Internship!! :)

Having an affair with an internship is perhaps the craziest thing to do but I did end up into this quad core web of love with my summer Internship.  300 Days much had happened CAT-> IIM Indore-> PGP 1-> destiny-> friends>life needless to say the time flied swiftly with these pointers more importantly because of this salubrious epoch was joyous and idyllic. Each second of your life is that fundamental unit  which serves as the foundation of your minutes, hours, days and years to come so one should make sure that he or she is making that each second worth and that was the most important lesson I learnt from my internship.

 Bombay – the maximum metropolis was the destination which where I was to work for this USD 27 Billion Indian Conglomerate ESSAR GROUP in their Corporate Finance Team. I boarded a Jet Airways flight from Jaipur on the 3^rd of April 2012 and was welcomed in a sea facing room on the 24^th Floor of Ashok Towers in South Bombay. The glittering and shimmering city of dreams at 2300 Hrs made me realize that there had to be a swagger in the walk before I started my day the first day ever in office.

The first day in office took me through all the formalities of Access Cards, email address, introductions at the floor and the Corporate Finance Division of Essar Ports – the group company under which I was supposed to do my project, the Cafeteria (more importantly for my appease for the so called diet) and yeah the most important part the project title – Identification and Evaluation of Debt Securities for Infrastructural Projects in India being more specific to ports. The analysis had to be then implemented on a live project in the evaluation of a port.  Coming back to the evening of the day I spent my evening relaxing and deciding on how to decide the course of the project a tedious task though but had no choice because of this hardcore tenacious agreement with the summer internship.

 For the next few days from 0915 hrs to 1915 Hrs google.com was only web address entered into the  google chrome browser as I was still waiting for the confirmation of my final mentor so I wanted to do as much as I could to prevent this OB practice of First Impression Error. But as you know there are incidents in life which make you feel that god is being too kind to you and you really expect to be him that ways at all important phases of your life and one such was the stroke of the clock I met my mentor.
An IIM  L pass out with an excellent acumen of not only dealing with people but also a superfast knight with his key strokes on the project finance models and an excellent exemplifier of why this needs to be done. The day I met him, the first thing he told me after we shook hands was pack your bags I am sending you on a weeklong trip to our company’s port operations at Hazira and Vadinar. 
“I want you to go because understanding operations is a must to understand how the numbers on the balance sheet and income statement are being created” were the words from his euphoric voice and at one I was on my HR’s desk for making the necessary bookings. I boarded the Rajdhani Express for Surat the same evening to welcome of the most thrilling and educative week of my life.

Hazira   21°08′04″N 72°38′52″E India is connected to the high seas of the Gulf of Khambatt is a major port centre as well as one of the biggest industrial belts of India. I was taken to the 550 m long jetty of the Essar Bulk Terminal and was explained as to how this all weather deep draft port has played an important role in streamlining the operations of the group as whole. I was told about the basic terminologies of the ports and how they record revenues in terms of vessel related charges and cargo related charges. Before I lose track and get into more of the technical stuff in one 0.38 mm shot , to be very simple I was experiencing one of the most salubrious real time simulation of being a part of this corporate giant. The Hazira trip also focused certain things on my retina which I had never expected.  Witnessing a land being reclaimed live in the Arabian Sea with that engineers helmet on your head was one of the best experiences I could ever have. Hazira trip did end but brought with it a lot of experience and excitement in this sojourn voyage of life. I went back to Bombay after spending three days in Hazira.

VADINAR 22°24′N 69°43′E I landed in an Air India plane on the Air force station at Jamnagar. The thrill had already begun as I witnessed the IAF fighter jets taking off and landing on the runway live as the aircraft was taxiing to the civil terminal. I was taken to the Essar Oil Club, a plush resort situated on the Vadinar Jamnagar highway to drop my luggage so that I could quickly start with my work and report to the concerned in the comapany’s office in the Essar Oil Refinery complex. I was astounded and my eye lids did not move and blink for minutes after seeing the huge Oil refinery complex and there I could only recall one thing in my mind “ This part of my life means Business “. I was taken to the Oil terminal the next day which was a completely different port as to what I had seen in Hazira with all together a different terminology. My mentor was right you need to understand the business first before you can start making money out of it. Vadinar is one of those beautiful pages of epochs in my life that I would like to revisit often such is its thrill that exists in my mind.

Back to work at Bombay - Engrossing my eyes and engorging my neurons on the project work I did often made visits to the bank to enquire about the current LIBOR spread on the ECB loans, tried mastering the RBI Masters on Infrastructural financing policy in India, called up the IIFCL and enquired into their lending requirements, contacted the IFC’s in India, googled heavily on the existing debt schedules of the infra companies in India, DSCR |ALM |LIBOR| ICDR| NPV| IRR|MIRR| FCFE| FCFF|WACC became my favorite jargons. Presentations did shook hands many a times in the course of the intern but as I was nearing the end I was onto a live model implementing my debt securities mix to save some ( infact handsome)  amount of money for the company .   

If the above intense practices took away mornings, evenings were at peace opposite the Air India building at Marine Drive which made me feel the sea moving through the shores of my soul.  Being a Bombay fanatic I also explored the city in depth by visiting the old colonial buildings in the Fort, enjoying the night at Colaba (Leopold and Mondegar being favorites) , chatting with yellow black taxiwalas, reading the maximum city accounts by Suketu Mehta and finding out that places like Madanpura , Kamathipura, Dongri  and Navpada did exist on the map of Bombay( read more to know more) , the Carter road evenings , the Bandstand sea shore , The high street palladium Emporio Armani and Burberry dreams and the most important of all my room on the 24^th floor which used to pump in trillions of gallons of confidence in me to become something in life.

Before I conclude there is one thing which I always want to recite every morning as  Chetan Bhagat says...."It s ohkk,bunk a few classes,goof up a few interviews..take leave from work..enjoy with your friends...fall in love...we are people not programmed devices” Making an addition to the above “Excellence is not for someone else to notice but for your own satisfaction and efficiency”.
This was my summer internship of 2012. Signing off Shantanu Consul IIM INDORE PGP 2011-2013

Welll!! I love to write anything!!

