The jack of all master in none!!!!!!!!

After many days i got something to write about. This experience made me to know where i stand in real world.

Its all about my first placement interview. Today i had Philips company came to my campus for requiting students. I was little exited about it, since i had attended already 5 companies written test and got through in none!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So with little hope i went to the college auditorium. By watching huge crowd there i thought today also the same saga continues for me. The Philips people made us to wait for 1 & 1/2 hour. After waiting till 11.30 finally they came in. The team from Philips lead by guy called Mr. Bhaskaran. He gave us brief introduction about what Philips company actually does in consumer, medical fields. After 1 hour of boring lecture we finally headed for our written exam.Hey sorry one important thing i forgot to tell about the boring lecture. He told us about salary structure, which was 4.85/annum and he also told that top one in selected student s will go to Netherlands for internship.That made us feel good and exiting.All the students were going like soldiers heading for a war!!! ha ha...

I sat in one of classrooms which was assigned for EC and EEE branch people. The test started at 12.30 i guess (don remember exact time). Paper consists of three rounds, First was aptitude which is held for 20 min. We should solve around 15 questions in that time. The questions were medium level for me. . After that paper we have 20 min of C and Data structure based questions,which were quite easy. Then we had our paper i.e electronics and electrical paper. It consists of 10 electronics branch related questions and 10 electrical. So till 2 pm we ended our test. I came to hostel mess directly as i was hungry too much. I got my lunch done and went to room. The company people told that result will be announced till 3. I knew that i wont be there as usual , so i started watching STAR WARS movie. At 3 my friend was going to college just to see who all got in. So i too thought why don i ll also go and check. Anyways i got lots of time to watch movie;) . The result is put on the placement cell notice board at 3.15pm.

There was a huge rush of students who were eager to watch whether they got selected or what. So i went in last and checked names. Suddenly i saw my name is there., OH GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!! . Then another thing came into my mind, there were 3 naveen s in my class. Which naveen?? Confusion started. They after inquiring the placement secretaries i got to know ITS ME!!!

I suddenly rushed to hostel, the placement secretary told me that i got Group Discussion to attend in another 10 min. What the f**k!!! I haven't prepared with my resume yet. I suddenly went to room and opened my cub board. Then i opened my formal dress which i kept as it is from 4-5 months. Finally dress got a chance to come out of cub board and see outer world:)))

I did my resume, got in pen drive. Then i got my room mate s bike( thanks to him) and rushed for printout. The placement secretary called and told there is no time. I have to come early. Then somehow he managed to put me in other group so i can go late.

At about 4.30 i reached PS (polymer science) block where the gd and interview was scheduled. I got my name in 6th group. So i got lot of time to prepare ( about an hour i guess or more). I called my parents and sister and told them i got through first round for the first time. They got happy. Then i called my project mates and discussed about project which we had done earlier, so that i can present myself very good.

At 5.45 pm i got call for group discussion. In my panel there were about 9 of them and each one was very good compared to me. Then i remembered my friend's words, "dude , today you dont think that he/she is better than you, U r the best, Its your day". Urging my self confidence i sat with other 8 fellows. The topic for g.d was "QUALITY OF TEACHING IN HIGHER EDUCATION".

Initially i wrote down all the points which i can put in g.d ( usually i never do that,since all were writing i wrote). Then one guy called sharat started about the topic. He said something about teachers forcing student s to learn theoretical part than teaching them practical aspects. Then people started defending his point. I didn't get what to speak out suddenly, since the points i wrote were already discussed. Then i decided to go in my way of speaking i.e tel whatever come s to your mind and dont worry about others;). So i grabbed chance and started speaking. I had put my own thoughts by telling them how teachers should be?, how he/she interact with students and what should be the attitude from both sides. I even told them industry interaction with students , so that student s will come to know what they are learning and what is its application.

After a discussion for an half an hour some girl and one of my friend varun concluded the g.d.

All students came out and instructed to wait for results. All were curious to know who will be in for next round and who will not. Then one person came to announce. He started saying names. My heart started beating 10 times higher than usual!!!!!!!!!!!. After 2 names he announced my name. I felt as if i am placed already.( ha ha ha.. sometimes people get into infatuation than reality). So i called my dad and said i am in for next round.

