Garba Rasa

Navratri, the 9 nights festival begins on the first day of Ashwina of the bright fortnight.The word Navaratri literally means nine nights in Sanskrit; Nava - Nine and Ratri - nights. The following 9 forms of godesses are worshipped during these nine days: Durga, Bhadrakali, Amba or Jagadamba, Annapurna, Sarvamangala, Bhairavi, Chandika or Chandi, Lalita, and Bhavani.
The most rocking part of the celebration of this festival is Garba Rasa and Dandiya. When the word rocking comes ofcourse mumbai Rocks with this. In Mumbai Navratri is festival cum buisness.
Huge grounds, orchestra with behemoth output speakers, colourful traditional outfits, and sexy ladies are the main attraction. Tickets varying from 100-500 per night. People don't mind spending on such occassion. Even after the ban on loud speakers post 10pm did not dampen the spirits of people to attend these places. In short the money makers profit graph did not see great dip.
My college group visited Mithibai college where Juhu Jagruti organizes Garba, yesterday. Even though I wasn't a great "garba" dancer just wanted to visit one of these places. We reached there by 8pm, rest of them were already there. The ground was packed, music was on, everyone was in their own world dancing. We went to hunt for a place. After aimlessly navigating our way we found one place. and started playing there. Jig, mayur, milan, purav were de experinced and pro in dancing, while de rest use to learn from them. Once they start others use to try to ape them. Well others could manage to get along the flow and I use to stumble many a time. Later everyone started enjoying and dancing. Music was good, the only problem was over populated place. There was no enough space to dance. Initially it was only 10 of us dancing later other groups also merged in. Till 10 there was music on loudspeakers. Later after a break they were suppose to play only drums. Since de gurls were getting late we came out. Had food and returned home.
Overall it was a good experince and worth for what we paid.

LaTeX workshop

LaTeX, A document typesetting language.

For the first time in my life I took a workshop. It was on LaTeX. Schedule after college there were round about 25-28 students who came for it. Workshop was about to start at 5 sharp. We installed Latex on college servers so that everyone can access it. Setting up the projector took a long time. I started with asking people to set up the path and then opening proper windows. Then gave some introduction on LaTeX and its superiority. It was followed by demostration of a simple Hello World Document. Later Milton and myself alternated in speaking. We did mess up because of time constraint couldn't take many things together. But it was a good experince so that next time we shall keep a track of timings also.

Finally Placed

Yesterday, I had my second interview of campus recruitment in Hexaware it was HR interview. On 13th of September, early in the morning I started my day. After getting ready I set out for Maphae, where Hexaware was situated. My interview was scheduled at 10 am in the morning and the destination was pretty far. Took a route via railways harbour line and surviving the forces of the people I reached Vashi in one peace. From here a bus too my destination. I reached Hexaware at 9:30. A very nice building, with amazing decor. After going inside just reported to watch man that I have arrived and would like to meet the concern athority. After waiting in their lobby for next half an hour we were called in other building for presentation. In the comapnies board room, the presentation was given. We were told about various visions, missions, and history of the company. This was followed by interview. I was 6th person in the line. First interview was for long time. The next few came out quickly. My interview lasted for 6-8 minutes. It was decent time. For the first time I was happy after interview. I answered well, confidently and tried conveying my all possible qualities in that small span of time through questions which were thrown to me. Interviewer could have trapped me twice but first time in my life I managed to tackle it by answering them. First trap was when he asked me the number of students from my college who had come for interview and the second time was about my goal in the current semister. The results were next day. I could hardly wait for it.
Hexaware's campus recruitment was most elongated process and its output came today. Right since 29th August it started. 30th was the first interview and then 13th was the second interview. I was in college and one of our mam had given a break. Suddenly my batchmate came running in the class and wished me and said "We both are in". I couldn't belive on those words that hit my ear drums. I ran with him to our HR. He showed us the printout of the students who cleared the second interview and got placed and there I spoted my name. My joy had no bounds. I was really happy with that news as finaly I got in somewhere. Well so after BE I got some option now.

Hexaware first interview cleared.

Hurray after giving atleast 100 hits to G4's site. Today finally they put up the list of students who are selected for the next round of interview. Well I just hope that all my batchmates (and ofcourse me 2) clear the next round and get the offer.
Next they will contact us and we shall have one more interview. Now the mystery is I really don't know what type of interview will they take..!! Lets hope for the best.