incredible india !!

INCREDIBLE INDIA !! ---- but still undermarketed.

i think its high time we start marketing india on a larger scale to the world, the tourism department of india has never been on the aggressive note and considering there's not much scope for 'income' not many ppl in the cabinet have shown interest for tht portfolio.

we can have a look and get inspired from the asian tigers - malaysia and singapore on how aggresively they have marketed themselves and the results are quite evident the tourism has increased two time over in just two years , this despite that tsunami tragedy in the east asia.

i have been recently to vizag and darjeeling ....and i cant in words dsecribe the beauty of darjeeling and surrounding places.
one can reach darjeling via siliguri or new jalpaiguri by train in west bengal , from there darjeeling is at a 3 hour amazing drive through tthe mountains.

Darjeeling stands at an altitude of over 8000 ft and is aptly called ' queen of hill stations ' . the toy train is the most famous thing of that place which moves slowly from darjeeling to jalpaiguri unravelling the himalayan beauty ...
it is rich with an exotic variety of flora and fauna with some animals like the clouded leopard which can be seen in the zoo ( its closest cousin to the now extinct saber toothed tiger , and its endeangered too ) well u cant see the musk deer there though .....and there were breath taking views while descending the hill to go to gangamaya park and rock garden ........ they are one of the best maitained parks i have ever seen .... ahead of bangalore's brindavan garden and ooty's botanical gardens . the clouds actually go past u , though ppl said that october is the best season to go there , i felt june was ideal.

one can also have a look at the gear which tenzing norgay lived till his end and also the gear which he and sir edmund hillary used during their famous conquest of mt . everest , all this at the himalayan mountaneering institute , whose chairman now is jyoti basu ( he gives the permissions to climb the everest by routes through india, so im told) . the next and last place i visited was lake mirik - it was located in a fairy tale setting , in midst of the mountains and clear water with clouds just passing over your head, one can go boating in this beautiful lake for half an hour.


this trip will remain as one of the best places i have visited, though due to lack of time , we could not visit gangtok .... well maybe next time

quote a quote again!!

i read this in the fms brochure cover page and (dont laugh) but was one of the main reasons for me to apply for it.now thanx to arjun singh i have no realistic chance of making it with hardly 10 seats for gen category. still the quote now.....

every morning a gazelle wakes up , it knows that it must run faster than the fastest lion
every morning a lion wales up, it knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle
but no matter who you are
when the dawn breaks , you better be running.

may be i read sm inner meaning in it which mite not be there, still it was gr88

holidays.........

it is good actually once in a while to do nothing .
they say that sm guy called Newton got the idea about a force that sucks ......... ya gravity , when he was enjoying his holidays from the university due to the plague which had suddenly erupted over europe...... im still waiting for any such brilliant idea. after my various sttempts to do any " constructive work " went sour, i settled down to spending my hols in the traditional way.

and one good thing about ranchi is the climate, this time it is amazing with rains almost everyday like the scottish climate, ( dont mind the exaggeration!) and thankfully the rains are a welcome respite to the farmers after the continous famine like conditions.

with some of my frenz already earned the professional tag, im waiting for mine .....

20 constructive things to do in vacation

well 3 summer vacations have gone by at b.i.t and they were pretty long ........ 2 months
there was always heavy duty palnning, some wanted to learn programming
some hardware.

but two months were rtoo long to do nothing and too short to do anything really. so the days were spent infront of the idiot box or the stupid box. the afternoons were too hot to go out and the evenings too tempting to hangout at theatre or sm shopping mall.
now this is the last vacation probably when i hafta do nothing , really nothing.
just came back home with baggage both emotional and material.last two days were spent at yellow saphire and c.c.d, both time and money seem glide past by you , though the ambience is the only thing ppl go there for, u come out feeling a bit lighter in pocket and mind. what a plce to gossip wid frenz and if u r meeting them for last time..........

today we were searching a place to learn french , we searched ranchi high and low, there was one palce but the course starts when my vacation ends .......... so ruled out

then we went to icici to open a demat account but they need a pan number to open it .......... it takes 15 days to get it .............. so thats on hold now......

gosh luks like this summer 's not gonna be different from the last ones

for next 18 tips call me and ask .

i am an engineer now!!

it all began six years ago. the dream of becoming an engineer began with the iits, those days were gruelling in 11th and 12th , but on the altar of a secure future the early teens were sacrificed , there was practically nothing but preparing for jee , that was a destiny i had chosen for myself , because i used to fancy engineers as ppl who do hi fi technical stuff.........like inventing something new or designing new processors or something..... after those entrance exams sucked half the life out of me ,

finally got into b.i.t mesra and before i knew four years flied past me , now im looking at the countdown with 1 on it.......... the last step of being an engrr -my project will be done, and i will be gone from b.i.t mesra -alma mater.