Namaskar...Shubh Sandhya...that is on the behalf of someone who is in Mumbai rite now..I ll go with Good Evening...FACEBOOK...thanks for being my pal fr the last 48 hrs but then letme be frank enuf..u r a boring web made by the spider (my personal opinion) ...cus even if you are a virtual friend which allows to me to interact with the rest of the world..i cannot have a cup of coffee with them cause you engage the rest of the world in updating their status messages and uploading photos especially DP's (an acronym for Display Pictures).. and ..now thus there lies the fact...virtuality is taking over reality.....I know there may be a dissent between me and my friends at this point of moment...but then that is how i felt in these last 48 hrs when consulshantanu had no work except turning his Laptop from sleep to ON and from ON to sleep and every thread ensured that my next supposed action would be an entrance into the world of facebook..probably a person may talk foolish after a long still continuing voyage of boredom,apathy and weariness...Am i looking contrite ???...well may be.....Phewww..!! I really hope this excursion to boredom is not inexorable and should be ephemeral....No complications!! :P

.....Ohkay!!!....Fineee!!...Friends!!..Kids..Brothers..Sisters..and Girlfriend..thank you Lord...I do not have a 'S' attached to the last word or else a ferocious attack would have ruptured the already ruptured Shantanu Consul.!!..I can actually feel the way I am expressing myself right now...Is this how you write in this soujourn epoch of Boredom?? Fun ofcourse..the one with the laugther therapy..!!!.....Well coming onto the point...I really really wanted to visit the Mood Indigo this year with my friends..and ya with the person from whom I conveyed Namaste at the beginning of this post(You were more important than MI *Now Happy* but then it is true that i am missing you!! PDA :P)....Got a waitlisted ticket on the 18th morning(not a problem could have shared the seat with my friends :P ) and that was followed by me turning into an imaginary sybarite aggrandized by my plans...Lolzz...A resonant plan was then struck into the world of confusion on the 19th morning when my mom came back and told me to rethink on my plan as my Nani(Maternal Grandmother in bold.. :P) was unwell...still i wanted to go ......

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20th the day comes..Morning:- A dignified,respectable and obidient soul within me decided to stay back and support my mom....With a heavy heart I proceeded towards the railway station to cancel my waitlisted ticket....but the irony here is is is is is.....( comeon it is as special as announcing an oscar for the best actor in the category male*Grins*)...is is is 108 waitlisted ticket got confirmed at 12:30 PM which was scheduled to leave at 1400 Hrs at the Jaipur railway station......Love,laughter,fun,sybarite aggrandized dreams took over me and I called up my Mom...Jaunn kya??? ...she said in an uproarious voice ,the answer which was unexpected at that point...NO.OOOOOOOOO...The resonant idea finally died at 1300 Hrs..landing me down into the world of boredom and lassitude.........but then I would like to mention a few munificient and majestic people who have supported me...

Raman Bhatia *in Bold*.Damn talk to him for 15 mins..and u feel u have landed in the arena of laugther challenge....thanks Gray Matter Boy!!!>..

Gargi Consul *In Heavy weight Category*...who has supported me in the idea of ordering the dominos pizza and cooking Hakka Noodles.....sorry but the truth is truth....

Last But not the least I Miss U....*Enjoy ur Mumbai trip*.................Well that is all for today..wait wait wait...A heartiest congratulations to all my Batchmates for making it to their dream company :P...Guys we rock.......Phir Milenge! Chalte Chalte!! ...Signing Off ....Shantanu Consul....

Well though short !!

Good evening dear myself!! Hi Shantanu Consul...as you must be well aware of the fact that your last post was dated 30th June 2009 therefore assuming(lol my assumption always holds true) there are not much followers interested in reading my post... i dedicate this short note to myself.......Phewwww.....540 days much has happened ...Girlfriend->Love ...CAT->Aim....placement->destiny...friends->Life.......the time flied swiftly with these pointers......atlast to summarize,this epoch was joyous and idyllic....cos i truly believe each second of your life is the fundamental unit which serve as the foundation for your minutes...hours..days...and years to come...experiences may be good...they may be bad or they may be as if an assuage for your needs....but then they allow you to interact with yourself...feel your inner soul....help you with your endeavours ahead in your life..."Sau gram zindagi sambhal ke kharchi hai"......Finally my seventh semester has ended though partially lol (Results will be out in January) :P feels as if I am already an engineer ready to forge my future plans.....but that reminds me I still have four months left before i end up being a 100 percent engineer...four months left before I ll not able carry my red bag pack to the college..four months before i ll not be calling mom saying "Lunch mein daal bana dena"....four months before I ll not be calling Annu on my way to the college...four months before i ll not be able to ring Mradul and Raman during my examinations....four months before i ll not be able to have a look at Birla Institute Of Technology the way i look at it now....Four Months...the life changes for me again....zara si mirchi hai yeh zindagi...lekin yahi zindagi hai...!!! ..... Be emotionally intelligent that is what daniel goleman taught you in his book but i dont want to be for the above mentioned memories....I ll miss them alll.......aaah!! too much ..still four months left...enjoy them first...lol.............

By the way i saw that movie Break ke baad today ...another nice light weighted movie for your neuorns to handle...as expected from Kunal Kohil after i saw Hum Tum...deepika was awesme to an extent that i found myself trying a few attires in front of my family to ensure whether i was fit enough to act with her...lolzzz!!!I knw Annu you hate her.... :P ....Sorry demoiselle!! ....That was just for fun!! A little amusement sometimes keeps you going...in fact in this illusionary world..amusement is what makes your life easy and fruitful!! :) as suggested a lemma for the conduit of the pursuit of happiness....Chetan Bhagat says...."It s ohkk,bunk a few classes,goof up a few interviews..take leave from work..enjoy with your friends...fall in love...we are people not programmed devices.." ..........A line to be memorized and recalled every morning while brushing your teeth..believe me u ll have a healthy start to your day and life ahead!!!!..............

