<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17738706</id><updated>2011-04-21T15:41:58.691-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Hello world !!</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ruchikaagrawal.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17738706/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ruchikaagrawal.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Ruchika Agrawal</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06901879359003079885</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>21</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17738706.post-114050801806071760</id><published>2006-02-20T23:03:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2006-03-03T21:39:26.546-08:00</updated><title type='text'>My second D-Day !!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Hi everyone!! So finally its over....I m free now...at least mentally...I know many ppl want to know in details how did the interview n the GD go...so here's for those who are preparing for CAT or are just interested....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Details of my IIM Lucknow interview process:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our selection process started with us being called into a room where we were asked to sit in a semicircular manner...the examiners (A Lady n a Man) were sitting at the centre position from where they could observe us all...they gave us our GD topic...on which we had to write an essay (150 words max) in 10 mins n then discuss it right away...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;TOPIC: "Peace and harmony can exist only as long as there is a threat of violence".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Since the topic was quite general, the GD became a complete mess...everybody was speaking simultaneously...no one was interested in listening to wat others were saying...I had to really struggle before i could start...but the gud part was ....every time I started nobody spoke for the next 15-20 seconds n they listened....then again everyone started simultaneously...in between i also interrupted the GD where I asked everyone "to go in a more structured manner so that everyone gets to speak their point...as we had enough time"...everyone agreed...then they again they started all together....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They didn’t ask us to conclude the GD ...he just asked us to stop abruptly...everyone came up with gud points (i know because I was listening)...but no one else was...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then came the turn for interview(...of course after a round of snacks)...I was the sixth one....there were all sort of guys...even ppl with 6 yrs of experience in gud managerial positions in the company (don’t know why he wanted to do an MBA)...his interview lasted only 2-3 mins...they had nothing to ask to him...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One very important thing that i noticed was that in Bangalore the same performance will result in lower marks (as I perceive it)...coz at least on communication front u'll not find a single person who struggles to speak...everyone was quite gud in communication skills n most of them had an impressive personality...so that makes u outperforming others very difficult....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am writing here the interview in as much details as i can remember (L stands for Lady Interviewer, M for male interviewer)...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As soon as I entered:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;L: So Ruchika, how many girls are sitting outside?&lt;br /&gt;Me: One&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;L: Only u?&lt;br /&gt;Me: No, one other than me&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;L: Why do u think this is happening?&lt;br /&gt;Me: Probably b'coz very few girls take the initiative of pursuing higher education. In India...the girls develop low expectations from themselves...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;L: Is that the reason? I don’t think so.&lt;br /&gt;Me: Mam, at least wat I've seen in my institute the girls to boys ratio is very low...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;L: how many girls are there in ur class?&lt;br /&gt;Me: 5&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;L: out of...&lt;br /&gt;Me: 41&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;L: Ohhh...that's very low...how many girls in all in ur batch??&lt;br /&gt;Me:23&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;L: Out of...&lt;br /&gt;Me:450&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;M: How much is that in percentage?&lt;br /&gt;Me: about 5 %&lt;br /&gt;L: Ohhh thats very low...n u r from IT BHU..&lt;br /&gt;Me: Yes&lt;br /&gt;L: n that’s quite a prestigious institute...&lt;br /&gt;Me: Yes&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;L: But we are talking abt women empowerment etc...then where is the empowerment&lt;br /&gt;Me: The empowerment we are talking abt is as compared to the past...but if we see today we are still lagging behind...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;L: Can u tell me any field where women are doing really well...&lt;br /&gt;Me: (After a lil' thinking) Nowhere...infact women are doing quite well everywhere be it as managers or engineers or doctors...but again, they are doing well as compared to the past there's still a lot of scope for improvement.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;L: Wat do u think is the way out...do u think we should give them more reservations..&lt;br /&gt;Me: No mam...i don not think that is the right way out...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;L: No, u dont think so??&lt;br /&gt;Me: No, i think reservations don’t help as long as their is a change at the grassroot level&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;****************************************************************************************************************&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hi guys ...this is where it ends..... not the interview...but my written description coz now its 10 days since i started writing that...n now i really don’t feel like discussing the interview anymore...a lot has happened since then...i attended the S P Jain interview...n lemme tell u ..these guys are gud for nothing...dont plan to join the institute under any circumstances...really...got very frustrated on the interview day...was called at 8 in the morning...while my interview happened at 7 in the evening...bloody______....anyways...i cleared the first round of interviews...results awaited for the second round...plus my MDI interview is scheduled on 22nd March in Gurgaon...Hey that's my B'Day too....lets see if they let me celebrate it...anyways guys see u very soon this time.....byeeeeeeeeee&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17738706-114050801806071760?l=ruchikaagrawal.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ruchikaagrawal.blogspot.com/feeds/114050801806071760/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17738706&amp;postID=114050801806071760&amp;isPopup=true' title='13 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17738706/posts/default/114050801806071760'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17738706/posts/default/114050801806071760'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ruchikaagrawal.blogspot.com/2006/02/my-second-d-day.html' title='My second D-Day !!'/><author><name>Ruchika Agrawal</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06901879359003079885</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>13</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17738706.post-113821254306661311</id><published>2006-01-25T09:36:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2006-01-25T10:20:56.973-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Look at me!!