Wednesday, June 28, 2006
The mist lifts
It's been one term since I have opened this Blog !!!
It was exactly a few day before my previus mid-term that I entered this world of this private-life-news-world !!! Here I am absolutely immune to another oncoming test of strength.
Term 2 has been an re-awakening of ME in many ways !
My study group team is gelling fantastically (touch wood) !!!
Subjects are looking much more appealing, though 2 profs leave a lot to be desired, the other 2 seem to make up for this folly.
Parties have become fewer and far apart.
I am beginning to care less for the world around me and more for things that matter to me !!!
It was exactly a few day before my previus mid-term that I entered this world of this private-life-news-world !!! Here I am absolutely immune to another oncoming test of strength.
Term 2 has been an re-awakening of ME in many ways !
My study group team is gelling fantastically (touch wood) !!!
Subjects are looking much more appealing, though 2 profs leave a lot to be desired, the other 2 seem to make up for this folly.
Parties have become fewer and far apart.
I am beginning to care less for the world around me and more for things that matter to me !!!
Friday, June 23, 2006
Koolpool - Ageing like Wine
I have kept up my promise of being out of action for a long time and the complete credit goes to the insanity of Term 2 ISB.
Starting from where I left off ... The exams went of decently or so I thought coming out of the exam hall each day. On a couple of occassions I knew that a little more focussed/early preperation would have helped me leaps and bounds and a couple of them I knew that either you know it or you dont ... there gonna be no middle path !!
But at the end of it all you are left applauding yourself at the amount of material you have successfully perused (grasped a little too) in the miniscule period of time you are exposed to it and somehow it does not seem to be as volatile as the numerous Engg. subjects we have withstood.
Eventually the silver lining of returning to Bangalore made the exams almost bearable.
In life we tend to take a lot of things for granted and the Immortality of the KOOLPOOL spirit was one such entity. It has endured many onsite visits by all members (Vizag,Belgaum, Vijayawada, Chennai, China, Germany, Canada and of course USA).... But the one fact that you always have a Friday-night-out to go back to was just ...Assumed !
Not that anything was drastically different this friday night , Harry promised to come by the Late-night-Show-time but accentuating conditions at office conspired against him, Dillo and his Dimple arrived on time as usual (with Gowda in tow),Chicko uncharacteristically bluffed his way out of the meet, Vikky The-always-raring-to-go was missing his "Bacardi-Brother" as well as this OM-Partner, Bala was in the US, Anahosur ditto, Jackie ... Koolpool last known memory of this dude was "Maldives nalli yello hodita biddirtane" .... Pinto in cruise-control mode of marriage, other NRIs.. always on our mind !!!
It was a good koolpool meet for all practical purposes but the rumblings we had been feeling for some time now was sounding like a roar to me ....
The writing was on the wall ... Life Moves On !
I can't complain if Harry cant make it to a meet, office issues are priority as we move up the ladder, willing him to be in Taverns for a football match when his ass is on fire at office is selfishness on my part cos I know he really wants to be there but could not !!!
I can't complain if Chicko is tired after a long day in office and driving to Yelahanka, somehow we always just asked him to come over to MGs as if it was a "pakkada mane" and on many occassions he used to do just that ! Shuttling between South/North Bangalore now needs an incentive like a "Fiancee" and rightly so too ....
I cant complain if Vikky creates a fuss to drop us in his car to Jayanagar at 1 in the night and it takes a few senti stuff to convince him why we won't take an auto ... we never gave him an opportunity to do that even once in the past 6 years !
I AM NOT COMPLAINING ABOUT ANYTHING !
But at this juncture of life when Dindu is engaged, Chickoo is engaged, strong>Shumi/Murla/Pinto/Giri/Jacks/Anahosur are married, Harry is in the market for a scotch-serving-damsel, Suauve ladies are awaiting Dillo's hint of an interest in marriage, Bala is waiting for the numerogically-perfect day to announce the news to the group, Vikky is beginning a new era in US (via frankfurt of course) .... and symbolically Tom & Jerry is closed , the Winds of Change are blowing for sure ......
