Misnomers........Nicknames...........Petnames

Some People are lucky enough so that they have only one name this superset of name contains only its single name as a subset, but mine like some others would be having a lots of name given by their parents, cousin, friends and colleagues. And so, this post is dedicated to all such names that i have got during my short life of 24 years.

People start identifying me by the first name given my mom and dad and that was 'Nicky' and i know they will always call me by that name, and entire maternal and paternal family knows me by that name. Then the dilemma of having an another name as an official one for registration in school lead them christen me with 'Nitin Raj Jain'. Never asked my father why he wants my middle name to be 'Raj' nobody in my family has that, felt happy when SRK was having that in most of his movies.

In school people call me with 'Nitin' but some started calling me with me 'Raj' and wants me drop my name 'Nitin' offcourse i had rejected such useless advice. I often used to visit my grandparents village during my summer vacation, so there were lots od cousin of my age, but unfortunately that bloody 'Suniel Shetty' joined the movies, and donno how, my cousin sis give me an another useless name. One of my friend Anurag told me that some one used to call me 'Scooty', and the name of thar person is still unknown to me.

Then my engineering college where people always made good efforts not to call me by my real name, and they started calling me 'Raj Jain', some of by friends also started calling me 'B. Nitin' (I couldnt tell the reason why?) and i again a misnomer when one of my friend Cyrus started calling me 'Shumi' according to him I was looking like 'Michael Schumarker' that confirms me that people look others by the way they want to see me. Yaa one of the most interesting name tht i got was 'AZGAR' by my x-room partner Vikas, he thinks me as an indolent guy doing studies thts all again donno why he thinks so.

Then came XIM and the name 'John', for which Nity is the culprit, he tried to match the photographs of John Abraham and mine which were definitely unmatchable, but all C-botters and many others started calling me by that name.

still dont know how many such more names would be given to me...the most unfortunate part of all this people may forget my real name.....but at last it is nothing in the name....all that counts is people love and admiration.

Personal Branding

Personal Branding

Ever thought of creating yourself as a brand? Yes and why not, as that proves your unique identity in this world of commodities. Past and present has exemplified you enough for the ever lasting personal brands that has been created or they had create themself as one like from Hitler, Mahatma Gandhi to Jack Welch, Bill Gates, Maria Jones to brand Tendulkar and the list can goes on, each making himself distinct, and proving their Unique selling proposition.

If products like Coco-cola, Pepsi, Surf, Lux, and Harley Davidson can turn out be unforgettable and strong brands, why can’t we, who have created them. We are no different from "Products" in a sense. We too sell, persuade, pitch and we advocate for stuff that is a part of selling and creating a life time relationship, which will, we hope, fulfill our dream or take us to a pinnacle in life.

When we look yourself among our friends, colleagues, competitors and family each one is remembered as a distinct personality for example the most talkative, brave, intelligent, Kind person i.e. all are branded. We know who they were and exactly what they were about. Personal Brand is a mark that that symbolizes who you are and what you stand for, and defines your contribution to the world. And your contribution is independent of your age, gender and your profession.

Why to be branded?

Creating yourself as a brand makes one special, memorable, desirable, and an invaluable asset. The power of branding creates a perception of leadership and competency. Personal brands start with the core of one existence and that is spread and distributed throughout every point, and who so ever comes in contact with you. It is a smart, powerful tool. It is being more of who you really are. It’s defining and communicating your purpose, personality, and passions.

People, just like commercial products, have a natural brand - the one which we are born with, and the other we acquire over time and experience. It’s the sum of all the factors like how the market or others perceive us, our actions, our behavior and our level of integrity. Creating yourself as a brand requires energy, resources, commitment and effort to sustain in this highly competitive world. Making your choice to work and live your brand will open doors to more opportunities, freedom, and accomplishment.

In addition, branded people tend to receive stronger support from peers, business associates, competitors, which allows them to accomplish more things, conjure more authority, and increase credence for their decision so they enjoy "TOP MIND" visibility and status. It’s all about either going with the flow or creating your self, identical, personal brand.

Snapshot from Hell - Part IV

Finally, the second semester has partially ended as one end term of Financial Management is still left, means the trauma of exam has not ended. It is said as marketing is about 4 P's so is the MBA Presentation, Placement, Projets and Party. So was the case with last 2 weeks with lots of presentation and Project to submit and as always, all was done in the eleventh hour.

For the time while scubmitting our project and presentation almost swhole of our batch was charged for Plagiarism, for coping most of the contents of our research for Social Research Methodology project, nobody from the teachers side or from the seniors has told about this thing, that what we actually do in our project is mere plagiarism.

Most of the presentation are just like formality, as donno how much we really learn from deach of such presentation as most of us often are busy doing our personal work. Most of the classes in second term were like doing self study in class while the teacher was busy giving the lecture cant forget we have done in SRM, MIS and EA.

