HCL...........Touching Heights(this time...) :P :P

While I was staring like a hungry dog at the girl sitting next to me in the Technical GD round, an overly dark complexioned girl came out with a pile of sheets in her hand and called out.....

"Group 6A......"

no one came out....

Kunal Gulati....

I Jumped and shouted.....ma'am I am Kunal Gulati,,,, but my group is 6D....not 6A!!!
Okay...she said......group 6D...can you please come out...
12 students came out with faces as innocent as newly born babies.
she started.....kunal gulati....come this side.......prateek rawal.....come this side......shruti aggarwal.....come.. ( okay...so her name is shruti....nice name....though it's one of the usual names...but at that point of time it was one of the prettiest names I heard in such a long time :P)

Rest all...you can leave......
and you three please wait there.....will call you for the HR interview in a while!!!

I was happy...ofcourse.....
she went to the other side and started dialing a number ...I went close....." hello papa...mera ek round clear ho gaya hai....ab next round hai....interview."

for all the parents...clearing just the first round is like their children have nailed it....lol

Congrats...I mummered in her ear......she smiled and replied back....same to you...

I went to the other side and sat, waiting for my turn to come up.....after a while...I saw her coming....she came and sat next to me........smiled.....
shruti.......
ohh....hi...I am kunal.....
from delhi???
yeah....and you???
faridabad
okay....
the usual talks started..........she needed the job........and I didn't.....I was there just to satisfy my ego.....
just then the same girl walked in.....come you all.....
we went upstairs for the interview.....the usual talks being in continuation.
the usual talks turned to personal talks......

she was the only daughter, didn't had a boyfriend, her dad was a businessman, he didn't wanted her to work, she wants to work, she came here in a chauffeur driven car......
and just when I was about to ask her number....... kunal gulati......came a voice....
I stood up.....she smiled and nodded.....called me inside the room....in her early 30's....she looked a little plump.....

Me- May I come in?
HR- yes please.
Me- Good morning mam(sure this time...it was morning indeed). I am kunal gulati.
HR- Good morning Kunal, How are you?
Me- I am good so far.
HR- haha...okay....hope you remain good after the interview also.
Me- Amen!!!!
HR- haha...okay kunal....shall we start?
Me- Ohh....we haven't started yet....I thought the interview is about to get over( ohh god....what if I didn't needed the job..... I must stay in my limits....I pulled myself back)
luckily..she was kind enough to take that as a joke.
HR- no...we have to start.
Me- okay.
HR- so kunal, tell me something about yourself(the same old question).
I started..
Me- mam I am kunal gulati......and the same blah blah...I am this....I am that....I can do this ...I can do that.( the usual boasting about myself lasted a long 8-10 mins)
HR- (browsing through my resume)...okay kunal you read books?
Me- yes mam...I do..
HR- since when?
Me- been a year....almost
HR- How did it started?
Me- a friend gifted me chetan bhagat book....since then I started liking reading....it's a good past time and also matches to my sense of humor.
HR- okay....so what all books have you read so far?
Me- started naming them......a long list continued......
HR- okay okay...seems you have read so many of them.
Me- Yeah!!!!
HR- okay kunal( looking into my resume) you seem to have performed really well in your academics...throughout...as you said also...... so.... what went wrong??
Me- what went wrong?? I Didn't get you mam?
HR- like it's been really late......since you have graduated... didn't you got the opportunities for job or were you not able to utilize them?
Me- Okay......first of all, the college in which I was didn't had a much established campus so that it could attract some companies.
HR- Okay...and?
Me- secondly, it was not that I didn't got the opportunities....I mean... please don't misunderstand me....I am not saying that small companies are not good....they're good......but if I would have went for those opportunities.....according to me, I guess....I would have grossly underestimated myself!!!! ( okay.....so my one liners have started......now I'm going to rock the interview...I was sure)
HR- ookay( a little astonished this time), you have written you write a blog also, what's it called?
Me- mam it's called "confessions of an overconfident fool"
HR- okay, so you are overconfident( a li'll glad this time)
Me- a bit
HR- kunal, as your previous answer depicts, dont you think your overconfidence lets you down sometimes?
Me- ummmmm....no mam.....in fact I let my overconfidence down many times( woo my god....this one was a bouncer)
HR- haha....okay so you are the one who's the culprit, not your confidence.
Me- hehe. (stupidly)
HR- what all do you write about?
Me- the experiences I've had so far, like the one is called the fat files , like how fat people are looked upon in the society as I am also fat. please don't mind mam( she was also fat......lol)
HR- no no...that's good.....okay kunal.....why do you want to join HCL?????
Me- ummmm....... mam I've heard that HCL is always Looking for smart engineers, and I believe that I am one of the smart Engineers who is graduating in the year 2010.....that's why....HCL!!! and by smart engineer I mean....smart engineer( pointing towards the brain) and not smart engineers (pointing towards the face) ( this one was awesome ....I mean.... how could I think of that answer....simply awesome.....lol)

