So decided to walk……For the first time I did not feel out of place…….Wearing a suit and the tie which Ritz had given me before leaving. Frankfurt being a commercial city with a large number of banks everyone seemed to wear a suit to work…….The weather was really nice………And the walk even better…. So after a 45 minute walk I reached my office….At the reception met the first person in 2 days who could speak good english (Plus she was cute)……….She asked me to wait as Mr. Deppe was on on his way down………I saw a man walking towards me and he resembled Greg Chappell………My name is Deppe…….I still did not know where he was taking me………….After grabbing a coffee each…..He took to where I was going to work for the next two months…….It was the trading floor……The largest in Europe………….He introduced me to his entire team (Corporate risk Advisory)……….. I was to be part of the Înterest rate team……..
Which had 4 germans, a french guy and 1 Indian (We seem to be everywhere)……..
The first week went by understanding systems………How things work blah blah and was given a lot of material to read……..On the 3rd day was finally given a table to work on…….The Indian guy……..showed me where I was going to sit and said the rest is going to be explained by__________. She was a lady in her forties…….. She was looking for an oppurtunity to be alone with me for some reason…..She was wearing a skirt and kept crossing her legs………I was ignoring it……..As she explained how to choose my password and to which printers I shall have access……She tells me in a seductive voice…..If you need anything just call me…..Taking the notebook which was lying on my table and the pen from my shirt pocket…….And she left just saying Call me…….. Why could not she been of my age……….I was like hell………..not.need.sex.advice uncle was right german women do like Indain men……………I never did call her for anything……….Work would take most of my time in Germany…….Timings were from 8 am to 6 pm………
Sandwhihces and youghrt was my staple diet for the next 2 months………….I was really amazed by the work culture though in Germany………In India if you had a meeting with a client at 10 am you would go directly for the meeting and not go to office or if you had a 3 pm meeting you would not return to office untill the next day to submit your report………Germany was different………..I really appreciated their work culture…………..
Lunches in the canteen were a merry go round……I would often stand right in the middle and wonder what could I eat today……..Am a very fussy eater and normally a lot of food items do not agree with my taste buds……..And for the fact that I could not digest the amount of meat that was offered for lunch…………But would look forward to every 3rd Friday of the month where the canteen would serve soya bean romali roll………….The evening muffins were also to die for…….The coffee was nothing great at work and always wished for an Assam black tea for the months to come……..
The first weekend I found myself doing what I did on the 2nd day walking………So finally after 3 hours of walking in the city……..Was roaming around and was tempted to walk into a topless bar……..So went up and tried to push the door…….To my surprise it was shut………..And then a womans head popped out of no where and said Deutsche or english………I with my obvious reasons said english……..She said to enter you have to pay 30 euros………there is sauna, adult movie theatre and naked women all over…..And if you want there are rooms downstairs where you can for 50 euros get a bang and a blow…….and do her in which ever position you want……….I just stared at her not knowing what to say……….She said do you wanna enter……I said no………….All my friends would think am such a wuss………But sleeping with prostitutes is not my thing……………

So conclusion after 1 week in Frankfurt………There are 3 things you can get for 24 hours a day food,alcohol and sex……….

Germany…..

After finishing my examinations…..I caught a flight from Pune to Delhi the very next day…….Clinton gifted me a cool putting stick and 3 golf balls….which was basically made to beat the stress at the office……..Really sweet of him…Since he gave it to me an hour before I was leaving the hostel I had to put it in my hand baggage……And then the drama began at the airport…….I always love going to Pune airport early as they have a bar call the Port Lounge on the 1st floor of the airport………So after having a beer……….Ahen and I decided its time for security check…….Ya so far whenever I have travelled to Pune or am going to any other city from Pune ……I have always had the pleasure of travelling with a member of the opposite sex…….The airport security informed me that I could not take the golf set as a part of my hand baggage……so I again went back to the check in counter……and was telling them that something needs to be done about it………This type incident happened once before with a friend of mine and normally the ailines accommodate the request and ask an air hostess to carry the package……..The man in the check in counter asked me do you know anyone else who is travelling on the airline…I said no but then when you are in Pune a college friend cannot be far behind……..And suddenly I get a tap on the shoulder…..Mohit I am travelling on the same flight and I went damn…..someone had to open her mouth…..so the golf set went in her check in baggage………..So touched down in Delhi…….I was like am going to enjoy home as much as I can……..Few things needed to be done first……Ritz Carlton had asked me to find a place for her in Delhi which would be close to her office and so had Tattya who was looking for a place in Gurgaon……….The places were really not hard to find……But they both were landing on the same day…….I wish Micheal Scumacher had been my driver that day………First I fetched Ritz…….dropped her to her place…..chilled with her for a bit. Then I got a call from Ahen that we should surprise Ritz since it was her birthday the next day…….This happened when I was on my way to fetch Tattya…..Then fetched him from the airport……dropped him to his palce…….had dinner with my brothers friends in Gurgaon……went back to connought place to wish Ritz…….After dropping Ahen I was saying to myself where is my bed……..