2011 comes and I ll turn 22....yayyy!! Another ride of a zealous revolution round the sun....but before that begins...i am sorry for writing so vague...felt blogging actually...But with a promise of blogging more( Not writing)....Signing out Shantanu Consul................. PS : I ve not been complicated with my words this time!! Laugh out Loud!! :P :P

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Short one though but its something that s flows thru my heart..

"Walking through the pathway of life..i woke up again to embrace the morning but the morning dint seemed to greet me..an unusual day... everything seemed to be different... went for a walk ..i was finding myself trapped in d world of loneliness ...everything was gone..those radiant i faces who use to smile and reciprocate a smile on my face...those alluring roses at the kiosk....the love of the ambrosia....those enticing clouds whose pulchritudinous droplets use to kiss my heart...a penchant towards life........those ravishing hands which were responsible for the beats for my heart....................was it a fallacy???...was my life being ameliorated ???..the allotropic phases of life were giving me no answers....left my closed eyes to heal my skin with saline droplets...................

" A caress on my forehead woke up me from the state of asphyxia......i was asked to see this world again....an exotic ambience....bystanding his son's play,a father's delight......a hedonistic act of a smiling old man on his stick...confabulation of nobles knight errant...expeditious river......bellicosity of the youth against obstacles.....a healed world.....an amble by a courter...the scent of an ecstatic rose....the effulgent light of the moon.........a hug to the clouds by the rainbow......a zeal towards a peace ....vivacious species....the dexterity towards the beauty of life was there again to cuddle me.............."





"But there was a lane..a phantasmagoric boulevard......a start to an impeccable journey....a life which would be new to me....a duvet of love....back to where i came into this world.....his arms were there to embrace after a bon voyage of a beautiful life..."...............................................................................................................................................................................
Signing Off!!!

Shantanu Consul

"80 hours to remember"

Hellllllllllo!!!!!!!!Hola!!! Bonjour!!! Nay ho!! Mingalaba!!!Meharba!!!I know m a lazy blogger,please pardon me for that plssssss!!! hehe!!! I hope i can try and evince one of the best 80 hrs of my lyf which wre full of exaltation,frolic etc etc etc in my vacations which i feel are always ebullient to me.


23rd May 2009 Anno Dommini..........................................................


12:00 P.M

"Shanu its nt the tym to take a nap,WAkE up,its only 12 in the afternoon,do something productive,don't sleep for no reason" my mom passes this one liner everyday in a voice which is audible enough to wake me up from a nap which i find the most boring thing in my daily schedule,but the irony being its my favourite pastym in my vacations :)!!......m a different person,cant help lolzz,probably following existentialism..nyways moving on still being half awake,the Dilwale Dulahania mandolin tune was enough to wake me up and engorge my eyes so that i could see the name of "Ansh Pat" flashing on my phone................"Shanu,the hotel is done,pack your bags" he said,i was lyk i WHAT,was just waiting for this single call.....i was up like as if a shuttle was ready to be launched into space.Somethings are concomitant like aditya's call whenver i wake up and without giving him a chance to utter anything,in a euphoric voice i told him to pack his bagaage...last but not the least i surprised jammy about the same and asked him to enquire for the tickets for the late night bus,but we found out that the bus was booked till the 26th of May and to our knowledge that was a single A\C way of transport near to our destination,but we wanted to go anyhow..we dint wanted to miss the chance and before this excitement would have become evanescent,again the mandolin tune starts vibrating my phone and jammy(aashish) says "there's an A/C bus at 4 p.m i.s.t and i have asked aditya to get four tickets...quickly pack your bags..."i looked at the clock it was already 1:45 P.M and my bags were not ready...It was tym to speed up if i had to take the bus and somehow i managed to do that,i had my bags ready within tym and we ol decided to meet at aditya's place to move on to the bus terminal....whoaaaaa!!!! i was winking my eyes to everyone of dem and the quadcore wre grinning together because we follow the policy of exactitude... :) hehe!! We wre finally on our way to a town which is a duvet of peace,pleasure and happiness............"Mussoorie".......and the bon voyage began with the wondeful bus journey in the ambience of "Incredible India"



24th May 2009 A.D


12:10 A.M

Delhi kashmiri gate I.S.BT...."Siphon the py****" wre the lines flashing in my mind from "The Three mistakes of my lyf" nd the coachman said that the stop will be for 10 minutes only,so we quickly went to the restrooms and took some eatbles from the terminal to assauge and boarded the once coach again..nd as d delhi welcome metro station passed away,the word called sleep had started taking the control of my mind and my eyelids had to shut to complement that :).....



1:45 A.M


I woke up and looked at my watch,the time was 1:45 A.M ,i peeped through the glass of the window seat and i could see the town of Muzzafarnagar,the midway was only at a distance of half and hour or so,meanwhile aditya was also awake and we started talking about everything that was engorging our brain nerves to think on and as time went on through the idyllic nature,we finally reached Dehradun!!!!.....



Mussoorie being only 30kms from dehradun,we decided to travel without taking a break so that we could be well within time up the hill to avoid the sunday traffic in the later hours of the day,so we booked a taxi nd wre off to the beautiful landscapes and the amazing eternal visage of nature had taken control our heart,minds and soul.....We reached Mussorie and checked into the hotel,i glanced at my watch nd phewwww it had been 14hrs since we had left Jaipur,we were tired and hungry as well so without wasting much time we got ready and went fr breakfast on the mall road.The food of the the Great Indian Plains as it is known had to be delicious and after having a king size breakfast we went back to our room and.........khrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!! :) :)


