Life on the IIMC Campus (Part 2)

The last time I wrote, I had mentioned about a big celebration on Christmas night. It turned out to be the GGP! (Err, in case anyone wants to know what GGP is, please contact me separately.) That turned out to be a lot of fun. It somehow gives me an insane amount of pleasure to watch others get stoned and make complete fools of themselves. One time during the party, SSV, SSV (female), their guests and I decided to go and make ourselves comfortable on the jetty. Now, this jetty is like a raft of planks fitted on pontoons floating in the lake. Since it was reunion time, it had been nicely decorated with yellow lights, making it seem as if it were Diwali instead of Christmas! When we reached this place, there was a solitary fellow sitting right in the middle of the jetty, trying to get further intoxicated by the swaying motion of the jetty. At first, he looked bored, but he immediately "perked" up when SSV (female) narrated a tale of having seen two females make out during the same event last year! A simple suggestion of swinging the jetty even more resulted in SSV and I managing to put out the lights. Needless to say, we left soon after, causing the poor bloke's high to all but disappear.

We decided to call it a day, erm...night...err, early morning, and head home. The path home takes us over the "Howrah Bridge". That night, the fog was extremely bad. The visibility was down to five feet. The entire setting seemed to have been picked straight out of The Hound of The Baskervilles. At any time, we expected to see a hound jump out at us! (Well, if not a hound, at least a ghost or two......naah, I suppose Bong ghosts are too genial for such early morning haunting jaunts.) So, we all managed to reach home safe and hound - I mean sound - at around 0430 hours (4:30 a.m.)....Man, Bengal is famous for unions....but I will probably remember IIMC for this re-union!

The last paragraph has been practically written by SSV.

Life on the IIMC Campus

Arrived here @ the IIMC campus on vacation yesterday. SSV's place, to be precise. Have been enjoying life since then. Life here seems to be pretty laid back. Nobody seems to be in any hurry whatsoever. Anything and everything can be done sooner or later, the latter being more likely! There is also an Alumni Reunion taking place at this time over here. It sounded like fun when SSV mentioned it yesterday, but the DJ Nite, which we attended yesterday, was extremely disappointing. Maybe it was because the oldies who had gathered there were too tired to dance. Maybe it was well past their bed time! The youngsters seemed to be more interested in the booze. And to top it all, the DJ seemed to be an amateur picked right out of last October's Durga Puja!!!

Anyway, I hope today will be better. There is a play scheduled to start in an hour's time. It's supposed to be an adaptation of the Audrey Hepburn movie, Wait Until Dark. The least I can do is keep my fingers crossed.

Finally Free!!!

Yes! The day has finally dawned! I am, as of today, free from the shackles of my first project. It has been a horrid, yet interesting experience. I have suffered and enjoyed, learnt and forgotten, and if someone were to ask me whether I would exchange it for anything else, I would probably reply in the negative.

But, nostalgia aside, it's time to look ahead. Let's see what new opportunities come calling. RMLR, dude, I am FINALLY FREE!!!

Order in the midst of Disorder

The British do seem have made a profound impression on our collective psyche. I suppose this can happen only in Bombay!!!

Corporate Actions

Well, CAT is over and I have basically screwed up my chances of making it into an IIM. Well, it was at least worth a try! But when I get chance to think about this all alone, I sometimes wonder whether all this is worth it. I mean the general perception is that in order to get into a good management college, one has to work really hard...blah blah blah. But, what after that? Is all this hard work going to guarantee an easy life for me?

After having spent a good two years in a corporate project, complete with all the highs and lows of belonging, what have I achieved? Everyone I meet outside congratulates me on landing such a good job in campus placement, but sometimes I am left wondering what is so good about this job? And is it to get a better one that I am trying to get into a decent management college? Who is to say that it wont be worse? Forget the job conditions for a minute. Think about the people that make up the team. Why does everyone have to pretend that all is well and that we are all a well-oiled unit, when there are obviously glaring problems existing just below the surface? Is this what being a part of the corporate world involves? Being a hypocrite who blurts out the truth only when totally pissed?