Day 275: 11th Jun, 2010

Yaar!! On Fridays and Saturdays, I have just one lecture! Shucks.. I so wish it was adjusted to some other day! Would have had nice loooong weekends. Which could I have employed to cover the whole of North India!

Got my hands on a bike after around 2 and a half months! Feels AWESOME to be on a lean mean 2-wheeled machine! Yet to get my bike serviced and repaired though.. but not long before I am reunited with my Discover!

Day 274: 10th Jun, 2010 - Zoo Zoo :-p

So is it my EAGLE that is making me write this blog? Or is it the SALMON which is trying to rebel against popular notions that were expressed about the impossibility of sustaining this endeavour? Confused? Don't worry. This was what happened in the 3-hour "short"(in the prof's words - ?!?) lecture on team building. As how would you understand others if you didn't understand yourself! Logically sound, except that at the end of the class, it made me feel I was in a zoo rather above anything else :-p

There is something anti-visionary about Lucknow. No pun intended, I only was referring to my spectacles. After breaking my specs 6 times in the first year, I had a two month long summers stint at Bombay, during the course of which my specs fell down at least twice, and escaped unhurt and intact. Day 1 in Lucknow - I put my specs inside the case just before I go to sleep. Morning the case falls down. And the specs - inside the case - breaks! :-S . Argghhh!! Accompanied Dhams to the city (who maintains his record of registering late), gave my specs for repairing on the way. Tried negotiating, but unsuccessful :-(

Had a long overdue INDEX meet. In our new room. Convenient :-p

Day 273: 9th Jun, 2010

I don't know if I have mentioned this before. One of my greater achievements in my first year was that in the last 4 months, I did not have a shave or haircut. Just to confirm there was no typo, I reiterate - in the last 4 months of my first year, I did not have a shave or a haircut. Of course, I don't think I need to get too descriptive for you to imagine a person in such a state. Though never an intention, this hairdo did manage to create a little bit of a brand image for me :P. And now, when I came back after my internship, all clean-shaven with a super short haircut, I can actually find people finding it tough to recognize me :D 

An excruciatingly painful registration process. Was bored to death. Something better needs to be done there.

Had maggi after a loooooooong long time. Infact had it just once in 2 months. Now I guess it's back to resuming its "staple food" status.

And now that Saurabh has come, he will bring all a billion childish observations and a zillion plans. One of which was to watch Rajneeti today (one of his few better plans). Had some difficulty in arranging bikes. But then of course, the philosophy was sacrosanct - "the first plan made for this year shall not be broken!". And there we were, 7 of us, catching the 11pm show at Wave cinema. Though the movie is a lot of cut paste from various places, I still enjoyed it. Also, had to return triples on Shomu's bike - yet another first. 

Day 272: 8th Jun, 2010

Yoooooooooooooo!! 

And here I am ! Back to the campus and this blog after a brief hiatus - my internship! I spent the last 2 months in Bombay - had an absolutely wonderful time back there. Got to catch up with quite a lot of friends too. Though not much of anything since my internship itself turned out to be ultra hectic.

Anyways, true to the nature of this blog, I'll come back to my campus narrations. 

One of the primal instincts of the human mind is to compare. And there I was, thinking about how different things were just one year back. I remember being curious and apprehensive. I remember trying to spot for someone heading to IIM L so I could share a cab. I remember the dry hot dust laden winds that slapped my face with tenacious regularity. And today, there were so many familiar faces that we could share not just the taxi fare, but also the extra baggage amongst us! Why, last year, I even remember getting lost at a place that I can surely walk even blindfolded now! And to top it all, I even guided a first year prep course student around the campus :P . Funny sometimes the way events fold up!

Came to my new room. Threw a pretty good first impression space wise (again a huge deviation from last year!). But (there is always a 'but'), unfortunately, the cleaners had all left and my room does not have even a square millimeter of space which is free from dust! Have just dumped my luggage here. Will unpack tomorrow once I get it cleaned.

