Sunday, April 20, 2008
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8:54 AM
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I love reading comics specially if they are in hindi.
I used to screw up my home work for comics. A big fan of NAGRAJ, DHRUV, PARMANU, FIGHTER TODS etc.
I still read comics but not as frequently.
Any one interested in hindi comics can visit:
Masalatalk thread for Hindi Comics
Orkut Community for Hindi Comics
Wordpress Blog for Hindi Comics
I have maintained a large collection of comics. (more than 300 comics)
check it out.
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Chandan Varshney
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dhruv,
doga,
hindi,
nagraj,
raj comics
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
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8:28 PM
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Posted by
Chandan Varshney
Labels:
fun,
india,
map
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
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12:26 PM
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I believe "Life is always the best tester of your capabilities".
It will test your management when you think there is nothing to be managed, It will test your knowledge when there is nothing to put your mind in, It will test your patience when you are at the peak of your impatience, It will test your control when you badly want to go uncontrolled and so on.......
My life is full of these tests. Even though I didn't get passed in each test conducted by my life I still maintained to live happily. I am creating this blog juz to let you guys know a bit bout my life.
When I applied for B.TECH. entrance exam of state level exam, suddenly govt came up with 50% paid seats in all premier govt engg institutes and "luckily" I managed to secure a rank at which free seats were not available. My father didn't have enough money to get a paid seat. Finally I landed up in AMU. The test gets over and all this paid seat/free seat funda was waved from next year as if that was created only for me. That was juz tip of the iceberg. I have been facing such tests through out my life. Somehow I managed to complete my B.Tech. with decent marks but with a bad impression on most of my profs as I never quit teasing them. I always try to relate every theory to the practical examples which was not possible in every case and this often ends with kicking me out of the class.
then again in the final year of my Btech I conclude that I shouldn't stop after graduation rather go for MBA. I prep well, had CL(Career Launcher) classes, got decent scores in CL's mocks and finally on 'The Day' I couldn't performed. The result ? Pathetic. got 58%ile in one of the section. Didn't get through any of the 'Good' institute.
Now, Placements in the campus have started. TCS was the 1st company to visit. Sit and got thru. Was not allowed for CSC/HCL etc. Was very impressed with TCS ppt and work which they have portrait there. Finally joined TCS. after training in coimbatore(TN), they asked for preferences of joining location. DELHI, MUMBAI , PUNE were my 3 pref in that order. All my friends also applied in the same manner. Finally joining day came and I got KOLKATA( was that a option. i never saw that) with a couple of friends; rest all got DELHI/NOIDA/GURGAON.
OK, with accepted type feeling I reached kolkata. I was trained in .NET and finally got project in MS Excel and Access (now that was frustrating). Any how managed to work and got a little bit of .NET work in mids. then after missing a chance of taking CAT again in 2006, I planned to prep for 2006. Started prep sincerely, CAT was on 18-NOV. In july I was asked if I want to go onsite(US), $'s started blinking in my eyes. I say YES without giving it a 2nd thought. scrapped all my prep and dreams of MBA for some tiny '$s' ( This was one of my biggest mistakes in life. In other word, in this test of life I failed by a large margin). Reached US on 1st-SEPT, enjoy there for a month. My stay was supposed to be long term. It was only after a month when I realize that I got failed in the last test of life and then decided to go back and take the test again(Improvement exam :) ). My manager was not ready to send me back, had a discussion(Fight in exact word) and finally I survived. Came back to india on 22nd OCT. 25 days in hand and I have to do so many things. I used to take leave from office more frequently. study very hard till late nights, Saturdays and Sundays. I was doing whatever I could. Finally 'The Day' came and although I did pretty well but repeats some of the previous mistakes and results ? NO IIM call ( later IIM-shillong called me). But finally got thru IMT-G(FIN) and got waiting in NITIE and MDI-PGPM.
Got thru NITIE-IM also. will be joining thr.
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Chandan Varshney
Labels:
experiment,
life
Monday, April 14, 2008
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3:44 PM
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Hi All,
had my gd/PI today in kolkata.
It was a case study: A company has outsourced its IT dev to an IT company. They want an big IT s/w for their planning and bla bla. The duration was 2 years. After dev of 1 year IT company installed the s/w in client machines. Now users of that systems started coming up with changes in the system and the IT company started making those changes instead of keep continuing with further dev. AS a result the project couldn't completed. the MD of client company get to know this slippage only after 2 years and when he analyze , he found that time and human resource were wasted in doing unimportant work. WHAT SHOULD HE DO NOW?
had a good discussion on it. The group was about to become fishy when everyone realized and finally had a healthy discussion.
PI: there were three prof. 2 Male 1 Female
Qs asked: - Tell something which is not in the form. = told about me
- Hobbies= told cooking
- recipes of some dishes
 = was expecting this - Why MBA?
