Buying a LapTop........

Finally after years of hard work and day dreaming, possessing a laptop dream finally got over, when I went on to buy one for me . It took me around 7 years from the day I started dreaming about it. Lap top is one such gadget I always have been love with.
It involved lot of research work before I finally went on to buy …intensive thinking and lots of discussions…internet these days plays such a gr8 help to guide you…GOOGLE is the word which has solved all these problems. Though my problem was solved by an exhaustively written presentation by one of puys(all members at Pagalguy are addressed by this name) This presentation had it all and I went on to read it some 5 times …before accessing hp’s official site to check the models which ever suited my pocket and my personality as well.
Pocket this is the biggest criteria I feel coz lap tops are available from 23k to 90k+ as far as I checked ,I know that lappies go much beyond 90k as well …since I have been a Compaq fan right from late nineties when Compaq was not owned by hp, Since they are single entity so does not really matter…decided to shell out some 60 k bucks and checked many brands though my concern was always to pick the best model in this range ,brand was not a much of big criteria. Lenovo was the voice that came from my family ,one of my doctor cousin bought it some 3 months back and I fell in love with it…the only reason was that I never checked other brands….model was lenovo 4 A Q. research needed to be extended…money was the constrain, as no body gonna pay me this huge sum of money. The dream was procrastinated for a while at least till my engineering is over. Finally day arrived when engineering was over and I started researching again at my personal level,though this time I went on to few shops ,just to look at the lappy I am going to buy.
The presentation needed to be studied again as for some body like me who has been a novice for this lap top thing has to buy the best deal .finally short listed few facts I wanted in my laptop
* 1 gb Ram was one thing I was striving for.
* Core 2 duo was the processor I wanted for this lovely gadget.
* After researches I came to know u need to buy T5000 series in lap tops
* Graphic card that too discrete one was one of the other few Utilities I wanted
TV tuner card was also lovely utility to have .
How ever to get these utilities in lenovo demanded to shell out some 65k+ ..out of budget was the cry I had and love for lenovo was gone ,Saif’s ad cant do the magic I thought it created.
Then I came to know about the fact that HP lap tops have all this and much more better features than what lenovo has to offer,in the mean time I had my hands on Compaq which costs him some 33k,the piece was good enough..to buy but do I have the trust for Athlon as I had fo Intel after using Celeron for some 3.5 yrs ? No was the answer….plus to buy a laptop without the graphic card was foolishness when u have been using some thing of same sort for last 3.5 yrs..Compaq at 33k came with win xp..is nt it the same operating system I have been using for years..yes it is….this Compaq was out of list in a hour when I checked all these…..
In the mean time I was getting adamant to buy HP pavillion 6200 series after comparing it with other models in the same range…yet not decided …..thanks to one of my friend who got his admissions in one of the best school of the country ,he came introducing Dell model to me ..deal was fair enough but is Dell going to provide me service I expect…? No was the answer….finally decided to check some Toshiba as well ,because my company had bulk deal with it ….but thanks to my ego kind of thin king…I was not interested in spending 60k for Toshiba at least till I am in India ,so what if in US Toshiba means u need to pay 100$ extra but in India I am least bothered about his vision…
Decision was made to buy HP now the fight was restricted in between the two models one with dual core and other with C 2 D ,former one was available at some 51k this is wit Hough taxes and later one was available at 57k with taxes…,former one lacked a discrete graphic card and was 14 inches wide screen but later one(Hp pavillion 6226TX ) was having all those utility items one can possibly dream of…
Finally the vague image og going for great lap top was seemingly looking as if I was about to achieve it…finally the day came on 30th may when I came home with my first lap top. Funds have been arranged…and lap top has been bought and I am loving it….

So this is my first post through my lovely dream…:)

Chat between two serious CAT aspirants and the elusive CAT/IIMs

Guys, This is the Hypothetical chat created by my friend Pradeep I found at PG ,it’s a true picture of the CAT06 result . This shows the kind of weird results IIMS have given this year.Hope you have the same fun reading as I had……..enjoy!!!!!!!!!

