Sleep Management

3.45 AM: Leadership Theories, Motivation theories, McGregor, McClelland, Herzberg, Maslow. Good. Great Going.

But will I be able to remember all this stuff. (From past experience, the answer was NO). I shall get up at 6.45 tomorrow morning and revise the stuff once and then I should be able to crack it. I'll set the Alarm clock at 6.45 AM.

3.50 AM: Lights switched off. Laptop is kept ON so that I can save a couple of minutes when I would have to boot it.

3.55 AM: Leadership theories, Motivation theories, Staffing, McGregor, McClelland... Fuck.. Staffing?? Holy cow, Staffing?? Damn.

Never mind, will get up at 6 and do it. Shit man.

4.00 AM: I Set the alarm clock at 6 and switch off the lights.

Between 4 and 6: Although I am sleeping, my brain is full of management jargons. I could feel the McGregors and the Maslows roaming around in the moribund lanes of my virtual world. I also remember saying to myslef "Cha! what pain, I should not put a night out for such fart courses". And god only knows when it was 6.

6 AM: My Nokia cell phone goes beep -beep. beep -beep.

As is the usual practice, I press the button on the top right corner which says "snooze". Or so I thought. My snooze time is 4 minutes.. I had calculated in the meanwhile that if I snooze four times and get up on the fifth beep.. it'll be 6.16 AM and I shall have a good one hour to mug.

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I wake up with a start. I frantically search for my cellphone. It reads 08:03. What the heck.. something is wrong. I figure out in the next two minutes that I had an exam at 8 and I am in my room at 8:05. Fuck. Is this real?

It was.

I grab a trouser and a Tee, change into them and get out of the room. Get hold of a cycle and cycle like mad. Thoughts crossing my mind:

- One of my good friends had slept through the first quiz and I am about to join his league
- The only course where I expected an S and I screwed it.
- Will the Prof. allow me to sit for the quiz?

By now I am almost at the exam hall. Hurriedly I enter the room and the Prof. greets me with me with a " Why are you late?". I probably did not bother to answer. I Grab the answer sheet and find a seat besides one of my other good friends. He seems not to be perturbed by my presence.

It is 08:12.

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Principles of Management. Time: 50 Minutes. Total 25 Marks. 5 X 5.

Answer any Five of the following:

Q1. Selection methods - What the heck is this!! Oh! Staffing.. Shit Shit Shit. Never Mind. Move on.

Q2. Aptitude, Attitude, Achievement - Staffing Shag again. God!! That is 10 gone.

Q3. Projective Tests - What the fuck is happening to me! Now where in the slides was this even talked about. That is 15 gone.

Q4. Theories of Motivation - Phew! 5 marks finally.

Q5. Communication - NOOOOOOO!!!! But let me not lose heart, Communication I can write something of my own, I should manage atleast two marks.

Q6. Managerial Grid - Peace - 5 more marks in the kitty... err.. maybe four. That makes it around 10 for the whole quiz. It is atleast better than not writing the quiz in the first place.


8.55: I manage to fill all the pages of the answer sheet and attempt five questions as per the Prof's wish.

Fuck. What an experience. I think I should blog about this.

It is at that very instant that I realised that I had pressed the "stop" button instead of the "snooze". He he he. I smile to myself.

That was a one-off experience for me and I thought I shall blog about it.

Will update the post as and when I get the answer sheets back. :-)

Saarang 2008

The preparations have officially begun. The respective teams have started slogging it out.

Saarang 2008 is cooking and it promises to be more delicious than ever before.

For now, check out the Saarang Blog: http://blog.saarang.org

Pursuit of Happyness

I am not good at this shit. The whole idea of talking about life and happiness gives me goosebumps. But this is one post I want to write now.

Happiness. It is a state of mind in which you find the world a good enough place to live in.

Over the past many days, I have been doing good work, great work. I have been good but have not been happy. I have always believed happiness comes from within and not from the external system. A thousand praises from others will amount to nothing but a little feeling from within makes you HAPPY.

I was discussing this with one of my good friends and she happened to remind me of my own words " Happiness is a personal choice. YOU can choose to be happy or sad only and the extent of happiness will be decided by the external elements, but whether you are happy or not is totally decided by one's self" I was kinda taken aback. It is pretty true I realised. But I still can't reason as to how I could come up with such a profound statement, that too long back.

That apart, I realised that people talk the right things but it is actually difficult to implement it all and walk along. At times, you know everthing that needs to be done, but seldom do that. Practicing what you preach. :-|

It makes me sad that I could actually think logically and figure out what happiness is and from it stems but am actually not able to implement in my own goofed-up life. At times I feel I can write a book on how to be happy and live a wonderful life. But inspite of all of that, I am personally not being able to be happy. Is this only a state of mind or just an exaggeration of the circumstances. Whatever it is, it is kinda prolonging too much... affecting various/all spheres of my life. I wish I could swear LOOOUUUDDDLLLLLYYYY!!!! I did.

I am being good but not happy. I wish to be happy; soon, very soon.

Women are like hurricanes..

So trippy, yet so true!!

Credits: Uss. I could not resist uploading this on the blog the moment he typed it out in the Gtalk chat window.

Women are like hurricanes -

they are all wet and wild when they come

and they take the house and the car when they leave.

Related Smileys:

:D :P :) (most of my friends)

:-| (Caesar)

>:-< (If you are a girl reading this)

..!. (To everybody else, with love)

10 ways to simplify your life

10 ways to simplify your life (in random order):

1. Early to bed and early to rise.
2. Finish assignments and submit on time.
3. Keep in touch with your parents.
4. Be selfish.
5. Chuck the girl/guy out of your life totally.
6. Have a bath atleast four times a week.
7. Wash clothes regularly.
8. Keep your room clean.
9. Get the bicycle fixed and running.
10. Go to point 1.

Now, I realise why my life has become so freaking complex. I don't practice what I preach. It's high time I did that.

Chuck it

-The world is a farce
-There is no motive to live
-I am drifting away
-No one cares

Ah! Chuck it.

We're Hiring

This is a 'Vatsap?' inspired post. :-)

Anyways, the assignment was to come up with an IP, inviting people for institute cricket team selections. It was due on Monday (3 days ago). Here I am waking up at 7 in the evening on Wednesday, a message on my cell reads " IP?". Holy Cow!! What a pain in the ass, I mumble to myself and get to the comp.

Meanwhile, I had been thinking of a nice theme for the IP (orders were to come up with something catchy and creative). Over the past one week, I could not come up with any. But here I am, racing against time. I follow the adage " When in doubt, Google". I hit the Google homepage and there in an explosion in my mind. What came out is this:
Cheers to Google. :-). The Google logo effect was recreated here.