Day 397 - 14th February 2012

Got back to campus at 3 in the morning after a 10 day break. Woke up at noon and had chai at Chota. It was an extremely lazy day, I hadn't even unpacked. Had to send out my dissertation surveys to be filled. Slept off int the afternoon again for a couple of hours. Finally stated my day at 7 in the evening! Caught up with Buds, Kore and Kalkar. Culcom had arranged some games today for valentine's day. The mess was decorated and everybody had a candlelight dinner :P The food was also good and mess comm took it a step further by crowd sourcing the menu. Post dinner, there was prom night in the Parjat courtyard. Got back to the room by midnight and have been working on the dissertation. Have less than 10 days to complete it and also have classes lined up!

Day 375 - 13th January 2012

Friday the 13th today! Nothing extraordinary happened though, had to submit the rural report in the morning. As expected, there was a huge rush at the printing center in the morning and to add to our woes, the colour printer was giving problems.Took about half an hour to get a printout of the report. MCSA work took over after that. Had a meeting with the executive registrar and the associate director prior to lunch. Since tomorrow is Sankranti (which is a holiday for the staff) lunch was served at the
football field with a complete Gujju fare. Played tennis for a while in the evening with Shom. Since today was Lohri, Culcomm had organized a bonfire in front of Asoka with Popcorn and sweets being distributed. Punjabi music then tookover with people having a lot fo fun and dancing talent being showcased from some unexpected quarters :P Got another rest day coming up with Sankalp's theatre fest scheduled to happen over the next couple of days, should be interesting.

Day 204 - 14th February 2010

Had our first set of sessions on Supply Chain Management (SCM) today. It's being taken by a Prof. from Spain. Was quite interesting, laid out the basics of the course and then gave a case study to discuss. Lectures got done 4 today after which I read a bit of the book on how the Brand David Beckham was built.

In the evening went to Bopal and the city with Maushi for some work. Had to go to the mobile shop to exchange my phone cover and though it was open today (unlike yesterday), they didn't have any new covers in stock! Looks like getting a cover for this phone is jinxed! Came back to campus by around 8, just in time for the Valentine's day festivities organised by Culcomm. They had arranged for some couple games in Palaash, not necessarily official couples, it could have been even friends and room mates. Even the people at the mess got into the mood with candlelight dinners and a special menu to go with it. Talk about a complete 360 degree Valentine's day campaign, no place better than a marketing school to do it ;-)

Post dinner came to the library to work on the BM assignment. The book on Beckham has been quite useful, it also helped me increase my knowledge about football (which is miniscule to say the least) Have completed some part of the assignment, posting this one from the library, will head back to the room now for some shut eye.

Day 172 - 13th January 2011

Today's MDA class was completely based on a software called SPSS which we use for Market Research. The prof. explained it really well and we pretty much got the hang of it. Now an assignment awaits to be done which will be on live customer data. Had our first class on Sales and Distribution Management (SDM), which was mostly about sales force management. College had arranged a special Sankranti lunch, Gujarati menu with Puri and Undiyo taking the cake (pun intended). In the afternoon started reading a book on how brand Arsenal (the English football team) was built. I am not into football so it'll be interesting to see whether this book keeps me engrossed. Had a little PlaceComm volunteering work in the evening which went on till around 630. Geeko and I went out for a walk/jog/run after that (all 3 in descending order of duration of time).

Continued reading the book in the night, and before I could realise it I had dozed off which meant I missed the Lohri celebrations CulComm had organized. Woke up at around 330 in the morning courtesy a Palaash party that was going on next door, in fact there were multiple parties going on, the essence of each party could be judged by the type of music being played ;-) It's 5 in the morning now and I am not feeling too sleepy, tomorrow is a holiday but we need to work on th CB assignment which requires a 10 minute video and a 4000 word assignment. Will need to find ways to keep myself occupied till I fall asleep again!