Chat between two serious CAT aspirants and the elusive CAT/IIMs

Student 1 : Dear Sir. I have got 99.33, 99.72 in 2 sections and a 99.84 overall, but only 95.32 in the other section . Can i get a call, Dear CAT, from IIMA.

CAT/IIMA : What????, IIMA Call?. Dont you see you are not competent enough to cope up with the rigorous 2 year course we conduct here. Had you scored 0.02 %ile more you could have proved yourself to be competent enough to pursure a course and joined the ranks of MS Banga and Harsha Bogle. With a poor 95.32%ile in one section, All i can tell you is plz study more.

Student 1 : Sir, How about the chances from IIMB.

CAT/IIMB : Ha ha ha ha ha.. IIMB.. ha ha ha.. (Gearing up itself somehow to answer the question).. Fine.. I will anyway try to answer your question.. I need a few more details to answer your question anyway.. like..

1) What is your Date of Birth. It must fall between May 14th and Dec22nd. Else doubtful. Lets see. There are some rare cases who get thru with some lineancy in that. Anyway. Best of Luck on that.
2) 10th scores and the State you did it from and also, whether you have scored more than 83.11 % in that
3) 12th scores and the State you did it from and also, whether you have scored more than 86.76 % in that
4) Work-ex. Just the number of months would do fine. You need not tell whether you did it Microsoft, Google or Kandasamy mudaliar Textile mill at chittoor.. It does not matter much. We need diversity, you know. We also dont like differentiating between people based on illogical data like this.
5) CAT %ile. Now, wait. This is thr trickiest part. We are still awaiting the results from Las Vegas Casinos were our profs are playing. They are yet to finish the game. Prof X (who has a bet on keeping VA cut-off at 88.32%ile) is losing badly. He needs to improve on his casino skills. Prof Y is winning the game. He had pegged it at 96.32%ile. lets see.. Last year Prof Z won hands down with a 85%ile in DI. A few bugging students sneaked into our institute thru that. Lets see how many more get lucky this year. But lemme say guys, Its fun. Casinos are fun. The above rules are very well applicable for other IIMs too, though some lineancy maybe allowed.

Student 1: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (Somehow composing himself to ask the next question)

Student 1: But Sir, almost none of these can be changed by me now. I dont have any control over it at this stage of my life.

CAT : Obviously. You cant change. And thats what we love the most. You have absolutely no control over your destiny. We control it. You heard it right? Anyway.. We do have a backdoor entry. If you score 99.95+ in all three sections and a 99.98+ overall, you may be exempted from all this. But again, its a "maybe". So please dont have high hopes. Lets see.

Student 2: Sir, I have scored 99.81 overall and a 99.96 in quants, 99.14 in verbal but a 78.17 in DI coz of a bad day. I have received no calls from none of the IIMs till now. But I have good work-ex, can very well think logically and am suited to do an MBA from the top IIMs. I can obviously handle the rigour.

CAT : ROTFL.. My God! a 78.17 in DI.. Do these profs release these types of below average percentiles too. Yuck! I never knew anyone can get a 78.17 in DI. pretty surprising. And were you talking about calls from the IIMs. First you need to explain to them what a 78.17 means.

Student 2: But sir a 99.96 in quants and a 99.81 overall and a 99.14 in VA. Does that not look attractive enough to study at IIMs ABCLI?

CAT : Sorry.. I could not hear properly.. What did you tell your score was in DI?

Student 2 (losing his cool ): WTF. WTF do you want to know. I got a f'in 78.17 in DI and finally all you buggers decided I am incompetent to think logically. You decide that since I could not crack one more set in DI, I am not fit for management. Blah Blah Blah..

CAT : Beta.. Tension mat le.. See. I will let you out one trade secret. We ourselves are pretty confused in how to eliminate people. Its a nice game with us and the computer. We keep changing one variable or the other till the calls for each instis touches the required number. In fact how to predict the right nos so that we can give results in 3 weeks itself is now a casestudy at IIMA.

Student 2 (stammering to ask the next question) : But sir.. You will be losing out on lots of good students coz of this.

CAT : So?