So i started waiting for my first interview of corporate world!!!. It took some half and hour waiting then i got my name called for interview. I was fully exited and wanted to hit the goal.

I went to classroom where i found Mr. Bhaskaran who evaluated our g.d sat to fire technical questions at me.

THE JACK OF ALL MASTER IN NONE:---------->>>>>

Many of us never imagined what we will do when we face our first interview. I went so charged up and found the guy in front of me full exhausted^^^^^... He asked me some questions on my projects, 8086 and 8051 basics, c and data structure basics. Even though it appears that he asked me many things, he had no patience to listen. He just used to ply over from one topic to another. He didn even listen even though i was telling lot of other things. After half an hour he said its over. I came out. I was really frustrated that did i f**ked my interview or someone did( still in that confusion). Still believing in hope i stayed there to know results.

Actually during interview he was trying to ask me more about c data structures, being in E&C i knew some basic concepts in data structures and most of in c. I told him about those things. I explained him more than he asked in hardware domain than he asked. But in software domain i guess i didnt upto the mark.

I never imagined really , how i will present myself in an interview. Whatever i did, went of spontaneously. Sometimes i think i shouldnt be answering that way or sometimes i think the guy who interviewed me didnt really wanted to understand.The result came out. I WAS OUT!!!

Three people from my college got placed. In which the guy from my branch got into. He even got a chance to do INTERNSHIP IN NETHERLANDS!!! so wonderful.

Somethings in life never come back. ONE SHOT , ONE OPPORTUNITY AND GONE!!!

But i came to learn many things from that moment i got out. I always used to learn many things. Still i love to. So my dad used to say me "You will end up like jack of all master in none".

Now i came to know what i want to be and what i shouldn't, So i decided from the moment i was out not to be jack and end like MASTER.

Thus my first interview ended me to show many new things in my life;) This is my experience and end of most wonderful opportunity.

Feel free to comment to this jack , and this jack will MASTER one day on his weekness!!!!!

One Step!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

There is always one step difference i find in anything i do in day to day life. Not only i, but most of people find it. There is a very small gap of ONE STEP between each success and failure of a person.
The one step makes an athlete to win a gold medal and another to silver. So the only one step makes changes in our lives.
As famous boxer Mohammad Ali said,"i always not worried of a person trying 1000 shots once, but i am always worried of the person who tried 1 shot 1000times".
That is key which help to clear one step difference. If we decide we wont get it or we cant do it, then we will never do it. Instead we kept on trying the same thing as many times until we get it that clears this distance. Although if there might a chance we wont get even we try it those many times also, we will get to know about many other things which are connected to it very well.
According to me life is a game. By Darvin s theory of survival of fittest , if we want to be in this game we have to play our best each time, every second. Every player is best of his own game.No one wins game at the end, and no one asks it. But what matters really is how well you played. What you did in life. Had you gave up all your dreams or tried to achieved them. As Napoleon said, "There is nothing called impossible in my dictionary". I agree to him to some extent, since impossible only says i m possible.

Like it said an ant can also defeat an elephant, like that ONE STEP can defeat anything in life!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Dreams... Dreams... Dreams... Dreams...

