Been There Done That…

“Been There Done That…” Exactly what I would say to almost anything. But my experience a couple of days back changed my whole view to the idea that I had done almost everything I wished for.

When was the last time you did something for the first time??

For the first time I took a girl out on a long drive,
For the first time someone bought flowers for me,
For the first time did I touch an elephant,
For the first time did I footsy,
For the first time did I share a bottle of chardonnay with one special person,
For the first time did I feel I met someone who I could live my entire life with,
For the first time did I cry and yet feel happy,
For the first time did I feel I kissed the right girl.

It was the most happiest day of my life.. …

I looked into her eyes and felt,
A feeling that I never want to be alone
The touch of her hand mesmerized me
To believe I was in a fairy land.

Isn’t earth a place where good things aren’t meant to last ….

Being Immature ?

Reading several blogs of random people and some of my friends .. I feel me getting stuck on the issues of love and relationships… Is simply to childish or immature.
Is it ?
Well I guess its a mix ...

A Rendezvous With The Unknown ….

A Rendezvous with the Unknown ….

For long I was hoping to meet this girl I met online. We have been talking to each other almost every single day for the past 6 months. I like her attitude, her intelligence, smartness and well a lot of other things. The fact that we stay in different countries, has not changed the way we keep in touch nor the way we connect. The last six months she and I have been pretty much interested in meeting up and seeing how reality strikes us when we move out of the cyber/ telephonic world.

Well today was the luck day for both of us, we met up, we didn’t feel wired, on the contrary I was very comfortable with her and I guess so was she. We like each other’s company so much that we plan to spend the rest of the days she is in India by allocating all the extra time we have with each other.

But I have my own questions to the nature of this relationship, of where its heading, What will the bottom-line be ? etc.

With New Opportunities At Hand

With new opportunities at hand, and evaluating current acquisitions there comes a time to decide and decipher each new opportunity to make a valid logical decision. In the process come inputs from all near and dear as well as people who could have valuable insights to lend as they were / are in a particular field.

It is up to one’s ideology to carefully weigh each new opportunity and take a good decision, keeping in mind what one ideally wants to achieve. I am currently in the process of deciding what best could help me today and in the long run. Let me wait and see what conclusion I arrive at and why.

Love ….

Why do people fall in love?

What is the belief of falling in Love ?

What are the advantages and what are the disadvantages ?

Lets try and find out logically why .. this confusion ? why the craziness ?

MBA – The talk of the town

UK/ USA / Australia

Well I’m really not an expert on the whole MBA thingy but here I am Mr. Golden Beard BE. MBA (Cardiff Business School-UK). Well I plan to give a short insight of the options I had, the choices I weighed and the path I chose. Also you will find what I feel I have gained and what I feel I could have gained in a MBA but have not. You will also find basic tips on how to look forward for what you really want out of a MBA and how to find it.

Well after having done my engineering successfully and not that a techy person I decided to try my hand at something I though I was good in –management. A word of caution here, MBA does not give you a chocolate truffle cake .. but just the layer of topping. You will have to have good communication skills, basic analytical to really benefit from any MBA you chose to take up. Well leaving all that behind ,I didn’t have the patients neither to write my GMAT nor take a course for 2 years in the US. Many people telling me that the degree given in Australia not really valid in India or any where else in the world. Thus my only option at that point was UK. UK also has been the center of management studies for a long time and the US being the Mecca of tech. So there you have it next stop UK, ohh I totally forgot .. I need to decide the uni !!

Well to find the best uni you do have a pretty complicated process, without guidance quite mind boggling. Well here is an easy fool proof way to select you Uni without much of a hassle. Go to hero.ac.uk get the RAE ratings from there, this is a research ranking published by the UK government on the university’s. This will give you the top schools in your particular area of interest. Word of caution the RAE ratings available now was published in 2201 and is a little outdated .. the new one is due sometime this year. The next thing would you deciding how much you can afford, this is very important. The average living could be kept fixed as **** ₤. Thus you now will know what the max tuition you could pay. Now you will have to go to these school websites and check the entry criteria and then the tuition fees. Simple aint it ? Now you have the options clearly jotted down.

My opinion about getting a job in the UK is that it not easy, out of my whole class (a class of 250) of Indians only 2 have managed to stick on and both of them don’t have a valid work permit. I personally did manage to get a job but didn’t manage to get my work permit. Thus I came back to India and am working in an MNC with a decent pay, I currently also do have a job offer from one of the world most renowned software firms to join them. But this again depends on one’s own talents. One of my friends from Cardiff has a better offer and some others are literally working for peanuts.

What have I gained from my experience at Cardiff – Well a decent international exposure. Meeting and working with a global audience always broadens ones perspectives. You also look at how other people work and equip your self with things you might not have though of.

I still feel that if I had gone to the US I could have managed to get a job there and steele down for some time. Well the other side always seams rosy. The problem for MBA’s from abroad is that many companies don’t recognize the uni which you have passed out from as they are not familiar with the ranking systems etc.

There you are… any queries and comments welcome.

Lost and lonely … scared and tired ..

Well though life is going on fine and I rally have anything much to complain about, I still feel lost and lonely scared and tired ..

Lost cause sometimes I dono where I’m going what I’m going to do .. though I think I’m pretty focused .. I’m in a decent job etc .. I still feel lost

Lonely … I don’t have a good companion to share my emotions with ,,,

Scared .. where this life is taking me

Tired of trying to prove my self and work my ass off…

Nishanth....

I would like to share with you all a unique experience I had this Sunday. A met up with a friend who I haven’t met for the past five and a half years. We had kept in touch on and off by sending e-mails, just enough to keep each other updated with what we were cooking in our own lives.

I met this guy last Sunday, we shook hands gave each other a gentle hug and were off, as though we had just meting each other every day for the last couple of years. There was indeed absolutely no feeling of the friendship gone stale and we had not met for years. Yes, there we were planning to go for lunch, we ordered lunch and started talking.. the comfort level was indeed so good that we could possibly talk about anything. It was indeed such a wonderful feeling. A movie after that and so on .. the evening went off as well with so much we had to talk about. Our views on different issues ..

Well the point being that sometimes though we meet people after ages… a good friend is always there in your heart and never far apart. Well this guy was none other than Nishanth …

Nishanth plans to quit Stan Chart and peruse his higher studies in the US … My best wishes to him …

Don’t be dismayed by Good byes
As they means of saying we’ll be meeting again..
By
Richard Bach