leaving XL

I graduated from XL in the middle of a recession. Didn’t get a job in FMCG, got a job that didn’t pay me a million rupees a year, did not get a cushy trainee stint with end of the year bonuses just for completing the stint to start with, and worst of all, didn’t get [...]

BodhiTree-Revisited

ok.lets get over with the confession part of it,first-while i like the music of BodhiTree-I am NOT a diehard fan.In fact,only by the very loosest definition would I be called a fan,if at all.Given a choice, I would more rather listen to The Eagles,Pink Floyd, The Doors, Tina Turner, R D Burman or even Guns [...]

spanish

night classes till 1am for spanish are a major pain,of course,but studying a language can be very imtertaining at times.like today. this exchange: “donde trabajas, Monique?”   [where do you work, Monique?]

too far gone

you know you are too far gone and need a break when you spray AXE instead of relispray on your aching back. and,of course, when you have a history of having sprayed relispray instead of AXE before going to class  :( Current Song: Betaab Dil ki Tamanna Yehi Hai

the JRD Tata Ethics Oration

we just had the 18th jrd tata ethics oration.speaker was anil kakodkar, chairman of the DAE. impressive presentation into the realities of india’s nuclear energy capabilities and energy problems foreseen and solutions, and about thorium based reactors. more about it later.right now am too busy with number crunching. N.B. the first JRD Tata oration was [...]

SMS (Save My Soul)

peoples, the writer of this blog is in grave danger of not being able to complete his dissertation in time. if you want him to survive another day (well…at XL), please click the link below and fill up the survey you find. Click here to take the survey now . he has 24 hours more…(well…if [...]

no gain without pain

ethics class at 2 30PM. so discussion after 1 30 class ends goes like this: G1 (for guy 1): aaj ethics ka kuch karna tha kya? g2:pata nahi yaar… g3:aaj movie dikhayega kya? (prof has threatened to show us pseud documentaries like “an inconvenient truth” and “enron:smartest guys in the room” g4:porn dikhaye to accha [...]

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have a wetnite in a few minutes.it is so cold,and my jacket is still with the drycleaner.and just had an embarassing moment.and england lost the series.they fought well though.ironic,them having to make 32 more than they had conceded.they must be cursing duckworth and lewis, now that they have been screwed twice in succession.as i told [...]

update

i am alive.and as well as can be expected in the circumstances.have not been posting cuz did not get any time to write. not that with the things i have been doing, there has been any inclination to. i have been doing two of those most detestable of things…updating my resume; and reading research papers. [...]

buri nazar waale…

so one goes to dadu’s today to get a coffee and smoke, and after all the hectic activity of the summers week, one is bit more peaceful, and able to observe things. and so, what does one see? a new addition; an accessory probably installed during the diwali days. and so we can now be [...]