HR- okay.....seems just like you....
Me- hehe
HR- kunal you have written you have interest in databases, but we here are looking for dot net professionals.
Me- mam I am coming with an open mind, I am ready to learn everything and anything that comes my way. (one more)
HR- as you mentioned you have born and brought up in delhi.....would you be comfortble if we post you somewhere outside?
Me- Location has never been a constraint mam, in fact it would be a new experience for me,,,,,,living away from my family ( sometimes I give stupid answers also)
HR- okay, Kunal you would be getting 12k per month in training and package of 3 there after....would that do?
Me- mam, as you know I am just fresher and starting my career, so at this point of time what matters is the learning....not the money....there is whole lot of life left for earning money.... learning is what I am eying for now. ( I will never change, once again...lol) and in fact " beggars are not choosers".... haha
HR- haha....okay kunal, it was nice talking to you, if you clear, you would be intimated through mail in 7 days.
Me- oh.....I wont get to know now?
HR- No.
Me- okay
HR- anything you want to ask?
Me- yes......your name?
HR- ohh....sorry..I am Neha....Neha Kapoor..(with a smile)
we shook hands
HR- anything else?
Me- can I get some hint to satisfy the impatient butterflies inside my stomach?
HR- hahaha.....no kunal....beyond our HR policies...you'll get to know in 7 days.
Me- haha...okay....have a nice day mam.
HR- yeah... you too....bye

I came out and exhaled whatever I had in my lungs....I looked for shruti...she was nowhere....maybe inside some interview room ....or ...left.
the answers I gave touched heights this time, they were way casual.

I went back home.

And As I say....I can let my overconfidence down......but my overconfidence never lets me down....... through through through!!!!! HCL calling ayyeee!!!!

BeInG $iNgLe ...!!!!!!!!!!!!

ok frns ....for all those who ask me everytym they meet me.......y am i single?????

here it goes...........

Being Single(yet again!)….

Contrary to what people say, I say it’s a great feeling!

You can watch as much television as you want to....
You can check out any girl you want to! Stash your sunglasses....
You can do that without being called a pervert....
You can keep your cellphone anywhere and forget about it....
You can borrow porn from your ex girls’ guy friends....
You can tell your ex girls’ girl friends that they look cute...
You can call them and reply to their messages...
You don’t have to stand outside a trial room holding tops she is never gonna wear...
Never gonna wear and for which you will pay...
You realize why Marilyn Manson had a rib removed. Finally....
You can stay up late and not be on the phone...
You don’t have to nod your head when a hot skinny girl passes by and she starts slamming her for being too thin....
You don’t have to explain anymore that why you find girls from the north east hot...
You don’t have to explain anymore that why you find Mallika Sherawat hot....
You don’t have to remember annis, birthdays and what she wore on which day...
You don't have to lie while untangling her tresses that she is the most beautiful girl in this world....
You don’t have to decide where to go to...
Weekend can mean sleeping all day...
Lunch can mean potato chips and coke....


More on the way…..Will update as I find new things about it…

birlasoft is cool......ExcePt!!!!!....

DAY 1 was coool ........except....

wearing formals part....

so many document verifications part......

so many signatures part.....

opening account part......

stupid queries of new wannabees part.....

only 3 girls in my batch part.......

all of them being egoistic part......

signing the BOND part..... :(

not allowed to flirt with the HR part.....
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otherwise day 1 was cool.... ;) ;)



birlasoft generally is really very cool......EXCEPT......

getting up early part.......

bathing everyday part.......

wearing formals part.......

shaving every alternate day part.....

the commuting part...... and inhaling the varying smells of peoples sweat in the metro part....

forcing the cafeteria food down your throat part.....

listening to the presentations all day part.....

playing table tennis with foot eating leather shoes on part......

introducing yourself to every other person after every two hours part.....

