Happy wala b’day to 2008

Well, well, the day has arrived when we start writing ’08 in the year’s column. Another year gone by. Lemme try and recollect the single most important events in the respective months:

1st wicket-> January->the year started with an absolutely wild New Year party. It was crazy. Felt nice to see so many people enjoying themselves. My memory of this time last year is that of having time out. With the gang out in Pune, I had a quite New Year. Then, it was the pressure of the exams. The month just fizzed by.

2nd wicket->February-> remember this month for the trip to Shikharjee. It was damn good. Walking those 21 kms. was an experience (mind you, bare feet). It was BEAUTIFULL.

3rd wicket->March-> I went to a professional set up for the 2nd time in my life. It was my internship at ICICI. It was a big CULTURE shock (after Standard Chartered). It was BAD.

4th wicket->April-> one of the few times in my life I fell out with my friends. It was one of my best friends. Felt bad, real bad.

5th wicket->May-> the trauma continues. As usual the trend of b’day blues continued. It NEVER fails to happen. Ooooh, how could I forget, Tarkeshwar!!!! Went to meet Bhole Baba after 2 years and that too with the real close ones.

6th wicket->June->back to campus... It was a relief!!!!!

7th wicket->July-> started watching out for the placement season.

8th wicket->August-> the Virgo month. B’days galore!!! The movie bug HIT me.

9th wicket->September-> placements and exams on our heads... started to get on my nerves.

10th wicket-> October-> ADVENTITY :-)

Last man-> November-> LAZING around like an Elephant (is this right English????)

12th man-> December-> Faux paus. Don’ really no.

This is it. A highlights package of 2007.


Now for some of my ardent wishes in 2008:

1. India beats Australia down under.

2. Do well in Adventity.

3. Hope the company gives the bonus to people who have finished the Indian CFA (can’t study any more!!!)

4. Kick some ass at Adventity.

5. Sis’s problems take a turn for the better.

6. Gift the latest technologically advanced cell phone to my pyaree behnaa, Jhabs.

7. Sourav Ganguly retires on a high!!!

8. India does not give another chance to amazing Mr. Sehwag.

9. And the biggest. Cannot WAIT to have money in my hands and spending it. I have done the mental calculations. Only the actual implementation is left!!


Talk about spirit. A group of females in charge of cleaning up and all in the campus are sitting outside and having a BALL. I can hear their continuous chatter for the past hour. They seem to be having more fun then me. I am J. reminds me of the line from Ulysses, “Drink life to it’s lees”. Way to go.

Chow guys.

Teree maa kee @#%....

Various people have various things to do when they wake up in the morning. Some like to pray, some like to pause and plan out there day, and there are some who make a DASH for the bathroom (chalo bulawa aaya hai, Mata ne bulaya hai). :-) Don’t ask me what I do!!! Anyways, for the past two days I have been awakened by the WONDERFUL voice of some cartoon network on the floor below. I assure it’s not a good feeling to hear someone shout Maach@#, Bh&%ch#@, the first thing in the morning. Lemme explain. India is playing Australia in the Boxing Day test match. Poor Anil Kumble had it yesterday. He got a truck full of abuses when he was not picking up wickets. When the POOR guy did get wickets he got a BARRAGE of them. On been asked why is he abusing Kumble after he had picked up a wicket, the gentleman told me, “Saale ch@@% ne pehle googly kyon nahin kee”. For the first time in my life I felt sorry for Kumble. He picks up a fiver and people still abuse him like crazy!!!!

The best comments came for our Bengal Tiger, Sourav Ganguly. Unfortunately, he is at the peak of his physical fitness. In the amount of time he can run to the boundary at MCG, H.D. Dave Gowda can have a nice little nap!!! Poor Ganguly. Even the Bongs don’t leave him.

