A week's slogging complete... another 52 weeks to go!

After 52 Weeks,
No eyebrow will be raised, if I sleep longer...
No one will stop me from watching TV...
No more exam pressures...
No slogging...
Just 52 weeks to go... just 52...

First Pay Cheque!

Yipeee!!! Nothing can beat the joy of getting ur first Pay Cheque! Though the amount is not great, it still means a lot to me because it is my first... Got pedas home, while coming back. Parents were happy too.(Mulgi margala lagli types!) Chalo kuch toh shuruvat hui!!!

Looking back... Moving forward

Next 3 years of my life are crucial. Quite surprisingly, I did not realise it until today. I am awaiting the results of my SYBcom exams. Frankly speaking I have no expectations there. You cannot predict anything with the podar faculty and you dare not! They will set the most difficult commerce papers in the town and when you think you have done enough to crack them, the marks will make you feel meek. Thank Goodness, no more misery of those podar papers now! It felt like treading on Life's banana skins!!! One moment you are held high, the next moment you are smashed down hard on the ground. I have had enough of it in the last 4 yrs. TY coaching starts tomorrow. Looking forward to it. My hard work would count here. I have to pull up my socks and start preparing for CAT too. Next 3 yrs would make or break my life, out of which the entire period of 1 year would be very crucial and nerve-wrecking. I have to sacrifice all those leisure Sundays which I spend dozing like a lazybump! I have to sail through. In short, I m just out of the furnace, but I am stuck up somewhere in the machinery(O Wodehouse...you listening? I love you!). 3 yrs to go to make all that value addition and be turned into that nice final product; to be sold in the job market.

Gosh!!!

XYZ Aunty: Arre Sharvari... kaisi ho? Kitne dino baad dikhi!
Mom and I nod with a smile
XYZ Aunty: Abhi kya kar rahi ho?
Me: Main abhi TY me gayi.(Shit! I m in TY now! Arre abhi toh SSC diya tha!)
Mom: Aaj hi college jaake apna subject preference deke aayi.(Mom, ye bataneki jarurat thi?)
XYZ Aunty: Acha? Kaunse subject lene waali ho?
Me: Dekhte hain. Preference toh deke aayi hoon.(Ab kya batau? Jo denge woh lena padega. Band baj gayi hai!)
XYZ Aunty: Kitni badi ho gayi ye na abhi. Chotisi thi.(Aunty sab lag bade hote hain). Ekdum abhi alagh dikhti hai.(huh?). Abhi shaadi ho jaayegi aur pata bhi nahi chalega.(Damn! Every conversation has to take this turn!)
Mom(all smiles): Haan...(As if I m already hooked!)

You cant stop time. Time flies by and you still would not notice. You still want to be a kid but for the world you have turned into a grown up. Time changes and so does perception!

Take it Light... Grrrrrrrrrrr!

"Take it easy!"..."Take rest!"... "You need a well-deserved break."... "Lay back and relax!" Well people have been telling me this since my exams got over, but now I m feeling sick of it. I cannot laze around for more than 2 days. Loneliness, Frustration, Irritation of doing nothing gets to me. I m used to living life in a fast lane. I need a hectic schedule to survive. I need a constant sword dangling over my head. I m not used to such an easy life. Eat, drink, sleep, then get up and again eat, drink, sleep. Not that I wasn't craving for such kind of life a few days back. I admit I was; I really wanted to take rest. But I got bored within 2 days. May be I m missing my cousin, who flew back to states last night. I miss our long chats over irrelevant things. I miss talking to him. Anyway I have taken up reading, which I had stopped for the last 2 months. It is keeping me busy. I can't wait to get back to my hectic life!!!

A crusade of 18 days...

Last 18 days have been hectic, irritating, saddening... Though I hope they were fruitful...(Dunno will come to know only in mid-april!!!)



24.2.2008 :- Pressure Building up... So much to finish! juggling between Finance and Economics.



25.2.2008 :- Day began with economics(as late as 11.a.m... Thanks to the last night session till 3.a.m). Completed Banking Sector Norms... Still a bit of uneasiness within... Took up Law in the night session(This was my 3rd serious attempt to study law. End-result:-session ends at 1:30... a nice one and half hour before the schedule) Lazybumb!



26.2.2008 :- Took up Economics again... Something unexpected happen. My cousin suddenly came to India.(Had I not told him not to come during my exams??? Grrrrrrrr!). But I have to admit it was a blessing in disguise! The fellow called me up every 4hrs to tell me how he was enjoying. I was jealous, but at the same time the talks relieved the mounting tension. Anyway finished the Indian Money Market.



27.2.2008 :- It was eco, eco and only eco... Pressure building up...



28.2.2008 :- A day before exams... Started with revisions... Could not sleep the whole night...kept tossing my head over the sleepless pillow...



29.2.2008 :- Bang! The D-day... Day starts as early as 5am. Condition worse than a zombie. The first hurdle successfully crossed, but I could have done better. Back home, tried to sleep still could not.

1.3.2008 :- Could not sleep the whole night. Woke up rather early. Astonishingly I was dozing off at d study table; not bcoz i was very much sleep deprived, but the subject i had to do was FC. How I hate to study FC! It is a crappy subject which consists of environment, communicable diseases, scientists, pollution, etc. And I thought I was going to graduate in commerce after a year!

2.3.2008 :- Manged to sleep for 3 hrs in the night. Attended the CAT class. Was surprisingly awake for d RC session. came back home... again slept for an hour or so and then retired to studying FC.

3.3.2008 :- Finally dat FC thing is over. No more FC next year! And yes the paper went well! Much better than it was expected. Finally I was able to catch on some well deserved sleep.

4.3.2008 :- Accounts coming up the next day. I had practised enuf for it, the entire year. yet was going thru everything minutely. Wid podar papers, one cannot afford to take chances. India wins d VB series. Wollah!

5.3.2008:- The paper was a major screw-up! Losing 10 mks comfortably. Thats d figure in my books. Dunno abt the paper corrector's books! Wid law coming up, brooding is unaffordable. Every minute counts...

6.3.2008:- law law law.... i would prefer to be beheaded wid a saw!

7.3.2008:- I understood y co-operatives dont survive in India. The law is so bad!

8.3.2008:- Fill in the blanks in the paper of law? A booty worth 15mks. Almost got all of them(wid options)

9.3.2008:- I love u journalism. I dont have to study answers to write you. I can relax. I really really love u! Cousin came for dinner. Had a gala time! Ended up wid tummy cramps in the night :(

10.3.2008:- I cant understand, what exactly is my problem? I crib when I have to study and I crib when i dont have to.

11.3.2008:- The paper was a cakewalk. 25mks were already in the pocket(thanks to project work)

12.3.2008:- It is really difficult to study bfore the last paper. Still managed to pull it off, but ended up forgetting everything at d end.(one of my very famous exam bloopers... going blank!). That called for another sleepless night!

13.3.2008:- Ah! the paper was easier than expected. Could remember almost everything while writing it. Last paper! khatam. no more misery of podar papers! wah wah! slept like a pig the entire day.

Few things I learnt during this crusade:-
1. I cannot sleep bfore the first paper, no matter how hard I try.
2. No preparation is sufficient for accounts. It is sheer luck.
3. Studying law in advance is a stupidity... It is back to square one when u revise.
4. You cannot study before the last paper, no matter how hard you try!

PS:-My mom has thrown out the jar of pickle. She thinks it is responsible for my frequently recurring tummy cramps. How right she is! Indeed, pickles it is! My life is a pickle.