A Day Out

It was really a deserted place with no soul around on roads. I parked the bike at the building parking and went upstairs to meet a friend. When I returned back, I heard a few voices in the parking lot. I sneaked and found two men standing near the bike and trying the keys. I was really horrified and got fixed to the ground. After some time both the man walked away and disappeared behind the stairs. I hurried towards the bike and with trembling hands tried the keys. The two men appeared again and started running towards me. I was scared to hell and was trying to get away from the scene as soon as possible but even the keys refused to enter. They approached me and asked what I am doing. It was then I realized even they were scared to hell and I was trying wrong bike, their bike. My bike was parked at the other side.

With some relief I took the bike and moved..

5 Reasons Why I am the way I am

1. Always keep some time in buffer:

Many people will agree to it and so did one of my mentors. Her name was Seema and she was teaching us some corporate life principles. Her reasoning was simple. It was like if you are leaving for office (or for that matter any other place), always leave with a buffer of about 15 minutes. So that even if you are met with a flat tire (read some mishap), you still got time to make it on time.

Agreed and valid point made. But I deals in calculations. I asked her the probability of meeting with flat tire. Once in two months? So my calculation says we are putting aside 60 days*15 mins so as we don’t get late once in two months that too only by 15 mins. After a long discussion it was decided that class can follow whatever principle they feel is right.

But hey, did I not tell you that my roommate missed his train by just a couple of minutes as he was caught in traffic.

2. Yahi dosti yahi mohabbat:

These are the four most dangerous words for any bachelors/spinsters. This is the reason why there are many eligible bachelors/spinsters still available.

Here is one of my personal incidents: I was getting along nicely with one of my close friends. She asked me out for a movie. But how can all my non-committed friends absorb this. They make up another plan for at the same time. Then followed all that emotional bullshit, bas kya dost ek ladki mili to dosto ko bhul gaya. Yahi teri dosti, yahi mohabbat, tu badal gaya dost. At last I gave up.

After a few months, one of my friends got in the same situation. He was chatting with a girl. We had our plans to go out, thus I disturbed him. I used the same words, but this time he refuted saying that saale tujhe to mai kabhi bhi mana luga, but abhi ladki ko manane de. Guess what, he was right, we still are friends and he got a girl friend too.

3. Never lie in an Interview:

Can’t agree more to it. Thou should never fake/lie in an interview. The interviewer is adept at what he/she is doing. They can catch your lie in not more than a few seconds without even letting you know that they understood that you are lying. And nothing else can spoil your chances of getting through as much as getting caught in such situation.

It was during my last semester at Engineering, Accenture came to our campus for hiring. It all started with technical written test, followed by Aptitude test, two rounds of Group discussion, HR interview, technical interview and finally panel interview. All these rounds were elimination rounds. I was one among the 21 candidates who reached the panel round. Two very senior persons were taking the interview. It was very friendly environment as news was that almost everyone who reached so far will get through. My interview was also going very well. It was more like a discussion instead of interview. We were discussing about the selection process. One of my interviewers complemented about my aptitude result. Thus I said that I did preparations for competitive exams, but I didn’t end up with offer from the institute on my choice. The other person then asked whether I would try again to get there. Following the thump rule of never to lie I replied in affirmation.

20 candidates got the final offer to join Accenture.

One should not be foolhardy to open up unnecessarily. Trust me hiding is not lying.

4. Propose your love at the first ever chance you get:

We may all have read the mails floating around about how a young boy died without letting his feelings known to the girl he loved Or how a girl has accepted the guy of her parent’s choice as she never got chance to share her feelings to the one she loved. There are many versions of such stories going around. All such stories touches ones heart at some point of time, especially when we have some kind of feeling towards someone special. And who can deny one never ever had any such feelings.

But as always I took it to the extreme. I proposed a girl at our second meeting. What can you expect the outcome of such inanity.

It’s true that one should let the other person know of his/her feelings, but there is a right time to it. One should give enough of time for the same feelings to develop in other person’s heart. I am in total agreement with the line “it hurts when we fail, but it hurts even more when we know we never tried to succeed.” So try to succeed not to fail.

5. You can’t get friends like college friends after you enter corporate world:

This is the only reason which I can refute at the opening statement of my reasoning. The statement “You can’t make good friends at corporate level” is utter non-sense. Friends can be made at any phase of life. The people around you have also studied at some colleges and had their own good friends; just that they have not studied at the same college as you; doesn’t mean that you can’t make good friends with them.

This is not to demean the value of my college/school friends, but I have made good friends during my professional life and I believe that most (if not all) of us have made good friends.