No this post is not a review on the book by Alvin Toffler, which I do want to read but haven't managed to so far... it's just that lately i've been dreaming and thinking about my future... personal yes, but professionally too.
i'm doing a masters in advertising and marketing which has got me thinking about various careers that it can lead to. ad agencies, fmcg companies (fast moving consumer goods, like HUL and P&G), marketing companies, brand management, copywriting, account planning... there are a lot of options but i'm still searching. i wanted to do something with films and designs. i thought a career which required me to meet people, talk to them, understand their requirements, get it executed, imagine, design, etc. would be ideal. this sounds like the perfect job description for client servicing and account planning. but i don't know. i think i'll know only after i begin working in a company. then i also had these thoughts of working with a magazine house, i can design layouts, do their marketing, liasion with companies, and so on... then there is retail! imagine being a part of PVR and negotiating deals with companies, designing special packages, everything actual and on the ground! there are many options, I don't know which one i'll find most appealing.
personally i am beginning to now think, how does it work? we're 52 students in our class, yes we all want to do our own individual things, but how can we all be the best? how do all of us get work? if everyone wants to be managers, if everyone wants to lead, then how do we work as a team? it reminds me of this time in BMS (graduation - management studies) when we made a team which had most of the dominating people together, like most leaders! and we failed miserably, our presentation, even though conceptually good, was a complete flop in execution! too many great minds together make for a poor team. a team must be balanced. you must have weird thinkers, you must have workers, you must have leaders, above all there must be balance. a team of only leaders doesn't work at all. the ego clashes are far too many to reach any sort of understanding and consensus. and sometimes you just want to go ahead on something without having an elaborate discussion on it!
recently i was down for about a day, and i was at home doing something or the other... i watched two movies, Step Up 2: The Streets and Enchanted. Step Up was interesting. it had me dreaming! No seriously! I dreamt of some of the moves and there was a classmate of mine in my dreams too! :) the intricacies of the movie, the thoughts, the choreography... was amazing! Enchanted was a Walt Disney movie and i'm glad i watched it because up till now i've only seen the ending... the movie was of course a kiddy movie, but i enjoyed it! there was this absolutely hilarious scene where the squirrel (Pip) is trying to enact a scene between a witch and her conniver, Nathaniel and he does it so well! The animation for Walt Disney movies is just amazing!!
watched a spate of movies lately... Wake Up, Sid! was by far the best movie i've seen in a long long time. For more details on the review please read i absolutely loved the movie and i'm in love with the songs. every morning when i'm on my way to someplace, i have to listen to the entire album... 'iktara' has me swooned and 'kya karoon' is the perfect good morning song! :D hmm... then i saw 'Ajab Prem Ki Gazab Kahani' Oh dear! what a movie! :( majorly disappointing! no storyline, poor set design, very poor forgettable screenplay, no chemistry, bad acting, bad songs, poor choreography, ooof... i can't crib no more! the saddest part was there was NOTHING gazab about the prem kahani! i mean, the fact that he didn't say, 'i love you' in the whole movie to her, is no claim for it being GAZAB! seriously which world were they living in! the whole concept was made to look like a remake of 'Andaaz Apna Apna' which was a classic movie in its time and still manages to hook people. but you can't repeat the same pattern in today's times and expect people to laugh! it just doesn't work! On the other hand, i saw 'This is it' and even though i wasn't a great MJ fan, i am one now. seriously that concert had it happened would've been the best thing people have ever seen! the kind of efforts that they put in, the kind of effects, rehearsals, planning, they did was out of this world! What a comeback it would've been! some of my friends had seen the movie literally everyday of the time it was in the theatres... since then i've downloaded most of his music and enjoy listening to it! :) Then i saw 'The Rebound' with Catherine Zeta Jones and some guy... not a great movie, a decent movie. the storyline was predictable. the acting was normal. the incidents were too daily. the conversations weren't out of the ordinary. overall, it was a normal rom-com. I liked a couple of scenes in the movie... and remember some of them, there's this scene where catherine begins to feel like she's pregnant, so her breasts start swelling and paining, she's at her work desk, and she's just feeling them to be sure, when her colleague passes by and stares! so she quickly quips, "It helps me think!" :D hehe... i found her response funny! like seriously imagine you were doing something like that at your work, what would you say? 'my underwire came off?' hehe.... i don't know what i would do! but i liked her response! it had the whole, it's my life, my body, attitude... sometimes i seriously wish i was young during the 'bra liberation movement' it would've helped so much!!
okay now i'm rambling so i must stop!
oh my books. before i forget. since i'm too bored to write individual reviews for the books i've read, here's a short snippet. i read 'sea of poppies - amitav ghosh' and found the book okay. it wasn't as good as 'the hungry tide' which i absolutely loved! it was a nicely developed book, and the stories were beautifully interwoven. only what made me feel incomplete was the fact that it abruptly ended. it was almost as the climax that you waited for all through the book just never came... it led to the the brink only to fall flat. now i'm currently reading 'outliers - malcolm gladwell' Awesome book! mom put me up to it, and i'm so glad... it's got some amazing insights into the effects of our systems on the learning and knowledge curve and eventually our successes! i re-read 'Shantaram' and i think that's a book i'd love to keep reading over and over just like 'Fountainhead' which also i recently re-read.
well that's pretty much my life summed up... :) happy living!
Comments
As far as ur dreaming, thinking is concerned, this a very usual process with anyone getting into a monotonous surrounding and schedules( study/work/play/friends etc) and still feels that this surrounding is one of the better ones. But the problem doesn't lie there!
The problem is that we want to make a decision, a choice ! And want to make it now. Without caring about the options( quantity and quality of ) that are available on the table to chose from. And this is one big mistake we do. Don't get too hasty. if things r not clear today, don't force it to happen tommro or a week later. Wait, Watch and then Run.