Myriads yet be done

Monday, April 14, 2008

Change of address

I have been writing at another blog since last 1 year. Readers may get directed at

www.jhakk.blogspot.com
Keep getting updated from this new location.

Friday, March 30, 2007

Happy B' Day my sweetheart!

Hey honey,

Wish you many many happy returns of the day!!

Every b'day of your's reminds me the 1st one which i celebrated with my buddies at IIT Chennai. It was the most different and absolutely fabulous one. All BIS called for cake cutting and then we danced , sweated and what not!

Lets see how we celebrate this one. Its 6.30 pm and i am still stuck in the office.
Have to buy Malay dress for you and take some super shots from our new nikon.

Ok got to leave now.
Wish you again a very happy Bday!! I love you.

Tuesday, December 05, 2006

Managed to celebrate

Somehow we could manage to celebrate my birthday inspite of the hectic schedule.

Thanks to Anwar for providing the vehicle without which it could not have been possible. Actually I never expected that I could get the vehicle that too in the evening hour exclusively for me.

I took my wife and my sweetcutie gullu to Melaka -Bunani restaurent. Had some bear and Biriyani, butter spianch, papad, mixed veg curry. Biriani was real delicious. But we will never repeat the mixed veg curry there. It was too sour to be eaten.

Meanwhile, in the day Janu sent some pious in the lunch and it indeed was too tasty.

Just now received belated happy b'day from Yip. So he is going thru my blogg now!!

Monday, December 04, 2006

1more year

I have progressed one more year into my life.

To day is my B’day.
I would take some resolution afresh and try to adhere to those. But before that I must assess my last year in nutshell.

I started my last year with a vague feeling of

-Getting transfer to Chennai. I was almost sure to get transfer by the end of the Dec05 or latest by 10th January'06.
- Awaiting E&Y final call. Already done with 3 rounds of interviews I was certainly awaiting for the final call and the appointment letter.

But non of the above things actully happened.

Nevertheless, I started my year with a very good family trip along with my parents to Puri, Nandan Kanan, Konark. It was indeed a very satisfying experience. We stayed in L&T's guest house in Puri which was quite decent and liked by every one of my family members. Those three days would be considered few of the most cherishable moment.

However, the year 2006 started with chakkar's of AMRI. Not to be remembered.

By the end of January the idea have gmat stuck to my mind after i saw the launching of IIMC's 1 yr PGPEX.

And gradually i grabbed the idea of writing gmat as my next exciting sojurn.
But now when i look at those days of January-Feb06 i get amazed by the pace by which the time passed.

The idea of writing everyday events in the work book in excel is ingenuous and I am hopeful it would help me in tracking my day to activities, improvements and scope of further betterment.

Saturday, December 02, 2006

Lunching launched

This must be a memorable day of my life!

My sweetheart has started sending lunch to my office. Yesterday was the first day in my life (though married 5 and 1/2 year ago) when I had wife made lunch in my office. Yesterday I had Paranth and Bhujia. But today she has surpassed my expectation.!!!
She sent Parantha, Brijal bhujiya, Chana Masala, salad and curd...!

Kudos jan!!

Will post more on this topic later. Especially I would like to recal my early days of marriage when she was even afraid of cooking. Though once she indicated that she would love preparing delicious food for me.

Saturday, November 25, 2006

Some more

Janu in KL GH

Petronas Twin tower

Beach at Melaka-MY

My baby

CondominiumTanjung Samudera-Melaka

Some photographs

Some Photographs

Malaysia-Pulao Basar, KLCC, & KL

My baby savourig chococreme at Genting -MY

Janu in aquarium at KLCC

Pool at Selat Horizon

Shifted to Beta

I have moved from the normal blog to beta blog.

Today is Saturday and hopefully we do not have to come tomorrow.
Last few Sundays have been working days. Working on Sundays is one thing which hurts me the most. That too when it is not absolutely essential. Anyway no point pondering over this point. i have to decide today whether I am writing GMAt on 28th Dec or not?

Thursday, November 23, 2006

Long Hiatus

It has been long since I posted in my blogg last time. I must keep this blogg alive and increase the posting frequency. Will post lots of photographs as well.

