Aftereffects of an internship

Midhun goes to the NGO & completes the internship with panache

An incident

Midhun: Mommy, I am going to the jail.
The girl next door overhears (In hushed overtones to her mom): So, that’s the case. Midhun chettan is on parole. And he boasts to us that he is doing MBA.

The fact stands apart. Midhun’s NGO deals with prisoner’s children and he as part of the field work is supposed to meet the prisoners for his short film project.

Something parallel happens in another city of Kerala.

Rejil: Bro, I will be late. I have to be with a sex-worker.
Brother’s friend, who came as a guest, stands stone-faced
(& thinks) So, this is what is termed progressive thought process and an accepting family.

In fact, Rejil planned to meet the sex-workers for the purpose of a survey and research.

But there in Kottayam, an irritated Midhun prepares the report as per the list.

Field work (Mandatory): In spite of the NGO vehemently opposing my move to plough the courtyard and other available areas, my inherent talent to convince him helped me win the task. Now paddy and wheat is cultivated all around the NGO premises.
Field work indeed!!!

Communication strategies: Forced the NGO to get the postpaid connection with the maximum offers.

Documentation: Noted minutes wasting hours together.

External communication: Spoke to God. Do help me finish the projects on time.

Internal communication: Spoke a lot to myself. Yes. Intrapersonal communication.

At the end of the day Midhun wonders: When I speak to God, its prayer, but the vice versa is schizophrenia. Why so? ;)

And Midhun's report gave importance only to the three mandatory tasks. Yes..Exactly as you guessed.... simply because it’s MANdatory.

Footprints – An annual Pune delicacy (Prepared the Kochi way)

MAIN INGREDIENTS: - An empty tumbler, 500 audience (Peeled and cubed), 240 large cups all-purpose PG, 140 small cup all purpose UG, 2 big cup sponsor, 2 small cup sponsor, 1 teaspoon publicity seeds, 1 pinch event management skills, 1 full cup network, ½ tablespoon exposure, ½ teaspoon exposure seeds, 3 grated themes, 12 red hot speakers roasted, few media leaves, 1 inch piece UKC and/or AS to taste, butter, 1 table-full mementoes and handful of bouquets.

VARIANTS: 22 tablespoon regionally flavored syrup

PREPARATION TIME: - 15 days after lid is opened.    

SERVES: - 500- 800 (Based on the tumbler size)

HOW TO PREPARE: - Take the entire 240 large all-purpose PG and 140 all-purpose UG.  Leave them for a few days and see them automatically separate. Add a pinch of event management skills and event details to make the process faster. Finely chop the event outline and spread it in a pressure cooker. Wait for 3-4 whistles. Then take 21 small tumblers from India and one from Dubai. Segregate the separated mix into the tumblers. Knead the PG’s well. Preheat the cold tumblers to 350 degrees Fahrenheit for the UG’s to toughen.

Take a small frying pan and heat a little of the theme, one by one and roast the previous content, audience, media, colleges and add schools separately till an aroma begins to rise. Keep it side and let it cool for three months.

The other option would be to start using it, which may affect the taste of your other foodstuffs like assignments, projects and test papers.

Now dry grind the corporate letters for the speakers, sponsors with the roasted Ananya seeds (Kind of round and sweet seeds found in Gujarat) and get it polished by UKC paste ( Strong and aromatic paste from Bengal). Coarsely grind the grated sponsors and speaker nuts. Just let the blades rotate a couple of times. Add a lot of patience. Take a frying city pan and put the two big and small sponsors in pieces of associate sponsorship, main sponsorship and add the first paste we made. Cook on a low flame for 5 days or till the pressure and heat grips the handle. Any number of proposals can be added for experimenting different tastes. Add leaves like flyer, backdrop, ticket, onsite announcement, banner, poster, handout continuously for 10 days. This lowers the pressure a little. Then add the exposure seeds as available to taste. Cover and cook for 10 days till red in colour.

In another pan heat the clarified sponsors & keep on adding PR till it’s pampered and hot. Always keep chanting the sponsorship mantra, intelligence and innovation for a healthy and wealthy stomach. In the other stove in low flame keep the speakers in position lest they cool down. Keep sprinkling as much media as possible through print mugs, online spoons, radio pipes and television sprinklers. After everything is channelised, add the chopped SIMC clips and fry till its dark brown color by evening. Don’t forget to include the UKC/AS inch piece a day before the preparations. As the remix gets ready, pour it over the audience continuously and serve in the available stalls along with a salad consisting of pen, notepad and folder. Use the logo for color wherever required in this cuisine. As footprints gets over in the tumbler, see the young cashews and raisin achievers. Don’t forget to add the selected local spices like mementos, bouquets as per the requirement from the start of the event. Pour certificates after footprints is eaten in full.

