A 'bachhi' no more... @ blogspot.com !
Hello World !!!
This is my first blog and I cant help getting excited about it !!!!
Though innumerable items have fallen hapless victims to my spree (at various unpredictable moments in my short life of 22 years) of scribbling, starting from my dog-eared, much-thumbed, poor old diary to word and notepad documents on my computer to various scraps of papers that, after few weeks of unceremonious existence on various parts of my desk and shelves, resignedly dedicated their lives for the betterment and growth of the garbage dump at the corner of my street, this is the first time the internet has fallen victim to it !!!
So I guess all you sympathetic souls out there can understand my childish excitement and enthusiasm... and so I take it for granted that you will forgive me for my sin of being passionately partial toward sentences that are 'a bit' (ahem... pls excuse me if you dont entirely agree...) on the longer side...
hmmm... now that I've overcome the starting problem (I'd hate to think of that picture that must be forming in your minds vaguely beginning to associate my form to that of an old sputtering bajaj scooter with its seats frayed and discoloured... butit can't be helped for want of a better phrase) let me get down to the matter at hand...
For a brief peep into my life so far... well... I'll save the details for later (for the near future)... but a brief introduction is very much in place : Anupama.M (always insisted about the ".M" at the end of my name... made a pact with my dad about it some long time back amidst clutters of half-filled forms that asked me for my full-name, sur-name, middle-name, first-name... prefix anything you want... you get the idea right?) currently doing my PGP at IIM, Ahmedabad, India. (I dont think I will say anything more about my education... will save that for yet another post !) (FYI : bold words above are to facilitate the tired reader whoz wading through his nth blog)
Right now, this very microsecond of this minute of this hour of this day of this week of this month of this year of this decade in my humble life, I am typing away to glory, plop in the middle of my summer internship - my stint at trying to work for a period of 2 months (a requirement for my PGP) - under the sweltering harsh heat of Mumbai, thankfully shielded from it by the 8 floors and roof above me, comfortably snuggling deeper into my well-cushioned huge chair in the 12-storied building near Marine Drive, which houses the intimidating posh offices of ABN AMRO Bank.
Now that I have honoured you with a peep into my current life, I'll officially start off this blogging spree of mine with a poem I wrote which mirrors some parts of my soul - with, of course - a timestamp dating roughly one-and-a-half weeks back...
As I enter a new world...
I stepped into the foyer
Looming large and wide
College to corporate life
Across the great divide
Frightening for sure
The great dark unknown
With me - the sacrificial goat
Venturing out on my own
The first time in life
With nobody for backup
To watch out and help me
If I cause any goof-up
Of course I am prepared
With my confidence booster-pack
But I'd have been happier
Had I an option to backtrack
No comforting words
No solace from my family
No familiar faces
No friends to offer sympathy
I realized for sure
I was in for a long day
I'd have to carve my own path
For me to make headway
Wondered as I walked in
What was I doing ?
What was I getting into
Was it my sort of thing ?
So many doors open
So many options to consider
Would I by entering this,
Close the others forever ?
Not a leap for mankind
But for sure, a great step for me
Its scary enough deciding
What my future's gonna be !
Finance versus Marketing
Systems versus Strategy
What an array of fields
Choosing one is an agony
Confused that I am
At this stage in my career
The range of choices
Is a tough-to-cross barrier.
I wonder to myself...
Is my choice right ?
Will I fit in well
And soon see the light ?
Will I succeed in life ?
In my chosen field ?
Have I chosen right at the crossroads
When I, the other doors, sealed ?
Hmmm... That was that !
And now that you must have got to know a bit more of me, I think thats enough dose for one day !
Btw - that "bachhi" in the title has more that one implication... it can be thought of in a multitude of ways as follows :
A. The bachhi that I was to blogspot, who has died a natural death once and for all... (though I myself cant see the logic of how a death cannot be for once-and-for-all)
B. A no-more-fachhi-bachhi @ IIMA - proudly presenting to you... the tuchhi from D1 - the most-enviable and the foremost dorm in Asia - the official 'Den of the OneDerGals' !
C. The bachhi who has now been officially launched into the "corporate world"and should hence not remain a bachhi anymore !
