B'day in the Bus n train, inbetween Pune....

This was surely the craziest way in which I have ever celebrated my B'day. Due to some unforseen events, I along with Kankarson had to leave Ahmadabad, the day after we reached there. There were no seats available in all the train originating from Ahmadababd towards south, so we had to go to Mumbai by bus n then from there catch a train to Salem.

Well at 12 I was in the bus somewhere in Gujrat. Got calls from a few people on the cellphone as AIRCEL has roaming facillity in Gujrat, but the moment we entered Maharastra there was no coverage.

We reached Mumbai at 10 am, then I made a plan to go to Pune n meet some of my old school n college friends. Mr. Kankarson gave his luggage to me n left for INOX to watch some movie, Somehow I reached pune at 3 pm.

After reaching Pune, I had 3 hrs in my hand as Kankarson would be coming from Mumbai in the train at 6.30 pm. One of my friend came n picked me at the station, from then on it was a mad rush, as non of my friends could come at a common place 'cas of some work. But all of them wanted to meet me, so then I optimized my travel plan n covered some 45 kms meeting 6 of my friends at 6 different places. I also went to the temple in between which is on a hill, went up n came down in flat 7 mins, some kinda record. Well had to cut a lot of pastries 'cas cake couldnt be arranged. Somehow manged to reach the station JIT.

Well it was fun, a mad rush, did something different, infact somehow managed to make my B'day beautiful, which otherwise would have been a dull affair. Special thanks to Abhishek n Kunal for making my day great. After coming back to BIM, the guys celeberated my B'day in the traditional manner of BIM.

Trip to the mecca of Indian B schools

This was one trip which the five of us had been waiting for, esp. our Gujju. As we won the third prize in the IIMA Confluence's, Mousetrap event so we were going for an all expences paid trip to IIMA. Well the journey was long and after lots of confusion 4 of us left Trichy without Kankarson, we had to spend one full day in Bangalore, 'cas of the train timings. Inbetween Kankarson decided he will also come, but somehow he wasnt able to reach Bangalore on time, so he missed the train.

The journey was fun, 4 of us kept playing Uno, people travelling with us became curious n joined us in the game. We reached Ahmadabad n then we went to Gandhinagar, to meet Gujju's parents. There we eat lots of Dhokla n many many things. But Kankarson somehow even after missing the train reached Ahmedabad by bus, he looked tired.

DAY 1 in IIMA

We left Gujju's house in the afternoon n reached IIMA just before the event started. The IIMA guys had assigned a Buddy to all the teams, our buddy was Divya. We asked her as to is it necessary for us to were formals, she told us u can were anything but today being the inaguration pls avoid wearing shorts (All of were shocked, "Shorts are allowed for an event of such magnitude"). They took us for a dinner to FUN REPUBLIC, all the doms were assigned a few teams whom they had to take for dinner. These people were really caring n they didnt show that they had any 'horns'. Well I will say they are really down to earth. After dinner we saw a movie n then went to the CC.

DAY 2
The four of us got up late as usual except Siddhartha, so we missed the first session. We got to know that this time the summer placement in IIMA has been the best in its history. We met a guy who got his summers in JP Morgan n was sad, WHY!!!!!! 'cas he had to do his summers in Mumbai.

IIMA is a class apart, well it definately gets n also selects the best brains in India. The relative grading scheme makes the guys to study hard, if something like that would have been in BIM what would have happened!!!! Also they have only 4 hours of classes everyday n weekends r holidays.

28 hrs in IIMA

My stay in IIMA was cut short 'cas of some happenings (reason- most of u know). But these 28 hrs in IIMA were great.