Mumbaikars :)

Wish you all a very happy and prosperous New Year. Spread Love and Stay Blessed.

I had a lovely New Year eve with friends, did Bhangra for more than 2 hours. I felt elated in welcoming 2012 with so many people, from different parts of India.

And that’s the beauty of Mumbai; wherever you go, you will find people from every religion, every state of our country resided here for work. Sometimes, when I go for a walk in the evening, I overhear almost every vernacular language spoken in our country.

Mumbai, the most populous city in India and fourth most populous city in the world has only 1/3^rd of the population from Mumbai, rest of them are migrants from all parts of India.

This huge population, obviously, adds a lot to Mumbai traffic and makes commuting almost impossible during peak hours of traffic. It takes me 20 minutes to reach office [from home] in the morning and 60 minutes to reach home [from office] in the evening.

When I first came to Mumbai I asked someone how far was my hotel but instead of telling that, he inquired, “What time do you want to go?” I thought the person was crazy and I went to ask someone else, he said, “If you go now, it will take you 30 minutes by rick (auto-Rickshaw), but if you go after 30 minutes, it will take you more than 1 hour by rick.” Then, I came to know that the unit of distance is not Km but minutes and transport medium in Mumbai. And that’s what it is like, as it all depends on what time of the day you travel and what transport you take.

People from different regions have come and learned to commute with peace. Every day, while going to office I see people, literate/ illiterate, making queues for taking the bus. None of them talks or says anything to anyone but whoever comes, quietly, stands in the queue and will wait for others to enter into the bus first, unlike Punjab where everyone rushes in to take the seat.

It’s been 6 months in Mumbai and I have never seen a street fight. People neither talk nor fight. But while in a public transport, they do take a nap and also get up on time without asking anyone to wake them up All of them are so busy with their own things that they hardly bother for anyone else. They don’t socialise much except when there is some occasion/ festival.

But whenever there is one, whether big or small, Mumbaikars are very passionate about celebrating it. They sing, they dance, and they get together leaving everything else. They celebrate with so much enthusiasm that sometimes, I feel our culture is still alive in this part of India where everyone celebrates together forgetting about their differences. But from the very next day they get back to their professional lives, no one talks and they get busy with their routine stuff. Baaki sab chodo, people don’t even know how many persons stay in a flat next to theirs.

Even at work, they carry the same professional attitude. It doesn’t matter how the other person works, what he does, what is going on in his life, but the only thing that matters to them is work. If you are doing your work well, everyone is cool with everything.

Once, I wasn’t well and decided to work from home. I got so many calls from people related to work and most of them, after knowing I was sick, didn’t even ask how I was doing but were expecting me to complete the work before end of that day. That’s how people are here but neither do they play dirty politics for their own benefits nor are they selfish. They are just concerned with their own things.

Well, there is a lot more I wanted to write about Mumbai and Mumbaikars but I’ll stop here for now. Baaki phir kabhi likhunga

My Souvenir – PEC

Puneet “Baba” Gupta

‘Baba’ji hamari class ke vo prani hain jo hamesha hanste-khelte paye jate hain, dil ke bahut achhe aur sache, ye apni cute muskaan ke liye kafi lokpriya hain. Our very own ‘Benjamin Button’, he’s finally defied age and now looks his age The most popular personality of our class, this ex-CR is a good cricketer too (although never happy with umpire’s decisions ) Those of you who haven’t listened to his legendary bark have sure missed out on something in life A generous and childlike person, he is a true friend. Loves justice and that is what he does to others. He is one person who has evolved over time in college by getting involved in a lot of extra-curricular activities. We wish him all success in life. Keep smiling

Hawaiian Shark

After screwing our life for more than a month, our manager, finally took us to “Hawaiian Shark” for a grand treat on successful completion of our CHEERS (Candidate Hiring and Employee Enrollment Requisition System) project .

Hawaiian Shark is a wonderful place and it was also for the first time I enjoyed clubbing-not only because my boss paid for me but i liked the place as well. It has 3 floors with different music being played on each floor, if you don’t like the music you can easily switch to another floor. And it’s so well designed that you won’t listen to any music other then the one being played on that floor.

CHEERS to my CHEERS Team!! Had a great time with all of you

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Open House

We displayed our Capstone project-Automated Toll Tax Collection Model-in Open House today.

Placed in Nomura!

