Monkey Trouble

It was a boorish weekend, I didn’t do anything of consequence at all. Didn’t study either! Having said that, I shall post about a short trip me and a colleague of mine made to the Big Banyan on the Mysore Road in Bangalore.
We intended to drive to Mysore, but around 30 kilometers from the city, [...]

Dostpost – What’s your dream?

Yesterday, I had this wonderful opportunity to have a talk with David Gardner of Dostpost.com, it was a part of my field assignments for MBA.
I was amazed to notice the risk that David took by leaving, professional Basketball to come to India and start Dostpost with a couple of his friends from Dartmouth College (that [...]

I’m happy because I got my Lappy

It’s finally here with me, my first post through my laptop!
Well, being a Geek, I need nothing more than a new computer to give me an adrenaline rush! I had ordered my Dell Inspiron 1501 on 12th April and it arrived to me within just 8 days. Thats awfully good because they promised to deliver within 15 [...]

Above Average

I completed another book by an IITian, called Above Average. Its in the series of the recently splurge of campus fiction books like Five Point Someone, Mediocre But Arrogant, and Anything for you Ma’am. All these talk about people doing their studies at a prestigious Engineering School like IIT or MBA at JIM(XLRI in fiction!).
The authors of [...]

Bench!

For the last 23 months, I had been sitting on the same seat with the same desktop in between the same people. Today, its all changed, I am finally on bench and my seat has been relocated to another floor, surrounded with people whom I do not know.
Its strange, I rejoiced to be on bench [...]

First Rains of the season

Yesterday late evening, Bangalore witnessed the first rain of the season! It was sheer bliss, and it had already set my expectations up right from the evening when the faint smell of rain hitting the dust was prevailing at my office locality.
It took another two hours before it actually started raining here in Jayanagar, and [...]

Snapshots from Hell

In one of my earlier posts I talked about buying the book Snapshots from Hell by Peter Robinson.
I just completed this gem a couple of days ago, and parts of it surely scared me a lot. Within next two months I shall be joining SCMHRD Pune to pursue my MBA education and this book about [...]

Doing our bit – II

Things turned out well! As per today’s newspaper, the boy Krishna would get the treatment needed with people pouring in to help with the expenses. In fact, a couple offered to bear the full cost of the treatment and the prosthetic leg for the boy.
We Win!

Doing our bit

Today, while reading The Times of India, I came across an article on the 3rd page about a 9 year old kid who met an accident yesterday and lost his leg. The poor guy was excited about a planned cricket match at school and now perhaps he may never get to play again.
I don’t know [...]