Horizons over and i actually enjoyed it. Listened to some good speakers giving good gyaan. The highpoint of day one was a flute recital by Mr. Shashank a carnatic music exponent. This gentleman and his troupe were so good that even I (musically challenged) found my foot tapping involuntarily. Infact they were so awesome that i sat through the concert with my mouth shut(even i'm amazed) and my ears open(dats easy). I dont thnk Im gonna rush out and buy the carnatic music collection but I'm certainly gonna try and hear some more of it.
Day 2 started with me being parcelled off with a lady to the airport to escort Mr. Bharat Doshi - Executive director, Mahindra and Mahindra. My companion being an excellent conversationalist, the trip to the airport was fine. I must mention that rumour has it that this lady prefers Ruebies to diamonds. This is the same Rueby who moonlights as a party organiser. Anyway lets not diverge from the story; We reached the airport to find that the flight had reached before time(wonders never cease) and were expecting an agitated director but were greeted by a gentleman who asked us wether we were inconvenienced by the flight landing early(u could knock me down wit a feather). Mr. Doshi told us that it was quite unneccesary for us to have missed part of the other speeches to pick him up since he knew the road well being on the IIMK board of governors. The trip back gave us (me at least) more insight into Mahindra then any magazine ever could. Mr. Doshi made it a point to ask and (more importantly) remember our names. Truly a gentleman businessman to the core.
This blog entry took me me a long time to write (way above my avg 15 mins) bcos I decided to bathe in between. Now dont get any ideas about the rest of my entry. Its just that I was delayed at the bathroom bcos my latch was stuck. You c our bathrooms were designed by some fundoo architect who probably never ever had a shower. The shower head was probably invented for some sprinkler system. A person could stand in the centre of the room with the shower turned on and not even get wet and the latch was definitely designed for some hercules to operate. Or I guess it is purposely designed to challenge us in everything we do. After all its the experience dat counts.
Recently one of my friends asked me wether IIMK was full of south Indians. Actually there are quite a few but the majority of the guys here are bongs(bengalis). Not a day without a shrieky kii or kii Hollo somewhere on campus. I cant understand much bangla, but I think its something to do about one of them peeping into the others room through the ki hollo (bengali for key hole) and the other guy searching frantically for the ki (key duh) to block his view. Well so much for voyeur bongs. Most of them are good friends of mine and pretty cool people (Im not saying dat just to save my skin). The perpetrator of the satellite joke is also a bong.
This week was spent on doing some flash work for the arthanomics site. Id say the designers have made a site par excellence and it was good to add something to it. Hopefully well be able to do something about our college site but thats another story. So till next time ill sign off with the standard poem.
Theres nothing sweeter in life,
than being succesful at what you do.
Its about being the very best,
That extra step ahead of number two.
But when you reach that position,
where praises and compliments abound.
Try to look beneath and check,
whether your feet are firmly on the ground.
For there could be a moment in life,
when you could stand to lose all,
Remember then that golden adage,
that false pride goeth before a fall.
Byeeeeee,
Luv,
P.R.
I even took the entire video of the flute concert apart from being the satellite joke perpetrator, though I would hate it, since the flute was nearly drowned by its accompaning instruments namely the mridangam and the ghatam. And must mention the "key hole" breakup clause was sacreligious :), and sure it was funny !!!
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