Matters of Heart

High BP at age of 25.

Raises an alarm right. And it wasnt small amount of high. Directly 100-180. A colleague in the MT batch had this trouble. And we came to know about it due to bleeding from nose.

I was with him in the hospital for checkups and a number of tests. Hospitals really suck. I wish nobody had to go to these places where u see pain everywhere. But i got to see the images of a working heart through some kind of sound waves based test. All the chambers and valves of heart were working live and practical view of something makes things so much clear. Beautiful. They should show this video in schools while teaching about heart.

While talking to him he said he still has to do so much in life and cant afford any kind of illness at this stage. This made me think that everybody has some plan or the other and we rarely make room for exigencies and plan B's. To hell with plan B, I dont have any plan A even.

Does it really matter to have a plan when u dont know when it will be your turn next. Had watched Dead Poets Society and was very impressed by the message. But still its very difficult to follow carpe diem in real life. And it backfires also many a times :(. And sometimes the tradeoffs or the costs are too high. Still it seems fine to have a last show rather than thinking all your life about what u could have done if had the courage at that moment.

And I am going to start exercise again from tomorrow. The learnings from chennai are reinforced today :). Health is the real wealth seriously. It really hurts to be dependent on somebody for even basic requirements.

And just listened to this song "afterglow". Really strikes a chord.

Back to Job again...

So after so long I am on job and managed to have a follower to read this blog :). And although its a Friday evening and i don't feel like making an entry but i fulfill my commitments to my follower.

There are so few things in life which one can truly predict. And this makes me feel that planning for something is really not worth it. Although i am fairly organized person but greatest difficulty i face now is setting a goal. I really like getting to job and having a monthly credit in my account at end of every month but still something is missing.

First the job part. I like the work till now because till now there is no work as such. Being part of an MT program has a new meaning in DHL. There are a large number of operations and departments and one has to know the functioning of each of them to be really effective in the work. And till now it has been a comfortable job. It feels like extension of college and being paid for it is great.

But now the dilemma is I have a lot of free time and i dont know what to do with it. An MBA college keeps one on toes and once you get out there is a huge blank in the 24 hrs we get everyday. Some of the batchmates are really working like for 13-15 hours and they are being paid well for that. I dont know if i want that or if i should be satisfied with less work and relatively less pay. Again its all a matter of perception and boils down to how much is enough !! But I miss the college days and my friends. I want to be in college all my life. May be I should become a professor :)

The unique thing about DHL is that people stick here for long. And being from IT industry long has a new meaning here. It ranges from 10 years to 30 years. I dont know how can people stick to a company for so long. And one of the messages was really scary " If you want to leave DHL do so in 1 year otherwise you wont be able to".

Still no sense of where life is going ...................................

What a weekend

Location : IIM Lucknow

Time : 0300 hrs

The first round of CFA had just ended and we were leaving the pgpx block for hostel common room (thats where we were put up) hoping to get at least 4 hrs sleep. It was around 4-5 degrees outside with very low visibility due to fog.

As we reached the door of the common room I asked Mannu to show light from mobile. Mannu checked his pockets and cell wasn't there. Mannu bhai ko load ho gaya. He felt that he forgot it in the pgpx block itself.

Then somehow we entered the room. Mannu wasn't willing to go back all the way to pgpx block for a reliance set. He decided to call the organizers of CFA hoping somebody would be present in the class. Luckily they were still there and Mannu after giving his identity and college name asked them to look for a cell in third row right side of classroom. That guy was unable to locate the cell. We asked mannu to call his number from Rai's cell.

Mannu first disconnected the call and dialled his no from same cell(mine :( ).

Tang de dang dang tang de dang tade dang de dang de dang ........... (Reliance ringtone)

Guess what ? The cell was in pocket of mannu's sweatshirt. For half an hour (Read till 3:45 am) we were trying to hold our laugh. The best case would have been if he had gone himself to get the cell from pgpx block. And that guy fromm IIML wud have been waiting for a cell to ring.