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A little more ice perhaps…

Yes sirree…. Just back from X Men 2. Umm… yes decent movie, the Nightcrawler sequence in the beginning was pretty cool. The special effects were nice. The movie has a lot of things going for it, and a lot of things against it too. But then this is not Gone With The Wind Part two, and you do not expect an Oscar winning performance…. Watch it for a purely escapist experience. If you want anything truly ground breaking keep reading my blog…err.. I mean watch the LOTR trilogy or the Matrix movies. Can’t wait to watch Reloaded, though somebody told me it should be Matrix Overloaded. But who cares, if the Star Wars junkies can watch Parts One and Two and actually think its serious Sci-Fi stuff, whos blaming me for being a Matrix nut….

Went to a bookstore to check out some MBA type books, at those prices you can only afford them AFTER your MBA… So finally settled for a discount cheap edition of a book on Saatchi and Saatchi. (point to note: Discount and Cheap). Thats when a jarring image caught my eye. There was a poster of Harry Potter right next to a flier for a Saddam Hussein book. And they were each looking at each other.

Saddam:”Young boy, I dare you to find me…..”

Potter:”Recardim boom bast leviosa…..”

Saddam:”Egads, moustache is gone….”

Sahhaf:”These western dogs do not know the power of the Iraqi body hair…”

Good night….

A new friend…

My blog as been listed on the MBALeague blog. The blog has a lot of info about present and future b-school students. Do check it out. (I told you all, I am going up in life…)

I completed “Snapshots from Hell” a few days ago. If the purpose of the book was to turn you away from b school, well it has not worked on me. I can’t wait for B-school to start. For people who are not familiar with the Indian B school scene, around 100,000 people write the examination to make it to one of the top B schools. And most people regard IIM Ahmedabad the best. But honestly most of us really dont do much soul searching when we chose which B school to go to. There are a few good ones, some mediocre ones and lots of bad ones. So there isn’t that much of a choice. For most people the IIMs do the soul searching for them.

The initial excitement has died down a bit now, especially on the email group. Though there are a lot of fachcha parties happening. “Fachca” is slang for first year students. I guess it is derived from Fresh or First and “Bachcha” which means child in Hindi. Every year once the CAT examination are through and he final admission lists are out, the fachcha party is a sort of tradition.

Seniors wherever thay maybe doing their summers tend to organize parties where the first years get to interact with a few second years and more senior alumni. Extremely well managed affairs, and helps to dispell a few myths… and create a few.

Many of us fachchas are really looking forward to seeing how much we can suffer sleep deprivation. Many of us hope that all the “hard work and no sleep talk” we get from our seniors and books and blogs is just a global conspiracy to pull a fast one on us before we join.

I think I’ll go and watch XMen 2 today.

And you are….

The IIM Ahmedabad mailing group rocks. Lots of emails on laptopts, edu loans, loan rates and so forth. I guess many of us know each other a lot now. Theres this chatroom that has somebody there always. Theres a lot of chitchat about gaming and trekking and sports too.

But there is a real sense of apprehension too. People have overcome the euphoria of getting admits. For some time it was downright gloomy with talk only about sleeplessness and assignment pressures. The seniors in the group have a done good job of putting things in perspective though. But I am still pretty sure that none of us are even remotely ready for whats going to happen.

My travel plans are through. Will land up at Ahmedabad railway station at 6:30 the morning of June the 25th. I hope I can meet up with some fellow fachchas there and get a ride to the Insti.

Bigger batch this time, a lot bigger. More the merrier I guess, but with relative grading who knows… but 279 is an all time high….

Dad tried teaching me accounting, double entry bookkeeping. I thought material science was vague…. not anymore… Economics is interesting though…. I think I am getting to like it… but I guess IIMA is not about what you learn, but HOW you learn it….

And what if I dont want to be a hero….?

Read this anybody? BBC news has an interesting story on the Jessica Lynch episode. I dont like great fables being proven otherwise but this one real hit my all top high for things going yuck all of a sudden.

Had a terrible few days with the dentist. I had a whole collection of last molars which went bad. He did more cutting and mining in my mouth than those ancient egyptian guys making one of those ultra confusing tombs. At one stage he actually stuffed a grinder into my mouth and a ground a filling down. Theres still some work left to do… I have hajaar medicated bits of bad cement swising around my mouth as I er.. type…

Went for a buffet at a place here, lots of arabic food and some Indian and Chinese things thrown in for the masses… They had an arabic dessert called Ummali which though it tasted like soggy corn flakes in milk, really caught my fancy. I basically hogged on lots of vegetables and that heavenly mediterannean dish called Humus. Excellent stuff, click on it to get a recipe. Pretty healthy too. Atleast I hope it is.

Got a bit of fanmail for the blog over the last few days. Guys do me a favour and spread the news will you, I just hope that publisher out there is looking for me…..

Be with the force all.

Flash News!!

Dear people:

I have quit my present employment with IPFonline and wll be soon joining IIM Ahmedabad for my higher studies in management. For those who did not now…. well now you know. I am available to give hajaar fundas on writing cat and things. So feel free to pester me. I plan to add a section to my website with tips for people who intend to give CAT. So all inputs and requirements are welcome. This blog has been dead for a long time. Lets hope I can get it back to normal service asap…

Sidin.