DIARY OF A FRUSTRATED ELECTRICAL ENGINEER

Hi, I’m Charlie. I’m a final year student at MNIT Jaipur. My branch is electrical engg. 

When I came back to college after holidays, I was very optimistic about my placement. I was like “mera to ho hi jaega yaar”. I have good CGPA “branch bhi meri sahi h”. Electrical dude, electrical!!. “core branch hai”. At the time of admissions, I was even getting Computer Sc., but I opted for electrical. People said that it is an evergreen branch. There will never be recession in this field. Me being too naive to understand such things did what everybody advised. There was some kind of slump, a bit of recession in IT sector when I was in first year. So, I often used to mock computer guys.

Fast forward to placement season. ZS Associates is gonna visit tomorrow. The first company. I digged about the company a bit, found it to be a consulting firm and thought “ consulting me thodi jaunga yaar, apan to core me jayenge”. But, as I had already filled the registration form, I had to appear for the written round. Cleared it… Appeared for the case study round…couldn’t/didn’t clear it, because “yaar mujhe to jana hi nhi tha”. I have heard that BPCL is gonna visit in October and my friend who is actually a close friend of BC says “meri BC se baat ho gyi hai”, ace companies like TATA Power, Siemens, Alstom are coming too, but they’ll be visiting late. He advised me to chill.

 

But, with course of time it started getting clear. People did get placements, but not from our branch. Companies did visit, but didn’t hire anyone from our branch. Among all these setbacks, they even said something about Siemens not being open for electrical guys this year and the thing about PSUs totally messed up the scenario.

But, I maintained my calm. At this point of time,

what other branch guys think “tera to ho hi jaega yaar”

what my branch guys think “kisi ka nahi hona, GATE ki preparation kar lo”

what I think “chill, le aa, server banaye”.( let's play CS)

With Deloitte I had hope. But, here I am today, posting “congrats bhai….phod diya…:)” on someone else’s wall and kicking their ass in frustration.

Maybe "It's about time".

"Kyai" Karega

Ghiss ghiss k assignment Chotu,

aaya hai Raju k pass,

“chal ra kya” peene chai?

sawal ka maanga hai usne jawab.

Jawab to Raju ne dena,

haan me hi tha,

magar aaj najaane kyun,

usne kar diya mana.

Bola aaj to me padhunga,

mujhe to jach gyi,

is bar exam me phodunga,

bas aur kuch nhi.

Sunkar ye baat Chotu,

ek baar ko to ghabraya,

fir maamle ko sambhalte hue,

“kyai” wala dialogue chipkaya.               [“kyai” short for “kya hi” pronounced as क्याई]

Bola “kyai” karega padhke,

isme kuch na rkha,

sab to mohmaya hai,

lagta h tune kisi se na suna.

Itni chinta “kyai” karni,

sab yahin dhara hai reh jaana,

ek pal ka jeena fir to hai jaana.

Itni to Raju ne kisi ki na suni,

bola chal chalte hain thaddi,

aaj to "kyai" chai,

meri taraf se party.

Ye “kyai” wale dialogue hote hi ghatak hain,

Raju to do me hi behek gya,

Chotu to sab padh k betha hai,

usko to  "kyai" pata.

Head Fake

Head Fake is the thing when a player moves his head to fake a change in direction.

 Usually this term is used when people talk about football.  Those who follow this sport may know it well. I came to know about it only after I read the book “The Last Lecture”. On a football field it is unquestionably of great purpose but if you want to know how proficiently it can be used outside it then you got to watch this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo

Well of course  the video spans about an hour  and you will have to watch till end to get the meaning, but it’s worth your time.

Got To Be A College Dropout

Do you spend most of your time these days getting tensed with your impending future?....

Do you believe that your life could have oriented entirely different if only you knew the meaning of the word “engineering” before getting to do it?....

When you are alone, and no one’s around(well, obviously), do you sometimes sincerely realise that deep inside there’s this something which tells you that you could have been a better writer, or a lawyer, or a bar tender, or a restaurant owner, or a journalist( anything but engineer)?....

And when you are accompanied (ofcourse with your friends, who else would listen) you frequently whine about these same things atleast biweekly?....

One final and concluding enquiry….Do you often get frustrated enough and think about dropping out of college?................... Then my friend you have just come at par with my state of mind, which I have been maintaining at the least for a month, since my semester examinations resumed. 

                                             Well, let me tell you one thing at this level that this is not the time to get your morale down, as this is the time when you can foresee yourself as the CEO of any weird named company you might have thought to open in your days of frustration. Remember “Mark Zuckerberg” dropped out of Harvard then only gave us you know what. Remember “Steve Jobs” left college and started you know what. “Bill Gates” and Microsoft, “Larry Ellison” and Oracle to name a few. Got my point.

                                           So, after much circumlocution let me hit the target. Recently, while returning to home from college, my friend and I talked about a plan to open a class restaurant and a movie theatre afterwards in Rawatbhata. Keeping in mind the rising demands of our youth, it would be the best start-up to start with. I hereby tempt whoever is interested to join with us, and get ready to change the world.

