Phir Se Udd Chala!
It’s now been a year to resign my first job and now I have got placed in other company anyway to earn, learn and contribute and make my own!
Anyway, it’s been quite a long time that the facts have not been discovered or rather the realities have not been shared with you. Even if you are parents, friends or family or whosoever you are, mind it, it is personal and all for one.
On 29th July, I had put down my resignation at Universal Hunt with proud and not regretting it but then when I came back to Jaipur I started regretting it because what I realized was my own people are against me.
I was trying to be Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg and what not but I found that the life is much difficult than these guys have experienced or may be everyone’s life is.
Me and Vishal gave it a fresh start on 9th September, 2013 and trust me with no idea we had or maybe I had but Vishal was being a counterpart for me and soon he too went for his life and in the mean time I met Mudit and tried and understanding things about UN, MUN and Societies, Trusts, etc. It looked so much easier but when I was digging deeper, it was getting lot more frustrating and painful.
So finally, on 1st November, 2013 Oyster International Trust of Model United Nations was registered with Me, My father and my sister being the Trustees but trust me only I had a vision and its quite natural because they didn’t know about any shit of my idea and vision and then I got in touch with Mr. Prem Biyani who wasted my 3-4 good months and I was nowhere.
My father’s reply on my idea of UN awareness was that you can’t make money but just brand but not even brand I would say and now he says, I’ll consult you for this and this time I being the President, I’ve kept the decision to myself.
I met few jerks in the mean time when I planned to organize Oyster International Model United Nations Conference which never happened but the team included, Shrey, Tejasvee, Yamini, Pooja, Nishant, Shubhangini, Nishesh, Apoorv, Rohit Gandhi, Vatsal Jain but out of which only Shrey and Tejasvee were the real jerks who got stuck with my bullshit of UN awareness and started breathing UN, eating UN and living UN.
Rohit proved to be a big time criticism which was sometimes good but sometimes irritating but he was there supporting my back always. Vatsal always waited for the news for our come back and he was there. Shubhangini and Nishant were in haywire and Mr. Nishesh Bhasin named as the best in the MUN Circuit did practically nothing rather than just being very busy and very kind which didn’t help me in work.
So, the very first idea of International MUN was dropped and Oyster faced its first failure and we all stopped but 4 people didn’t i.e. Rakshit Goyal, Tejasvee Tandon, Shrey Saxena and Rohit Gandhi.
In the mean time I had few special friends in life viz. Monalisha Saran, Vishi, Smriti, Vritika and my dear one Avni.
Rohit gave another idea of training sessions of MUN which failed deeply because I myself lost hope and then I started searching for my job again, disheartened with love, life and what not.
In the mean time I started working for the Africa Tour which is finally going in January and Yes I’m going too.. (Free of Cost) 😉
At one hand I was travelling Delhi again and again and Shrey was master planning my birthday bash and it was the best anyone can have in his life.
So Oyster was like a rotten egg where we didn’t even check our website for quite long and this was the time when Me, TJ and Shrey were sitting at Jai Garh Fort in the morning on 6th July, 2014 when TJ said: “Bhai ek chhota MUN karte hain, vaise bhi kuchh ho nahi raha toh khaali bethne se badiya hai ki kuchh karte hain” and to my amusement and shock Shrey agreed to it and I was still not sure to start it again all over and I said you guys do it and get back to me with details and this reply of mine was just to hide my failure and lower confidence level which these two buggers noticed very well and trust me they did work and then Oyster Model United Nations web page was introduced and Oyster Facebook page boomed in just days to a number from 275 to 700 not within a week.
So we started working and this time completing the documentation part and started driving and driving and meetings all the day with no food, no water, no drinks just Oyster in heads and this time we thought it will happen.
Later on when situation started worsening then my childhood friend Raghav, mera bhai.. added to the team and the Keshav, then Vartika, then Himanshu, then Rohit, then Kanika, Avantika, Smriti, Vishi, Gayatri, Vritika and out of which only 4 people out performed before the conference and they were Raghav, Shrey, Tejasvee and of course me because I had started the shit.
Avantia, Vishi, Kanika, Himanshu, Rohit, Keshav, Vartika, etc. came to action when I had declared on 22nd September, 2014 that I’m shutting down Oyster because my father made me realize that you can’t make this thing happen. But then Raghav said: “Bhai hamare baapo ka dharm hai humein demotivate krna aur ab saala challenge kiya hai aur tujhe Oyster ko UN le jana hai.. toh ab toh karna padega.. karna hi padega.. Bula saale sabko kal.. bol kaam karo ya satak lo!”
I called everyone the next day but Vritika, Smriti, Vishi and Gayatri didn’t come and I had to take Vritiki, Smriti and Gayatri off the board but not Vishi because uspe ek ajib sa bharosa tha.
