return of the native!

home..home again...i like to be here when i can.. when i come home, cold & tired...its good to warm my bones beside the fire.. ok...not such a good start to the post with borrowed lines from Pink Floyd....but you get the picture! have finally packed my stuff, said goodbye to colleagues @ work, spent a day out with R, had a teeny weeny farewell thrown for me by my roomies & R and FINALLY landed in Ahmedabad. Would you believe it, it actually rained the day I got here. Both Mumbai & Ahmedabad looked completely confused by rains in March. One would expect sweltering heat, never rains... but well, such is life..often the unexpected happens.I've spent the last couple of days getting my bearings, filling & finally dispatching the educational loan forms and sticking to my resolve of 1 movie/day - so far its been 'The Motorcycle Diaries' -a Spanish movie about the coming of age of the most famous revolutionary of them all - Ernesto 'Che' Guevera. Che took a 4 month trip across South America in 1952 with a close friend on an old motorcycle. He was 23 & on his way to becoming a doctor when this trip changed his life. Definitely a movie worth watching. Tonight just finished watching 'The Assasination of Richard Nixon' - an average movie but for the brilliant Sean Penn. This guy never fails to amaze me everytime I see him on screen; the previous ocassion being 'I am Sam'. Time seems to be flying - there is so much happening. The huge diversity of topics I see on the isb-pgp yahoo groups is quite impressive. Right from issues about which laptop to buy to decision making queries on whether to choose IIMA/IIMB/ISB to the knowledge sharing initiatives with people from different backgrounds offering to open up their individual treasure trove of knowledge - the list is endless. I hope to contribute my bit to the knowledge sharing plan by having a basic presentation on value investing. Am a major value investing buff and like to devour everything on & by Warren Buffett - the God of investing. There is so much to learn from this man's professional as well as personal life. The emotional disconnect he has towards wealth in spite of being the 2nd richest man in the world ( current networth - $ 42 bn) is totally unbelievable. Check out the links on my blog for more on investing, careers, life itself by the great man. I hope that my CFA will help me contemporarize this subject which first started off way back in the early 20th century. A common theme I see on the blogs of the current ISB students is that all of them seem perceptibly relaxed. They seem to be in a mood of reflection and are looking back to the year that was @ ISB with fond memories. Many of them have put up links of blogs of the Class of '07. I believe that interesting, informative & responsible blogging is one the wonderful traditions that seems to be passing on from one batch to the next. I hope my blog will me as wondeful as some of the blogs that I've been visiting over the past few months. Now that the educational loan forms have been dispatched, I hope to have time to do the things I'd planned - reading, brushing up on my Spanish, travelling, getting my guitar back into shape.