The Day with (G)old(en) friends

Today was one of the best days of my life in recent times. Coming to Lucknow to do the internship had a reason. Although I did the mistake by trading it off by doing a stupid internship so as to remain with family and old school friends, I did enjoy a lot.

I met so many old school friends who probably had lost in the tides of time but thanks to Orkut, we are never separated. I met Rashi Garg today. It was a pleasure meeting her. She is as sweet as sugar. :P I never felt I was talking to her face to face for the first time in my life. Incredible girl!!

Then came the big occasion. After meeting Rashi and her friend Neha, I went to Vindeez, Gomtinagar. Victor gave his birthday treat and there were Sumant, Mukul, Mayank and Sarang too. Had Ankit Misra, who was slated to come, also been there, it would be a get together of class 1 to 6 'A' section "children". And it would have been double bonanza.. meeting seeing Rashi and Ankit both for the first time in 12 years. But unfortunately, he couldn't come.

Even Atish could not make it because of some personal problems, although we went to his home in the afternoon. Then we headed towards our usual desination, Wave. We sat in the McD for about two hours, doing our usual work.. (people close to me will understand :D) Came back to home at 8.

Here's a snap of us in McD, Wave (Sarang clicking the pic)

We missed few people a lot, Anshul Dwivedi being the prominent of them. Yash and Shiven were the other two of the A section that are close to us but weren't there. Unfortunately, as I always am, there was no girl. :(

Budget Day 2009-10

The carefree attitude of mine continues and I have not been to the training since last 5 days. I was about to go today (6th july) but the budget stopped me. Now that I am more aware of the financial terms these days (thanks to free time I am getting out of my training that I can spare some for reading texts in abundance), I was pretty excited to hear my life's first live budget.

The budget was hailed as poor by general people but the experts are saying that owing to the economic crisis in the world, this has been the best what our honorable Finance Minister could do. But the implications reflected on the market soon which fell down like anything just after the bedget session - 900 points today. That stood most of the shares well below the mark, and it was a boom time for investors to purchase. Luckily, I got my demat account activated today itself and invested some money - MY FIRST TRADING.

It was a dramatic two hour period before the SMC trading window as being a novice, I was hardly understanding anything. Because of the lack of this, I incurred a loss, a meagre Rs. 3 :P

By the way, I am feeling a little gay these days. U dirty mind, gay also means happy. Legalization of gayism has certainly put you people's mind out of place these days, right? :P Well I am feeling happier these days because of a reason, not right enough to disclose here.

I am finally going to training tomorrow. Please God! wake me up anyhow tomorrow morning. :(

But for that I have to sleep early, it is already 1:15 am. Goodnight...

Finally some stupid Data Entry

I went to Magnum day before yesterday to collect some official documents as promised by Mr. Sanjay Wahi there. The fortunes turned the table the previous night, when Mr. Amitabh Banerjee, with whose source I got into Reliance, visited my house. He interrogated me about my progress and told that he would recommend Wahi Sir to give me some training in SAP Fi/Co as well. I could not but accept the offer.

Next day when I was standing just beside Wahi Sir, Amitabh uncle called him and kept his word. What was next? Wahi Sir asked me to join two of the other trainees who were sitting together infront of a computer. He asked me to call them. I did not notice thme initially apart from that one was a heavy built guy and other was a short but little healthy. They went to Wahi sir who told them I would be joining them from the day and I should be educated about the IUC.

I joined them. It was a very informal introduction. The healthy guy, Vivek Verma, is a totally freaked out, mischievous guy who hates studying. He is just like Apoorv Mathur, my neighbour, in looks as well as body language. The other, Sreejit, stutters a lot, which reminds me of my school friend, Nitin. He is a total workaholic guy. Even the useless data entry work he does by full enthusiasm. If I do not pretend to be selfish, he deserves to get a PPO in Reliance Telecomm, even if its a 1.2 lakh job.

I was told that there are two immediate mentors, who are responsible for the IUC (Interconnectivity Usage Charges), to whom we have to report. Both are beyond my linkings.

Yesterday, I came back home at 7pm. Except for the JBS classes, I think this is the maximum I have worked in so many years. I went at 10:30 today morning and came back at 6. There was some lame excuses involved otherwise I would have been stuck there till about 8 today, just fooling around, warming the chair. Sreejit does all the work and I dont mind. I know whatever he is doing is useless from training point of view. It is just helping to learn basics of Excel - no hard point.

