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so its been the introduction of only 2 courses so far into the term. the first is competitive strategy…which sounds awesome…and also is to a large extent. however…reading a full fledged case every other day is worse than getting married everyday…! global economics on the other side is so boring that i bet i saw the prof sleep during the class today. mr prof will move at his own snail pace…then realize that he was a leopard back in the US…then again come down to snail…snore for 5 minutes…give a break for 20 mins…show a movie of 12 mins on self-cleaning toilets…and then snore through the remaining class….! awesome shit..!

got the score for the stats exam. did decently well…could have been better…had it not been for the fact that 0.02 seems higher to me than 0.05 in answering one of the questions. and if that wasnt enough…i commited the same…mind you..the same…thats like…the same…mistake in yet another question…!

life otherwise has been kind of…i dont know what to say…dry wont be the right word..maybe i could use…duller…than term 1. probably its got to do with the fact that most students havent done as well as aniticapted..in the finals. and everyone has got done to some serious working…atleast for the first few weeks during which the motivation is high…

oh hooo…big big news. guess who writes a mail to eight_humesa today. Mr. ‘ohhh i can charm any god damn girl on this earth’…! and much to his reputation he creates a poll…”which is the strangest place you have kissed…”…to which i would have answered ‘in front of my CEO’s office 5 minutes before i was to meet him..”…till i found the options to be ‘lips; ears; back of the knees..(!!!!)…etc etc”…! okkkkkkk….whatever……


G’s elections happened today. she has a fair chance to win…more so after the ‘churning’ guy gave the best performance in a drama series…at the soap box. the other dude was too stoned to even recall the post he was standing for…

life’s good…

~a

• got up at 7.00 for the 8.30 class…realizing that it was 5.00…!
• got up at 7.00 for the 8.30 class
• had plans of sleeping thru the class
• was the next guy to be cold called…and the class ended…!
• eco ‘viewing’ got postponed
• had plans of sleeping back home
• took care of N…
• had plans of eating lunch…was hungry like anything
• made soup for N…got late for lunch
• discovered what zero food in a day does to one’s body
• got the eco grades…i think i died…
• my next life…slept for 2 hours
• went to check on N
• studied…wondered about the grades…studied…wondered…
• called R…was missing her…i think i cried…
• slept
• studied….wondered…
• dreamt about the future…
• dejected…
• dreamt about the future
• smiled
• laughed
• studied…didnt wonder anymore…
• slept…

good day….good times

~a

DELHI ROCKSSS…!!! i am not listening to any shit against this…nor do i want to contest this ‘fact’ anymore….there is no…nothing…anything…whatever…city better than delhi. and the reasons are below…:

1. i get to drive at 80 kmph…at 7 in the evening….
2. i get to drive at 100 kmph at 7.30 in the evening
3. big chill has 2 branches now…!!!
4. the 2nd one is supposedly better….and i havent even felt the need to go there…
5. i eat 2 kgs of cheese…chole bhature on call…tikkis and papdi chats off the road…and gain only 0.019 kgs (and YES…THATS GOTTA DO SOMETHING WITH THE CITY..I DONT KNOW WHAT…BUT YESS…)

so…term 1 ended tuesday….i went out to party (finally…to the dismay of the one who accompanied me…but what the heck…)…had a great time…and then it was 6…in the morning…and we had a flight to catch.

no one knew that i was coming…no one…(in delhi)…and it was meant to be this awesome surprise. and i did manage to pull it off well. rushed to R’s office and made sure she was there…which happened through the following conversation:

Me: i am out in the city…trying to buy bean bags…how much would one cost in delhi…
R: (ummm..i wont know because I AM NOT A BLOODY BEAN BAG WHOLESALER…STOP ASKING ME THIS QUESTION…FOR THE UMPTEENTH TIME…PLEASEEEEEEEE) i dont know honey…i have told u this before
Me: ohh…too bad…what r u doing by the way…
R: (PEELING ONIONSSS…!!!!) working…have a meeting in an hr
Me: which means u r back at office…?
R: Nooo…i generally sun tan myself when i am not out for meeting…i am in a bikini right now…wanna see..?
Me: Yes yes…coming….

I have a feeling that the ‘coming’ thing gave it off…because as soon as i reached her reception and asked for her…she came out expecting to see me…just the way i was…(however…she had stuff to say about my hair…we wont talk about that right now..!)

so..it was hugging time…and it was office…so it wasnt kissing time…! we went out for lunch afterwards…had an awesome time…before she dropped me at my ex-office. i managed to suprise A there….and also hear “ohh..u r looking good…!” more number of times than i ever would in my remaining life…

it was ‘surprise mommy’ time…which happened the best. she was so not expecting me…infact no one back home was. so it was awesome making them do the rounds of the surprise merry-go-around

the next 4 days were absolute bliss. i cant even start to tell you how much i am missing R…its not even funny…

term 2 started today. we had competitive strategy this morning…which was quite a good lecture. the term seems to be more interesting (and hence more demanding…) than term 1. which reminds me that we have the viewing of economics answer scripts this afternoon..!! may we rest in peace…

another term…another experience….bring it on…!

~a

so..the fall started at 2.30…and from then on the next 2 hours were the best i have experienced so far in the concept called ‘free fall’…

the eco exam held us by our hair and then went out swinging us like a pendulum…(not to mention the fact that we have bald guys in our batch as well…). it was that bad…but i guess expected. AB surely wont let us down. and i guess it was meant to happen…its raining like crazy here…and i can so see AB on a rocking chair…overlooking the landscape…(rain drops splashing his face)…with that evil laughter..(and thunder…!)…going..”CHEAT SHEET….HUHHHH?????…HAH HAH…!”

accounting wasnt as bad…though not that great either. i guess i managed to get something delivered of substance.

apart frm tht…finally got to talk to R after a gigillion days…it was awesome…she had a great time at the jungle…doing the jhingalala dance..(without the leaves skirt hopefully..)

people coming over for marketing in a few minutes…gotta go…will update on tomorrow’s performance…!

