Quite a lot has happened in the past few days. First, I bombed at the Shell technical interview. It was a project interview, rather, and the interviewers weren’t particularly impressed with it. It was quite obvious, and I knew I wouldn’t make it to the round I was supposedly made for: the case study. But then, among the rejectees were people who’d done path-breaking work, people who were praised by the interviewers for being innovative, even someone who was given a card by one of the interviewers. After the case study, there were two left, and after what they called group activity, they decided only one made the cut. And for all this, they made us fill that stupid application form (took hours), prepare for that telephonic interview (took a day, many took a week), and then grill us over a project. To hell with Shell, then.
Today, sat out the Cairn recruitment. No point in it, I reckoned, when all they see is whether the candidate is among the top ten. Instead, I went shopping for the one thing missing in my wardrobe: a red necktie. Found the perfect one at the Raymond’s outlet. Came back and tied a knot. Perfect. I love ties. Shortly afterwards, my batchies came back all spent from T&P, and bingo. Second question of the written test: your GPA till the last semester. To hell with Cairn too. Next stop: Reliance.
No, I’m not arrogant at all. 
you and your far sightedness
study well for reliance 
my best wishes with you always 
thank you I)