I wake up when the sun goes down
Walking in the shadow of street lights
Therez a puzzled look somewhere
Unable to understand..Unable to think
Why do I feel
What is the meaning of bunch of letters
How can emotions jeo-paridze ur life
Maybe language should be better
Maybe i m jealous
of all of the world
of those who sleep when i wake
of those who can think , when i m blank
of those who can love..when i cant feel
I decide to feel
I decide to think
I decide to Love...
But they wont let me...
Cuz i m a threat... i m an enemy..
cuz the only friend is themselves...
cuz to hate is Love..
Cuz to follow is to Think..
Cuz to play is to feel...
I believe...
Friday, September 28, 2007
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
Does degree Matter??
It is an accepted fact of life that coaching classes have reduced a generation of IITians to an army of crammers. It is also recognised that such people never make it far in life –– the topper-as-failure is part of HR lore. (All toppers are not failures; it is only the crammer-topper combine that doesn’t work.)
On the other hand, you have a galaxy of school and college dropouts who have been very successful in life. The members of this tribe include Bill Gates of Microsoft (until recently the world’s richest man). The Indians on the list include professionals of the likes of Securities & Exchange Board of India (SEBI) chairman M. Damodaran, who studied for a while at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) before deciding to quit because it was not his cup of tea (he, however, has a graduate degree).
So does a college degree or a good academic record matter in an individual’s professional life? Does Oxbridge or the Ivy League (with apologies to all those who contend that they don’t give you any education, but are simply old boys’ clubs and network channels) equip you better for the job market? Does an Indian Institute of Management tag mean that you can strategise better than a trader’s son from Tinsukia?
“The first issue to be disposed of when you are asking such questions is the sort of job you are talking about,” says P. Mukerji, a Mumbai-based HR practitioner. “If you are inheriting your papa’s property — whether it is a rundown workshop or the country’s largest company — it doesn’t remotely matter what letters you can attach to your name. The degrees count when you are a professional approaching the job market.”
Mukerji is a bit of a cynic when he considers the sort of education doled out in even the best of institutes, be it Indian or foreign. “These institutes simply act as sieves,” he says. “When you hire someone from IIT, you know he or she has passed through one tough entrance exam. When you hire someone from IIT and IIM, you can be doubly sure for the same reason.”
But, as you progress in life, where you started from becomes increasingly irrelevant. In fact, there is a sort of reverse snobbery about it. Talk to a tech success in the US, and he will take great pride in telling you that he comes from the boondocks in Bihar. If he happens to have done his schooling from a top-notch institution in Calcutta or Mumbai, he keeps quiet about it. Like Dick Whittington, the longer the distance you travel, the more you can boast about it.
There is a difference, however, in the degrees or qualifications you acquire after you have taken up a job. Refresher courses always work better because you have a clearer picture of what you need to help you in your career. This is also the reason that many top institutes, for instance the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, prefer students with considerable job experience.
“After about five years, it no longer matters where you acquired your academic qualifications from. What counts is how you have done on the job,” says Mukerji. However, there are some exceptions. One, the networks you have built in college can be leveraged. The college networks of alumni of the Backwaters Institute of Management exist, but they don’t extend so far or so deep. Secondly, several institutions — though their numbers have come down — prefer the old school tie and elite college background. In such places, your degree acts as a talisman even decades into your job.
There is one more time your college degree may come into play: when you are out of a job and need to send your CVs. But if you are in such a situation, there must be a bigger problem somewhere. It may be a heartless thing to say, but the cannon fodder of corporate life normally have themselves to blame for being in the firing line.
School dropouts
Albert Einstein
Henry Ford
The Wright Brothers
Thomas Edison
College dropouts
Bill Gates
Steve Jobs
Micheal Dell
Ted turner
Steve Ballmer
Richard Branson
Larry Ellison
This article in a recent newspaper shows , that maybe there is something wrong in the system...
On the other hand, you have a galaxy of school and college dropouts who have been very successful in life. The members of this tribe include Bill Gates of Microsoft (until recently the world’s richest man). The Indians on the list include professionals of the likes of Securities & Exchange Board of India (SEBI) chairman M. Damodaran, who studied for a while at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) before deciding to quit because it was not his cup of tea (he, however, has a graduate degree).