In case of goof up’s / hiccups drink a lot of water and stay cool. If this requires more gravy add a little more of media after finishing the meal.

POINTS TO CHECK:

• Try adhering to the cuisine book as much as possible for guaranteed results. Can be tried using various combinations of 15 speakers, 2/4/6 sponsors (The more the merrier in taste)
  
• Collect the cash token before dish footprints is served to the 17-25 year old audience.
  
• Get the feedback on the quality of food served and check whether the impressions are stamped.
  
• The butter can be used by those who are used to buttering the judges.
  

It is important to remember that cooking styles vary from regions and communities within the same country. This is a Kochi style of preparing footprints as taught to me by my “what’s cooking” cookers.

Traditionally Footprints cuisine has generous amount of spice added to it. The final recipe report will consist of 4-5 green chilies and 3-4 tsp of red chili powder along with the spices. But to suit a non-Indian palate, I have reduced the spice a little bit.

FOR THE CUISINE JUDGES: Using a long, sharp knife cut a circle about 3 inches in diameter in the center of each team dish, making sure to cut all the way through to the bottom to get an exact idea of the effort taken to bake. Then slice them as you would a pie into individual portions and mark them accordingly. 

DASHAVATAR - Vaanaravatar

The philanthropist - Based loosely on an old fable and inspired by the links

http://www.orkut.co.in/Main#Community.aspx?cmm=55011066 and

http://www.orkut.co.in/Main#CommMsgs.aspx?cmm=41516335&tid=2583731290985039587&na=4&nst=150&nid=41516335-2583731290985039587-5258041191628372832

This is the story that happened in Lavale, the media country ruled by Mr. Muni Monki hailing from the Dakshin. Unhappy with ways of eliciting work with enticing baits in the form of assignment status, the semi-civilised hilltop performed a two year long penance. Lord Ventikeswara received complaints via email from females of Symbiflam err Combiflam group of institutes. Finally Lord Ventiki appeared and asked the hapless inhabitants on whether they required an MBA, Placements, fame or money.

Lavale-ians from Footprints 2008 reverberated in Chorus, “No God… No..”.

Lord Ventiki in his unruffled poise continued, “Subjects, then what is that you require?”

Sankat, whose name apt to the crowd’s mood spoke, “We are a happy lot today, but our pre-story was one embroiled in controversies and complaints. We weren’t steered properly to the distant shore. At least avoid it next time & we want none from PG2011 to face similar hurdles.”

Lord Ventiki’s eyes filled to the brim. The little tear drop on earth would spell disaster, a Tsunami that can wipe out the shores of Chennai. Before that great flood inundated earth, Lord heeding to the request decided on the last incarnate of his Dasavatar. Lavalaites were impressed by his austerity and granted him a space.

Being an actor himself, Lord Ventiki donned the new role effortlessly. He opened the hostel almirah and Lo!!! Muni Monki, the tree saint, was born and to remain the central character throughout the epic titled Vanaravatar, where he would drink the holy nectar and save the PG2011 with countless advices on their future to be. Monki’s attire and character of short-term commitments suited him best among the ten avatars.

This incarnation gains relevance today with IT boom and the pose of some professionals caricatured as simians.

Once at Lavale, Monki forgot the essence, reason and righteousness behind his avatar. He deviated from Mission Guidance to Vision Nonsense and threw away his lethal weapon called Talentaayudh. Needlessly he jumped state to state, tree to tree in search of the sweeter nectar and the source from where emanated an exceptional feminine aroma. The lust to temporarily capture the throne (in common parlance the Maha ‘simc’anasa) of the symian hilltop made him greedier than ever.

The decision of Lord Ventiki to be born as Monki instead of Kalki had already instigated many a smaller God. Meanwhile the femme fatales among the aspirants had an eerie sense of insecurity. Sensing the deviating purposes of Muni Monki and understanding his true colours, the PG 2011 approached the smaller God’s for help, who in turn formed a cartel to cancel Monki’s entry pass to the once heavenly abode. Unaware Monki continued jumping more trees.

To teach Muni Monki a lesson and to save the PG2011 from the unsafe clutches, one mischievous God dressed as an Apsara, the beautiful maiden, seduced Muni Monki into drinking the nectar.