Tomorrow I am going again to take some material from Vivek. Hope he brings them and I may start with my report work from tomorrow, though I am thinking this since two weeks.

My mood is out of place today. I don't know what it was but suddenly seemed to be ignored by 4-5 persons in a row, especially by my princess, Voila. This miffed me. Fought with sis as well. So bad. Anyways, it is over 1 am now. Couldnt wake up tomorrow morning if I continue here. Gudnite

Feeling very lonely

What I loved passionately a year ago, I am running away from it. I dont feel like writing articles in the way I did last year any more. The frequency, though, is still alright but the content and the style is lacking. I can feel it. It is just because I am no more interested to sit for an hour to think, ponder and form the words. I am no more interested to give my piece a divine beauty.

I have always felt that if your form is not good, just watch your previous masterpieces and you will get the motivation. But I dont even feel like reading what I had written all these years. My new website and blog is also going waste. No source of revenue, which I had planned, is coming.

I am constantly thinking about a business plan these days, though I am cent percent convinced that I am not going for a start up without a three to four years experience. But then why dont ideas click me? What can I do with Rs. 5000 in my hand? Why can't I make big? Because I am lazy. Prachi di said that now it is time to do something. Enough of thinking. She is right. I have spoiled my MBA internship also. This time I lacked the knowledge about how and where should I do the training. I have been constantly bashing Anjali about the lack of knowledge she always has about her future but this time it has back fired on me. How foolish I am to opt for Operations in Reliance Comm and on top of that, I dont go there. I know JBS is not going to lead me anywhere.

Having said all this, I plan to invest some money in stock market. Hope luck prevails. Papa has lost much in this, I hope to get it back. Day didnt go well. Bas mood hi kuch kharab ho raha hai ajkal. Mama and family went back to Gwalior today. Papa and Anjali are also not at home. Only me and mummy. Feeling very lonely.

The trading beckons me

The days are passing at a tremendous pace. It happens when you usually enjoy what you are doing and wanting it to continue. And I am into my favourite hobby these days - chilling at home.

It has already been 21 days today - 3 weeks. I can call these days as a 3 week holiday because I don't think I have justified the loss (read: waste) of time. I have gone to the warehouse some three or four times. The monotonous work there doesn't demand me visiting that place so frequently. The last I went was Monday and tomorrow I again plan to go, and it is Monday again.

Now giving some leniency to criticizing my attitude, I am actually not sitting that idle also. These days I am into the stock market trading. I am going to apply for the demat account in SMC (ya I know it can be a wrong decision but Ankit bhai is there in SMC to take care of me). I am reading articles and learning the ABCD of trading. Hopefully, I will start with it within a couple of days.

Day before yesterday I went to apply for my PAN card. I am expecting it within 10-12 days. Passport work also needs to be done.

I have decided to delay the NCFM examination from 4th July to sometime in August. The reason is that the course is enough and Voila can never finish it till 4th now as she hasn't even begun. And we had promised to give all of them together. :)

Rest all is fine. I'll being with the report work from tomorrow I hope. Will continue then!!

The day at corporate world

So, today I have some real stuff to write. There is a feeling of self satisfaction today. And I would like to thank Voila for that.

I was never requested so much by anyone till now. And when the other person is the sweetest Voila, it was very difficult for me to procrastinate the work for over 3 weeks. Actually as a part of her internship, she had to get some 250 odd survey questionnaires filled by some corporate people who invest money in any kind of securities. It was a difficult job for a person like me who never liked the field work and more so, a work like this - requesting people to lend their 5 min and then rudely be turned down and shown the door. I find this work similar to kind of salesman job whom we treat like a beggar "bhaiyya nahi chaiye.. aage jao" when they come to our home.

She gave me offers - a treat at McD. But I wasnt interested in all these. I just help her because I like to help her... etc etc. :)

I had some work in Magnum Eldeco office of Reliance. It has been three days I went to the warehouse. Oh God! what great people they have there. It is my luck that I always have an upperhand at any place I go or work I do. Touchwood! All of them are always ready to help me and provide every information. Even though they are busy, they find time to help me out. I go there whenever I wish and come from there at my will. I went to Magnum today to get some documents like balance sheet, company profile, etc. I had been asked to wait till Monday, but then Mr. Sanjay Wahi, too, is a great person. Where do they hire such generous people from in Reliance. I just wish to work with them.

