Choices and decisions

So as I try to battle it out against all the enteric crap that I hav and also an upset stomach I was just trying to arrive at a decision on some of the things that I plan to buy in the near future. Yeah I know its surprising that I actually plan to buy something. The shirt that I am wearing as I type this post is 6 years old and the jeans around 8. Coming to think of it I find that majority of the clothes that I have are at least 4 years old.

Well I still think I will carry on with the same clothes and leave that department of shopping to my mom.

But coming to the first thing that I plan to buy. Its a two wheeler. Now I at present have 4 options - a honda activa, a honda unicorn, a TVS apache or a pulsar. U could ask what is a activa doing in the list of bikes. Actually an activa is the only vehicle that I can drive. But I prefer a bike only for the fuel efficiency considering the ever increasing prices of fuel. So a lot of indecision there.

Now the other thing that I want to buy is an ipod. No I am not really a listener of songs nor will I be making full use of that gadget but somehow its just a craze to own one. Maybe its closely related to the domain in which I work. But there is this other player from Creative called the creative zen player which is in many ways better than the ipod but a bit costly. But the option of not buying a player also exists. So a lot of indecision there too.

Actually when I look at these trivial dilemmas that I have at present and think about the number of life changing decisions that I have taken till date I find that they are very few. Actually I can really think of only 2 decisions that I have taken till today without consulting anyone and on my own instincts. And they have both shaped my life to what it is today.

It was the year 2001 and I was in the CET cell for the counselling. Now the CET brochure always specifies every year that they do not counsel and its only a seat selection process. But till today we call it counselling. Ok I was in the seat selection thing. I was due to enter the hall at 10:30 as a part of the second batch on the first day. I had come with the hope of securing a seat in RVCE hopefully in the electronics dept. But as I went in I found no seats available in the branch of my choice. I could have opted for computers in RVCE but observed that there was a seat remaining in the electronics in a college named PESIT. Now from the moment I entered the hall I was constantly hearing about this college being compared to RVCE and the seats were fast filling in it too. I had really not done any sort of research on this college and did not even know which part of the city it was in. I had no idea about the lecturers or the placements. So when my turn came to select the seat i had the option of computers in RV or the last seat in the electronics dept of PESIT. I really do not know what made me choose PESIT and I can never find out where I would have been today if I had gone to RVCE. Maybe I would have ended with having a girlfriend.

I was standing in sector 58 in noida in the year 2005. Thats a satellite town near Delhi. I had just joined as a software trainee in CSC and was looking for a house on rent along with a coule of my friends. It was seven in the evening and we were deep in conversation with a house broker when I received a call from my mom. I had been offered a job in *******. The posting would be in bangalore. Now I had a dilemma. One the one hand I had just joined CSC 4 days back and also it was my first job but on the other hand I was now being offered a job in a company I was familiar with and a work profile that suited my qualification. Five days later I flew back to bangalore. I will never be able to find out what could have happened if had stayed back in noida.
Maybe I would have ended up having a girlfriend.

PS : I never really had to choose my lab partner of my project partner during my college days.