After two hrs of sleep we wre refreshed and dis ws the tym to start wid another beautiful chapter of an amazing book called LIFE and to experience things which were to come our way.We were al set to travel the city on foot so that we could explore more and more and feel the ebullient ambience of this wondeful town so we went on to visit company park.... With the packets of wai wai's in our bag and the duvet of clouds above our heads,we were feeling one of the best hours of her life and to add to our excitement it started raining and the temperature dropped off suddenly to an extent that we started to shiver like anything and we had to make a stopover at every small tea shop after 5 minutes or so in order to warm ourselves up and by the time we returned back on the mall road the rain had stopped and the cool blue breeze was kissing Mussoorie all over...taking some eatbles we went back to the hotel but then i dint want to miss the so called 'Suhana Mausam' out dre and me and aditya went off to a beautiful spot which was the most amazing point we found in mussoorie on the camel back road,it was a peaceful and a quiet place from where we could see the beautiful Himalyan Ranges and we named it as "Maggie Point" beacause we use to eat maggi dre evrytym we went .The cool blue breeze was kissing Mussorie all over and with hands folded and feeling the lively breeze,lines of John Keats were flashing in mind "Beauty is truth, truth beauty, - that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know"...was feeling as if it is a phantasm,but then i was missing someone a lot in this ambience,i looked at my phone again...................Only Airtel was there :) :)................









7:00 P.M




Walking down the lanes of this beautiful city we were back on the mall road and were strolling in the market and witnessing the shopping places there,stopping by on the railings on the other side of the road we could see the enticing city of Dehradun and we reached Kulri where we took our dinner with the company of the Indian Premier League final.."Aaj toh Royal Challengers hi jeetenge"...was tryin to rodomontade as if i knew the results well before ... ;).....walking talking and with the exercise of shimmying ;)..we wre back to our hotel at around 10:30 P.M.........

The hotels on the hillstation are architectured magnificently and gave a statuesque look on the mountain....we wre into our bermudas and sitting on the swings one the terrace we were chit chatting about everything we felt like from ur school times till now grinning on funny things,glancing on the girls sitting next to us on the other swing.....everything was fun.....!! we were back to our rooms late night....whoaa!!! ...Alas!! deccan chargers won...i was proved wrong but that had to be a part of this excitement as well..lolz...



25th May 2009.........

When i opened my eyes aditya was back from the maggie point...it ws already 7 in the morning and anshuman and aashish were still asleep,we had to be out of the hotel by 9 as we had one full day and night to feel this city as much as we could...Maggie at the Maggie point was our companion with the mountains till we waited for aashish and anshuman as they were still in the hotel and as soon as they came we decided to trek off to the Gunhill on foot.We took our breakfast over dere and after spending some time at that resplendent spot..we took a cable ride back to kulri from where we had to move to on to Lal Tibba and Lantour....the highest points in Mussoorie at 8500 feet above sea level....walking down the streets and valleys in mussorie and crossing the mall road and kulri market...we reached Mr Ruskin Bond's house after two hours on foot but unfortnately we could not find him there at that position of the hands of the clock .....Lal Tibba and Lantour was another half and hour from there so after trying our hands and foots on trekking in the way...we reached Lantour Cantt one of the oldest army cantt of British India and with a splendid language school where i could find many foreign nationals learning Hindi and Urdu and achieving fluency at it..one such person was Shane whom i met was an american national though ,but was learning hindi cus he wanted to spend the rest of his life in India...amazing isnt it!!!
......LAL TIBBA.............we were there finally after hours of walk and it was truly amazing to be 8500 feet..we could se our maggi point from the binoculars and realized we really came a long way from the place we started dis morning!!Viewing the Himalyan Peaks and coniferous forest belt was alluring...!!!!..we now were on our way back to the mall road shopping in the way some attires and sharing the amazing experiences of our journey.......
8:00 A.M
We were extremely tired after a full action of exalting throughout the day!!!Wowww!!! amazing experience...we now went to take our dinner and enjoy and mesmerize the last night in this town......one of the best dinner's i had ever had....we at like anything....with orange slushes and trying on different ice creams in 8 degrees made our evening really enjoyable...the chit chat sessions again started and we were back to the swings of our hotel to start with a never ending confabultion again....but time and tide waits for none.it was already 12 in the nite and we had to be back to our rooms .......Playing Cards wre on again bt since i have this habit of falling asleep without knowing wen sleeps comes to me....someone knows this very well... :) :)...
26th May
i opened my eye lids in the morning and we quickly got ready as we had to catch the 4 P.M bus from dehradun back to our home that day.......we reached dehradun at around 12 and after collecting our tickets we decided to spend some time in the Buddha Temple which looked as if we were in Tibet......we really had a good tym in Dehardun as welll....
The time had come when we were to bid goodbye to this city and boarded our bus with a promise to visit here sometym again in life...........
27th May
0800 Hrs
Handshaking and hugs began as we finally reached our Pink City.......One of the best hours of my life with three great people whom am lucky to have with me......!!!!!!!!!
With a promise of writing better and soon....this is Shantanu Consul ....Signing off.......!!! :) :)

"Tagging"

To start with i am extremely sorry to all my friends and people who are an avid reader of my blog but seriously friends i was not roistering around and nor i was involved in a derring do act,but it was just that i was not getting something to write upon and express myself eloquently,but today as i have been given this task by one of my very close friend Shruti,I'll try and romanticize 20 random facts about myself on this day of my ongoing 20th revolution round the sun.

