15mins rendezvous with Deve Gowda

Today i had the opportunity to talk to our Honourable Ex PM Deve Gowda, for what felt like more than 15 mins of an eye-to-eye coversation. Little did i dream, that after writting the article on him (link to Speakupcitizen blog)) i would actually get to meet him face to face. I asked him if there was any opportunity for people like me to enter politics now. (I must say this now that this is the second time i'm declaring in public that i'll be entering politics. The first was at the Global Perspective Meet of Ericssion). He bowed down to me and said 'with all due respect please enter.....i have no qualms, or something to that effect). So that was my stint with him. He seems so ordinary nothing great. I didnt feel overwhelmed or anything of that sort......felt like i had the right to ask him something...watever it maybe. He said politics is a place for those who only have selfish interests in mind. And that is where i believe i will not fit in and so have identified a slot that is ment for the geniune. I strongly believe that if u have pure intentions and the humility to accept corrections with a burning desire and passion to give ur life for the good of the nation - there is still room for you in politics. It may seem hard but u will succeed. (My professors, my colleagues and I were among the audience for the program "We the people", anchored by Srinivasan Jain and the topic was Bangalore's IT Dream - is it dying (with specific reference to Deve Gowda's comments on IT companies and N.R.Narayan Murthy's resignation from BIAL).

Screw up days....

Past week has been quite a screw up. I've been arguing with people I didn't wanna argue with. Alot of them have been misunderstanding what i said and my intentions too. I just am so ****** up ! Its so tiring when u go thru' this process of trying to let people not to 'get-to-you'. u know what i mean. It's just so exhausting....pwhew !!! I've patched up with those who showed signs of reconciliation and but with those who really wanna screw up my life - to hell with them !
I really dont know what went wrong. I didn't mean to hurt anyone, its just that i get ticked off when they try to step-on my shoes. That's bad real bad......i go mad then. Any sane person would go mad.....really.
I wanna know how to handle myself in these times.....its not very becoming of a person whose intentions are good and who aims to be a professional.
Gosh i really need break from all this clutter in my life.

Baby Shower !!!

On 16th Oct (Sunday), we (mamtha, radhika, darshana, suhana, patricia, and i threw a baby shower for Seetha. We brought food from outside and Seetha tried making mousse cake, with mango pieces and chocolate (she thought it wouldn't turn out well but it came out just right, kudos to her for that. Of course, Patsy did the scraping of the white choco and i scraped the dark choco, Mamtha did the finishing touches with choco cream, Rads just sat and ordered around.....bascially we all prepard the cake together with 80% of the job being done by Seetha).
It was fun sitting around and catching up on each others lives and of course on those who were not present there too. Mamtha gave Seetha a toe-ring (Seetha didn't like her traditional one so Mamu got her a hip one).
Seetha, (I know i gave a really pathetic toast on sunday but i hope this makes up for it) we're all really excited for your baby and you (i know i am). Your kid has so many aunts to call out to and be pampered by....gosh she/he is gonna be a spoilt brat....we know u'll be a fine mom (since u've done ur schooling from sacred heart's girls' high school :-) we all love you and wish u the best in life darling.
Cheers

Mysore - Dussara

Tuesday afternoon I took the train to mysore to visit my sister who's studying at the Regional Insititute of Education (an aspiring teacher). I reached the place at 8:45pm. Since it was closing time at her hostel i was unable to stay there that night, but another friend of mine was kind enough to make alternate arrangements for my stay. The next day I met up with my sis and her friends and we all took a trip to the Mysore zoo. The zoo was awesome. we saw some of the rarest animals there. we spent around 5 hours at the zoo and then took a tonga (horse cart) to the Food Exhibition. the 5 of us were famished with all the walking thru' the zoo, that we pigged out at the food mela. then we walked over to the palace for the lighting and saw the vintage car show too. Boy those cars were a beauty. We saw the old fords, mercs, jaguars, austins, etc all well maintained and in good condition. then we headed back to the hostel for the night. the next day. My friend took me over to see Infosys' new 130 acres campus....wat a sight! I fell in love with the multiplex - shaped like a Globe. For lunch we went over to the only hip-n-happening road called Kalidas Road or KD Road. I had the typical mysore 'thali' (meal) .....yummy it was awesome. After that we decided to go for the procession (when the Mysore raja would take a 'walk' thru' the city along with some decorated elephants, and other dignitaries....) we missed the 'yatra'......(i stayed back on Thrusday so that i could se the 'yatra') my bad luck i guess. Then when we reached the palace, we roamed around searching for my sis' other friends and classmates. We then decided to go to Karanji Lake & Nature Park. Boy it's a freakin' beautiful place....absolutely clean, no pollution, rare birds, .....all in all i had an awesome time there. We went boating as well (paddle boating). We needed to reached the hostel by 8.30pm, before that we had to have our dinner outside (coz the hostel mess was closed that day). So we left the park around 6.30pm. There were hardly any buses that went from that area towards the city. we managed to flag down one and ran to catch it , in the process i fell into a ditch (infront of the whole traffic) and bruised myself quite badly. by then it began to pour. we had dinner at the only Nilgiris in town and some how reached the hostel by 8.35pm. the watchman was kind enough to let us in without reporting to the warden....pwhew!

I slept soundly and woke up at 5am next morning to catch the 6.30 train. I was supposed to reach B'lore at 9.30 and be able to attend class at 11am but i reached home only at 11.30 and was darn exhausted to do anything.....I managed to attend the German class at 3pm (Guten Tag!) and came back home to rest my aching body.

In conclusion, I had an awesome time at Mysore and i totally love the place. I think i'll buy some land there, build a house and settle down some time at the sunset of my life.

Cheers!

Seasons Greeting !!!

Today we finished the module on Strategic Management and from now onwards till Thursday I have holidays....yippee...hurray.....
I think this is my first official holiday this year, boy! am i so glad. I've been desperately waiting for these two days.
I've got a list of activities lined up like sleeping, sleeping, sleeping....zzzzz!
I think I should take a holiday...I need to rejuvinate myself before the next module begins.
So here's wishing one & all Happy Holidays!!!

Telecom Confusion!!!

What happened yesterday was quite ridiculous. Overnight my AIRTEL Network goes bizurk i.e. no network AT ALL. When i called up the customer care centre they said i had an amount of RS. 150 outstanding from my previous payment which is a late payment fee (that was because i had registered a complaint for wrong information given to customers and that resulted in an unreasonably high bill and this took 2 weeks to get rectified. i refused to pay my bill till the right amount was given to me, so the late payment. I was told then that the amount would get waived but apparently that didn't happen.) yesterday i went to the AIRTEL office on Banareughatta Road to find out what the hell happend. And to my surprise, they said that my number had been DELETED from the switch board (BY MISTAKE) for no fault of my own. I got so wild at the guy (who by the way was the manager) and he got this complaint rectified in 10mins (which otherwise would have taken 4 hours).
CAVEAT EMPTOR (buyer's beware)

Blogging- I'm enjoying it!

Since i've started my blog i've been busy thinking about stuff to blog on. When i'm in class i get scores of ideas but when i sit in front of the comp my mind goes blank!!

Partial Solar Eclipse

Hello Friends,
Guess whose back, back again! This time with some celestial event. The Partial Solar eclipse is on its way thru' and many people are dipping themselves in the river w.r.t a belif they hold. Anyways, I didnt get to see the eclipse, but I do hope you all did.