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Hey guys!! Sorry to disappoint u...but I m preparing for my interview...so really not able to take out much spare time...anyways...I visit my blog regularly n I m so glad that u guys miss me... This is going to be a short post...n it’s especially for those who have been reading me but never seen me...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Look at me in this snap...u know wat yesterday i was very disappointed coz I’d not received even a single scrap on orkut since the last 4 days...then I changed my photograph...n My God !! My scrap book is flooded with compliments...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7887/1707/320/untitled.0.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;U know wat i like abt that snap...whenever i look at it...i dont only see myself but my mom...the chin, the smile, the look in my eyes, the glow on the cheeks...its not me standing there...its my mother...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Hey...this is for u Mom...if u ever read this...I love u !!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Chalo guys wish me luck with my interview preps...i'll be off n on for a few days...but i'll definitely keep u updated....&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Luv u all&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Byeeeeeeeeee&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PS: &lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;Hey, do u think that i should post it for the matrimonials ??&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17738706-113821254306661311?l=ruchikaagrawal.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ruchikaagrawal.blogspot.com/feeds/113821254306661311/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17738706&amp;postID=113821254306661311&amp;isPopup=true' title='15 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17738706/posts/default/113821254306661311'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17738706/posts/default/113821254306661311'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ruchikaagrawal.blogspot.com/2006/01/look-at-me.html' title='Look at me!!'/><author><name>Ruchika Agrawal</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06901879359003079885</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>15</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17738706.post-113705239674687000</id><published>2006-01-11T23:33:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2006-01-11T23:53:16.766-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Crazy Frog Lyrics: A Guest Post by Arun Tangri</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Hi All,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Well first of all thanx ruchika for such an honor :P but I expected atreat rathar than a guest post :)... Anyways, I spent a great amountof time to write a guest post for you (you write so well that itbecame even more difficult for me to give an entry in your blog :D)...so here is my post, a bit different stuff although ;).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;I am sure that most of you dear readers have heard the song 'CrazyFrog' and for those who haven't heard the song can visit the link&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.killsometime.com/video/video.asp?ID=86" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;http://www.killsometime.com/video/video.asp?ID=86&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt; for the same... Withutmost difficulty I wrote down the lyrics of the song for you all andwhich itself is my entry to ruchika's blogspot :D... so here it goes;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;CRAZY FROG LYRICS&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;tin tin tin don bam bam bram ba be bam bram baba bom bom ba bram booomwhats going on ????&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;music&gt; te tu te tede te te te tu te tede te te... te te tu teda tadate tu &lt;/music&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;tin tin&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;music&gt; te tu te tede te te te tu te tede te te... te te tu teda tadate tu &lt;/music&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;lets do the racing taaaaa&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;music&gt; te tu te tede te te te tu te tede te te... te te tu teda tadate tu &lt;/music&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;tin tin&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;music&gt; te tu te tede te te te tu te tede te te... te te tu teda tadate tu &lt;/music&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;bam bam&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt; 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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;music&gt; te tu te tede te te te tu te tede te te... te te tu teda tada &lt;/music&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ra racing, ra racing&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;music&gt; te tu te tede te te te tu te tede te te... te te tu teda tadate tu &lt;/music&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;bam bam&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;music&gt; te tu te tede te te te tu te tede te te... te te tu teda tadate tu &lt;/music&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;lets do the racing baaaaaaa &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;ram.bam.bim.babra.bam.braaa.rim.ram.raaaam.ram.bam.ba.ba.ba.baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;music&gt;tu tu tu tede tada ta.... tu tu tede tada tata... ta ta ta tadata tada ta... tu tu tu&lt;/music&gt;tin tin&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;music&gt;tu tu tu tede tada ta.... tu tu tede tada tata... ta ta ta tadata tada ta... tu tu tu&lt;/music&gt;lets do the racing baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;music&gt; te tu te tede te te te tu te tede te te... te te tu teda tadate tu &lt;/music&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;tin tin&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;music&gt; te tu te tede te te te tu te tede te te... te te tu teda tadate tu &lt;/music&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;don don&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;tin.din.dind....tin.tin, tin.din.dind.....tin.tin.tin.tin&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;tin.din.dind....tin.tin, tin.din.dind.....ta ta&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;tin.din.dind....tin.tin, tin.din.dind.....tin.tin.tin.tin&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;tin....tin.tin&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;lets do the racing taaaa&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;music&gt; te tu te tede te te te tu te tede te te... te te tu teda tadate tu &lt;/music&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;tin tin&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;music&gt;u tu tu tede tada ta.... tu tu tede tada tata... ta ta ta tadata tada ta... tu tu tu&lt;/music&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;re racing ra ra racing&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;music&gt;u tu tu tede tada ta.... tu tu tede tada tata... ta ta ta tadata tada ta... tu tu tu&lt;/music&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;bam bam&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;music&gt;u tu tu tede tada ta.... tu tu tede tada tata... ta ta ta tadata tada ta... tu tu tu&lt;/music&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;lets do the racing&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;bit&gt;u tu tu tede tada ta.... tu tu tede tada tata... ta tata tada ta tada ta... tu tu tu&lt;/music&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;BAM BAM&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;HoPe YoU AlL EnJoYeD It :))&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;HaVe A NiCe TiMe"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;ArUn TaNgRi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17738706-113705239674687000?l=ruchikaagrawal.