Sunday
Moods@ISB happened today. Some amazing photographs and paintings. I hope they put the photographs and paintings up on the website. The SFA is doing some great work in the campus. More about it later, because I am in a hurry. I have a short 1/2 test tomorrw for which I am going to start studying now at 2 in the morning! Spent the whole day today trying to design a logo for an upcoming event at ISB. The event is a surprise... Not going to let it out now... Sent my entry to the logo designing contest. Now time to hit the books...
Saturday, August 09, 2003
Back online!
After 4 days of grueling mid terms, tomorrow is a Sunday and I have very little reading to do... That feels so good! Besides, I had tasty dinner today, thanks to Utkarsh Palnitkar and family. Utkarsh is a partner at E&Y. His is part of the Aikya initiative @ ISB.
Aikya, the brainchild of the dean Vijay Mahajan, and implemented very nicely by one of our alums, Niraj Gelli, involves some well known families in Hyderabad. Dean Vijay believes that the Hyderabad community has given a lot to ISB and wants the students to interact with families here to develop a network with this community that we can carry with us forever. Students have been divided into groups and each group has a host family which adopts us. I can tell you that we have been enjoying this experience. My friends have had dinner with the Reddys of DRL fame, enjoyed 5 star luxury whenever they wanted to thanks to their host family being stakeholders in the Taj hotels in Hyd, got free passes to the new IMAX theatre in hyd (Have to visit this one soon!) and what not!
We visited Utkarsh for the first time today. We met his wife and his kids, cute little twins, very sweet and pleasantly well behaved, compared to the uncontrollable brat that I was when I was their age ;)
Karthik, one of the groupmates, was with the tax practice in E&Y before coming to ISB. His wife Divya was also with Anderson before graduating with the founding batch at ISB. They had a lot to talk about E&Y, Anderson, the merger etc. Aneesha, another one of our groupmates lives in Bombay and Utkarsh, who is from Bombay slipped into his memories of Mumbai and his college days. We talked about everything from E&Y and its biotech practice to vada pav and bhel in mumbai to the E&Y entrepreneur award to cricket. Besides, Utkarsh's wife spread out a very nice and tasty meal for us. The gluttons inside us woke up to the opportunity and the monotonous feeling about food we had built up thanks to Sarovar's consistency was murdered mercilessly... at least for the moment. It was a very nice evening, thanks to the wonderful hospitality. Even before we could realize, we spent nearly 4 hours of the evening. We were beginning to feel so comfortable that I noticed Karthik relaxing and putting his feet up ;) We decided to plan a picnic sometime soon.
Just as I finish this, the global economics course TA has sent out the solutions for the mid term exam. Think I got all of them right. Global economics has been a very interesting course and Prof Ravi Bansal from Duke has been simply amazing. I have no words to describe how much I have enjoyed his classes and his authority over macroeconomics. Im afraid this is going to sound like a sales pitch for ISB here, but sincerely, this course has been more than my money's worth.
After 4 days of grueling mid terms, tomorrow is a Sunday and I have very little reading to do... That feels so good! Besides, I had tasty dinner today, thanks to Utkarsh Palnitkar and family. Utkarsh is a partner at E&Y. His is part of the Aikya initiative @ ISB.
Aikya, the brainchild of the dean Vijay Mahajan, and implemented very nicely by one of our alums, Niraj Gelli, involves some well known families in Hyderabad. Dean Vijay believes that the Hyderabad community has given a lot to ISB and wants the students to interact with families here to develop a network with this community that we can carry with us forever. Students have been divided into groups and each group has a host family which adopts us. I can tell you that we have been enjoying this experience. My friends have had dinner with the Reddys of DRL fame, enjoyed 5 star luxury whenever they wanted to thanks to their host family being stakeholders in the Taj hotels in Hyd, got free passes to the new IMAX theatre in hyd (Have to visit this one soon!) and what not!
