Tuesday, 11 September 2018

Nothing

Ahh . .  I thought i will see something new here may be sone new post or anything but seems like there hasn't been a new post here for the past 4 years. Guess everyone is busy in their life or are using  the 'newer' social media tools "instagram" and "facebook". I intentionally  chose to write their names without a capital letter in the beginning cause i don't think these deserve that respect which "Blogging" should get so i wont put them at the same pedestal.  * I have a habit of capitalising way too much, i don't know why but maybe when i cannot find another way of emphasizing something i end up capitalising its first letter, i do it in office mails also".

So coming back to the topic, "Nothing", yeah that is basically the reason for this post. i was feeling nothing and i thought that i should write about nothing. Actaully i was feeling nothing and i thought i would read something but when i started looking for some old blogs ( i remember only a few actaully, spacers reloaded, mandylling (that's mine actually i made in 2009 and didn't write a single post after that) and looked up one of my past connected through net friend (net induced friendship?) (past? , we are still in touch, just that its one in 6 months instead of once in 6 hours, but that once in 6 hours was also for a brief period of few months on a verage i guess it would be once in 6 weeks, no we used to chat for days at stretch on weekends so may be  once in 6 days considering we have spoken very rarely for the past 5-6 years yeah) all were empty or did not have a single new post so i thought let's write something, since now i have so much nothingness to write about.

I got married in between, lost my father to cancer in between a terrible one year period which i hope no family has to go through and the best part was that the disease was diagnosed a month before my marriage was scheduled. That makes it worse cause my Papa was very invested fora full year in the marriage preparations and because of that he ignored his deteriorating health a little thinking it is because of fatigue but it came out to be cancer. I miss him so much, he was my back i did not know how to do a single thing cause i always had him to do it all for me. He loved me more than anything and i know i haven't been as good as i should have been to him i will just have to regret it for the rest of my life.

So, marriage is kind of you know . . . . Shit!, i am not happy and he is not happy but still it is so difficult to leave each other cause of i don't know whatever shit. We have no understanding we fight like cats and dogs more like dogs and dogs not daily but most of the time she doesn't get along with my mom also and i hate her terribly for that. I have plans to act like a dick in fron of her family from no onwards that should teach her a lesson. I am fond of her . . . a little and do miss her at times but i guess i am just so used to living alone that living with someone is not possible for me Oh but i do get scared at night and still sleep with the light on if  i am alone in the house so living alone is also not an option.

The worst part of my life is that it feels that i have nothing to look forward to, i don't want to have kids cause that will be like having babies to have an activity to do for the rest of your life. I go to office come back home eat and sleep. The days we don't talk much are actually the better ones. I guess i hurried myself in to marriage thinking that if i cross 30 i won't be able to find a good wife (Good = pretty and educated). But that is a separate issue. The point is what am i living for ? I don't really know . . . I wonder how did i become so boring ?, i want boring i used to be the chatterbox in school, the prankster the you know the loudest boy in the class the mischief doer etc and now i am just a boring monthly wage worker.

Nothing can be a pretty nasty something, Not to confuse it with loneliness i cherish loneliness (or used to?) I used to write when i was alone think about future, imagine myself in different roles imagine different scenarios it used to be like dream i would sit down and imagine myself having conversations with some one (witty ones) and then i used to also laugh at my witty one liners and innuendoes but now when i am in the future (from my past perspectives) I feel so uninspiring to my own self like what i imagined i would do and what i am doing what sort of life i imagined i would have to what i actually have with me right now. It is so drastically different. I am not calling myself a loser, (that is what i would use for people i despise and i don't despise myself) just that i find myself very Uninspiring to my own self, not the way i wanted myself to turn out to be.

Nothing (it doesn't need a full stop, right?)

Friday, 17 January 2014

Is social and microblogging killing blogging?

With the rise of facebook, and twitter people are more connected than ever before. Short of wearing a webcam and broadcasting our lives (no thanks Instagram n Snapchat) there's not many more ways of being constantly connected with each others' lives.

Blogging evolved and grew with people interested in connecting with others on a deeper level, on issues and on ideas. Search engines loved that content and businesses made it an integral part of their marketing. With money in the picture, many blogs sold out to content that could be monetized, or appealed to audiences that can be marketed to. The individual, issues and ideas were lost. Business, product and services related information thrived.

Enter social. Facebook not only connected individuals based on who they knew, but its groups, pages and especially likes allowed people to connect with each other based on what they cared about. Apps, quizzes, polls and other unique forms of interaction apart from the selfie phenomenon made it a killer application that everyone wanted to be on.

Brevity is the essence of wit, and with that in its arsenal, Twitter has emerged as a frequently used mode of sharing news, ideas, interests, opinions and issues (didn't we see bad customer service taken over the coals many times this year?). With genuine interactions being the key, marketing messages are usually ignored and only the best ones are celebrated. Time being of essence, long form communication is under pressure as this short form takes off. Besides, what else would fit on mobile screens ranging from older dumb phones to  today's smartphones?

Tumblr and Instagram showed how pictures could replace a thousand words, and with smartphones having cameras better than digital ones of a few years ago, the lazy blogger has found the perfect vehicle for sharing their world.

All this has lead to a waning interest in non-business blogging and is slowly killing off the essay rich, long form personal communication and notes that personal blogging represented to many. Will information overload on social and micro blogging platforms lead to a slow retreat from that, or will it kill blogging...time, likes and tweets will tell!

Thursday, 6 June 2013

Mixed Emotions

clusters of careless, confused clouds cry
the drowsy earth does not know why
the trees woke up with a start
a sparrow lost her heart
ripples of sorrow
tears they borrow
uncertain
awkward
wind

Wednesday, 5 June 2013

Change

change is the constant
change is here to be
so move on
and let it be

let go of the people
and the places
the things
the friendly faces

embrace the change
with an open mind
and a happy heart
so peace you'll find

Monday, 27 May 2013

MBA journey !

Last year about this same time i made up my mind to get inside an MBA college by 2013. First i gave my GMAT got a decent score of 730, applied to ISB got, got the interview call but then couldnt clear the interview.
Then in the mean time i also gave CAT, got 98.28 percentile and converted IIT Delhi DMS, IIM Ranchi, IIM Raipur etc. Now i have paid the first installment of fees for IIT Delhi and for IIM Ranchi, Joining date for Ranchi is 13 June and for IIT Delhi is 20th July and i still don't know if i am going to join any of them or not an if i am going to join then which one !

I am confused weather it makes sense to go for a two year  program with 4 years Workex. I dont want to change my sector, i want to work in Oil gas and energy sector in the management domain. I wanted to do an MBA to make this jump from Engineering to Management. Not sure if a two year program is right for this or not.



If i don't do it now then the only option i have is to apply  next year for a one year Mba Program.