As for my GMAT plan, I had plan of writing it on 28th dec but again it has been almost 10 days since I studied last for GMAT. Approx 10 days from 24.10.06 to 05.11.06 I studied on an average 1 hr a day and wrote GMAT Prep for the 2nd time. Scored meagre 610. And this low score has really plummted my morale and since then no study at all.

I donot know when I am writing my GMAT now!

In the meantime we visited Genting Highland and KL sity during Hare Raya. Will post some photo.

I forgot to mention that my family has arrived on 21st of Sep 06 . My sweetheart managed to come alone all the way from Delhi to KL that too with my hyperactive daughter. It indeed is a valorous thing considering that it was Janu's 1st Overseas trip and 1st international flight.

I was at KL airport to receive her.

Will post more on that topic later.
Also about the places we managed to visit in Malaysia so far.

I got my dauther admitted in to the school on 8th Nov'06 and she started going to school from 9th Nov 06. Will ask my wife to post on this matter. I am attaching her photo here.

Tuesday, August 01, 2006

Inspiration from my sweetheart!

"The difference btwn those who fail to achieve theirs goals in life and those who succeed is the difference between those who cannot put themselves in a supportive state and those who can consisitenntly put themselves in a state that supports them in their achievements."

"There r enabling states ...confidence, love, inner strength, joy, ecstasy, belief...that tap great wellsprings of personnel power.there r paralyzing states.......confusion, depression, fear , anxiety, sadness, frustration.... that since we dont know how things really r ,bt only how we represent them to ourselves,why not represent them in a way that empowers ourselves and others , rather than creating limitations?"

We always have a choice of how to represent things to ourselves. if we take control of our own communication with ourselves and produce visual,auditory,and kinesthetic signals of what we do want,outstanding positive results can be conssistentlly produced,even in situations where the odds for success seem limited or nonexistent."the ancestor of every action is a thought"

RALPH WALDO EMERSONTHE KEY THING TO REMEMBER IS THAT UR STSTE HAS AWESOME POWER.AND U CAN CONTROL IT.YOU DONT HAV TO BE AT THE MERCY OF WHATEVER COMES UR WAY.

One person with a belief is equal to a force of nintynine who hav only interests"no matter how grim ur world is if can read abot the accomplishments of others ,u can create the beliefs that will allow u to succeed..,GOOD TIMBER DOES NOT GROW WITH EASE;THE STRONGEST THE WIND ,THE STRONGER THE TREES"...... J.WILLIORD MARRIOT.

The world we live in is the world we choose to live in,whether consciously or unconciously.everything happens for a reason and a purpose , and it serves us..there is no such thing as failure .there r only results..

Let me share someones life history with u...

Failed in business at age 21

Faliled again in business at age 24..

Overcame the death of his sweetheart at age 26..

Had a nervous breakdown at age 27..

Sunday, July 23, 2006

Hectic work and Pathetic Verbal

Mr. DAM has shown a facet of life unknown to me hitherto. Last 3 weeks have been horribly in terms of work involvement and harrowing pressure. Could not study at all. This made me re-think at many occasions whether I should do sth and get out of this place? Talked to RCS and expressed my concern. Thank God he still wants me and this gave me some relief.

But since then also I have been continuously brooding over this issue. Sharing all these with my sweetheart over chatting. Is it so easy to move out of this place? Not exactly.
Then what?

Leave alone Saturday, last three Sundays also I could not get time to sit in front my newly bought laptop. One Sunday DAM kept us in the office till 7 pm!
Can anyone imagine working on Sundays till 7 pm.

But, Last Sunday was different.

Though busy whole day still it was a different day. We had “Team building Programme” at Hotel Renaissance - 5 star hotel at Melaka. Number of management games like ‘Ice breaker’ , Bid dilemma , Group exercise , etc. We enjoyed but thought of working from the next day again in the same fashion always kept breaking the accelerator of excitement.

But in all these I had totally lost the focus. How to re start has always been a great problem for me. Being in the rhythm is extremely important for me. And I must know this by now. Once off the track and it takes tremendous effort to bring my organs back on the track.

