Forced hiatus!

So here I am blogging after five long months!! Always felt like writing about college buzz but never got the time! Life in a B-School is pretty demanding to say the least. With so many lectures, tests, assignments, presentations you hardly get time for yourself. Result? Well, we practise disaster management almost everyday! With 14 subjects and their corresponding tests, assignments et al what do you expect?! To top it all, there's no such thing as a weekend which really gets on your nerves...but 4 months into the MBA journey, I'm not entirely uncomfortable with the idea of attending classes on Sundays..it sucks though!!

Speaking of our schedules, well they are more like those amusement park rides you can think of! Pure adrenaline rush!! Imagine waking up at 6:ooam for a yoga/gym/aerobics session? Totally *dislike*! But there's hardly anything you can do if it's more of a Hobson's choice! Then you got those never-ending lectures....however; it doesn't look that bad now that the first semester is drawing to a close :) It's amazing how everything looks good in retrospect!! On that note, I must say goodbye....got a presentation to work on....damn these ppts just don't leave me alone!! I'll be back soon! :)

The Mumbai Affair!

I wanted to write Thane instead of Mumbai but that wouldn't have made for a good title (Mumbai is a brand na) plus don't you think Thane and Mumbai are pretty similar (well maybe not!!). Anyway, so after my training programme in Bhubaneshwar, I came to Thane and boy! What a roller coaster ride this has been! This blog post is dedicated to Thane and all the wonderful people that I got acquainted with while in Thane!

It was Bhubaneshwar which gave me a chance to know Rohini & Shikha better......never really thought at that point of time that they would end up being my best friends! :) Moving on to the Mumbai experience, we rented an apartment close to office. Let me tell you the whole apartment hunt was not entirely easy...dealing with brokers, landlords etc. But every little experience teaches you something so it's best to take it all in your stride isn't it?! Staying away from home and being on your own was by all means, a challenge but it came with a silver lining (=getting to visit Pune on weekends!). The frequent Pune trips mad life easy and as time passed by, Thane became fun too with Rohini and Shikha around. We did have some unpleasant experiences thanks to the locality where we stayed but constant blogging brought back the lost energy in me :) I admit that all these annoying incidents irritated me like crazy but Rohini on the other hand, used to be really cool about it! Don't know how she does that! Oh by the way, I have been taking a cue from that and things are different now! What I truly admire about Rohini is her carefree attitude and this whole prinicple of staying happy no matter what! For someone like me who kept worrying all the time, having someone like her made a lot of difference :) Later on, she got a transfer to TCS Pune owing to her marriage and that left Shikha and me here.

Now there were a few changes that took place. a) We changed our apartment which was much closer to office (Ashar Residency...it rocks!) b) I got my bro's Activa to Thane which meant a lot of cool rides in the city :) New apartment came with new roomies (except Shikha) and all those FB posts are a testimony to the fact that I have had a tough time putting up with my roomies so no additional description needed I believe :D On the work front, things were fairly decent....I got a great team to work with...everyone used to get super-excited on discovering that somebody had a reason to treat the entire team! So we went to a lot of places for team lunches and trust me, every single lunch has been a laugh-till-you-cry affair :D Then IPL happened....yes we witnessed MI vs DC at the DY Patil Stadium when IPL made its first appearance back in 2008! And Team Moto was there cheering all the way! :) That was sheer fun!! It didn't stop at that...we took a trip to Lonavala, then Murud Janjira after a few months....Kelva Beach later on! We partied on New Year's eve...ushering in 2009 and having a blast! :) Oh it's been soooooo much fun all this while :) Now that I'm moving to a different phase of life, in retrospect, everything looks absolutely brilliant! I'm glad I got to stay here in Thane to let all this happen to me!! :)

Before I end this blog post, I want to mention some of the names associated with my Mumbai experience; these are the people who I would say, taught me a thing or two....
Rohini, Shikha, Sumit, Sneha, KJ, Mona, Vivek, Shrishail, Suraj, Anurag, Ashutosh, Shivendra, Bhushan, Bijayita, Kiran, Amit, Mohit, Rajat, Asma, Sunil (thanks to you I converted my MBA call!!) and Pragya, Deepkaran, Anirudh, Rahul, Sarvesh - you guys have been excellent colleagues (friends too) to work with!!

All you guys ROCK!! Will miss you!

Welcome 2010!

Well I'm more than a month late in welcoming 2010 but unfortunately other things kept me busy. Now if you ask me to define "other things", I don't think I would have an answer to that...hence let's just leave it at that! Considering this is my first post of 2010, I don't want to begin on a gloomy note...so let me recollect all good things that happened in Jan....recalling...recalling....recalling...."No results found"! Awesome! See what I mean....I don't know when this not-so-good phase is going to end...

There are days when I feel as though everything's perfect and then there are days when each and every thing appears totally messed up (actually effed up)! Suddenly, things stop making sense and I feel so lost wondering what to do (??????)...surrounded by hundreds of question marks....I wish I could kill these! Do you sometimes get this really bizarre feeling where you think "Oh God, why...why is suddenly everything meaningless?" It's a wave that hits me sometimes and then all I can do is wait for it to retreat! I guess these are all symptoms of life not unfolding as per your plan...bingo! Perhaps it's time I revised my plan! Ah! That's something I never thought of....you don't have to stick with the draft version after all! Right so while I figure out my revised plan, you...I dunno...do whatever you want!! :D

Hope to blog back soon! :)