Surprise!! As soon as Muni Monki was served nectar, the Maya software emanated a fragrance. The source of the distant scent was an Asura’s cave. Disturbed and disillusioned on finding his search turning futile, Muni Monki wanted to start afresh with a Google search and Orkut community. Muni Monki proposed to marry the maiden serving nectar. At the very moment, the Apsara disappeared, deceiving Muni Monki of everything from wooing and charming the Lavalein gopikas to writing a long discourse like the Bhagavad Gita.

Suspended mid-air, with neither an entry in heaven, hell nor earth, a once compassionate Lavalein lady steadied him on a tree stump.

Years passed and this Muni Monki finally became the coconut tree. Today Muni Monkis’ hair is what we see as the coconut leaves, the French beard as the husk, nectar as the coconut water and the stump itself as the the tall trunk. A life once lived romping from trees to trees finished as a tree itself - The kalpavriksh.

There are different stories on Monki’s techniques of knocking the feminine doors and thus pocketing them. The tips are used by the present Gen-X kids and Muni Monki is a rage in cartoons, comics and Jokes alike.

Yet another touching story of Muni Monki is that he read the entire Bhagavad Gita with oscillating hopes of finding a beautiful damsel called Gita in at least one of the pages. The glossy magazine pages had corrupted his mind. Thathasthu!

There Orkut community reads something like this: “We're a group of seniors who'd like to help you and share whatever we did and had to do to get here…

The actual purpose is genuinely to be helpful in different ways like

• Join Orkut, the platform of interaction, the masquerade of ingenuity. PG2011 via the camouflaged 2010 can meet each other, create the team feeling and clear the GD’s with ease.

• The 2010’s advice helps provide a coupling feeling long before 2011 reaches Lavale. Especially beneficial to homesick girls who will have someone in the moderators and Owners to look forward at the barren hilltop.

Farsightedness aka binoclar-o-technology invented as early as SEP 16 & OCT 17th respectively. Are the birds watching?This generosity, this love, this interest for the future of SIMC, even when the rest were occupied with their first semester exams ....sob..sob...the time people take out to help others.We meet so less of nice people these days.Emotions are choking me and am unable to write more. So many lucky souls who got enlightened and moreover so early in their careers, even before the SNAP forms were available. Lucky juniors with this pole star or say guiding light. Now my memory is flooded with the lone unselfish lighthouse, battered by winds, waves & taunts, yet stoic and unabashed. How I wish I had joined this year with all the free expert advice... :P :)

Final Word: There was once a King who was blessed with a boon of choosing one diamond from the many strewn in the path he walked, but on a condition that he couldn’t turn back and select any that he crossed. The king started walking. As he was about to pick a well polished glittering diamond, he found a better one and then a bigger one and so on. His greed did not allow him to pick the one in front, as he hoped for a bigger one ahead. He walked and walked and the diamonds started getting smaller and duller. Still the greed and hope remained. The king continued walking, ending up with the smallest one available.

After Footprints - A report

The most abused 11 letter word – S P O N S O R S H I P

The most ‘impressed’ 10 letter word – F O O T P R I N T S

Dreaded 9 letter word - C A N C E L L E D

Loved 9 letter word – C O N F I R M E D

The ''just for the day'' pampered 8 letter word – A U D I E N C E

Dreaded and loved 7 letter word - S P E A K E R

The threatened 6 letter word – R E P O R T

The 5 most tired letters - U K C A S not in that order. ;)

The most used 4 letter words – S E L L, P A S S in that order

The overtly polished 3 letter word - C S R

The two most efficient 2 letter words - U G, P G

The missing 1 letter word - ZzzZzzZZ

THE 4 DIGITS THAT CREATED WONDERS - 2008

CHEERS TO ALL MY BATCH 2010. GOOD SHOW

Impressive these Impressions ???

Once upon a time there lived a lion in a city full of Footprints. Being a city inhabited by dreamers, he too had a dream. To wear uniforms while impressing the best of Footprints across the country. He waited, waited and waited. The uniforms never came.

And then arrived Kochi footprints. The lasting impressions on the D-Day anyways yielded positive results.

On the way back to his foot-printed caves, the bruised lion wanted to roar and not many millions heard it. What and why that lion had to say was for a legacy he would soon leave behind for the cubs. But the inflated sounds tried their best to silence his echo.

THOUGH A LITTLE DEJECTED, THE LION SLOWLY NEARS HIS CAVE.

