WEATHER REPORT

The monsoons.. I love everything about it! The sky remains cloudy from morning till dusk and the showers are a treat to the sun hurt eyes! Another thing I love about the rainy season is the cool (sometimes cold) wind. It feels sooooooooo good on my skin and makes it feel so healthy. During summer, there’s too much heat and sweat and my skin breaks out. But monsoon feels so cool and comfy! It also provides a much better environment to work in. I can comfortably sprawl on the floor and let the coolness sink into my skin while writing out the records or reading. In summer the heat waves lash out thereby making it impossible to set foot outside the house. It also makes the bus ride from home to college and back utterly unbearable! But rainy season does away with all this. It just spells out absolute F-U-N !!

So, what are your plans for this season? :)

HOLIDAY RAVINGS part 4 (training spl again!)

When the other batch mates talked about Blue Lotus, it sounded absolutely terrifying. We heard they made people dance and sing and other stuff I could never imagine doing in a room full of strangers. I was determined to refuse any kind of activity that involved singing or dancing. Also, there was this thing about splitting and re-grouping the batches according to best, good and average. They wanted to bring about little changes to our minds and personalities or so they say. Blue Lotus was basically hell on earth. At least, that’s what I thought.



We had rooms in the third floor for Blue Lotus and when the trainer entered in, he asked us to be seated in two concentric circles. Once that was done he asked us to arrange ourselves into rows for an aptitude test. The purpose of the test was to know our apps level and hence decide the amount of time to be allotted for aptitude during training. We were given blank sheets and a question paper. The trainer asked us to work out the problems on one side of the paper and write the answers on the other side. The test lasted for 30 minutes. When the trainer asked us to stop writing and submit the papers, we dint, immediately of course. He then said “The last five who submit will dance an audience request!”. There was a stampede as we rushed madly and thrust the paper in his hands in hopes of not making it to the last five. After the rush, we sat down in our rows and the trainer said “We will know if you have worked out the answers or just copied it from your friends by checking the working out part on the other side of the paper”. He then gave a sly grin and yelled “get back into the circles you formed before I count to 5! People left out will dance and sing!”. Chairs scrapped against each other while we fell into another mad stampede to get back into our original positions. We were short of breath and we all started laughing :D


Next, we played a game. We were asked to count out loud numbers. The person who gets an even number should say ‘yes’ instead. I failed miserably and got pulled out along with other not so attentive ones. The trainer asked about my hobbies and I said “nail art, making AMV’s and reading books”. He smiled and asked me to sing a song for my friends and I ended up singing the cuppy cake song :D after this, we did some apps.


The next game we played was Simon says where the trainer says “Simon says to sit” “Simon says to jump” etc and we have to do accordingly. If he says “sit” “jump”, we shouldn’t do anything. It was so much fun!!! They tried to split us to three batches again but people got annoyed and a big argument ensued. So we were put back into our original batches.


We had a meeting kind of on the second day called ‘Turning Point’ for all the batches together which was even more fun even though it got a bit saturating as time went by. We were seated in the conference hall (I came late!!) and they had already started some kind of a game by the time I arrived. It was utter chaos. The reason? We were asked to sit in such a way that no two boys or girls sat together. People scampered here and there. Fortunately I found a seat nearby to where I entered (I was relocated later on since there was a seat between two guys and they wanted me there so that they don’t get caught). Unfortunately, girls are less in number in my college and a bunch of boys were stranded. They were asked to ball dance by paring with partners of the same height X_X


While this performance was taking place, a guy from my department entered the hall. The trainer caught him and another girl who escaped by giving a dance performance while the boy stood like a statue. The trainer then called his department girls (which included me) and we had to dance around him in a circle to a weird song. Following this there were more dance, singing and other performances and the winners were given chocolates. There was a contest for the most confident person and the girl who won it got 1000 bucks as a prize. We also had a lecture on various skills that we need to exhibit during the interview.

The next day we had apps and GD’s. They filmed us in GD and replayed it for the whole class to see in order to point out the mistakes we make. Non verbal communication (NVC or body language) is very important and the taught us how we should be during the GD. The topic given to my group was “does internet spoil the students?” which was relatively easy. The purpose of giving an easy topic was to help us focus on our NVC while we are intently discussing.