1.To start with,Alexander the great and Shantanu Consul i.e me share the the same birthdays.Both the greats wre born on the 20th July,the former in 356 B.C and the latter one in
1989 Anno Dommini.
2.I used to be an avid reader of world history and i really miss it now due to my tencaious agreement with enginnering for four years.
3.I am crazy for Aircrafts and have a dream of flying my private Gulfstream jet one day.
4.I love travelling whther by spaceship(the only one left),airplane,railways.bus or car and i guess bullock carts in my former incarnations.
5.I entered into a new life when i was luckily saved from drowning while rafting in the Ganges,a thrilling moment though.
6.My aim is to do ummmmm ummmmmm....m still confused about it....no got it..EVERYTHING in life.
7.I am a crazy chocoholic but not alcoholic.
8.I watched this movie called The Pursuit of Happiness and i feel that happiness is the only thing which i want from the almighty.
9.My childhood resembled Ishan's character in Taare Zameen Par though i was not dyslexic but had a typical syndrome of turning my notebooks into chewing papers ...hehe.
10.My temporary address is Jaipur 26°51 N 75°45 E, India.
11.I am fond of the newspaper headline format and i think it is perfect for my name.
12.My dreamland is London.
13.l am fond of the book called Business Maharajas vus i hardly read any books.
14.I love imagination and i think it perfectly exercises ur mind,though it is inversly propotional to Mathematics,people who are gud imaginators are not good at mathematics.
15.I have the best parents in the world.
16.I have the best friends in the world and they are blessed to have a gem like me.
17.The most influencing persons in my life are my Father,Sachin Tendulkar,Howard Hughes and sorry to all those whom i missed.
18.My first crush was Aishwarya Rai and m an aesthete.
19.Excellence for me is a drive from inside, not outside. Excellence is not for someone else to notice but for your own satisfaction and efficiency.
20.Last but not the least I m perfect nd those who r my close friends know me very well bt rest of guys..all dignitaries..all business people..all banks..all aviation industries.steel nd petrochemical industries..automobile industry (BMW Rolls Royce..) shipping industries...software people..hardware people..hotel industry .the stockists...the share brokers..the stock exchanges...steel kings..novelists..actors. actresses directors lyrist producers..cricketers...girls...the crowned kings nd queens...casinos..will come to know about this tycoon in newspapers magazines...atfer a decade or so...so guys gear up to read the random facts of the future above mentioned of all...SHANTANU CONSUL

"This one comes from my heart"

"Love"..this quadcore is one of the most divine word ever written and pronounced till date, .........One single word whose meaning cannot be understood properly in the bible of d lexicographer,it may be linked with strong feeling of affection or sexual attraction or a great interest in something,a score of zero etc etc etc,but each and everyone of us has a diffrent approach when we talk about the feeling of love and am being a citizen of d world's biggest democracy would like to share some of my views regarding the feeling of love and the pessimistic nature of its divine sense with the ongoings of d modern era.

My vacations wre ebullient to me and greeted me with a warm heart.It was tym for fun again and to give it a healthy start was my cousin's wedding,as we all know indian weddings are full of customs and rituals which makes them unique and till date it is being followed making it a symbol of tradition in dis modern society,positive though lolzz if one has a full three days to spare for it.Jokes apart,i was really happy to c my brother moving in to a new life and i prayed for his success and prosperity......

It was a pleasure to b back to my beautiful pink city and embraced its simplicity and peaceful ambience.Well after having a good nite sleep,it was time to move along with the phases of the sun and an utter excitement to see Mr SRK banging d box office again with his new movie Rab ne bana di jodi,i qucikly booked the tickets fr d 3 to 6 show with a hope to be delighted after the show ends and indeed it happened..One of d best movies i ve ever seen nt because Mr SRK ws starring but fr it ws quite different from the regular masala and blatant and bland movies being made in d 21st century and it had a platitudinous and pragmatic story.It actually smwht tried to convey the meaning of the quadcore love in my opinion.

The dailies greet the people with "India in 2020","Economy shots high","India shining" etc etc but my dear friends we are only taking into account the India of metros,malls,multiplexes,six pack men,schismatic politics,multinationals.......bt almost sixty percent of the nation is an agrarian economy,simple living people in small towns who hve a fixed 10 to 5 "sarkari naukri" type of life with earnings sufficient to earn deir living,bajaj scooter and spnding sleepless nights of happiness in bringing a new maruti 800 car as if a new child is comin to deir place.Now my question is all dis simple living does mean tht dey dnt knw hw to love the way the teens of modern india do?????? U'll get the answer urself..Love for dem is unconditional,love for dem is happiness..Love for the majoity modern teens starts at 16 and by the tym dey finish deir school and college life,dey r tangled into branches of break ups and patch ups,dating at branded coffee shops,chinese restaurents,valentines celebrations, etc etc..i might be wrong bt for me true love is not the above mentioned things rather it is no love,for me its jus getting schizophrenic and going thru a kind of infatuation.......

True love for me is "Simple Living and high thinking" i.e wishing all happiness from the bottom of your heart to the person whom u love and expecting nothing in return,theword happiness says it ,if u r in love jus keep on wishing happiness it includes all form of sacrifices,blessings,truth forming the complete mixture of true love..Express all your feelings and if u think you are successful and you recieve a sweet smile in return from the person to whom you conveyed your love,u'll feel as if you are the happiest person alive in this world, A sound will whisper to your heart "You did a great deed,you showered love"..Love is all unconditional,its a divine feeling,a channel to express yourself, an angel to spread happiness and laughter all around the world...The world demands happiness to recover from the wounds of inhumane activities,there are people dying and lets care enough for the living to make this world a better place for u and for me. Love is a blessing of god from which you can acheive possible from the I M possible,its a master key for success in every sphere,its a solution to each and every problem of your life,as it is said Love your books,dey'll strt loving you,love your life,it'll start loving you,spread love and i m sure u'll get true love in return. Feel the personfication of LOVE,its divine,its impeccable...........and a special thanks to Punjab Power lighting up your life "Mr Surinder Sahni" for playing a character that the Simple living and high thinking motto people would love to watch, which conveyed true love and made a positive impact on the minds of people....

Tht was my definition of true love.I hope tht u'll lyk it to some extent.......with a promise of writing more...........