Student 2: "So?".. What question was that? I told, you will be losing out on a few
deserving students, some who may have got 97%ile or 95%ile overall but for whom an MBA would suit much well in their career goals.

CAT : Career goals..? What is that. I never knew our guys here talk about that. We know numbers. Talk numbers to us. and only numbers. Nothing else matters. And better if the nos are higher.

Student 1 :

Stdeunt 1 : Ok. Lets talk Numbers. You have given calls to some students with overall 97.5 %ile too but not someone with a 99.75%ile. How does it work.

CAT : Oh, You guys figured it out huh.. These youngsters are smart nowadays. Anyway, promise you wont tell it to anyone.

Student 1: Promise Sir.

CAT : I believe you. When we were working seriously on Dec 30th, that bugging programmer had boozed a bit. Instead of typing 98.75%ile, he typed 97.5%ile in the computer program and some buggers may have sneaked in. Dont worry. We will take care of them in the interview.

Student 1: But sir,He may actually be a good candidate.

CAT : How can he be a good candidate. He got 97.5%ile overall.

Student 2 (butting in ): Oh Man! Did dhirubhai score a 99.5, did lakshmi nivas mittal score a 99.5.. did..

CAT : Stop, Stop.. Why should they score.. We dont create people like them. We create people who can work for them.

Student 1: Sir. We are speechless. Anyway.. We have a question and a suggestion. question first. How come IIM A/B/C have called a candidate who may have 97+ sectionals and 99+ overall but not IIM L/I/K.

CAT : Hmmm.. Thats a very good question. What happened was these 3 IIMs wanted to show to the outside world that they are unique. Hence they chose a different casino this time and played a different game amongst themselves. Mebbe cut-off changed coz of that. And what Suggestion? We dont like suggestions.

Student 1: Plz listen once.

CAT : We listening to others. He he.. Proceed.

Student 1 : Why cant you select people the way International B SChools do by finding out more about the personal characteristics of the student so that you can find whether he is better suited for management rather than just depending on nos.

CAT : Personal characteristics.. You mean height, weight, hip size etc..? We were thinking about it in 1997 but..

Student 2 : No No.. (In horror and controlling his temper).. We mean his aptitude do to management, his potential, his passion, his career goals, how an MBA from IIM will help him.. etc. In those lines..

CAT : Are you serious. We cant read the applications of 191,000 buggers. then we have to conduct CAT'07 for batch 2012. You are absolutely illogical. No wonder you scored a below average percentile in logical reasoning. Ha ha ha.

Student 2: (You #$^%^%*& ). You somehow got the point though not exactly. conducting CAT'07 for CAT'12 batch. We advice CAT to be designed in the lines of GMAT which has 5 years validity and is standardized.

CAT : OMG! That means our annual profs trip to Las vegas will be cancelled. I dont think they will agree to your suggestion. And what is the crap about 5 year validity. How can the intelligence of a person not change in 5 years. We believe it will change every year, in fact every week also if CAT is conducted so often.

Student 2: CAT is supposed to test Aptitude and not intelligence and aptitude will not change much in 5 years. It will benefit the student community immensely since they can give CAT in the final year, concentrate on their careers and then join MBA after 3-4 years after understanding business and corporate life. They can also concentrate on extra curriculaars etc. Because of CAT, the career of many people is jeopardized and none of the serious working CAT takers know what Extracurriculars is.

CAT : Agreed. But what about the Las vegas trip?

Student 1 and 2: Fainted.

CAT (gets a phone call) : Are Bhatta bhai. kahan hai tu.. Still playing at the casinos? You guys have real fun time.. So who won the game and whats the cut-off for QA this year.. What.. 89.11 ile huh.. Who won the game.. Ok.. Visit the miami beach.. (and he walks off speaking)

Last post for the year 2006!!!!!!

