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Well just realized that I missed a month without posting on the blog. any ways now the months has given way to weeks which soon will give way to days....my freedom I must say is counting. D day is coming. All are invited to Jaipur on 28th.

cheers
Tyson

amars...

I am sitting at amars waiting for PawanG. Was just looking around thinking someone would know me, but immediately rejected the thought since all the faces were different. Things have changed, no longer an array of steel table and plastic chairs arranged haphazardly.
Cooking area is same and so is the smell...simply turns on the appetite. Appetite for the juices, frankies, dahi poori and the mango shakes. So I ordered for a change a fresh lime juice. Sitting under teh tree and sipping on the juice and waiting for the old man I hear: arre Sahab aap idhar? Itne dino ke baad?
This did the job and killed me. this was one old timer who use to serve me sharad and mandy most of the time. Lovely.

Finally Beria ka kambal kutai kara. We had fun after a long long time.

Anyways I thought I will finish off this one to make the lone entry for July. somehow I don't know my old problems are still there. Nothing much has changed as yet with the advent of Charu. I hoped it to but somehow it hasn't. Only one thing that has changed is my time management. Running from pillar to post catching up with everyone in kind of a mechanical life. Time is actually running by and I am just staring at it with a blank face. July is over and half the August seems to be over. I am left with only half September and lots to do. Good that I wrote now may be I will work.

I am flying again to India. :D Let's see how it shapes up this time and where and how I end up.

Cheers Mate...carry on fight it out. We are there :)

~Tyson!

Cooking Lesson

There are no shortcuts to success. was making dal & rice today. as it is I was late so thought instead of frying the dal after steaming I straight away add good amount of water to keep it good. But as it happens daal didnt do well and i had to resteam the dal and then fry it. but still after second steaming it was in very good condition. But finally the result was good. I enjoyed my late night food. After this a Dussheri mango. yummy. Tyson the foodie has his stomach falling out these days even 350 cal in Gym aren't helping the cause.

anyways nothing much happening...I am going home for long time (2 weeks) work from home. Also the good news is blackberry is functional now. :P I have new curve 8300. After Iphone and 3310 now I am back to a latest one lets see how long this one lasts :D I hope it does lasts long. It better.

Cheers
~Tyson

S-tuck-ed with Idex...MIDEX

I think the word is final....I am not in. I spoke to Ad Com today again but today her attitude was totally different, very cold and typical of a negative answer. Better I spoke to her now the picture is clear. I don't know next few days will surely be good for me. relaxed a bit.

As I mentioned today to Old Man it could be a blessing in disguise. Parents were a bit worried how to manage funds, fiancee worried about When will we be together? uncertainty at job, no scholarship from school or anybody else. All is well now.

Now it is clear. decide on application, search for job, make a firm plan B, marriage and life.

Also I will apply for car license, lets see how I fare this time. :-) 2 attempts maximum this time.

MIDEX This is the name of the company having office opposite to our office in DAFZA. So I say it is More Idex. :P

One more job which I could do good is at call center. from IST 5:30 pm these days I am continuously on phone till 9:30 minimum and after that 1 hour at least on cell phone. in the day I add another 3 hours. Any call is not less than 15 minutes.

Oh No...You say Good bye and I say Hello ...helo hello...I dont know why you say good bye I say helloo helloo...

Cheers
~Tyson

Deja Vu

Overheard a few days back at lunch: I got a call from this strange number +123456789. And I wont believe yesterday I got the call from the same number. :-) Looks like some issue with the call forwarding center here in Dubai.

Anyways things are happening.

Cheers & be Happy.

~Tyson

October Sky

Another wonderful movie, which I could watch again and again...I will put it in the league of RDB, Shawshank... one of the best ones from it, this one moves you off:

Look I know you and me exactly don’t see eye to eye on certain things, I Mean we don’t see eye to eye on just about anything dad I come to believe that I got in me to be somebody in this world, and its not because I am so different from you either its because I am the same I can just be as heard headed just as tough I only hope I can be a good a man as you are, me sure dr brown is a great scientist but he ain’t my hero.

and then finally in the end when the dad puts the hand on the shoulder of his son and hugging him, it kills you. Lovely.

Life has been awful these days. streak of losses in IPL for me :-) and people not happy by seeing the light at the end of tunnel. Each one with teh reasosn of their own. I think the bigger challenge would lay in clearing off from here. Incase I get to shift out from here. As they say nothing comes easy in life you have to pay and may be I have to pay more. :-(.

