Day 445 - 2nd April 2012

Woke up relatively early today. Had breakfast at Chota before taking care of some last minute packing. The painful goodbyes continued through the morning. Donated a lot of my stuff to the housekeeping staff and Chota.
Made a trip to the main building and administration block for one last round of goodbyes with the staff. It still hasn't hit me that the MICA journey will come to an end in another half an hour. I am pretty sure that sinking feeling will hit me when I least expect it. It is only fitting that the trip to the airport will be made in Azhar Bhai's rickshaw. Its been an amazing two years out here, this place has exceeded all the expectations that I came with.  Will have my last meal in the mess as a student of the institute before leaving.

Adios!

Day 108 -22nd October 2010

After sleeping for around 2 hours I surprisingly didn't feel sleepy in the lectures(am I getting used to this schedule??) CB was as entertaining as ever, quote of the day - "In-laws are those people who make you feel like outlaws!" :-P. Its funny no matter how dry a subject is if the prof. is good it seems to becomes so much more interesting, the reverse applies for a good subject and a not so good prof as well. Couldn't sleep in the afternoon because a company had come for a pre placement talk. But could leave early thankfully thanks to the fact that extended family volunteered for ticket sales for the Kailash Kher concert next week at MICANVAS. We had to try our luck at CG road. Selling tickets to strangers is definitely not easy! Maushi and Apu did all the talking, Mallu and I were just silent bystanders, ensuring nothing untoward happens :P Learnt a new range of excuses from 'I'm not in town that day' to 'I dont know who Kailash Kher is':D Apart from sales it also turned out a be foodie expidition, started with Pav Bhaji and Masala Pav at honest(yes there is a chain of fast food joints called honest!), followed by Vada Pav Amdavadi style near Vastrapur lake. The Amdavadi rendition is served with dollops of butter,toasted on a tawa and is served sweet chutney. Went to the Vastrapur lake after that, the surrounding area reminded me of a lot places in Bangalore, was missing the place for some strange reason! The grand finale was salads,pasta and pizza at Papa John's, always wanted to go that place in Bangalore but never got a chance to do so. Was pretty decent, a refreshing change from Dominos and Pizza Hut. The ride back to campus was in Azhar Bhai's rick, with the playlist ranging from Oasis to Bobby McFerrin. We decided to get off and walk the last kilometre back to campus. On a full moon night the road from Bopal coming to campus is a sight to behold! Couldn't get sleep so stayed up for a while reading some articles on cricinfo until 4. I wonder for how long will I be able to survive on such less sleep :P

Day 49 - 14th August 2010

One of the few days when lectures started at 10. Used the opportunity to sleep till 930. Had 3 lectures of IMEI which were conducted by an alumnus who is working with network18. Since it was in the audi it took some effort to stay awake, which I barely managed to do. After lectures were done I went to the library to start work on the PM individual assignments. One of
the tasks is to analyse company websites from a competitive intelligence point of view. So I decided to do an analysis of two IPL teams - RCB and MI.Although I am huge MI fan, I must say that the RCB marketing team has done a brilliant job to stay connected with their fans. The analysis took longer than expected and I was able to do only one out of the two tasks in the assignment.

Since it was a friend's birthday he and I went to Pizza hut to pack pizzas packed. We didn't expect the sudden downpour that greeted us when we reached there thanks to which we got drenched to the bone, luckily the pizzas didn't get wet. Azhar Bhai's rickshaw was the only solace for an otherwise avoidable outing. Came back to a friend's room where about seven of us
hogged on pizzas and garlic bread. I generally prefer dominos to pizza hut but the pizzas today were quite good.

Wanted to go back to the library to continue working on the assignment and conveniently forgot about the fact that it closes at midnight on saturday. So went to Chota for a while before coming back to the room and crashing for the day.

Day 28 - July 24th 2010

The weather today made me feel like I was back in Bombay. It poured throughout the evening so much so that the Palaash courtyard and badminton court were flooded. Apparently in some parts of the city the water levels were waist high.

The day began on a great note- got to know that I made it to the junior committee of Team Interface!! Its a good feeling , being a part of a committee on campus, didn't make me feel too sleepy during the morning lectures. :D Had only two lectures in the morning, so headed to ISCON mall in the afternoon with friends. Azhar Bhai's rick with the heavy duty music system and awesome song collection added to the fun. We had to be back on campus by 3 for a QT tutorial so didn't have much time to have lunch anywhere. So we packed burgers from McDonalds and had it during the ride back to college.

The sports season at MICA kicked off (pun intended) with a football match between PGP1 and PGP2. Cheering from the sidelines was fun. Few of us found a vantage point on the roof of the admin block which overlooks the football field. The icing on the cake was PGP1 winning 3-0 :-)

Had nothing to do the in the night so continued watching South Park. I like this feeling of being jobless once in a while. Will also make the most of it and go to sleep early (read as 1230 a.m)