Terrorism at its worst !!!

December 6th, 2008 by ANUPAM

A prospective terrorist before venturing out to the new terrorism plan fills a form:

X:Terrorist Computerji

X:Choose Country
a)India b)USA(impossible to attack) c) Israel(U outta of ur mind ???)

X:Which Part of India do u want to bomb?(Choose both/both option)
Options:a)Any area b)many area

What weapons you want to use(Choose both/both option)?
Options:a)Any weapon b)many weapons

How many people do u want to kill?(Choose both/both option)
Options:a)any number b)many number

Congratulations!!! Ur done!!

Guidance bf4 attack:
-Don’t worry about India,their government and politicians proactively support our cause in the name of appeasement.
-Don’t worry if u get caught.We’ll hijack few planes
-Don’t worry about entering the country they have 1000’s of security lapses.
-Don’t worry about ur picture shown by Indian media.U’ll become an “National Hero”.
-If bored get an interview with NDTV,IBN7,Aajtak,u’ll be live on TV.Ur parents will be proud.
-Njy and have fun.India is an amazing country to bomb.U may go for a killing spree too.Its smooth and easy.

Best of luck. Sign out well!!!

Few days later:
300++++++++ odd people dead in Mumba,Delhi,Ahmedabad,x,y,z,a,b,c,………….
Destruction, chaos everywhere.

Shivraj Patil:This shows how weak the terrorists are and they have again failed in there purpose.We’ll certainly catch them some years from now.Till then I’ll go dress up for the next bomb.

Pranab Mukherjee:Pakistan!! behave,else no bilateral relations.
Congress Spokesman:BJP doesn’t know anything,NDA will kill this country,we’ll are the true warriors

Lalu,Mulayam:This had to happen!! afterall wat happenned in Godhra there ought to be some reaction for atleast next 100 odd years.

Sonia Gandhi:Elections coming up!!Give me vote,I’ll gv u my

son,grandson,greatgrandson,greatgreatgrandson ……… to rule the nation.

Media:Barkha Dutt: Ma’am how r u feeling when ur husband is held a hostage!!
AAJTAK: POLL - are the terrorists right or r they wrong .Please vote at 313145

Arjun Singh: General category non reservation decreased to 10%.We aim to eliminate this “general” menace soon.

CPM “leaders”:No Nuclear,No America,No development!!!

Lalit Modi:ICL will never be legalized till I die with stacks of money in my arms !!!

An ordinary Indian :Rest in peace!!!

Disclaimer:The post is not intended against any person,sect,religion and whatsoever.Its just an angry,frustated reaction on the current plight of our country.

Challenged , Provoked and ....

Its 2 :36 in the morning and I have my FMH examination today at 6 pm . have barely skimmed thru 30 percent of the course but find too boring to continue and finish the remaining 70 percent.Chuck it .Its better to do something which gives me much more satisfaction than the half hearted attempt to study a pretty boring subject which is supposed to be my bread and butter :P .Therefore I write .

Had gone to the adventure camp this weekend.It was a gr8 trip filled with amazing fun and loads of unforgettable experiences.But this particular incident needs immortality , therefore I have decided to pen it down.

It was the onset of caving(Supposedly an adventure sport where u try to carve space for u from small spaces in between rocks , sometimes dividing ur body into parts and trying to get your parts one by one out of the hole till synergy is established :P ) .But bf4 that we were supposed to climb a rock that lead to the caving area totally on our own .Although a rope was tied around us for safety reasons .The right side of the rock had relatively deeper hand holes and foot holes to help climb rather easily (a very subjective opinion though:)).Left side was tougher with barely visible holes tough to grab let alone deep.Anyways everybody was climbing via the right portion(as if their was any option).The instructor from the previous group had allowed few daring souls to climb the rock via the right portion without the rope and they did that easily . In the process though they inspired me to do the same.I had lead the rock climbing session bf4 this , so had enough confidence in me to do the same .
Nyways my instructor strictly denied me to climb without a rope.Once ,twice ,thrice I asked ,but he denied and ended my trial even bf4 the onset

But this guy had other plans idea.

