Day 100: 6th Oct, 2009

A nice new timetable is effective from today. The previous TT was weird, we had lectures from 8.30 and then some random gap at around 11.00 between 2 lectures. From today the morning lecture has been squeezed in that gap. So our lectures start only at 9.45 :D . Yippeee!

It started raining yesterday late at night. But surprisingly it was still raining even in the morning. Even more surprisingly, it rained harder and harder and eventually IIM L campus got a couple of artificial lakes - one outside Fauji and one outside the Nescafe area. Couldn't see the ground below at all :-O

Anyways, today calls for a toast. 100 days in helL, a century! And still alive and kicking!

Day 99: 5th Oct, 2009

Even with all that exertion, my in-built alarm managed to wake me up at 7.30. However, I wasted time trying to coax myself out of the bed. Finally I was rushing to the mess at 7.55 to grab a quick bite before the 8am lec when I see a Kiran Kumar of my class standing and trying to capture something with his mobile cam. Going there I realised it was snake that he was shooting - a tiny one crawling along the very path from which I was to walk :-p. Finally I got to see a snake on campus!

The late sleeping took its toll during the lecs. Had to keep my eyelids wide awake during MANAC 2 by Ak-47. Just put my head down when the prof was taking attendance, and in the space of 40 odd roll numbers, I fell asleep :-| . Luckily for me my neighbour woke me up on time. However, thanks to CPC, managed to get through MM easily. Must appreciate the creativity of people, incorporating words like water-buffalo, grasshopper,beer, air hostess, etc in their CP effort! Today's 1st list of words was exhausted in under 10 minutes!

Day 98: 4th Oct, 2009

Suddenly started raining today in the morning due to which the morning matches and cultural events had to be cancelled. I don't know about the teams but the to-be-referee, Ghate, sure was happy to know that he could continue with his sleep :-p

The rain managed to keep most people inside for a good part of the today, mainly by instilling and instigating the slightly dormant laziness inside the helL people. Not wanting to cave in to sleep, it was then that I resorted back to my music indulgence. Uploaded a few recent songs into my ipod shuffle, plugged it into my ears, loaded the lyrics from the internet and blasted my vocal cords off. Thus, I stayed insulated even as I subjected my wing mates to the torture :D .

Finally, went out for dinner. Next stop - the rock show that was going on. This was followed by a band called Faridkot. I must say they played pretty well. And the crowd numbers didn't do much justice. Just made me think that people really don't value something when it comes 'free'. Except may be alcohol. The performance was followed by the insti party. Although I stayed till the end, must say I was a little less active this time. Almost left a couple of times in between only to be lured back by the loud music. Finally came back and slept at around 4 am. Tomorrow (today i.e.) lecture begins at 8 am. Isn't that fun? :D

Day 97: 3rd Oct, 2009

As a soon-to-be manager (safe assumption), today I am truly impressed with the importance of delivering a promise to a customer. So basically what happened is my DELL charger stopped working suddenly. And unlike all the innumerable bad experiences one typically has with many other consumer firms (telecom service providers, malls, food courts, restaurants), getting this issue resolved was a breeze. I called a toll-free number, got through easily to a support person, who asked me to run some program. When that didn't work, I called up the support line again and this time they said they'll just replace the charger. Next day (INSPITE of the fact that it was a holiday!), the DELL guy promptly delivered the new working charger right to my hostel room. Really impressive! As a consumer, this is something that would weigh a LOT on my mind when I would be making a purchase decision.

Went off to catch 'Wake up Sid' in the afternoon with Chajju. Pachpan ditched us for his XL-ency but eventually paid the price for it :-p . I really liked the movie though.

Evening spent time with all the INDEX junta. Random timepass and gupshup. In between went out to see the much awaited Fash P (fashion parade) ! Was pretty nice (as if that wasn't obvious why :-p). Made good use of my RSP whistle :D .

Varchasva sports are going great with IIM L winning almost everything. (No match fixing, I assure you!) Apparently in tennis, XL guys were serving underarm and Vanki comes up with dialogues like - "Serve like a man dude". hehehehe :D

Also had caught some sleep sometime in the evening . So at 5.30 am, I am wide awake as an owl. Will miss breakfast for the third consecutive day I guess. Lets see.