BUT…..BUT…..BUT…..BUT….the code consists of these statements too

if(“drop out of college”)

{“can join the group and have an enticing future”}

else

{“continue with your rotten life”}

Cuz you now, you got to be a college dropout  to do big things……Well, let me know if you're with me.

Original Idea Courtesy: Dipesh

NEWSPAPER TIMES

It’s just any other day. You and your friends out of zeal to excel in management entrance exams like CAT, MAT or other “sarkari naukri” competitive exams like IAS,IES are engrossed in the day’s newspaper. Although some of you might be getting delighted by the awesome photographs displayed in the “page 3” or in the case of Jaipurites  the revered( in our community) “Jaipur times” a.k.a “JT”, while some other might be busy filling Sudoku, while some other might be still enjoying the Archie or Garfield comic strips….but are content with the fact that “Hey atleast  I am reading the newspaper”. I too switched over to “The Hindu” lately, just to live up to the dream of getting into a resepected B-school. But all in vain. To make my morning a “Good Morning”, I still have to traverse to the neighbour’s room, just to have a look at the “JT”.

While this thing is on, you might have had this scene brought up at least once. One of your friends will come across a numerical figure followed by the dollar sign, and then “doing-calculation-in-the-air” kind of expression will turn up on his face for a few second. For a while the uno moto of his life becomes figuring out how much is that amount in rupees and to get a feel of how big or how small is the amount indeed. Well, after few minutes he’ll make a statement like “Microsoft’s total revenue is this much or that much, I just converted it into rupees” and eventually one of you will interrupt his mighty thought process then and there by saying “Oye the current conversion rate is this much, I just checked it, you must have calculated assuming it to be 50”. If there are many people around, then it's certain that a battle will initiate over the actual, decimal to decimal value of dollar till date, till a consensus is reached.  And so , the “ghissu” goes over the “calculation-in-the-air” once again. 

Whatever might have induced the talk, but such talks terminate with our own movie review segment. Such scenes never go without our hurly burly talk over the latest movies and sensual heroines, and also which movie to go for this weekend, and the most important part being which movie not to go for.

Such are our “Newspaper Times”.

Bas Aur Kya Chahiye

Compilation of a few aspirations of a general guy like me in a bit poetic manner

"Marine Drive" jaisi location ho,

Raat ki situation ho,

Magar girlfriend sath ho,

Bas aur kya chahiye

"Las Vegas" city ho,

“Ceaser’s Palace” casino ho,

Magar udaane ko paisa behisaab ho,

Bas aur kya chahiye

Beach side ka scene ho,

Chill bear can ho,

Magar char dost sath ho,

Bas aur kya chahiye

"Metallica" ka concert ho,

Gaana  “Master of Puppets” baj raha ho,

Magar ticket kharidne ki aukat ho,

Bas aur kya chahiye

"Audi" type ki gaadi ho

Destination pata na ho,

Magar petrol tank full ho,

Bas aur kya chahiye
 

Baarish ka mausam ho,

Pakode  garama garam ho,

Magar chai sath ho,

Bas aur kya chahiye

Hostel me wi-fi ho,

Apne to 4-5 Mbps ki speed aa rhi ho,

Magar dusro ka facebook bhi na khul rha ho,

Bas aur kya chahiye

Inhi chhoti chhoti khushiyan me meri duniya samaayi h,

Ye khwaishein puri hoti rahein,

Bas aur kya chahiye

Life As I See It

I am standing in the balcony alone, solitary……utilising my mind space….ruminating over things…observing people in the ambiance…admiring nature…staring at the blue sky…enjoying the cloudy trail of an aircraft which just left…dusk is approaching, the inevitable rendezvous of the day and the night…..this is my thing, idling, killing time…I call it recreating, reviving…this is the time when I often feel intimidated by the huge enigma this world is.

Have you ever given a thought to what this world actually is?. Why are you even living?. Well, I just did. You or me are just some guy who came into this world. You are gonna live fore few years, get related with lives of some people and then eventually gonna die. You may do anything while you are in this world…..anything……good or evil….that doesn’t matter, because one day you are gonna leave everything behind. No one except your close relatives even cared when you entered this world, although you can make many people care when you leave. But that doesn’t matter either, because you would be no more to see that. Those who believe in souls, incarnation and spiritual stuff may contradict with what I am trying to convey. They may say that the more good you do now will decide how you get to live in the next life, but who the heck knows if there’s life after death?, or more basic question: What happens after you die?. The Almighty may know the answer, if he exists. 

“All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players, they have their exits and their entrances”, Shakespeare said it in the “As you like it”…….very true……..the whole world is a set up, you play your part and you leave, nothing beyond this simple concept.

Human life is a mystery. Some may fancy it is an eternal holiday, which we are voyaging day by day to reach the ultimate destination. We link good and bad experience with us as we go on. Those who accomplish their destination early, get to enjoy the holiday more. Although journey might be the best part, but this remains the view of people who get to their destination late.

Anyway…. this is what I believe. I would very much like to know what you think.