I know i have not posted for such a long time....but it wont b wrong either to say that it was for the first time other than gals which kept me busy....yaa it was study.....not my degree..infact it was the most neglected part this semester....But ya CAT was one thing which kept me real busy.........i was not studying that hard but to such an extent that i didnt had time reading much of my books and also visiting my clg...CAT is to blamed to keep me regular just on 2 sites one was Pagalguy....myfav ..and other was ORkut ...i made and found many friends .....infact it wont b wrong if i would say i have many thanks to pay to this site called orkut which helped me meet few of the spcl ppl out here....i know many of u will get to know the meaning but still i will keep these things at bay and will move fwd.....
After coming from my SPT i had tough times starting my prep for CAT...it was infact much tougher than wat i thought and wat i had in mind.......My initial percentiles in TIME AIM CATS varied some what as low as 26 and moved as high as 90....i know i was not at my best but the reason was i was going thru a bad patch or wat i cal my placement season.......i didnt took few initial JOBS of kirloskar and all that seriously and when it came to few other it become a matter of pride for me to take one......and ya i originated as a winner ..it will discussed hopefully later ......actually this year was one which pushed me that harder and taught me few lessons ....that there is nothign as certain as death....i call it this way coz its one thing which is confirmed at some point rest nothing...the toughest lesson i learnt was too njoy some bdy success in which you have lost and which mattered to u more than to him...but ya i feel now that god wanted me to learn
Few other thing which i learnt were ...too loose some thing which is in ur hand and it goes just like if a castle changes in to heap of sand in frnt of ur eyes...it happened opportunity was in my hand and it went off just when i was about to clear the border line.....anywyas all these are lessons may b destiny some times want u to learn else we get to realx...some doses are bound to be there to make u feel btr....SEMESTER i felt i am an engg..coz it was one which was toughest in academic history to pas thru though i managed fairly well and that too wid grades as good as good as 63% ...i mean not as good as i mentioned but i know how much i expected...anyways....than one thing which this year has given me is few of my best friends and their suppost in evry odds.....understanding their importance to carry on furter in life and few of the friends for the life time....may b it will b exposed later up in my life..coz i am still to know few odds....but this year made me learnt the importance of money though coming from baniya family i knew it well but still managing money is tuff job..this year saw my drinking tastes....as they nvr evr saw.....i discovered my fav vodka brands....discovered how to and when to drink ....
Than here comes the DEGREE tour which made us learn evry chap i nvr thot i can learn or wud have leant if i havent been there....i agree goa was the best life experience till date but Banglore had my first half hearted hangover......LOLZ.....
Beach prty at 200 hrs was some experience one can really look fwd,visiting GIM at 0430 hrs was also one thing which was amazing...visiting those valleys and tea gardens at OOTy were great...to have the local made ooty choc was some thing real delicious....to see the beauty of MYSORE and to pass thru the jungles which were once owned or wat we say robbed by VIRRAPPAN...was breath taking....sitting at barista was nvr so fun.but ya coimbtoore had it for me.............i can seriously say i lived life in those 15 days .......discovered such new facts ab8 life....wow its real hard to live ..few of adventorous experiences me and rohit shared......it was awesome to ride on streets of panjim and dat too without feul was tough indeed..and to steal the fuel from bikes and redi there was a good experience in it self.... to dance on the tunes of nvr heard eng tracks at MAMBO's and den to manage to dance wid few of angrejs....wow wat an experience....then to sail thru the cruise at goa was fun......moving on the streets of Banglore....MG road infact...at 12 searching for my lost group who happen do drink much more than limits.....than to hire a auto at 120 bucks the last money i had in my wallet was some of the experiences i nvr had.....i can say it was not 15 days but it was one life which fast fwded my life at such a pace that i cant forget... photographer in me took birth and moved on.............it left me with few memories to cherish............to thinkover.......it taught me the best part is the survival hunger to tap life's best things..u can.....this is wat i did when i got my self a job at TAFE tractors chennai.................
LIfe is learning in it self its ab8 u to understand whether u wana learn or just wana pass by...life keeps on giving u many opportunities...omens as paul cohelo says in its book alchemist.....keep on understandng all these ...life will b beautiful in evry respect....
P.S. thanks to my all friends.....mohit,sardar,rohit,bunny,tarun..for such a wonderful time we had at our trip.....i will always keep this time preserved wid me.....not only in form of 1300 pics and 100 odd movies but as some thing called yaadein in my heart