"So u think u can climb the rock without a rope.Let me see what can u do now.The rope
remains but u'll climb from the left side.Let's see how u fare " .

Hmmm .Now wat .This man is crazy .Its pretty tuff for a novice like me and to add to it i had slightly longer nails due to which it was tuff to get a grip.
I tried once ,twice thrice failed.Started climbing from the easier right ."Stop ,u were speaking a lot , u hv no option cm from left or stay there" ."I cant sir its tough almost impsosible".
"Leave it sir let him climb '-said my colleague .
"No-now as u have said u have to do it , You were blabbering a lot.Common "
were his words when he started laughing and making fun wid a colleague of his.That was tht , I couldn't take more.I somehow made a grip and tried hard to get some momentum.My friends started cheering me up and that was the tonic required .I tried hard ,harder , and finally my perseverance paid off.I gathered sm momentum and used that momentum to almost ran away to the top.Yessssss.I had done it .

I gave a angry glare to the the instructor ,threw the rope ,took off my helmet disregarding any respect for safety and looked above.My friends were cheering.This was the moments.Moments u cherish and I was luving it.

I again looked at the instructor who suddenly uttered "I knew u'll do it".He had a sense of pride. I smiled and said thx.Even I had a sense of pride.Thx sir.Thx friends.I am waiting for much more such moments .


Well he challenged , he provoked , and I WON.

That thing called Luc !!!

I planned to write a bit abt my "pre Campus XL xperience " around 2 months back ; finally i m doing tht .I started by giving CAT '07 which ,as usual did enuf to get another 94 %.Thn came IIFT which as usual I did well.IIFT have a habit of calling me on an annual basis and then outrightly rejecting my candidature.Its like mocking me "Fir aa gaya tu macha " .
On 7 January '08 one of friends turned up out of the blues and 1 am in the morning we were in a bar ,happily njying ourselves ,wen I realised I hv XAT next morning.
After the disaster of CAT and other exams ,I wasn't really concerned ,still went off n slept by 3 am.

Came out of the xamination centre nxt morning having an air of feel good abt me ,I actually "thought" I did well.My feel gud feeling was suddenly turned into a feeling of "wat cud hv been" wen I realised tht not only did I carelessly marked 1 wrong answer ,but I missed 3 easiest Ques of DI becoz two pages in my paper were "actually" pasted together !! (4 ques in quant make whole lot of diff ) Bad luc .Yeah quant was a disaster.
Cm bk n was dreaming in my room of wat cud hv been wen suddenly got a call from my galfrnd who had a minor accident.In a blink of the eyes i was at Hyd ,totally forgetting abt nything related to "XLRI".

Unbelievable as it was ,XAT results came within 10 days of the paper.My galfriend wanted to see my results but I disagreed.I chkd out my percentiles first only to realize that after getting sufficient in Eng and DI ,i cud manage only 83+ in Quant.Hmmm ...XL dream over .Still I thot let Xl confirm it...I was tlking to my galfriend and simultaneously we were chking My result on internet (technology as they say ) to see if by any luc i got a call .

I entered my XAT id to chk if I had a BM call , sigh !!"No call" I said wen I heard a jubilient voice on the other side "Yippie ,u got thru ". What????Yeah tht moment defined it all ,my girl brought me luc :).I got a call from PMIR from one of the premier institute of India.I just scraped thru Quant but in ny case I had an XLRI call.

Wasnt able to prepare much for my interview coz my workload suddenly increased as and when my interview came nearer.Nyways On the D - Day I had a "weird" interview(described earlier in one post ) n i cudnt really make nything out of it.
Results came soon as usual ,my galfriend chkd as usual and yeah I got thru (pretty unusual)....or did I ???

"You have been Waitlisted 24 " it said ,hmmmm ...."so close yet so far".

April 25 ,first WL announced ,13 cleared ...

May 13 ,Wl 23 cleared , unbelievable but it was true tht I was left stranded at WL 1 .
Everybody was now sure of me getting thru .In nycase Wl 1 gv a lot of optimism.I told my manager about my resignation ,started preparing and calling Xl everyday in hope of getting thru.

