Pertinent Observations

i’ve always wanted to do this… attend classes religiously for the first 75% of the term and then bunk the last 25% and chill… no attendance issues, last 1/4 of term holidays… wanting to do this for the last 5.5 years… never happened… either bunked too much in the beginning or hadn’t had the heard [...]

Any job you do, you’re either a whore or a pimp.
If you’re a pimp, you make lots of money.
If you’re a whore, you enjoy the job.

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today happened to be #3’s birthday. i had “put blade” on her between early 99 and mid 2000 (“live”) and for a year after that by email. Even after it was “all over” (now i think it never began), it rankled for another 2.5 years.
now, when I look back at “incidents” such as these, i [...]

Have gotten addicted to the game of late. Playing it whenver i get 20 mins free. And i still suck at it. And it’s bloody spoiling my assignments and stuff.
Today was another supply chain submission which meant yesterday was another memento-us night. a report i would normally finish in half an hour took 2 [...]

the new york office of Lehman Brothers came out with its PPOs (final job offers) today. we had expected both the people who went there from IIMB – call them ‘mother’ and ‘father’ to get the job. mother got, as expected. however, in what has been a rude shock to most of us, father didn’t. [...]

Aadisht wrote a post yesterday responding to an Op-Ed in the hindu by a JNU prof.
amazing analysis by swaadisht khaana. way to go!
And every other blogger worth his salt has linked to this article, so i thought being his classmate i too should do the same.

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came for a lecture at IIMB today. amazing lecture. unmindful (or unknowing) of the presence of “sonia’s new whizkid” Rajeev Gowda in the first row, he went on in the same tone as his books (I’ve read about half of “Eminent Historians” – amazing) as he proceeded to explain the evolution of the Indian Economy [...]

attended L^2 after a gap of 5.5 months… stayed for an hour… was nice… amazing experience if you haven’t been there for a long time. today was one of those L^2s where booze was free… junAta were drunk… was too hilarious watching it… as for me, i’ve promised my mom i won’t drink and don’t [...]

as part of ecstasy, IIMB’s mini performing arts fest, we are having an L^2 (party) tonite. and as an added attraction today, we have an external DJ (some arbit name).
due to some stupid regulation here in b’lore, all discs close at 11:30 and hence DJs are kinda out of work. so the party like [...]

yesterday and today, IIMB hosted a mini performing arts fest. invitation based only for a few arts and science colleges in bangalore(notable non-invitee was MES college, which usually wins Saarang Choreo – probably our TDC culcom decided MES is too KT to be called).
it’s obvious that given our deadlines, etc. we can’t practice as [...]