Category: MDI Gurgaon

Counter-Strike – Date with the Destiny

Tomorrow on 24th April 2005, my Counter Strike clan MML would be entering a competition at Reliance Web World in Gurgaon. Last time when we went there, we eaily won the tourney and walked away with the prizes. This time, its different. I have been told that there are far too many teams and the teams are far too better. Anyways challenge and risk are my way of life and I am looking forward to the event.

People who would be helping me out there and are my clan members are …
Pawanjit Singh Wasu aka MML | hitman
RajKiran Sharma aka MML | ICEman
Sudhanshu Gupta aka MML | Anathema
Saurabh Garg aka me aka MML | Krror_Singh

two other MML mmebers that would not be able to make it due to their commitments and academic rigor. The reasons would be explained sometime later when I would be having 1000000000 xtra minutes to type in. By the way they are Bethune Velamati and Satyajeet Gandhi.

And since I am talking about gaming and on top of it I am talkin about First Person Shooters and on top of it a team game, how can I end this post without mentioning kAgE? kAgE aka Kunal Garde happens to my mentor and I hope I get to beat him someday, somewhere in ANY game !!!!

Happy Birthday – Sandeep Agarwal

Sandeep Agarwal aka Sandy aka Sandiago celebrated his 126th birthday on 27th March at MDI. With his birthday, he is officially a member of the oldie club at MDI. Other notable members are Nishant Nigam, Amrit Rao Pejawar, Shiva Kumar Chikkamath, Siddharth Sinha, Sandeeep Pandya… and few more names… They are so old that I can’t remember their names. They have been lost long time away.

So dear Sandy was so exited about his birthday that he sent a mail to the entire batch himself and asked people to come out and give him a bashing.

Talking about birthdays and bashings, I hate being a friend of someone who has a birthday. Reason being the free kicks and smearing with the cake that you get …

More to follow soon (may be after the exams…?)

Blow Your Head Off At Every Small Thing

MR. “blow your head off at every small thing” …

There is a very cute friend on mine who gave me this name about 5 minutes back. I don’t know how someone can call me that when I think I am never pissed off at anything. I am ready to take whatever comes my way…

But if she says so, I really have to ponder upon it. After all she is a very very good friend and if she says so, it ought to be true.

She would do anything I tell her to and is one of those people whom I can depend on. Just that she can be very very irritating at times. Another thing to talk about her would be the time keeping abilites. She always makes sure that she is on time. I know she has to get ready, have breakfast, call people up, she is busy but she would always be on time ! (… Intelligent people would have decoded this ;))

Thinkin …

Happy Holi

Holi the festival of colors is here and its that time of the year when you have loads and loads of fun !

Wishing everyone a colorful and happy H O L I !!!!

This is a small naration of what happened at the MDI hostel on holi …
It was about 8 in the morning and the entire hostel was as good as dead. Then suddenly, this DholWala enters the hostel and wow all the people are up in a flash. Then someone of us realizes that the ladies are still sleeping. So the DholWala is routed towards the girls hostel. The obvious happened.

As all of us gathered behind the academic block, there was a pit full of mud water, eggs, what not and we all were thrown – yes THROWN – in the pit and then follwoed buckets full of the same mixture.

Then there was a round of Bhaang and few people who never knew the taste of something as divine as alcohol were found doing interesting things.

Anyways we had a fun filled day and was one of those days that I won’t forget after passing out of MDI.

No No No

A friend rad my BLOG and told me that it looks like a directory of all the girls in your college and that you are going around with all of them.

I have got only one word for her – NO.

And I have decided to start referring to friends as friends. Let me not get human by taking their names on a public place.

P.S.: As far as I know, only few people get time to visit my BLOG. And no :p:D you are not the friend that has made me reomve all the names from the BLOG.