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ruchikaagrawal.blogspot.com/feeds/113705239674687000/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17738706&amp;postID=113705239674687000&amp;isPopup=true' title='12 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17738706/posts/default/113705239674687000'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17738706/posts/default/113705239674687000'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ruchikaagrawal.blogspot.com/2006/01/crazy-frog-lyrics-guest-post-by-arun.html' title='Crazy Frog Lyrics: A Guest Post by Arun Tangri'/><author><name>Ruchika Agrawal</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06901879359003079885</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>12</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17738706.post-113662287959291955</id><published>2006-01-07T00:05:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2006-01-07T00:34:39.653-08:00</updated><title type='text'>No time for celebrations !!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Hi guys....so much has happened since I wrote my last post....I got my 1000th visitor, Mr. Arun Tangri...I request him to write a guest post on my blog, “Plsssssss will u do it”.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also I got a call from IIM-Lucknow. Now that’s something I should have told much earlier, but I was busy collecting all the ‘CONGRATS !!’ n ‘ BEST OF LUCK’...now that its finally settling down a bit, I was reminded that my blog is missing me...n probably it deserved some celebration...so I thought ‘oki...I’ll give it some celebration’...Lets see when...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;First of all, I m leaving for XAT in some minutes. (Allahabad)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Secondly, I’ve got my FMS exam on 15th Jan. (Kanpur)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thirdly, I’ve to attend 2 day campaign on GD/PI by Career Launcher on 21-22 Jan. (Delhi)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fourthly, I’ve to take my IIML interview on 20th Feb. (Bangalore)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now in between all these exams n their preparation I’ve my mid term exams in the college.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So I guess u understand....NO TIME FOR CELEBRATIONS !!!!!......&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyways I’ve to leave now...wish me best of luck....BYEEEEEEEEEEEEEE&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17738706-113662287959291955?l=ruchikaagrawal.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ruchikaagrawal.blogspot.com/feeds/113662287959291955/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17738706&amp;postID=113662287959291955&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17738706/posts/default/113662287959291955'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17738706/posts/default/113662287959291955'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ruchikaagrawal.blogspot.com/2006/01/no-time-for-celebrations.html' title='No time for celebrations !!'/><author><name>Ruchika Agrawal</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06901879359003079885</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17738706.post-113610357181661427</id><published>2006-01-01T00:01:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2006-01-01T00:19:31.830-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Happy New Year !!</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Hey guys...&lt;span style="color:#993399;"&gt;Happy New Year !!&lt;/span&gt; Guess wat...my blog is going to reach 1000 visitors...just 39 more to go...so keep visiting...I’ve got something special for the lucky 1000th one...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also everyone please drop in their New Year resolutions on the comments section...mine is ‘to fulfill all my resolutions’.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Take care&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Enjoy your New Year&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Byeeeee&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17738706-113610357181661427?l=ruchikaagrawal.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ruchikaagrawal.blogspot.com/feeds/113610357181661427/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17738706&amp;postID=113610357181661427&amp;isPopup=true' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17738706/posts/default/113610357181661427'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17738706/posts/default/113610357181661427'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ruchikaagrawal.blogspot.com/2006/01/happy-new-year.html' title='Happy New Year !!'/><author><name>Ruchika Agrawal</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06901879359003079885</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17738706.post-113595288921184901</id><published>2005-12-30T06:25:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2005-12-30T06:51:46.220-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Back !!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Hey guys...i m back...u know I had planned that once CAT is over I’ll have all the time to update my blog regularly...but no it didn’t happen that way...or rather I grew lazy n u know how long that kept me away from my blog...earlier I was searching for something to write, something straight from my heart. Now, I’ve found it n I know how to articulate it...so u can expect the blog to be functional once again n I hope u’ll be there too.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oki now first of all I must tell u wat I’d been doing all these days...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#993399;"&gt;First&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;I went to my home; n let me tell u this was the first time in the four years that I loved being there so much. I was actually feeling depressed when I came back. Yes things do change with time n sometimes they get better.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#993399;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Second&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; I watched a lot of TV which I had not done in these four years. I’d like to discuss it in details in my coming articles.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#993399;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Third&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; the struggle of a modern Indian girl with the traditional Indian matrimony system has started. Although we had this Cold War going on since the day I decided that I’ll marry by my own choice but I feel I’ll need to come out in open very soon if my dear relatives continue to interfere in my life.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#993399;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fourth&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; the CAT result is killing me... its not out yet...n it seems its never gonna be...I just come to my room every day thinking it may be out, but every time ‘Not yet’. Hah, I don’t feel like doing anything...pls pls finish the mystery fast.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#993399;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fifth&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; the news is driving me crazy. The sense of security is all gone n I cant help wondering Why?...anyways there are so many things I’ve to say...just wait its coming in details...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17738706-113595288921184901?l=ruchikaagrawal.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ruchikaagrawal.blogspot.com/feeds/113595288921184901/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17738706&amp;postID=113595288921184901&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17738706/posts/default/113595288921184901'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17738706/posts/default/113595288921184901'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ruchikaagrawal.blogspot.com/2005/12/back.html' title='Back !!'