Domain Maximus

Main entrance to IIM Ahmedabad

Bouncing….

Was off to my cousins for the weekend. They live in Sharjah, and I took along my digicam, merrily snapping away anything I found interesting. After taking over 120 pictures, the camera crashed and I lost all the images….. felt horrid for a whole day… And I was relay looking forward to putting up a few pics here…. sulk sulk…

Finding institutional scapegoats is a quintessentially Indian weakness. If you forget that birthday, blame the Postal service for losing the card you never sent; if you’re late for a meeting, blame the railway system; if you forget to make a phone call, say your phonelines were dead instead. These evasive tactics have saved many a relationship for the last many years, but now things have gone out of hand if you ask me. I over heard someone blame a faulty email server and a under-charged cell phone for all his woes in life.

“My mailbox was empty…. no no nothing in it, I checked ten minutes ago….. how did I know you were going to mail….. YOU SMSSED TOO !!!!!????? NO…!!!… NOTHING….!!!!! Oh hell the inbox was full….. I FORGOT TO CLEAR IT !!!!…. I cant read your mind you know…..” Sounds lame doesn’t it.

Saw an ad for KFC icecream yesterday, the caption said “The Fun of Excitement”. What the hell does that mean? Its fun to be excited?, or can you be excited but be really sad about it? Or have a lot of fun and be extremely bored? (You could do that I suppose, if your Australia and playing cricket….) Inspired by the depth in that line I made a few of my own, “The Unpleasantness of Syphilis”, “The Market-Share of Microsoft”…..or what about “The Indigestion of Nausea”…..

I bought a beanless bean bag yesterday. Well its an inflatable bean bag. A very big inflatable bean bag. After fiddling with a bicycle pump for an hour trying to get it to fit into the valve properly, took me a two hours to get the stupid thing even a quarter filled. With the air you need to fill it you could ventilate all of a smallish country, something like Monaco, or Iceland in winter or something. Its made in China, but I doubt even if they have enough air to buy too many of them. The thing is a domestic Goodyear blimp….

On to more academic things, a second year mentioned that it was a good idea to go for the prep course even if you werent invited for it. He mentioned that it was about the only time you had fun till second year.

Voila!!!!



My pudding was a success…!!!!

Where are those ethics and molars…

Spent the whole day indoors today.Toothache. More of a niggling irritation than pain outright. So spent a lot of time browsing for stuff. Came across this interesting link on the BBC site. I have always wondered what inspires people to run naked in front of thousands of people. Streaking is weird. I just dont get it. I can’t even stand seeing me myself….

Saw an old Jackie Chan movie yesterday called City Hunter. It was so bad you could sense most of the actors were plain embarassed while acting.

The preparatory course guys are making final arrangements I guess. Most non-engineers have been called for the course. Somebody said the prep course gives participants a false sense of security. The pace is slower during the prep course, and have no correlation at all to the stuff that happens once normal classes start. All this is hearsay though. There are just too few sources to check up on life at IIMA. The only website I went to, the guy stopped writing after his first article. No bloggers I know of either. Is it the work, the pressure or laziness? I would hate to give up writing though. Hope IIMA lets me carry on.

I eagerly await Adam Medros’ review of his first year at Harvard. IIMA follows the Case Study method too.

Still working on the train tickets and travel plans. Ahmedabad is going to be the northernmost place I have been in India. Which is not saying much. It is bang in the middle of the country geographically….. Never ever been in a place where the temperature fell below fifteen degrees centigrade. I dont think that chalet in the french alps will work out….

p.s. Made some Custard pudding a few minutes ago. Left to set in the fridge. Fingers crossed. Last time I tried gelatine it came out like fake blood in alien b movies…..

Chicken soup for the sleep deprived

Was wondering if there is any book on “How to have fun, get a consulting job and decent sleep in B school”. It would make a killing at IIMA from what I hear. Carrying forward the topic of weird books, saw one today on making perfumed candles at home…. It costs twice as much as a book on the future of the Indian Economy.

I have this thing for salads nowadays. Ran through the entire Subway slaad menu in a months time. Their Tuna salad is pretty cool. Coleslaw is still number one though. But just.

Summer internship is suddenly on everybody’s mind. With greater student strength, people anticipate a messy summers recruitment session. Hope I can get through without getting too involved in the rat race. But hey, why I am I talking like a sissy suddenly…

Could it be because 299 other people are thinking exactly the same thing ???

Good Night.