So does a college degree or a good academic record matter in an individual’s professional life? Does Oxbridge or the Ivy League (with apologies to all those who contend that they don’t give you any education, but are simply old boys’ clubs and network channels) equip you better for the job market? Does an Indian Institute of Management tag mean that you can strategise better than a trader’s son from Tinsukia?
“The first issue to be disposed of when you are asking such questions is the sort of job you are talking about,” says P. Mukerji, a Mumbai-based HR practitioner. “If you are inheriting your papa’s property — whether it is a rundown workshop or the country’s largest company — it doesn’t remotely matter what letters you can attach to your name. The degrees count when you are a professional approaching the job market.”
Mukerji is a bit of a cynic when he considers the sort of education doled out in even the best of institutes, be it Indian or foreign. “These institutes simply act as sieves,” he says. “When you hire someone from IIT, you know he or she has passed through one tough entrance exam. When you hire someone from IIT and IIM, you can be doubly sure for the same reason.”
But, as you progress in life, where you started from becomes increasingly irrelevant. In fact, there is a sort of reverse snobbery about it. Talk to a tech success in the US, and he will take great pride in telling you that he comes from the boondocks in Bihar. If he happens to have done his schooling from a top-notch institution in Calcutta or Mumbai, he keeps quiet about it. Like Dick Whittington, the longer the distance you travel, the more you can boast about it.
There is a difference, however, in the degrees or qualifications you acquire after you have taken up a job. Refresher courses always work better because you have a clearer picture of what you need to help you in your career. This is also the reason that many top institutes, for instance the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, prefer students with considerable job experience.
“After about five years, it no longer matters where you acquired your academic qualifications from. What counts is how you have done on the job,” says Mukerji. However, there are some exceptions. One, the networks you have built in college can be leveraged. The college networks of alumni of the Backwaters Institute of Management exist, but they don’t extend so far or so deep. Secondly, several institutions — though their numbers have come down — prefer the old school tie and elite college background. In such places, your degree acts as a talisman even decades into your job.
There is one more time your college degree may come into play: when you are out of a job and need to send your CVs. But if you are in such a situation, there must be a bigger problem somewhere. It may be a heartless thing to say, but the cannon fodder of corporate life normally have themselves to blame for being in the firing line.
School dropouts
Albert Einstein
Henry Ford
The Wright Brothers
Thomas Edison
College dropouts
Bill Gates
Steve Jobs
Micheal Dell
Ted turner
Steve Ballmer
Richard Branson
Larry Ellison
This article in a recent newspaper shows , that maybe there is something wrong in the system...
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Objects
"You guyz consider girls an object"
This is what the thought implies... It is said in various forms by girls...
Dont they... And yet i feel this is perfectly right... I, and maybe many others consider girl as an object...
Because , there is no Humanity left maybe... Because they act like so "far-away"... Because there is too much attitude or wtvr... Because many of the things i said in my earlier post "One Question"
And still after so much humiliation , they expect us to treat them as normal humans..
I might die of laughing... Maybe with a normal friend you can talk like u feel... like one person communicates with another... But with girls , u have to be precise about wht u speak... take care how fast or slow you are...
I sometimes get a feeling as if i m giving input or smthn to a computer , and the reply by the object ( girl in this case ) is like the output... Till you r engaging a conv. , its on... when u cease to try .. the end...
This is not a generalization plz... this is my personal experience...
And i dont think i have met enuf girls to generalize for all of them...
Maybe some ppl wud relate to this...
This is what the thought implies... It is said in various forms by girls...
Dont they... And yet i feel this is perfectly right... I, and maybe many others consider girl as an object...
Because , there is no Humanity left maybe... Because they act like so "far-away"... Because there is too much attitude or wtvr... Because many of the things i said in my earlier post "One Question"
And still after so much humiliation , they expect us to treat them as normal humans..
I might die of laughing... Maybe with a normal friend you can talk like u feel... like one person communicates with another... But with girls , u have to be precise about wht u speak... take care how fast or slow you are...