As I am writing this, an !dea struck me. Why not codify names… ? What I would do is that I would give code names to people and then use these code names to talk about them. I know this would be a rip off from Priyadarshini @ USC but as they say – You must adopt the best practices …

KK – Pyar Kay Pal

Yesterday we had the farewell party for our senoirs and like all the parties at MDI, this one was also excellent.

when the party ended, I was sitting in front of the mess and somehow the DJ played PAL. I had to run to the floor and I stood with my ears to the woofers and speakers. The song is SEXY, the speakers were EXCELLENT and the DJ was AMAZING. He knew where to stop to music and where to give effects. It was awesome to listen to that song with so much energy behind it. I would recommnd everyone and anyone to atleast try listening it to once at full volume. I sang along it on top of my voice and after that I hardly was able to speak.

Here is my favorite song from my favorite singer…

Pyar kay Pal – KK

Hum, rahe ya na rahe kal,
Kal, yaad aayenge yeh pal,
Pal, yeh hain pyaar ke pal,
Chal, aa mere sang chal,
Chal, soche kya,
Chhoti si hai zindagi,
Kal mil jaaye,
to hogi khushnaseebi,
Hum, rahe ya na rahe, yaad aayenge yeh pal…
Hum, rahe ya na rahe kal,
Kal, yaad aayenge yeh pal,
Pal, yeh hain pyaar ke pal,
Chal, aa mere sang chal,
Chal, soche kya,
Chhoti si hai zindagi,
Kal mil jaaye,
to hogi khushnaseebi,
Hum, rahe ya na rahe, yaad aayenge yeh pal…

Shaam ka aanchal odhke aayi,
Dekho voh raat suhaani,
Aa likh de hum donon milke,
Apni yeh prem kahaani,

Hum rahe ya na rahe yaad aayenge yeh pal,

Aane waali subha jaane,
Rang kya laaye deewaani,
Meri chaahat ko rakh lena,
Jaise koi nishaani,

Hum rahe ya na rahe, yaad aayenge yeh pal,
Hum rahe ya na rahe kal,
Kal, yaad aayenge yeh pal,
Pal, yeh hain pyaar ke pal,
Chal, aa mere sang chal,
Chal, soche kya,
Chhoti si hai zindagi,
Kal mil jaaye to hogi khushnaseebi,
Hum rahe ya na rahe, yaad aayenge yeh pal
Hum rahe ya na rahe, yaad aayenge yeh pal

Awesome song…

If you want to listen to the song online, here is the link on Raaga.com at the URL http://www.raaga.com/channels/hindi/movie/V000234.html
Since m talking about my favorite singer, here is a link that talks in detail about KK… http://www.hindilyrix.com/singers/singer-k-k.html.

I want to write so much about KK here in this post but right now its 1:11 AM and I havent slept for last two days and have a class at 8:30 in the morning tom. Will try to add stuff later…

Ruchi Pokhriyal – My Mentor

Mentor – Dictionary.com defines the word mentor as a wise and trusted counselor or teacher. Ruchi through this first wonderful year at MDI has been much more than that.

I have talked about her previously too on my BLOG and here are the links to the previous posts if any one is interested…
http://septemberthe22nd.blogspot.com/2004/10/ruchi-pokhriyal-my-mentor.html

Today we bid adieu to our seniors here at MDI and as a part of the MDI tradition we were supposed to present momentos to our Mentors and somehow I got this wonderful feeling when I was on the stage with her – WOW. It was like parting with one of the best friends…

I wish her all the best in all the years to come and a few wishes to myself 😉

Nishant Nigam – Happy Birthday !

4th March – Nishant Nigam’s Birthday.

Nishant Nigam – yet another very good friend at MDI. Call it luck, call it chance, he was in my first sem academic group and the again in the second sem. In these two sems working with him I realized that he is of the best people that you would ever find. Cool, Calm, Composed, Understanding everything you want from a friend and a person, he has it.

Then came Imperium where I found that he and me had SO many things in common that I lost track. There I learn how to stand for each other, how to care for each other, sacrifice yourself to make sure tht the other person is doing well. The first two semesters and then Imperium bonded us as friends – Friends Forever.

If I start talking about him on a post, I can go on for ever. I can talk about the times when we – a group of 10 people – would sit in his room for hours and do nothing but talk, when we would just kill time by roaming around in campus. When we all would study in his room ! Yeah actually Study 😀

So it was his birthday and since he has no roomie, I had to get all the cakes etc and we got em. The number of people that came to greet him birthday was probably the maximum for anyone. Simple enough measure of the popularity of the chap.

