Point is…. leaving college hurts, and sucks…I no longer know which is which.

I ended up attending the Retail class thinking it’d expedite the process of planning, and nothing fruitful came out of it except it didn’t gimme a chance to second-think my decision, coz I’d have ended up making some sorta financial argument against the thing anyway, and my balance sheets have been anything but positive lately and only today did I pay off my 3 month old debt to Aseem, but we’re deviating off the topic here…..

Oh as a postscript, I did succeed in marking attendance for oldie, and ask a couple of questions that I’m sure will get me a retaliation in some other subject pretty soon if not later….

The Planning Process started off with good ol’ google, and pretty soon we’d realised that the quaint little town was pretty popular with folks, and all the usual places were booked… and it came down to some place called oak’s inn or summat…. oh wait, I missed out the good parts.

The Good Parts:

Rao n people are having snacks in the canteen.

GOM : “Upar aa jaa yaar, plan finalise karte hain….”

Someone at the other end: “Yaar, beep beep khaane to de … “

GOM (To Us, after 2-3 such attempts) ” Main nahin jaa raha in… beepers beep beep beeper ke saath.”

GOM has a temper alright, trouble is it’s too well-masked by the Pride, Blender’s Pride

So everyone swallowed the pride ( figuratively here, in the good ol’ metaphorical way) and decided to plonk for Lansdownejaiharikhal.wordpress.comedible reason to believe is a good place, apart from apparently being the place Ruskin Bond lives. Checklist: Tavera, woollens, camera, me (check laptop ( not allowed) cellphones( well , parental controls)

Let’s get underway. Lansdowne, here I come.

Man, I just read some of the guys’ blogs for Numero Uno and looks like they alreadyhave made it to the most googled blogs in the ‘entrepreneur’ category….add india+blogs to that an looks like we have the famed ‘page rank’ algorithm all figured out!! So much for intellectual awesomeness Mr.Brin and Mr. Page…wonder why it wasn’t called Brin-Rinse or something…but there I’m being irreverent again…..

Looks like we’re in for some crazy times ahead in Bangalore….while some of us have already posted our thoughts on the topic for today, some of us are busy typing away on MS-Wor and wil upload the same at 1959….intellectual privacy rights-anyone????

Oh so why I’m writing this entry out – turns out ALL of us have something in common even before we’ve embarked on the ‘quest’ (I don’t know why THAT word is used so often)… viz.

a) Everybody comes from a ‘travelling’ family…one or the other parent having moved around a lot.

b) Have a sidekick hobby- typically reading (either blogs or books).

c) Have done some kind of voluntary activity either for a social or organizational cause…..

That makes for some very interesting stereotyping whatsay? And some not so interesting stereoyping as well – most of us are ‘guys’ and have some kink for technology…. could be a coincidence you know….

We live in fortunate times though, and that cannot be denied….there are today institutes like EDI and institutions like NEN to provide angel funding as ell as put budding entrepreneurs on the right path….. Not only is advice and funding meted out but these organizations also double up as placement firms; providing to the corporate, a ‘better employee fit’ for various profiles and projects.

A wait…that ended in the D being late,

A wait that was interminable, the thing just dragged on and on, plethora of talent you see,,,….

Funny timing issue cropped up…like the prayer to be sung only when the D was present….and no dances in the D’s presence…..not that there was anything untoward in the dances in the first place….but then you never know right?

Lose to Hull at home, bash Porto and then draw with Sunderland….just another week…!

Play lovely football guys and always be the critics’ choice, but not on the winning side..no definitely not.

Anyway, there’s an element of deja vu in the entire series of outcomes because this has been happening to anothe thing that’s driving me crazy these days…the Dark Knight; dspite my princely contribution of $10 in the 960 odd million it had made, it’s still not any closer to the $1 billion mark by a long shot…why $1 billion? I dunno….jsut one of those things tiny and inexplicable, like wishing Sachin scores a century and thereabouts…there isn’t anything much for the sports fan in India anyway……DD covers Saina’ matches (correct spelling, mind you…) and DD is not even tuned to, in some of the households…. I mean who’d b caught dead watching DD today?

A debate won is a debate settled one might say, but not completely so….the debate on what are the returns n investment  earned by coming all the way to Lucknow for a debate is completely justified by a shiny trophy, bu not when one is also paying for one’s ticket…..so what if only second class? Students you see, perennial paupers….