Coming Soon!

Ola amigos! It's that time of the year.. rather it's that time after an entire year! It's the time to get back to blogging, to being arbit. After a crazy year of disappearance, I hope to be back with vengeance in the next couple of weeks. Just to update everyone, 2nd April is graduation day (Yes, I am a Yem Bee Yayy!!!) I got engaged in December and sister popped out 2 of them beautiful kids on Holi.

So much to recollect and write about the beautiful mornings and gorgeous evenings that the last 1 year gave me. The mad parties, days of daze, sleeping in the class and finishing assignments until the deadline is a minute away, crazy friends, crazier parties, the insanely huge Holi.. oh God it was too much too soon. Hands down the fastest year of my life and it was as fast as it can get!

There is the moving to the US in October and the unending excitement about everything. Hopefully writing will happen more often. Amen!

Doing the due

Haven't been writing off late.. totally not a done thing. Life's been real hectic here with all the course work, exams and assignments. Its been a month and I feel exhausted already. 1 year's going to be tough!

I am glad I am where I am, not because the institute is of repute etc etc but because I feel like my purpose of learning is being met. I feel so much more intelligent in a month;s time...! The importance of having peers from diverse backgrounds and having certain years of work life experience makes so much sense. Learning here is holistic. My peripheral questioning has improved. I meet new people and I know how to be polite yet keep a distance - something I struggled to learn for many many years.

The long phone calls are still on and we seem to have reached a completely different level altogether. December is far but not quite so. It's a good feeling. Sometimes it gets a little tiring with all these long college hours but we seem to be managing well. If I choose to crib, I can find faults here too but I haven't had a nice experience in almost forever so I will focus on the beautiful for the moment.

Dad's on facebook and there is mass excitement among cousins and friends. Everyone seems kicked about it. I quickly changed privacy settings on some albums. Saw my little cousin's pictures on FB and I see he's grown up to be this really handsome young man. So proud of him. He's given me limited access to his profile. We used to be so close at some point.

None of my regular blogger friends seem to be reading/writing these days.. what has happened people?

I cant write in an interesting way anymore it seems. But I am happy as long as I write something every few weeks. I <3 you my blog.

Beginning of a journey called ISB

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That smile was for finally being able to open the once exploited link - www.blogger.com.

Here I am, at Hyderabad, after a 20 month break, 3 cities, -ve bank balance of 20 lacs and a few hundred kilos of apprehension. I am at the Indian School of Business. The much coveted B-School in India and as I'd like to believe, across the globe. This time not as a visitor or a candidate but as a student. A rather difficult 12 hr bus ride with dad and without mom, I entered the 260 acre campus 2 weeks ago, on 10th of April. I dont know if it was the tiring journey or the tiring paperwork or the load of expectations that almost instantly killed all the thrill of  making it to this place, the moment I entered.

So far it's been 2 days of registration process, a week of orientation - or disorientation and another week of pre-terms i.e laying foundations of basic mathematics, statistics and accountancy. The O-week was all about team building activities in the hot Hyderabadi sun and the pre terms were about sitting dazed in every single class, hoping people would shut up. I've never seen such a confluence, of 500 people who all think they are the best and want to tell everyone that they are indeed the best. I don't mean to doubt the capabilities or the achievements of people who are here but the effort behind trying to get noticed is ridiculous to my mind. I have always considered showing off in any form - physical or intellectual as the ultimate sign of weakness and to a large extent inferiority complex. This theory of mine, is of course debatable. More so because I am trying to transform myself into a deeper, mature and accommodating person - so passing value judgements like this is definitely not going to help me be who I want to be. So hopefully, by the end of the year I would have proven my own theory incorrect.

I have been one hell of a reserved person in the last 2 weeks. Except for this one night when I went and actually hit the dance floor, I've consciously kept myself away from any form of limelight. Why try to fake it? Also I think introducing yourself individually to 500 people is a time taking and tiring task. And to make the process less monotonous for yourself, you have to come up with different tones and levels of excitement or introduce a new facet of yourself to everyone and exclude some already used adjectives about yourself. The bandwidth required for this task is huge and I have now simply given up. I dont speak unless spoken to and speak as little as I can - just to make enough conversation to acknowledge a question and to avoid traps of further small talk.

Tomorrow begins Core Term - 1 and so begins the madness to catch up with peers at class, finish assignments and prepare for midterms which are exactly 3 weeks from now. I can already see time flying.

The next one year, will hopefully be better than the last 1 year. Amen!