/><author><name>Ruchika Agrawal</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06901879359003079885</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17738706.post-113256614446154187</id><published>2005-11-21T01:13:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2005-11-22T07:31:49.646-08:00</updated><title type='text'>CAT paper – the nightmare comes true</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;So...finally...it came n it went.....the day that I had been waiting for since the last two years...i m sure u ppl r eager to know how did I perform...lemme start with more basics (i m sure most of u must be knowin but still)...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This year the paper consisted of 90 questions...30 in each section with 20 carrying two marks n 10 carrying 1 marks...the difficulty level for all the sections was much higher than any of the papers in the last 10 yrs...n it gave almost everyone gud tiring 2 hrs when all they could think of was that their nightmare had come true....&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyways i m under a very tragic situation with the greatest minds of India clashing...I went through the answer key provided by Professional Tutorials(PT), Career Launcher(CL) and IMS. The idea of sectional cutoffs is almost the same with 20-21 in English, 14-15 in Quant, 10-11 in Data Interpretation and 48-50 the overall cutoff, and there is complete agreement for the answer key for DI and QA section. But the harmony ends over there and the tragedy begins.......&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For the answers in English section, the answer key for Career launcher, for Professional Tutorial and IMS (n probably TIMES which I haven’t checked) all give three different sets. That is if according to CL answer is (A), PT says its (B) and IMS (C).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Probably u'll understand it better when i tell u my case ... I've managed to clear the cutoff in QA (15.33) and DI (13.33). In English i m scoring 16 according to CL and 22.66 according to PT. That makes my total to 44.66 or 51.33. That is a difference of 6.66 marks. If u consider how important is every mark in a competitive exam is, it is a difference of all the calls or no calls. Anythin may happen.&lt;br /&gt;(All this is based on the assumption that the cutoff predictions by these institutes are correct)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyways...I’ve done my part, rest I leave on the results. But, this makes me ask a very basic question: When the (supposedly) best experts in India on the English section are so confused regarding the answers and their explanations, how does the examiner suppose that we the students are to answer it correctly? Its sheer luck. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyways guys...now that its over I’ve all the time to play now n watch movies ...but wait there's IIFT exam on this Sunday n I've to rush back to Allahabad.....n the end sems are starting day after tomorrow.....Oh heck.........&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Byeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17738706-113256614446154187?l=ruchikaagrawal.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ruchikaagrawal.blogspot.com/feeds/113256614446154187/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17738706&amp;postID=113256614446154187&amp;isPopup=true' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17738706/posts/default/113256614446154187'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17738706/posts/default/113256614446154187'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ruchikaagrawal.blogspot.com/2005/11/cat-paper-nightmare-comes-true.html' title='CAT paper – the nightmare comes true'/><author><name>Ruchika Agrawal</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06901879359003079885</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17738706.post-113234144571902150</id><published>2005-11-18T11:12:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2005-11-18T11:17:25.720-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Geared up for the D-Day</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Hi everyone.....&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;I hope u guys dont remember...so here i m reminding u that i m leaving for Allahabad tommorow morning for the CAT exam...so wish me best of luck...i'll b back with more news on Sunday nite...till then ........................byeeeeeeeeeeeeeee&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;P.S. : Anyone who wishes to call me up n wish may do so at my old airtel no. (that is if u've bothered to save it) or surbhi's no.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17738706-113234144571902150?l=ruchikaagrawal.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ruchikaagrawal.blogspot.com/feeds/113234144571902150/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17738706&amp;postID=113234144571902150&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17738706/posts/default/113234144571902150'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17738706/posts/default/113234144571902150'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ruchikaagrawal.blogspot.com/2005/11/geared-up-for-d-day_18.html' title='Geared up for the D-Day'/><author><name>Ruchika Agrawal</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06901879359003079885</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17738706.post-113198478324123949</id><published>2005-11-14T08:09:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2005-11-14T08:13:03.273-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Just playing....tagging tagging</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Hi bachcha log&lt;br /&gt;Happy children’s day&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So wat I’ve got u for children’s day is this new game that I just became the victim of....its called Tagging-Tagging...well the rule is this..&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If u get tagged by someone then u’ve the obligation of using ur mind on the questions that may be very entertaining to the reader but are too trivial to waste ur precious mind...but as I told u, once u r tagged u r obliged to do it...so it has the provision of passing on the tag to 7 other ppl...this way u don’t feel to be the only victim ...n so the game goes on...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So here I go....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#993399;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Seven Things you want to do before you die:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Get married (n have children)&lt;br /&gt;Spend a romantic nite on candle lit (lonely) beach&lt;br /&gt;Get drunk and shout on the street (its not as if I haven’t done either of these)&lt;br /&gt;Have my own business empire (and enough wealth to buy anything I want)&lt;br /&gt;Go around the world (and let the world salute me)&lt;br /&gt;Tell all my loved ones how I feel abt them (if possible...die in his arms)&lt;br /&gt;And most importantly...find out secret formula to live forever&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#993399;"&gt;Seven Things you can do:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sleep for the whole day (n stay awake the whole nite)&lt;br /&gt;Talk to him continuously on phone for 7 hrs (11pm-6am)&lt;br /&gt;Sleep straight on the bench during the lectures (yes, I’ve done that a lot in the college)&lt;br /&gt;Cook things (I didn’t say they r ‘eatable’)&lt;br /&gt;Talk abt sex (without being embarrassed)&lt;br /&gt;Behave childish (OOPS ...I should have said ‘Behave maturely’)&lt;br /&gt;Be evil (ask my victims)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#993399;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Seven Things you say most:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pyara bachcha!!&lt;br /&gt;Saala ____&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Main jaa raha hu...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Stop it!!&lt;br /&gt;Oy ek baat bata...