Scared ...

It's 11:30 pm and I'm yet to start an entire subject, finishing the one at hand seems like a mammoth task altogether. Reminds me of many days gone by :) ... How trivial would these fears seem to others with much more to worry about. I reflect back on near death experiences and a life spent avoiding embarrassment and humiliation and every single time the fear at hand seemed to be worst in the world :) ... Transitioning from a cribster to a compulsive worrier? Newayz, here's a good video someone sent me. Youtube is such an awesome way to kill time !

Back after a long long time

It's been 10 days since I've posted. A lot has changed in these 10 days - an entire year at IIM A has now taken up a new task, all those speculations about foreign exchange or contesting for elections have now been replaced by a larger cause - alas, I can't write about it here due to some policy issues :P

Since exams approach, my blogging frequency is bound to rise... so to put a start to it I read a rather disturbing yet empirically true statement:

"Expecting life to treat you well because you are a good person is like expecting an angry bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian"

Pondering ... thinking ... reflecting...

Have feet - will dance

I finally did it ... a performance in LKP in front of a huge audience... almost flawlessly - almost :P, cos to my pleasant surprise I could hear shouts of "Parcel", "Parcel" being thrown from the audience (love u guys for tht !!!), which distracted me for a moment causing me to lose a step somewhere ... but apart from that I enjoyed every single bit of whatever limelight I could get :)

Tomorrow I start being a media coordinator at chaos (Deja Vu). Part of the role led to opening up this new blog for chaos. And if time permits read up on some WAC and OM.

Cheerios and be back with the dance vid if it turns up soon :)

Paanch

Yup .. day 5 turned up with a surprise in-class quiz.... Thankfully no guest lectures to follow ... but that doesn't mean any Siesta time for me :( ... Gotta buy stuff, dance some and go move around some media ppl... Nothing deep i'm thinking at the moment... just a random crib

The Chaos before CHAOS ....

IIM-A is getting ready for Chaos, and the last week has been chaotic - quite literally . Imagine this schedule

Day 1 - A 500 word report outlining the systems in a local mid/large size company
Followed by a surprise quiz

Day 2 - A 500 word report based on loads of research on a topic chosen by the facult
Followed by a surprise quiz - from a subject which there was no mention of any quizzes happening altogether <>

Day 3 - A 1 page submission on observations from a 20 min discussion to be arranged by every student between 2 people on a debatable topic- every section would need about 80 different topics and discussions.
Followed by a surprise quiz (Are you getting the hang of this?)
Followed by a 2 hour long guest lecture

Day 4 - A 1500 word report on the sales and distribution strategy of a company with a presentation in class
Followed by a surprise quiz !!!
Followed by another 2 hour long guest lecture

Day 5 - Coming tomorrow.. And I dread what it's gonna bring. Coincidentally Chaos starts tomorrow and we have 2 other submissions rite after Chaos - yipeee ~~~~

Club this with hours of dance practice, chaos work and club interactions and you get a very very tired parcel !

Bwah

Republic day is back again ;)

Just back after some exhausting dance practice, and finally now I think I'm getting the hang of how to dance. I pity the girls in the group who have to wake up in the morning, get all fresh, wear loads of makeup, and dance well on stage at 9 am in freezing weather - maybe I'll wake up and head there to cheer them up after all :)

So, in 22 years of my life I am bound to have celebrated atleast 18 "Republic Day" anniversaries - 26th Jan - the day when India became a Republic - a day when India adopted its constitution - the fallout of the event is still unclear to even a self-proclaimed patriot like me. So here I turn to Wikipedia for the "accepted" public version.

On the republic day, India hosts a head of state from some other nation - a symbol of how much the other country matters in India's foreign policy. This year it's going to be the president of Kazakhstan... How long has ONGC had its eyes on those oil fields for? ... It's not like inviting a president to your country is just like asking out someone for a movie now, or is it?

The initial thought to write this post stemmed from my anger over a constitution that is vague about a lot of things, absurd about some and simply powerless about the others... but all this knowledge search seems to have grilled down the tempo - I've felt this for long, it's time to stop being a manager and start being a leader, or atleast try to start being one... in whatever small way is possible

Cheerios
Jai Hind !!!

PS: Too much blogging these days, need to spend lesser time here ;) mental note made

A different perspective

I wake up at 5 in the morning - there's no alarm clock to do it, but i must wake up early if I wish to live. Go out and do the morning chores before the sunlight arrives - because i stay in the desert and there is no place other than the bushes to give me and my wife some privacy in some of life's most mundane tasks. Then she walks 5 kms to the place where the water tanker unloads. In the meanwhile, I start the pump with much efforts and diesel costlier than my blood starts pumping water onto my field some time later...

I walk all day on the salty land, amidst salty water, barefooted - because the rubber boots my wife made out of some tires could not give me the strength I needed to do my job. I work all morning- while my younger kids wake up and wait for the school to start. They stare intently in one direction - at a hut 6 kms away, covered with some plastic and tin shelters. A small flicker of mirrors by the teachers tells them its time to come to school now - and they joyously signal back with our broken mirror. They hop to school along the desert mud, joyously because the school has some toys, some friends and food to eat. My older kids work with me in the water now. We work till the sun above our heads starts to burn the scalp and the skin, I get out of the water only to see my leg shrinking further. My joints ache when I sit down for a meal, but I put on a brave smile - they say there will be some students from some well known management college in Ahmedabad here to study us today ... Maybe they can do something to explain why my life is so...