till now

Sorry for being late…           

My end semester exams have been over ever since last Friday but somehow I did not get time to scribble in. ok time for updates… u might be thinking on the lines of “lucky bastard!! Exams over, must be havin fun”… well if you were thinking on those lines you couldn’t be more incorrect. This summer I have to do a vocational training as a part of my b.tech curriculum and that’s what I am doing these days. The fact that I am doing my VT here in Tata Steel, Tubes Division in jamshedpur means that I have to live here in Jamshedpur even during the summer vacations and it sucks big time!! Rub salt to the wound, I have to drive approx 16 km daily to reach tubes division, that too by 9:30 in morning.  Anyways but there are a few positives though… I am starting to have a feel of the industry and how the stuff is done here and also I get to peep in my future because I can almost visualize myself doing whatever the engineers are doing here in tubes division, in coming two years or so.

So this Monday I went to tubes division and I was told that I’d be doing my training under Mr. Santosh in ‘Precision tubes mills’. So I was taken to meet Santosh sir. When we reached his office, he was not there… most probably have been in the mill or some meeting. So we sat there in his office and waited for him to come. The office was a decent sized air conditioned room with various files neatly stacked in the racks. On walls are graphs regarding some aspects of production in previous years, altogether it was not at all how I expected the room of an engineer to be. We are such messy people… I expected it to untidy with files cluttered here and there but the scene was totally otherwise… he seemed quite an organized person. In my mind I was picturing a devilishly strict person who would torment us for the rest of our training.  Then in came he-Mr. Santosh with one of his colleagues, Mr. Kaushik Pathak and I was surprised to see that he was very pleasant personality. Then Mr. Santosh turned to us and after a formal introduction, began to chalk out the plan for our training and it turned out that he indeed is a very organized and focused person. Now as he was going on a leave from the very next day, he introduced us to Mr. S.K Lal who would take care of our training until he comes back(which is on 25^th of this month). Mr. Lal is another very dedicated person.

 The one most important thing that I have learned in only three days of this training is that how to remain dedicated to your firm… each and single guy is so focused and dedicated to his job that it seems almost unbelievable. And then they are very helpful too… yesterday when we went there in the PT mill, we had some questions regarding 2” mill and 3” mill and asked Mr. Pathak and he promptly agreed to answer our queries. We sat in his office for some 45minutes and kept hurling questions at him regarding technical details of mills and he patiently kept answering them all. I was completely bowled over with his command on the each and every fine detail of the whole mill!!

Anyways that’s all for now… I’d put the whole process of making pipes from steel sheets on this blog some day when I am completely thorough with the process and I have time… its very long and tedious process u know! Anyways  ‘jai ram ji ki’

oh damn it!!

Have you ever been tortured by someone so much that you finally decided to document your feelings of loathe and repulsion about him in written form? Well, yours truly is just now going through the agonizing experience, and the cause is summer. Yeah you heard it right summer- the season. It is mid April and the summer is already here in Jamshedpur. It’s hot and it’s scorching hot. I hate it. Of the two extreme seasons- winter and summer, I hate summer most. The reason?? Well it is simple, during winter u can cope up with sweater, jacket and all but in summer… there is simply no escape… keep drinking lots of water, cold drinks, sherbet etc and nothing would work. It’s nearly midnight and I have just had bath, my third time today. Bathing is one of my desperate attempts to ward off heat and the better among the worse methods.

Given the water crisis the world is facing, I try to save water during winters by taking bath once in a week or more… but during summer; all that hard work goes in vain when I have to take bath 3-4 times daily. This season shouldn’t have been there in the calendar… God!! You should have researched on "what my children like" a bit more before bestowing them with this frivolous present of a season.

Some people like summer… they say it’s the best season, it brings mangoes. I say “damn you summer”, “damn you mangoes” and “damn you summer supporters”. I hate it… so what it brings mangoes… i wouldn’t trade my sleep for a superfluously sweet, yellow fruit. I can’t even sleep properly in this heat.

And to add insult to injury, my room is on the top floor of the hostel. So damn hot it is… it’s like I’ve lost my mind and have sat in a god damned oven. And the college doesn’t even allow us to have coolers in our room!!(as if my dad would have bought me one if college allowed!!).

