Ankita's Blog

After 2 weeks of hectic work schedule, working from 9 am to 4 am(yes its not a typo, its 4 am) and then baking a cake(as a surprise to be taken for Mumma) the following day, and FINALLY sleeping for 9 hrs is nothing surprising! Alas! Not even started the packing when only 2 hours left to leave for the railway station.Gosh! It tested my level of concentration to pack stuff to collect all IMP document I might need at home for investmenst this year, starting with pan card, photographs etc tc.. a planned trip to my native place which turned to be such a hassle!..Innocent me said : ‘I’m not responsible for all this..its work, then maid, then….” :) Although I know very well , it’s no one , other than me, myself. Now, the real excitement starts. Clock said only 55 mins left to reach the station..where the distance to be covered is 15 kms + Hyderabad’s traffic + Hyderabad’s buses + my luggage(as alwys too much..)… “Koi na ji..I’ll reach pakka se..” Inspite of so much traffic, I reached the

After registering for Hyderabad 10 K which was to be held on 28th Nov 2010, when I was actually showing off to my friends that I'm participating in Marathon(I didn't disclose though that I'm participating as "Amateur Runner" :P )..the comments were - "You gonna break your leg this time after you recently had neck sprain" , "Do you know what is 10 K ? Its 1* 10 = 10 KMS..you'll fall flat on your face!!! " Gosh! All of these dissuading comments, persuaded me more to participate in the marathon!! And then a day before the marathon, I got an invitation for my friend's wedding reception(20 kms away from my place!) and I returned at 2 am..I'd a cab pickup for the marathon at 6 am! Now, the actual play started..(I'm hearing two voices starting 2.30 am) Voice 1 : " Ankita, its TOO late..you'll miss the cab for sure..so better don't even try to get up.Have good sleep". Voice 2 : "Oh Ankita, you can , its

After looking at the first question paper of mid sem exams of MS BITS Pilani last weekend, I was emotionless, speechless and .....no words.. The question paper appeared to me as if I am reading the terms in the subject for the very first time .... :( Then I decided that I really had to sit back and analyse on what went wrong eventhough I had prepared pretty well.. After the weekend, today I got some time to actually analyse whats going on in my mind and the reason of me, not being able to complete most of my things..although I had planned things well Thankfully, I could figure out somethng.. Everybody gets 24x60x60 seconds in a day (the multiplication answer is going to be huge which will make me conscious of the seconds I get hence left as it.. :P ) One makes the most out of it while the other is not just bothered to even count it...(actually lucky chaps.. :)) But, then there are some like me ..who keep planning of how to use those seconds Sometimes I feel "Is that planning tak

This funny incident(Thankfully funny..else it could have been a disaster as well...) happened during my early days in IBM ISL..I was working for a product and then I was asked to work on some incubation project with my colleague who is a very senior person and one of those techy geeks in ISL..whom I respect a lot and I always forward to do things as he has been doing..He is just a phenomenal person.(Let me not reveal his identity..let me name him 'ABC' :P )..Well he is my mentor now as well as recently he has joined my team as lead(Feeling fortunate to work again with him..) So the incident goes as follows...It was (as usual)a very sleepy afternoon after having lunch..but cannot help it..had to work because my manager use to sit just a seat after mine and if even used to get up from his seat he can easily see my TP( BTW, TP means IBM ThinkPad..i.e laptop..)So, cannot even open orkut and other TP stuff(TP now means Time Pass :P ) Now, working with 'ABC', was a very good

Well, I remember the college days when I used to spend hours in library and search for biographies and one fine afternoon after a very boring lecture(not to mention which.. :P), fortunaltely, I could grab one...Mr.Vithal Venkatesh Kamat's 'Idli , Orchid and Willpower'. ..The name itself made me restless to complete the book in one day..I was wondering how these three words in the title explain Mr.Vithal's roadmap to success ! and I wanted to know it before I go to the library the next day!..It was a really good book(although the language and size did not fascinate me...) While reading this book, I was wondering if I could visit his hotel(Asia's First Eco-tel) Hotel Orchid, Mumbai ever and the picture created for the hotel by this book.. I had almost reached his hotel (obviously in dreams :P )!! And I was telling myself.."Ankita..come back..not possible to go to Hotel orchid!!" Little did I beleive that 1 fine day I will get an invitation for a conference t