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Has it ever happened to you?

Has it ever happened to you? While you are speaking to specific somebody and Your eyes start twinkling Your lips start smiling Your cheeks get the glow Your ears raise to pay utmost attention Your heartbeat raises with the excitement Your mind feels the curiosity Your blood pressure raises instantly and you do not know what the rest of the body is doing. Fortunately it happened to me and keeps happening every time I talk to that specific somebody. It is wonderful,delicious and overwhelming.It is liking 'Living' in THE moment.I am very thankful and grateful to that someone.

Back as a Student

In the movie Rocky VI,  Sylvester Stallone, who was in retirement after a successful boxing career, lacks something in life and he still thinks he had some bit of boxing left in him. So he goes for a final fight when he was challenged by his junior. I was in similar situation after five years into my consulting career. I felt I lacked something and I needed more. Finally I end up at Thunderbird School of Global Management to pursue MBA. I am glad to be back as a student. Being student has its own advantages.The vigor and valor are back, full time for 'fun-time', personality guards are off, flirting and making mischief are on cards, creativity and competition take the front seat, your perceptions change as you listen from professors, international students and yourself. You become much more receptive as a student. Your brain starts functioning full time. You cherish the time that would become good memories and form friends for your life time. Becoming international student ...

About- Turn

Things have taken a about-turn once I reached the US of America.Like in a movie where the ill-fated gal kisses a boy and her fate takes a drastic turn leading to all good things. Similar drastic turn had happened in my life after reaching US. First thing: I got a dorm at the starting of the block. Which means I do not have to walk much.So what ? It is a very very very good thing happened to me. In the last twelve years wherever I stayed at a rented house/ hostel or wherever I worked, I used to walk a lot of distance. My house would be corner one in the lane and my office would be the last building in the tech-park or in the office campus. I used to walk walk walk and walk(sometimes two kilometers at a single stretch). Now I just don't have to do walk more. KEWL. Just imagine a thing which was bothering you for so long and suddenly it gets disappeared. How do you feel? Another best part, library is just beside my dorm and gym is just behind my dorm so more less walk. Second thi...

Landing in the US of America

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As my every travel includes a surprise, traveling to the US of America has set of surprises. Surprise 1:As soon as I reached the Hyderabad international airport, famous music director "Devi Sri Prasad" passed by me. Nice !!! Surprise 2: As I went to check-in my baggage it turn out that I was carrying  seven kgs more than the allowed limit. I end up paying  18K rupees just because the weighing machine at my house showed me wrong measurement. Damn!!!! Suprise 3 : Teju came to meet me at the airport in her car ( she just started driving so its a big thing ). Wow !!!  Floored. Suprise 4: Film actress Kangana Ranaut and ME got into the same flight from Mumbai to Germany and she was just standing in front of me while boarding the flight. She was pretty and beautiful in complete contrast to how she appeared in the movies. Cool!!!. Suprise 5 : As soon as I landed at Pheonix international airport a old american couple came to receive me. I just love someone receiving me. The cou...

Why MBA?

Tests after tests, edits after reedits, discussions after discussions, efforts after efforts, interviews after interviews, negotiations after negotiations, hurdles after hurdles, phone calls after phone calls, rejections after rejections and finally thinking after thinking I decided to pursue MBA @Thunderbird School of Global Management.  But behind the decision there is almost one year of unwavering "one last effort” to pursue MBA, five years of continuous failed attempts to get over the idea of MBA desire, ten years of a dream to study in a top notch college and to have a decent sleep. All these factors contributed me to look over different B-schools across the world. I searched and applied for different schools in CANADA, EUROPE, SINGAPORE, INDIA, Africa and USA. During this process I came to know about different educational systems in the world and where more scholarships are available and how education is taught across the world. One thing I can conclude is if ...

One Million Rupees

It took me almost 5.5 years to make a profit of one million Rupees. Not that I saved everything even I had my share of lavish spending and decent losses. As per the money norms from here on it should not take 5.5 years to make another one million. I am eager to experience the norm.

Omen Vs Hurdle

When should one consider a difficulty as a Omen or a Hurdle ? Or Is the question about How ? Let me elucidate my question more clearly. Consider a scenario where you wanted "something." In the process of achieving that something you are welcomed with bunch of difficulties or setbacks. Do you consider those difficulties a bad Omen and give up what you wanted or you consider the difficulties a hurdle and cross it to get what you wanted? Whatever you chose you cannot UNDO it. You have to live with it. That's irony of the life. The choice becomes even more difficult depending upon the intensity of the something you want and the costly risk residing beside that something. Adding to this there would be fear of failure, different opinions, one's own limitations, social pressures and finally sarcasm. How do we go about this? If we sit and think about it , we will break our heads. If we talk with the people about it we will be bombarded with different views like be op...