This heat makes me wish I lived in the era of cavemen… at least I could walk around naked, I mean everybody would. That may be effective to counter the heat. That is the only stone that I have left unturned searching for relief from heat because u know… when you live in a hostel or any society in 2009 AD, you cannot just walk around naked flaunting your things.

I guess this much is enough… I feel my heart getting light… I have vented out my anger and frustration cropping up from not being able to sleep and you have read it all. I guess I should have a bath again and try to sleep.

Signing off… adios.

 

happy holi all(belated)

dt-07/03/2009

"KA HO BHAIYYA, PAN KHAIBA KA?" a panwallah asks me this as i come out of Varanasi cantt. railway station as if he was distributing pan not selling it, and i know that I have finally arrived Varanasi. 

for ur information... the exams have thankfully ended :) and ecstasy would be the right word to

describe my feeling. And that i have arrived varanasi- the oldest city on planet earth,raises this emotion to the power of two. So ask me "how are you feeling right now Pranjal??" and i'd reply"ECSTATIC^2!!" [yeah i know that joke sucked :d... i'm pathetic with them!!]. This  city varanasi is seriously wonderful... and it being so close to my hometown Azamgarh adds to the flavour. The people here are completely mast with their PAns in mouth... even autowallah will ask you " bhaiyya dlw, maduadih??", with that pan filled in mouth and if you are not accustomed to being talked to in this fashion, it is almost inevitable that u'll not uderstand that the  autowallah is even talkin!! by the time u recognise to ur utter disbelief that this pan in mouth gruntle was supposed to be the autowallah talking, he would have gone presuming that u don't want to go on the route of DLW/maduadih. But anyways i simply love this typical accent, dialect and mannerism.

People generally associate this Pan thing with varanasi only but this is common for the whole 

eastern Uttar Pradesh (if not whole eastern UP then at least the Awadh region of eastern UP...

including the districts of Varanasi, Jaunpur, Faizabad, Sultanpur, Allahabad, Azamgarh etc.) So whenerver some Panwallah uses this pick up line " ka ho bhaiyya, pan khaiba ka??" anywhere be it UP or (accidentally) outside UP, i can't help saying " theek ba marde laga da ek the meetha pan" (ok man... make one meetha pan). Another thing associated here with people in UP is that they are completely mast... they don't easily get tensed(well... exceptions do exist!!). And  icing on the cake is that this being the holi season everyone is in the typical holi mood. So i'm loving being here right now. Anyways let me enjoy this season and the hometown leisures and thanks for reading hopeless braying of Pranjal completely again.

hope to write soon... till then,

*mouth filled with pan* "JAI RAM JI KI"

PS: as i am home these days i don't have free 24*7 internet access which enjoy at college... these

posts will be uploaded a bit Late... that's why I've put date on top so that u can know the correct

date of post being written ;).

a sigh of relief

Oh God... finally!!! finally we- the mechanical engineers have something to cheer about. Today, when i woke up and took the newspaper lying there in front of door in my room, i saw some statistics on the front page and trust me freinds, the such was the effect of those statistics that it made me grin wide fron ear to ear ;). The article said that there are strong turnaround hopes for the key economic sectors viz; steel, cement, auto,food and beverage. 

The data provided says that after a dip in last quarter of 2008, steel is back on his growing trends with 4.2% growth in this quarter.The cement industry has seen a whopping 10% more growth in december 2008 than november. But the most the most growth has been recorded in automobile sector-my favourite sector from the perspective of a future mechanical engineering professional. The passenger vehicles gerw at an exponential 32% and also the commercial vehicles saw huge increase figures of 23%. The FMCGs (fast moving consumer goods) showed a growth of 26.4% in year on year figures for quarters ending on december 31, 2008. Even the rail freightshowed an increasing trend in december 2008 by climbing to 7% after declining to 2.3% in oct-nov 2008.

The power sector, everyone knows is never going to go under loss because of its perennial and perpetual demand. 

The figures are encouraging... at least they do provide hope to us mechanical engineering 3rd year students who are going to appear in campus interviews this year. I'm keeping my fingers crossed and banking on these figures that when I pass out from this great 

college, NIT-JAMSHEDPUR, I surely will have at least one job in my pocket(if not two or three).