resisting the various eyeballs moving towards you, while talking to a girl part......



otherwise birlasoft till now has been quite coool........


more updates as soon as birlasoft permits,,,,, :P :P

Yesss.....She's the OnE !!!!!!!

when she walks from the door..it seems that there is no one else existing on the floor.......
her big black eyes......seems gleamy diyas and lights.....
the skin always glow... as if tiny 0 watt bulbs are fitted within and the light they show....
i can stand all day long to hold her hair.....coz when they blow and come to her face....it seems they're not being fair.......
when her smile was being designed, the god used the most expensive knife........coz when she smiles.....it seems ....WHAT A LIFE!!!!!
I wish I could tell her she makes me whole, but I'm afraid to say
what's deep in my soul.
I don't want to lose her, for I would be alone,
and some days I just can't wait to hear her voice on the phone.
I want to hold her hands...and held them strong......and never let anything go wrong......
I want to sit by her side...and tell her how i feel....keeping rest things aside.....
I can fight the world for you.......breaking all the walls through....!!!!
the one i am looking for.....i've found its you......
many ppl have come and gone....but u're the one on whom my mind is always on!!!!!!
I wish I could tell her what I feel inside,
but I'm afraid of what she'll say, how she'll act on the outside. ?

you're the one....yess you're the one...........

BirLaSoFt Ki bHaSad!!!!!!!!!!!

ok........ after my last post on Infosys , here comes another exciting experience i had during my struggle to get a job somewhere so that i could somehow justify to the world that i had really done a 4 year course that made me worthy enuf for a job and i had not only run after girls during these 4 years..:P

though during the meantime I've had lots of these experiences ...but i don't want to get insulted evertym so the story I've chosen this time wud bring me some respect.... in the end at least.

it was when i had already given up the thought that i'll be placed one day. but as they say....every dog has it's day.....the donkeys also do have ... so it was mine.
the next drive was of birlasoft. if i get into the whole process...u wud stop reading it...so i wud just say...somehow the fool cleared the exam and the donkey barked in the GD.
finally came the turn of interview.....n here goes the two of them...technical Hr both:-

THE HR INTERVIEW

Me: - good afternoon mam.
Interviewer: - it’s good morning.
Me: - ohh sorry mam good morning.
Interviewer: - good morning, please have a seat.
Me: - mam I am kunal.
Interviewer: - can I have your statement of purpose, a photograph and your resume kunal.
Me: - here they are mam.
Interviewer: - so, kunal tell me something about your self.
Me: - mam I am kunal doing B.tech in IT from GPMCE, I’ve done my schooling from……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..and various other things about me………
Interviewer: - so what do you do in your leisure time?
Me: - mam I just surf on the Internet, read books, listen to music, talk to friends over the phone, play with them.
Interviewer: - nothing productive you do that means?
ME:- ummmm…… mam if I do something productive in that time then it wouldn’t have been called “LEISURE” time.
Interviewer: - Hmmmm…..ok. So just tell me why should I recruit you, I mean what else do you have in you, that other students sitting outside don’t have?
Me:- mam I cannot say about other people but just recruit me because I believe that even after 10 years or 20 years when I’ll be leaving my home for the office I’ll be as enthusiastic and as ebullient as I would be on first day of my job.( what a line man what a line.....m proud of myself)
Interviewer: - hmmm…. how can I believe that?
Me: - ummm….see I cannot prove that to you but I know that I’ll keep that spirit in me throughout my life.
Interviewer:- ok tell me how can you benefit birlasoft?
now I was in so need of this one that i gave a superbly stupid answer after which my rejection was destined.
Me:- ma'am i can do other stuff apart from the work allotted to me.
Interviewer:-like?
Me:-i can.....ummmm.....i can photocopy papers, take printouts etc ( what the F answer it was)
Interviewer: - tell me your one weakness.
Me: - I cannot stand selfishness.
Interviewer: - ok. What do you do when you see selfishness around?
Me: - ummm/….???Confused??? …. I don’t do anything but I just think why people are being selfish and hurting other person’s feelings. (It was a stupid answer)
Interviewer: -so you are like-able person?
Me: - yes mam.
Interviewer: - tell me one thing you cannot live without??
Me: - umm…. Oxygen…hehe (stupid again)
Interviewer: - I was expecting a serious answer, anyways kunal would you like to be a like-able person or an efficient person?
Me: - both
Interviewer: - tell me one.
Me: - mam actually…......
Interviewer: - I don’t want any diplomatic answers; just choose one, likeable or efficient?
Me: - mam an efficient person can also be like-able.
Interviewer: - no, I am very efficient but I keep on bullying my subordinates, I make them stretch, I call them on Saturdays Sundays to do office work, they don’t like me but I’m efficient. So like-able or efficient?
Me: - ummm…. Efficient (mistake)
Interviewer: - thanks kunal, I’ve got my answer. Hmmm…. Ok kunal I have discovered two things about you, one is good for you and another one is bad for you. Which one first?
Me: - bad one first mam.
Interviewer: - why bad one first?
Me: - I want to end all bad news in my life with this last one.( woooo....i was back in action)
Interviewer: - hmmm…the bad thing for you is that I’ve come to know that there is something about you which in not right, you know there is something fishy about you.
Me: - okay and the good thing is?
Interviewer: - the good thing for you is that… you’re so smart, that I’m not able to get what that wrong thing in you is.
Me: - ohhh….. Okay mam.
Interviewer: -Thank you, you can go now.
Me: - thank you mam. Have a nice day.