As days started passing by my hopes also started vanishing ,man WL 1 ??? How can this happen to me .Finally on the auspicious occasion of my Bday i.e. 30 th May ," I am sorry to say the waitlist movement has been freezed,better luc nxt time" ,came the dreaded news . Better luc ??Yeah I needed tht ,hw can possibly my luc devoid me to such an extent.It was like destined that I 'll get tht news on my bdy .Drank tht nite not becoz i was disappointed or sad ,but man it was my bday ,I had to celebrate :).

I was too freaked out with my luc so decided to tk a brk and went for trekking n den to Shimla.
On 10 th of June , i reached back and was getting ready to rejoin office wen a number flashed on my cell "XLRI calling ".

Wht now ??

"Anupam ,U hv got thru XL ,plz join day after tmrw".
?????????????????????????????????????????????????????

I was left blank ,no reaction .I just smiled and asked her for a few more days to prepare.After all i had to complete the tough task of my resignation :).

Didnt actually got time to "bask in the glory" of my "success".It was one roller coaster ride , had to do everything -resignation ,shopping,fees , reservations and wat not.Nyways smhw finally reached XLRI 0n 20th of June .
10 th of June onwards and I lost track of time .Ithas been like flying at a breathtaking speed.I didnt get time to actually rejoice ,to sit and think "yes I made it to XLRI".I reached here at 7 in the morning and at 8 I was i was attending my first class.Yeah it has been a roller coaster since thn ,n I m luvin it.

"The last guy in " ,they say I got lucky ; did I ??I dnt knw ...I didn't got time to think !!!

Sm day though I wud sit bk ,think and find out wats its all abt yeah ,luc ,"tht thing called luc ".

Terrorism

I am surprised, sad and dissapointed at what is happening in our country .

Blasts at Hyderabad, then at Jaipur, yesterday at Bangalore and if that was not enuff, today again at Ahmedabad.Which part of India is next, or for that matter which part of our great country is safe??? Can I wake up tmrw with a feeling that yah their would be possibly no bomb blast where I am residing presently???

Caught this piece from rediff:

"Minutes before the Ahmedabad serial blasts, an email was sent to the Gujarat police which is now in the possession of the Intelligence Bureau. It read: Stop us if you can."

This is nothing but public display of boldness "yeah we'll blast ur country, we know u'll do nothing u cowards ".

Where is the government?? I thought we were living in a democracy!!

What is Congress doing? Fighting over petty issues, is it??

Its well and truly known that most of the blasts have been done by islamic terrorist organisations than why no action?
Just two words of consolement , little aid and life moves on !!Is this the way a country of 1 billion citizen is supposed to run?Are we all fools ?

Why the policy of appeasement being followed for the last 60 odd years;
just to get some petty votes?

My friend terrorism has no religion; terrorists are just a bunch of egomaniacal dumbheads trying to destroy our country just because they are getting foolish support from our politicians (read congress, SP, Left) because of their policy of appeasement.

I feel we don't need a judicial system for this terrorists; catch them and kill them.

Nothing much to say, I am very unhappy with the state of affairs and this is too important even if written in d XL blog!!!

Chetan Bhagat-"Three mistakes of my life"

It seems like months since i wrote something here ; in my very own blog ;though I am no Ayn Rand , or for that matter even Sidney Sheldon -But yeah , once u start something , u mst hold on to tht , and thats my motto for the day (I will keep track for how many days I keep up wid my latest motto).

Nyways lets move on to my first book review , which I will keep SSS - short , sweet and simple !!
How much my intellectuals friends criticise Chetan Bhagat for his unoriginal and masala sort of writing ; the fact is that "Five Point Someone" (howevr piece of crap it luks to most people who give their verdict after reading it non stop till the end ) has brought many lazy souls to switch from other mundane activities to reading ,although these lazy souls switch back to there mundane activities as soon as the novel finishes.They get their act together only when another day to day novel arrives in the market (aka One night at a call centre) than back to usual.I don't exactly belong to this category, though I wud agree that seeing a Chetan Bhagat novel on stands makes me restless until and unless I can lay my hands on it and read it to the end.
The point here is the rage that was created by Five Point Someone and to some extent One night at a call center has been amazing.Here comes a writer who picks up characters u can identify urself wid ; takes a nice background(aka IIT,Call center) , cooks up a nice story , adds lots of masala , spices it with some kiss scenes , some gyaan and keeps its price low. And eureka ! Thats the winning formula!!
But ,what happens when u start running out of ideas ?
U make the biggest mistake of ur life in the form of "3 mistakes of my life".
The story of this novel is on similar lines to that of his first two novels .

