Thursday afternoon, 3 p.m.

Thursday, August 31, 2006

Catching up.

What can you say about a movie where the opening line goes 'bewakoof aur chutiye mein dhaage bhar ka farak hota hai' ? Just got back from watching Omkara. Amazing movie just like Vishal Bharadwaj's earlier work Maqbool. This guy is incredible.

Term break once again. Catching up on a billion things. Chores - tackling unpaid bills lying all around my room (credit card, mobile, etc.), getting life back on track, planning for the equity research focus group (fin club) activities which i'm in charge of, spending leisurely time talking to friends, parents (whom i gloriously neglected through the term), spending time with R, realizing for the Nth time how patient she has been all through the term when every phone call from my side used to go like"hi, whats up? uh huh. ok. cool. listen i'll talk to you later. gotta run." total duration - about 5o secs. Life outside of ISB goes on at a normal pace; not at the speed of light as it does here. Realized that too for the Nth time in the past 3 days. Catching up on how the last few months have been. Trying to setup the next few. 3 terms done already. 4.5 months spent here. Zap!

Each of us has been relaxing in his/her own way. Disco is out to Chennai to put shape to past relationships. 'Dude' to Bangalore to give shape to new ones maybe. Dada in his own world as usual - drinking, sleeping. Johnsi to present his paper to Coimbatore. DD breaking his own sleep records. Laks - kiddo is having fun. FB out to Dubai. Some out to visit friends. Others have friends visiting. Somehow the sun seems to shine brighter, the breeze is cooler and life is awesome during term breaks. Ho hum!

I promise to blog more regularly. Ok, I know you're saying 'f@&* you' , showing me the finger and laughing your ass off considering how my past promises in this area have been. But, I continue to try. Bear with me. It'll work out.

New look to the blog. Supposed to signify a cleaner, lesser cluttered, more organized look to the blog. So also to my life. Hasta luego! Or as Laks would put it 'have fun!'

Saturday, August 19, 2006

Ummm....well.....

BCG came to campus a couple of nights back (nights because the session started at 9.30 and went on till midnight) to conduct a session on 'careers in consulting'. Extremely informative, not too impressive. The session was meant to arouse a deep sense of excitement for consulting. As it turned out for me, the session bored me to death. But I did go to listen to what a company of the calibre of BCG had to say.
Marks confound me to death. For the life of me I cannot explain why I get an 'A' in Marketing and an almost certain 'B' in (Corporate) Finance. Strange. But such is life.
In other news, my group bagged a project from one of the biggest global PE firms (corpus $10 bn.) Superb firm. Very interesting project.
One more week and Term 3 will be done. Though theoretically impossible, the pace of things here is fast approaching the speed of light. Believe you me.

Thursday, August 10, 2006

nuvo

Been out for long. Need to get back to blogging. Have added a chat box to the blog (scroll down - its on the right side). Hope to better talk to you guys. Looking forward to some hollers. Will be back with more very soon.