the technical interview was a boring one and in fact i kept silent in most of the part( gave only 2 answers out of 10) so it cudn't be interesting anyways.

all that bhasad that i made out in the interview gave me msgs that i wudn't be selected but........as i said every donkey has it's day.....it was.........?????/????........

overconfidence and one liners pays off sometimes..................

The fAt FILES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mote ko mota na kaho.......usse dukh hoga!!!!!!! khaate peete ghar ka hu...tere ghar se nahi khaata!!!!!!!! these were the dialogues i had grown up with all my life till now....
as rizwan khaan's aka shahrukh khan's mother says in my name is khan that the world is divided into two types of people...the good people and the bad people........i say the world is divided into two types of people:-
the fat ones
and the thin ones

as the name of the post suggests.. i not so willingly fall in the first category. being a fat person has always been considered a taboo in our society and where this was not less annoying to the first category people......a new revolution was brought about by miss kareena kapoor......a zero size figure.......i mean.....what the hell.......

anyways......i had always been a plump child from the very starting. where my friends use to play basketball and cricket i was busy munching on to mcdonalds burger and pizza hut cheeze bursts. samosas and colas have always been my best friends. it's not that i didn't tried any sports or something. i was too forced to get into hard core sports by my parents. it was only after I failed miserably in all of them that i got back to normal life.
since nothing was left then for me to do, so i threw up myself in books and gradually grew fat and ugly :P

the first few years were a real party--> eat anything, do nothing.

the real problem started creeping up when rejections from girls were pacing up. no girl wanted to sit next to me .............for the simple reason that i used to occupy 3/4th of the seat :P
but till that time the gorgeous delicacies had taken me over already and there was nthing i cud help. the salads and pizzas kept in front of me always kept fighting and i dont know somehow evertym it was the salad that lost the battle.

school got over (without girls) and college started. boys with six pack abs and bulging biceps are always famous in college. i had always believed that i too have six pack abs it was just that i never believed in show off n thaths why I'd hidden them under my layers of skin. but girls never believed this weird reasoning. now by any means i had to loose some weight and this was the time when gym came into action.

joining the gym proved out to be more of a shame rather than help.it was there that i figured out that keeping up in shape is how much important.
girls with such flat abdomen as if some road roller have been moved over them were sweating it out to get a more luscious body.
somehow a team of gym trainers and dietitians became successful in making me look less ugly from what i was in a time span of 5-6 months. i was looking good now.
girls had just started liking me when again......the year long virus sleeping inside me woke up-------->overconfidence

i again started hitting onto my old friends :P with the intent that now nothing is impossible.

and was back to my original skin.

the war still continues....lets see who wins this time......my will or my confidence....rather overconfidence :P

InFosYs DeFeAt.........