Signing Off

Shantanu Consul

"Oeuvre's of a pupil"

Isn't it amazin wen u meet ur pals again with whom u hve shared one of the best moments of your lyf?????i feel it truly is,your brain cells engorge and take you back into tht salubrious era of fun,frolic,fights etc etc etc ...and those memories start scintillating in your mind and lights up tht scholastic instinct in your mind again.i.e .the period in which one spends almost three quarters of his or her teeange life,learns to drive the world,makes friends who r your companions for a lyftym,the alltym teachings of d pedagogues,scoldings of d schoolmarm,football matches,annual functions,cricket on Sundays,Month of march i.e harbinger of exams,schismatic discussions,being schizophrenic at 16 lolzz (nwdays a bit early lolz),first crush,nd wat nt........It's a dire need for everybody to fantasize dse lovely moments once again,bt time and tide waits for none bt still we get nostalgic and get lost into the old memories again......
My diwali holidays have started,fun time again..as i ws suffering from insomnia fr a week or so,i thought of sleeping fr d first two days of a week long vacation cus i believe tht healthy body leads to a healthy mind lolzzz..i dunno why our prof's are unaware of d fact .Anyways.Sunday banged on,it was d birthday of one of my closest pal,we ppl wre vry excited to be dre,many of my pals wre bck hme for d diwali breaks nd all of us wre prepared for landing into the year of 2006 once again...the last bt nt d least year of our school life..XIIth.. the final bon voyage of our school lyf!!!i would like to share some d moments wid u,i hope u'll njoy dem!!!!!
Pheww!!!Ahem ahem..we r back into the era of 2006.It was march 2006 and i went to take my result of d finals of d 11th standard,wid a blushing face,i expected a good result from my teachers and it turned out to be..i was promoted to the the 12th standard,nd dis tym again my heart said "Yeh dil maange more"
i decided to drop the IIT coaching stuff, as i was more into securing good marks in the 12th standrd examinations and accomplish d dreams of takin a flight abroad to pursue my engineering. Yipppiee!!! i wnted everything to slick in a proper way,so joined my tution for Physics at Mr Bhatnagar's,one of d finest pedagogue for Physics in d town!!
The tym was a bit scary,it ws at Six in d morning,as i had to come down 15 kms to reach his place,bt i guess tht ws fine for me as punctuality is one of my apprciable trait!!Two of my vry close friends wre also dre wid me,and we three killers wre having a fantastic tym dre lolzz and to my surprise on the fourth day,it started soundin more interstin wid d arrival of a sweet sloan ranger,the three of us glanced at each other and started giving a blushin and winking look,Physics became more interestin wid Electromagnetics replacing Mechanics and Bhatnagar Sir replacin Bansals...and d most important of all wid an innocent and a skittish face lolzz everything ws goin f9,though we wre fancy free!!!! After the tution it ws my school tym at 0800 hrs,it ws 12th standard nw,we wre the gaffers,the seniors,wid Economics lectures by Ranju mam being the most interesting and fun both,i remember we once forced mam to take our class near the terrace on d audi and she agreed to our exigency by takin us dre!!!...Six hrs used to pass like six minutes wid our dear ones.
We wnted to snap each and every moment in our memory of this wonderful year!!..we wre bottled into a rocking lyf !!!The evenings approached wid my maths tution at Mrs Rama's place,wid the three idiots bangin the doors together again lolzz..and to my surprise i met a girl who ws dre in bansal classes in d 11th standard,again a beuatiful visage and a smart brain,i mean i am a follower of mr John Keats,aesthetic,and admire beauty in every sense bcos i feel its a wondeful creation of d almighty and should be appreciated!!!!.nyways moving on Maths as always had been an interesting subject for me,thus i used to enjoy my evening sessions......
After the pleasent month named after Augustus Ceaser,came September and in the first week of the month we went for our Art of Living Yes Club in St Xaviers....a week long meditation course wid arnd forty students particpating in it.The week was amazing,meditation helped us to regain wt we had enervated, enhanced our interactive syd,and formed an association of the students wid follow ups on sundays and gatherings at the tym of festivities,an amazing experience in all!!bt we wre soon back to ourselves as we dint wnted to be too much into spiritual knowledge,as we felt everything shd be inculcated wid time.We wre into our youth and felt tht we shd be on a balanced side and wid dis knack i was enjoyin my life to d fullest without affecting my studies in anyways....time passed on wid d diwali utsav of our school,annual function,pre boards.and the den d tym came whr we enjoying our prep leave's wid test sessions at the tutions,feeling the chilling winters of jaipur,going to my friend's place,samosas of gangaur,cricket and coffee after every physics test at anshuman's place,watching guru together and get inspired by it,KBC by SRK.....everythin proved to b fun.... and finally the "Asshirvachan" or the farewell day came..it ws tym to say goodbye to d school lyf forever,to a temple whr i had spent the most splendid years of my life,wid handshakes,hugs,tears,blessings we all bid a goodbye to our school wid a promise to uphold its name in future and become impeccable personas..It ws nw d tym for the last board exam of my lyf and to head towards a new journey wid all sweet memories.....
I hope u enjoyed it!!!!
Signing off
Shantanu Consul

"48 hrs of Frolic"

Welll!!!!I am writing a post after almost eight days.I am sorry for the delay...lolzzz!!!
I was on a trip to "The City of TAj" for my cousin's engagement,nt willing to be a sceptre i decided to travel alone on d day of his engagement,bt i had to miss my college for two days as it was an exigency from my brother cus he wanted me to be wid him on one of d most importanat day of his life,though i had fever on a day b4 my departure,bt still i was excited.
Travelling always gives me a salubrious ambience and to b of part of this atmosphere again i quickly booked my ticket for 0800 hrs bus in d morning as i was left wid a hobson's choice,cos all train's wre full..
The five hour bus journey was splendind,i had two good companions a canadian and a japanese national,sharing my views and learning about deir country gave me a chance to widen my knowledge....viewieng the fabolous mother nature of India wid a small siesta i finaly reached my destination .
1400 Hrs IST Agra....I reached my uncle's place and my whole family had gathered dre,everyone was delighted to see me. so was I..dse functions give u a chance to meet everyone after a long time and share wonderful moments wid them.Having no time in my bag,i quickly got ready and headed towards the venue and following the long old indian tradition the bride's family was there to greet and welcome us with warm heart...the ceremony started,my cousin was blushing like anything,and after the ring ceremony we had a snap shot session in which everyone ws posing a beautiful smile in the shutters of the camera...everyone was happy wid d ongoings of d occasion and after the scrumptious meal and dances,the ceremony ended at arnd 2200hrs IST...i really had a great time partying around and was a memorable expeirence....bt Time and tide waits for none....and i ws back to my city the very next day.......
Signing Offf
Shantanu Consul

