Day 363 - 18th December 2011

Had a full day of classes on Entertainment Media today. The sessions dealt with the business of music in India. There were two visiting faculty members, both of whom had experience in the music industry from two different  perspectives - one was an artiste who was part of India's first all boy band and the other worked for record labels. The revenue distribution models of companies alongwith the different types of royalty paid were covered. The problem of piracy was also discussed and how some bands were actually using it to their advantage. The lecture ended with a live performance of one of this song :D Dinner was at Havmor with Sania, though the place serves only vegetarian, the food is really good. Tried the chinese cuisine out there which was unexpectedly good. Got back to campus and had another round of sweatshirt distribution to take care of. Satya's birthday was celebrated in Chinar at midnight, luckily there was no dunking involved! Spent a good two hours just chit chatting with Apu, Manu, Jayati, Sania, Satya and Kore. The topics of discussion ranged from ragging in engineering colleges to campus gossip! Was up till 3 in the morning. Have 3 assignment submissions and 1 end term exam over the next couple of days, but will get down to tackling them from tomorrow :P

Day 169 - 10th January 2011

The last term of the first term begins, how time flies! 6 months back when I was coming to this place I did not know what to expect, and today when I came back to Palaash it felt like I was back home. It's also going to be my last 3 months in Palaash, and now I know why all the seniors and alumni have such a special bond with this place. Lots to look forward to in this term, placements for seniors, committee elections for our batch, new hostel allocations and of course the 2011 Cricket World Cup :D

Back to today, reached campus at around 745 in the morning. Was amongst the first few people to get back on campus. People slowly started trickling into campus before the first lecture. Had 2 lectures of Brand Management (BM) and one each in Ethics in Business (EB) and Mutivariate Data Analysis (MDA). All were taken by visiting faculty. The EB prof. is pretty experienced he is a Harvard MBA pass out and was one of the founding members of IIM-A alongwith Dr. Sarabhai. He was also on the panel that interviewed CK Prahlad! He had a lot of examples to share on ethics and it was really interesting hearing him out. BM is being taken by a relatively young prof. who is from the advertising industry, he had a very structured approach in today's class, hope he continues the same way for other classes as well. MDA is basically QT III , just had an overview of the subject and what to expect over the next 3 months.

After lectures and lunch went to the office to pay off the term fees. Came back to the room and slept for a while. In the evening Maushi and I went to Gulmohar Mall to buy a gift for Jayati who is turning 21 tomorrow. Also went to TGB to buy cakes, yes we always buy 2 cakes, one to smear on the face and the other to eat :D Got back to campus by around 830 and I started off setting my room in order. That took about an hour so. Coming to campus after such a long break means there a lot of goodies brought from home. Since afternoon have been feasting on Gajar Halwa, Sandesh, Chocolates and many other goodies. Am pretty stuffed now!!

Day 127 - 13th November 2010

Today's is another 'hatke' post. Jayati Somani is the latest victim of Mallu's tactics on the basketball court and as luck would have it she is the guest writer for today :-D.Steve Waugh was the proponent of mental disintegration but Mallu is the beacon of physical disintegration, he doesn't sledge because he is a sledgehammer :D Jokes apart, in the poor guy's defence all the instances Jayati mentions below were unintentional, nonetheless they provide us one more reason to pull Mallu's leg who at the end of the day takes it like a sport :-)

Chronicles of a Marauder

We all know and have heard of the ‘Mallu’ on Siddharth’s blog before. Yes, he’s the dude with

no hair, a crazy hyena laugh (which has the ability to hound you till the end of time), has different notions about life (Well, yes he does belong to a different era) and what can I say? He’s a little different.

However, what people don’t know about him is that he is also known as the Malyali Marauder.And with good reason.Any girl in and around MICA campus who has felt a searing pain through any part of her body which has left her incapacitated for a minimum of 24 hours has definitely had some sort of a contact with the Marauder( let’s call him MM from now on, shall we?). He is the one to give girls black eyes, broken toes and dislocated jaws. It would be safe to say that many a girl has had a sleepless night because of MM(and not just because of his crazy loud laugh).

Speculation is rife about why or how it so happens that it is always MM who ends up punching any sort of female presence around him. Some say he was once slapped by an older sister and he sees her in every girl’s face. Some say he sees the face of an old flame. Some say he’s plain chauvinistic and wants to wipe out the entire XX chromosome population of the face of the earth. This insane mad doctor mission of obliterating women altogether is obviously accompanied by his repeated attempts to perfect the art of asexual reproduction after which he apparently plans to take over the world- state by state (Kerala comes first obviously!).

Grapevine also has it that he maintains an album of all his victims and crosses out their faces as and when his attack and eventual ambush is complete (evil smile intact while he’s doing so).

It won’t be very long before the police put out a reward on his capture.

Meanwhile- girls- Beware! Hunt him down before he does you.

Get him.

Dead or Alive.