three and a half years of slogging in an engineering college whoose name, if you tell anyone, you get in reply a sceptic look as if you've told them that you're their illegal child....completely unknown.... and finally came the day, for which every engineering student who is not really an engineer will for-----> the infosys campus drive
infosys is a company known for coming with a truck along with them, same as the blue ones you see around moving in delhi for a purpose. This truck normally does it's work and takes the students to mysore, and believe you me people, the number of students they take along is INSANELY huge.
students like us who do not have the real qualities of an engineer from day one of stepping into college will for getting into Infosys, simply becuase of two reasonsthe selecion process is a cake walk and two...the number of students they take. the pay package they provide being the cherry on the cake.
the day came and i too was in the queue to enter into the blue truck...lol...
a day earlier when i went to take the registration no. from the T&P cell, i came to know that not only my parents ..but ...the college faculty also had expectations from me....pressure....pressure....pressure/........just kill me......
2 hrs of search and finally i found the BLACK TIE from jwalaheri market that i needed for the interview next day.
i was ready and steady the next day to enter into the war feild.
taking the blessings of a mother who had expectations in her eyes and an overestimating father i left the home.
while travelling to the place there came a thot in my mind that if everyone's having expectations from me...then there must be sumthing inside me and that brought a confidence in me that i'll clear it. with that thought in mind i sat for the exam.
3 hours of long wait in which a thousand NOT SO splendid thoughts were eating my mind and finally came the time when a boy in a blue suit with a white shirt and black tie (what the F..... who wears a black tie witha blue suit)came out with the list in his hand of the selected students.
Ok friends the list of shortlisted students from GPMCE is here.... said he
the air around me stopped flowing......it seemed as if blood stopped pumping in my body...
he started taking the names.......
ok the first student who is selected is
aman......
vijay....
prateek...
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and.....one last student who is selected is
oh my god....please please i beg of you god please this be my name god please ......i'll come to your place everyday.....i'll clean the temple everyday....i'll do watever u say god.....i'll stop throwing myself on girls....plzzz....god plzzzz

but......before could have listened to my prayer and have thought about it....the blue suited stupid guy took the name of the last student

and one last student is.......

ravi

WTF!!!!!!!

for a moment...the earth stopped revolving......i skipped atleast 8 to 10 of my heart beats till i got a pat from my friend saying me to let's go back to home.

i had become deaf for the moment for i could not swallow the fact that i wasn't selected and students who were nothing in front of me(Acc. to me) were there...standing on the stage...in the queue of selected students....what the fuck!!!

those 5 mins which i took to reach from the announcement stage to the exit gate were the most painfull minutes of my life....
during my passage in those 5 mins it seemed everyone was looking at me on the way and were laughing at my face like...hahaha...look who's here...Mr bond himself....acted too smart in the college...he was the STAR.....what happened Mr. star.....you didn't get selected....though all these were figment of my imagination but i knew.....this would have definitely happened in hearts of many people.

anyways...i don't even remember who dropped me home. while i was crossing a heavy traffic road....all that was running in my mind was what excuse shud i give everyone for not being selected...as when i left home....i seemed pretty confident.....ohhh fish ....when would this confidence leave me.....lands me into troubles everytime....
amidst the running sounds of numerous vehicles all i could hear was my heart beat.
facing family and friends was just part of dealing with the overconfidence syndrome i'm suffering with.
after this infosys defeat i've decided not to settle for the good...but to opt for the great.
who knows this myt also be one of my overconfidence foolishness........

MEeeeeee

hi....i am kunal....your very own kunal......the outgoing...the energetic...the humorous...highly ebullient....star of the eyes of parents, teachers & friends. with me everybody have had expectations of their own sort.
but when i do a fast rewind of my life and look back, then i get to know that i've never been able to live up to the expectations of any of them. :(
though i've set an example of overestimation....lolzzz....
anyways..this example would never be sighted by anyone.
It's been almost 4 years i've left the school and believe you me i never had the guts to go back and face any of them whom i had made big big false promises. they too had expectations from me and not the small ones, they had expectations which were insanely huge.
but i guess it was not their fault also, confidence always dripped from my face as if water were falling from niagara falls....
anyhow i know that i may never be able to reach what i had promised but i'll go back when i'll have to face least embarrassment....yes ...i'll have to face it.....
but...i'm not the only one in the league who is in such situation....i've a group of friends too....my supporters...my wellwishers...they always stood by my side...infact ahead of me... always saying you are behind us and we're the first ones to face the guilt...lol....
a group with whom i can share everything.............no ...............i'm not talking about underwear....i'm talking about feelings.....dirty people....
they themselves set examples to make me happy......
i just wanna tell them all.....however high i may reach ( what goes in thinking ).. i would neva eva forget them.....
anyways....this has been a peice of me.....a lyf full of friends, fans and expectations and less of achievements and accomplishements.....
rest of the peices...would be updated soon............so keep spamming!!!!!! ;)