"A Knight Errant"

Tick!! tick!! Tick!!!....The time machine takes me back to an amazing year of Anno Dommini .i.e 2005..one of the most amazing year of my life...I had given my first board exams this very year nd secured 88%, i wasnt happy though cos i am fond of a wonderful word called "MORE"..but still having an amazing knack of satisfying myself wid wat destiny showers upon me ...I ws promoted to the 11th standard...I had joined Bansal classes jaipur nd like my other friends who wre carryin loadz of grey matter...i was preparing for landing into the Indian Institutes of Technology. Bansal's was fun during our school vacations,i used to go dre wid a motive of dream and drive striving hard to get into upper batches.....9Hrs tests wid three long question papers of Physics,chemistry and Mathematics.... canteen capsicum sandwiches....DPP's..Mrs Bansal's elephant and camel's way of logarithm....beautiful girls of Jaipur....though remaining fancy-free.....etc etc..and wat not!!in my 16th journey of revolving arnd the sun..i was travelling thru one of the most busy voyage of my life..Bon Voyage though..lolz
Schools again banged on in the month of July..I was excited and joyed to meet my pals again...We wre into the category of seniors and were happy to be appointed as the members of the School Council...gaffer of our juniors...July passed by solving DPP's and tutorial sheets in my school wid all my dedication towards Bansal's stuff....August was the harbinger of my first unit test and to my surprise i was not able to score good marks in school inspite being promoted to a higher batch in Bansal's ,it was denI decided to pay equal attention to my school studies which gradually began to draw my attention away from the Bansal's stuff....i was happy though .i luv changes in my life and i belive in myself ,i wanted a good percentage and wid dis thunder in my mind....i started involving myself into more of extra curricular stuff.....
All India Radio Station,Jaipur.11:20 am.IST...it was the month of september but could still feel the cotching heat... i was coming out of the studio wid a million dollar smile on my face...I had won the zonals of the SAARC quiz....and my smile crossed the streets of jaipur...wen i heard that i had to go to Mumbai for the nationals....
Mumbai was undergoing a disaster due to floods that had claimed many lives so my parents told a big NO to my trip to Mumbai but i wanted to go anyhow,it was my achievement...by some hook or crook i managed to get my tickets through Jaipur bandra express as i had been provided with the TADA by the AIR and soon was bidding a goodbye to jaipur..wid a promise to c my beautiful pink city after two days....
The train journey was splendid and i landed along wid one of my sir at the Bandra Station,at 6:00 am in the morning...it was raining heavily out dre ..i could feel the tang of this beautiful city, I was like wow!!!........I had travelled alone b4 but this moment was really amazing and special, the excitement had just begun...wid my airbag in my hand,tapping my shoes on the platform..we went to the Local Station to catch a fast local for Mumbai Central....and soon we wre at the All India Radio building at Churchgate,the township which is often refferd to as the Colonial Bombay wid all british architecture and desgins.....
I waited for the Station Master for an hour...a moustached man wid a marathi touch was finally dre....i went up to him and showed him the letter which i had got from the Jaipur Station and he acceded by provinding me an accomodation in the AIR Guest House...i was quickly off to my room as i had to get ready for the quiz at 11:00 AM....i was back to the studio...bt dis time it was Mumbai bigger than jaipur and having Radio Speakers who had many laurels badged to them...we wre being aired throghout India and i was feeling proud of myself....wid many boon and recession situations in the hot hours , i had to finally settle wid the third position.....bt i was still happy and hungry...lolzz..hunger was killing me...we quickly went to a gujrati restaurant Samrat to take lunch...phewww!!!.i thanked the restaurateur for killing the rats in my stomach..i still had a day and a half to catch my train back and nw tat i had the guest house room.i was tension free..Amachi Mumbai excitement was fascnating me...so to bang on we headed towards the Gateway of India feeling the beautiful ambience of the Taj Mahal Hotel overlookin the Arabain Sea...after having a few photo sessions, we headed for the Marine Drive or "Queen's Neclace" walking down the lane of CCI club and Air India Building....landing on the pedestrian on the oder side...we had finally reached the long queen's necklace.... strolling and viewing the beautiful BOMBAY and recordin each and every moment wid BMW's nd Mercedes swifitng the roads at 100/120 Kmph....skycrapers of mumbai kissing the Airhostess...couples smooching..and wat not!!!.....it had started raining....nd d excitement doubled...we walked for abt 4 kms....nd finally stopped at the salt lake rest to have some refreshemnt nd den took a taxi back to the guest house which was nearby to change our clothes........We wre bck into action nd took a taxi too Munis Market..a muslim area wid a big gulshan e iran restaurant...i cld only find muslim settlemnts dre.... as i entered the complex ,i found a world full of various goods at a price less than a pence bt i found the market a bit scary and quickly rushed out and took a taxi back to the churchgate area...we also came across fashion street which was a never ending sale of clothes on d pedestrian....i was astonished to c abt 3-4 km long fashion world..everything was proving to be fun.....it was 10:00 pm already and we had to take our dinner...we had a king sized dinner as we had been on our foots throughout the day. and at abt 11:00 am ..we wre back to the guest house nd wre off to a gud nite sleep wid lots of sweet memories of d day............
Trin trin!!!!!...my Nokia phone disturbed my sleep once again,it was morning 6:00 AM my mum had called to know abt my well being,she was feelin alone.and concerned..she wanted me to b bck soon!!My train was at 14:30...the same day...it ws the last day of dis wonderful trip..so widout wasting anytime..
I quickly got ready,wore a blue shirt...as its one of my fav colors.nd wid a trillion dollar smile..again..i headed towards the Mahalaxmi temple..we came across the US Consulate and could see a que of 1000 mtrs...gosh ppl r crazy for America...we quickly finshed the morning darshans and still having time in our bag...we headed for the Juhu beach...Juhu is modern Mumbai,residential area of big flim stars....Santa Cruz airport...clubs ..etc etc.......
yippieee
Jeans folded....wid sand crystals kissing my feet...i was enjoying the beautiful splashing sound of the waves.....Juhu beach is real fun...we had Pav Bhaji on Juhu Chowpati getting a discount of Rs 25...as the owner was a Rajasthani...lolzz...Thanxx Rajasthan for everything...
Watching beautiful fairies...feeling the warmth of the morning sunlight ...watching boys in shorts playing....nd humming some fine tunes...time passed...it was already 13:00 hrs... we quickly rushed back to the guest house..checked out.and wid our bags on in our hands again........and we were quickly off.. to the take a Local to the Mumbai Central...i wnted to feel each and evry moment of this errant....it was time too bid a sweet goodbye to this wonderful city...a city which g embraces evrybody wid warmth and love...i thanked the almighty for adding these two wondeful days in my life.....and as i had promised to my pink city...i reached safe and sound the next day... a fab experience in all!!!