Here the backdrop is Gujarat (covers period from 2001 to 2002 when Gujarat was shakened up by an earthquake in 2000 , and Godhra and communal violence in 2002).Add to it 3 friends (not again)on similar lines to the previous novels characters , spiced up with all the physical and chemical properties as mentioned bf4.And the best part is to make emotional fool of cricket crazy janta by making the look and feel of the cover as if it belongs to "cricket".Phew !!!

Ladies and gentleman ,in his latest attempt this novel fails to strike even a single chord wid the readers and seems it was written just for the sake of writing.Two out of the 3 mistakes mentioned made my head spin as to why they were referrred as "biggest mistakes ".Their is also an aboriginal and genuine 40 pages fight scene at the end which made me proud of our south indian movies (I can assure u that better sense still prevails their-yana rascala ).
Political parties have been bashed liberally thoughout and travel to a foreign country was nvr easy bf4.
With all the bashing done here are some lines spoken by an Aussie character worth reading -"Mate in ur country (India) when people meer they ask u - do u own a house ?Which car do u hv ?how much money do u have ??But when people meet in our country they ask u wat all sports do u play mate ??

Thats clears it all !!!!

Nyways i must state here that watevr I hv written is copyrighted by me and must be taken as my personel opinion.Also I , hereby publicaly admit that i hv a poor vocabulary which severely hampers my writing skills .... :(

Cheers !!!!

XL PI

Hi ,
Had my XL interview on 8th March

Here it is :
After customary good morning wishes...

P2-Anupam tell me smthing abt urself
me--blah blah blah.
P2-tell me wat kind of work do u do
me --basically my work involves integration of various applications for clients(hospitals) ...blah blah
P2-so why do u need to do such a work ..even the medical staff can do tht ??
me-sir medical staff will do stuff related to medical but for the IT automation processes it needs IT personnels thts why
P2- I mean to say tht say 20 years bf4 also this kind work was done via files and stuff and done well .Infact their were no problems without IT so why do u need it done via IT??
me - Sir this is becoz every system need improvement and change at some time ,so though tht work cud have been done with previously held methods but change is essential to better ur processes and to make them more efficient ...(convinced)
P2-Why do u want to do HR
me-blahblahblha
P2-but u are an engineer thn why??
me-Sir basically it is becoz my interest lies in HR as i hv already told and i m very keen on tht ...i want to knw wat exactly is personnel management and ...
P2-wat is personnel management btw??
me- basically it relates more towards administrative functions apart from the normal processes ; like payroll processing (i read it smwhere)
P2 -tht is done by the accounts section (everybody laughed ) nyways seems ur not much aware abt wat HR is ..tell me thn why HR after engineering
me-basically sir ppl consider it a waste of ur engineering if u switch to hr but its not tht .its like .........(here i tried to develop a platform to come to the actual reason)
P2-Why r u saying tht its a waste ...i never said tht ..i mean jst tell me why HR after engineering
me-sir thts wat i was saying hr after engineering is a sort of taboo ....
P2 -again ur pushing urself ...its u who r saying its a taboo or a waste n there by ur blaming me tht i meant tht...can u jst gv me a reason to do hr
Me- sir education is holistic....
P2 -ok leave that jst tell me wat u'll gain from doing HR .u knw ppl get to do paper work in HR and only after 20 yrs do tht get to make important decisions .
me -sir i have seen ppl rise at a very high level and i can sight an example from my company their is this guy who has risen in a very short span of time and ....
P2 -wat his background ??
Me -BA honors and sir he ....
P2 - which college ??
Me- i dont knw sir but actually he ....
P2 - so a person can can get to a high position in HR from BA ...thn why do u want to pursue tht?? nyways u were telling smthing
Me- he actually blah blah blah............
P2 -i will tell u ...u dont knw anything abt HR ..u rj st telling irrevalent issues
me - i m sorry sir but wat i actually meant was ....
P2- nononono leave tht
P1- Now he is trying to be defensive

