Surreal and Satiated

Yes, I am back from my week long induction, very reluctantly though. It was an
awesome experience, both academically and personally. A very refreshing and
energising trip. The place was beautiful, calm and serene, especially with the
regular PG students not around due to summer vacation. The schedule was
hectic with classes starting at 7:30 am and getting over only by 10 pm. Moreover
had to study for the final exam on Business Math. So was very hectic. Professors
are highly educated and experienced having taught in schools ranging from
IIM Ahmedabad to schools in the US. Looking forward to learning a lot from this
eclectic faculty.

Personally, the one week charged me up. Meeting a set of strangers does wonders
to your morale, boosts up your spirits and puts you on a high sans alcohol. It left
me with such a satiated feeling, its unbelievable. It has helped me come out of
the routine and get a fresh perspective of the world. The "truth or dare" at the
Calicut beach at 1 in the night... the Friday night dance party at the audi...
the quiet time i spend with myself at the Calicut beach on Saturday evening...
the dark waters of the ocean at midnight ... the trip back to the hostel...
everything is so vivid in my memory... It's like a film which i can replay over
and over again to recharge my sunken soul.
Let me hold those beautiful memories in my dreams for now...

Zombie

Hi, after a long time. I didn't expect myself to get so busy after coming here but the
faculty sure seemed to plan that way. Our schedules are getting hectic by the day and
the only break we will get will be when the in-campus module ends on Saturday
afternoon. Some of us managed to get ourselves a cool small outing though. :o)
We had a small informal dinner at the Taj in Calicut last night. After the dinner some
enthusiastic members of thr beach-bums fraternity made a plan to visit the Calicut
beach at night, despite the looming Maths exams tomorrow morning. It was the first time
I was out on a beach at night and it was very nice. I really enjoyed it. The group was good
too and we had some good fun.

Life sure looks very hectic for the next one year. Just a week out here has given me a
glimpse of what is it gonna be like . Classes are fun, though towards the late evening
everything the professor says seems to be having tangential property. LOL. Professors
are very good, well-read, and intelligent. Will learn a lot.

I think this is enough for today. Need to catch up on precious sleep, coz I am sure tomorrow
we are gonna have a night out, Friday being our last night together in the campus.
So long .....

A tiring day.

It was a tiring day. Have been trying to upload the snaps of the beautiful campus but
have not been successful. Will try again later sometime when I have some more
energy left.

Here I am

Writing from the hostel in IIM Calicut. It is as serene and mesmerising as it promised
to be. The picturesque landscape, green mountains, humble complexes, manicured lawns...
all give this piece of land an aura of grace and dignity. I am sure my stay here is going to go
down as one of the most memorable experiences of my life!

The course was inaugurated today morning with an introduction by the ex-chairman of
the programme from IIM Calicut. It was slightly boring in between and also scary. The
prof used the word "rigour" and its various forms around 20 times to stress that this is an
intensive course. We got a feel of that in the evening, when our classes officially started.

The intro was followed by a lecture on "The evolution of management" by another well-read
professor (who was a classic case of an absent-minded prof). We then had two classes of
2 hours each, one on Business Math and the other on Management Accounting. It is going
to be one hectic schedule for the week. Classes start at 7:30 am and get over at 9:30 in the night.
We also have a final exam this Friday on Business Math. Gotta study :-(

Disaster Recovery

I am feeling much better today, especially after the doctor confirmed to me that I didn't
have jaundice. :o) It was such a relief. I didn't want to miss out on the six days induction
programme in IIM Calicut, starting coming Monday. So even though I am feeling pretty
weak right now, I hope I will recover by Sunday and attend the programme with full
attention and energy. Travelling to Calicut tomorrow.
Will get the weekend for sight seeing. Hoping to click a lot of pictures.

Sickness and strength

Still recovering from last week's terrible sickness. I hope I recover completely before
I leave for Calicut this Friday. Heard from a friend of mine that the 6-day in-campus
module is very hectic and professors even finish teaching couple of subjects in that
duration. So I better get back all my energy to grasp all those fundas.
I will be gone for a week sandwiched between two weekends, albeit, effectively I will
get only 3 days to enjoy and soak into the beauty of God's Own country ! Hope to click a lot
of pictures though.
Finally IIM Calicut has agreed to give us accomodation in their hostel for 8 days and so
my commutation worries to and from the hotel (if i had to take one) to the campus have
been laid to rest. Thankfully (sigh). The campus is around 25 km from the main city of
Calicut, on a hilltop, and so you can guess the kind of transport I should've expected in
God's country. I am saved from that now. LOL. Take the campus tour.

Read an article about the Operation BlueStar that happened in 1984 between
June 4th to 6th. It's a very sensitive and controversial topic. Everyone has their own
views of looking at it. Most Sikhs even today believe what happened was wrong and
harbor grudges. Quite a few on the other hand think it was a very efficient way of
rooting out the Khalistan movement. Well, I think ,most times, that militancy cannot
be dealt with with an olive twig. They need a tough retort. They need an answer back in
a language they understand. If that means someone has to take a tough stand,
someone has to take the risk of being disliked, then so be it. Does a mother not chide her
loved child for his/her betterment? I understand completely that being the head-of-state
of nation 1-billion strong is a different ballgames altogether. Absolutely. Nobody would
want to lose that kind of power. But not at the cost of the nation. No way. Come what may.
Power, however, sure seems to corrupt even the strong-minded :(

Dichotomy

"Head over heart"... "Mind over matter" .... why does man always live with this dichotomy ?
Would it not be simpler to live with just one organ having control over the entire being ?
It would save a lot of us a lot of trouble, wouldn't it ? Tell me, when we already have an
organ called the brain, which supposedly controls our every action, every thought and
every move, why do we still need the heart to pitch in ? (I am sure there is a bunch of people
saying vice-versa!) Are things already not complicated enough ?
Do we need to complicate further ?

Hmm...well, my sickness in the past couple days has had me all muddled up. It brought
out, though not quite conspicuously which is again-I suspect-coz I suppressed my heart,
the need for a partner in life. The need to share. What makes this need even more amusing
is that we want the sharing to be exclusive. We want to share our deepest feelings and
strangest thoughts with just one person. We just want one person to hold on to. Then why
does everyone vouch for friendship? Again the dichotomy !!

So are we in a constant battle with ourselves ? Or do we just decide at the spur of the
moment which face of the coin we should be? If that's the case, then it again defeats the
purpose of having an entire organ devoted for the process of having a clear rational
thought process. Is this whole thing not strange ? Or is it me ?

Murphy's Laws proved.

Hi. My phone has got back to normal today and I too am slowly recovering.
Well, yesterday was a day where every of Murphy's laws could have been proven
right. Everything went awry and we (my 2 other housemates) were in a mess at the end
of the day.
Firstly I got sick and had to be rushed to the hospital and then one of my
housemate had a minor accident, so she had to be rushed to the hospital in the night. And
the burden of handling two ill people got the third one down. It was tough managing three
sick (:-P) people under a house. I really admire the nurses who have to put with cranky
patients.. It's a tough job!
I think I should get going now, too tired to write any more.