Musings of my day-to-day life

Its 10:45pm, about the time the coffee shop closes. I and sharad rush with what all change we can accumulate towards 9 th block, chatting and discussing about some random stuffs, completely irrelevant to the next-day exams.  We reach there Just-In-Time, as coffee anna is about to close his shop, before even reaching the shop, sharad yells asking for two cups of cappuccino, one with extra sugar, that day like most other days, we got lucky and got our beloved coffee from Fresh and Honest. Yes honest it was, as it delivered the freshness just as the title promises. The rush of caffeine was just the moral catalyst to build up the tempo for the remaining night, nights that I hated.  But today, its 10:45pm again, I still have lot of change in my drawer, but no exams, I still have work that will keep me awake the whole night, but no syllabus to finish, I still have friends around me, but no-one to have a complete no-sense talk. I sit back and realise that I really miss th...

It was tough times, the entire hard work done was at stake and we were still not sure about the results! All the technical gyan and hard ships we faced were being measured against parameters like luck and CGPA. It was the time of placements and we were already 4 down (i.e. were not eligible or didn’t clear the written in first 4 companies) with a total loss of 25 lakhs!(The gross CTC offered by these companies) and then came the so called mighty ABB! It was a company which was on the PC (preferred companies) list of all the toppers for electrical branch and was surrounded by lot of hype! As it was kind of open campus, inviting students from all the NIT’s which were a league above our college! Nevertheless we waited for it. Soon the shortlist came for the students eligible to write the test and it was filled with shock, as lot of the toppers were not even selected for writing the written exam! That day we saw the first light of hopelessness! It was September 6 th 2010, a day afte...