Learning from Class...

Had just finished one course called Rural Marketing in Term 6 of MBA programme. The professor was a 66 year old veteran in rural marketing..Mr. Rajan. He tought a lot of new things and most importantly key insights about rural people, rural markets in India from his vast experience of 3 decades!

He concluded the course with few things on personal front, which i believe really do matter:
1. Success of a person is not measured by the money he earns or by the status...but whether he/she played all his/her roles perfectly be it son, parent, husband, brother, employee, etc
2. Dreams = life, else you are dead! Whats the point in living a life of compromise....dreams should lead your actions!
3. Nothing is impossible. Create a balance sheet of all your assets & liabilities (which you think) and revisit them periodically in life....see that most of the liabilities have been moved to assets side.
I guess real nice learnings from life. Thankyou Sir!

~nits

Walk the talk...

Nice message to start afresh and practice..the things you always talked..

Walk the talk

Give your life....a meaning!

The most important about a goal is....
Having One!

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I am sure it will rock you!

Jagjit Singh Live in Concert - In Indore!

Finally it happened!
I finally got the chance to listen Jagjit Singh - The indian King of Ghazals, live!

Missed it twice in my life by small whiskers once in indore (undergrad days) and once in BBSR(infy days), finally it happened in indore (post-grad days) :)

The unquestionable maestro of Ghazal gayaki, started the proceedings with Hoshwalon ko khabar kya...However, the sound system wasnt that good, being cursed by junta and Jagjit both many times. Finally in his own unimitable style, jagjit sahab dedicated one of his ghazals to the sound-engineer -

Tumne badle humse gin gin ke liye..
Humne kya chaha tha is din ke liye..

And public appreciated the sense of humour...and sound-engineer as well! The sound quality after became nice. Then, it started, he sang: Kagaz ki kasthi, Aahista aahista, tumko dekha to yeh khayal aaya, tera chehra kitna suhana, tere aane ki jab khabar mahke, kabhi yun bhi to ho...

The troupe also reached the climax with a jugalbandi between tabla and violin. Jaggi ended the proceedings with Hoton se chhoo lo tum...and a punjabi number.

And now i am back to jaggi after 4-5 months!

Also, belated birthday to the ghazal maestro, 8th Feb was his birthday!

~nits

Few lines on Diwali

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Today will start with
a ray of light entering
your life in a different way!
Its the festival of light called
DIWALI that will bring with it some
365 goodies one for each day!

Each dream that you have woven
with so much detail and finesse
will come true this year day by day...
each obstacle that you encounter
will vanish from ur path of success
gradually, month by month, day by day!

Life will be prosperous, love will
be abound, Hope will make
your confidence increase day by day
prayers will be there, and friends
will be there to help you all the time
of your need..............day by day!

Wishing you all a very
Happy Deepawali with loads
of wishes for each day!

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MAKTUB!

Self Made Man - Inspiration

"The powerful image of the rugged “Self Made Man,” chiseling himself out of a solid block of rock captures the essence of the freedom philosophy – that left to his own devices, man will use his God-given talents to be creative, productive, and prosperous. Using free will, he will better his own situation and that of those around him, thereby influencing in a positive way his own destiny. "

This is one of the images that have impacted my life a lot and continue to do so.

~nits

credits - www.bobbiecarlylesculpture.com

Dream?

“Dreams are illustrations... from the book your soul is writing about you.”

"Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.”

“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”

“Hold fast to your dreams, for without them life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.”

“If you're still hanging onto a dead dream of yesterday, laying flowers on its grave by the hour, you cannot be planting the seeds for a new dream to grow today”

Something is better than nothing!!

~nits

Introspection = Confusion (phew)!

These days i am suffering from a syndrome called lack of 'drive for anything'. Every now and then, time draws a blank against you and you sit dumbfounded :). No..no its not the more-often-than-not-suggested 'Love Syndrome' as per bollywood thinkers. Its something grave. After some serious research, and the battle between the many school of thoughts inside...it was found that it is futile to do further research..as the matter is simply an unending labyrinth. Excerpts from the research about the probable culprits -

1. A constant thread of 'Why I am here?' running against all the processes in your system!

2. Opportunity Cost of being here? Is this what all i dreamt of??

3. Is it about DREAM? Do you have one? Till this point it was about to do an MBA...from an IIM (thats what you were left with)..Ok. Now what??

4. 'Who am I?' - What is the ultimate role for which i have descended on this planet and whether i want to achieve anything?(As per the syllablus of one of the courses) If yes, then what?

5. No, its not about the job! Then what? Its becomes so simple if you tag something as the 'dream job' and here you go - you got the sole idea for being here at this hill station :). But why not job??

6. If not job...Then what? Are you here for 'enlightenment'?? huh.....dude then you are the ONE!!

Conclusion??? Dude, you need to define some constraints, decision variables, objective function...if you really wanna optimise for the reason of your existence here?? (dont sleep in class..i told you!)

Neverthless one conclusion i have is that...'Everytime i do introspection i come out confused(see below)!'

~nits

P.S. - The first picture of this post is just a 'hook' as told in class ;)

Maana Bikhra hoon mein....

Current mood:

Maana bikhra hoon mein abhi
Mein nay khawab piroay thay
Teri saanson mein gum hoon abhi
Meri chaahat adhoori hai

Mushkilain jab bhi aa ja-ain gi
Dard hudd say guzar ja-ay ga
Koi ghum na phir ho ga mujhe
Gar khawabon mein tum aao gay

Ab tho aadat si hai mujh ko aisay jeenay mein
hey hey heyayayayay ooooo oooooo........