So after a weeks pampering…..the time had come…..to board the flight to Frankfurt… … The rush at the airport was crazy……..I think most of the time at the airport was spent stading in the immigration queue……The flight would take 8 hours to reach Frankfurt……..Thank god for Steve Jobs and Apple if it was not for my ipod I would probably jumped out of the plane………So I finally reached Frankfurt……The first task was to collect my apartment keys……using the underground with 1 suitcase and 1 stroller was really not a good idea but definetly a cheaper alternative (guess my sindhi genes had to come out somewhere)……..I slept the entire day after reaching my apartment……..Dinner was with my brother and the Indain family he was staying with……..So second task for the day get the basic essentials from the local supermarket to survive the next day…..To my surprise the area where Î live all the stores close at 1 pm on a Saturday…..So sleeping was not a good idea……..So met up with my brother in the evening and the Indain family……First day in Germany and was already drinking….What a life!!!!!.......
When I was on my second beer I was left alone with the not.needed.sex.advice uncle……He was explaining to me how German women like Indian men……..and that since I have the oppurtunity might as well make the most of it……..After all he said that you do not want to tell your friends back home that you did not have any fun……This talk went on for 15 minutes……….I kept listening and nodding my head…..Finally after gulping my last sip of my beer…..I got up looked him in the eye…..and said Uncle I have girl friend back home and have no intention of screwing a gori………And I left the room……On the dinner table……The unlce looks at me and says naam toh bata de………My brother looks at me and says you have a girlfreind…….I thought to myself well done I have got myself in a mess Well Done!!!!!!....No girlfreind in sight and this man is asking me for a name……So I did the smart thing changed the topic………..But it did not end there he was asking me whether she cooks for me and I told him I live in a hostel and we really don’t get the time to cook…….. Well done one more situation to handle back home………..

On Sunday I got up at 5 in the morning with nothing to do……I went for a stroll be the river Main……..which became my fortress of solitude for the next few months……I would just sit by the river……with nothing on my mind…….Around 9 am I decided to check out how long it takes to reach the office…..So I took out the map which was emailed to me by my employers………And followed it……According to the map the place did not look far……So I walked walked and walked…….At one point I stopped,checked the map to see if I was going in the right direction…..as I was walking down a street which had stores like world of sex, Dr müller, beaute heause and eros centres…..I was walking in frankfurts largest red light districts……Well done 2nd day and you have already found the red light area………So finally figured that the red light area was one the streets I had to walk to get to work……..What a Life!!!!!

Masti

All my blogs so far have only shown that I am not a happy person and doing an MBA is about self introspection. So in this blog I want to change that. There were so many fun moments in the first year that it is sometimes hard to remember, link and place the events.

Clinton pulled a good prank on me once. The green eyed monster, Clinton and I were having dinner at the local restraunt. And both of them wanted to know who I like…………I kept avoiding the question but they would not let go….Without me realising Clinton took my phone and fired a message from it……. He did not show it to me………but later on seeing it in the sent messages……..it was one of the corniest lines a person could send to a girl “My heart is just like your phone….Broken but working only for you”. To give you a background Ritz carltons phone was broken at the time (a huge crack on the screen). Funny but not the line I would use to flirt with a girl………

There was a division party once and I being my usual self was enjoying the weather and Ritz Carlton came to me and said Mohit say it now you like me more than Ahen. That’s when the devil inside me kicked in and I said do you want me to get down on my knees and say that I like you more than Ahen. She said yes not expecting me to do actually what I said. So I went down on my knees and was saying Ritz and then realised someone was hugging me it was the ultimate rock star…….Expect the unexpected from me……….I know for a fact that people really think that I am quiet and don’t talk much but there is another side which people in college have not really seen……..