We visited Utkarsh for the first time today. We met his wife and his kids, cute little twins, very sweet and pleasantly well behaved, compared to the uncontrollable brat that I was when I was their age ;)
Karthik, one of the groupmates, was with the tax practice in E&Y before coming to ISB. His wife Divya was also with Anderson before graduating with the founding batch at ISB. They had a lot to talk about E&Y, Anderson, the merger etc. Aneesha, another one of our groupmates lives in Bombay and Utkarsh, who is from Bombay slipped into his memories of Mumbai and his college days. We talked about everything from E&Y and its biotech practice to vada pav and bhel in mumbai to the E&Y entrepreneur award to cricket. Besides, Utkarsh's wife spread out a very nice and tasty meal for us. The gluttons inside us woke up to the opportunity and the monotonous feeling about food we had built up thanks to Sarovar's consistency was murdered mercilessly... at least for the moment. It was a very nice evening, thanks to the wonderful hospitality. Even before we could realize, we spent nearly 4 hours of the evening. We were beginning to feel so comfortable that I noticed Karthik relaxing and putting his feet up ;) We decided to plan a picnic sometime soon.
Just as I finish this, the global economics course TA has sent out the solutions for the mid term exam. Think I got all of them right. Global economics has been a very interesting course and Prof Ravi Bansal from Duke has been simply amazing. I have no words to describe how much I have enjoyed his classes and his authority over macroeconomics. Im afraid this is going to sound like a sales pitch for ISB here, but sincerely, this course has been more than my money's worth.
Tuesday, August 05, 2003
mid term blues
When I opened my eyes at 7:20 in the evening today, I realised that I had been bold enough to sleep for a full 4 hours on the trot in the afternoon... given that I was alone in the apartment, my cursing skills were in full flow... all that football behind me, i rushed out for early dinner and here I am back in the LRC, slogging it out with operations management... Its been only a week and a half into the term and yet, it feels like finals are here... i am back on the run... all this thanks to a mid term exam in a 4 week term! Hardly have I had any time to assimilate 2 weeks of classes and I am here facing exams... people here have been upset at the way this term has been scheduled and have been questioning the raionale behind mid terms, that too closed book, in a 4 week term... thankfully the schedule and the content is pretty relaxed after this week... this term's scheduling has not been the best... the only positive is that lot of feedback has gone in... isb is still learning but 3 years of experience means that atleast in such issues, it can only get better...
back to the books...
When I opened my eyes at 7:20 in the evening today, I realised that I had been bold enough to sleep for a full 4 hours on the trot in the afternoon... given that I was alone in the apartment, my cursing skills were in full flow... all that football behind me, i rushed out for early dinner and here I am back in the LRC, slogging it out with operations management... Its been only a week and a half into the term and yet, it feels like finals are here... i am back on the run... all this thanks to a mid term exam in a 4 week term! Hardly have I had any time to assimilate 2 weeks of classes and I am here facing exams... people here have been upset at the way this term has been scheduled and have been questioning the raionale behind mid terms, that too closed book, in a 4 week term... thankfully the schedule and the content is pretty relaxed after this week... this term's scheduling has not been the best... the only positive is that lot of feedback has gone in... isb is still learning but 3 years of experience means that atleast in such issues, it can only get better...
back to the books...
Sunday, August 03, 2003
Victory
Students here are divided into sections A, B and C... The inter-section rivalry, especially in sports, is to be seen to be believed... Section B had been doing great until now, winning in cricket and water-polo and were even a bit over confident coming into this tournament... And sections A and C were more than just waiting to give section B its due... And it happened today... every section had 2 teams... In both the first semi final between b2 and c1 (my team) and the second semi final between a1 and b1, section B lost and there was more jubiliation that it was eliminated than for the victory... c1 finally ended up winning the tournament... most of us were limping at the end of the day but u hardly feel it in the face of the sweet feeling of victory... Prof. Ravi Jain, who is taking a course in corporate finance was around to give away the prizes and also play a game with us and our hyderabad alumni... all in all it was fun through out the day...
we took out a victory lap, then sat around and chatted (read bragged) about our own performance with some old monk to boot... by the time i showered and finished my dinner, I realised that I had done absolutely nothing I had planned for the weekend... huh... who cares... i have a cute mug, with ISB and its logo printed sitting on my desk... a prize for the fighting spirit and resilience we had shown in winning the tournament... we dedicated it to our friend Raj who is still in the hospital...