finally i am able 2 see my desti

wow after a long time of 3 yrs i entered final year on 3rd july and tat 2 without any ATKT...ha relieved and wats big news on stand is i made it 2 bunch of few guys who are called first class hhaaaaaaaaai can have tat feel and a deep breath..tat my convo Pic wont be kharab.....i m njoying it...but ya every smile comes up with some thing insde and this has a ghost like cat ...a Witch like JOB interviews...a hunger 2 get the best job 9in the market always has made my thots different ....more over a greed for money as always made me feel tat ya i can do it...I have been dreaming of this year from last 3 years and now wen i m getting chance for it..this has almost led butterflies in my stomach..cant think wat will b end results but wat i can wonder is i will do it and tat 2 in my shtyle...as always...Training has tought me many big chapters in life wich iwill be sharing in few nxt posts...life has completely changed a feel 2 finally get out of shit ...and a feel 2 stay in this wealthy environment for next 3 yrs.....god cant guess wat i am up to but wat i surely feel is this dilema is really amazing finaly i have understood wat is my clg to me...and how much we respect our insti...amny more things life has in its kitty for me...and many more things i have 2 share wid ppl...i know i have been away for 2 long months but training do kept me away..still after tat i didnt had tat attitude 2 rite for this place of mine....now in coming few days i will try 2 express all these feels thru this medium of BLOGS....................yipeeeeeeeeeeeeee

i can see where is my desti ...and how i have 2 achieve it....

At last i wrote about it...

I some times feel Can a gal effect ur life to such an extent..... i some where read ...if u find a good Wife u have a good life and if u found a bad one u will be philospher for life..i some how agree this point.

We Boys are just a cold hearted creatures being sent on earth by god to work like a donkey and nothing much no emotions or love exist as such..Bus koi ladki dikhe and we are after it..ya thats life for most of us including me and few of my friens wud say specially me ..coz i am the one who are always talking the best creature on earth That is
"GALS"
since i was born i have seen how my mom brought me to such an extent tat i can buy and learn guitar even...i can make project tat can win ...and some how can patao a ladki also...though in mybad time she have been along wid...hold on this article is not the tribute to My MOM
but this one is for the gal who shayad wud never read this up...i know i am writing it for the gal whom some how i manged to love..idont know how..
I resisted my self from writing ab8 her from last so many months but the incidence tat happened wid me forced me to write ...basically those were the days i cant forget and wud not ..the word Called LOVE really existed in this bluddy universe i got to know from her.....
How a single phone call of her made my day ..and how a single sms of her took me in deep imaginations...but some how i cant forget those nights i talked to her on phones hiding my self and phone in quilt really those were the moments ...time rushes away and memories saty in hearts ...
Some English writer once said....
"it allways better to fall in love and suffer ,then never"
She was the one whose sepration tought me to live life seperately and it was one incidence which tought me to work hard to achieve my dreams...its not a tribute but just few thoghts and love tat still keeps on growing...i can say tat coz when ever i remember her i found her in my dreamz happend a lot many times............

P.S. Do u feel what i m writing is true??

Training a necessary part ,but what ab8 cat??

In past 4 weeks i dint wwrote any thing . ANd in past 1 month i had many probs like i had an accident (the day i was thinking to write against traffic rules)
also i started learning guitar in these 4 weeeks...but the situation whcih has led me no where was deciding to have my summer practical training from???
Ever since i started my degree i was planning to have my training from Central farm machinery budni near bhopal . Many of u must have not heard ab8 it but its the institute where all tractors which ever gets launched in india is to be tested B4.More over its one of the best in world and The best in India.
But Now as i am preparing for cat so i m in dilema tat to sacrifice one month of studies or to attend the training i have always thot for...this situation has given me many sleepless nights and also i have not yet decided.
Actually the prob is the climate over there in MP ,where Mercury shoots as high as 49 and Rains start later part of june and by then my trainign wud be over. so a lil afraid as the group which is going wid me is of totally no use and few of my friens have already with drawn their programm due to the climate.
And when i think for CAT in nov i am completely frozen as some times i feel ,if iw ould be able to co up as soon as i am back from budhni.. so was planning to just have my training for sake of having from some 3rd grade organisation and prepare for CAT..but then where the plans go which i made for past 2.5 yrs ....
i dont know will i be able to come out of this dilema kind of situation ..but what i learnt out of ity is that some times u feel like going two places in single moment and tis taught me the imp of time

JUSTICE, CAN I HAVE IT SIR???

