Gods, Dreams and myself... just Life in general!
Tuesday, April 25, 2006
Gods… One celebrated his 33rd birthday… One celebrated his comeback victory… Me, the eternal optimist always awaits the best that is yet to come!
Holidays… The 6.30 a.m. alarm ritual has become the laughing news at home, as I stay glued to my bed at least till 10 am!! Have become lazy, have put on weight, have lost determination… was I a b-school student?
Books… Currently consuming the Freakonomics… Liar’s Poker was great… shall read it at least once more and recommend it many more times! I have this irresistible habit of buying books and sometimes reading it even after a year… and hence usually the re-readings are put off for post-retirement! But then, exceptions are always made.
Relationships… continue as they are… a few questions answered… a few unanswered questions… a few unquestioned answers!
Dreams… always colorful! What else for the eternal optimist, as the H-queen would say ;-)
Traveling… Hot weather and busy friends are better excuses than my poor convincing skills! A drive to the Pulicat Lake and a weekend in Bangalore are the only ones still in line before I hop to Mumbai.
The lazy month would hopefully revive the energy needed in the new place, new work and the new life.
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Transitions…
Saturday, April 15, 2006
Back at home… started with sleeping 12 hours a day… reduced to 10 hours now!
Missing blogging, missing sudoku, missing the midnight tea and the H quad!
But then a step into this place causes a transition that makes me forget where I lived a week ago! A transition from a b-school student to a bad daughter and a scary sister!
Relationships aren’t my cup of tea… but the “scary sister” is the only one that has sustained long enough :-)
Reading “Liar’s Poker”… great book! Would I have understood any of it a year back???
Trying varied things… but nothing related to the pace of life enjoyed in the last one year… missing it all!
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ISB... I would miss you
Friday, April 07, 2006
Things are moving too fast… Just a week back, the campus was empty… It just didn’t feel like the last few days… It was just relieved faces… Today, we had the dress rehearsal for the Big Event tomorrow and the batch photograph. This was followed by the Award Ceremony to honor the Torchbearers and the Young Leaders of ISB, the Teaching Associate of the year and above all the ‘Professor of the year – Core Terms’ and the ‘Professor of the year – Elective Terms’. Someday, I would love to teach a class the way Prof. Krishna Kumar taught us Macroeconomics… can add this to ‘Impossible but seems possible’ category of my dreams… felt privileged to see the man himself back again to receive the award today… and he is not alone in the list of great professors we have had here… maybe I would never meet these kinda people again in one place in my life! Am I just lucky to be here?... Today I felt that departing feeling that makes the heart sink… All the events that are unfolding here make me feel great, but at the same time heavy!
The week was dedicated to spend quality time with people who made a difference to my life here… have visited multitude of restaurants in the city, watched movies, coffees and ice creams at post-midnight sessions, made noises as a group to be noticed in every possible outing, had city exploring bike rides at random timings and random speeds, at last saw Golconda to say for sure that I have seen a tourist location in the city I stayed for a year… and many more things that got me more closer to the people and the place I have known for the past one year!
Same time tomorrow, we would have received our certificates from Ratan Tata… A year back we were in awe of this place… a few months down the line, we started taking too many things for granted… today was a day to remind us again of what difference this place has made to our lives… tomorrow would be the ultimate realization!
A lot of things about me have remained the same over many years… there are also a few things that keep changing… every place I have been has had some impact on the way I behave and the way I think and the way I do things in my life… I wouldn’t say this year had the maximum impact in my life, but has definitely imparted many a change to the attitude of the gal who stood clueless in the middle of a busy street! A year back, I didn’t think I would be what I am today… so I am indebted to the place, the life here and the people around who showed there is still a long way to go!
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At last an MBA!!
Monday, April 03, 2006
Needed to push myself & needed to push my group… one last time… the final exam… submitted!
One more educational qualification and hopefully not the last one!
Campus is empty… the faces I see are relieved beyond explanation!
Half the campus is in Goa… don’t know where the other half is… am home alone!
“Southern Spice” and home cooked south Indian food at the expense of the married tam guys and their wives… realized how much I can really eat in two days!
The gang was back in action with a couple of hour long singing sessions!
Seems like too much time at hand… the “to-do” list isn’t long but nothing seems to be interesting (or should I say taxing!)
The last 36 hours of staying connected to the ISB network… have got too used to this laptop in front of me… would feel outta place without it!
A good attempt at conquering the “hard” Sudoku… was doing my exam when I wanted a break from playing Sudoku!
7 minutes and 11 seconds – in the top 13% - can see numbers flying in my dreams!
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