Day 103 - 17th October 2010

First actual rest day of the term,had been to Adalaj on the previous rest day so it doesn't count, could finally wake up at 12 :-D Had breakfast at Chota and planned to laze around through most of the day. Post lunch read some articles on cricinfo. Mallu,Apu and Muashi came over for some general tp and placement related discussions in the afternoon, it was good fun, we are now extended family ;-) Our discussion went on till 930 in the night, the only reason we split was since we had dandiya on campus. Dandiya was good fun, after trying my hand at Garba and Dandiya(I somehow managed to break two sticks,sorry CulComm!) I gave up and started doing what I know best, the visarjan dance. The DJ also complied by "Apdi Pode" and the likes ;-) Got done by around 1 in the night after which I got back to the room. Have a long week ahead 5 back to back days of full day lectures. Hope to wake up on time tomorrow!

During the course of the day it was brought to my notice that although I have been mentioning Maushi on this blog, she hasn't been formally introduced as yet. So here goes-

Sania Narulkar aka Maushi -

She is called Maushi because she is one of the first Maharashtrians I met on campus, it was during the MICANVAS interviews, when our interview slots were one after the other. In return I am called Kaka :P She is one of the most versatile people in our batch, after having graduated from the best architecture college in the country, she decided to chuck it and get into brand management. She is also one of the core members of 4M - MICA Maharashtra Mitra Mandal :D Her claim to fame was as the choreographer of the 'Babli' dance for our freshers. And yeah the easiest way to make quick money is to partner with her for a quiz :-D

Maushi - sorry for not having introduced you earlier, hope all the 'mhaska' above makes up for it ;-)

Day 50 - 15th August 2010

Happy Independence Day and Happy half century for MICAlal ;-) Cant seem to remember the last time I celebrated I-day. In spite of it being a rest day I woke up at 8 for the function organised by CulComm. They had invited around 300 school children from the neighbouring areas on campus for the flag hoisting ceremony. The function got done by around 11 after which had to send a writeup for TI. During the course of the afternoon got to know that our mini vacation at Asoka had been brought to an end and we had to move back to Palaash. I had actually started missing life at Palaash and Im quite happy to be back. The only thing I'll miss about Asoka is the attached bathroom ;-) Moved back after lunch which took about half an hour.

Tried working on the PM assignment which was like fighting a losing battle against the impending stupor. Ended up sleeping for an hour or so, would have been longer had I not been woken up by phone calls from friends calling me to the football field to cheer MICA in a match against NIRMA. The match was good fun, we ended up beating them 5-1, our poor goalkeeper got so frustrated because after the first goal he had absolutely no work to do :-P Started working earnestly on the assignment after the match. Spent a couple of hours on researching about the different service offerings of airlines in the India UK sector, which was the second part of the assignment (for the first part pls. refer to day 49)

LitComm had organised a quiz in the night at the audi. A friend and I decided to go for the quiz at 1010 p.m while the deadline was at 1015 p.m. My luck with quizzes, when it comes to clearing the first round, has been quite good over the past week. Turns out that I had a brilliant partner and all I had to do was offer moral support :-) My only contribution was two answers in the elimination round, for the remaining questions all I did was agree with what she said. We made it to the top 5 and ended up finishing in joint third place. Unfortunately only the top 2 teams get cash prizes. Nonetheless that was much more than I would have bargained for, and I have promised my partner a treat at Chota for her stellar performance and letting me tag along :-D

After the quiz tried to give the finishing touches to my assignment, Im getting this feeling that its not too long and I could have done a better job. Anyways will know if Im right when the grades are announced.

To commemorate 50 days at MICA I would like to post this song , I have been listening to it on loop for the past 3 hours. Until tomorrow, adios!

Day 36 - 1st August Day

I never thought that my first proper friendship day celebration would be at the age of 25! CulComm had put up posters at all the hostels for people to post their friendship day messages and they even had an hour of song dedications during dinner at the mess, was good fun.

Apart from that since today was a rest day, there was nothing much to do. The problem was compounded by the sudden downpour which flooded the entire campus. The badi court and Palaash courtyard were submerged.The rains reminded me of Bombay,torrential would be an understatement. Few of us in the hostel tried to make the most of this kind of a situation by ordering for chai and pakodas from Chota. Because of this rain it'' take at least another 4-5 days for me to inaugurate my tennis racquet. Played UNO today after such a loong time, one of the few card games I know:-)

The only productive work done today was reading the 5 page case on Hot Chips. But with the kind of week we had I feel its ok to have a days like today.

P.S happy Friendship day to all my friends who read this blog :-)