A could-be second milestone in my life…

                OK first of all I apologize for the long break. What was it? A month and a half I guess. Well I took a break not only from blogging but also from almost every single aspect of my life that could imbibe my time that would otherwise be successfully dedicated to ‘placement preparation’. Yes, I in my final year of college, just like every other final yr student (at least those who came for studying), was to the most part sucked into a whirlpool of written tests, interviews and the preparation they need.

            You guessed it right, the fact that I am writing this now could only mean that it was all fruitful in the end and the other end of whirlpool, when I surfaced found it to be Cisco systems, Bangalore. J I am pleased to say my fellow audience, (forget the modesty, I am too happy to be worried about being humble now) I got myself an internship in eBay and got placed in Mu sigma and Cisco Systems. That said let’s rewind a few days and start from its inception (the word has become a cliché lately… Sad).  

            Starting with DE Shaw – what an engineering student will call the king of companies for its sheer magnanimity in pay package, on it went like a roller coaster ride passing through a blur of companies. Before the churning in my stomach grew to an unbearable pinnacle my stop arrived (sigh!!). But I sure can hear it rolling for my fellow college mates out there even when I am penning this.

            Every final year student could split his final year as BP and AP standing for Before and After Placed. Yes, so is the change it could bring about on you and especially the people and environment around you. Call it prejudice or just my imagination but I really feel people actually respect and listen to you in AP more than in BP. It doesn’t end there. Even you yourself may find some things that annoyed you in BP are actually tolerable, if not funny in AP. You would become this all helpey-helpey, I-take-a-stand-in-everything, so-sure-about-yourself guy. Funny right? What all a “Congratulations, You’re selected” could do in your life. 

Kadavul vaazthu

I had always wanted to do things professionally, meticulous in it, be it preparing a write up for some conference, or proposing to some random girl ;) the thought that comes first to my mind is –stick to the rules! I was seldom successful in sticking(?!?) to it till d end.( Read it once again. I said I had always WANTED to). So here I am exercising the pedant in me who has had a sedentary life for so long that he forgot daylight. J A poem to God, what I came to know in my 6^th std as ‘Kadavul vaazhthu’ is how writers usually start their works of literature. Below is my version of ‘Kadavul vaazhthu’.

Prayers to thee Oh Lord,

Prayers to thee!

Give me courage an ounce more than the fear I face -

To embrace all the happenings around here.

Give me the power to write my own fate,

I shouldn’t regret a thing, now or ‘late’;

Bless me with a merciful heart -

A mind that understands what is right and what is not

          Preach me the meaning of love,

          To find silence in disturbance,

          To find peace in a raging feud,

          To be with myself and enjoy the solitude.

Prayers to thee Oh Lord,

Prayers to thee –

Make me understand the purpose of this life,

You have so graciously bestowed upon me.

Here goes nothing!

When I started writing my first blog at the age of 20 (in other words the no. of years I have wasted) the same thought that would have irked millions of my fellow bloggers around the world, disturbed me as well. How to set the wheels in motion? What am I to start with that would sufficiently satisfy all my would be followers ;) who, mind you, are of varied taste (some even don’t know English, beat that! ) and that at the same time won’t make me one of those customary, tradition sticking, bloggers? What can I say in these few lines that can be different and intriguing that wiki had not already posted? Pondering to myself, I let my eyes rove over the screen and it came to a screeching halt on the name of the blog - “Everything I wish to say”. Hey! Then that means the above lines by themselves qualify for starters!!! So here I go posting ma very 1^st post hoping against hope that my journey into this sea of blogging finds a safe landing J

P.S. For those mentally handicapped people who still did not understand, this is not a COMPLETELY useless ‘starting paragraph’. I have explained my title!