Sometimes it so happen that you will get a dream in the morning and it will get true. But in my case i always get dream in the morning only but none of were true until now. And that too i get some extraordinary dreams which sometimes make me happy, sometimes really scared. As Einsteins theory of relativity says, i feel sleeping more even though i don not remember what i dreamt actually when it is a happy, nice dream. And again taking into account of great man Einsteins theory i get up early when i get scariest of dreams even though i know completely what happened there.
So what are these dreams basically. I always got stuck in thinking what do they indicate always. Is it past, present or future. Sometimes it so happened to me, i feel the present situation i have seen somewhere early. May be in dreams or it happened in past i dont know.But i know that thing is repeated in my life. Coming to part of dreams as far i know, its our resting brains unwanted things which it deletes while we were sleeping. As the brain dont want more burden on it. So it makes us fresh in the morning to get new knowledge to be filled in brain. So nice of brain!!!!!!!!!!!!! like a computer( sorry comparing a brain with computer is wrong.. since brain is creator of computer.. but also there is none other thing which can be nearer to comparison) our brain works until we think, means we are giving work to it...!!!! So dreams come from all these things which we think on that day.. may be i get a dream related to blog today!!!!!!!!!!!!
When a person will get a happy dream, when his nervous system wants to delete happiest thoughts he had?? all these questions sounds childish but i always in behind of these things.
I always tried to find god in my dreams:-)) But none of time i got him. Sometimes i went out at night 2 or 3 to find is really devils present. Since as our elders told us, devils come for walking at night. They do a survey at night to pester whom. :-))) All unusual things. If devils are not actually present then why people believe god is present. I dont believe him. There are almost 38 crore gods present in india. Whom to wish and when. If u wish daily one god also , 38crore means u need almost 10 lakh years. Ha ha.. its funny but true:-)).
Many people i find day dreamers, like always they dream if it would be like this or that. In day dremers also two categories come. The one who dream to achieve something which is ultimate goal of thier life and i appreciate those kind of dreamers. And we get second type of dreamers who always dream but never try for what they dream. They things happen for them automatically as it came in thier dream. These kind of people never come up in life. Or sometimes luck may favour so much that they will get it as they want. Just a luck.. whose probability might be somewhere in 0.00000000...................................1. The points represent infinite number of zeros. So luck never comes into action until and unless u try really hard what you want to achieve.
Finally about dreams i came to know one fact from a famous person that,
"DREAMS ARE NOT THE ONE S WHICH COME WHEN YOU SLEEP, THEY ARE THE ONES WHICH DONT MAKE YOU TO SLEEP UNTIL THEY GET THIER DESTINATION"

Special days

Time is running, people change, world changes!!!! But the memories will always remain close to the heart.

It was month of varun deva ( the god of rains) . The city was in the start of festival of rain.As we students were in the ultimate step of school grade, the varun deva was nothing special for us at that time. Since the school students are the one who enjoy lots in this festival, we weren t in the mood. Our tutions had been started and over a month passed before we entered our final year of school.

And that year i had my special moments of life which i cant get back:-()

School was all started in the month of June. It was June 2003. All of us are thinking of future on one side and enjoyment on the other side:-))...

So as usual classes went on. At each days end we used to hear from lectures about our future. We used to imagine ourselves at different posts like police officer, IAS officer or something els. But we never imagined about engineering nor medical.