We were all going crazy during the second semester examinations……..Clinton and I were studying together in my room……..Chirag and Bhaskar had gone down for dinner when Clinton’s eyes fell on Bhaskar’s purple chaddis……..Sometimes Clinton gets crazy bouts……He took his chaddis and hung them on the wall and that was not it…..He took white scotch tape and was playing X marks the spot (I am sure you know which area he was trying to highlight). My first instinct was to run from the room because I did not want to be caught in the line of Bhaskar’s violent temper….Seeing the guys from the adjacent room also went into hididng…… To everyones surprise even though Bhaskar did know who played the prank he did not say a word……..For once I think he kept his temper in control……..It was actulaay a really a funny sight to see someones chaddis hanging in the room. Those chaddis were actually famous in the hostel…..Not for this incident but Chirag and I had probably given the chaddis more attention it deserves………Bhaskar’s chaddis were also famous in Hinjiwadi……

During the Art of Living course we were taught many exercises and one of them was the Bhastirika……It was a breathing exercise basically……….So during one of the classes I was getting bored (sitting in the 2nd row really does not help). The class mate who was sitting next to me was in the same plight……..Bam Bam was making a presentation on some vauge labour law that I decided that it was time for Bhastirika. So the guy sitting next to me and I started doing the world famous exercise which has claimed to save millions of lives……… The professor was sitting right in front of us but wecontinuednot realising the entire class was following us.Bam Bam pretended to bae all cool… But evnetually she had to give in………She started laughing during the presentation……….


In the 2nd semester the E-cell organised a week dedicated to entrepreneuship…….TO kick of the week we had a press conference where the director was to address the press…..as he was choosen as the spoksperson for entreeprenurship in Pune……The funny part was I was told to accompany the director……..The press started trickling in……..The director looked towards me and said come here……Ecell karta kya hai……I told him the relevant information and passed him one of our brochures……He quickly went through it…….What happened in the next 5 minutes was amazing……..I never knew a person who could cook stories so well………. A alumni who dropped out of placements and started his own business was the major bone of contention………..The previous week the director had told us that the turnover of his company was 10 lac and this week for some reason it had reachd the phenomenal figure of 50 lacs……….. And for some reason were going to give an award next ear for entreprenuial excellence……….. After the conference was over I had to tolerate him for the car ride back to college…….Where he was telling me how he could beat Micheal Schumacher in a F1 race………. And how for he has no family life………….I was “Why God Why” am I here………..Hearing that man talk in batch meets is fine but to spend half a day with him!!!!

Ok these are the few things which have stuck on to my memory……….I would like some other guys to contribure………