Merci.
Starting from where I left off ... The exams went of decently or so I thought coming out of the exam hall each day. On a couple of occassions I knew that a little more focussed/early preperation would have helped me leaps and bounds and a couple of them I knew that either you know it or you dont ... there gonna be no middle path !!
But at the end of it all you are left applauding yourself at the amount of material you have successfully perused (grasped a little too) in the miniscule period of time you are exposed to it and somehow it does not seem to be as volatile as the numerous Engg. subjects we have withstood.
Eventually the silver lining of returning to Bangalore made the exams almost bearable.
In life we tend to take a lot of things for granted and the Immortality of the KOOLPOOL spirit was one such entity. It has endured many onsite visits by all members (Vizag,Belgaum, Vijayawada, Chennai, China, Germany, Canada and of course USA).... But the one fact that you always have a Friday-night-out to go back to was just ...Assumed !
Not that anything was drastically different this friday night , Harry promised to come by the Late-night-Show-time but accentuating conditions at office conspired against him, Dillo and his Dimple arrived on time as usual (with Gowda in tow),Chicko uncharacteristically bluffed his way out of the meet, Vikky The-always-raring-to-go was missing his "Bacardi-Brother" as well as this OM-Partner, Bala was in the US, Anahosur ditto, Jackie ... Koolpool last known memory of this dude was "Maldives nalli yello hodita biddirtane" .... Pinto in cruise-control mode of marriage, other NRIs.. always on our mind !!!
It was a good koolpool meet for all practical purposes but the rumblings we had been feeling for some time now was sounding like a roar to me ....
The writing was on the wall ... Life Moves On !
I can't complain if Harry cant make it to a meet, office issues are priority as we move up the ladder, willing him to be in Taverns for a football match when his ass is on fire at office is selfishness on my part cos I know he really wants to be there but could not !!!
I can't complain if Chicko is tired after a long day in office and driving to Yelahanka, somehow we always just asked him to come over to MGs as if it was a "pakkada mane" and on many occassions he used to do just that ! Shuttling between South/North Bangalore now needs an incentive like a "Fiancee" and rightly so too ....
I cant complain if Vikky creates a fuss to drop us in his car to Jayanagar at 1 in the night and it takes a few senti stuff to convince him why we won't take an auto ... we never gave him an opportunity to do that even once in the past 6 years !
I AM NOT COMPLAINING ABOUT ANYTHING !
But at this juncture of life when Dindu is engaged, Chickoo is engaged, strong>Shumi/Murla/Pinto/Giri/Jacks/Anahosur are married, Harry is in the market for a scotch-serving-damsel, Suauve ladies are awaiting Dillo's hint of an interest in marriage, Bala is waiting for the numerogically-perfect day to announce the news to the group, Vikky is beginning a new era in US (via frankfurt of course) .... and symbolically Tom & Jerry is closed , the Winds of Change are blowing for sure ......
Merci.
Saturday, June 03, 2006
Bogeyman cometh ...
The month is still mid-may :the supposedly scorching part of the year.
But Hyderabad I believe has never seen better weather in a millennium.
The days are cloudy,evenings are welcomed by a pleasant shower just enough to tingle your senses. Dusk falls upon you like wet-velvet blanket echoing the calls of peacocks over the vast ISB campus.
AND ALL THIS WITH LESS THAN 36 HOURS TO GO FOR THE END-TERM EXAMS !!! SHUCKS !!!
Despite her best efforts, natures attempt to entice me into appreciating her idiosyncrasies are lost on me as I lay burrowed in my room for the best part of the last 2 days-fervently trying to cram in as much of the past 2 months as possible hoping that I hit the right co-ordinates in my ever-diminishing memory "at the right time".
Assessor Model - Customer Lifetime Value - 5Ps - 4Cs- 100Zs-Cash Flow-Income Statements-Balance Sheets-Product Cost-Financing-Investing-Operations-Betrands Model-Karnouts Model ---What was the first one again aaa yes Assessor Model - Customer Lifetime Value ........
