EXAMS!!!

F**k!

Here we go again..just when I thought life couldn’t be better, I get books and previous exam papers thrown in my face…5 days of utter madness starting tomorrow with 8 subjects crammed in…What do I do?..Should I optimize my resources by stuffing my head with as much info as I can while I’m still awake or should I properly assess the market scenario and cheat off one of my neighbors?? Or maybe I should jot down a profit and loss statement and analyze how deeply screwed I am!! I haven’t got a clue!

Well…good luck to me..and happy holidays to the rest of ya!!

I'm Back !!!

It's been over a year since i last blogged. So why get back to it today, you ask...well,, coz i'm stuck in a Corporate Finance class with the Prof going on about NPV, IRR and i haven't got a clue about any of that and i dont really have anything else to do for the next three hours.So, Its safe too say that my life changed (by heaps & bounds) since last year. Oh, just so you know, I am in France now.Been here since September.Who'd have thunk it, huh?? FYI, the only french i speak is useful to buy groceries& ordering croissants in bistros.Obviously, the course is in English(duh!!) but apart from that , this is a pretty nice country to live in. I thought leaving Hyderabad would be very hard( dont get me wrong, it was) but it was quite easy to adapt to this place, its culture, its food...
There have also been so many "Only in France" moments/situations that i've encountered in the past 3 months to make this all the more better.

. Walking on the roads at 3 in the morning - Only in France
. Walking on the roads at 3 in the morning heavily intoxicated - Only in France
. Walking on the roads at 3 in the morning heavily intoxicated and on the way to another pub - Definitely , Only in France [:D]

So, am i liking this ? Hell Yeah !!!
The weekdays are a drag & waking up for 8 am classes is a major pain but i Cannot, Will not & Shall not complain about the WEEKENDS !
This course i'm in is only a year long, so in all probability i'll be leaving the country by May'10 , so, until then i'm planning on making the most out of it ; seeing, experiencing and blogging it all.
Wish me luck !
Will keep posting
See u soon...

Story of mah lyf!!! (part-II)

Damn..i cant believe this…preri wrote a blog!!! Jeez…she got back to bloggin ..ok..atleast tryin..and tht too before me!!!!!( I hate my lyf!! I’m losing at everything now [:(])well…I’m kinda partially responsible for all the happenings in her blog..guess I’m gonna return the favor and add in a special mention in mine[:D] (so very selfless of me!!
Its abt 1 in the morning …now, ya’ll must knw why I call it MIDNIGHT SCRIBBLING[;)]…
My life as of now has come to a standstill!! Why u ask?? Alright, I’ll answer it even if u dnt ask me…duhh!!
I’m back to doing wat I have done ever so unsuccessfully all of the past 2 yrs…prepare for CAT ( all over again)..dnt worry , I’m not gonna write another long blog abt it n bore the living daylights outta you.. coz honestly, rt now I dnt give a f***…I’m goin thru a transitionary period rt now ( if that’s even a word!!)..imagine this.. ever since u were a kid, probably the only thing u ever looked forward to in life was to eat ice-cream n when ur mom finally decided that u’ve had enough of it after spending loads on the dentist for ur root canals, u then n there make up ur mind to one day, wen u grow up..ur gonna set up an ice-cream parlor and eat as much of it as u want to n nobody can stop u…huh.. or for all the less determined ones, u probably thot tht u’ll grow up n make truck loadsa cash so that one day u can afford all the ice-cream u wanna have[:)]well…my life has been pretty much on the same lines jus tht I was sure abt wat I was gonna do to make tht cash…you see, 1 day when I was abt 10 yrs old..i wanted to watch cartoon network n my dad wanted to watch CNN.. u obviously knw wat v ended up watching…[:(] so.. in the midst of all the nonsense tht he made me watch[:(][:(], I kept hearing this name over n over again.. ”MERILL LYNCH”.. i dnt knw wat ya’ll thnk but the sounded way too cool to me…I kinda figured tht it must have been founded by 2 blokes – merill n lynch(hw very smart of me , rt!!)( imagine my reaction wen I found out tht I was rt!!) picture this…I get a call n I go-“ good morning, merill lynch..hw can I help you??”( I kinda figured I was jus abt good enuf to be the receptionist there.. coz I dint really knw nethn else abt it..) but seriously guys, I had it all figured out. .i had visiting cards printed out ( well…in my head, u see)…
Chandana Choudhary
Executive Secretary( sounds soo much better thn jus receptionist)
Merill Lynch