my legs are aching but victory is going to ensure that i sleep well today... classes can wait :)
Students here are divided into sections A, B and C... The inter-section rivalry, especially in sports, is to be seen to be believed... Section B had been doing great until now, winning in cricket and water-polo and were even a bit over confident coming into this tournament... And sections A and C were more than just waiting to give section B its due... And it happened today... every section had 2 teams... In both the first semi final between b2 and c1 (my team) and the second semi final between a1 and b1, section B lost and there was more jubiliation that it was eliminated than for the victory... c1 finally ended up winning the tournament... most of us were limping at the end of the day but u hardly feel it in the face of the sweet feeling of victory... Prof. Ravi Jain, who is taking a course in corporate finance was around to give away the prizes and also play a game with us and our hyderabad alumni... all in all it was fun through out the day...
we took out a victory lap, then sat around and chatted (read bragged) about our own performance with some old monk to boot... by the time i showered and finished my dinner, I realised that I had done absolutely nothing I had planned for the weekend... huh... who cares... i have a cute mug, with ISB and its logo printed sitting on my desk... a prize for the fighting spirit and resilience we had shown in winning the tournament... we dedicated it to our friend Raj who is still in the hospital...
my legs are aching but victory is going to ensure that i sleep well today... classes can wait :)
Saturday, August 02, 2003
continued...
A NGO fair happened today in ISB, thanks to the Net Impact Club... many NGOs from hyderabad and beyond had come in for a one day presentation and one-on-one interaction with the students... Was basically to help students who want to do some social work and also help NGOs in need of such talent... the turn out was dismal in the morning but many students got out of the saturday slumber and it all ended up being a grand success... have a meeting tomorrow to decide the course of action...
Today was the second day of the tourney... more exciting football and more injuries... thats sport I guess... Raj's operation went well... met him in the evening... he looked ok, ready to jump out of his bed (he did not have a choice!) given the enthu guy that he is... was heart warming to see him that talking and smiling... its going to take time for him to get normal but he is already talking abt campus, classes and exams!!! gosh...
had to kill all this somber mood setting and so decided to have some good food outside with some folks here to up the spirits... tagged along with some friends to the city and enjoyed some nice andhra khana again... chatted, cracked jokes and enjoyed the evening and its kinda done good for me...
spoke to some good friends in chennai after a long time and that peps u up so much!!! raring to go... sarovar park has arranged for sunday brunch tomorrow and the cultural club here is planning some games in the atrium for upping the fun even more... i look forward to getting up in the morning :)
A NGO fair happened today in ISB, thanks to the Net Impact Club... many NGOs from hyderabad and beyond had come in for a one day presentation and one-on-one interaction with the students... Was basically to help students who want to do some social work and also help NGOs in need of such talent... the turn out was dismal in the morning but many students got out of the saturday slumber and it all ended up being a grand success... have a meeting tomorrow to decide the course of action...
Today was the second day of the tourney... more exciting football and more injuries... thats sport I guess... Raj's operation went well... met him in the evening... he looked ok, ready to jump out of his bed (he did not have a choice!) given the enthu guy that he is... was heart warming to see him that talking and smiling... its going to take time for him to get normal but he is already talking abt campus, classes and exams!!! gosh...
had to kill all this somber mood setting and so decided to have some good food outside with some folks here to up the spirits... tagged along with some friends to the city and enjoyed some nice andhra khana again... chatted, cracked jokes and enjoyed the evening and its kinda done good for me...
spoke to some good friends in chennai after a long time and that peps u up so much!!! raring to go... sarovar park has arranged for sunday brunch tomorrow and the cultural club here is planning some games in the atrium for upping the fun even more... i look forward to getting up in the morning :)
Friday, August 01, 2003
Today was the first day of the football tournament... Inter section league matches... Was fun playing though we lost... all was good until one of my friends Raj broke his leg in a collision going for the ball... Poor guy suffered multiple fractures and will be bed ridden for a week and then on crutches for a couple of months... the last thing you would want to go through, more so at ISB... Was very disappointed for him... he is getting operated tomorrow morning... Plan to stay with him tomorrow... Couldn't do pretty much anything worthwhile after this incident... mood: pretty somber...
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