http://englishaugust.blogdrive.com/ Re-attachment! Wed, 18 Jan 2006 05:50:14 PST http://www.blogdrive.com Copyright 2006. http://englishaugust.blogdrive.com/archive/22.html Fri, 13 Jan 2006 22:35:21 GMT I have had five interviews in two days with two different firms. And have another interview tomorrow - although that will be a mock. They say finance interviews are supposed to be taxing affairs. Well, I did not do exceedingly well in my interviews, but I can certainly say that I did not get too taxed either. I spent half of yesterday and the whole of today in central London and must have walked roughly 8-10 kilometres on each of the days. That wasn't too taxing either. However, what I found truly taxing was the sudden turmoil created in my head after I had a discussion with D, a friend of... (more) http://englishaugust.blogdrive.com/comments?id=22 http://englishaugust.blogdrive.com/archive/21.html Sun, 18 Dec 2005 03:52:11 GMT "Pranab Mukherji expresses shock at Ganguly's omission from the team." "Lok Sabha speaker Somnath Chatterjee believes Ganguly was omitted for reasons other than cricket." "Jagmohan Dalmiya writes to BCCI President citing examples when a player was recalled at the Board President's request." In the last year and a half, my disillusionment with the media (both print as well as television) has grown exponentially. This is partly due to the fact that I was living with someone who was working first with Balaji and later with Miditech - so her insider views on the industry... (more) http://englishaugust.blogdrive.com/comments?id=21 http://englishaugust.blogdrive.com/archive/20.html Thu, 24 Nov 2005 01:51:00 GMT There are times and there are times. The first kind of times are those when you find yourself tangled in such an immaculate mess of relationships, failed relationships, one-sided relationships, and solitude that you just dont know how to get out of it. Too many things have taken hold of your brain and you wish that your memory was a hard-disk, where selecting multiple objects and pressing SHIFT + DELETE would remove those things permanently. But at the same time you realize that life doesnt work this way. At these times, you yearn for a completely different life - a life which has none... (more) http://englishaugust.blogdrive.com/comments?id=20 http://englishaugust.blogdrive.com/archive/19.html Tue, 13 Sep 2005 20:44:07 GMT I was slightly late in reaching the place. Most of the guests had already arrived and I had to dish out several fake-smile-fitted-aunty namastes before I could reach him. And there he was, looking smartly dressed for the first time in as long as I have known him. Or perhaps this was the first time I was looking at him with genuine appreciation - for the ten years that I have known him, I have always looked at him with that typical condescending attitude that one reserves specifically for close friends. That was the ring ceremony. And today is the wedding! One of my closest friends... (more) http://englishaugust.blogdrive.com/comments?id=19 http://englishaugust.blogdrive.com/archive/18.html Sun, 11 Sep 2005 21:47:09 GMT During the last four days, I have met up with quite a few of my friends and relatives and have said good bye to them. And with each meeting (perhaps parting is a better word), I have been becoming less and less inclined to meet (and part with) the next person. The reason for this, strangely, is not exactly the sadness due to the parting. It is the fact that each time I meet someone and say goodbye, their behavior and attitude seems to suggest the following : (1) You must be really happy that you are about to join Oxford University. (2) Of course, I am sad because you are... (more) http://englishaugust.blogdrive.com/comments?id=18 http://englishaugust.blogdrive.com/archive/17.html Mon, 05 Sep 2005 19:57:23 GMT (1) This day has lost its significance for some strange reason. When I was in school, we used to have this funda that all the teachers will get treated to music and food, and the students from senior classes will teach the junior classes on this particular day. Similarly, on children's day we did not have classes, and the teachers used to put up a cultural programme for the students. It was educative, it was fun, and it was sweet. During my four years at IIT, I do not think I ever went up to a professor and said 'Happy Teachers' Day'. In fact, I positively hated quite a few of our... (more) http://englishaugust.blogdrive.com/comments?id=17 http://englishaugust.blogdrive.com/archive/16.html Fri, 02 Sep 2005 22:15:47 GMT It was the end of May last year when I had passed out from IIT Delhi. I had a job in hand which I did not want to take up, but I wasn't really bothered because I did have a job in hand. I had someone in my life whom I was crazy about, and who was putting up all kinds of efforts to bring the relationship to an end - but again I wasn't really bothered because I believed that despite all her efforts, She did like me after all. In short, I had about a million minor and major problems in life (just like everyone else) and I wasn't worried about any of those. In fact, the first week of June was... (more) http://englishaugust.blogdrive.com/comments?id=16 http://englishaugust.blogdrive.com/archive/13.html Fri, 08 Apr 2005 10:40:46 GMT "Oye whats your IIM result? Grr you haven't replied to a single message since your interviews began. you don't need to fear others' expectations all that much my friend." That was the SMS I sent to a very good friend of mine (lets call him A for the purpose of this post) when a common friend (call him P) told me that A had been offered admission by IIM Ahmedabad. Okay so the last time I made a decent post was way back in December sometime. I did put up 'Ignore This Post" after that, but I guess everyone simply ignored it (Hey, but I cant complain about it!). Coming back to the topic... (more) http://englishaugust.blogdrive.com/comments?id=13 http://englishaugust.blogdrive.com/archive/12.html Fri, 21 Jan 2005 10:40:10 GMT This post is not intended to make anyone read anything. I really haven't felt like doing anything constructive in the last one month, and have spent three out of four weekends outside Mumbai. My previous post was on 19th december. The first two weekends after that (i.e. the Christmas weekend, and the New Year weekend) were both spent in Pune partying with friends, watching a few good and a few shitty movies. The high point of my Pune visit being the meeting with 2 old friends from school at this place called Not Just Jazz on January 1st. The weekend after that, I was in Mumbai -... (more) http://englishaugust.blogdrive.com/comments?id=12 http://englishaugust.blogdrive.com/archive/11.html Sun, 19 Dec 2004 10:54:16 GMT I finally got time to put in another post! It seems Amon was right when he said in his post that if I continue working the way I am doing these days, I probably wont make a very regular blogger. This post happens to be inspired by a TV show which I happened to chance upon while sifting through the channels one day after returning from office around midnight. I am sure many of the people who read this post would have seen this show... ppl, please do add your views on this particular show. Picture this - about ten guys (more or less ugly, shabby and skinny... but dressed in body... (more) http://englishaugust.blogdrive.com/comments?id=11