Man..tht was just wicked!!!! I jus have this thing for weird names…wat can I say…n soo I dreamed on..and on..and on….until 2 yrs ago I realized tht my vistin cards cud luk even better if I was a “STRATEGIC MARKETING ANALYST”… trust me, this luks soo much better on paper…it was then tht my plan for an MBA began…(apparently Its easier to get there with an MBA…god knws y..i mean, b-school or otherwise.. its still school,.. and v still dnt really learn nethn at school…so I fail to c the whole pt.. oh, wat the hell..if they insist.. then I guess I have to oblige!!)then last yr I took CAT n well…gt accepted into a school were merill lynch doesn’t come for placements…so, obviously I decided to give CAT another shot this yr…n then the most HORRIFYING event of my life occurred a few days ago…
Merill lynch was sold to bank of America [:(][:(] *wuuahhhhhhh….*
My dad told me this in a way which is a lil too familiar….u knw the scene u often see in movies…wer the doc calls the family members in and says..
Doc: I’m soo sorry
Dad: I’m soo sorry
Doc: v tried everythn possible
Dad: they tried everythn possible
Doc: but in the end v cudnt save him
Dad: but in the end they cudnt save it
Doc: he/she ‘s gone
Dad: its gone
Family members to one another: lets luk at the bright side…he/she is happy nw…
with the angels in heaven…
Dad: lets luk at the bright side…u can aim for bank of America nw….
(Yeah..rt…who the hell wants to wrk at a place which sounds soo mundane..i mean, come on…)
well…tht was it…my goal doesn’t exist nemore?? man, this is weird…
ii dnt knw wat to do…really…nt a clue…preri thnks this is KARMA.. says tht I must have been a bitch to someone n this is god’s way of teaching me a lesson…well…if it is then - lesson learnt….!!
I guess I still haven’t recovered from the shock.. i mean, hw in god’s name am I ever gonna find another company with a name as interesting as this?? if such a thng does exist, then wer is my search gonna start?? I started watchin STAR TV these days.. ive heard there are more commercials than soaps…so, I’m looking for ad’s but the only damn thing tht keeps on showing up is fair n lovely....i’m probably the last person who shud be working there…for all of u who knw me, well., u knw y…for all those who dnt knw me…well, I’m still lovely but u see…most of my frnds have complexions of milky bar while mine is closer to 5-star…u get the picture, dnt u?? well..life’s full of questions rt nw…desperately waitin for answers…if u have any, do lemme knw..i’m all ears!!!( I knw..ya’ll might have bigger problems then mine…but if u thnk abt it, u dint really ask for my help…)so please help out a poor girl figure out her destiny..??!!! won’t cha??
p.s: i'm really bad at comin up with catchy titles...thts kinda preri's forte..
p.p.s: this preri u've read so much abt has been one of my best frnds for the past ten yrs and her place's is abt a stone's throw from mine..so yeah, wat do 2 girls with nthn better to do in lyf do??..u perverts...they talk!!!

Story of mah life!!!!

Music...it's probably the only thing that u can relate any moment of ur life to at absolutely any point of time... the tym u fell in love "kya mujhe pyaar hain" from the movie "woh lamhe"...
or maybe the time when u r unbelievably elated n there's no stoppin u " aaj main upar" from the movie "khamoshi"...when u r so mad tht u just wanna break things arnd but u cant coz ur mum's probably gonna kill u for it rt after...music, is essentially a very integral part of my life atleast...like rt nw, when all i can feel is penned down in a wonderful song called "How to save a life" by a band called " The Fray"... this is pretty much how it goes..read on..

Step one you say we need to talk
He walks you say sit down it’s just a talk
He smiles politely back at you
You stare politely right on through
Some sort of window to your right
As he goes left and you stay right
Between the lines of fear and blame
And you begin to wonder why you came

Where did I go wrong, I lost a friend
Somewhere along in the bitterness
And I would have stayed up with you all night
Had I known how to save a life

Let him know that you know best
Cause after all you do know best
Try to slip past his defense
Without granting innocence
Lay down a list of what is wrong
The things you’ve told him all along
And pray to God he hears you

Where did I go wrong, I lost a friend
Somewhere along in the bitterness
And I would have stayed up with you all night
Had I known how to save a life

As he begins to raise his voice
You lower yours and grant him one last choice
Drive until you lose the road
Or break with the ones you’ve followed
He will do one of two things He will admit to everything
Or he’ll say he’s just not the same
And you’ll begin to wonder why you came

Where did I go wrong, I lost a friend
Somewhere along in the bitterness
And I would have stayed up with you all night
Had I known how to save a life

The week that was!!!

In the last 72hrs, I think I’ve had abt 6 hrs of sleep overall…caffeine deprived, groggy,been listening to billy idol n peggy lee back-to-back( weird combination..trust me on this..billy idol cryin ”REBEL YELL” n peggy lee serenading with “you give me fever”), jus plain bored…thts pretty much wat I am right now…so, yeah..im jus gonna blabber away to glory abt what exactly has been goin on in my lyf these days..