So today I broke the Ice and took an IMS test.

Meanwhile I must tell here that this week though I got some days when I could have put 1-2 hrs at least but could not do so because –
- Laptop and temptation of talking to my wife and my baby. Could not control that.
- And the contradictory thoughts whether to leave or not to leave Melaka.

So today I managed to have a full Sunday for me and wrote a test from 10.15 am to 12.45 pm.

Scored pathetic. Verbal has been terrible. I must pull my sleeves now and adopt some strategy to finish off with the materials I have.
So I once again take following resolves
- Will not open internet till 12.15 pm.
- At least study for one and a half hr a day. 10.45-12.15 (In worst cases)
- Consider taking 30 minutes rest after coming from office.

Friday, July 14, 2006

My Dell laptop

So one of the milestones in my GMAT journey has been accomplished. I received my Dell notepad yesterday. Man what an awesome look it has!
Configuration-
- Pentium Duo 1.66 MHz
- 80 GB HDD
- 1 GB RAM
- DVD writer
- Bluetooth
- 15.4" wide screen
- Centrino Mobile technology

All in just 3639 RM.

I am haapy but could not have enough time so far to spend on it. Just installed Office, Adobe acrobat, MSP and copied some files from my CDs.

Could connect with my sweetheart in the midnight. Wat a clarity of voice! But could not continue chatting because of some connection problem . I wish my wife see it at the earliest. Miss u sweetheart.

But I am not happy because of my irregualrity of GMAT prep work. This is mainly because of the extreme hectic work caused by DAM out here. He made us work on this saturday and sunday till 10.30 pm and 7 pm respectively. I am totally thrown out of my prep track and lost the initial vigour persisting untill last week. Must gather the same though without spending any xtra minute on brooding over the external "No Control" factors.

Mean while i am also thinking of going back to India on pretext of some personal problem.

I will wait till the end of this month and then decide.
Mean while I will keep studying and work as per my plan. Have 90 days approx left with me now. Still planning to write by 16th October 2006.

Yet to consider where to write and exactly when to write.

Wednesday, July 05, 2006

Back to Malaysia

I am back to Malaysia now. I beg pardon as I did not post anything regarding my 1st time arrival at the Malay land. I would try to swiftly touch thru that episode here.

On 28th May I landed at KLIM (Kuala Lumpur International airport) early in the morning. The KL airport is one of the most beautiful airport I have seen so far. Mind it I have seen Chaule de Gaule International airport of Paris and Lyon airport. Also just to mention I have also been to Dhaka international airports many time. But then KL is the gargantuan one unmatched to any of the above airports. Will post some photographs later.

Took a cab from KL to Melaka. 2 Hours drive and I must admit it was a pleasant one. Will write more about it in other post. And thank god it was Sunday.

Tanjung Samudera is the name of the condominium where we stay. It has all the modern amenities like swimming pool, gym etc. Indeed 1st glance of all these things proved my decision of coming to Malaysia good. errrr….wait it was just the beginning few hours at Melaka. The work part was yet to begin.

Just after a month I had to leave for India on three accounts. One my Visa got expired, got calling Visa and other was my MLP interview. So I left for Delhi on 25.06.06. Had a hectic full week with 5 flights in 6 days. KL-Chennai-Delhi-Chennai-Delhi-KL.

Spent cool 3 days with my sweetheart and my cute baby.

And then left for KL on 02.07.06.

Did not come to office on 03.07.06. Studied about 3 hrs.

I have decided to write GMAT in October now & apply to ISB 2nd round.

Studied last two days and can be deemed suitable. But I must be ready for about just 100 days sleep less nights. That is the only way out to score at least a respectable no in GMAT.

Must I pull up my socks!!

Good thing is I have prepared the draft for Dell.
I am going ahead with Inspiron 6400. Quite excited to get the set on hand.

Wednesday, June 21, 2006

Bye Kolkata !

Plethora of things happend after I made the last post in my blogg. I apologise from those who visit my blogg on and off, for not writing for such a long time. I will try to re collect all the happenings and make a long post here.