It has been a really long time since I have written my last blog. I am sure everyone is wondering from where the last blog erupted ……… Probably it being a part of my life I could not erase. Now I keep wondering should I have done it or not…………. While in Germany (I still have to tell how I reached there) I was watching one of my favorite television dramas named Smallville, where Lex Luthor tells Clark Kent what is the point of living life without any risk. Guess with every choice there is a consequence and I made the conscience decision of living with it. For a person who normally does not tell people around him (except a very few) what is going on in my mind it was a big step in my life…….. ……..
The second term for me became a drag……. It became a routine which personally I did not like…………..There were no highs and lows I was just taking life as it came……………….I still was not placed and my sulking bouts increased even more…………… My trips around Hinjiwadi became even longer…….. For the first time in my life I went to a temple alone (which no one knows about) Even though I never prayed I just enjoyed the view from there and for the fact no one would have disturbed me there…….
One of fun things that did happen in the second semester was The Art of Living Course…………Everyone was cursing their luck that they have to get up at 5 in the morning, listen to someone else about how to live the perfect life and for the fact unlike Vedanta I was not taking attendance……….For a person like me it meant getting up at 4 in the morning and having a shower(everyone thought I was crazy)……………….Days were really long………During the course Chirag and I made Bhaskar world famous in Hinjiwadi…………..The instructor would ask anything about the batch like who smokes Chirag and I would shout “Bhaskar Bhaskar”. Bhaskar was enjoying the recognition so much that one day he actually took the microphone and started speaking to the batch…………But the most interesting moment came when the instructor told us to get into pairs and tell the other person what you appreciate about him or her….My luck Bhaskar was my partner……….And he said things I never thought I was capable of………One of the most genuine guys in our batch but often misunderstood…………………….. Those 5 days went like a breeze……………….I think everyone was glad it was all over…….especially Clinton who was so fed up on the third day that he fought with Ahen………..and on the last day he walked out somewhere in between the session……………………….Now the Art of living if the exercises are taken seriously it can really help……But when living in Mumbai I saw a very ugly side of the course……………….I saw people joining the course not for making their life better but to make contacts, to basically climb the social ladder…………….
Art of living happened somewhere in the second week of January…………..Still not fully recovered from the lack of sleep…………………….So on Jan. 25th I decided that I shall bunk the republic day ceremony and sleep it out…………I thought to myself if 10 -12 people are missing the ceremony it will not make a difference………….But only 12 people went…………..And our director was livid………….He is used to call a batch meet and rip us apart we ripped him apart in front of the directors of 2 other colleges…………..Well done!!!!!!! So on Jan 27th he called a batch meet at 5 in the morning………………….In pitch darkness he was still wearing his Valentino dark glasses and Ahen thought she was in a fashion parade she came with a hand bag and all…………..He mad us take 2 rounds of the campus…………..clean the campus……………and finally made us meditate…………..Telling us that the only problem with our batch was immaturity…………..After the batch meet Shaval and I decided that the two of us should go for a jog, since we were up already so early…………………………………………It was one of the funniest batch meets ever!!!! While cleaning the campus I found a cigarette bud and since our campus was supposed to be a non smoking campus, I decided to fire the guard…………..Guess I had to remove my frustration somewhere…………..
The Ritz Carlton advised me that probably I should get a private placement done since my family had a lot of contacts and for the fact that there weren’t many reputed coming for finance placements………….Spoke to my dad and he said lets see what can be done…………………. I was still analyzing what I was doing wrong in interviews………… What is so bad in me that I could not get through anywhere on my own merit…………Clinton and the ultimate rock star always told me that I would get through somewhere leaving the entire college stunned………..and getting one of the best summer projects in campus………I always thought getting it on my own merit would have been better but the call came…….. After completing and submitting my second marketing research project I was making small talk to batch mate who I was not really close to when my phone started ringing…………..It was my dad (In the middle of the day really surprising since I would speak to my parents after dinner or while having dinner) I remember his words very well “Mohit I have an email in front of me offering you a job in Germany, do not tell anyone that you have this offer since I want to know how long will the visa formalities will take and you also think about it whether you want to go or not.” I told my batch mate I have to run……… I was just dying to tell everyone but I could not so I decided to take my laptop sit in the EDP room and research about the company……. The ultimate rock star and shake her were fighting against time and were completing their Marketing Research project…….. I don’t know what happened to me I just took the ultimate rock stars laptop as she had her post it application open told her that I have a job offer from Germany. She was the only one who knew…….for many days to come……till I made up my mind whether I should accept the offer or not……On the sole grounds whether I get the visa or not………..