&lt;br /&gt;Koi nahi yaar (which means ‘koi baat nahi’)&lt;br /&gt;Aur bataao&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#993399;"&gt;Seven Things you can't do:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Live without him&lt;br /&gt;Sleep when there’s a lizard on the wall&lt;br /&gt;Be serious abt engineering exams&lt;br /&gt;Spend less&lt;br /&gt;Tolerate things that I feel are unfair&lt;br /&gt;Go on a diet&lt;br /&gt;Get a shorter haircut&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#993399;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Seven Things that attract you to the opposite sex:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Strong build&lt;br /&gt;Spects&lt;br /&gt;Sense of humor&lt;br /&gt;Flirtatious nature&lt;br /&gt;Dare to ask out&lt;br /&gt;A tiny-winy mind&lt;br /&gt;His appreciation for me&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#993399;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Seven Celebrity crushes:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Amitabh Bachchan&lt;br /&gt;John Abrahim&lt;br /&gt;Salman Rushdie&lt;br /&gt;Matt Le Blanc&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(Cant think of any more ...dont have such reverence for many ppl)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#993399;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Seven People you want to tag:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So here comes the dangerous part...i m sorry for doing this to u guys...but I cant b the only one......so the lucky seven are........&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Grover Bhaiya&lt;br /&gt;Nitin&lt;br /&gt;Arun Tangri&lt;br /&gt;Yash&lt;br /&gt;Animesh Bhaiya&lt;br /&gt;Anirudh Dhurka&lt;br /&gt;............. (pls contact me if u want ur name here)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So all said n done.....Thanks Anki for giving me this opportunity...n Best of Luck for the victims...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Keep reading&lt;br /&gt;Byeeeeeeeeeee&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17738706-113198478324123949?l=ruchikaagrawal.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ruchikaagrawal.blogspot.com/feeds/113198478324123949/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17738706&amp;postID=113198478324123949&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17738706/posts/default/113198478324123949'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17738706/posts/default/113198478324123949'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ruchikaagrawal.blogspot.com/2005/11/just-playingtagging-tagging.html' title='Just playing....tagging tagging'/><author><name>Ruchika Agrawal</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06901879359003079885</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17738706.post-113178483959337036</id><published>2005-11-12T00:27:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2005-11-12T01:14:56.076-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Wat the ___!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;I just realized wat have I been doing with my life...the day that I had been waiting for such a long time is just 1 week away n I m as unconcerned abt it as its already over...all I do is to wake up at noon, play those stupid Yahoo! Games the whole day (n the whole nite)...n go off to sleep just before the dawn...n I've even stopped doing the one thing that I really loved...posting on my blog...i just realized that the traffic on my site has decreased...n its not because they've grown bored but because I've grown lazy...so from today onwards I've decided that u r goin to find some real gud stuff on my blog ...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;keep readin&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17738706-113178483959337036?l=ruchikaagrawal.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ruchikaagrawal.blogspot.com/feeds/113178483959337036/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17738706&amp;postID=113178483959337036&amp;isPopup=true' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17738706/posts/default/113178483959337036'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17738706/posts/default/113178483959337036'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ruchikaagrawal.blogspot.com/2005/11/wat.html' title='Wat the ___!'/><author><name>Ruchika Agrawal</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06901879359003079885</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17738706.post-113160850313650957</id><published>2005-11-09T23:04:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2005-11-09T23:41:43.150-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Long time no posts</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Hi everyone...the busy season is here...n it suddenly seems that everybody has stopped posting on their blog esp me...anyways I had gone to Kanpur for Suvi's marriage...the first in our group to get married...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Now that the D-day (20th Nov.) is approaching I should get more serious abt my CAT preps...but its exactly the other way round...with me becomin more n more carefree...so guys I may b a bit irregular in blogging for the next few days just for the sake of showin that i m studyin...so wish me best of luck....&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Bye...Luv u all&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17738706-113160850313650957?l=ruchikaagrawal.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ruchikaagrawal.blogspot.com/feeds/113160850313650957/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17738706&amp;postID=113160850313650957&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17738706/posts/default/113160850313650957'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17738706/posts/default/113160850313650957'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ruchikaagrawal.blogspot.com/2005/11/long-time-no-posts.html' title='Long time no posts'/><author><name>Ruchika Agrawal</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06901879359003079885</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17738706.post-113093928833608793</id><published>2005-11-02T05:39:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2005-11-02T05:50:43.710-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Something is about to end</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;This is the first realization of that inevitable end that very soon i m goin to face...the end of my college life. It started with this diwali pooja when we started dscussing how we've been celebrating diwali for the last four years on the same pattern...n this'd b our last diwali here...n there r gonna b so many 'lasts' in the next six months...u know it was diwali when i'd found my love for the first time...ooooooooooooohhh...how i m goin to miss it all...but this diwali was wonderful...u know we'd decorated our lobbies with rows of diyas..n it looked amazing....there were diyas all over in both the lobbies ...on the stair case...even in the bathrooms...n that was the only light...i'll put up the snaps once i get them...okiiii....byeeee for now....luv u all&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17738706-113093928833608793?l=ruchikaagrawal.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ruchikaagrawal.blogspot.com/feeds/113093928833608793/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17738706&amp;postID=113093928833608793&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17738706/posts/default/113093928833608793'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17738706/posts/default/113093928833608793'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ruchikaagrawal.blogspot.com/2005/11/something-is-about-to-end_02.html' title='Something is about to end'/><author><name>Ruchika Agrawal</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06901879359003079885</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17738706.post-113068334488859352</id><published>2005-10-30T06:37:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2005-11-14T05:56:37.156-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Diwali tips</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7887/1707/1600/diya.2.