Life is like that
Dear loved ones back home,
Its been over 2 weeks since I have arrived and it already looks like a long time ... God what a horrible cliche that was !
Have sorted out some of my Initial hurdles. Food is no longer an issue now... I cook daily if u can call it that way.
Bank accounts, laundry, Grocery stores have all fallen in place. The demography of the city is such that even GPS Thangam will get easily lost.
The city is built on a hill... every cent of land is cleverly used. HK is great at making something out of nothing; I am hoping it will do the same for me someday.
Apart from the language there is another downside of life here. U will be shell shocked to see the size of the apartment. A 340 sq ft house will have 2 bedrooms, Kitchen, Hall and a Bathroom. I will be moving to one such apartment soon :(. It seems that is the normal size of a house in this part of the world.
HKU MBA
Classes have started in due earnest. There is a Swiss professor, A Professor from Shanghai who co founded DHL and HK Professor who taught in Princeton earlier. I learned that there is more divesity than I had Initially reported to you. That really spices up the class room discussion. The Italians hog all the limelight with there appearances and ridiculous comments. There are quiet Handsome too, another reason for the ladies attn. Like U guessed it correctly we dont like them ! The Chinese tend to be more reserved and would say some thing only when called by name. There English would be in par with Muniamma's English. Even Atal Bihari Vajpayee would speak faster than them. The beauty and the Irony is is that they feel the same way about us. One of them had the nerve to tell us that he doesn't follow Indian English!! I am more conscious these days about my rate of speech. Deliberately trying to slow it down.
I thought earlier that the religion was the biggest divisive force in the world but now revise that opinion to Nationality. Though all of us try to break the ice by trying to make some initial conversations about one's back ground, work ex. future plans etc we all have a natural tendency to go back to Indian Junta to feel comfortable and feel at ease. guess that's the psyche for the Chinese,Europeans and Americans too. We have been told time and again not to get herded with our own people.I guess that will take a little more time.
One of the biggest Jargon's one will hear at MBA is "NETWORKING". It means go out and meet people. Sell yourselves constantly. Build connections. I have realized that this is a much used and abused word ! I am not too sure if one will hear this in an Indian MBA. There is a Big reason... MBA's at India is always parcelled with a Job. The Prof asked us why we are doing an MBA, Typical Indian answer would be " To get a nice job *big Salary*" I would have said the same thing. But it seems U do MBA for Improving networking opportunities for the knowledge blah blah... all of us know that's crap. Especially the parents reading the mail wouldn't agree :). The reality is this MBA and most of other MBA's don't get a job for you. You arrange it yourself with your networking skills !! London Business school (Ranked 3rd in the world) has 20 % MBA's still without a job. That's a gloomy sight but parents don't panic please....There are many opportunities to network so something will hopefully come up !! It seems its only with the IIMs that jobs come with a silver spoon and fed to the mouth. Dhanya don't get annoyed , I am not taking the credit from anybody :)
There is so much more to tell you but will stop here for paucity of time
Here are some photos from Asia's world city. (Tower of Shame is the depiction of the Tinnamen square Massacre - Very controversial topic in HK)
Life is like that...
Miss all of you
regards
Arun (Jillu)
Its been over 2 weeks since I have arrived and it already looks like a long time ... God what a horrible cliche that was !
Have sorted out some of my Initial hurdles. Food is no longer an issue now... I cook daily if u can call it that way.
Bank accounts, laundry, Grocery stores have all fallen in place. The demography of the city is such that even GPS Thangam will get easily lost.
The city is built on a hill... every cent of land is cleverly used. HK is great at making something out of nothing; I am hoping it will do the same for me someday.
Apart from the language there is another downside of life here. U will be shell shocked to see the size of the apartment. A 340 sq ft house will have 2 bedrooms, Kitchen, Hall and a Bathroom. I will be moving to one such apartment soon :(. It seems that is the normal size of a house in this part of the world.
HKU MBA
Classes have started in due earnest. There is a Swiss professor, A Professor from Shanghai who co founded DHL and HK Professor who taught in Princeton earlier. I learned that there is more divesity than I had Initially reported to you. That really spices up the class room discussion. The Italians hog all the limelight with there appearances and ridiculous comments. There are quiet Handsome too, another reason for the ladies attn. Like U guessed it correctly we dont like them ! The Chinese tend to be more reserved and would say some thing only when called by name. There English would be in par with Muniamma's English. Even Atal Bihari Vajpayee would speak faster than them. The beauty and the Irony is is that they feel the same way about us. One of them had the nerve to tell us that he doesn't follow Indian English!! I am more conscious these days about my rate of speech. Deliberately trying to slow it down.
I thought earlier that the religion was the biggest divisive force in the world but now revise that opinion to Nationality. Though all of us try to break the ice by trying to make some initial conversations about one's back ground, work ex. future plans etc we all have a natural tendency to go back to Indian Junta to feel comfortable and feel at ease. guess that's the psyche for the Chinese,Europeans and Americans too. We have been told time and again not to get herded with our own people.I guess that will take a little more time.
One of the biggest Jargon's one will hear at MBA is "NETWORKING". It means go out and meet people. Sell yourselves constantly. Build connections. I have realized that this is a much used and abused word ! I am not too sure if one will hear this in an Indian MBA. There is a Big reason... MBA's at India is always parcelled with a Job. The Prof asked us why we are doing an MBA, Typical Indian answer would be " To get a nice job *big Salary*" I would have said the same thing. But it seems U do MBA for Improving networking opportunities for the knowledge blah blah... all of us know that's crap. Especially the parents reading the mail wouldn't agree :). The reality is this MBA and most of other MBA's don't get a job for you. You arrange it yourself with your networking skills !! London Business school (Ranked 3rd in the world) has 20 % MBA's still without a job. That's a gloomy sight but parents don't panic please....There are many opportunities to network so something will hopefully come up !! It seems its only with the IIMs that jobs come with a silver spoon and fed to the mouth. Dhanya don't get annoyed , I am not taking the credit from anybody :)
There is so much more to tell you but will stop here for paucity of time
Here are some photos from Asia's world city. (Tower of Shame is the depiction of the Tinnamen square Massacre - Very controversial topic in HK)
Life is like that...
Miss all of you
regards
Arun (Jillu)
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