Anyways, I headed towards Voila's home after that. We departed from there at about 1. Our first desination was... umm... actually I don't remember because we were thrown out from so many places. :P

But overall, we covered Max New York Life Insuarance, Sony, ICICI Lombard, ICICI Life Insurance, Western Union, HDFC Life Insurance and Nokia Seimens. We were shown the door so modestly at each place. They didn't let us feel ashamed, [:P] although we tasted success at ICICI Lombard (voila's first initiation - strike rate 100%). We handed over about 20 questionnaires there and have been asked to collect them tomorrow. Let's see if they do not dissapoint us.

Though this took just an hour, we felt a lot tired. Temperature was around 45 deg celcius and Voila is so brave to have faced it sportingly [:P]. We went to Waves and stayed there for an hour before we found SBI at the top floor. That was the place where we were successful. The only reason being they were sitting idle. Ab kaun jana hai malls me account khulwane.

We were then 'physically and morally' ready for an exit from Waves to again face the heat. We went to Reliance House. Assuming it is a sister organization, we would be taken hand in hand. And we were. The HR Manager ordered the employees to co-operate with us. 5 successes there.

As soon as I stepped out, I said, "Bas Voila, enough." And that was the end of our first day in corporate world. A feeling which is amazing if now felt. Though humiliated, it is the ground reality for everyone - a thing we knew so didn't care. Overall, a satisfying day when at night I can tell myself - I did something worth today.

And Voila, if you read this, I M NOT GOING THERE AGAIN. :P

The laziness

It has been a four days gap. This writing practice, what I acquired in the month of September last year, is not coming back to me.

I went to thewarehouse on Wednesday. The employees are so helpful and down to earth there that even if I have no good work to do, I still feel like going there. The support from other people is so important to do any kind of work, but in today's corporate world, you can't expect everyone to be nice. And when you are doing an internship, where you are considered a burden on the organization (if they have no work to provide), you start feeling left out, ignored and sequentially irritated.

I lack this fighting spirit which will prove very costly to me. I just fail to butter people, to implement their commands even if they are useless or weird, to listen to people if I have no fault, etc. The adage, "Boss is always right" does not suit me. My friends say that it is better you start your own venture then. But capital kaha se laun?

Anyways, it has been three days I haven't stepped out to work. I had to go today but then ye aalas. Now looking forward to meet some forlorn friends this weekend. Rest later!! ye gudia yaha aake beth jati hai to me kuch likh nahi pata.

Blood Test just before an interview

Time is running out fast now. I procrastinated the work which should have been completed yesterday to today. And moreover, I had to give the blood test. I have been to the pathology several times in my childhood for the blood test, but this time it was about 8 years later. And it also was the first time I was going all alone.

After about half an hour of wait in the pathology waiting lounge, they called me and 10 ml of blood was sucked out of my arm. I advanced to the MicroSave. It was so hot that I felt I was going to MicroSave in the Microwave. :P

Thank God the room was air conditioned. By the way, MicroSave is a global company, with its offices at Kenya and Uganda also. Lucknow was India's office (first time I heard Lucknow is the sole place for a multinational organization to open a corporate office).

Around 20 minutes later, Mr. Manish Mehrotra came out. Against my expectations, he was a very tall guy, highly sophisticated and truly professional. He had a great body language and great personality. I explained my reason of visit but he nearly turned down my addmission to training. He asked me to leave the documents (CV, training letter, etc.) with him and he would inform me soon.

I don't know if I am being pessimistic, but it seems I don't have a chance here although I am highly eager to work with them. Just for once, I pray, I get to work with them!!

Dejected, I came back to home by around 1. Went to Voila's place at 4 to study the balance sheets. By the time I returned from there at around 7, I was feeling very laid back. The reason is to be kept secret. :)

Tomorrow I am going to Reliance otherwise by trying at multiple places simultaneously, I would be left with no where to go. Hope I have a good day at Reliance warehouse tomorrow.