Day 362: 14th Sep, 2010

Woke up really early today - 6 am! Mornings are really beautiful :-) . Listened to music for a good 2 hours, side by side finishing off some pending work.

Had a productive CBM class :D - I drew caricatures on my INDEX core friends :-p . Whatever anyone else may think, I felt very proud of myself ;-)

It is funny the way paradoxes keeping popping up. I just finished my Service Marketing class and went to the local SBI branch to get some work done. And felt 5000% that the fellow on the opposite side should be attending the class :-S

It is equally funny (but not surprising) how everyone is always available for a treat :D . Becomes so very difficult to get everyone's approval for a party or a meeting, but mention a treat and wagging tongues show up in no time :D . The occasion was the celebration of Chatur & Kisaan's PPO/PPI (resp.) in INDEX - with Vanki's addition today! We went to this new place called Zaafran, which claimed to specialise in Mughlai cuisine :-P . Didn't seem like that, but the place was pretty ok. Super quantity though! Not having looted the treat givers enough, we made our way to CCD. Unfortunately, my recently discovered chocolate indulgence Dark Passion wasn't available :-( . Settled with Devil's Own. Not bad ;-)

Got back and we had a small INDEX meet in my room. Few updates, few plans, few arguments. That ended at 01:00 am. 

But now it's 3.40 am. And guess what, I am ending my day exactly as it began - another 2 beautiful hours of music. C'est la vie!

Day 220: 9th Feb, 2010 - Are we choosing the right leaders?

The post has nothing to do with what is happening at the macroscopic level. It is about something that is happening here.

I have no intention to wash dirty linen in public, but suffice to say, no person anywhere can get away with abusing a position of authority (and responsibility!) for long. The title of the post is actually the subject line of an email sent by an esteemed professor of our institute to the entire student community, appalled by the behaviour of a certain student representative. The said "Mr. Leader" has slipped way down the popularity ladder ever since he was elected and today's action just added fuel to the fire and started a tirade of insults pelted at him. I hope everybody would always remember the famous spiderman quote - With great power comes great responsibility. The super talented Mr. Vishrani came up with a brilliant caricature summing it all up!

As I write this post, I suddenly recollect on a couple of events that I totally missed out! (Though I may be repeating this :-p). Senior council elections are over. Most seats went uncontested, which is not very cool in a democratic setup, though I must add that some candidates are totally worth the positions (ironically, in stark contrast to the paragraph above!).

We have also re-started Channel Hell - IIM Lucknow's very own radio channel. It typically runs weekends. Tonight of course, there was a special coverage - Leadership awards!

Chalo anyways, exams from tomorrow. Best of luck to you and me!

PS: Got our 2nd term CG. The whole batch has taken a hit - and INDEXians have outdone others!

Day 192: 12th Jan, 2010 - Missing !

Blondie is our local intranet portal and every midnight, the batch gets a mass mailer where others can post their messages. Now, I haven't maintained any records, but I can easily bet that more than 90% of those mails are the 'Lost and Found' ones! It's really weird the kind of things that go missing on campus. We have had those mails for everything from watches to keys to rackets. There was even a case when someone simple forgot where he had kept his bike! :D . But today's entry takes the cake - one guy lost his suit ! The message as follows "I am not able to find my suit. I, being bad at remembering things, not able to relloect whether I lent it to somebody. So, in case somebody finds a blue coloured suit in a cover which has Chandigarh\'s address, then i would be really greatful. Being able to locate it would be a great help as placement time is around. Treat assured :) "

Had a caricature workshop in the evening. It was good, but my expectations from it was different. Shown here are a couple of pics of my effort. (the third one being the improvisation drawing :-p)

It's almost 2 am now. Am very very sleepy. Have an extra lec @ 9 in the morning, else could have slept till 10.15 :-x . And just when I am about to sleep, it's started to rain heavily! Wow... didn't see that coming!

Too tough to write anything sensible. Cyaa laters! gn!