Onam @ IIM Bangalore

Well, Onam celebrations at IIM Bangalore was not exactly how i thought it would be. It turned out to be much more colourful. The enthusiam was simply amazing. The 2nd years had told us that we would have to do all thenecessary things as they were busy with their submissions and stuff. We thought "well!!.. let us rock the place!!"... and so the malayali 1st years at IIMB set out to show the insti how it looks like when we get going....

The gals zeroed in on a design for a pookkalam(flower arrangement), while the guys arranged for the flowers and the food. I think Linu Koshy, a good friend of mine, deserves a special mention here...He is the man who ran around the most. He good mundus for all of us, was the lead bargainer at the flower market and the camera we used to capture the celebrations was his. Kudos to Linu!!.....

At 00:00 hrs we started sorting the flowers and by 2 am we were ready to attack the mess floor. The pookkalam was ready by around 3:30 am...We took the lamp and placed it near the pookkalam and we were done for the time being. Well... next day's class had a quiz.. so i dragged my back to my chair and read till 5:30 am before crashing.

Tiruvonam Morning.

When the alarm went off at 7:30 i couldn'tmake out where that irritating sound was coming from.. and I searched my bed, under it, around it, under the mattress. God knows where all.. before i came back to my senses and understood it was the alarm. Ok!!.. so I then made myself stand straight, cursed out loud and then did all my morning chores in Fast forward. At 8:30 I was in class wearing the traditional mundu.. Yeah... We did it for the first time I guess.. the entire mallu males from the batch wore mundu to class.. and some of our enthusiastic non mallu friends too....

When the class was done.. we ran back to the mess to serve the sadhya(feast).. the food was good.. people liked our enthu... and the mess chat group on BRacket(internal chat) was overflowing with praises!!!!.... It feels good when someone appreciates all the effort that you have put.... after everyone had their lunch, we, the mallu gang sat down.. ate to our heart's content.. we had got special palpayasam for us... drank it till it started coming out through our noses... stood around and joked... and then went and crashed!!!....

It was good!!.. it was awesome!!.. the kinda work that we had done.. the effort that we had put in when faced with threats like surprise quizzes and tests was beyond words of praise...

We Rocked!!...and all of IIM cheered!!!

Happy Onam Folks!!

The Aroma of the feast wafting through the air.....

a beautiful "pookkalam"(flower arrangement) welcoming you everywhere.....
damsels in their "settu mundu" making you go weak in your knees....
just looking around gives you so much joy and peace....

when nature is at its beautiful best....
with surplus everywhere after the harvest...!!

Welcome to God' s own country....!!!!... my land.. my heritage.... my people....me!!

The culture, the food, the country liqour, the damsels, the greenery, the backwaters, the hospitality, the massages, the naturopathies, .... nowhere in the world will any place come anywhere close....

I love my land, my people.... proud to be a malayali!!!!

Happy Onam to everyone!!!

Fffffffffffinallyyyyyyyyyy....!!!!!!

Aaahhh!!!.... Finally I am able to give myself sometime for this blog... the one place I thought i could unwind!.... No.. there is no new place I have discovered to destress... just that I haven't had the leisure....

Hmmm... Its been more than a month since I landed at IIMB and what can I say???.. So many things have happened during this time.... Elections, Club Selections, Talks from people like Chris Gopalakrishnan (CEO, Infy), James Abraham (Partner, BCG).. Ed Cohen coming down in a couple of days.., uncountable number of quizzes, resume submissions.. you name it!!....

Whew!!!.. I have seen most of the sunlight and moonlight since 25th June... and I am very sure that the situation will remain the same for many many light years to come!!!.... It is not a complaint... It is just stating a fact...

Well, I dont know about other B Schools, but here at IIMB many times you would feel if 24 hrs were enough in a day.. There is always something to be done, read, submitted..... and what not... But I have begun to enjoy the craziness of it!!.... and it is only true that the situation is not any rosier at job. So what the heck!!!.. I might as well do it and enjoy doing it......

Having talked about the hectic life that one lives here... there is more to life @ IIMB than just studies.... We have had 3 L square parties till date in this term..2 with us and one without.... the 4th L square is coming in another 10 days at Ecsatcy when the hunks and babes of bangalore's colleges come down to IIMB for a cultural fest..... We have had Aarambh, conducted entirely by PGP1s(first years).. we have had all kinda sports competitions .. including tsepak... and the next interblock sports meet is just around the corner.... IIMB team is leaving to IIM Calcutta this weekend for the IIMB-IIMC Sports meet... Umang, the intersection cultural competition is now going on....Oh my God!!!..... So much to do here.. and so less time!!!!....

And yes.... I am just done with the mother of all confidence breakers.. my mid terms... No.. Dont even think of asking how I did!!??!!.... but this is not the end.. I have to put in tremendous effort I beleive... Looking at topics like probability and Probability functions is making me go nuts!!... Hmm.. anyways...

I wanted to keep my writings humorous!!!.. Who would wanna read stuff like what I just wrote above!!!!... But I think that slowly I am realigning to that Business writing kinda thing.. I should stop that.. may b the next time I feel like writing I would do a much better job... May be not.. who knows!!..