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 160px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 159px" height="186" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7887/1707/320/diya.2.gif" width="216" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Hi everyone...it's diwali time !! This is the time of year that always finds me in higly exuberant mood, however drab the plans for the day may be... so for those who r enjoying the fest at their homes 'Have a great time !!' n for those like me who r here away from their home, some tips from&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7887/1707/1600/diya.1.gif"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; me to make ur diwali enjoyable n perfect: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Get up all u lazy people, go out do some shoppin for urself. Make it a bit festival specific. Get some diya, flowers n dont forget Lai-Batashe.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Clean ur room, get into the festival mood.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Dont just satisfy urself by goin to a temple, arrange ur own pooja with ur friends. For those who r planning to do so, here are the tips:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Get a ganesh parvati idol &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Today on dhanteras u light 1 diya, tomorrow on Roop Teras/Chhoti diwali 11 diya, n on Diwali 21&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Also get some flowers if u can &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Sing whatever prayer u know, n in the end distribute lai-batashe with aarti.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;p align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Wear the best of ur clothes n go out have gud dinner&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Do not abstain from crackers, get some blast n u r goin to love it. (I think there radiation others who'll give u tips on safety measures)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Last tip (exclusively for galzz): On diwali nite, before sleeping make some fresh kajal by keeping an inverted spoon on ghee ka diya. Use it n it'll make ur eyes shine for the rest of the year.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Try to follow them n believe me u'll feel completely at home...Its a festival of light n love, live it the way it is meant to be...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#cc33cc;"&gt;Here's a lil' gift from me to all of u...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.barefootinc.com/twinklebulbs.htm"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#cc33cc;"&gt;diwali lights for ur desktop&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#cc33cc;"&gt;...download them n it'll get ur desktop in the festive mood.........&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Byeeeeeeeeeeee.......Happy Diwaliiiiiiiiiiiiiiii &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17738706-113068334488859352?l=ruchikaagrawal.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ruchikaagrawal.blogspot.com/feeds/113068334488859352/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17738706&amp;postID=113068334488859352&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17738706/posts/default/113068334488859352'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17738706/posts/default/113068334488859352'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ruchikaagrawal.blogspot.com/2005/10/diwali-tips.html' title='Diwali tips'/><author><name>Ruchika Agrawal</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06901879359003079885</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17738706.post-113068138552446575</id><published>2005-10-30T06:07:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2005-10-30T06:29:18.806-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Some inferences</title><content type='html'>&lt;p align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Thanks everyone for reading the article below...i've been able to infer the following from the responses I received (n if u r doubtful read the responses on the post below).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are three major categories of people: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Women who think all men are pigs (n no doubt they r given enough reasons to believe so by the people in second category. They believe in it, they r scared of it n they never get out of it)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Men who think all men are pigs (they complement the above category n r highly critical of any attempt by anyone to justify the existence men in the third category) &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Men n Women who believe gud n bad is not the decided by person's sex only in fact u find the characteristics neatly distributed in both the groups. &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;I m delighted that I was able to bring forward ppl from all categories to comment. For those who think that the article below was written on the prejudice of sex being an evil phenomenon...that's absolutely not the case.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I don't expect the change to come in a day neither do I think that this is an easy one...but yes, being a die-hard optimist, I still think it can n it will.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17738706-113068138552446575?l=ruchikaagrawal.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ruchikaagrawal.blogspot.com/feeds/113068138552446575/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17738706&amp;postID=113068138552446575&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17738706/posts/default/113068138552446575'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17738706/posts/default/113068138552446575'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ruchikaagrawal.blogspot.com/2005/10/some-inferences.html' title='Some inferences'/><author><name>Ruchika Agrawal</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06901879359003079885</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17738706.post-113040355043189924</id><published>2005-10-27T01:50:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2005-10-27T02:07:57.553-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Cursed by birth</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;I would recommend all the girls to read this &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.hindu.com/op/2005/10/09/stories/2005100901191400.htm"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;article&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt; by Jyothirllata Girija, in Hindu Open Page (October 9). This article has been an eye opener for me. It made me realize that we may unknowingly have been '&lt;em&gt;doing the worst disservice a woman could do to men in general, and to herself in particular'&lt;/em&gt;. I never realized that most modern dresses are so indecorous as to '&lt;em&gt;make even decent men indecent'.&lt;/em&gt; I dont understand what kind of decent men is she talking about who are forced to rape a girl coz she may be wearing a revealing dress. And I dont understand why rape is such a stigma for the victim while the perpetrator breathes free.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The article is disgusting not only coz it makes all the women feel 'cursed by birth' but also its very unfair to all those men whom she demonizes to every extent possible, blames them to be '&lt;em&gt;born as such'&lt;/em&gt; and advices the girls not to '&lt;em&gt;add fuel to the (already) burning fire'&lt;/em&gt;. Sure there are a lot of problems that a woman has to face but not every man is bad and let us not alienate those unbiased people by deliberately passing such statements.