This is the amazing environment in which we get to watch the cricket matches at the hostel. The guy on your left starts abusing Ganguly’s batting (which has been VERY IMPRESSIVE in recent times). The guy on your right turns out to be a Bengali (hence, by default a Ganguly fan!!). So the cartoon on your right starts abusing Yuvraj Singh, cause Mr. left is a Punjabi. This goes on for a good hour and when they are tired of abusing the players, they turn to each other. This never fails to happen. Imagine my plight, who wants nothing more than to STRANGLE those idiots and listen to the Ian Chappell’s commentary!!! I feel really sorry for myself.

Another amazing piece of cricketing knowledge was on display yesterday. On the first day of the match when Gilchrist was batting, this sportoon sitting in the front turns around and asks the guy behind. “ abe yaar is ch@%t ka naam kya hai, Katich hai naa”. (Poor Gilchrist!!!). On been told that he has identified the wrong player, the sportoon gets into a rage and shouts “ Teree maa kee…..”.

Here we go again.

Chow guys.

A blunder and a Teerth Yatra-all paaps washed away!!

14th December, 2007 was a big day for IBS, Hyderabad. Our campus was blessed with the presence of Mr. Arun Choudhary. Wondering who the hell is he??? I don’t blame you. It was actually Mr.Arun Shourie who had enlightened us. The host for the afternoon introduced him as Mr.Arun Choudhary!!! That has to be the mother of all blunders. I guess the poor guy lost it and was a nervous wreck thereafter. Anyways, the victim to the whole thing very coolly ignored the blunder. Must say, Mr. Shourie was AWESOME. He got his point across to us with a good dose of sense of humor thrown in. The whole speech was just too good. It was a damn good experience and we figured we need more of these sort of guest lectures. The session gave me access to a whole new point of view about our society which I never thought existed.

After the session and during lunch, I was TOLD that we are going to the temple of Chilkur Balajee( I hope I have spelt that write!!). The temple is quite famous in Hyderabad and has a big fan following. We were contemplating ways to reach the temple which is around 15-16 km. from the campus and takes around an hour and a half to reach. But as Shahruk Khan said, “jab tum kuchh sachhe dil se chahte ho, to poorie kaynath tumhe us se milane mein jut jatee hai”. :-) We saw an Indica standing on our campus gates. The driver, ever willing to make a quick buck approached us. After a bit of bargaining we convinced him to take us to the temple and back again to civilization for a very nominal amount. He told us that his was a private cab and he was idle because his hirer had gone off with someone else. I got the impression, God was with us. In an Indica, with sexy roads we covered good ground and lo and behold we were at the temple in 20 min.!!! The road was good and reminded us of rural India with all its fields and small towns and villages.

Even at the temple we were LUCKY. The normally crowded temple was empty and we were in and out in 15-20 min. Of this time the major time was taken up by us trying to break the coconuts!!! After our darshan, we noticed that the crowd was warming up and there was a line. GOD IS GREAT. We returned to civilization with a brief amrood break. The driver was kind enough to drop us at the army temple. GOD BLESS HIS KIDS. We had a wonderful time at the beautiful, well maintained and serene temple. By now I was starting to feel both thirsty and hungry and was belching with the taste of amrood still in my mouth (Surd & Tamasha made me eat their portion also!!). Now, we were again contemplating how to return to the campus when lady luck smiled on us again and we saw the college bus returning to the campus. To top off our Teerth Yatra we got off at the temple near our campus and had darshan there too. You must be wondering the reason for our teerth yatra. Well, it so happens that all of us are FINALLY placed. Happy days are here again.

In the evening I got the shock of my life when I started watching the movie-“The Inside Man”. The movie’s casting had the background score as Chaiyya Chaiyya(Remember Mallaika in it!!). After ages I heard that track. I also got a call from two of my closest friends, Coffee and Topi. Felt nice catching up with them. All in all I had one of my better days at the B-school.

Right now me sitting in a FRM lecture. It is very FRUSTRATING. The cartoon students are eating the poor professor’s head with really DUMB & STUPID questions. They are asking him how to solve the algebraic equation instead of trying to understand the concept of Binomial Options pricing. IDIOTS of the highest order!!
Chow guys….