I sometimes get a feeling as if i m giving input or smthn to a computer , and the reply by the object ( girl in this case ) is like the output... Till you r engaging a conv. , its on... when u cease to try .. the end...
This is not a generalization plz... this is my personal experience...
And i dont think i have met enuf girls to generalize for all of them...
Maybe some ppl wud relate to this...
Wednesday, September 5, 2007
Character
In the constant process of thinking...
We turn up with unexpected logical results...
So, once while thinking about XYZ.. i wandered to Character..
And i realized its one of the most commonly used word... nd '-less' is also used widely..
But what does it mean??
Well i dont have a answer! But i have a quasi answer
Maybe we can assume it to be a Jigsaw Puzzle. Many of the important parts are found in the childhood. But we never finish it till we die.
We just keep building it.
Every new thought, every action can act as a part of it. I , myself , try to fit in different parts... by different actions to see which one might work out!!
And sometimes years later , i realize maybe it wasnt right at all.
So maybe it aint rite to say , that you cant change your life, your habits , your character in later stages of life. Maybe you can, if you find the right piece.
We turn up with unexpected logical results...
So, once while thinking about XYZ.. i wandered to Character..
And i realized its one of the most commonly used word... nd '-less' is also used widely..
But what does it mean??
Well i dont have a answer! But i have a quasi answer
Maybe we can assume it to be a Jigsaw Puzzle. Many of the important parts are found in the childhood. But we never finish it till we die.
We just keep building it.
Every new thought, every action can act as a part of it. I , myself , try to fit in different parts... by different actions to see which one might work out!!
And sometimes years later , i realize maybe it wasnt right at all.
So maybe it aint rite to say , that you cant change your life, your habits , your character in later stages of life. Maybe you can, if you find the right piece.
One Question?
Its one of common thoughts among boyz... But mostly left unsaid...
Cuz its one thing to think.. nd other to make your thoughts public..
It was also my Orkut about me...
Girls...
Is it against their nature to start a conversation... Why do we have to run after them always...
I have had enough of msgn,scrappin,callin nd sayin d same thing "Hi..Wsup"
I m fed-up...even with girls whom i know...
Its like tryng to break steel with pencil...
This time...I wait...You make the first move!!or just leave me alone
This message is not intended for everyone
You can ask yourself...whether you should be are the one pointed to?"
Now how many of us have been through this... many i guess...
Its like a situation that continiously happens , and makes u feel sick of either urself or the person whoz acting weird..
Its as if they show that you dont exist... We all want to make our existence felt somehow...So its one of the worst experiences when you aint acknowldged...
It happens with me too... and i have taken in meekly at times...
but till when will i sell my dignity for the sake of making some new friends ( girl-friends if u mite call them )...
Enough.. For once you have to stand up for yourself... you have to rise against the system.. and maybe i would face dire consequences too...Like most ppl who read the above lines might think that they are being targeted and would distance from me... which has already happened...
But this one time... NOTHING ELSE MATTERS...
Cuz its one thing to think.. nd other to make your thoughts public..
It was also my Orkut about me...
Girls...
Is it against their nature to start a conversation... Why do we have to run after them always...
I have had enough of msgn,scrappin,callin nd sayin d same thing "Hi..Wsup"
I m fed-up...even with girls whom i know...
Its like tryng to break steel with pencil...
This time...I wait...You make the first move!!or just leave me alone
This message is not intended for everyone
You can ask yourself...whether you should be are the one pointed to?"
Now how many of us have been through this... many i guess...
Its like a situation that continiously happens , and makes u feel sick of either urself or the person whoz acting weird..
Its as if they show that you dont exist... We all want to make our existence felt somehow...So its one of the worst experiences when you aint acknowldged...
It happens with me too... and i have taken in meekly at times...
but till when will i sell my dignity for the sake of making some new friends ( girl-friends if u mite call them )...
Enough.. For once you have to stand up for yourself... you have to rise against the system.. and maybe i would face dire consequences too...Like most ppl who read the above lines might think that they are being targeted and would distance from me... which has already happened...
But this one time... NOTHING ELSE MATTERS...
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