Second term could have not been completed unless there were lot of proxies, were some attending only 4-5 lectures out of 20 and offically present in all of them, and could be forget the postponing of the classes, Quizzes, Project submission, presentation and i know if Kuanr would have tried he would have been instrumental even in postponing the End Term, no doubt he is one of the Best CR's we have got.

And can we forget I. Shridhar? No way at least Naman, Javed, Arush and Samir. And it is upto Naman whether to take the personal consultancy from him. Manas one of the favorite of him, would have really enjoyed his company while having tea breaks and offcourse the badminton match. Though our section was infamous, at least one teacher was able to commed us on the type of presentation, thx Prof. Bal.

Our each exam( exception are always there) was having an omnipresent component of Cheating

trying to get the positive synergy and increasing the output of the groups. Some unfortunate events where the consicuous of the careless act when some of our batchmates where caught in the OB End term exam, but efforts were made to save them. But this did not stop us from our habits, as said history repeat itself and once again one of our friend fall in the trap of Lingraj ( i know how much we all like him as me kept strolling in the examination hall).

Time is really fleeting like anything and second sem has come an end as if it has began a few days ago from now. It all started with Expression, Puja vacation, midterm, quizzes, project & presentation and a wonderful last lecture by our SOB (Sweet Old Bani). Hope so we would be able to implement something, what Banikant Mishra has taught and also Prof. Banikant Mishra.

The Burning Land

In the Burning Land of Heaven and Hell,
we dig our grave, and leave the shell

People come and go like a waiting room,
get out of this before the final doom

With strokes of wind and blow of water,
can we tell the truth, before we are called liars

Why are we so complex than being simple ?,
light the world, glow, burn and kindle

Ignite the spark, to eliminate the dark,
hounding and pounding, before the lark

Can be help ourself before we are tired ?
Rise, sore, wake before we are shattered.

Out-Bound Learning

Never thaught that the programs like Outbound learning program which i just attended could add value to u except for the enjoyment that u get and the bodypain, bruises, cuts that u get after the program, but after attending the program i was having a totally different view about it.

When One of the Other section of our college went and came back many of my friends told me that it is really a nice exercise to know oneself and others, and i was wondering how?, and obviously the answer could be found only by having a practical dexperience of it. The OBL prog was conducted by TSAF( Tata Steel Adventure foundation), Thx to Vignesh, Anant, Partha and Vithhal that made that possible. Our batch was having a total of 35 students.

We left for the steel city of Jamshedpur, as people from TSAF where going to pick us from the jamshedpur station to the TSAF camp at Tumung village, a small and quite village. Before we got down at the statioin, the journey was filled with laughter, emotions and sharing of what we know of each other, especial sharing was done with the help of Most Friendly person (as said by Daya telling about our CR Kuanr). And lots of such things were revealed which some or the other were ignored.

We reached the base camp at 8 in the morning, followed by a breifing about the activities that will follow for the next 3 days, the code of conduct, and many more things regarding (Jagte raho). Our whole batch was divided into 4 groups each consisting of 8-9 people. I was a part of group No. 3 with Swatika as our group leader and Sujit,Parth,Arpit, Antony, Sayak,Litisa and me being the other team member.

It started with creating our own tent, learned for the first time how to tie up the knot for the tent, followed with the breakfast (some of the good food that we have got after getting in XIMB, and we thaught that the mess cook should be send there for making them learn the art of cooking, or take the cook present there with us).

The first exercise was the rock climbing and exploring the caves, the best part was the Chimney climbing, from our group only three people could do that Sujit, Sayak and me. At one particular time a thaught that i am going to fall but somehodw managed to that. One unfortunate incident that followed was when Manisha broke her Knee while climbing. At night there was a documentary showing the expedition of Mount Averest by the Bichendri Pal the first women from india to do so. But every body was so tired that hardly anybody would have seen that completely.

The second started early which sometimes is used to be the sleeping time of many in hostel and started with competion of Obstacle race and our group won that. Which followed with the treasure hunt again our group was at the top, thats because of group work and our commitment.

We also got the chance to meet the Bichendari Pal, the women was full of commitment of whatdever she want in life, getting on the top of Mount Everest was not only her dream but the purpose of life.

In the evening we went ahead to Dimna lake, it was really a damn good place were we have to stay one night and one day on an island, the most tiresome was making the tent and we have to cook our own food, which swasti, litisa, arpit and debanjan took care. we slept that night though our tent was intruded by Javed,Arush,Manas,Gaurav,SD, and Kuanr. we slept to face the most the interesting part of the OBL creating our own raft moving to the other end of the island and come back, again our group was the champ.

Finally, three beautiful days of the life come to an end, with the memoirs to cherish throughout the life.