I was finally convinced by my grandfather that visa will not be a problem………So I accepted……….The time came to tell the college that I have finally been placed for summers………………….First my room partner Chirag was told…….and then Bhaskar and told them to keep it to themselves till I tell the director………….. When I knew and before I told anyone, one of the more interesting group presentations took place, if I remember right the same day as the submission of the Marketing Research project. It was for a elective called Inter Personal communication skills…………………I did not work for a second for this particular presentation……The 3 girls Ritz Carlton, Bam Bam and Apple Mac worked(God alone knows for how long)………………And as usual was put in a peculiar position…..For the presentation they choose the topic “how to say no”………………..The created an entire skit based presentation………In the first I had to say no to a lady boss who was making sexual advances towards me……………..In the second I had to ask my girlfriend(Ritz Carlton conveniently my girl friend for this one) to go behind a bush for you know what and she had to say no(trust my luck)………………..Did well for a change in a presentation(speaking in front of a crowd not my forte)…………………
So the day finally arrived when I was going to tell the director that I have got an internship in Germany………I decided to finally tell Ritz Carlton before(as she was in the placements team)………..I was standing with her and Ahen when I said I have to speak to you alone……….I took her to the side and told her………Her reaction “Oh My God!!!” and followed by one of the warmest hugs ever…………..Then the tough one to tell Dazzler that I will not be in India for a little more than 2 months……So was walking with her as she had class and said I have to tell you something…….She gets a phone call that attendance is being taken and decides to run. She was half way up the stairs when I don’t know what came over me and I shouted “I going to Germany for my summers”. The worst way ever to tell the one you like that she will not be seeing me and phone calls will be close to zero. She just looked back once and continued running……………. A series of text messages on my mobile followed………….She was angry with me that she was not the first one to know that I had finally been placed…………. Probably one of the worst decisions of my life………….But did not really know how she was going to react…………………….Guess life is no fun without taking any risks……
After telling the director…………..the word was out Mohit Malani has been placed……………..I was sitting n fresh and honest all alone and a group of batch mates came along……One of them congratulated me said I better have fun in Germany, his girlfriend who was standing with him had one of the harshest reactions ever her exact words “Why him”. Then it struck me some batch mates are going to talk behind my back……..That I am not good enough to be placed on my own……………….It was time for lunch and was walking towards the mess quite dejected………..When I bumped into Kake (A batch mate who used to call me Seth saab ever since induction day) I just looked at him and words came out of my mouth I have been placed, I saw a twinkle in his eye and he just asked where and I told him the details…….He just pulled my cheeks and said Seth saab tu ne karke dikhya……. I walked into the mess not realizing he was following me………..There were 2 other placement committee members who did not know and he shouted from behind Dekh isko kehte hain summer placement…………What you people could not do he has done……….The moment made me feel good(guess everyone’s ego has to be satisfied somehow). Another sweet reaction was from Bam Bam she got me flowers (She was the first a girl ever to get me flowers).
When everyone around me asked that why am I doing an MBA….. The answer would always be “For Knowledge”, “Improving my skill set” and “For doing something on my own”. But this view changed after the first semester. The subjects that were included in the curriculum were too many and some of them did not even make sense to me. For example the only thing I remember from the marketing management class was the example the professor gave on customer satisfaction “The porn films made in Europe are much better than the porn films made in the United States of America”. It explains why I failed in the subject (Even though I passed in revaluation). So what was the point of doing an MBA……….You could get the knowledge by just sitting at home and reading any of the suggested readings…………..It would give you sufficient jargon for you to make good corporate presentations…………
Then why all the fuss for an MBA degree………….Well it definitely gives you a jump in the corporate world in terms of designation and salary………………But it does that one more thing……………it gives you industry contacts……………that will only happen if you take active interest in college activities……………but eventually it will be your friends who will also be placed somewhere in the corporate world thus giving you enough industry contacts…………
Second semester was really going slow, probably explaining the fact my mind was not in college in the second semester………………….Beginning of the second semester it was when will I be placed and where I will be placed………….After I was placed how will my summers be in the terms of project and learning…….International exposure always appealed to me as I was the only one in the family who did not have a stint working abroad…….And here was my chance to prove myself………………………………..People did feel that I was not spending enough time with them…………………..I remember this particular call from Ahen, when I told her I was in the hostel her exact reaction “Ok fine you take fevi kwik put it on your ass and stay in that dump all your life.” And I had Ritz Carlton always accusing me that my love for her had reduced……………….Well all that is not true I just wanted to keep to myself………………..I cannot answer that question why I wanted to keep to myself…………..Maybe it stems from the fact that everyone is going to alone at some point of their life might as well get used to it from now………………