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i had shared one of d most amazing errant of my life... i hope u'll lyk it..and wid note of trying much better next time...Shantanu consul
Signing offf...............

"Amazing Lines"

. I would like to share these wondeful lines which i found in my inbox..dated 20th July 2001. ..

"Each boy must train himself to think clearly so that he will be willing to come to conclusions that may be different from what he has expected and may point to something different from what we were brought up to believe to be the accepted order. He must train his body to undergo hardships and be prepared for unexpected discomforts, and above all he must awaken and sharpen his sympathies for and understanding of people outside his own class and circle."
I found them really amazing.....
Welll...this is nt written by me bt still i wanted to share these lines wid my readers....I hope u'll like it too....
Signing off

"End of a Daylight"

It ws 5:00 AM Indian Standard time...the sweet alarm of my phone broke my irritating snoring sound and i was up from a wonderful phantasmagoria..though i share my dreams,both good and bad ones (wid an excpetion of d sweet ones hehe) wid my mom early in the morning bt this one was different i wanted it to keep it to myself...so smiling in front of the mirrror wid my eyelids opened less than a quarter....i was brushing my teeth..for arnd 5 mins..humming a strange tune..i am very peculiar about time and like to b punctual as i hear every now and den "Indians aren't punctual".. it sounds odd to me.. so i always try to bang on things on time..it was 5:30...my jogging time...i was off to the rose garden ..about two kms fm my place,wid my i pod in my ears...strolling ..feeling the beautiful early morning breeze ....and wonderful ambience of roses..i finshed my jog and ws back home at arnd 6:30...continuing wid my workouts i finished my yoga arnd 7:30.....It ws newspaper time..The Times of India,The Danik Bhaskar the morning lifeline of the nation..changing the lives of millions of people everyday...i hope someday they'll change my life too....well jokes apart...i took the english daily in my hand....nd the headlines annoyed me once again-"Market Bloodbath triggers tragedy in the US"...the great recession in the world economy continues,ruines millions of lives.....i seriously don't want the existing economic system to fail...so wid d hope it wld get better next week...i moved on....then was one of the most shocking news for me...."Sourav Ganguly announces retirement"..........i was like damn!! "why did he do dis?" ...i dnt like the way the electronic media potray the news here in india...they are like the indian police,they thrash a cat untill it is compelled to commit that it is a tiger.i think e-media played an important role in his retirement .anyways ...cnt help...bt sourav announcing retirment made me nostalgic..Cricket in india is a religion...nd like the rest billion population of India ...i m a follower of this wondeful game too....this decision ws a surprise to me and my mind was recalling the era fm 1996-2006 wen he was enjoying one of the best decade of his life....his first test century at debut at Lords in 1996....the 183 against Sri Lanka at Taunton.in 1999.. the then india skipper lead india to the finals of WC 2003 in South Africa etc etc etc etc......"Prince of kolkata"..'Royal Bengal tiger","Most succesful Indian Captain he is badged wid all these laurels and titles....and he seriously deserves them..in my view he was the most aggresive captain and wen he used to lead the players,he used to look as if it was Alexander leading his army into the battlefield ...bt today the man who made this current indian squad was struggling for his place in d syd ,ws facing persecution and had to annouce his retirement finally...it is truly said...Time and tide waits for none..Times shows it aftershocks on everyone, wen it is showering all its love,blessings,wealth "a dog also feels it is a lion" .but every apsect has a saturation,situations are bound to change wid time.. nothing is stationary..it happens wid evrybody ..and i truly feel that it is a "End of a daylight" a day not less than a doomsday In Indian cricket....i respect Sourav and his contribution to the game of cricket and he will remain in our hearts forever....


I feel i ve written too much...m a miser at writing...but will try and improve myself...
All the best
Signing off

Ahem ahem!!! ...well inaugration stuff..!!!

Well!!! This is my first post...i need all the good,best,choclaty,scotchy wishes so that i move on and express my views.As my blog headline says "A new era for me"i feel it really suits me,the world around me is changing as if m on a roller coaster ride nt even getting a chance to glance at the situations passing by,but i guess m enjoying it ...everything in life is ought to be enjoyed,i enjoyed the period when i used to procrastinate my work and had loadzz of time..tht was fun....nyways time has changed,i ve changed,things arnd me have changed.
Life,this quadcore word has great depth within..and at evrypoint it teaches,nurtures,plays...wid the do's and dont's of my actions..I am only 19 now bt wen i take a look back i feel a lot has passed by wid an unimaginable speed and a whole lot is ready to pave my so called future.....now it all depends how i canalise this path cause am an ambitious person and for all the so called ambitions..i need to utilize the time thts paving my future ...i believe in Maslow's heirachy theory to some extent ...it says "Need is the greatest motivator of time"...i am not boasting or something...i am jus being truthful...Hope i can acheive wat i desire...lolzzzz...