Hmm.... let me see, it has not been all that bad after all, after some frantic last-minute co-ordinations we successfully submitted a Financial Accounting group assignment a couple of minutes ahead of schedule - Courtesy a C.A. in our group.
As is customary in ISB every "occassion" is celebrated with a ceremonious DUNKING session at the swimming pool.
In is an amazing display of sadistic fetish, all of us (5 in a grp of 6) decended on the hapless victims apartment at around 12 midnight (a few minutes after she confirmed the submission) and escoted her to the alter ... It was heartening to see ppl who would kill for a few extra minutes to read economics, volunteer to take an hour out for the fireworks .... Human nature is sure convoluted !!!
While I attempted to photograph the "event", the first attempt led to one of the dunkers falling into the water by accident ... "Shikari Khud yahaan ... Shikar ho gaya" ... With the second attempt ending in successfully hauling her over 6-7 feet into the ppol .... the hounds were baying for more blood .... Given that I was one of the "Virgins" in the group (read ... un-dunked as yet ... you can take the literal meaning too)... my group ended up managing to haul my ass into the 5 feet of water too .... (dont extrapolate on the virgin thing now) !!!
Guess this should be my last post for some time now as tomorrow is hoing to be hell and the next two days I shall be battered and hopefully in one-piece.
Reminds me of the Gladiator Scene when the dudes are standing behind the broad gates not knowing what to expect but cognizant of the deafening roar outside, only thought in mind ..... SURVIVE this one ............
"GUTS N GLORY"
But Hyderabad I believe has never seen better weather in a millennium.
The days are cloudy,evenings are welcomed by a pleasant shower just enough to tingle your senses. Dusk falls upon you like wet-velvet blanket echoing the calls of peacocks over the vast ISB campus.
AND ALL THIS WITH LESS THAN 36 HOURS TO GO FOR THE END-TERM EXAMS !!! SHUCKS !!!
Despite her best efforts, natures attempt to entice me into appreciating her idiosyncrasies are lost on me as I lay burrowed in my room for the best part of the last 2 days-fervently trying to cram in as much of the past 2 months as possible hoping that I hit the right co-ordinates in my ever-diminishing memory "at the right time".
Assessor Model - Customer Lifetime Value - 5Ps - 4Cs- 100Zs-Cash Flow-Income Statements-Balance Sheets-Product Cost-Financing-Investing-Operations-Betrands Model-Karnouts Model ---What was the first one again aaa yes Assessor Model - Customer Lifetime Value ........
Hmm.... let me see, it has not been all that bad after all, after some frantic last-minute co-ordinations we successfully submitted a Financial Accounting group assignment a couple of minutes ahead of schedule - Courtesy a C.A. in our group.
As is customary in ISB every "occassion" is celebrated with a ceremonious DUNKING session at the swimming pool.
In is an amazing display of sadistic fetish, all of us (5 in a grp of 6) decended on the hapless victims apartment at around 12 midnight (a few minutes after she confirmed the submission) and escoted her to the alter ... It was heartening to see ppl who would kill for a few extra minutes to read economics, volunteer to take an hour out for the fireworks .... Human nature is sure convoluted !!!
While I attempted to photograph the "event", the first attempt led to one of the dunkers falling into the water by accident ... "Shikari Khud yahaan ... Shikar ho gaya" ... With the second attempt ending in successfully hauling her over 6-7 feet into the ppol .... the hounds were baying for more blood .... Given that I was one of the "Virgins" in the group (read ... un-dunked as yet ... you can take the literal meaning too)... my group ended up managing to haul my ass into the 5 feet of water too .... (dont extrapolate on the virgin thing now) !!!
Guess this should be my last post for some time now as tomorrow is hoing to be hell and the next two days I shall be battered and hopefully in one-piece.
Reminds me of the Gladiator Scene when the dudes are standing behind the broad gates not knowing what to expect but cognizant of the deafening roar outside, only thought in mind ..... SURVIVE this one ............
"GUTS N GLORY"
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