Last one and a half month has been full of dramatic happenings around me. Dramatic because it had all the ingredients required for a typical drama (eventually will flop) which included following events :
Dt. 05.05.06- Verification certificate submitted for Tatkal Passport of my wife and kid. Had nice time with my wife as we left our baby to my in law’s house. Took lunch at Anarkali – a restaurant near Metro cinema. My sweetheart did not take non veg. Though it did not affect me and had a usual bhar pet (stomach full).

Dt. 08.05.06 - Went to collect the passport for my wife and kid
- Forgot my bag inside the cab near writer's building. Bag consisted of all the important documents including my Passport , Driving license, Cheque books, All policies' original copy and lots of other documents. Both of us (my wife & me) were in a terribly situation. I even ran here & there searching the cab fellow. All in vain but. Asked my wife to go to passport office and I along with my 21/4 year old naughty Gullu went to “hare street” police station for filing FIR. Gullu as usual did all sorts of ‘tamasha’ totally ignorant of the fact that his dad had lost the passport. That used to make me quite light. In a panic situations like the one we were undergoing we need our family the most. She did not spare even the police officers. In fact I must confess that it is because of Gullu that we could get good attention in the Police station. FIR done, we rushed to Regional Passport Office to see my wife. Collected my wife’s and daughter’s passport there. But how was the feeling!!

Dt. 09.05.06 – Whole day talking to banks, agents, police stations, friends, relative for all the help needed to ensure misuse of my documents and re apply for the passport.
Same day the packers came to my house. Janu managed to get all the house holds packed. I could hardly go to my house to sign the packing list.

Dt. 10.05.06 – Story of yesterday’s panic and crisis management work continues. Continuous talk and exchange of mails with Chotu. We were trying 2-3 options to get the Passport in most expeditious way But…Suddenly a windfall! My boss receives a call from a person who claims that my bag is safe in his custody. We rushed to the place immediately. Oh! My god ! Miracles do happen. I got my bag from the taxi driver. I can not believe these things happening in any other city in India. Its the city of joy Kolkata which really brings the pleasure, the real meaning of joy out of the visibly wretched city. I saw my Passport and all other stuffs there. Gave the cab guy 500 bucks and spent another 500 on sweets. Called my wife , Chotu, parents , friends. Everybody got relieved . Aha! Long sigh! What could be the better gift of farewell than this! It was my last working day in the Eastern Zonal office. Where I had the most significant and most comfortable work life balance period. Got my promotion to officer there. Got ELP. Went to France. So many trips of Bangladesh. Had plenty of good times with family. Went to Digha from Kolkata only and then Puri and Sunderban. Most cherished moments with Gullu and of course with my sweet heart janu my wife. Though we also had our worst time here but worst things are to be forgotten and certainly not to be shared.

Dt. 11.05.06 Went to my home by Gangasagar express with relieved and unbelievable set of mind.
Between 12.05.06 to 19.05.06 I dad a peaceful time out there at my home with lots of village ‘bhoj’ (get togethers) and marriages of friends interspersed between my 8 days short tenure.

Left for Malaysia on 20.05.06. Detail of which will be followed in next post soon.

Thursday, May 04, 2006

Sinking...Excited..Sinking

Since last few days I am undergoing a familiar but unwholesome psychological cycle. After my Malaysia going has become final this "known" but "sickening" feeling has started cropping up.

Nevertheless, I sometimes get quite enthusiastic also. the international exposure, $ earning and getting a chance to see Kuala lumpur, Singapore certainly make me filled with Feel Good Factor but suddenly all these things get out of my mind and pressing thoughts of not seeing my parents for next 1.5 years probably, missing my family for 3-4 months and site hardships pulls my spirit down.
What if I could not find time to even write GMAT (of course with decent amount of preparation) ?

And then when I will come out of that jail after 2 years having wasted precious 2 years, my age might not permit me to go ahead with any kind of course.

Thus as decided earlier let me pen down two cases of wring GMAT.
1. I will prepare hard since the time I would land there and write GMAT in October06
- I have to have all study materials with me.
- I must buy Laptop in the very beginning.