Day 96: 2nd Oct, 2009

Ah! What a great feeling to wake up and know that there are no classes and hence sleep again!

Varchasva - the inter collegiate sports and cultural meet - started off today. The atmosphere is brilliant. Huge contingents from XLRI, NITIE, IIM Indore and a few other colleges have come here. All guys are happy because the chick quotient presently is substantially higher. Great events happening all around the campus. The sports events have especially been superb - very close and brilliant badminton, TT and volleyball victories for IIM L boys team and comfortable victories in football and basketball. The female sports events have been as expected - lots of cheering/booing/sledging AND bird watching (yea hardly any game as such). Couldn't attend too many of the cultural events. However I attended a Kavi Sammelan in the evening where we had Kumar Vishwas, Surinder Sharma and one more person whose name I don't remember. Was awesome!

Also have Kaushik, an INDEX senior, on campus. Met him up. He was wearing the his INDEX Core t-shirt! Can't wait to get my hands on one :) . Then spent the afternoon doing some outsourced work for some friends in other committees on campus.

Thanks to Varchasva, we have some food stalls on campus. Ate hot cheese burst pizzas from dominos for dinner. With the dripping cheese and all! Was Wowwwww!!

Random post. No wonder - it was a random day as well. Went to the DJ nite - good music. I didn't dance much today. Have reserved energy to distribute over the next 2 days. Am going to expend all of it soon!

Day 95: 1st Oct, 2009

Was a comparatively chill start to the day in the sense that lectures started only from 9.45. But the extra DWO lecture in the afternoon more than compensated. When I realised that my brain had stopped responding to whatever was happening in class, I resorted to focusing some energy on doing something 'creative'. Came up with this,

Trying my best to stay awake

Hardly happens to be a piece of cake

My eyelids droop now and then

Random senseless words flow out of my pen.

Necessity is the mother of invention

Trying to discover new sources of recreation

A little fun is in watching others fight sleep

Some have succumbed, in slumber deep.

Disconnected sound waves crown into my ear,

A stifled yawn there, an open one here

Hey! CP challenge some have decided to play

That's an innovative one I say.

I stopped here because now my attention was totally grabbed by the banging of desks over CP points. That is when I realised CPC had come into implementation! Boy, creativity at its best! :D This one is a nice trend. Am actually looking forward to lectures now ;-)

Had an INDEX party in the evening! Went to this place called Genesis. It's a nice place (by Lucknow standards, not by Bombay standards :-p) with OK food. Doesn't really matter much when you are in the company of friends. Got some nice funny stories which cannot be shared here :-p. Maybe I can mention that Vinay got a very exclusive SMS/invitation from one of the most "in-demand" stex female on campus :D

Have a nice loooooooong weekend now. Three whole days. And the best part - I have nothing to do then! Yoohooooo!!

Days 92,93,94: 28th-30th Sep, 2009

Yooooooooooooooooooo!!!

Back to helL and how!! Been a super duper hectic three days! The previous two days I slept at 4.45am and 4am respectively! Had a good deal of INDEX work to be done for the PGP1 exclusive event that we will be conducting. No wonder, my only task during lectures was in trying my level best to make sure that my eyelids remain apart. And I definitely didn't make a good deal of it :D

BTW, we have all new profs this term. My first lecture was OM 2. Really nice prof... he put down his rules of discipline initially and basically said you do anything which won't disturb the class and explicitly stated that sleeping is OK. No sooner had he made an invitation to offer than I grabbed the opportunity with both hands. Actually I grabbed my spectacles, set them aside and just dozed off on the bench :D . I don't intend to make this any habit though! Was introduced to the some other subjects - Marketing Management(MM), Financial Management(FM), MANAC II, Designing Work Organisations(DWO), QAM II - and respective profs later on. Each one seems to be different from the other.

In midst of all this, had a Dandiya night in college yesterday. Played a bit there. Was fun! Had a fun cricket match today - Harmony Cup! by Bhavishya. INDEX v/s India. Total timepass. Showed some amazing batting skill and helped my team win 4 wides :-p. Anyways, we still allowed India to win the match, mainly because of the patriotism and the INDEX party in plan tomorrow ;-)

Today it is 5.30am - Sunrise happening even as I write this. Truly and completely back to helL! I was told this term is going to be hectic. Now I know (a bit).