Day 468:4th Jan, 2011

Must give it to our FRA prof for all his attempts at humour :D. First was his attempts to draw participation of the Stex student by asking him to pronounce the names of the foreign authors. Today he talked about the importance of a 'proposal' (the reference point of pun being our submission).

Spent the afternoon trying to see if I could use some opportunity for trading. Didn't seem to find a successful one. Pachpan returned after his newly attained chacha-hood and got some good amount of sweets. That was good.

Went to the gym on time today. It also doubled up a bit as a way of catharsis. Funny incident - I started using a new piece of equipment to work on my shoulders. And I was feeling all proud and happy exercising with one particular weight; until Fauji Khare suddenly came behind me and asked me to work out with 2.5x that load. And man, the first time I tried holding that rod, I could easily sense being "pullled up" instead of "pulling that weight down". 

And I have no idea why - but somehow suddenly got hooked on to yet another new sitcom - The Big Bang Theory. Found it really hilarious :D . 10 episodes on season one finished off in almost a trot! \m/

Day 280: 16th Jun, 2010

The interesting thing about today was a visit we had to the local market for our Retail Marketing class. Basically all of us were packed off on a bus and taken to this weekly bazaar that happens at this place called Mahanagar every Wednesday.

What impressed me was the entire setting. Have read in books (ok ok Tinkle :-p) about this kind of weekly markets, but seeing one was an experience. There were literally hundreds of makeshift stalls that had sprung up on the street. Selling absolutely anything and everything. Of course, prices were always jacked up and you had to be that hard-nosed bargainer to get your worth. Easy for me - I know that's not quite my stuff - so stayed away from actually buying anything.

For the class itself, we had to just go around and talk to shopkeepers and get some details. Got a little bit of that. Then treated it like a mini-outing and walked around with Ghate tasting some new items like panna (tasted like pani-puri ka pani), chana kheer, mango kheer (both AWESOME sweets!).

Of course, my mind kept drifting to INDEX. Reason being it was exactly the location where the prior editions of INDEX was held (not possible now since a multi-level parking is being constructed there!!), but I was just super envious of the location. Would be so brilliant to get people there!