Day 420 - 8th March 2012

Unlike last year, stayed back on campus for Holi. The festivities began by around 11. Every year a tanker is called and a particular patch of land is made into slurry where people are dragged into as an initiation to Holi. This year was no different, the tradition of guys' shirts being ripped off also was adhered to strictly. Some poor souls committed the crime of walking out in jeans, a t-shirt and sports shoes and they were summarily punished. There was also a couple of guys who after getting their shirts ripped off wore another shirt and came back. Those shirts weren't spared either!

Slept in the afternoon for a good couple of hours. Went to the gym in the evening. Dinner was another place that was on the Ahmeabad bucket list - Souq. It serves mediterranean,  moroccan and lebanese food. Had shawarma rolls out there which was quite good. That was followed by dessert at the chocolate room, tried the rocky road chocolate pizza which was out of this world! Was left wondering why I never tried it earlier. Got back to campus by midnight. Continued reading Corner of A Foreign Field before calling it a day.

Day 359 - 14th December 2011

Played tennis in the morning for about an hour. Didnt have classes in the morning but had a company presentation at 1030 which went on for a couple of hours. Post lunch, managed to squeeze in a disturbed siesta. In the course of 2 hours, was woken up at least 4 times for different reasons. Played cricket in the Kachnar courtyard in the evening, following which had planned to start working on the semiotics assignment which was originally die tomorrow. Got a mail that the deadline got postponed to 19th of the month which meant the evening was relatively free. In continuation of going out for dinner over the past couple of weeks, went to Mainland China for dinner. The soup and starters itself were quite filling, so skipped the main course and went to Chocolate Room for desserts, the dutch truffle shake was a nice way to end a sumptuous meal! Got back to campus and did general tp on the net. Will make the most of the weather and call it a day early again!  

Day 94 - 8th October

Had only 2 lectures today. One of them was our first lecture on cost accounting. Now based on my experience in FA I wasn't exactly looking forward to this course, however the prof. is really good and I really liked his first lecture. He is an IIM-A alumni and his method of teaching is similar to their style of delivering courses. There are pre reads and cases that need to be done before the class and anybody in class can be questioned on them, so it has to be done! And to add to that he is a very very knowledgable guy with more nearly 40 years of corporate experience, so there is loads to learn from him.

Played cricket in the afternoon, after which I had to take the bike for servicing. But I did everything except that! The service centre was running over capacity so I couldn't leave the bike for servicing, Apu had also come along since she needed to buy some stuff from Bopal, so we decided to go to subway. At subway we called Mallu and Maushi and asked them to meet us at chocolate room. Chocolate room is similar to Mocha where you get milkshakes,pancakes, pizzas and many other things all made from chocolate. Was my first visit there, hogged on death by chocolate pancake and ferroro rocher milkshake. Such impromptu trips are always fun. During the ride through the city noticed a lot of pandals which were very well lit up, Navaratri is going to be fun in this place, looking forward to it!