happy diwali

ive hurt my finger while closing the door, so please excuse typos... Its been extremely busy the past few days that i have literally slept 2 hours each day... finally when i got the diwali off, i slept like a log... now im happy to be back doing something different...

its been a great diwali day today... good sleep to start with :) then some good food by sarovar for lunch... 4 games of volleyball, a small project meeting, pooja in the campus at 7, a special crackers show for ISB, then great food again for dinner (did not even count how many! just hogged) and then a great choreo by some of the girls, followed by a dance revelry until midnight... the campus is still awake as I write this at 4 int he morning... some of the groups are boozing, some are partying with music, some are playing cards and chatting... its been an unforgettable evening... lotsa snaps that I will upload... next door, at the gachibowli stadium, the afro asian games started with a wonderful opening ceremony... some unbelievaly good color in an opening ceremony in india... i thought the event was fantabolous... the laser show meant that the sky over gachiblowli was glowing with the laser beams reflecting off the clouds... u wud have been excused if u thought it was a cloudy day rather than an amazingly lit night... the sky was glowing... appropriate for diwali... all in all, good compensation for a hectic punishing week...

All the hockey teams pacticipating in the afro asian games, including india, pakistan and South africa are staying in the faculty housing complex... we had the ghanian hockey team visit us for the diwali celebrations and they had a gala time... it was nice to see them dance and have fun with us, though it seemed they could not speak in english... the indian team has been difficult to spot, spending early mornings in the gym and then disappearing altogether afterwards...

ELP fever is reaching a high with many teams beginning to do some primary research, expert interviews, focus groups etc... Karan, from my team is in delhi interviewing people... and almost all the course this term have tonnes of readings and amazing amount of project work to do... Nonny Chawla for marketing services, Arvind Sahay from LBS for Marketing high tech products, Naresh Malhotra for Market research, Krishnan Anand for Business Models and Internet and Anand Swaminathan for Managing organizational change have all indicated their expectations from us, including the projects... thats had us all worrying... its been too tough for people who have chosen to do 5 electives... i am on of them and I am desperately seeking the end of this term!!! its been tough work...

interview prep has also started among students... we have been given some indicators about interviews by companies last year and every one is preparing from them... placements fever is picking up slowly.. the shortlist from MS came through and I did not make it... big disappointment... have to check my resume to see if I am not really projecting myself properly...