Saturday, June 10, 2006

Rewind..

Time for rewind..so much has happened in the last one year..so much more in store by the end of next year.

if i had really enjoyed living outside home it had to be IIT and nothing less. din enjoy it in VIT. enjoyed a bit in RIL for 5 months when i was in nagothane.

but the last one year has been good and different. to start with, with my interview handling capabilities, cud never hope to get an admit. PERUMAL got it done.

but after coming here, there remains the fact that i have become only more confused than ever.
lost interest in studies a bit too quickly. and i hv no idea what kind of job wd interest me at all. did nothing in acads as such. nothing much in extra curriculars as well. stopped reading daily newspapers. spent more time in yahoo and internet. only if my father wd hv watched what i was doing here..i wd be asked to head for home if i was not going to get any better.

i am confused. not my problem only. everyone is a bit confused. i was told that those guys who get into these instis were supposed to have some kind of clarity in thoughts. one more myth.

after a bad year at acads it has been a tiresome summers. travelling more and utilising 100% of the scorching sun. am actually learning life the hard way. i usually do this way.

learning how difficult it is to handle ppl who are so indifferent. how u realise if u have some degree of self dignity, sorry , marketing is not the place for u. many a times, if i had been my normal self, i wd have gone ahead and blasted all those who did not know the meaning of courtesy. but then i had to bear all crap just for this summer project!

a 10 day stint in delhi only made me sure that bbay was a better place any day to live in. and looking at how my cousins have been spread out now all over the country, i stand very less chance of getting a job in chennai. and if the opportunity is worthwhile, it will be a while before i get back to my aam in madras. time enough for that.

the best thing to have happened over the last year has been friends. i never made a lot of friends. i usually stick to the closer ones. but for a change, it as been so different here. the count i made here was adding one equal half to the count i had managed in 25 years of existence. not just the ones who study with me, did manage to make altogether new friends beyond my locus of imagination and get some really good old ones too..

am really waiting for the summers to get over to get the experience of my life. i m very excited abt it. hopefully i shd make it there.


a bit of dabbling with music at times has also been very enriching. my first try at creating some music however bad it might have been. i guess i did learn a thing or two on handling the keys.
thanks to kiran for company.


although i havent learnt much academically, i guess i learnt more from life. there is so much to learn.

my only take from life as i always imagine....the things worthy of learning are those which u learn without even realising that u learn them and in then in one more sober moment of life, u recall and reminisce and relish those memories.

but i am pestered with a question.

should thing happen in life just to be a memory?

10 comments:

P H Karthik said...

Aravindan! chin up man! Why are you projecting a I-have-lost-all kind of an image. You have got one of the best summers in our class. Your project can make a big difference to your company. Compare it with documenting how invoicing is done in depots :-).
As for acads, there is always a year ahead. The thrill of MBA is going to come only in second year, where we are going to explore unknown areas and shun areas which we are not interested. A bright and exciting year awaits us! A year, which will not just go into your memory as a fruitfull one, but which would enrich your thoughts,attitude and more importantly career. hapiness is a state of mind. Compare your confusion with someone who is stuck in a useless job and is confused when to to do MBA. He/She would willingly trade your confusion for theirs anyday.

Aravindan said...

karthik,

tx for the motivation man :)

athukaaga best project elaam koncham hype thaan :))

K7 said...

@ aravindan

Enna da ... rombo demotivated-a irrukai ... etho vera prachanai mathiri theriyardhu ....

Vandhu solve pannalam ..... writing-la lam senti poda-thai ....

P H Karthik said...

and moreover, if you keep writing in this fashion, I stand lose my commission :-(

Taruna said...

So much in one post... all the stuff here shld have covered a whole week...

I thought you followed 'Everything happens for a reason' philosophy...so,a whole year is nothing but just another year of people, school, work and stuff...
So, cheer up!!

And, although I am not confused or in a useless job, I will trade India and IIT with you...Deal?

Taruna said...

btw.. shld the last line not be "do things happen in life just to be a memory?" instead of "should thing happen in life just to be a memory?"

K7 said...

Dei .. Enna Matter Peter ....


Chennai la Matter set aaliya .. rombo feeling podara ;)

Aravindan said...

@ karthik,

commission aa? avalo nambikkaiyaa?

@k7,

senti yaa?? nee vera daa..B136 rocks!!!!

@ aruna,

will trade IIT with u. dont forget "washing clothes @ midnight"

'shd' things happen....is a way of creating a big sigh..'do' things happen.... is just a plain vanilla way of stating things....

@ amru,
atlast back to hostel man! yeah blogging is one gud thing to happen in last one year

@ anu,

Silver Lining aa ....girls ku silver , gold uttaa vera enna theriyum!!!!

Sridhar Narasimhan said...

dude ... already so depressed ? we still have 1 more yr to go :)

imagine how it'll be without yahoo msgr, blogger and orkut ... thank god for small mercies :)

maybe, as u said, u r learning things without trying to ... like waking up just in time on saturdays to get ur room cleaned by housekeeping ppl, like playing music without disturbing ur neighbour (me !) ...
i'm sure u'll have not just memories but "learnings" too :)

Aravindan said...

@sridhar,

its fun having classes and quizzes

hate these summers. no timme for yahoo and blog