My First trip Overseas- Singapore-Day-1

“Singapore - Huh!!! whats the big deal about it??? Everyone these days travel to Singapore”. This was a comment given to me by some friends when I told them about it. But then I knew my experience would be something different than most of the tourists there. I would travel like a local due to the fact that my cousin stays there and it would help me in understanding the culture and lifestyle of people.

Singapore a small island country whose economy depends only on tourism is a cosmopolitan country with people from different religion & races. A business hub with a equatorial climate, it doesn't have any manufacturing unit and heavily depends upon different countries for the resources.  Its currency is Singapore $ and the languages spoken are English, Chinese, Tamil & Malay.

My trip started on 20th October ’12 from Bangalore to Chennai and then from Chennai International Airport at night. I had Singapore dollars in my wallet in form of cash(Its actually stupid idea to carry a traveler card in singapore).It was heavily raining and nothing was visible outside my flight Jet Airways which left on 22 October ’12 at 01:15 hrs. Inside the flight I had my veg breakfast at around 2 IST in night which I would say was awesome and better than the food served in Rajdhani trains in India(I have traveled more in Trains in India). I watched Kahaani Movie and played some games and exactly after 2 hours I saw the Sun rays.It was a different experience because flying 52000 ft above sea level on top of the clouds and watching the sun rise is something a person wouldn’t get to see easily.

Exactly at Singapore time 8:00 AM, I landed at Changi Airport. After Immigration, I came out with my luggage and waited for my cousin to receive me. After Waiting for 15 minutes I was panicking a bit coz I was new to a land far away from home & I dint know anything about this new country.

I knew my Airtel won’t work there but then the inside me said switch on and try and bingo!!!!! It captured Singtel network and I called up My cousin and he confirmed to reach within 15-20 minutes. Meanwhile I went to your Singapore counter to inquire about the tourist places. I reached home with my cousin; my address for time of stay is Anchorvale road, Sengkang in North east.

Once at home I changed, had breakfast and slept only to get up in the evening at 5:30. I got a call from my bhabi from her school(she is  a teacher there),then inquired about me and my travel and asked me to go out to a local community center with my Niece, Nephew & the domestic help Yaati as my nephew had fever and the clinic was at the Compass Point Mall.

So we went to the doctor by bus 373  and then went around the mall. [The doctors in singapore are friendly to patients. The medical transaction depends upon the insurance type, a person has taken and the amount is deducted from the medical card. It is advisable to tourists to have an insurance before they leave the country as medical expenses are high there and treatment is done on the basis of insurance only]. While going around I found a Starbucks and had my 1st experience at Starbucks with cafe Latte . We all returned home with the skytrain or the LRT as they say there to our station Tongkang. From LRT station, me and Shruti, my niece went to see Ganesh bhai(her uncle), who was my super senior in Engineering college and met Lipi nani(some distant cousin of mine & his wife) who stayed few blocks away from our house.

That night we returned home at 10 and my bhabi anounced, I was going to UNIVERSAL STUDIOS the next day with clear cut instruction from my cousin on traveling in Singapore. Will update more in my next blog.

TIPS to travel in Singapore: To use public transport in Singapore u need to have a MRT card which is a prepaid one. U can use it in the bus, MRT and the LRT. U need to tap at the point of entry and tap again at the point of exit. U can refill it for a maximum of S$ 100. U can use it as use per go. There are cameras installed in MRT, LRT & buses and u cannot cheat. Eating & drinking inside is also not allowed else a fine upto S $ 15000/-.

Questions??

Ignorance... The term has been in my mind since the last 2 months. The academic year as i thought would start with a happy note, but then god had something in the mind. I felt i was being ignored... Those friends whom i thought would care dint look at me.. Whenever I looked up to them, they would talk to me as if I snatched their precious goose and killed it.. This has led to some bad relationships recently, & i feel jo hua acche ke liye hua... Let them realise it...