P2-leave tht jst tell me the diffence b'w HR and event management..N thinsk first i'll gv u 30 secs.
Me (after 20 secs)-may IP1 P2 P3 all looked at each other in a mysterious way !!
me-sir event management is fisrt of all related to sm specific event tht needs to be organised and certain processes are ....
P2 -U dnt knw anything abt even event management too.U dont knw anything abt HR ,infact wat I can nperceive tht u cant evn talk properly ,u dont seem to read anything its like ur involved in everyday gossips and not an interview !!!(very aggressive tone)
man i didnt evn speak me:I m very sorry sir and i admit tht i made a mistake in talking a bit irrevalent .
Now P1 enters

P1-Why Hcl and Perot Parted ??
Me- ???
P1 :Anupam wat is the difference b/w a KPO and IT industry ??
Me :Sir KPO that is the knowledge process outsourcing is basically ..................
P1 - i have not asked u the acronym tht i m aware of jst tell me difference b/w a KPO and IT industry
me-yes sir basically KPO is related to ITES tht is the IT enabled....
P1-again.I said i hv not asked u the acronym jst tell me difference b/w a KPO and IT industry (a bit aggresive tone)
me -sir blah blah blah ...
P1 - u dont seem to knw this i feel.ok leave tht too...P1P2P3 laughed poor me
I was feeling wen this will get over
P3 -u mst be having a tv and watcing news
me-sir i dnt hv a TV at home
P3 - (shocked)wat ??no TV anyways newspapers
suddenly P2 pitched in -atleast u must be reading newspapers ( sarcastic)
P3 - tell me the most important events of last 5 months
me-Listed 5 events (convinced after a long time) i thot now this will get over ...alas....
P3 - tell me abt subprime ?
me -told
P3-how it effects indain economy
me - told (he didnt look convinced)
P3- how sensex can reveal our economy
me-toldP3 -but sensex grew from 10000 to 20000 whereas our economy hasnmt doubled
me-its a relative term a sort of reflection
P1(smiles)- its absolute u r wrong here ......
P3- I am not at all convinced abt ur FII's stuff...anyways hw will volatile market affect a coomon man
at this stage i was mentally drained so i uttered sm crap
me-sir lot of our middle class is involved in stock markets so it will affect them
like i m from middle class
P2(laughs )-how many classes do u knw
me - sir upper middle and lower
P3 -tell me the number of ppl in middle class ppl in india
me - (i got bk sm of my senses)-sir around 30 crores and sir i hv realised i gv a wrong data

P3 - leave tht and tell me abt the impact of markets on common man.me- i dont knw sir i hv a limited knowledge in financial and economic domain .
P2 suddenly pitched in - thts wat i said if u dont knw anything just say i dnt knw.I m unable to understand u hv not quoted any data nor any quotations from famous persons seems u dont knw anything.me in my thots (plz sir leave me i agree )
me -Sir i feel tht i knw abt my data and i do read but i hv gvn a bad performance ...
P1P2P3-no no we'll judge ur performance u dnt woryy
me- I feel that i hv not been able to express myself and my ideas well enuf today.
P2P3-ok tht wud be fine .
Me --ahhh finally !!!
Suddenly P1 pitched in-(i use my hand movements to gv answers )
P1- why do u do tht i mean is it sm key or anything??
me-sir tht is a habit basically ween i stress upon sm points and ....
P1 -no actually..ok leave thta( sm more sarcastic smiles) u didnt understand actually u may leave
me -THANKS sir
and finally it got over ...i dnt knw the time but it was quite long....I tried my best to remain calm and coll and succeeded quite a bit and wore a smile most of the time
i had forgotten my bag in the room so came bk after 5 min
P3- what r u doing here??
me-sir i forgot my bag ...
P3-nyways ..dnt worry u gv a gud performance

Tht was tht

Phew !!!