Finally, with the grace of God, I got placed in Nomura on the very first day of the last semester of my college. Having done nothing in the last 3.5 years, I find myself extremely lucky to get a job offer from such a big company because the way we have been taught in college, our value could have only decreased…hahaha…as Sah sir says, “PEC mein koi teacher technical battein nahin karta hai aur na hi koi bachha technical bannta hai par sab bolna jaroor seekh jaata hai.” Hahahaha

To me, getting placed is a big big thing! As this was the only thing I had been thinking of from the beginning of the 4^th year. I was so much into this placement thing that I didn’t even bother updating my blog. Anyhow, now I’m totally free to do a lot of vellah panti

Getting a job, even from campus, was not an easy task. I was rejected by 9 out of 11 companies [9/11 ], I sat in. Once, the recruitment process of the company started at noon and the interviews carried on till 4 in the night and I didn’t even get selected . Once, I went there to scrap the interview but the interviewer asked me question like make the truth table of XOR gate and I even said,” Sir, I can make this for an AND gate but I haven’t heard much about the gate you just mentioned” but to my surprise he said,” chalo wo hi batado” and then he selected me in Aricent, that’s when I thought I should have bribed him and asked to reject me…hahaha .

There have been times, I felt embarrassed about the small auditorium of our college, when the interviewer asked,”Is this the biggest auditorium you have?” although I wanted to say, “No! this is the only audi we have” but I said,”hmmm…yes, sir.” Once, having got a job offer from Aricent, they mailed and asked us to tell 5 best reasons for you to join Aricent to win exciting goodies, but on the same day in the interview of Nomura, they [Nomura] asked reasons for me to not join Aricent…hahaha…anything can happen!!

Anyways! Now I’m very much excited to go to Mumbai and join Nomura.

29 Again! It’s All Written !!

Got a placement offer from Aricent, Yesterday

P.S.-I believe everything in the world follows some logic and that’s true with our life as well. It’s just that we, normally, don’t interpret it. Even after scraping the interview badly, I was afraid that I might get placed in Aricent because of the involvement of the number 29. And the same happened!!

All counting!

13 companies came! Didn’t appear in 3! Wasn’t allowed to sit in 1! Didn’t clear the written test in 5! Didn’t clear spoken english round in 1! Didn’t clear interview in 3!

……………..!

Ahh…it’s just a notional loss.

Because, Neither I will get success before my time nor will I get more than my luck

Amateur Tutor :P

I believe,” To become a professional in any field one has to be an amateur in a few fields. And to be an amateur, one should try in whatever field he thinks he can do wonders in.”

So, I just tried in one. I taught a non-medical student, Yash, in the last few months of his IIT-JEE 2010 and he went on to secure AIR-1358 in the same.

Now, how good is this!

AIR-1358 in IIT-JEE 10                                                            Roll No- 7011125

You know, the day I got the proposal of teaching him, I wasn’t even sure if I could teach as I had not touched Math for as long as 3 years. But, I had a little belief that I could; So, I did.

Now, I have become a successful tutor Ha Ha

Traffic Police…

My mood totally changes when somebody makes a vicious remark on me and it either turns sarcastic or astute.

Today, I was coming back to hostel from Philips, Mohali, where I am doing my semester training. (And for all those who think I do not go there, you heard it right, I do go to Philips.)

Well…the time was 4 of the clock and it was so hot that one might feel nicer standing behind a window AC than travelling in the sun.

Anyway, I was very tired after 6 hours of work in the company and then I had to travel 17 km on my bike in the scorching heat.

As, I wanted to reach hostel soon, I jumped a traffic light. Adding to my miseries, I found a traffic inspector on the way.

He blew his whistle, and signaled me to stop by the side of the road. I knew he wanted to make some money and I was in no mood to give him any.

To my surprise, he directly asked for Rs. 100 and said he would challan me if I won’t give him the same.

I had only 100 rupees in my wallet so I requested him to take 50 as I had to have lunch but the guy said,” Give me Rs. 100. I have my dhaba nearby. You can eat there.”

I would have used the F word for him if I was used to it but, thank God, by mood changed suddenly.

I took out the only 100 rupee note from my wallet and handed it to him and then waited for him to ask me the obvious question which every policeman would ask while taking bribe.

And he also did,” What does your Father do?”

“Sir, you’d better take the money. And drop this!”

“Why?”

“Because my father has told me that if by any chance any traffic police guy stops me, I must give him a call. I am not sure why he said that….hmm…I think he might have said that because one of my uncle is I.G. and two friends of dad work in press and one of my cousins is in BJP.”

“Beta, you please take the money back.”

“No Sir, it’s ok. You can keep the money.”

But he stubbornly returned me the money and politely asked me to leave.

When I was about to leave, he came again and said,” If you wish to give the money, you can.”

“Who the hell would wish to give you money, Sir.”

“But you were willing to give 50 rupees, wohi de do.”

“I was willing to but now I am not. Thank you. Better luck next time.”

And then I couldn’t help laughing all the way back to hostel.

Ha Ha Ha…

P.S.- I have no contacts with any of the big-wigs. But I was smart enough to make a fool of him.