So coming to now my life on those days. I was like a bird whose destination was unknown. Just fly wherever i want. Do whatever i want. Never my parents nor my school teachers imagined about my destination. Since i was like a full enjoying guy without books in hand. To start of with I will tell about the school group.
There were two groups we made in our class. One for 5 boys called sambs and other was 5 girls called as snaps. The meanings of these unusual names are surnames of boys and names of gals.
So in our last year as we were the seniors of school teachers used to be very friendly with all of us. Specially it means to say we never attended classes in our last year(except maths, since it was held by our head mistress). The reason behind this was we were doing something creative for our school:-).. We all 10 people used to go to school library(not to read), spend time in preparing charts of all drawing s in social science. That was a real fun. Still those moments are fresh for me. We never worked seriously. All time we used to play games , discuss all waste things and just pass the time, until the maths class comes. The head mistress knew us very well, so she used to force us to sit in maths class. It was still a nice feeling that we learn t to bunk classes in school days only.:-)
The rainy season slowly disappeared until august. Then came the fest of competitions. It was really fun that time. Since it was last time we are competing as a school student. I was like a happy person when i get to know about competitions.
The first competition i had attended in that year was a quiz by Vivekananda institute of commerce. Me and my quiz team mate vinayak won the first prize. Then next competition i went to attend was the elocution competition on 100 years of aviation.:-)
This competition had both pro s and cons. Actually it was all about the planes and its related topics. In my school it was told like that it was about rockets. My science teacher called me and said that this is the competition and you have to represent our school in this. And said it was about rocket as we had those topics in our science book.So i got a book on rockets by my teacher which was in English( sorry i forgot to tell that i was a Kannada medium student). So some things i got to know at that point of time. And prepared a time pass speech as i didn't know much on science that time. And i went to for competition. The competition was in a girls school:-).. That was embarrassing!!!!!!!!!!!. And with me my biology teacher came. I took rocket 3d models with me for that and a chart which was showing parts of rocket.So the competition started. In some schools it s not known that its a elocution competition. They sent science models with their students as if there is a science exhibition:-). So they were rejected. Still many people were my competitors. The competition started. As students went on my legs started shaking. How can be my speech should be better than this. Next my turn came!!!!!!!!!
I was not sure what should i speak. But since i only prepared speech i had no problem with context. I started. And went on. I don know when i come to stage to speak i will not think what i speak and don't think of audience also. Just speak whatever comes to my mind at that time. After my speech they asked me questions. I guess i answered 2 out of 3. Then after few more entries the event came to an end. Judges gave 10 min leave for judgment. So my mam took me to a hotel to have breakfast. Before leaving somehow i got a glance at scorecard . I saw mine was 3rd place. I was very happy and told my miss. She was too happy. Later the judges came and started reading from last place.(3rd place). I started preparing myself to receive third prize. But i found it went to some girl. I got shock!! and bit upset. Then was just guessing who are the other winners. Then they announced second. Then they gave a break to announce first prize. I was about to leave to my home after listening that one. Then came the most beautiful moment of life. I WAS THE WINNER OF THAT COMPETITION. I was not at earth that moment. Each part of my body started vibratating!!!. Since it was good competition by other English medium people i never expected it.So i got a 500 rupees cash. Me and my teacher were quite happy.Then i went to home back. I didn't tell mom nor my sisters about that.I decided to show it to all at once in evening when dad comes to home. At evening when everyone was sitting i opened the packet and told everything happened. All were tremendously in joy and surprise. My mom gave me sweets. Then i told them it was a district level and i was selected for state level competition which was going to be held in bellary after a week. The next day in school all students were called out and made us to stand in lines according to our class. Then our head mistress came and announced my name and my achievement. I went and took certificate. Applause from every part of ground. (It makes to feel happy when you get praised by so many people.)
In between i forgot to tell other events i was in during those days. Before that elocution competition we were preparing for ganapati festival. In our school we don't have a annual day gathering. In ganapati festival only we do all cultural events. So the last year i want to do more events in my school. And we had competitions like drawing, extempore and essay writing.So i participated in each since i used to be in all every time, this year also i participated. On the another side i was member of skit group. And this time we all final years were preparing a dance. So we are 14 to 16 members were there.At the same time i was preparing for state level elocution competition.

The skit was little comedy, little serious and had a nice message in it. It was designed by one of our teachers. I had a comedian role in that. During the cultural events day , the programs were after the prize distribution. Since we had to get prepared for the skit we all got makeup and present in the role of skit. I got three prizes, 1st for extempore,2nd for drawing and 1st for essay. So i went in the same costumes as i wore for skit. All people were laughing, including the teachers. That was the one of best moments of my life:-). Then in cultural programs and we performed skit first. It was good. All performed well. Then we did dance. That was also fun. The day got over.

The very next day i had to go to the state level elocution competition to Bellary. So i prepared the required things. The funniest part was our school sent our Kannada sir with me. Even though he was experienced and very good with students, for a science competition it will not be good. Anyhow we left at 10.00 night to Bellary. The next day at 4.00 am we reached bellary. That day at 11.00 am i had competition. Students from all over karnataka. And i am representing Belgaum. OH!!!!!!!!!. Then in competition they had given us random numbers for turns. I got some 14 i guess. (cant remember properly) . during competition all i saw, partcipants were telling about planes and all. I didn't get a single word of rocket there. And none of them brought a 3d model there. When my turn came i thought i will get ruined in very good manner!!!!!... Since i got 3d models and poster of rockets. In which i am allowed to show only the poster. And our sir is also cant able to check the things. Since he had no information. But he supported me against all odds. I am very thankful of him. So i presented in my own manner. Since i read the book on wright brothers i added some points in that. Even though i spoke well my contents were not so much on planes. I felt very frustrated and left to room after my speech got over. Evening my sir took me to show bellary. There was nothing to see in that city. It was just to change my mood. At night i again boarded bus. Through out my journey i was cursing my school administration and the people who were judges in district level , not telling me its about planes ,about birth century of wright brothers innovation.
So we came to belgaum next morning. In my house i explained whatever happened there. So they told its k. My parents told , its my achievement i represented belgaum. So i left that topic there only.