2. Next year i.e in 2007 October take annual leave for 30 days and write GMAT during that period . Try ISB 2008-09 , and other European and US B schools.
I will miss IIMC PGPEX and IIMA PGPX that way.

Thus I must try hard to implement my first plan and say BINGO!!

Tuesday, April 25, 2006

Finally I am going

After months of indecisive phase my position seems clear now. I would be going to Melaka - Malaysia by the mid of May. Thus CAT 06 is out of question now. The decision whether to accept the Malaysia posting offer or to go to Ahmedabad was tough in real sense. At one hand where in Ahemedabad I could have prepared well for my CAT, XAT etc , it would have been hard to gel with the batchmates , majority of whom would have been freshers or 2-3 years work ex at the most. Also, since I would prefer to go for one year compared to the two years MBA, GMAT writing is inevitable and subsequently the preparation of my application.

I am pressuming that international exposure attached to my Malesia posting should give substantial wieght to my application. I will be going as Mechanical Planning Engineer there and will be loaded with lots of vital responsibility.

Obviously I would be able to gain some financial benefit also and it will help me to support my family for 1 year when I will not be working.

Let me write something about the project.
MG3 Project at Malesia
Foster Wheeler Awarded PMC Contract by Petronas for Lube Base Oil Plant in Malaysia.
Foster Wheeler Malaysia Sdn Bhd, and the subsidiary's partner, OGP Technical Services Sdn Bhd, have been awarded a project management consultancy (PMC) contract by PETRONAS Penapisan (Melaka) Sdn Bhd (PP(M)SB) for the addition of a lube base oil plant at the PP(M)SB refinery at Melaka, Malaysia.
And L&T is one of the major partner in the consortium formed for execution of the project.

Further detail I will add later as and when I get.

Maleka is 150 kms south of Kuala lumpur. Further down about 200 kms is Singapore. So I will certainly get chance to visit Singapore as well.

My concern:- I am only concerned about my GMAT now. I wish I had taken my GMAT before going there. No point repenting now. I must steal 1 hr atleast in any circumstances since the begining and devote it for my GMAT.

I am going to purchase Laptop immly after landing there. This is must and only way of keeping myself in touch with PG and other useful forums on net.

I am a bit enthused with my decision to go to Malaysia and feel that I should be able to convert my dreams in to reality.

Tuesday, April 18, 2006

Getting started again

Few months ago I started blogging but I could not continue with my thoughts coherently. I started with a post which was basically regarding my family and friends. However, I found that I wanted to write a lot of things regarding my plans for writing GMAT.

So first thing first. Primarily this blogg will deal with all the links, posts, articles etc pertaining to GMAT and MBAs. This would also include the excerpts /comments of the books I read, and other important stuffs which I deem important and consider suitable to discuss out here.

Last 5-6 months I am genuinely on the roller coaster ride because of my transfer issues. First it was Chennai where I was likely to move. Then it became Kolkata where I am presently staying as my boss was all set to become the Regional Manager of Kolkata office and he wanted me here with him. However, one fine day in early March I heard from my boss that he is moving to Ahmedabad and if I was interested to join him there. I consented to his proposal though the other option by then was posting at Malaysia for one of our refinery project for 2 years. I took chance (aliging myselg with Boss) and got myself ready for Ahmedabad. Googled a lot about Ahmedabad.

But last week it was again a U-turn and I am being seen going to Malaysia again. The approval is yet to come from HQ though.

With all these things happening around me can I expect my study to be continued in a regular fashion? Leave alone study part I am not able to even figure out one of the most cliché kind of question which surfaces most of the people like me that is 'Whether GMAT or CAT?'

And till date the same situation prevails.
Hope the dark cloud of confusion and seemingly infinite imbroglio will end soon and I can plan for my first step at the earliest.

Though as of now I am going to Malaysia then CAT is out of question.
But then when shall I write GMAT?

Threats: The work profile in Malaysia will hardly leave me with 2-3 hrs a day for preparation. I hope I become wrong in my perception but what I could discover from my colleagues out here in my company that managing any kind of preparation would call for extraordinary determination and indefatigable attitude. Hope I would be able to metamorphose my self.

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