weekend was kinda unusual… didn’t go out of london… most people seem to have lost the enthu now…
saturday was anusmaran… here in london, we had three times as many alumni as interns… some takeaways… in 1996-97 100 people registered for int-fin. this year the course wasn’t floated due to lack of students… people used to stay 2 to a room in the first year… thank goodness we weren’t subjected to such horrors… then there was this funda of water parties where there would be music and all people would do was to throw buckets of water on each other…
then, most people who attended had switched jobs at least once, sometimes into a totally different sector and totally different job profile. actually provides hope for me just in case i make a wrong choice on that set of fateful days next march when i have to choose a career and get a good job in my chosen path…
one thing i noticed was that even though the event was scheduled to start at 12, i was among the first to arrive at 12:30. most people trickled in by two… a few started guzzling the cobra and kingfisher which were on sale at the venue for ?5 per pint… and one guy from the batch of ’04 was already sloshed when he walked in…
event ended as people dropped in their contributions towards the lunch (?16.50 per head, no subsidy for interns) and collecting (albeit broken) momentos (made, incidentally, by olympic sports, bangalore and which arrived in london only on the night before the meet).
nothing else interesting happened in London over the weekend… no masala whatsoever for Twisted Shout… went to woodlands yesterday evening and ordered a ‘mysore masala dosa’. maaajor letdown… they make better dosas than this in delhi!
and gandhi and i had this discussion yesterday as to how upon return to india we might end up overspending as we would convert all expenses back to pounds!!
more later… have to attend some arbit meeting now… and of course , i’m as vela as ever in office…