Month: August 2005

i’ve always wanted to do this… attend classes religiously for the first 75% of the term and then bunk the last 25% and chill… no attendance issues, last 1/4 of term holidays… wanting to do this for the last 5.5 years… never happened… either bunked too much in the beginning or hadn’t had the heard to bunk in the end…

finally happened… religiously attended almost every class for the first 9 weeks of the 11 week term… and then have been on a bunking spree… and it’s immensely helpful if you have so many assignment deadlines….

today happened to be #3’s birthday. i had “put blade” on her between early 99 and mid 2000 (“live”) and for a year after that by email. Even after it was “all over” (now i think it never began), it rankled for another 2.5 years.

now, when I look back at “incidents” such as these, i feel like laughing. “How naive i must have been then to do this and do that” and stuff… on another train of thought, i feel it was a wholly unnecessary ordeal which simply troubled me too much… on yet another train of thought, i feel it was a good learning experience.

LEARNING!!! what have i learnt? some things, but not all. I still continue to do the same mistakes. At that point of time (towards the end of “blading career no. 3”), a grave mistake i made was to assume that any message i wrote would be read by the intended recipient only. decided i’d always double check before sending any message/mail.

however i don’t seem to have learnt from this mistake. still keep writing arbitly “fearlessly” assuming only the intended recipient reads the stuff… “how naive i am even now to do this and do that”!!!

Have gotten addicted to the game of late. Playing it whenver i get 20 mins free. And i still suck at it. And it’s bloody spoiling my assignments and stuff.

Today was another supply chain submission which meant yesterday was another memento-us night. a report i would normally finish in half an hour took 2 hours as my typing speed dipped. characters on screen started looking like marching soldiers. I could think only of AoE. was givvup.

And i actually had reached a “pinnacle” when i beat a moderate comp yesterday.

anyways, i’m uninstalling AoE from my comp now. at least for the next ten days…

the new york office of Lehman Brothers came out with its PPOs (final job offers) today. we had expected both the people who went there from IIMB – call them ‘mother’ and ‘father’ to get the job. mother got, as expected. however, in what has been a rude shock to most of us, father didn’t. i mean, fatherjane is one of the biggest fighters on campus. he was known as “night-out god” in IITM. and he hasn’t been made an offer.

and no cribs about motherjane getting the offer. everyone expected her to. no doubt about that.

these i-banks are really arbit, i must reiterate.

i’m really happy i didn’t accept my offer!

Aadisht wrote a post yesterday responding to an Op-Ed in the hindu by a JNU prof.

amazing analysis by swaadisht khaana. way to go!

And every other blogger worth his salt has linked to this article, so i thought being his classmate i too should do the same.

came for a lecture at IIMB today. amazing lecture. unmindful (or unknowing) of the presence of “sonia’s new whizkid” Rajeev Gowda in the first row, he went on in the same tone as his books (I’ve read about half of “Eminent Historians” – amazing) as he proceeded to explain the evolution of the Indian Economy through the ages. Brilliant speech, laced with anecdotes and forever playing to the gallery.

i was the first question to put CP (class participation for the uninitiated) and it proved a good move as Dr. Shourie answered every question in great detail and due to time constraints couldn’t take too many more. gave a decent answer to my question, so i was happy…

however, the best part of the evening came after the vote of thanks as Dr. Shourie quoted an urdu rubaiyat (a four-line poem) or somethign which roughly translated to “I don’t know whether you’re actually complimenting me or if you always speak that way!”

amazing. hope there are a few more lectures such as these. remind me of those good old extramural lectures (EMLs) at IITM, especially Subramaniam Swamy and Jairam Ramesh.

“What stand you take on a political issue depends on where you sit” – Jairam Ramesh, responding to my question as to why the congress was opposing Mr. Vajpayee’s government’s reforms while it was the congress itself which started them.

attended L^2 after a gap of 5.5 months… stayed for an hour… was nice… amazing experience if you haven’t been there for a long time. today was one of those L^2s where booze was free… junAta were drunk… was too hilarious watching it… as for me, i’ve promised my mom i won’t drink and don’t need any ethanol to get high – the disco lights are enough . still the temptation of free booze was there. took some. took a sip. then remembered mom. gave it away to a friend who was already drunk. and enjoyed the party for the next hour…

interesting L^2 on the whole… a pro DJ… but still played woresht TDC music… though he did play quite a few really fundoo hindi songs… a few outsiders… lots of PDA (disgusting )… somebody claiming he just got ditched… another hugging junta and giving gyaan… lots of locusts (first year students – they swarm just about any place)… me just sticking to some brownian motion…

as part of ecstasy, IIMB’s mini performing arts fest, we are having an L^2 (party) tonite. and as an added attraction today, we have an external DJ (some arbit name).

due to some stupid regulation here in b’lore, all discs close at 11:30 and hence DJs are kinda out of work. so the party like ours should be a blessing for them – some money when they’d’ve made none elsewhere. and on a sunday night when they wouldn’t find ANY work. and our party started at 11:30 pm.

all in all, it’s a good idea by the cultural committee to get external DJs. probably until the regulation is lifted, this practice can be followed for all parties!! professional DJs rather than some of our own guys (all HTs and TDCs) who play only stupid punjabi songs…

yesterday and today, IIMB hosted a mini performing arts fest. invitation based only for a few arts and science colleges in bangalore(notable non-invitee was MES college, which usually wins Saarang Choreo – probably our TDC culcom decided MES is too KT to be called).

it’s obvious that given our deadlines, etc. we can’t practice as much as these arts and science colleges and hence there’s little chance we can win. in the circumstance, our performers did a wonderful job by simply playing to the gallery…

nice insight… if you know you can’t win, at least play to the gallery!

ps: there was a “cheering competition” because of which there was quite a bit of noise from the crowd. in fact, i never knew that our own IIMB junta can emulate the Padayappas of Pachaiyappa who throng the backbenches at CLT during saarang… and arbitly hoot…