The next competition i attended was the quiz by central library of belgaum. There i won consolation. Then we had our class tests and mid term examinations. There i topped again. My parents wondered how i had done that. They even wanted to come and ask teachers is that i have copied!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ( They were joking)..Then at the end of year near in the December we had a skit competition. So prepared for that. That day after my morning breakfast i headed to the venue. All my teammates were meeting their only. Just after i left home with my favorite Hercules mtb 9000 (oversize) i met with an accident near my home!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

For two three hours i didn't open my eyes only. And when i opened my eyes i could n able to remember how i did come to home back. Actually i had hit a m80 bike with my cycle. I did n remember that part. It was told my my parents. None of my body parts were damaged except my face. I had a bump like hanuman:-). That day evening all snaps and sambs group came to see me. They started laughing instead of feeling pity. Since i was looking funny:-). After 3-4 days my face got correct. Then i started to going school again.

We people continued our mass bunks within our school only. And annual sports came. During that we all (sambs and snaps) decided to get slam books. Since our groups were going to depart in different streams of life. So we finally got all our slam books. Then we went to my home and exchanged books and wrote. That day the uncle who stays in front of my house was amused to see girls cycles in front of my house. Later in evening he with my sister started teasing me.:-)))

So the new year came. The very beginning Rotary club of belgaum had organized Best Student competition. I want to share some parts of it here. First one student should represent from each school. So in my school they sent me. We had first general knowledge round. A set of 100 objective questions. Which i found quite easy. Then we had a group discussion round. That was the first gd of my life. So i didn't know how to speak and all. I cant remember the topic. But i remember they classified us among diff mediums. English, Kannada and Marathi. I was in Kannada group. So the Gd went well. I did defend my points well. The very next day we had a personal interview. My turn came!!!!!!!!!!!

They first saw all my certificates and achievements. Then they started asking about questions in all categories like sports, history , politics etc. One question i remember still. They asked me that, where ABDUL TELAGI( the stamp paper criminal) from.I didn't knew his place. So i thought according to his name he might be from kerala or tamilnadu. I guessed and told that answer. They started laughing. Later i came to know that he was from khanapur( a village in belgaum district). So the competition got over. After a week results were going to be announced. The very next week i got a letter to attend the award ceremony. My dad was very tired that day. He told me if i am confirmed that i ll get any prize we will go. I told i am not sure. At the same time current went. So he took me there. Initially they were distributing pens and certificates to all the participants. I didn't get mine. I got shocked. I thought they might have missed it. So i decided to ask it later. Then main prizes were started. There were totally 5 prizes. 5th prize was given to marathi medium student. Then they announced my name. I went and took prize. All my family members were happy that day. The prize was a titan sonata wrist watch. (which i still wear as a reminder).
The next day they gave that prize again in front of all students in school. For another amusement i got another prize in chintana maths exam. First in district level. Another feather to crown!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The next week i had the last competition of that standard. It was a general quiz competition. I and my quiz partner went to write the prelims. Unfortunately all the things were in English language which we are not used.( since i am from Kannada medium school) . So we tried our level best. And surprisingly we got selected for final round. There were four teams. Three of them are from top schools of belgaum.So we thought that time only we are going to loose. The next round started. We answered the questions we knew. Two audio files played in that round. I got a pass question. I got correct answers for the both. That took us grace than one team. So finally we got third place. That day we were too happy. Since we came up in all school s. One of organizer came and congratulated for our achievement. That was the last quiz i attended.!!!!!!!!!

The days of fun got over. The heavy days of studies started.Prelims and then preparation s for annual s started.The most noisy group of students(us) started studying hard.So we had prelims and finals got over. I scored top of all in spite of no expectations from teachers.And in my school on august 15th i was going to hoist the flag. And the score i made in 10th was not made till that time and not made until now. That makes me to feel proud whenever i go to school.

Thus most special and wonderful days of my life got over. I came into outside world. Got to know about all the problems a common man has. From superior in school i became inferior in outside world.

Friends , this is my first blog. So please bear with me since i am very poor in english grammer and if i am overpraised myself also. Feel free to comment.

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