travel plans

are laid out.
October:
16th October I have to be in China for a day.
21st October I am flying to Jaipur for diwali
Don't have the return ticket

September:
5th I am flying off to New York for 3 weeks
one week in Rochester
One week in Cedar Falls
One week roaming around

August:
Egypt for a week
Kuwait for 2-3 days

July:
Saudi Arabia could be exchanged with the trip to Egypt
Will get the new passport tomorrow or day after mostly

I have to process the visas as well. Egypt, China and Saudi.

Cost cutting and my telephone bill equals the sum of other three in my office :P.

Cheers
Tyson.

Music: Old Songs: my middle school days

Product of Environment

I don't want to be the product of environment rather my environment be my product. But these days the reverse is happening. my actions are shaped by the environment. My reactions knowingly or unknowingly bear an influence of the sourroundings or environment I have been living/working in (read as working in). I think I need a break from this quick change in the activities which I do (Read Home-office-Home or Travel-meeting-work-travel). Need to get involved in something different. Lets see next Wednesday I have second driving license test and if I get this time I plan to drive around Dubai whole of Fridays & Saturdays and at least explore UAE.

Anyways news from the office is I made the record again lets see for how long it holds.... at least a month. Tomorrow for sure 6 o'clock I will leave the office and will do something (may be gym or read a novel or screening).

Went to India last week. I will rate this as the worst trip back home (even those two month , during college days, stay was much better...). The flights I had booked for Jaipur-Mumbai and back were canceled and then a day before when I was supposed to leave the things went in other direction as much as they could seeking a good lot help from me. Some discussions and then I missed the flight, I was sleeping in the business class lounge, paid 200AED for next flight. Again some discussions and lots of heat being generated here and there with no mistake of mine. Just that nothing was in my hand I was a mere puppet of my environment. I tried to do my best but people don't understand. Sometimes reasoning doesn't work and you suffer unnecessarily.

Communication the key aspect was missing and lots of resistance had its effect. And everybody made best of this opportunity to make most of it and poor me was at the receiving end. The chain reaction effect of this was seen the whole week, how much I tried to extinguish the fire but nothing helped and finally I gave in. Now I don't know how things are going to shape up.

Actually sometimes you give the gyaan someone and at othertimes the same someone gives the same gyaan back :). Had long talks with Sharad over coffee etc...... and met him after almost a year.

Couldn't see Ms. Shah this time and many others whom I had promised to meet. As a wise investor met the concerned people. Went to Naturals @HN and as usual paid for the ice-cream remembered Pranav when I saw the Great Punjab on the otherside of road.

Well all said and done I have put my pitch and now have to do lots of ground work and take help from many others and put in the best, rest is all.......

Wish me luck for many things..... and I need a lots.

Cheers
Tyson

Swimming

finally after a long time I utlized teh IDEX Money for my best personal use. Right in Kuwait Ramada Hotel. 46ft long Swimming pool and I made 26 laps in 40 min. I am crying now tears are oozing out, I didnt had the glasses. (Shweta is not here to lend one to me :P). I could manage only two laps at a time but what the heck after almost year and a half I swam (Last time I did was for 300m in sea in Goa :D). It was fun today and I loved it, I know for sure tomorrow it wont be possible, simply makes me happy. Now the thighs are paining.

Act of procastination: as soon as I get the car license in Dubai I will look for a swimming pool membership nearby my place and not to mention I have to search for that place as well.

Poor BKG, bragged about 32 Laps at IIT after 9 months and I said 26 Laps in the Hotel. But good for both of us.

one should consider the other side as well not bluntly saying no. I dont know why they do so.

29th it will be. lets see how it goes. I dont know who to believe.

Also Why I dont have no balance in my caccount when I need it?
Cheers

~Tyson
PS: Comfotably Numb

sub standard people

To get something to what level will you stoop down to? some people even go down to the level of refuting the truth. The premise or the basic fact on which the whole of the story is based or built on is refuted and to top it the people on the other side of table give due consideration to it. How ignorant could be? I cannot imagine. Or in other words where can money drive you?

I attribute this to the dominant effect or the pressing your identity and culture on the others. They are all hypocrites at one point they talk of ethics and high level of integrity and on the other hand you see back stabbing double crossing. To further worsen it the others who are fooled feel pride in doing so. What the heck!!! I know it doesnt work in todays world to be what you are. What works is "what others feel it should be". The gyaan of last two lines was the natural outcome of the discussion I had with young-old man.

Rest life is moving and it is affecting me to bring in the effect. Lets see how it shapes up.

lots of traveling coming up. had a 2 day trip to Kuwait and going again there next week and then Immediately after that is home run. (Yeah two in two months :P). After that I have to apply for new passport as no clean page left.

Friday the 27th will be important. Two important meetings.One with Director and other shaping the direction :P (Saareeeeee I miss you, Sorry I deleted the blog.)

Cheers
~Tyson... I remain

Patience is the Key....

I think this is one of the few Keys which I don't have. This is what I need in tons these days. Let me try to do this. Smile will definitely help.