My bosses wife has the worst voice a woman could have. It is like a big church bell blown in your ear. This friday I left my specs in bathroom and later Nag comes and asks me are these yours? I was totally shocked. I have been using these for past 4 years at least and no body else uses these and noone visits us either and still he asks this some how ridicules me. Makes me ponder what people are actually made of. Instead of directly saying boss keep this and I found there the ask Is this yours? What I say is Mother f***** are you blind or something you have been fuckin seeing me wearing these daily and still you ask this are you out of your wits or what?

Question could have been posed differently. Common guys view it differently and take up soem responsibility no body is going to eat you away. I am simply amazed why the hell are they so insecure.

Grow up guys!!!

Whatever, I want to go home to take a chill pill and eat Mangoes but of no success I couldn't get tickets this Thusrday so lets see. Oman it will be next week and have to go to Egypt also it will be probably teh week after I come back from Oman and following this it will be Saudi in June. I have to be in Jaipur on 16-17th.

Cheers and Good Luck dude wipe off the negative.

Tyson!

Sadness

It is gloomy inside as it is outside now. I don't know somehow most of the days I don't find anything to cheer up and be happy and this is having an effect everywhere in all my actions, talk and even writing. Kind of a block.

Funny thing in Singapore poor guy dixi had to tag along with we luckkha guys (Abhinav Chintamani and Ankur Bhargava, Kanika and Pawan had the late office on Tuesday). Dixi and I sat for almost 8 hours hopping from one place to other, others joined us in between. As usual, since IITians were around, so calling people and waking them up begin and as usual it was pc poor guy sleeping hard after on a Monday night. I don't remember what I spoke but all was ok typical stuff. Anyways I was celebrating Charu's Bday :P.

Otherwise Singapore trip was waste. My point here is why don't people listen and just think that they have experience so what they are doing is good. I am fed up with this poking business. Anyways doesn't matter I Don't care for that. With 5 years in this company and 2 years in sales with the new bosses I am good.

Life's Good. All in family sat together for 4 hours. This was good, something really good when all sat together and had meals together. No parallels for it. Shopping for my sis and mom and Charu. Met Charu as well but was a very short running visit. Some strange things or Taboos but I believe they are good (At least in my case). It is fun talking to her but at times difficult.

Anyways I think I am doing sufficiently good so at least should be rewarded accordingly and this is what is killing me. I don't know seriously from small issues to big ones...whatever as somebody says keep trying and improving its a long way and there might be better things :)

Cheerio & Patience is Key
~Tyson

Qatar-A Katar on your Pocket

It is pretty much evident by the fact that you pay 240 odd dollars still Break fast is not included further they charge 27 dollars for the breakfast..I would rather eat somewhere outside. Further call to India in off peak time is 2.5 QR which is approx 0.85cents this is peak time rate in Dubai. This is just one day experience more will come...This is my first visit to Qatar.

Lots of thing happening. Dad is reported with blockage in other artery now details will be known by tomorrow. Noting has been going my (our) way smoothly. My ill luck is getting more and more stronger. I don't know but the more I think more stronger it gets and more evidence I get. I don't want to give examples but that's the way it is.

Anyways procrastination is the order of the day I have been delaying the essay I have to email to Tuck for the updates etc. Resume and application to INSEAD. Good thing is I could find some very string reason for procrastination like improvement in the condition, Visit to Singapore etc. something which I am doing now.

One of the best thing that could happen was many different people unexpectedly called me on my Birthday but it felt good. I really at some point felt ashamed of my self and proud as well. I called up my aunt to get wishes :D but was good to talk to so many people. Also a lot of fan following on Facebook. :) I gifted myself an Iphone :) a black colored unlocked 16GB 2500AED. but now I am not able to load songs & movies. sometime I will find the solution.

Well the Ms. Universes don't have appeal in them as compared to their contemporary Ms. worlds. Sushmita Vs Aishwarya and Lara Vs Priyanka Universes are no match in any of the characteristics.

Life otherwise going ok. Somehow managing with Charu should do better but with many things happening and my attitude it is difficult but good atleast I could try to work on this. Gave her the V day surprise and another one is inline. Lets see how it goes.

More in details soon.

Cheers!!
Fight it Babes!! Go GO GO...