Planning vapas hui, funds fir evaluate hue, cost cutting hui, hum sab pakke Marwadi Baniye bann gaye the aur aaj bhi hain.. “Darte hain kya!” 😉
Kuchh hi dino main what my father said was just taken as a challenge and saala sab ho raha tha. People were getting crazy with I AM OYSTERed Hash tags! It was on fire and people were dying to come.
We were competing with the best of MUN’s nationally in the country on the dates we had planned but we exceptionally out performed. The way we roared was heard by the whole country.
I had my friends, family, love back and yes Love came to life and still it is!
Sab aaye saale har ek aaya, Cartoon (Sakshi), Nishant, Rohit .. sab.
Aur fir 10th ki raat jb main subah 4 baje tk training de raha tha aur sab so rahe the, Hats off to MSS Students! I love you guys.. you were too good.
4:30 AM morning I finally reached my room (so called room) and had my friends there sleeping, I went up to Avni and asked started shivering and to which she replied with a hug and said: “Tera sapna kuchh hi ghanto main pura hone wala hai” and started shivering more and she said something it changed life completely and for that I’m thankful to her.
My dad offered INR 1, 00, 000 for the event in case I fail but my team’s ego and self-esteem was enough to ignore the donations, “Sorry We Don’t Take Donations and In Kind!”
11th Morning came up, Raghav aa chukka tha aur main tensed tha but things started flowing and sab easily hone laga aur Opening Ceremony hone wali thi.. Shrey, Me and TJ ne obviously speech teyar nahi kit hi ya yu bolo ki jab khaane ki fursat nahi toh speech kaha se likhte par jo mann main aaya sab bol diya 😛
Sab kuchh thik tha but when my father talk over the Mic and said the truth: “I Told Rakshit it won’t work but I’m a proud father to admit that I was wrong and to his entire I just have this to say that I’m glad to be wrong today.”
Jaipuria’s Asst. Dean said in her speech: “I earlier thought bachche hain , kya karenge but then she too confessed that she had never seen such work by under grads and school going students” and my team replied with: “I’m OYSTERed!”
Sach achha tha, jab closing aayi tab pata hi nahi chala ki sab khatam ho gaya aur meri final speech, Jis izzat, pyar aur pehchaan ke liye zindagi bhar tadpe the woh aaj log dene ke liye marr rhe the.. Oyster, Rakshit, President, TJ, Shrey, Keshav, Raghav, Smriti, Avni, Kanika, Vartika, Himanshu, Vishi, Rohit bas sab jagah yahi gunj rhaa tha..
Samajh nahi aa rha tha ki humne aisa kiya kya ki har kisi ki speech pe standing ovation mil rha tha. Sapna dekha tha lekin socha na ki aise pura hoga.
Jab closing speech ki baat aayi tab muh se bol nahi nikal rahe the aura ankh se aansu, khushi aur gum dono ke the woh. Tadap gaya tha khush hone ko ek saal se aur jab kiya toh aise ki jab TJ ne unexpectedly bola: “We are not sure that we will be able to do it again” tab ek dum se Gandhi bhai khade hue saying: “You want to know we guys thing you did?” TJ said: “Ya!” and that very moment I saw each and every one standing in the hall and hailing and bending and shouting for our success.
I just ended up there hugging my beloved ones and Oyster Model United Nations Conference 2014 came to an end with a legacy to look forward.
I could see people’s whatsapp and facebook status as I AM OYSTERed for weeks even after the conference and that made us realize that we have just started the work and we will go a long way.
Sab kiya, sab samjha, kaun apna kaun paraya lekin ek baat mere baapu ne kahin thi ek bar aur shayad hum sabke baapo ne kahin hai: “Sapna kabhi mat dekho, sapne kabhi pure nahi hote” lekin sach ye hai agar hum uss waqt unki baat na sune na aura aage badh jaye tab hamare baapu hi bolenge: “I’m Glad to Lose with my son today!”
Thank you for making it happen, My Executive Board Members, International Press Team, Photography and Production Team and special thanks to the Pearls of Oysters i.e Our Delegates!
Aur baki bache mere sher, saalo tumhare jaan zindagi bhar lunga main.. chhodne wala nahi hu.. Shrey Saxena, Tejasvee Tandon, Raghav Maheshwari, Keshav Modi, Himanshu Sharma, Avantika Jain, Rohit Gandhi, Smriti Basu, Vartika Goyal, Vishwnath, Avinash Soni, Ankush D Singh, Puru Agarwal, Shailendra Paliwal, Manpreet Kaur, Sakshi Uniyal, Nishant Kumar, Rahul Menon, Yashi Prasad, Manisha Singhal, Rajat Mathur, Anusha Sharma, Bhrigu Sharma! I so love each one of you :-*
Asta La Vista! :-*
the CliPBoarD 
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