Time & Again…

 

Time and again, it comes and goes,

The feeling of strength overpowered by frail,

The feeling that my destination is far despite being so close,

And still there is so much to sail.

 

Time and again, I feel so low,

Though it doesn’t stay longer,

The after effects start to show,

And I feel the need to make my belief stronger.

 

Time and again, I feel lonely and lost,

Pondering over my own devise,

Feeling that its turning to frost,

And then I struggle to break the ice.

 

Time and again, I feel things are finally falling in place,

I cherish every small success,

And pull myself further ahead in the race,

All the while defeating the stress.

 

Time and again, I learn more,

That destiny can also be rewritten,

But to become a lion and make my life roar,

I have to be the fastest and most smitten.

 

Time and again, I regain my vigor,

To plan, strive and sail,

Towards my dream of becoming bigger,

Defeating the hurdles of hail,

With strictness, diligence and rigor,

Surfacing above the sea like a whale.

A story so true…

 

Once upon a time,

there was a small child,

As others he was not so bright,

But he worked very hard and always smiled,

Because he knew he had a long way to fight.

 

As he grew older,

the cactus started to rise,

The pressure of studies and career imbibed,

For every step he craved for some advice,

Struggling and jiggling, he managed to jibe.

 

When he crossed his twenties and entered life,

Once again he needed a final devise,

At this point in his life,

He felt frustrated and said, “WHY?”

 

“For every step in my life,

I always felt lost and worn,

Is this what I call my fate?”

 

Burdened with weight,

one strange night,

He noticed bright white light in the sky,

It was a star, shining at its height,

Watching him low with a wry.

 

The boy replied with a smirk,

“You get your light from the sun,

The only thing you do is fly,

So no need to make my fun”.

 

 

The boy thought for a while,

“I could just be the star,

And fly higher than high,

To shine brighter and stride.

The only thing I have to do is,

Take the decision to fly!”

 -         Ankit

I’m back to my favorite topics. I see that the MBA topics, and my views on India created quite a fair bit of comments, and i enjoyed writing on them most too! So I thought I’d write something after a long time.

This ones on what an MBA is?

Most people including me thought that MBA stands for Master of Business Administration.Well it does mean literally, but too deep to analyse. hehe We could debate on this topic for hours, days, months and years! Because theres no correct answers to such topics. It varies from individuals based on each ones perception of their situations. I know this is a old and boring topic, but somehow i find it interesting.

MBA is a masters degree. It is a post graduate course work which refines your management skills or specializes you in a particular field like finance, marketing or accounting. It is a highly recognized course in the job market, even though 8 out of 10 people are doing it. A masters course is a lot more than it just appears superficially. Theres no doubt about the fact that the general awareness of people towards education has enhanced and a bachelors is not considered as the end of education for most people these days. But doing masters is not just another degree. I feel one should choose this carefully, and not just follow the herd or the trend which is existant. Your interest and your skills are a vital factor in deciding your future course.

Alright coming back to MBA, it is the masters of business administration. Its a wonderful course and intrigues you internally to think as managers, or as businessmen, or entrepreneurs (depends on which one you choose! ). An MBA does not actually make you the ‘master’ of business. It doesnt even get you near it. The degree just opens to you a gateway to the basic foundation, from where you have to walk ahead, and all alone!

Lets say it builds an infra-structure in you, and teaches you the way things “should” be done. But the way things “are” done and handled, is not taught in any B-School, not even in the best ones like IIMs,(I cant comment about Harvard,Stanford,etc. coz i dono about their course structure and approach). Its not uncommon to read different articles on many sites saying what they dont teach you at B-schools. MBA provides you an overview, fills you with a lot of enthusiasm to do something, when you set your foot out in the corporate environment. If you’d like to be a businessman, or an entrepreneur, you’ll probably be enthusiatic of tapping some opprtnity somewhere, maybe your country or elsewhere. If you are looking to work for the big companies, you might want to make it to the middle or senior level management and prove your worth (depending on how much experience you have).

Now, coming to the experience factor. It is indeed the most questionable and debatable topic in considering a masters degree. I could not find anyone yet who has a strong answer to this question. Is work experience more relevant than anything else. If you pass that question and think you’re really smart and wise, I have another one for you. Which experience counts more,  pre or post? Or both are important? There are endless questions in my mind at least! I have answers to all of them, still they exist as questions. I could write about them here, but it would be off track .

Coming back, MBA is a masters degree which is supposed to give you an overall efficiency in the handling and operation of a situation or an environment. That is the reason you are offered different electives and specialisations to choose from a vast list. However most students choose either a finance or a marketing specialisation. I fail to understand that if they just want to specialise in that degree then why dont they take a masters in finance or a masters in marketing? Why MBA?? Is it just because the “MBA” degree is “in” or is it unawareness.Too many questions..

When i chose my options, i tried picking a balance of my electives. I had no concrete reasoning behind my choice, but just on gut-feel and my interest. I chose finance to have fair basic knowledge of it and management skills, which looks at the pshycological aspect of the work and personal life situations. Till now I found my choices to be upto my expectations, but still of somone asks me why did i take management skills? I have a blank look!

(Note: All my views are based on the course structure of an MBA desgined in Australia, so it may differ to the views of students in India as their structure is very different with trimesters and innumerous subjects! Remember in India, you need to get the best out of your money! Kidding, No sarcasm intended, everyone knows the quality of (top) indian b-schools.)

Hello! I am a moderate car-lover (I love knowing about them, but am not aware of all the latest models and a freak about them). I just got to visit the motor show here which happens every year. It was awesome and I saw some great cars there. For the firt time, I saw the concept cars live, not to forget each car had a priceless beautiful model-girl with them.

I saw people asking them to pose in front of the car, and clicking their cameras! Crazy is’nt it! Well I guess its pretty common, but new to me.

Thats Alonso’s car (Renault) which he used to win some race last year.

Awesome Concept car by Honda

Concept Car by SAAB

Look at that console!

Concept car by Nissan (looks like the old indian fiat doesnt it? )

The baby and master! FERRARI (New Model) Don remember the no

The old beauty!

Chrysler Diamond Series! (Heaven)

Thats the power house!

Bentley Continental GTC.. Dream car for anyone!

Stunner! Maserati! I love tis, i found it to be most elegant and classy! specially the color combination.

Concept car by AUDI

Chrysler 300C

Concept car by Nissan! The consoles are all touch buttons!:)

There are a few more I’ll update this blog! (Sorry my connection suks, so have to break and upload)..

Cont..to b updted  

Thanks to Ruhi’s blog on Browser research and my friend dev’s recommendation, I installed Firefox 2.0 today. Its really interesting with all those tab functions and the numerous add-ons. Even IE 7.0 came out, and i updated the version on my PC.

This RSS feed has come in all versions of all browsers I think. I’m the only one who was not aware til now it seems.But newys now i am! hehe

I dont know which one out of IE and FFox are better, but by now, both are working fine with my PC. Both are equally good, though I guess IE is a more direly accused of security breaches and other  certification issues (source: Ruhi’s blog). And looking at those beautiful images on her blog, increased my confidance to start using Firefox

When I find some more time, i’ll definitely do some more research on this, and update this blog!