The last was the stress interview. There’s only one word to explain it, bizarre. We were asked really weird questions. Some students got very angry due to the nature of the questions while some laughed it off. Some were in tears while others were simply indignant. Emotions raged and electrified the room’s atmosphere. Of course we had to maintain our NVC which was the main point of the interview.

By the end of the day, Blue Lotus was a pretty good experience for they certainly have brought about that little change in me :)

HOLIDAY RAVINGS part 3 (training spl)

Let’s talk about placement training week. It was better than I expected. Seriously, my stomach was squirming painfully the night before the training started because all my friends were in different batches! We could either opt for 14 or 7 days training and I went for the latter, blindfolded (for obvious reasons of course). The 7 days ‘optees’ were divided into 7 batches like s1, s2, s3 etc and each batch had around 60 students. All the departments were mixed. When I entered the class, I found only a couple of people from my department. The whole idea of this mix up was to teach and encourage the art of mingling and getting to know each other. We were suddenly asked to talk to boys! X_X.



The first 3 ½ days we had C-CAT teach us aptitude (apps) and soft skills. It wasn’t all that fun. They were just plain ‘mokka’. From 8am till lunch i.e 12.15pm, we had apps and from 1pm till 4.30pm we had soft skills or vice versa. Apps covered a few boring topics while soft skills was a little better. We had TAM (talk a minute) sessions, storytelling, celebrity and press, case study, group discussion (GD) and finally the mock interview. I dreaded the GD’s because I’m more of the listening type. I had no intention of discussing anything with anyone. The topics were really weird like the one we got ‘there is no right way to do a wrong’ which was the topic given to the previous group that came up for GD. Why, you ask? Well, it was because the staff didn’t find any aggressiveness in the previous batch’s performance. I had no clue what to say and hence I blabbered something for the sake of having to blabber.



They kept splitting us into groups again and again, which, I found a little annoying. The boys were lightning speed when it came to doing apps. They had the answers before I even read the questions X_X which means I have to ‘hone’ my apps skill @_@. The case study was good; I have no complaints about it. Storytelling failed to interest me. I dint get to do a TAM, so no comments. My group sent me as the press person who had to interview the 3 celebrities from another group. I had no idea who those three people were and ended up standing blankly on the stage. I dint volunteer for the interview and with that the C-CAT training session ended. Phew!! :)



UP NEXT!!! Blue Lotus @ HOLIDAY RAVINGS part 4 (training spl again!)!!! Wayyyyyyyyyyyyyy better than the one above!!! :)

HAVE A WONDERFUL AND BLESSED DAY MY FRIENDS!!! :) :)

HOLIDAY RAVINGS part 2

It was a wonderful morning until my mom accidentally poured something nasty smelling on my hair while I was spread out like an eagle lazily sleeping on the floor of the living room. My perfect morning has been ruined. I had to wash my hair and now I don’t even feel sleepy -_- ..

However, I looked at some really interesting (to me anyway) nail art kinda videos whose links I’ll be posting in my tool. I tried out the plum gradient one on my sis and it looked splendid! *pats herself on the shoulder.. well done lil Saku.. your talents never fail to stun.. * lol

Plus I’m downloading Vampire Diaries. The files are huge. 200MB+. And Saku definitely not liking. I finished watching the first episode and it totally deviates from the original book series. All the details, both major and minor have been either changed or omitted. Hence, I’ve decided to not watch it any further.

I’m hunting for some really really good anime like Hunter x Hunter and it’s unbelievable that I’ve spent phase 1 of the summer vacation not downloading any anime. Oh, there’s a sale near my place :D I’m going to go down there this evening and see what I can fish :D

Starting tomorrow we have some placement training and it lasts for 7 whole days. From morning 8 till 5 in the evening! I’m glad I dint sign up for the 14 days thing. But I’m really excited!!! Why?? coz phase 2 of my vacation will begin right after the training program!.. as long as they don’t come up with evil means of snatching it away from us.

I’ve got a couple of places on my list to visit during phase 2 and hopefully I should be able to save enough money for that >.< and yeah, I went shopping last evening and it was a pretty decent haul. I mean, you don’t get to pick variety when your college has some crappy dress code with the sun lashing out mighty heat waves. So mine are very simple and very light picks.

I better get some proper sleep tonight. With all the aptitude stuff tomorrow, it’s going to be a very long day indeed… *sigh*