~tyson

These Days

To say that I have changed, I would say a little bit. Well no. still the same doing the same job may be with less enthusiasm but that is same all the years. You feel down due to other reasons and then pick up for the rest of the year in a months time.

Enthusiasm or fanaticism is still the same. Blue is the color. For whole last week I am dressed in blue only, different sets obviously but all blue. May be repel away my blues!!!

Phone bill and desire to go to India are ever increasing, as Shweta Agarwal says now you will look for reasons to go to India. Oh yes I can mention here Fukka Dada will soon be a Fukka pardada :). Again we had good dinner thanks to Schlum. Desserts were nice and you get a Tomoto Soup with "Rai" and "Kari Patta".

Daily I spend almost 100SAR on phone. My total talk time on phone reads 26+ hrs in 18 days. Now I am planning to attend Pokes's marriage so lets see how it goes.

People want me to change and I don't want to do now but I think this was the change I was looking for, so may be for the good lets try and do. My only fear is I should not be a looser and it is not ok here if you fail.

Good Luck Babes!!

Tyson!

My Interview Experience - ISB

Done with my interview just now. IST 2:25pm

HEMA was there on the other side and nobody else. She took my interview first time also. for those who don't know she is from ad com...

She gave me word Fanatic... I blabbered something on that and then she asked what I am fanatic about answered something. She didn't ask further.

One question from my resume how you doubled the sales? now I think I underplayed my role there but answered in detail to her with details of my contribution. should have spoken more about Me but I think that's ok.

What you like about your Job? I gave her the answers with some pointers, but again she didn't ask. Should have asked one question at least.

Another one from my essay how you will contribute to the class with your process knowledge? said something...she sought some clarification which I think I answered. she jumped to next one so cannot gauge if she was ok or not.

Multicultural teams and obstacles etc gave her answer. easy-rehearsed one :P Something which I wrote in the leadership essay of Tuck. Again underplayed the team role but highlighted the leadership aspect.... The more I think the more it goes Haywire.

Then came the bomb. What is Democracy connect and what you did on a project? explain in detail your role. This answer was pure on the spot Don't remember what I answered but sad something... and then cooked up an time pass story for my project.... :D

Any questions for us. Asked one question, she answered it but I didn't grill her either should have asked her more here

And that's it. 22.5 min and finished.....

My assessment:
Either my answers were perfect or she was not interested at all.
If it was a formality so either I am out or already in.

So basically Can't say

As Kumavat says you have to play to her ego and can't gauge from her response now so lets wait till 10th

Allah jaane kya hoga....

Tyson!

The day of Vows!!

16th Jan is the day of Vows. Last year it was no stick for 6 month.... though I kept it for 4.5 Monhths!!! and Today I have started going to Gym. Vow here is to be fitter, I dont know how long it lasts.

anyways lots of new learning coming my way. Its kind of difficult but lets see, I will manage.

On the other hand these bloody Adcoms.... either dont reply or reply in a cryptic way!! help and guidance comes in different packages. It is again verified that the failure teaches you a lot and you learn a lot from failed guys. Success stories are ok but failure stories are nice :)

Life is good and let it fly!!

Cheers
~Tyson

Christmas-offline post

Merry Christmas and it couldn't have been merrier!! After a lot of last minute work we made it to the venue just in time. Even though it wasn't much cold but still I had the sweater on which I was asked to take off as soon as we reached the hotel. We were seated together and finally both said it is cold here :P while all other were pretty happy in regular clothes (No woolen). Lots of changes due to the many common relations and this created lots of confusions.

Now you get different kind of emails with many different suggestions. This MBA thing has now put me in an awkward position. People could take these in a different way nothing could be done even if you explain this straight. I can find something to blame for this delay but unknowingly things happen and the effect is something never thought of and something not in your hand. The difficulty is people don’t understand or appreciate the difference.

Little nervous I was, and this kept me away from the other stuff happening around and I realized this much later, there was nothing much I could do. This all made me feel the same, not in the group. Kind of aloof, something which I had ignored earlier but now the more I am there (part of action) the more I realize that the equation is very different and not in the same state as it appear. It is inexplicably strange. It is kind of you are there and heard yet you are not. If you think about it nothing clear appears and you get more confused. This is the other parallel with Sharmaji.

Now the questions, something which defies the logic and requires the so called common sense, give me some headache. What? Why? When? Where? How? Some part of life when you are away from home, you don’t have sufficient data to draw the parallels. Here the good old recklessness is not applicable.

Cheers
~Tyson