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now this reminds me a very important lesson in my life. Every person is responsible for his own fate. People pls stop blaming men for women's pathetic condition. Lets remind ourselves that still exists a majority of woman (like our dear author) who call themselves 'feminist' and still endorse the ideology of woman as sex object. The solution is not to cover urself at all the possible places, and to maintain distance from every man, but to change the image of a woman. Before talking about our rights and freedom, let us be convinced of our images in our own minds. Once we are sure that 'yes, we deserve respect' can only we command it. Not calling urself a feminist and not demanding special privileges can be the best thing u can do. The word privilege has an inherent bias in it. Avoid it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Alienation between the sexes doesnt protect u, instead makes u more vulnerable. I remember the time when I joined IT BHU. During the ragging sessions we had heard so many horror stories abt IT BHU guys from our dear seniors that we felt they are goin to rape us at any slightest provocation. The word 'sexy' used to be a taboo. Wearing sleeveless was unimaginable. Visiting Limbdi Corner was prohibited for gals. But things have changed so much since then. Not only did we discover that the guys are not at all bad, but possibly they r the best companions we can get. The alienation only helps in building distrust. Once u start mingling, its only helps in building better understanding. Now only a normal day u can find gals n boys freely hanging out, sleeveless is a very normal outfit, in fact the gals are much more confident to go out in skirts. If somebody wears sleeveless for the first time it creates hype, but slowly it gets normal n people stop minding it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Its always a good approach to cure the cause rather than run away from it. Identify the problems properly before passing ur judgment based on the century old prejudices.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17738706-113040355043189924?l=ruchikaagrawal.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ruchikaagrawal.blogspot.com/feeds/113040355043189924/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17738706&amp;postID=113040355043189924&amp;isPopup=true' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17738706/posts/default/113040355043189924'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17738706/posts/default/113040355043189924'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ruchikaagrawal.blogspot.com/2005/10/cursed-by-birth.html' title='Cursed by birth'/><author><name>Ruchika Agrawal</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06901879359003079885</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17738706.post-113035503564977478</id><published>2005-10-26T12:28:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2005-10-26T13:14:40.436-07:00</updated><title type='text'>New looks!!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;So wat do u guys thinks of the new looks for my blog ?? I'd been missin bloggin since the last two days ...but my hostel server was down ...so i really couldnt help it...anyways..there's a lot of new stuff comin up...so keep readin&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17738706-113035503564977478?l=ruchikaagrawal.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ruchikaagrawal.blogspot.com/feeds/113035503564977478/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17738706&amp;postID=113035503564977478&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17738706/posts/default/113035503564977478'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17738706/posts/default/113035503564977478'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ruchikaagrawal.blogspot.com/2005/10/new-looks.html' title='New looks!!'/><author><name>Ruchika Agrawal</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06901879359003079885</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17738706.post-112984064977308739</id><published>2005-10-20T13:15:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2005-10-22T00:57:53.276-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Karwachauth n Free SMS</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;hi everyone...Happy Karwachauth...I missed it this time...but the gud (bad) news is the moon didnt show up the whole night...so..lucky me &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I received a wide variety of comments on the last post..I welcome all the views n suggestions...I in no way deny the credit to the toppers but a bad CGPA is certainly not conclusive for an engineering career.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hmmm...i found this sites (&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.cellebrum.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;www.cellebrum.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.sulekha.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;www.sulekha.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt; ) from where u can send free SMS to the mobile phones. So have fun.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Has anybody tried AOE III ? I tried some rounds on the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ageofempires3.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;trial version&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;. It has amazing graphics n is based on the industrial revolution times. So if there is any AOE freak reading this dont miss it out....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oki then see ya guys...go to go to sleep&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;byeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17738706-112984064977308739?l=ruchikaagrawal.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ruchikaagrawal.blogspot.com/feeds/112984064977308739/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17738706&amp;postID=112984064977308739&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17738706/posts/default/112984064977308739'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17738706/posts/default/112984064977308739'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ruchikaagrawal.blogspot.com/2005/10/karwachauth-n-free-sms.html' title='Karwachauth n Free SMS'/><author><name>Ruchika Agrawal</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06901879359003079885</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17738706.post-112961514805334920</id><published>2005-10-17T22:27:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2005-10-17T22:59:08.056-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Gud CGPA vs Gud Engineer</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;I read &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=80171"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;this article&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt; (mentioned on &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://animeshpathak.blogspot.com/2005/10/school-scores-versus-jee-ranks.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Animesh Pathak's online Journal&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;) regarding the study correlating school performance and engineering performance. Quiet interesting.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Before I present my views I'd like to point out that the study has been done by 'IIT Home' an organisation that till last year was very well known to drop the students from their classes if they refused to quit CBSE and take admission in State Board (Maharashtra)(with whom they had made some special arrangements), coz they believed that in CBSE the student will be required to attend the classes and hence it'll hamper their JEE preps. U can see how contradictory is the study from the basic ideology of the organization.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Secondly, i think ( n all those who have been in these reputed institutes will agree) that gud CGPA doesnt necessarily guarantee a gud engineer...many of the students with average or poor CGPA are known to do very well in their engineering profession or as an entrepreneur. The profession is so dynamic in nature that just the theoretical knowledge is too weak to tackle with the actual problems. It requires much more. Before jumping to conclusions we must be clear how do we define a gud engineer. Is CGPA the only criterion?