The little cub came running to meet him asks, “How was the event, uncle?”

The jolly good lion said- “The official release from the kingdom mentioned three young achievers. And the beautiful mementoes were designed in three crystal pieces glued to get an envious design. What the designer never knew was the infinite inherent advantages of the three pieces, but Team Kochi experienced it.”

Cub(All anxious): “What experience?”

Lion: I will tell a situation. If in case a city received only one of the mementoes for the Three Awardees. What will be a solution? Think.

Cub: Simple. Break the one memento made of three pieces and give one to each Award winner.

Lion: Bingo. Impressive your are! It was made easier for team Kochi with the biscuit cover packaging. The kochi-mates just had to give a feather touch and Magic!! The one was converted to three pieces. Also saved on the concept of ITEMS in management.

Cub: How and what are ITEMS?

Lion: Information, Time, Energy, Material and Space. Information exchange was nil. Time and energy is saved automatically. Saved two mementoes and hence material. Space for storage, transportation.

Cub: What innovative thoughts does your college have? Truly adorable. Futuristic thoughts and management starts from the office staff itself. Wow.

Lion: Not over as yet. The third major advantage is when the event culminates. If any lazy team didn’t arrange an entertainment show. See how this can be tackled.

As the young achiever receives the 3-pieces memento, the material gives away, feather touch. As the audience begins a hushed giggle, me the smart announcer announces- “This is a lesson which we would like to impart. Learn to be on your toes any moment under any adversity. Turn opportunities into adversity.” And the first achiever gives two pieces to the second and the second to the third.

Cub: Lovely concept of brotherhood among the journalists and non journalists. Hats off. But if this happens, is there anyone to blame?

Lion: YES. Ourselves. Since it’s we who didn’t go, search and then research the entire courier office. The student as per the Aide memoir is supposed to check whether someone send late couriers to be received on time! But again there are benefits. Though you lose time from the last minute event polishing, you become skilled to perform better than a sniffer dog.

Cub: Just one culprit as per the office blame-rs?

Lion: No, No. The faculty too because they did not carry the baggage of mementoes & certificates along with their tardiness and instead requested them to be couriered.

Cub: How can it be their responsibility? Are they the camels to carry everything otherwise?

Lion: So says the esteemed office as per office rule book, rule no 3232. Violation demands an apology. The faculty has to bear the burden  also because it’s them who conceptualized footprints. isn't?

Cub: Ohh..Good sarcasm lion uncle... but what does the office do then? Why are they there for?

Lion: Listen, if all are busy with their respective work, who will play the blame game? So they have a busy chart of blaming him, her and them. If not they confirm and keep it in their mind whether the courier was done at least a day after the events. So that SIMC students receive coats and suits to go for the neighbours’ wedding and etc’s.

Cub: (Giggles) So how many finally received the event certificates?

Lion: We played smart even there as we did not have a certificate to give. And why else are you collecting the individual details of the crowd? We have promised to go to each one of their house/school. Call them, apologize and deliver the certificates after a one month’s delay. This is Indian media’s professionalism. See and learn.

(Cub is silent )

Else use this as a new plan to generate the crowd for a next year footprints. Announce that the certificates will be given to those who come for the footprints 2009. So, repeat audience and what a crowd.

Cub: (Suddenly, eyes wide open): Wow. Novelty everywhere. I want to join the office, not the college. Less work and more blame game. Niceness!

Final word: Did the uniforms and certificates finally reach?

Yes, after a delay of 30 hours, 2 days virtually. Most of them still lies at the destination unclaimed. 

What difference does it make? None going to wear it whatsoever. But is an obvious burden to carry on our return trip. 

But the reasons for the delay? 

The delay in take off of the Pushpak viman from the Viman Nagar,Pune. The starting trouble. Blame it not on the pilot or on the ground staff. Blame it on the birds that were flying free in the city of Kochi. Even before the Viman could take off some terrorists named NAAC came in. So what? Does the railways stop functioning because the airport was to be inspected? Yes, in SIMC. So the Viman got unduly delayed and delayed till the event got over. Now what does the dreamer do with it? Instead of cribbing on not wearing it on the D-day he wears it wherever he goes aka a Wedding, Child birth, to offer condolences and ask not! Everywhere. Effective utilization thus making amends before reaching Pune.

But the Lion learnt his lesson on not to open his mouth even while in a media school as it violates all Aide Memoir. Also did his neigbour's Cub.

(The mails exchanged between the office and me are idling in my inbox)