God bless us all job aspirants!!

'JAI RAM JI KI'

results out

results of the internship interview that i talked about in previous post are out... Rakesh as expected gets the internship... prabal looses out on this opportuntiy though.
koi bat nahi prabal, it's just a matter of time when u get placed in a one of the top companies visiting our campus...
Another dear freind of mine... Rahul auddy also got the internship. Congos to u both!! more success is here to follow u people. neways itz party time now and me off celebrating...

doston...today TATA steel has come in college for selecting us, 3rd year(b.tech) students for internship. They had provided us with the forms earlier in october which we had filled and submitted and now they studied the forms, shortlisted the forms which they found suitable according to their requirments and they have called the shortlisted guys for interviews. i have not been shortlisted [:(] and so i sit here on my laptop in my room in hall of residence-I writing this blog. I'm not even feelin hungry though it is 1:15 in afternoon despite of the fact that i'm one big bhukkad sort of a person. but the positive side is that two of my best freinds (Prabal and Rakesh) have been short listed though. The latter who also has been my roomie for first two year of my college is the topper of our batch in our branch. Now they sit there in the training and placement cell of our college waiting for their turn for interview... i wish them luck.

this guy Prabal, has nearly 2% of share in all the gray matter present on this planet!! Now that he is so brainy there is a high probability that he gets selected as an intern. If he gets selected, i would be the happiest man apart from him and and his family. There is a small story describing the reason of my glee in case he gets selected, which goes like this...

last night i was feeling really sleepy so i slept early ie, at 11 in night(i usually sleep by 2 am). At nearly 12, Prabal came and knocked at my door, i got irritated, why on earth does he have to wake me up at 12:00 when i've told him that i'm goin to sleep. anyways i got up and opened the door. there was he standing in front of me with his specs on. then he said " abe pranjal kal 6 baje uth jana sabere" (hey pranjal wake up at 6 tomorrow). I said "kyu??"(why??). prabal says " abe ghar chalana hai mere sare certificates ghar par hi hain aur kal to wo chahiye honge"(man i gotta go to my home coz all my certis are there and i'd require them tomorrow). i was like" goodness me, u r so sharp!! u remembered this". Prabal is a localite and his house is at telco collony nearly 15 km fom our college and he doesn't know how to drive and i do. so he asked me to take him to his home and i had no option but to oblige. i woke up in morning went to hostel-G to fetch bike from one other freind of mine Fareed. He gave me the keys, i took the keys and drove prabal to his home. we were there for nealy half an hour till he got all his certificates and meanwhile i feasted upon the delicious breakfast made by his mum. So by the time we returned(taking print outs of our CV's) it 9:30 already, the time for preplacemnt talk. we got ready in a hurry and went for the ppt. Thankfully it had not yet started by the time we were there. We were breifed about the internship program and then the list of short listed candidates was declared and his name was there. so i thought "chalo yar itani bhag doud kisi kam to ayi"(ok, at least this running around serves some purpose). then when i knew my name is not there i came back to hostel from academic builiding.

then our Rakesh is brilliance personified. He is supremely talented and the fact that he once got a grade of 9.76 out of 10 is in itself the testimony of the fact that he is brilliant. he also has a good personality and is a thoughtful speaker. As i already said earlier he is also our topper so he also has a high probabilty of getting the internship. So i'm keepin ma fingures crossed in hope and anticipation. i sincerely hope these both get selected coz i'm lookin forward for two huge treats at the 'novelty' (our fav if not the best restraunt in jamshedpur). God bless them.

will post again when the results are out. till then...

"Jai ram ji ki!!"

Hi folks- this is what our normal indian engineering student would have said. but i'm more of a namste kind of a guy... so NAMSKAR BHAI LOGO!!!

but guys i'm a beginner so in order to get a bit more readership i would write in english for timebeing but i promise i'll start blogging in hindi once and if my blog gets popular.

guys this happens to be my first post... i'm pretty much of a beginner so dunno what to write in here but i'll be back within 12 hours or so with something hopefully interesting to tell u[i'll think it's interesting at least but u may as in general is the case, differ]

to tata, bye bye and sayonara..