There have been too many questions in my mind... Who am I??? Why the hell did I come here??? What is the purpose of my existence here??? Although some days seem to be normal, the others have been filled with hatred look by my mates... The reason--- I simply don't know... may be somebody filled their ears against me... I don't say I am too knowledgeable, but I am proud to tell I know too many things.. Thanks to my parents who imbibed in me the thinking process and reading habit to know and understand things in an open mind... I say I am creative to some extent, but what is the use of this creativity when there are people who don't appreciate this creativity???

 The world of practicality is lost. Human has become so mean and arrogant... Every1 is filled with poison... The poison that destroys them... I have been trying to tell this to many people, but then their nature of not listening to me has kept this thought to myself only...

The only time they look up to me is during assignments... Its like at the moment, they are struck by an arrow saying, this guy can do and they cannot... So mean to get more marks through me only...

Recently I  have been too punctual to things, what is the use of it to some people??? They simply think--- Chalta hai bhai, jab kaam hojata hai toh iski kya jarrorat....

I always think, I am on a path of self discovery, but then there are people out there who think they have nothing to learn...

Writing this blog, my mind is still filled with questions.. may be someone has an answer to it.

Life till now at christ

The last months were hectic for me and I was very lazy to write blogs... Here I go again with the updates from Christ....

June 2011--> Organisational Structural training seminar

JULY 2011-->OPUS, the book review

August 2011--> OBT(The most amazing time of my life)

September 2011--> Ethnic day

October 2011--> Chrizellenz(Theme- Aspiring green future)

November 2011--> USHUS(Best section award to my section)

December 2011 --> Nothing as such

A new journey

Here i am... sitting in the hostel and typing the first blog of the year 2011. Yes people who go through my blog might wonder how my address changed and what am i doing in a hostel???

Here it is --->I left my job in raipur 2 months back i.e., 1st May '11 and landed up in christ university, bangalore for MBA... Its a beginning after a gap of almost 3 years... My classes started from 6.6.11 at the kengeri campus... After working i have again become a kid... Life here they say is very difficult to handle... But i feel its ok after the BPUT system but at least things are organized here.. The very 1st day went very well.. We all had introductory class and received the 1st assignment of IT management... something in me said, things are very serious here, assignment on 1st day means these people are very serious.. But the second day changed my thinking.. We had the ice breaking ceremony, where we all i mean my section were taken out by seniors and then continued the event for enacting... We here have 4 sections and i am in A. The ice breaking ceremony was very funny coz we went to all the senior sections and they gave us ideas and asked us to enact them.. This was very funny... Day 3 thought this was the end of fun and serious studies started.. but to my surprise a week later we had this theater workshop where there was competition between students enacting a play in groups but initially it all started with a warm up session.. My group dint win but we all enjoyed a lot... 3 days later we had this BACK TO SCHOOL event(freshers party)... Every section was asked to enact a play with the given topics... the topics were based on nursery rhymes.. we had the Jack n Jill... we thought and thought and arrived at a conclusion that we could represent jack and jill as the modern kids who pass by time and reach the per independence era and then come back to reality where they tumble and fall down... Four main characters played the role... M.K Gandhi, Subhash Bose, Dhirubhai Ambani and Rahul Gandhi.. I did the role of M.K Gandhi... It was not a success but ppl recognize me as Gandhi...Then we had this Mr. Fresher and Miss fresher... Chaitali frommy section won the Miss fresher title... Its fun here.. A new journey has started with lots of new hope and aspiration... Things have been pretty normal till now.. But we can never predict what is there for us in the basket of future...

will keep updating things..
till then ciao
Samyak

Beasts of England from George orwell's Animal Farm

Beasts of England, Beasts of Ireland,
Beasts of every land and clime,
Hearken to my joyful tidings
Of the Golden future time.

Soon or late the day is coming,
Tyrant Man shall be o'er thrown,
And the fruitful fields of England
Shall be trod by beasts alone.

