That awkward moment when you shout at your cousins “For God’s Sake … Stop behaving like kids” … And then comes the sudden realization that they, after all, are kids only …

When things like this start happening … You know that you are in dire need of some rest … Time to go back to NITIE to get some energy tonic …

It’s been almost a month since I visited the campus and my stay at my uncle’s place could well be described by my twitter timeline right now.

My cousin is the biggest fan of #SalmanKhan I ve ever seen … He has recorded Tere Naam on #TataSky & watches it daily … #crazykids

In another instance another cousin of my attempted blocking my nose with cotton while I was fast asleep … Luckily I survived :/ #crazykids

My little bro was playing HP game & wz explaining different spells to me. I wish I could ve told that I used to live wat he plays #crazykids

That awkward moment when your cousins fight for remote and you don’t know whom to support … Coz you want to see a third channel #crazykids

They make me feel so old. I need to behave like an elder and keep giving them gyaan on every damn topic #crazykids

Convincing the cousins to watch horror movies during daytime & reminding them the same post midnight … Awesome feeling #devilbrotherIam

One fine #Sunday evening, when your cousin wakes u up by splashing a glass full of water on ur face … #crazykids

Well something to pull me out of the #stockmarketwoes … A few years back someone told my that “What goes around comes back around” … And to the ecstasy of every soul whom I tormented my entire childhood, I have been subjected to some taste of my own medicine …

But don’t take me wrong … I am not complaining … Rather I am enjoying it to every bit

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Once upon a time I used to think of some day in the distant future where I might have to live a life that I am living right now … But looks like the life is in a hurry to fulfill “few” thoughts of mine …

Many unprecedented things happen in life and this happens to be one of them …I am staying alone at my uncle’s place … The alarm clock greets me a good day every morning … The lock of the door bids me goodbye when I leave for office …

Then I become a part of the crowd … Jumping from taxi to bus to local whatever the case might be ..Just another face amongst the millions running around to secure their share of bread …

Then I reach Fort … The magnificent building of DBS welcomes me with full heart, as it does to every one who constitutes it … There I somehow manage to find s few recognized faces … The faces of people I met two days back … Few interns, few seniors and of course my mentor …

My system, my work desk, my bag and my chair … They constitute my life out there from 9 to 6 … The day passes by and leaves back a lot of things … Incidents … Learning … And most importantly, Experience …

Then at 6 I leave the place … Right now, unlike most of the working professionals, I am not too excited that the day’s work is done … Neither am I too depressed to leave the place … Things have to sink in a bit I believe … Won’t go into the technicalities of my project … I am just listing down the superficial things …

What’s next??/ … Nothing but a very empathizing Arabian Sea .. Some time spent at Marine Drive in the evening … introspection … memories revisited … plans and forecasts made … Questions ask to oneself … And then a walk back to the home … Expecting nothing … Regretting nothing … And celebrating nothing …

The same old lock welcomes me back … The refrigerator appears very kind to offer me to gulp something down … The bed all very cozy to allow me to settle myself into it … The night prepared to give me a goodnight hug … The dreams ready to give an attempt to fill the hollowness to some extent … And ???

And the alarm clock ready to be trained for the morning call. And the cycle continues.

As I said … It still has to sink in … Something external is playing it’s part amidst all this … And that too very smartly … I need to track it down very soon … And eliminate it very soon…

Signing Off …

It is the very same time of the year. It’s been exactly one month since the CAT results were declared and the MBA season, right now, is in full swing. Anxious faces all around, B-Schools declaring their GD-PI lists, aspirants shooting their queries everywhere and the dream to get into the dream college lives on.

Everything is same as it was last year. The entire situation is just like a Deja Vu. I have lived it all already once and I am living it once again. But with a little difference this time around. I am on the other side of the table. Last year, at the same time, I was sitting in front of my system, reading the posts by the aspirants on the NITIE Pagalguy thread. There was a very anxious and nervous “magicalharsh” directing his queries to the seniors on the thread, who just wanted to be sure of it. And an encouraging reply by a senior meant everything that time.

NITIE gave me my dream. I made my way to the God’s own campus and little did I knew at that time that one year down the line the very same PG id of “magicalharsh” would be there on the same thread, but this time answering the queries of his to-be juniors rather then being answered.

There at pagalguy people ask the same question again and again. They know that the same question has been answered but somehow they wish to be answered individually. I know the feeling as I was also a part of the lot that used to do the same and hence, even after answering the same query umpteenth number of times I repeat it rather ambivalently. I can see the same anxiousness in their queries that used to be within me last year. Seriously speaking that was one of the most precious moments of my life because that was the period which really taught me how wonderful the feeling is once you achieve something that you had really longed for. And this was the first time I achieved something substantial in my life.

Life at B School has been much more awesome compared to what I had envisaged. Every moment here at NITIE has been nothing less than an awesome experience. Fun combined with learning. Be it the late evening classes at 9 or 10. Be it a snake crawling outside your room or a leopard spotted somewhere near the MDP. Be it Bawaal or NPL going on. Be it the 3 round committee selection process that would stretch until 6 in the morning. Be it the really anxious moments during the Slot zero of the summer recruitment process going on. Be it the case of short attendance and completing extra assignments to cover for it. Be it the plethora of competitions and case studies that you participate in. Be it the late night parties followed by a long walk with friends on the Marine Drive. Everything is super duper amazing.

There are so many things that I can’t possibly pen it down all at one place. Every day is a new experience. Every day is a new adventure. A fun filled roller coaster ride it is. A ride which has added so many memoirs to my life. A life full of surprises and adventures. This is life @ NITIE. And for sure I love it to the core.

P.S. All the best to all the aspirants. It’s the time where you just need a last push, a bit of nitro to propel you forward. You surely will be rewarded for all the efforts that you have put in till now. Just one advice that I would like to pass to everyone. Never ever stop dreaming. Only when you dream, will you try to put it into reality.