- Fav subject= now bad time started. I told OS.
- Drilled on Linux, winXP and Vista.
- Differences b/w all three
- Adv of Vista
- Adv of Linux
- File structure of Linux
- Defragmentation and so on= I was just sitting idle and nodding me head.
 - Why Politics is so imp in UP(my home state)...
Other than tech I answered all satisfactorily.
Lets see...
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Chandan Varshney
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GD,
IIM,
PI,
shillong
had my GD/PI at IMT-Ghaziabad centre itself.
The process started a little late. First we had fill up a preference form for the stream choices.
GD Topic: Tata Nano ......
Time given was very less(8-10 mins) for a group of 15 and that too for such a simple topic. Everyone had a lot of things to say but no one was ready to listen. Complete Fish market. Only good thing happened to me was that after trying to speak in first 2 mins, I didn't contributed to Fishy market. Tried to manage the group 2-3 times but after a silence of 10 secs, gp again started with Fish Marketting[  ].
Finally they cut short the discussion in 6-7 mins and asked everyone to summarize it in 1 min. Then submit the written summary in 2 mins. These were the only instance when I can show my opinions.
Waited for 2.5 hours for PI as I was the last in the group.
I had to reschedule my PI before some other guys in my gp as My flight got preponed.
There were three panelist: P1,P2(both from IMT), P3- from industry
P1: Why did you reschedule your PI slot?
Me: My flight got preponed
P1: Why didn't you book a flight from nest day?(asked this ques very harshly and trying to create stress)
Me: Started explaning my job responsiblities and told how critical work I am handling at this time so don't want to take xtra leave and harm my company. Explained it a bit. (they were happy)
P2: Why MBA after such a good job?
Me: Give gyan on business knowledge and value addition bla bla...
P2: Hobbies ?
Me: Cooking, playing games etc....
P2: Cooking is your hobby or necessity of life?
Me: Give gyan that cooking is my hobby. I love eating and cooking different varity of foods.
P1 & P2 asked some more Qs about cooking to check my knowledge.
All Answered ...
P3: Other calls?
Me: yes, MDI,NITIE,XIMB,SCMHRD ....
P3: which one do you want to join?
Me: Sir IMT. Explained the IMT strengths about industry as well as international exposure. How this can help me in my long term goal to set up my own venture bla bla....
P3: Suppose you din't get selected in any of institutes then?
Me: Told about my backup plans. Have an onsite opportunity in hand and will opt for that. and then again come back after 5-6 months, prep again and will come again for interview in IMT next year..
They were all happy with my answer.
Wish me best of luck for future.
told me to run and catch my flight.
Overall good PI but bad GD..
Finally got selected in IMT-G(Finance)
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Chandan Varshney
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GD,
IMT,
PI,
tata nano
I reached NITIE a day b4 GD/PI. Got a stay in NITIE MDP hostel.
Hostel was very old and not properly maintained.
Room was big and so 4 candidates were accomodated in that single room. The worst part was that was only one washroom and we have to report at 8 AM. so got to start pretty early(I hate it).
Anyways, process got started on time. Everything was maintained by students only. Gave presentations on the courses and college.
Document verified. moved into GD with a gp size 10.
GD topic: Behave like ROMANS once you are in ROME.
Gp was very good in terms of discipline and discussion as a whole. Had a very nice discussion. I made relevent entries 4-5 times.
Got in the waiting room. Now the story starts. The panel I was assigned to was 'so called GOOD panel'. Now there were a number of students having evening flight/train for their return journey. As the process was a bit late they were worried about their return. I was waiting outside the PI room as my number was next. Then from somewhere one guy with NITIE senior came and told about his return flight and asked my permission for having his PI b4 me. "YEAH you can" was my reply. Now as soon as this guy entered 4-5 guys come and asked the same. So, eventually my scheduled was shifted from 3PM to 4:30PM. ( now that is called as cost of altruism )
Finally I got in at 4:30PM.
There were 7-8 panelist but only 3-4 were asking Qs rest were just watching.
P1: So Chandan, you have been waiting for a long time outside this room but didn't get chance to get in. Isn't it irritating?
Me: I knew this Q was fired to trap me, I answered it cleverly and said I always help people if I could.
I was asked by other panelist also on the same topic like "Why did you let those guys come b4 u" etc etc....
P2: So what do you expect from us to ask you about?
Me: Now that was really unexpected. I told them about general Qs asked in PIs like 'Why MBA' type
P2: But why would we ask these Qs?
Me: Here I got the point.[ ]. I told them that you want to know me so that you can judge whether I am up to level of institute or not.
P2: Yes, so now tell me why should we take you?
Me: answered it confidently. had a discussion on the same.
Finally was asked about my success and failure till now.
That's it. The PI last for around 30-35mins.
Overall Good performance.
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Got waitlisted for PGDIM(#23)
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