Being a avid quizzer for the last 10 years, its very appropriate that I start off my first blog with a question.......Whats common to the following places in REC Silchar - the road just after crossing the GH (especially after 12 at night), Xonii's room in third hostel, and Co-operative? The moment this question is seen by any one of the following people - Hrishikesh Misra, Gyan Vikash Baruah, Prasurjya Das, Sauvik Bhuyan, Zakir Husain, Ratnajit Dey, and me, the answer would come in a flash. These were our favourite "adda" spots. If we were awake 15 hours in a day, we used to spend about 75% of that time at one of these places. And the rest 25% we spent waiting for that 75% time to come.
And what did we talk during these addas......? If i start writing at one go all that we have discussed, then im sure even a website like google which prides itself of providing unlimited server space would have to think twice. There is just sooooooo much to say. So lets take it one at a time. There is one topic of course that was always a winner hands down and which continues to be a winner even today ( courtesy Idea, Airtel and Hutch ) - Girls. Im sure even when we have reached 70, we wont be able to stop. Its just like what Oscar Wilde once said - "I can resist anything but temptation". But as this is my first blog, at least for today i will try to alienate myself from this wonderful topic of girls and talk about something else ; something that also took up a lot of our time – Money and Career.
…………..We are all lying down on the road. Its 11'o clock and we have just had a grand feast in third hostel ( Xonii and Misra are the mess managers and so we were the last to take the food ). All that extra chicken and extra custard is beginning to have its effect. Even the hardness of the road feels like a cushion and we are all falling asleep. The gentle breeze dancing to the rhythm of the moonlight playing amidst the clouds is creating an awesome ambience. Just then Prasurjya Das raises a question - where do each one of you want to settle down in life? And the question acts like an ignition at one end of a firecracker. Gone is the sleep. We all start throwing our opinion as to what would be the ideal place to settle down and which place would suit whose personality and how. Someone settles for Bangalore, somebody for Calcutta and somebody for Bombay. Of course the idea of settling abroad after a couple of years of job life is also toyed with......
And thats precisely where i find myself today - not abroad but 'after a couple of years of job life'. Things looked so good then. We had all got jobs through campus selection. We were waiting for the time ahead thinking about how the corporate world was waiting with abated breath and outstretched arms to welcome us all. Nothing could beat us. We were going to conquer the world. And just look at where we are today. I was just thinking about our group and i realised that we really are the "most billa" people in the true sense of the term. Just look at us. Two of us are there working for the defence forces (read it as doing time pass in DRDO), one is there in hyderabad with the gultis, one has left the job and gone home under suspicious circumstances, one left the job and went to delhi for coaching to again return back and join the same company, and the remaining one in living in a place where the people end every word they say with a "che". We have all wasted the two most wonderful and productive years of our lives, wondering what we have done and producing nothing. To use the age old cliche - "khaya piya kuch nahi, glass toda bara ana"
The first shock came in the month of august'2005 when i got my first salary slip. My CTC was 2.4 and simple calculation told me that i was going to get 20 k in hand. But that simple calculation turned out to be so complex that an sms from ICICI bank on the 28th of July,2005 told me that only an amount of Rs 14,740 had been deposited in my account. I asked the Hr people the reason and they gave me a great presentation expalining to me very many things, how this was done for ur good and how that would benefit you and all that crap. But at the end of it all, therewas one clear message - thats what ur going to get till July, 2006. After that, i have had two salary increments but although the increment percentage is quite handsome, i fail to see why my in hand salary is still competing to cross the 18 k mark.
And what did we talk during these addas......? If i start writing at one go all that we have discussed, then im sure even a website like google which prides itself of providing unlimited server space would have to think twice. There is just sooooooo much to say. So lets take it one at a time. There is one topic of course that was always a winner hands down and which continues to be a winner even today ( courtesy Idea, Airtel and Hutch ) - Girls. Im sure even when we have reached 70, we wont be able to stop. Its just like what Oscar Wilde once said - "I can resist anything but temptation". But as this is my first blog, at least for today i will try to alienate myself from this wonderful topic of girls and talk about something else ; something that also took up a lot of our time – Money and Career.
…………..We are all lying down on the road. Its 11'o clock and we have just had a grand feast in third hostel ( Xonii and Misra are the mess managers and so we were the last to take the food ). All that extra chicken and extra custard is beginning to have its effect. Even the hardness of the road feels like a cushion and we are all falling asleep. The gentle breeze dancing to the rhythm of the moonlight playing amidst the clouds is creating an awesome ambience. Just then Prasurjya Das raises a question - where do each one of you want to settle down in life? And the question acts like an ignition at one end of a firecracker. Gone is the sleep. We all start throwing our opinion as to what would be the ideal place to settle down and which place would suit whose personality and how. Someone settles for Bangalore, somebody for Calcutta and somebody for Bombay. Of course the idea of settling abroad after a couple of years of job life is also toyed with......
And thats precisely where i find myself today - not abroad but 'after a couple of years of job life'. Things looked so good then. We had all got jobs through campus selection. We were waiting for the time ahead thinking about how the corporate world was waiting with abated breath and outstretched arms to welcome us all. Nothing could beat us. We were going to conquer the world. And just look at where we are today. I was just thinking about our group and i realised that we really are the "most billa" people in the true sense of the term. Just look at us. Two of us are there working for the defence forces (read it as doing time pass in DRDO), one is there in hyderabad with the gultis, one has left the job and gone home under suspicious circumstances, one left the job and went to delhi for coaching to again return back and join the same company, and the remaining one in living in a place where the people end every word they say with a "che". We have all wasted the two most wonderful and productive years of our lives, wondering what we have done and producing nothing. To use the age old cliche - "khaya piya kuch nahi, glass toda bara ana"
The first shock came in the month of august'2005 when i got my first salary slip. My CTC was 2.4 and simple calculation told me that i was going to get 20 k in hand. But that simple calculation turned out to be so complex that an sms from ICICI bank on the 28th of July,2005 told me that only an amount of Rs 14,740 had been deposited in my account. I asked the Hr people the reason and they gave me a great presentation expalining to me very many things, how this was done for ur good and how that would benefit you and all that crap. But at the end of it all, therewas one clear message - thats what ur going to get till July, 2006. After that, i have had two salary increments but although the increment percentage is quite handsome, i fail to see why my in hand salary is still competing to cross the 18 k mark.
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Man!!bang on target...I liked the last paragraph(how they explained u that the deduction would benefit u...hahahaha)...good start...keep it up...
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