Rings shall vanish from our noses,
And the harness from our back,
Bit and spur shall rust forever,
Cruel whips no more shall crack.

Riches more than mind can picture,
Wheat and barley, oats and hay,
Clover, beans and mangel-wurzels
Shall be ours upon that day.

Bright will shine the fields of England,
Purer shall its waters be,
Sweeter yet shall blow its breezes
On the day that sets us free.

For that day we all must labour,
Though we die before it break;
Cows and horses, geese and turkeys,
All must toil for freedom's sake.

Beasts of England, Beasts of Ireland,
Beasts of every land and clime,
Hearken well, and spread my tidings
Of the Golden future time.

Shocked!!!!!!!!!!!

At last i got something to write of... I was in the office today when i suddenly found out something where neither could I laugh nor sit quietly... But then I chose the latter. These were some of the errors which are unexpected from people... And these are very common with highly educated people in MP & chhattisgarh. ok things happened like this----- I was working when I needed the log book to make some reports using previous data but as I scanned through the pages a small mistake caught my eyes which could easily be neglected but then I thought how could that person do this...ok here is the mistake... The person who wrote the thing is a Mechanical Engineer... There was some problem in the office which was a mechanical one & he had to write its reason in the book what he wrote was that"The product failed to start due to MACHANACAL ERROR"() actually it was a mechanical error)...

A candidate recently applied for a junior position in the office(although he has a bit experience than me in the domain) which i am in. His CV was kept on our group table 4 informing us that a guy is joining us soon.. Everyone including me got a chance to go through the persons CV.... Even though i am not the Human Resource person but i can say that if the cv goes to some MNC, it would surely be neglected... Actually very unimpressive.. The mistakes that this person did in his CV are---
1. Under the vocational training section he wrote"I HAVE DONE TRAINING IN A VEHICLE FACTORY FOR 15 DAYS".... It would rather have been undergone 15 days training at the place name but no this person has kept everything secret.....

2. PERSONAL STRENGTH---- "I AM A VERY GOOD PERSON IN NATURE AND I HAVE LEADERSHIP QUALITY AND CAN CATCH THINGS EASILY".

3. Extracurricular activities---"I have participated in Extracurricular activities like Drama".

4.Computer knowledge has been written as 'COMMRUTER KNOWLEDGE'


If Engineers start writing like this then it can be said these people actually got some fake papers to show a pass in the English exam or during their Engineering studies... coz Engineers don't write the way, the person had written things.....

Hey all I am out of more things, but will be writing very soon... till then bye....

Good for nothing

Sorry folks.... Im unable to reply most of ur scraps... I am in such a position that i hardly ever get time to think about myself.... The past one & half year was a tough time for me.... After college I Joined Wipro Technologies in Kolkata in its BPO section(i was told i wud be transferred to technologies after 18 months there which was a false thing). I thought life would be cool in BPO & at least i would be independent of my own.... But then after joining I realised I did not fit into this place... so after a short stint I left it without a new job... I came back 2 raipur started preparing 4 exams of different kind n yeah also went 2 bangalore 4 few days to try only 2 hear recession had already started... I sat for a few months at hme waiting for the opportunity to knock my door....It came after several months of waiting and just after few days of joining MBA prep classes. I instantly joined Shri Bajrang power & Ispat Ltd. in raipur as a GET in its power plant unit where im still working... I have been running after my job & classes since then.... & Now the time has come for the biggest event... My CAT is on 30th NOVEMBER 2009 followed by XAT on 3rd JANUARY 2010.... Its a time for high preparations...Lots of practice & mugging work left... Expecting to crack either one of them...

I know the above passage looks stupid but then i haven't written anything for months & i don't have any new idea.... So thought of writing something stupid n pass away my time.... next when i have something in my mind....... bye tc.. n yeah wish me luck for exams......