The year that was and the year to be
Dear loved one's back home,
The last few weeks has been a little rough. Couple of exams and vain attempts to rote learning of reams and reams of archaic content. I am through those dull moments of MBA! I can now proclaim myself comfortably as a half MBA ! Phew that's quiet some stuff. Its getting freezing cold here and my definition of cold is quiet skewed. Less than 30C is freezing winter for me and its 13 C here !
Om Sweet Om
I cant wait for the winter break coz I am GoInG HoMe !! Its the "NRI returning home syndrome." Gosh am I an NRI :) Well I wont make melodramatic Swades like Comments . Vivekananda said " I travelled all over the the world and came home to find peace" well that's all crap. I am going home to find chaos! Its kind of mixed emotions. While I am elated about feeling my dear home, I am unduly concerned about the uncanny questions from my stake holders and investors (Read parents and brother). Debts are piling up and still no signs of hitting any oil well. My Shareholders (Read my extended family of Grannies, Uncles & Cousins) would further precipitate the alarm by asking some more unflappable questions on my grades and future plan. How I am going to wade through this maze with out my share price tumbling down and maintain investor confidence, while still securing my second round of equity financing will be rest of the story. Well now its obvious that I have just given my finance exam!
Vegetarian by birth or by design
After the arranged marriage stuff (Which I am now bored explaining to them), the one thing that most perplexes non Indians is the fact that some of us are vegetarian! When I went to China, My classmates wife showed us to her kid and said look we have some vegetarians. He looked at us like he had seen some strange animals in Zoo. Vegetarianism is a really alien concept in China. After some thoughtful moments he asked me how I manged to grow so tall without eating meat! The general notion of an Indian among the people all over the world is this. They are very religious people (bordering fundamentalism is what they think) they are all vegetarians, and that they are all Computer whiz kids. I score 2 out of 3 in this generalization and that is good enough for this stereo type to fit in. They often confuse Veg. to religion. So a Veg. would often be mis conceived as a religious person. That's a very wrong notion to carry for the atheist foreigner. You will be viewed like the Osama Bin Laden types!! So this is my new tag line " I am a vegetarian by design, my biological system lacks meat digestion DNA and hence I am incapable of eating Meat." After you say this there is a look of sympathy like u were physically handicapped and I ride on that sympathy wave quite often to win over some people.
That was the year that was
Year 2007 is down in the drain. Certain things have gone well and certain others are what I would diplomatically call failed experiments. How ever the most important take away from this MBA is the demise of my bias and pre conceived notions of what I considered as facts but those that turned out to be myths. The most stark example is English. A lot of us assume that English is a sign of knowledge. My experience is that it cant be further from truth. I have met a lot of bright individuals who cant speak 4 lines of proper English but posses a razor sharp brain. We often get put off with their speaking ability and assumptions like these inhibit us from hearing or knowing him any further. My innate bias on English, appearance and rigid belief have all been put to test in this last 6 months. They have all clumsily failed!!
The Year that will be
Like most of you I am confused about year 2008. I am bracing up for some rejections and failures in the next year (Not that I have not seen it before). I am looking forward to fulfilling my long awaited dream of studying at LBS. I am bracing myself for a painful job hunt next year. I am looking forward to posing for a photo while wearing the scholar cap and having the MBA degree in my hand and smiling at my parents. I dread the uncertainty that the next year brings with it. What ever it does as long as it is eventful and gripping I guess that's an year well lived for ! Wish you all a very happy & prosperous new year !!
I didn't imagine my rambling would go on for so long into my MBA . By now I guess most of you would have realized that through you, I talk to myself as much I talk to you!! Nothing delights me more than hearing from you.
I am attaching some photos I took in China.
The last few weeks has been a little rough. Couple of exams and vain attempts to rote learning of reams and reams of archaic content. I am through those dull moments of MBA! I can now proclaim myself comfortably as a half MBA ! Phew that's quiet some stuff. Its getting freezing cold here and my definition of cold is quiet skewed. Less than 30C is freezing winter for me and its 13 C here !
Om Sweet Om
I cant wait for the winter break coz I am GoInG HoMe !! Its the "NRI returning home syndrome." Gosh am I an NRI :) Well I wont make melodramatic Swades like Comments . Vivekananda said " I travelled all over the the world and came home to find peace" well that's all crap. I am going home to find chaos! Its kind of mixed emotions. While I am elated about feeling my dear home, I am unduly concerned about the uncanny questions from my stake holders and investors (Read parents and brother). Debts are piling up and still no signs of hitting any oil well. My Shareholders (Read my extended family of Grannies, Uncles & Cousins) would further precipitate the alarm by asking some more unflappable questions on my grades and future plan. How I am going to wade through this maze with out my share price tumbling down and maintain investor confidence, while still securing my second round of equity financing will be rest of the story. Well now its obvious that I have just given my finance exam!
Vegetarian by birth or by design
After the arranged marriage stuff (Which I am now bored explaining to them), the one thing that most perplexes non Indians is the fact that some of us are vegetarian! When I went to China, My classmates wife showed us to her kid and said look we have some vegetarians. He looked at us like he had seen some strange animals in Zoo. Vegetarianism is a really alien concept in China. After some thoughtful moments he asked me how I manged to grow so tall without eating meat! The general notion of an Indian among the people all over the world is this. They are very religious people (bordering fundamentalism is what they think) they are all vegetarians, and that they are all Computer whiz kids. I score 2 out of 3 in this generalization and that is good enough for this stereo type to fit in. They often confuse Veg. to religion. So a Veg. would often be mis conceived as a religious person. That's a very wrong notion to carry for the atheist foreigner. You will be viewed like the Osama Bin Laden types!! So this is my new tag line " I am a vegetarian by design, my biological system lacks meat digestion DNA and hence I am incapable of eating Meat." After you say this there is a look of sympathy like u were physically handicapped and I ride on that sympathy wave quite often to win over some people.
That was the year that was
Year 2007 is down in the drain. Certain things have gone well and certain others are what I would diplomatically call failed experiments. How ever the most important take away from this MBA is the demise of my bias and pre conceived notions of what I considered as facts but those that turned out to be myths. The most stark example is English. A lot of us assume that English is a sign of knowledge. My experience is that it cant be further from truth. I have met a lot of bright individuals who cant speak 4 lines of proper English but posses a razor sharp brain. We often get put off with their speaking ability and assumptions like these inhibit us from hearing or knowing him any further. My innate bias on English, appearance and rigid belief have all been put to test in this last 6 months. They have all clumsily failed!!
The Year that will be
Like most of you I am confused about year 2008. I am bracing up for some rejections and failures in the next year (Not that I have not seen it before). I am looking forward to fulfilling my long awaited dream of studying at LBS. I am bracing myself for a painful job hunt next year. I am looking forward to posing for a photo while wearing the scholar cap and having the MBA degree in my hand and smiling at my parents. I dread the uncertainty that the next year brings with it. What ever it does as long as it is eventful and gripping I guess that's an year well lived for ! Wish you all a very happy & prosperous new year !!
I didn't imagine my rambling would go on for so long into my MBA . By now I guess most of you would have realized that through you, I talk to myself as much I talk to you!! Nothing delights me more than hearing from you.
I am attaching some photos I took in China.
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