Day 439 - 27th March 2012

Woke up at 2 in the afternoon. Summer has set in - it was horribly hot throughout the day. Skipped lunch at the mess and had a late lunch from Chota. Had convocation rehearsal in the evening which went on for an hour. Dinner was at Chokhi Dhani - courtesy our dissertation guide who wanted to take all of us out for dinner. It was good fun. Got back to campus by 11 in the night. Had the Kachnar party after that. The party will go on into the wee hours of the morning but I am calling it a day early, am too old to pull off back to back nigh outs :P

Day 438 - 26th March 2012

Today marked the beginning of the last week at MICA. Woke up at 11 and had some MCSA work to take care of. 12 of us were giving a joint birthday party in the night which meant that most of the afternoon went in preparing for that. Swati, Manu and I went to ISCON to pick up cold drinks and snacks for the party. Got back to campus by 5 in the evening. SCAM had organized an arm wrestling championship which provided ample entertainment in the mess during dinner. Post dinner the party preparations took over again. The party was good fun with the dancing going on till 730 in the morning :P Its been a while since an all nighter has been pulled off after being on the dance floor for so long ;-)

Day 411 - 28th February 2011

Had our International Marketing group presentation in the morning today. It went off well, the prof gave us a few pointers which we could have worked on. Afternoon to evening was completely occupied with MCSA work. Had a meeting with the director and executive registrar. Then had a meeting some of the faculty members regarding the dissertation submissions. Played tennis in the evening for a bit. That was followed by the inter hostel tug of war competition. Spent half an hour at the gym before an all committee meeting for the selection of the senior committees. There was a post dissertation submission party organized in the night and the theme was Absolut Fantasy, where people had to come dressed up as their fantasies. Yours truly went as an F1 race driver since the Force India shirt, cap and helmet were easily available. Other people also got into the thick of things with people coming as Rauf Lala (from Agneepath), Langda Tyagi, Don Corleone, A nurse, Wolverine, Men in Black, ManU man (just to name a few). Was awesome fun. Had a good time with my batchmates after a really long time. Was a nice way to kick start the relatively free month of March.

Day 396 - 3rd February 2012

The routine of getting up early for the past week didn't help when I wanted to sleep in and wake up post noon. Spent the first half of the day wrapping up some MCSA work. Played tennis in the afternoon for a long time - almost 3 hours! Was good fun considering I won't be able to play for the next 10 days. Went to Bopal for a haircut after the game. As is the case so many times I am unable to to judge how short the hair is cut since I am dont wear my specs. Was subject to a super crew cut today. Got back to campus by 8. Dinner was at Millenium  where I discovered a new dish today - Shikari Kebab. Had to come back and pack for the impending trip - will be away for 10 days courtesy two weddings in the family. The winter party was held in the Palaash courtyard today. Stayed up till 4 in the morning by when it was time to leave for the airport.

Will be back after 10 days, see you on the other side!

Day 244 - 28th March 2011

Had another meeting with the director and placecomm today. Went on for an hour or so. Had to give the bike for servicing in the afternoon, its only March and summer has already set in. Going out in the afternoon turned out to be a huge mistake, got roasted in the heat. On the way back picked up cartons for the stuff that was going to be left back on campus. Slept for a couple of hours in the afternoon. Had the Culnite followed by the farewell party for PGP2 in the night. The highlight of the culnite was when 2 PGP2 PGP1 couples, popularly known as PGP1.5 performed danced to a medley of songs on stage. That got the crowd going :). The party was good fun, went on till 9 in the morning. Quite a few of the seniors got emotional, dont blame them for it, they will definitely miss this place.

Day 72 - 6th September 2010

All our preparation for the Markops presentation resulted in zilch - the prof never asked us to present. Maybe Aila!Markops needs to work on how its brand is perceived :-) Those were the only lectures for the day. Since we have the ID submission coming up in a couple of days, decided to come to the library to start working on it. We have to write an individual diary based on the results of certain personality tests that we gave online. Not very interesting but can't help it.

As per another MICA tradition, the juniors are supposed to throw a party for the seniors before the seniors leave for their rural projects. That party was tonight, so slept for a while in the afternoon and helped in jazzing up Palaash. During the course of decorating Palaash a new committee was formed on campus; 4M - MICA Maharashtra Mitra Mandal, the group of all Maharashtrians and Pseudo Maharashtrians. Our punchline is 'Gheuntak' :-D The structure of the committee and designations will be decided in the due course of time.

The party was good fun, the people from our batch who organized it did a brilliant job. Was up till 7 in the morning, have loads of work to do today but first some shut eye beckons!