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'd like to give u my personal example. I scored 92.2 in my high school CBSE exam with 95.66 in PCM. My CGPA can at best be defined as average. But I do not consider myself a failure as an engineer. It was just the way things are taught over here...it has been unable to get me interested. Same is the case with many more students, who in no way are intellectually inferior from the toppers. May be before passing on a judgment on the students n their abilities the administration should take some time for introspection.  There is a lot more scope for improvement there. And even then if the students fail to perform, they should probably get back to them.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17738706-112961514805334920?l=ruchikaagrawal.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ruchikaagrawal.blogspot.com/feeds/112961514805334920/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17738706&amp;postID=112961514805334920&amp;isPopup=true' title='8 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17738706/posts/default/112961514805334920'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17738706/posts/default/112961514805334920'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ruchikaagrawal.blogspot.com/2005/10/gud-cgpa-vs-gud-engineer.html' title='Gud CGPA vs Gud Engineer'/><author><name>Ruchika Agrawal</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06901879359003079885</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>8</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17738706.post-112945474554113227</id><published>2005-10-16T02:08:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2005-10-16T02:33:55.700-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Century Hit !!</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Time to celebrate... My blog has hit its century. Ooooh it feels so great !! Anyways...that apart I've updated a new article at &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://ruchikaexpress.blogspot.com"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;http://ruchikaexpress.blogspot.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;My holidays are going to be over tomorrow. Then the vicious cycle starts again. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;*Trinririririririririririririririririiririririririringggggggggggggggggg&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Wats that....Ohh f____...college again&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;ZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzZZZZZZZ&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Knock Knock Get up, u lazy girl&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Yaa......ZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Ohh heck...I bunked the first half again.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;ZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzZZZZZZZ&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Anyways &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;TOMMOROW NEVER DIES...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Moral of the story...whatever may happen always be optimistic...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17738706-112945474554113227?l=ruchikaagrawal.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ruchikaagrawal.blogspot.com/feeds/112945474554113227/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17738706&amp;postID=112945474554113227&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17738706/posts/default/112945474554113227'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17738706/posts/default/112945474554113227'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ruchikaagrawal.blogspot.com/2005/10/century-hit.html' title='Century Hit !!'/><author><name>Ruchika Agrawal</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06901879359003079885</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17738706.post-112922803107486672</id><published>2005-10-13T10:44:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2005-10-14T03:16:24.840-07:00</updated><title type='text'>People think its beautiful !!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Hi again!! U know wat people think abt this page...just visit the comments on last post...I was amazed by the kind of responses I got...this is lovely...I never thought so many people will visit the page...the counter has hit 44 within 44 hours of uploading it (may be thats not much, but I m excited since its my first time).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also someone has challenged me on my article n is willing to have a debate session...hmm thats some thing I wasnt prepared for...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hey...I came across this video n found it really funny...its abt &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.maxior.pl/?p=index&amp;id=1994&amp;amp;8"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;the guys who luv their wives&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;...just watch it...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I m goin to upload some articles within the next two days...so keep watching &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://ruchikaexpress.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;http://ruchikaexpress.blogspot.com/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt; ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;(Try to click on the ads above every time u visit this page...its going to earn me some money)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ok bye bye for now...................................................lots of love&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17738706-112922803107486672?l=ruchikaagrawal.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ruchikaagrawal.blogspot.com/feeds/112922803107486672/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17738706&amp;postID=112922803107486672&amp;isPopup=true' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17738706/posts/default/112922803107486672'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17738706/posts/default/112922803107486672'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ruchikaagrawal.blogspot.com/2005/10/people-think-its-beautiful.html' title='People think its beautiful !!'/><author><name>Ruchika Agrawal</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06901879359003079885</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17738706.post-112906888098419617</id><published>2005-10-12T03:45:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2005-10-14T03:17:27.270-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Hello world !!</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Hi!! so i m finally on blog... pouring my heart out...lemme tell u my reason of starting it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I m very lazy when it comes to writing...but now i've decided to be a gud girl n write regularly though i m not sure exactly wat. Lemme share with u wat i plan to do with it...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. Write some articles (available at &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://ruchikaexpress.blogspot.com"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;http://ruchikaexpress.blogspot.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;This'll help me in expressing my views n also preparing for some MBA entrance exams. I'll be writing n rewriting some articles. Pls help me in refining them.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;2. Start an entrepreneurship forum &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;This'll bring those people together who have that e-instinct in them. Lets discuss some ideas n even find business partners.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;3. Share anything interesting &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Hey just lemme know if u like the look of the page.. does it suit me or should I consider a change?? 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