everything is fresh in my mind ,
wish life could just rewind,
let's laugh , play, and rejoice,
once again become college guys.

age of empires...

age of empires is one of the most addictive i have played. we started playing this on lan last month and we have spent countless days and nights on it, usually the game extends hours together depending on the teams or the civilisations they chose.there were instances when we actually forgot to sleep( during holi hols) and instances when we missed having food in the mess, even our end sem exams could not dampen our enthusiasm and we manage to take out time for the game, the completion of the syllabus is but a secondary issue.

the regular warriors are:
manish dhelia aka xenom( mr.enthusiast- he is game for the game anytime of the day)
dharmesh meena aka kratos( baadshah- we r still trying to find ways to defeat him)
shishir tiru aka morgue man( tyro turned virtuoso)
pratik choudhuri aka zion( only one who can challenge meena in a duel)
shabda aka die slowly love(well the king visits but rarely)
prasun aka sabre truth( abhi abhi khelna seekha hai)
swaraj aka sword

and last but certainly not the least k(ami) k(aze) -------- yours truly.

the first game on lan was palyed between me and shabda,but with 12 days left to go from b.i.t , i believe this is one of the last oppurtunities we have, to play this game on lan.

we'll of coz chreish these battles ( the other ppl in lobby will too , they will vouch for it... hehe)

quote a quote.

: "'Remember that what's right isn't always popular... and
what's popular isn't always right.'"

this is me..

 

truly unbelievable !!

its just about the recent movie i saw " schindlers list" . amazing would rather be an understatement , but that was kinda expected from spielberg..... though it was shot in b& w and is 3 and half hours long, each moment of it is gripping .
i was reading about the jews in encarta about their history , they were probably thrown out of every possible place , well they did a mistake instead of going to poland they mustave fled to india like the parsees , atleast they wudn't have been murdered in millions. but the sheer fact that 60 lakh ppl were killed in a span of just 4 years is staggering .

they were kicked out of their home byt the babylonians first and their city was destroyed ( to remember this tragedy the jews crush a glass object when they marry , to resemble the demolition of their first temple of solomon) . then the roman emperor drove them out , they settled in various places like spain , france etc, but even there they were not in peace and they were banished (!yes!) by the self proclaimed civilised nation - britain. they had somewhat peace in spain before they persecuted there too by king ferdinand and queen isabella. they migrated in large numbers and concentrated in poland . and then .......... started the largest and worst genocide in history of mankind , by adolf hitler.

the way the protagonist of the movie- oskar schindler saves 1100 jews , at his personal risk and cost of millions of duetsche marks was moving .

we need such exmplary people in todays world too , hatred still at large in the balkans , in palestine, and of course in india peninsula.

we ppl claim to be civilised and educated and still dont give a damn for human lives( look at iraq!) . we shud atleast change now and learn to co-exist in peace .

p.s- please leave the jews in peace atleast now . the arabs shud learn to live with them.

a record of its own sort....

this time in our col (thats b.i.t mesra ) there are probably maximum number of people who got calls from the gr8 and gr8 b schools and many have act converted them . most probably ( one's waitlisted) there will be 2 guys going to iim b and two to f.m.s delhi, and myself im still hanging on a waitlist in x.l.r.i.................

iimb .... perhaps it's what a lakh dream about every year and a lakh dont even dream of , one of my frenz remarked as it being harvard of india , wudnt be an exaggeration considering its only iim with international presence now.

perhaps its thanx to the over the top salaries the ppl got this year in the indian b schools mba is back with a bang louder than ever before , a crore rupees for an year . if it was me i would work like hell for an year and then happily retire and go globe trotting.
the hype has really got intense now , i was in a bus to my col and i heard two guys talking ' yaar ye isb mein admission kaise hota hai' i cudnt help but smile ... now mba has become an obvious destination for young india.

its about me ....

though i belong to vizag i have been travelling throughout india since my father has a transferable job with canara bank... i spent my initial years of schooling in hyderabad then moved to the city of the taj. staying in agra gave me a chance to visit all the places of mughal influence . funny it seems now that in distant past , a nomadic tribe captured the seat of power in delhi for centuries together only to be dislodged by another foreign power , imperial one this time . indian past is a classic example of "divided we fall" , and divided we fell not once but again and again ... india they say is the only country not to have made an agression on any other country in some 10,000 years or so... the position of our country is so favorable that we never needed to look out for anthing , we had most fertile of the soils and also abundantly blessed with minerals ( not uranium though im talking about past if u have noticed....hehe) . this also sortof explains our population which till recently was considered a liability is now turning into our asset and a liability to other countries population ( in bpo's if u dont get it)

hello ,

this is about me k.k kishore just penning down my feelings and sortof my story . a good read i promise if u r getting bored with nothing to do.

this being my first blog is only to experiment .......