Duur jithna bhi tum mujh se Paas teray mein
Ab to aadat si hai mujh ko
aaaaa hoooooooo aaaaaaa
ho ho aaaaaaaaaaaa

~nits

Who Am I?? - II

.......A long pause. And then the outer facade broke loose and told the inner voice about all the vagaries of nature ( The software major and its Visa policies and the long maintainability of the systems it deployed at clients' sites....), and the societieal pressures to go to US!!. But the major reason still remained hidden in the graveard of my much-cherished dreams to....He tried his best to not to opened the pandora's box...but with whom he was juggling?? The inner voice, which knew about the deepest inners of my heart, soul and mind!

The question came as a bolt from the blue! "What about the much-torn-yet-not-extinct dream of yours?". And I played again the much old trick.....with a too naive face " Which one? I dont know what you are talking about?"

HAHAHAHA......a huge laughter broke the silence. "Good try! But i am too old for that....what about CAT and IIMS and an MBA??". Its difficult to stand such a too-dare-bare question. It creates the picture of a person who read The Alchemist but still couldnt follow his personal legend because......hid did a compromise with his dream! Compromise to go to US thanks to the fact diary he had...2 serious attempts at CAT with no outcome; filling up of the CAT form for last 5 years like a family tradition and yes parental pressure!

And the verdict was that i couldnt play a Howard Roark denying all those onsite offers......to appear in yet another CAT....But he wasnt the much revered character of Ayn Rand's Fountainhead........He was a mere mortal....Nitin!!

Enough scracthing of yesteryears' broken(s)!Lets move on.........!Will write a positive one on 19*th March i guess!

*Morpheous to Neo - There is a difference in knowing the path and .............walking the path!! 19th march is first-n-last shot at GMAT!! Hmmmmmmmmmm
~Nits

Who am I?

I woke up hurriedly all soaked in pirspiration on a chilling snowy afternoon @ 12:45 PM today. I was breathing heavily and was kind of brain-washed after the kind of interrogation i have gone through.......where my now-founded-longly-missing soul asked myself the set of quintessential questions - Who Am I? Where am I? What am i Doing? And why?

So many questions!with only a 386 processor in my brain, i thought i am definitely getting an hemorrhage. But then sanity prevailed later when i decided to answer the nail-biting questions - one by one. I took a deeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep breath(so deep!!) and thought of the first one!

Who am I?
There wasnt any sound! For the first time in life i thought if there could have been a sound amplifier inside...and suddenly i heard

......uooonkhkh...umphfff...hmmmm...
as if somebody was nearly choked to death. Then after few moments it said.

..its me...Nitin!

Who? then came the cross question - Which One?

the voice told
...the one who used to sketch portraits!read books! write poems! was mad about advertising!hated coding and loved writing long mails!!

then came the hitherto-forgotten smile...ok i see...so you are back! Good to hear you nits!!

Where am I? asked the still coughing soul all soaked in viscous-fluid(as in matrix neo was inside one)...and was really a hell-raiser!

In US of America! some seven oceans far away from the beloved land of hitherto sanke charmers~turned-into-IT programmers!

Whhhhh......what are you saying! I love my india...i love my friends there, near and dear ones, my food, my festivals, my faith.....what the hell i am doing here...??

*because of time constraints....this post will be continued soon.....!!
~Nits

GABBAR.......i have started!!

This is going to be the first BLOG of creativenits.........!!Hmmm let me see from where i can start.START..i guess i read something about start somewhere...probably at somebody's blog.

Situation Tasks Actions Results Takeaways is what ppl in MBA lingo take it...u see how confusing do they make such small thing like start.

So to start with the SITUATION at hand. Its 2:11 AM, being swayed away from ppl's blogs; the leftovers of my smothered creativity told me, " What are you doing man? Living!! What r you up to? the same old mundane techie programs, that you run and monitor everyday as if oneday it will display a message " job ran successfully - you are relieved of this technical pain!" and you will be free?" You have to do something to get out of here, to reach your dreams!! Understand the situation nits....u arent looking creative anymore!

(S down, well done) Thinks...

Next is the TASK. Task at hand is to start a blog where i will keep venting off my feelings...about the bad snowfall..about the same f***ing mainframe screen...Also to keep a log of the (pro)gress\(con)gress that i did on my way out of this techie...no no lemme write in full 'Insanely indifferent, integeristic inferno of infotechism'job, to get into a Bschool back in swades( only ISB, be it!).....Thus this blog will create kinda pressure to achieve my dreams.

(T down, they are reading it for the first and last time..) Hmmm

ACTION. Well that means writing blog till u reach the R; result of my pledge against the deadlock of mainframes.....I can promise lots of action here..good thingie is that i have just watched SHOLAY...so the action has started..in veeruish tone 'Gabbar! Mein aa raha hoon....'

(A down but not under, but nobody is reading...leave the RT) zzzzzzzzz

RESULT - awaited...in march-06, i guess as far as ISB is concerned.
(R) ( "Not yet - says trinity in Matrix-1")

TAKEAWAYS - admission in ISB or another year of yaarana with those JCLs, Cobol Programs, Linkcards, controlcards, and their whole witchcraft!

'Faisla hai aapka; aakhir sar hai apka'

(T) (dont know what ppl will say after reading this! "God is watching you")

HUHHHHHHHH Done.
~Nits

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