Today(4th June) could be marked as the day when a firs step is taken to resolve the deadlock. Still it doesn't seem easy to me, at least lots of complications I could foresee now. And this would be most interesting and challenging. Ms. Shah was right its not as simple as it seems to be some hard questions yet to be answered.

Get over the praising statements, all make a fool out of you just to get the work done. So at times you have to look beyond the words and discount. Interesting would be what to discount and what not to? :P other way to look at it is be yourself don't be what others want you to be.

Etisalat needs to be consulted for a better option.

We have to be ready for the surprise and discard out as much assumptions as you can. This will help.

PawanG is coming tomorrow to Dubai so whole Fri-Sat-Sun gone.

Have to meet Baddy, I think after the conference call it will be good. 2 hours between 8:00-11:00 pm.

Music: Mere naseeb mein Ae dost..... Kishore Kumar. ;)

Rest is ok.

pyaar mohabbat
Tyson

My photos

I don't know why I don't get into many of snaps. May be I don't collect them. Those in which I figure in, I look sad or munching on something, so somebody says "Smiling Face" others say "Tum hanste kyun nahin ho". May be the camera is not good or the photographer is not ok whatever.

Thats the way I am these days (post IIT).

Lots to do
and miles to before I sleep.

cheers

Tyson
Music: Boondein--Silk route

Feedback

So yesterday I had this feedback session with Tuck. As usual careless me, just woke up right in time to make a call rather then devise the questions. Wrote a few questions, generic ones. No pre call preparations, like what to anticipate etc.
She surprised me by asking what I think of my application? OKay somehow I told something though in calm fashion. To which she said fine. Then came the real blow.
We think your GMAT is below average (Is 710 so bad? I know its not good but still....)
Then your uniqueness essay is just not good while the Leadership is good.

You need to do community service and better do it.

Thats it. rest all comments were generic you should improve in overall write new story etc.

Lets see, its nice that I took the feedback will help me decide if I really want to spend my USD5ooo this year.

Good Luck & Cheers !!!
Tyson

Shawshank Redemption

The Movie simply fascinates me every time I watch it and the more I watch it the more I like it. Simply the friendship stuff its beautiful. The dialogues mind blowing consider this:

Andy to Red: "The funny thing is the Outside I was an honest man straight as an arrow and I have to come to prison to be a crook".

Also the good old hope dialogue. Another one

New boy Tommy: Why are you in here?
Andy: Lawyer fucked me. Everybody is innocent in here, don't you know that.

Its amazing and beautiful.

Cheers
Tyson.
PS: I am sure its going to happen and right people know that.

It happens again

I am not sure why but yes it does, I have reasons to believe otherwise? May be these reasons have void assumptions lets see.

I wrote to Tuck for the feedback, yesterday and they answered me today with a session tomorrow.

This was pretty quick as I didn't expected them to reply so soon. Why? They would be busy with the admissions process so might take a sometime atleast two or more days. Nothing wrong. And on similar lines they offered the session for tomorrow which again to my reasoning shouldn't have been scheduled at least in this week. As usual what I "positively" think will not happen, it happens. It usually holds good most of the times. I cannot count. I will not say vice versa is true.

I am the chosen one. Thats what I can say.

Probably one item is knocked off the list, please note the work probably. Others have to do their job and then...... pc you fool we need to talk its been a long time.

Still I have a few more important jobs to be done. I have barely started doing something on my app but it needs a more sincere effort. I need time for this, I don't how am I going to do this. 4 more days to read and read and only read and take notes. I have to do it this year and I have a belief that I will succeed as this is my second attempt.

Cheers
~Tyson

PS: One class on Thu and two on Sat, test on Sun. Just do It!
Music: QSQT

China Shanghai May 5th - 8th

I dont know this place has something which makes me take up a stick, may be just to balance the composition of the air inside and outside. well I took one. not my fault as this guy from Singapore always sat next to me, in training & at dinner with the packet on table, so finally I gave in. Chinese rice wine is amazing with 51+% alcohol it burns you out. I took one shot of this and my day was over. Japanese & Chinki malt drink are also good. :P. of the four days I had 2 Indian dinners and 2 Chinese dinners (one bland and one very spicy)

Met some very interesting people. One of the directors a Chicago graduate very interesting person. I believe I did my best to put across my point. I was in this some IDEX specific training which though good but lacks the punch. Anyways I got what I was looking for and may be more but need approvals etc for my dream to come true...... Learning: Actually it is very easy to point out the mistake but very difficult to correct one-self or even identify some.

Foot massage is as always good, these chinks do it very differently as compared to Thai's :P.

Importance of communication is coming across to me (The VP)

"I can stand the lesbians but Gays kill me, they scare me." The director at the end of dinner. :D

Sharmaji ko aaj kal aate daal ka bhaav pata lag raha hai ;)

I am going home! I am going home!!!!

Cheers
~Tyson
PS: I havent done what I should have done. Somebody with stick can only make me do this.