~a

the setting was almost there…and the class was almost replicating the original numbers. however..instead of an astronomy lab…the subject in question was stats…(not to mention…the students were all intelligent…!)

so last night was amazing fun. 7 colleagues and me…and stats. went through the entire bit right from the mid term (till about the last class…) and it was as if everything came back from MSU (and hindu to a certain extent). at times…(and i guess the first time i make this public)…i do regret not having completed my phd. more than the research…it would have given me an opportunity to teach…! the feeling is unmatched…its as if i am a totally new ‘me’ when i converse with a ‘class’…as if i see the real me…!

anyways…i am just glad that it helped everyone who was there. and i do agree…on a ‘not-so-altruistic’ sense…it made me brush up my concepts and finetune them to a good extent. thanks people…

preparation for the finals is coming along decently. though i havent been able to get much accounts done…i will have to give it time the entire day tom. eco is still playing mind games…so there isnt much time before i halucinating and dreaming of a better world than today…!

cant wait for wednesday to come…

~a

so…its dead week time…just a week for the finals to end…(which also means that had i been at msu right now..shaving would have stopped…as part of a ritual…). loads of stuff to cover…however the going isnt that bad as of now. got the score for the stats mid term…could have done better…but what the heck…!

life otherwise has been smooth. my room after 9 replicates the ambiance of a tuition center…with atleast 2 (it hit 6 last night…!) people…(or as R puts it…mostly girls…!) trying to figure out the nuances of MC, MR and similar BS…!

great news…in the last 3 days N has had just 1 smoke. which gave me such a kickass thrill that i treated everyone to an ice-cream. its awesome to see someone take an initiative to get rid of all the cheapass ‘qualities’ they have housed within themselves for years. i wish i could do that…but i am glad that atleast someone i know could…and hopefully will continue to do so…

missing u R…love u more than i can ever express in words…

~a

so…(DAMMIT..!) it turns out that R did have a crush on S…(i knew it..i knew it all this while..!)…sahi hai sahi hai…

it turned out to be one of those…’i never told you this ever..” conversations this evening. and mann..wasnt it interesting. i stick to my stand that whosoever hides something from someone does so on basis of guilt. the guilt could be either of commiting the act (not being shared) or simply of not being to share it with the concerned individual (what the heck did i just say…????).

anyways…so it turns out that the next time we meet…which will be ‘very soon’ as the adage goes…it will be secret time..! she will share some of the stuff that i (or maybe no one ever) know…and the same will fire from my side. oh holy shit…i cant wait to meet her now. incentive enough to drive me down to delhi..even for one nanosecond..

eco assignment is screwing our happiness as always. i can see AB laughing his way back to his home…(dont honor the honor code…bloody b*******…!! see what hits you now..!). though i do have to admit that the 1st question was a killer…it made me think for some 2.5 hrs and every second of it was totally worth it. N and i had a rather fruitful dialogue…(he is infront of me right now)…which gave me great food for thought. though i still stand to my version of the solution…

anyways…apart from that…life’s great. got quite a bit of eco done over this weekend…have to get some acco done over this weekend…dont have a clue what comprises marketing though. lets see…loads of stuff to be handled this week.

and and and…when was the last time my inbox saw 45 mails in 45 minutes….!!!….ummmmmm….this morning..! all due to some smart a** who sends across last evening’s ‘hidden’ party snaps to the entire batch. and woh ho ho…mannn…that upset some people mighty hard…i mean…mighty damn rock hard.

last week of the first term…looking foward to it…take care…

~a

i lost the elections…which is all good cause i know the opposite side is good…and capable. however…there are some people who disagree…so much so that they go about blasting the entire indian politics scenario…! a mail this morning is bound to make vajpayee weak in his knees (pun intended..!) and laloo commit suicide from the ground floor of his mansion.

it definitely brought N to react…in a rather bitter way…and it wasnt complimented with a sweet symphony. it was just plain brutal and honest…which i would appreciate…

anyways…life is normal. people are getting worked up as the finals are approaching. how will we handle economics…how will be handle accounting…how will be handle the remaining 10 odd months…! not to mention the number of photocopies of ‘multiple regression models’ that are floating around…! amazing…

only a week to go before the term ends. life was fun this term. made great friends…had an awesome time attending classes…interacting with the profs…getting to read them beyond the obvious…hope the finals can justify my existence here…

rest all good…by the time R reads this she would have already had a conversation with K. holy shit…its shocking…S is out of the picture and in comes a 19 yr old babe from hyderabad. he is coming down to stay with me..cause his family is meeting up with the girl’s family. interestin bit. after some 67586289 relationships..he settled for an arranged one….! impressive

S lost her grandmom yesterday. thankfully i was there when she heard about it. she was in a bad state…however she is doing better today. god bless…

rest all good…india still rocks…including politics…

all the best to all the VPs…excited to see you guys deliver your best…

~a

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the day went well…nothing grand. N’s B-I-L had come over. and he happens to be a celebrity. it was fun haging out with him over lunch…although i have a feeling that he wasnt very confortable with us. he seemed pre-occupied. anyways…

lunch was also with this staff write from Forbes. she is on a trip to india…learning about non-IT startups in India. so she wanted to have an informal chat with some students connected/planning to connect with the entrepreneur world.

apart frm this…had an interesting conversation with R. wont delve too much into it…all that remains is the fact that i have so totally fallen in love with her all over again. she is simply amazing.

2.35am…time to hit bed. I see N,G,N and A outside…chillin out…

~a