Also made multiple trips to my old room to collect my stuff. With even more stopovers at Gupta - consuming a huge number of Shikanjis (just remembered I didn't even know what this word meant a year back!). Half my stuff is in my new room now. Got bored. Also went to the INDEX room. Looks like an absolute extension to my own dust covered room!

Even managed to have a small debate with the Airtel guys in the midst of all this. The funny chaps there had, for some reason, still kept my incoming calls barred. (some stolen identity jhol had happened during my internship - never mind that now). The helpline (the number which I got only after 3 attempts) guy initially said he will 'note' my complaint and an airtel executive will contact me in '6 days'! How is that happening at all ?! Made him transfer the call to his supervisor. I explain the situation and the job gets done in 2min !

Had to make arrangements to sleep (my bed was totally dust covered!). The mattress from last year to the rescue. Have put it over my bed right now. Good idea that one.

Anyways, registration tomorrow. And am damn tired and sleepy. Adios ppl. Cya around!

Day 271: 1st Apr, 2010

My last post from this room :)

Bye room.

Bye blog (for 2 months).

Day 270: 31st Mar, 2010 - 50% MBA :)

The days were long 

Yet so short seems the year 

The first day memory so fresh 

Yet the last day is here. 

It's time to sit back  

Let out a small sigh 

And to one super fantastic year 

It's time to bid goodbye.

What a great last day of the term! Too many interesting things. Since I am in the exam-mode, let me list them out point-wise.

• Almost made to wait outside the exam hall for 30min, as I had to walk into the washroom which cost me a precious 10 seconds. Fortunately, we were allowed to get in.
• As I said, I almost pulled off a night-out. Still allowed myself sleep for around an hour in the morning. Drank the red bull on my run to the PGP block. (I should have drunk it 5 min earlier no? May be I could have flown to the PGP block then :-p)
• Super short paper. The first part - true/false - was completed pretty quickly by me (speed and accuracy being unrelated). There were 6 more questions to be answered - writing single side answers for each of them would probably let me come out of the exam hall first - and that was the target I set for myself. As I was in my last answer, Shantanu got up and left the exam hall first, making me extremely jealous. I quickly completed my answer, and left the 3 hour paper in 1hr,5min - my personal best :D . Guess the Red Bull wasn't really needed :-p
• Was going with Shreyas to Brij ki Rasoi. Just as I was admiring the digital tachometer of the Pulsar, especially the part which indicated petrol by showing a small fuel-station symbol next to line. And then suddenly the bike stopped. And that is when I realised I wasn't actually reading the symbol correctly! No petrol.. and the bike was already running on reserve. Got a local fellow to give me a ride to the petrol pump and back.
• Many (temporary) farewells - Dixit, Tarun, Saurabh, Ashish, Shruti, Komal, Shreyas and quite a few more ... Truly temporary as I would probably bump into quite a few people during my internship! (Almost half the junta is headed to Bombay :D)
• Went to C2C with Ghate, Sud and AdiJ. It was a really nice place - am quite surprised how I have never been there in my one year of stay!
• Had Walls' Feast icecream after ages from a roadside Walls' fellow.
• Went to the terrace of the PGP block! The campus is SO beautiful.

Went to the INDEX room to collect the RSC docs left by Riza and ..well, just for the heck of it. Back to my room - my last night here...

Am a 50% MBA now :) Wow!

Day 269: 30th Mar, 2010

Wrote a loooooong MIS paper today. Must admit it was an interesting open book exam; you had to do your bit of work to get the answer required.

Since most of INDEX core is leaving early tomorrow, we had a pizza session in the INDEX room. Finally got Vanki (or rather Saurabh :-p) to come out with the little secret :D

Last paper tomorrow - HRM. It must suffer being the casualty that the last paper turns out to be. Even more so considering it is the last paper of PGP1! Am not studying anything at all! Even went to the mess twice - once for celebrating Venkkatessan's and Bugger's birthdays (badly beaten!) and then once again to meet Dhamdhere and Maanas. It's now almost 4 and I have kinda yet to start. Am going to pull an all-nighter today (rather tonight). Have invested in a Red Bull to keep me awake through the paper tomorrow :D