· Good news-- To start off, I’m HAPPY!!(finally..!!)..been tryin desperately to wipe the blush off mah face which seems to have got stuck on with krazy glue..[;)]
· Bad news-- Results[:(]!!some good, most of ‘em utterly disappointing…
· Good news-- Back on speaking terms with mah bessstiess(thank heavens!!)
· Bad news-- Have to go to college everyday[:(]
· Good news-- Took a desperately needed 2 day vacation to an undisclosed location[:P]..never b4 found serenity kinda creeped up on me..thts probably the reason 4 good news-1[;)]
· Bad news-- Back to college n just realized that there is a project that needs to get done by the end of this month and all I have as of now is jus bits of scrap paper[:(]
· Good news-- Wikipedia to the rescue!!
· Bad news-- Plagiarism not accepted[:O][:(] so, back to square one…
· Good news-- Chit-chattin away 4 hrs together wid all the ppl I luv…
· Bad news-- Sky high telephone bills..[:O]
· Good news-- Google talk –my saviour!!
· Bad news-- Mom missed watchin her daily soaps on TV n insisted on watching the repeats on my comp[:(]
· Good news-- Without the advertisements , they last abt 20 mins[:)]
· Bad news-- Dad needs to check his share prices..or sumthn lyk tht..sad part is the damn site ends up opening only after midnyt.. jus my luck!!
· Good news-- Privacy…finally…me n my computer…
· Bad news-- No sleep(read over indulgence in chocolate)(read excessive bloating)n at around 7 or so in the morning ..have to go to college again..[:(]end result of the past weekàdark circles under my eyes..[:(]
· Good news-- I can pass it off as the after effects of researching 4 my project all nyt.. aww…,wat a dedicated girl!!

So, to sum it all up..the week that was has been one hell of a roller-coaster ride..all of which I’m gonna take it in stride..
p.s: the last 2 lines were my futile attempts at tryin tah rhyme..[:(] and failin miserably at it too…

xoxoxo...need i say more!!

Hmm.. so, here’s the deal .. its been quite a long tym since I’ve last blogged… I’m being begged n pleaded here by people(many many people!!, mind u..) to feature them in mah haplessly hopeless n nonsensical blogs…. Well, ur wish is my command.. here goes nothing…
A lot has happnd in da week tht was…my year and a half long struggle for CAT finally ended.. CAT came n went ,10 mins into the test I was exhilarated ,140 mins later I was utterly distraught… dreams shattered, felt an emptiness, helplessness , I jus couldn’t believe it.. I actually messed it up..i jus couldn’t take it.…I had absolutely no clue as to wat was happenin arnd me n I jus culdn’t accept de fact tht der is nothing I cud do abt it nemore.. the nxt 72 hrs had me wonderin..well, sumthn lyk dis…
1.) wallowing in self pity
2.) contemplating murder( the idiot who set the paper, u see)
3.) checkin out the next best colleges
4.) blamin it on others(my personal fav:”y god ,y??”)
5.) data insufficient
this is pretty much hw I can sum up my first experience with CAT.
oh, by the way , the answer to the question above, hmm…I think I’ll pass..( galat hogaya tho –1 mark yaar…)
expecting it to be CAThartic, it turned out to be CATaclysmic of unbelievable proportions…
21st November 2007- I’m probably gonna remember dis day 4 the rest of mah lyf…it started off on such an unbelievably bad note n thnkin back on it nw, I cud never even in mah wildest dreams , imagine wat a great deal I’d learn abt the people I love n all the relationships I cherish… it all started off wid a shady conv. in da middle of the nyt which put me in a state of such utter confusion tht I desperately needed to speak to sum1,ne1 who can jus say, its all goin to b ok..considerin tht it was 3 in da morn n the only 1 who was awake was mah best frnd’s boyfrnd who was blind drunk at tht pt of tym..all I tot was “u’ve gotta make the best out of wat u’ve got..rt..”,wrong…if it wasn’t 4 him I wudn’t even be here today telling u all hw gr8 mah lyf is rt nw….. all tht he told me was “ in lyf u get very few chances n u jus cant let go of them thnkin it wudnt wrk out in ur favour neways.. u jus gotta give it a try..n jus give it all u got, so tht u’ll never luk back on it wonder y nt..” no, he’s no Shakespeare n he dint put it as poetically but the message got thru…which resulted in a hmm, well, an act of utter compulsion in broad daylight( to all u perverted minds out there, it was a page n a half long e-mail…on mah defense, I was jus venting my pique.. wat else can a girl do, huh..)
hmm.. all’s well tht ends well rt.. so, yeah , its all gud..alright I admit it.. this is probably gonna haunt me 4 the rest of my lyfL ..oh, wat the hell, all’s fair in luv n war so, I chose mah weapons well..
here I was thnkin dat I’ve dun mah part nd well, life sucks so, its jus not mah lucky day n decided on meetin up a frnd(read: wallow in self pity at her place, I really needed sum1 to hand me the tissues, u c). she bought a whole diffrnt surprise altogether..nd by 3 in de aftrnoon all I cud say was “I jus luv mah lyf”..so, in the span of 12 hrs, mah whole yf literally changed…mah frnd who cudnt even piece two words together gave me the best advice of mah lyf, another frnd of mine, who can never keep a secret did sumthn for which I’m eternally grateful to her nd finally, sum1 I’ve never thot I cud have is mine…
lyf does work in mysterious ways , doesn’t it? so, wat did dat fateful Wednesday teach me, well,it taught me tht in luv nd in lyf u jus have to take a chance ;shit happens but u jus hav to move on nd fairytales do come true…all that I can say rt nw is thank you nd a happy thanksgiving day to all of u…

