heaven’s gate

I have made this letter longer, because I have not had the time to make it shorter. Blaise Pascal

Hey,

What’s the best thing about south Mumbai? Well, the Gothic buildings that make you feel like you are in London. They built it after all. My wish of 4 days was complete today. Mission marine drive accomplished. I wanted to go there with my pals ak and pr but both refused the plan. Wtf, so I decided to go on my own. I needed it before I could start my life at the company.

I got up at 11. First thing to do was to call ak and pr to check if they were coming. Both said no. but I had to go to college anyway. I had to meet vt and give him the book. It was 1 pm when I left home. Reached college at 2.30. there, met our project guide. Wtf, he was asking about my marks in project. I expressed my dissatisfaction. But he gave marks just for reporting him regularly regardless of work done. Have it your way then. Then met vt near the notice board.

We rushed to library, returned the book, got my money. Then relaxed a bit in canteen. Since I wasn’t hungry, I just had buttermilk. Called up cg to see what he was up to. He was in tpo for his interviews. Even I went there. actually I wanted to crack the wifi but couldn’t get a safe place to set up the laptop. So spent some time in tpo. They were having hr interviews first. Looked a bit down market to me. None of my business. Vt came there to take my opinion regarding which laptop to buy. He was inclined to xps. I asked if cg was coming to marine drive he refused too. Wtf, now it was just me. But to my surprise, vt asked me if he could join. Wtf, I needed company and I was getting it. I accepted. Sometimes you just need to say yes and embrace new events. I did that.

Sometimes I think vt and I could have been good friends. Our interests match, both support Chelsea, both have interest in knowing current political and sports affairs. Really, we could have been good friends if he didn’t have spent too much time with his girlfriend. There’s a limit. Being a couple doesn’t mean breaking off from all other class. Sometimes I feel sad for him. Wtf, I am being too much sentimental. So back to the journey. On the way, he bought couple of business magazines and then we ate sandwich near the beach. Wow, that place is amazing. First we went to beach. Sat there for a while. Watched people doing kayaking and paragliding. Watched colorful wind wheels. And the infinite Arabian sea in front of us. The skyline at sunset was amazing. I tried making hdr using Photoshop.

The wind that was blowing away all my tension and worries was all I needed. I spread my arms wide and was just standing there feeling the wind. Like it was going to take me to fly with it. Lol. As the sun was setting, we moved to the promenade. It’s one of the best things happened to Mumbai. The queen’s necklace is a brilliant architectural piece of work. I watched it for the first time in my life. I had watched it in photos and videos but experiencing it physically going there is definitely special. I was speechless viewing that beautiful sea and the road that has curled up to embrace the shore. We sat there for may be 45 minutes just watching the beautiful scenery. None of us wanted to leave. The wind was so awesome, the sea was so awesome and the moon was so awesome today. I was lost in them all; I was lost in the real beauty of nature. I felt lucky to be born in a city, situated at the seashore. As we were ready to leave, the wind suddenly stopped blowing. May be even wind wanted us to leave for the day. Had a cold drink at the food stall and then said goodbye to him may be for the last time. It was definitely a quality time. I clicked more than 150 photos today. lol.  I wish I could have been friends with him earlier. But whatever happens, happens for a good reason. I got into taxi and then off to railway station.

I was so contempt. I just wanted to start my new journey with a clear and fresh mind. I did that. Now I feel ready for the challenges I am to face in my first job. Thank you vt for your company. Thank you Mumbai for being such an awesome city. I feel so relaxed. Back to home, I had some glucose drink and then lunch. even ate 2 mangoes to make this epic day even more epic. As I write this post, I am listening to fur Elise of Beethoven. Heavenly music. Next time, when I visit marine drive again, I’ll listen to this song. Wow.

Thanks all for this great day.

–rd

 

Injustice unexplained

If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.   Tennessee Williams

Hey,

What a strange day. I do well according to my standards but still can’t get better than others. Wtf. I had set the alarm clock for 5.30. But I hit the snooze button as usual to sleep 5 more minutes. Then I got up at 7.12 am. Man, I was screwed. But luckily, I got ready within an hour, and everything happened as it should just perfect. Got the bus, train and taxi all on time.

It was my first time that I was attending placements process with toppers. I was bit nervous about being able to crack the interview. Many students who had jobs in their hand already, also joined in to get this public sector job. First level was gd. The groups were evenly matched everyone got a fair chance and competition. Niko was in my group, the fourth one. we got IPL as the topic. After watching and writing about IPL, there were no difficulties for me to raise new points in gd. 4-5 direction giving points were not enough for me to get through. Niko may not be expecting this topic. She was off-colour today. No aggression at all. That’s something I never expected from her in gd. But in the end, when names were announced, I was dumb-struck to hear her name and not mine. This is unfair, biased. This was my best ever effort in gd. And it goes in vain. When I analyse the things, it may have happened that I spoke the points which were already raised. And I missed one point that I remembered later. I thought of complaining about the results. But I let go it.

There was nothing special in college today.  Just left after an hour or so. I was disappointed I needed to get refreshed. Either movie or video game was the choice. I chose movie. Van wilder and porky’s. watched two movies back to back. Porky’s is a classic adult comedy. Nice jokes. They made me giggle and laugh. The joke about mike hunt was a nice trick. Van wilder too wasn’t a bad movie. Van wilder was like me. Not wanting to graduate because he wasn’t ready to go out and immense himself in professional work all the time. Where he gets no time to celebrate, live life the free bird way. gosh, and Tara Reid, she is the ultimate seductress! She has a sexy voice that seduces you.

I found out that only few of the students were offered the job. Niko was in. beauty with brains, eh? She had just five minutes of interview ad she was fucking selected? What kind of bullshit is this? That too they just asked about html and css. And I though president of cs was a cool person. This whole placement process is shit. Does the TPO learn nothing from past experiences? Some get handful of jobs but some remain jobless. Why don’t they bring equality? Wtf. Gym in evening, getting back, doing some household chores, helping vh to scan his docs, fixing date with ns2, YouTube, Facebook, and stuff. Google plus got a makeover. I don’t know why they left a long strip of blank space in the middle of the page. Hash tag introduced and timeline like feature added. That’s new Google plus for you. I liked the design but remove that blank strip ffs.

–rd