Ya its surely some thing I always wanted 2 write ab8. Basically the thing is this 15-day break from my blog had few reasons

1. Mid term exams major reason

2. I was always intended 2 write some thing, which is really big thought

3. I had a disconnection from my net due 2 non-payments of bills (but was always airtel systems fault) not mine

Anyhow when somebody is giving reason he is always trying and hide something or try and tell u 2 convince on a Lie. Nothing separates with me :-)

On 21st of march at 10:00 am I had my Econ-401 exam (mid term) and I needed 2 to do well really very well reason being I haven’t done good in my first hrly exams. But what left me thinking the whole day was the news on top right side of Indian Express regarding PRIYADARSHNI MATTO, really was a good story, but it was first time that after reading a newspaper I was able 2 spend 10 mins reading a news and thinking and feeling like a shit 2 be a part of this system. Never thought ever in my life, that I will feel bad 2 such an extent for somebody whom I don’t know, for some body whose news I m reading for the first time. But it happened and for the first time, I started searching inside me and found ya there is a fire, which want to burn the whole system, which is going with me. Actually during my whole life time I have been a very selfish kind and rough person say without any emotions (mein to sadharan sa selfish sa insaan hu), but ya I knew by know, I have certain emotions which are dying 2 come out.

The thing, which always kept me shocking, was the Scuffle of an elderly man for the justice of his daughter in INDIAN Courts. The struggle for a period of 7 yrs and still there is no such way in our system created by our constitution. Waise if we think there is fault in the constitution itself. Coz ours is the borrowed constitution. Any how the man who killed her remains free and Roams on the street with the full authority but This man Chaman Matto the father remains in Jammu at the same home where his daughter use 2 live.

Listening to one of his interview he gave 2 Barkha Dutt on NDTV I Remembered in my vague mind something like the looks of Kamal Hassan in Movie Hindustani and the same story justice for his daughter who was killed for the fault of system, but he finds his own way 2 fight back and this man remains with a hope still that judicial system of ours will give him justice. This case has been in picture due the case of JESSICA LALS Case but I don’t know when our sleeping giants will awake and will give justice 2 the common man like me if he some how some day goes 2 court for it. I suppose there is no mean out for it and we can’t do even coz our system has been so much badly eaten by the DEEMAK of politics and corruption that we cant help it out.

The first thoughts 2 my mind after listening 2 news like this was that what the hell if this can happen 2 her why not me my family and why not anybody out of my friends??? And I was in stress seriously thinking hard for one thing

WHAT HAS JUTSICE HAVE FOR ME IN ITS KITTY??

If one day I rises and goes 2 the court 2 ask for simple justice then what does court going to give me up a period of deep stress, huge bills of my well paid lawyer and my growing age with a hope one day ya surely one day I will have it

And suddenly the one day comes and I get 2 know that the man has spent so many buck and got himself out of this case then what wud be my condition???

This one thot left me thinking what MR. Chaman Matto must have thot when he got a call from editor on 3^rd dec, 1999 morning saying that the accused in his daughters case have been relieved and what next was the fainting of the man …this is not that there is only one story like this being played but there may 1000 stories which are taking place almost the everyday and only one is brought 2 real stage rest are all rehearsed.

I suppose Movies like Rang de basanti gives us a message and now the movie Hindustani which I disliked many yrs back have a meaning for me…But I suppose we need not only 2 watch these movies but surely 2 perform against the discrimination being faced. I know its always-easy writing then doing but we have 2 and only we can do it. Just rise beyond the words and beyond these criminals who r just using our system for the heck of making their own motives…. Just if u get 2 know any injustice happening in this world around u just try and do some thing good for the sufferer, so that one day u may get a chance 2 change it for the big cause.

Becoz

Every big thing start from the small starting so just don’t wait for the big opportunity just find small one and do it 2 the fullest

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