My Breaking News

Just a few days ago, on 15th Nov to be precise, i picked up the Mumbai Mirror to get my morning started with some fresh gossip about moviestars, fashionistas and ofcourse our over rated 'Men in Blue'. But a particular news item caught my eye...well, actually it was the Headline so it was kinda hard to miss...but anyways, it read

MUMBAI UNIV STUDENTS NOT GOOD ENOUGH.

My first thought was.."Well Duuuuh!!!"
On reading further i came to know that this wasnt some big expose' on the pathetic state of affairs at MU, but it was just about 'Corporate India' bitching about the quality(or lack of it) in the students coming out of Mumbai University.
It seems that the head honchos of some of the biggest companies in India have complained that MU students lack practical knowledge to take up corporate jobs and that companies are forced to invest considerable amount of time and money.
Now i know right at this point everyone will start to bitch about their colleges...and how the professors are cruel, labs are inadequate, practicals are a farce and the theory papers at the end of each exhausting semester are worth a rats ass in the 'real' world.
But i have a different take on this so called headline material --"FUCK YOU CORPORATE INDIA!!!"
You assholes bitch about having to train freshers, when you alone are responsible for quality of dumb asses entering your plush offices at BKC.
Whenever placement rounds are held in colleges of MU...you fuckers come with you attitude about being the best in HR, having the best clientele, and your vertical and horizontal development bullshit, when all you people want to take from the colleges...are the honour roll students.
Got an aggregate of above 65%...then your almost in....but you are in the Electronics/Instrumentation/Mechanical branch...NO PROBLEM, absolutely no problem. You managed to score high in your farcical theory tests and managed to weasel out term work marks by being the teachers pet...you ought to be able to learn C#, .NET etc.
Let the Computer branch student, with at least minimal knowledge in the field of your expertise suffer...why? Well coz he couldn't get good marks in App Sciences and Mechanics when he was in the 1st year and he doesn't like sucking up to profs...cant have that now can we!
The recruitment policy of these Corporate Idiots is so flawed that in the training programs designed by them, the freshers who were not supposed to be there in the first place, flunk out or lag behind...meanwhile this is the University's fault that they are failing....
Get your act together 'Corporate India' and then go bitching about us to the press.

ps. The author's sentiments will be clear once selected readers discover that one of the companies mentioned to be not happy with MU is techMahindra ;))

My Blogger's Block

Have been meaning to post something for quite a while now...sometimes on my bike, i even figure out what i'm gonna post. But then when i get to my comp---NOTHING. Absolutely nothing...
Its the Writer's or Blogger's block i tell myself
Writer's Block!!! Ohhh so you some hot-shot writer now?
Shut Up!
But i had managed to come up with some post ideas..during the days that i have so magnificently wasted away...here are some them

My Crash and Burn
This was about how i joined a crash course for Advanced MicroProcessors during Diwali. I had to travel from my house to dadar..in scalding heat,in a stuffy bus...to get to the damn classes. I paid Rs.300 for the whole 5 days course(totally worth it btw)...but i'm sure i spent almost twice that amout on travelling and food . But those five days were totally fun...esp Harish sir's sidelocks

My Garden Vendetta
I got this idea from Neeraj about posting about movies he has seen..and how they're good, bad or downright abysmal. But then i thought...why take the easy way out and copy a post idea. So i dropped the whole thing.
By the way, if you havent guessed by now...i was gonna write about Garden State an V for Vendetta.

My Cellular Troubles
I didnt want to write another whiny peice about the shit going on in my life. Actually my cellphone(Motorola E398) was in the service center for the good part of two months...and i really missed it. But 2 weeks ago...i got it back, good as new. So i let bygones be bygones..

My Hoo-Haa
Team India had miserably been knocked out of the Champions trophy, and all those Pepsi ads were really gettin on my nerves( esp the Ganguly one). So i decided to pen my feelings...but I am after all, and Indian and didnt see fit to 'kick a guy when hes down'.
Blue Billion will return!!! (me thinks NOoooo...Please NO)

My Viva-Voce
This one, i wanted to write...but i also had to actually STUDY for the vivas...
In hindsight, i feel i should have written about the horrible terrible experiences anyways...writing about your troubles is theraputic they say. (Make the horrible Kale nightmares go away!!!!)

And that brings us back to today...

ps. Please forgive this horrible, terrible, insanely stupid post...i promise that after exams or maybe even during exams i'll put more efforts and thought into my posts
Adios