Here is the end of this post and wishing him all the luck in life and best wishes.

(copy-pasted from my other *secret* BLOG)

Eternal Bliss !

Today after I had completed the Delphique Panel Selection along with other people, I was walking down the ring road in the campus and felt very very relaxed. Probably the best feeling for quite some time now.

I have realized that the amount of satisfaction and happiness that you get after working so hard is great. I am not one of those who would work hard very often and wait for the result. I normally don’t work hard but if I like something, then I am on it like anything.

Also one thing that drives me is Challenge and Competition. if a task is very challenging, I love to work on it, even though 9 out of 10 times, I won’t be successful at it but still I like to give it a try. And if you are real lucky, the one time you suceed, the satisfaction that you get out of it is AMAZING. Has happened with me once and boy it was one hell of a feeling…

Mansi Balwani

Nishant asked me if I had Yahoo id of Mansi Balwani and I realized I din’t have it. I tried searching on Yahoo People Search but could not find anything on her. Then out of curiosity, I tried Googling her and there was only one return and that too from a competition that she participated in.

Crux on the entire thing is that my friends don’t have a e-identity ! I try hard day and night to be among the top few results at every search engine for Saurabh and/or Garg and some of the very good friends are absent from the internet. So here is the post, mentioning all the names…

Mansi Balwani – did BFIA from CBS and worked with McKinsey Knowledge Centre for a year

Nishant Nigam – Chemical Engineer from IIT Roorkee and two years with TCS

Surbhi Gupta – Mechanical Engineer from IGIT

Shubhi Sood – BIS from Delhi University (yes same as mine)

Siddharth Sinha – Electronics Engineer and two years with Baan

Satyajeet Gandhi – Computer Engineer from Indore and six months with Syntel

Jeetendra Bhojwani – Computer Engineer

Aastha Gupta – BIT from KMC (again Delhi University) 😀

And in the end a disclaimer – These are the names of the people who are going out on Surbhi’s birthday. The list of friends at MDI is huge and in due course of time, I would post the details here.

The Best Of Me

Imperium, Delphique, Illumina and e-Blast are the MDI’s window for the outside world. People know what happens at MDI, how hard we word, how harder we party, how we enjoy life through these events. Somethings are exclusive and people do miss them. Arena 2004 is one of them.

Arena is our internal sports and cultural meet organized once every year. We have competitions like races (in all flavours Dash, Relay, backward etc.), badminton, table tennis etc. I would leave the rest of the details for the lucky few when they get into MDI.

So the point here is not Arena 2004 but the matter of the fact is the competitve spirit that sports bring out of people. At Arena there were my classmates – some freshers, some with work-ex of 5+ years and everyone was striving hard to participate, to win ! There were faculty members (who anyhday would charge in lacs for consultancy assignemnts), there were FPM students (who would be the professors in some time to come), kids (the future), exchange students (who would fly off to their countries in few days). Almost all were very differnt people but had something in common. The spirit to fight, the spirit to participate and the spirit to win.

I can take myself for an example. I am one of those who HATE walking, leave alone running. So there was this race and one of the classmates were looking for someone to complete the team and I pitched in. I was’nt decided that I would be able to run and do justice to the team’s confidence in me but I decided to go ahead and be a part of the team. And I left even myself surprised with the kinda effort I put in. I forgot everything, I wasnt concious of the girl I want to pataofy, I was’nt worried about my grades, future anything… All I was concerned with was running and putting in my best effort. The feeling can not be replicated. You have to do it to experience it. Sports brought out a hidden me. I always thought I can’t concentrate on something, can’t put in my best, would never be satisfied but when I was running, even thought I didnt win, I was happy, I could tell myself that I had put in the best effort and I knew that nesxt year, I would put in even harder effort and try to win.

It was a sort of enlightenment for me. (Wow am talking like Aasaram Bapu) :D. So the bottom line is that if someone can put in so much effort in sports and be motivated like anything, why can’t people realize it themselves… Confusing thoughts I know but who said life was easy…