Mission Statements only for companies? Think again...

I was having a discussion with one of my friends on the mission statements of companies. It was all substance (pun intended) but made me think…think about life. What if we need to write a mission statement for our life? Will it be the nearest thing we can ever come to finding the need for our existence? May be…

To become a good human being and uphold all human values – hmm…too heavy a statement to describe anyone. How would it be if every one of us comes up with his/her vision statement? Then our interviews, job as well as educational, will have some questions on our vision statements also. How do you think that you are going to uphold human values? What are human values? Why only human values why not animal values?

Then there would be coaching institutes:
T.I.M.S (Triumphant Institute of Mission statements)
“90% of the students admitted in IIMs and IITs have their mission statements prepared by us. – validated by KPMG” (pun intended!!!)

Group tasks will be based on vision statements – group of 10 needs to come up with one statement that signifies their group. There would be offers from FMCG companies – come up with a good vision statement for our CEO and you will win a trip for two to Washington to meet the U.S. president. There would be cases filed in courts saying that the mission statement of one Mr. X has been copied by Copy Malik (great grand son of music composer ‘Copy all’ Malik)

If you are still reading this, don’t worry about me – I’m still not Krazzy

Kozhikode to Gurgaon....

Any sane person would love to camp in Ooty, Kodaikanal or some hill station in the summers and I chose GURGAON. The beautiful hot city of the north which boils to the max in summer and gives a chance to do a 'Salman Khan'. This, believe me, is something which I could not prevent! Given a chance I would camp in an Ooty or a Nainital but I'm left with no other choice. American Express doesn't have an office there!

Yeah...AmEx is my destination for the summers. My two months of summer internship where I'm supposed to learn about the industry practices and understand how practical are the theoritical principles we mug in our MBA courses. Two months is always very short to do something substantial but still...

Believe me, my joining date was April 1. I didn't have enough time to fly back home which meant I will have two days before I join AmEx. The flight from Kozhi-Mumbai-Delhi had Sangini and KB (Kaustubh) giving company to me. Ofcourse, we had Shahrukh and Shaan accompanying us at different stages!

Trip to wayanad - thrill, masti, fun...we had it all (PART I)

Journey through a ghat section is always tricky, especially if it is in the night. Add to that an aged bike which has no headlights as the transport medium and you have a recipe for a movie thriller. My trip to Wayanad the last week was exactly this.

End of a gruelling mid term (bouncers…bouncers…and more bouncers…Lee has a competition from my examination blues) brought the best of smiles on our faces. A rare weekend of no deadlines meant we have two full days to enjoy. It took no time in deciding the destination – Wayanad. Long over due, this trip is something we were looking forward to.

After the dropout of ‘the usual suspect’, four of us – Valli, Yoki, Varun and I, started on our journey at around 5 P.M. from the campus. Varun braved a ‘major’ leg injury to join us on the trip. None of us know the route but we have affable mallus helping us out. Half an hour into the journey and Yoki dropped a bomb shell - Yaar my bike doesn’t have a head light. Holy Jesus!!! We are embarking on a ghat trip, in the night and we have a bike without head lights! A quick stock of the situation and we decided to go on with the journey. But how? Valli would be on our side functioning as our beacon. It was very thrilling. We haven’t yet started on the ghat and Yoki was circling the turns, literally.

Enter the ghat...well it wasn’t the first time that I’m travelling on a bike at night but definitely the first time on a head (light) less bike. It was very funny because whenever the beacon (read Valli’s bike) was away from us, we were riding blind. Whenever we used to encounter a bus or a truck going in the same direction, Yoki would say that we need to stay behind and relax. But the pace of that vehicle used to be the deterrent and we used to move on.

Not even scary turns or steeply curves deterred us. And in some of the turns we even got the better of our beacons. The ghat section was very enthralling and we really enjoyed the 40 odd minute trip. Then we were on the normal road. But still, we do not have a head light which meant it’s still a handicap. To make matters worse, it started raining. Then, we just missed a snake which was lazing on the road; and we never knew that at that time.By the time we reached Wayanad and checked into our rooms it was around 10 in the night. It was an eventful journey and I enjoyed every bit of it though I can’t say the same of Yoki.

Yoki was a little scared and he was scared to hell when we saw the ghat the next morning. He was left speechless.

A picture is worth a thousand words. But, am not sure if the above pic gave you an impression of what the ghat actually is! It was a sort of journey (on a lightless bike) which I wouldn’t subscribe to any of you, but I should admit one thing….I loved it