Well... Thats it for now...
Signing off... and hoping to get back soon...
Anu.
This is my first blog and I cant help getting excited about it !!!!
Though innumerable items have fallen hapless victims to my spree (at various unpredictable moments in my short life of 22 years) of scribbling, starting from my dog-eared, much-thumbed, poor old diary to word and notepad documents on my computer to various scraps of papers that, after few weeks of unceremonious existence on various parts of my desk and shelves, resignedly dedicated their lives for the betterment and growth of the garbage dump at the corner of my street, this is the first time the internet has fallen victim to it !!!
So I guess all you sympathetic souls out there can understand my childish excitement and enthusiasm... and so I take it for granted that you will forgive me for my sin of being passionately partial toward sentences that are 'a bit' (ahem... pls excuse me if you dont entirely agree...) on the longer side...
hmmm... now that I've overcome the starting problem (I'd hate to think of that picture that must be forming in your minds vaguely beginning to associate my form to that of an old sputtering bajaj scooter with its seats frayed and discoloured... but
For a brief peep into my life so far... well... I'll save the details for later (for the near future)... but a brief introduction is very much in place : Anupama.M (always insisted about the ".M" at the end of my name... made a pact with my dad about it some long time back amidst clutters of half-filled forms that asked me for my full-name, sur-name, middle-name, first-name... prefix anything you want... you get the idea right?) currently doing my PGP at IIM, Ahmedabad, India. (I dont think I will say anything more about my education... will save that for yet another post !) (FYI : bold words above are to facilitate the tired reader whoz wading through his nth blog)
Right now, this very microsecond of this minute of this hour of this day of this week of this month of this year of this decade in my humble life, I am typing away to glory, plop in the middle of my summer internship - my stint at trying to work for a period of 2 months (a requirement for my PGP) - under the sweltering harsh heat of Mumbai, thankfully shielded from it by the 8 floors and roof above me, comfortably snuggling deeper into my well-cushioned huge chair in the 12-storied building near Marine Drive, which houses the intimidating posh offices of ABN AMRO Bank.
Now that I have honoured you with a peep into my current life, I'll officially start off this blogging spree of mine with a poem I wrote which mirrors some parts of my soul - with, of course - a timestamp dating roughly one-and-a-half weeks back...
As I enter a new world...
I stepped into the foyer
Looming large and wide
College to corporate life
Across the great divide
Frightening for sure
The great dark unknown
With me - the sacrificial goat
Venturing out on my own
The first time in life
With nobody for backup
To watch out and help me
If I cause any goof-up
Of course I am prepared
With my confidence booster-pack
But I'd have been happier
Had I an option to backtrack
No comforting words
No solace from my family
No familiar faces
No friends to offer sympathy
I realized for sure
I was in for a long day
I'd have to carve my own path
For me to make headway
Wondered as I walked in
What was I doing ?
What was I getting into
Was it my sort of thing ?
So many doors open
So many options to consider
Would I by entering this,
Close the others forever ?
Not a leap for mankind
But for sure, a great step for me
Its scary enough deciding
What my future's gonna be !
Finance versus Marketing
Systems versus Strategy
What an array of fields
Choosing one is an agony
Confused that I am
At this stage in my career
The range of choices
Is a tough-to-cross barrier.
I wonder to myself...
Is my choice right ?
Will I fit in well
And soon see the light ?
Will I succeed in life ?
In my chosen field ?
Have I chosen right at the crossroads
When I, the other doors, sealed ?
Hmmm... That was that !
And now that you must have got to know a bit more of me, I think thats enough dose for one day !
Btw - that "bachhi" in the title has more that one implication... it can be thought of in a multitude of ways as follows :
A. The bachhi that I was to blogspot, who has died a natural death once and for all... (though I myself cant see the logic of how a death cannot be for once-and-for-all)
B. A no-more-fachhi-bachhi @ IIMA - proudly presenting to you... the tuchhi from D1 - the most-enviable and the foremost dorm in Asia - the official 'Den of the OneDerGals' !
C. The bachhi who has now been officially launched into the "corporate world"and should hence not remain a bachhi anymore !
Well... Thats it for now...
Signing off... and hoping to get back soon...
Anu.
