Oriented blues

16/6/2011

If the orientation/ preparatory session is any indication of what the next two years is going to be, then well we are all in for a sorry surprise. Neither is it helping my "blogging resolution" in any which way. Yesterday the server was down the whole evening for some reason. Thanks to the jam-packed schedule on day 1, i couldn't manage to get a new local number and since Vodafone has no network (none watsoever) in XL, i felt, for the first time in wat seemed like ages, isolated from the outside world....:(:(

But thnx to some new-found frnds from BM, it wasn't that bad. Yesterday, for the second consecutive day, my room was turned into the XL version of the COKE studio, audience included. Another guy from my class, a good guitarist, helped me entertain the folk from not just the TNMR (rfr prev post for the TNMR story), but also the adjacent hostel too. The so-called "jamming" lasted over an hour, after which we hungry souls hoarded into the canteen in such a hurry, as if someone had setup an actual COKE studio downstairs. Food again- homely!! (My mom has one more reason to fret. As it is she thinks that all i miss about home is the food. Well. not anymore)

In a surprising first- i for the FIRST TIME EVER did my own laundry. Well, i took help, and plus the front-load washing machine seemed even more complicated than it looked. Taking well over 90 mins to wash a single set of clothes, i was obliged to keep-awake right unto 2 in the morning. Totally worth it!! Job done successfully with minimal "attiral" damage. all smiles.

The first day of the preparatory course: 16 June, was the first time i entered into my XL classroom. Lecture Hall 8. The HRM and BM batches are divided into two sections- A and B, with me in HRM-B. The classroom is not unlike the "well" at IIM-A. Only difference being the rotating chairs fixed to the floor. U feel partly like an executive sitting in them, swinging round and round. Partly so, cos unlike the "real" executive chairs, these are still wooden...;).. The first lecture on case-study analysis and the last lecture on "Labor laws, PM and IR" were quite absorbing. The latter taking up almost the entire alloted session of 90 mins, w/o me, (yes ME) looking at the watch even once. The work-ex guys seemed to get thrilled after learning about a few laws and kept asking doubts after doubts, seeking a way they can get back at their former employers. The proffessor, though being of a very obliging nature, kept the discussion super-ficial w/o getting into the intricacies of every doubt. The guy was right. This was after all a preparatory course. Not "solve all your former corporate problems in class" day. Inspite of this, we freshers still were hooked on like a 2-year old kid to "kinder joy". I might actually have found my to-be interesting subject for the semester.

Anyways, got time to get a new sim card today. Not surprisngly a TATA Docomo- it was TATA's nagar after all. Rains maintained an on again-off again relationship today. Rubbing us the wrong way and hindering every possible plan to escape the XL campus for a while. That didn't stop us - me n my roomie- from taking a rather wet n uncomfartable ride to the city- to an area called SAkchi market. Grabing hold off all the necessities on our "list", we drove back to campus leaving me an extra half hour to go n blog about my life out here.

A noticeboard on our mess seems quite intriguing to me as of now. Though i'd like to mention in this blog that the day has ended and now m off for the day. But the "intriguing" notice stating that-

"the seniors would like to "interact" us in the "Father Prabhu Hall", so we ought to report in "full formal attire" at 9:45 pm tonight" has gotten a lot of tongues wagging. Let's see what fate has in store. And i hope that whatever is to follow is not too embarrassing to post in my next blog...:):)..

Let's hope there IS a next time to blog about my life here.... Signing off (temporarily).