Shakespeare..revisited!!

There r sumthings in lyf tht ppl get inspired by(read: other ppl).. was havin a long chat wid mah frnd abt dis. (read:eternal, never endin,oh dear god, please make her stop) (ps: wen v hav nothing else to do, r utterely jobless n wen there is nothing gud on tv, yeah, dis is wat v do,v analyse our life). Neither of us was makin ne sense so v decided (considerin da fact tht v successfully bunked college)to do sumthn abt it, to go find our inspiration(hw very filmi!!).Being da lazy bugs tht v r, da 1st thought tht wud come to our minds has to be “ THE INTERNET”. She decided to google it(hw very predictable!!). I on de other hand dint even hav da patience to do tht..I decided to browse thru all mah frnds blogs(apparently every1’s doin some SOUL SEARCHING dese days)I was sure I’m gonna find some crap somewhere which I cud copy,paste n pass it off as mah own..
Its been 2hrs already and no such luck… But I did come across one of close frnd’s blog , ( www.preriii.blogspot.com)
she’s been “QUOTING” a lot dese days..(reason ??)
So I’ve decided to c hw well dey apply to my lyf, maybe, jus maybe , I might come out of dis wid sumthn useful..(fingers crossed here!!)so, here I go…


1: "When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew.”

Heyy, tht actually happened to me a few days ago..although I thnk da reason he smiled was becoz of the way I fell flat on mah face n made a total fool out of mahself(refer to mah previous post).


2: "They do not love that do not show their love.
The course of true love never did run smooth.
Love is a familiar.
Love is a devil.
There is no evil angel but Love”.

Wen u read somethn in de papers n it makes absolutely no sense to u, u tend to pick out a few keywords tht u do understand n try to comprehend da whole thng, dnt u..?
Well, thts exactly wat I’m gonna do here.. keyword : angel. Hmm..uhh..umm.. nope , NONSENSE… lets jus go only wid angel here, I tried listenin to ROBBIE WILLIAMS’s ”angels” a couple of times, watched an episode of JESSICA ALBA’s “dark angel” (somebody shoot me!!) n finally stuck to RAMMSTEIN ‘s “ Engel”(freakin awesome song… honestly…)


3: "One half of me is yours,
the other half yours-Mine own,
I would say;
but if mine, then yours,
And so all yours!"

Huh!! Wat the…%$#$^%..Ratio n proportions?? I’m at a loss here..

4: ”While half of the world is starving , the other half is on diet!!”

Really?? Is tht true!!its 10.30 in da morning nw n I’ve already emptied mah fridge.. guess, dis one doesn’t apply to me..hmm.. movin on nw..


5: "Taking joy in living is a woman's best cosmetic."

Is it?? I thought Revlon concealer (if u r 20) n L’oreal anti-ageing cream (if u r 40+) was..or if worse comes to worse den BOTOX …oh mah gawd, has mah whole lyf been a sham..wat crap!!(sorry, cudnt come up wid somethn which sounds better n which is more effective… as of nw, lets stick to “ wat crap” shall we? ( no pun intended though))


6: “No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar.”

Oh yeah…thts true..excerpts 4m a recent conversation for example..

Gym Instructor: Drop n gimme 20..trust me u’ll luk lyk priyanka chopra.
Me: u got it, dude!!
(10 mins later)

GI: Anothr 20 den.. I can definitely c all da makings of bipasha..
(15 mins later)

GI: uhh…umm.. well, lets make it 20 more..shall v.. oh, lets say 4 da rest of da year…hw does dat sound!!
Me:@!#$%#$^%^&..

I rest my case!!!


7: ”Life is 10% how u make it and 90% how u take it!!!!”

I’m still working on tht one….will let u knw hw it turns out…maybe in mah next blog… who knws…


But my all tym favourite has to be this one…its pretty apt , if u ask me…wat do u thnk??

”To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.”