Day 388: Oct 10,2010

Dooxle work went on till morning. Completed the work around 7:30. Decided to have breakfast and then sleep. Spend time watching HIMYM. Slept around 10 and got up around 6:00pm. refined the dooxle work with uday, and sent it across. Had dinner, then browsed for sometime. Not much work today, other than Dooxle, Red river.
Day 387: Oct 9,2010
had been working on red river untill 5. Woke up arnd 11, and went for SDM class. then had 3 hr session of R&S class. Followed by special guest lecture in SDM. Came back, dozed off for a while and went to CC arnd 10. Maddy, Soumya, Nirmal were already there.. Started t work on t red river project.
Day 386: Oct 8,2010
Had slept arnd 8:30. Uday woke me up arnd 12,for t SDM class. Was dozing mostly throughout t class. Then came back and dozed off in t afternoon. Had dinner and went to CC for working on red river. T whole team- soumya, maddy and nirmal were grouped for t long day (oops, night) ahead.

Day 385: Oct 7,2010

Got to R&S class JIT. after JIT, had lunch and continued with BE class. read the MCT case for sometime and then slept off for the remaining time. Met with the Admin for JT work with the whole team. went thro t RnS slides and dozed off for sometime. then after dinner, went to CC and contd with t SDM readings

Day 384: Oct 6,2010

Was working early into morning on the MCT project proposal presentation. RnS, BE class were fine. the project presentation was fine. since hadnt prepared for it, fumbled in t middle. Then went for jogging and then went to CC. Maddy & uday were already there and we had discussion for a strategy competition for 2 hrs. then i contd with RnS slides.

Day 369: Sept 21,2010

Slept around 5am. So woke up aroun 10:25. Reached class 5 mins late. The attendance had being already taken, t prof gave a surprise quiz on the case to be read on tat day. After t class, asked t RA for attendance, he refused sayin latecomers wont get attendance. This term's first attendance missing starts. Then had a 2.5 hrs break, which was utilized by dozin off. Then had M/A class, which was as usual. had a surprise quiz in tat too. After t class, had evening snacks and started t project grp allotment for R&S course. After tat, started with MCT ppt on t book 'Only t paranoids survive'. Maddy asked me, uday to join her for celebrating TG's bday at 8. left t phone in room and went to TG room while she went for collectin t cake. She didnt turn up till 8:30. Found her coming out of Mess, kinda pissed off coz had planned few activities, so shouted at her for delayin it. seems t cake was not ready. She got emotional. Somehow convinced her, and went back to room. Later went to TG room, where Kiran, Maddy, Uday, Gitanjali & abhinav were there. after cutting t cake, and smearing it over TG, TG smeared some cake on Kiran. Kiran, did t same to me. I took more cake and put it on him. thus ensued a battle between us - kiran tryin to put cake on me, and i stoppin him. Went back to room, changed dress and came back to have dinner. Then went to CC for completing the MCT ppt and readin a case. Time close to 4am now. Gotta hit t sack...!

Day 368: Sept 20,2010

Had a 10:30 class. Had slept around 5:30 yesterday. Woke up around 10am. After the ATSC class, had lunch and came back and started the paranoid book, had 2o more pages to read, so was able to finish it finally. Dozed off for a while, got up with 10 mins to go. Refreshed and ran to the class. The prof announced a surprise quiz on t case which was to be read today. There were a set of 4 questions to be answered, one questions for 4 grps of students he had segmented t class into. When he was about to collect t papers, he asked if we had read t case. except 4-5 students,t rest of t class was ignorant of the case. t rest of t class went by t prof giving us lecture of properly read t case along with discussin few details of t case. After that we had a leadership class, which I, maddy & uday wanted to sit through. Just before t class started, i and uday approached madam and asked her t permission. to our surprise, she asked us not to attend this session and probably come for future classes. So we went back and put on the movie 'Bicentennial man'. T movie was sweet but kinda dragging and long. after that, maddy joined us, uday and she started workin on their SDM report while i dozed off. Later, got call from shop socially founder regarding a live project which thy had floated. t call went well and then had dinner. I and maddy met soumya after dinner and we sent t mail to red river owner regarding another live project. Then came to CC and read t ATSC case for tom. started work on the first love, part 4, but the flow wasnt present. Somehow, wrote a part of it. rest of it to be taken later. almost 5am now. gotta hit t sack now.

Day 367: Sept 19,2010

Woke up relaxingly around 11:30. had to go out for Just tea work which had being pending for 3 days. Uday had got Gopi's bike so got it and went outside with Alok. Roamed across the city for close to 3 hrs. Seems due to the upcoming court decision on Babri Masjid, military had been deployed in several places. Did the required shopping and then came back. Uday wanted to do some shoppin. So went along with him to Sahara mall. He did with his shoppin and came back to colg by 9. Had dinner and got down to finishin the Paranoid book. Had to make a presentation on it for the mct class. so gotta finish it by today.

Our proposal for a redriver competition had been shortlisted for the final round. Had planned to meet for sometime around dinner time, couldnt do so as Madhavi had some b-plan work. so tat got postponed to midnight. Also, had 2 reading for ATSC course, and the first love-4th part has been pending since long. so lets see how much iam able to finish.

Day 366: Sept 18,2010

Had 12:30 class, yet woke by 9. Read the paranoid book for sometime, sent mails for Just Tea and dozed off for sometime. Woke up exactly at 12:30, rushed to t class. The case discussion on Goodyear tires went on. Then had planned to go out for just tea work. But couldnt get a bike, as first yrs exams had gotten over today, hence most of them had gone out. tried arrangin for a bike, couldnt find any. spent t remainin tme watching resident evil movie. later, in evening, dozed off for sometime, then had dinner. Madhavi's brother joined us for dinner, and after dinner had tulsi chai in Just tea. was tastin it for t first time, so it was really nice. Then went out for a walk. came back, read t paranoid book and slept off.

Day 365: Sept 17,2010

Had 12:30 SDM class. woke up around 9:30. In SDM class, there was a photography session. It was funny to see ppl posing while the camera man was clicking the photos. Then after lunch, had special R&S class. it was a lengthy session, mostly t slides were being run through. Had to go out for Just tea work, but alok had just returned from sourcing. so postponed the trip to tom. It was quite sometime since i had met Soumya, so had a a long chat, and then went back to room. After dinner, went to Library, since Chess selection was there. the marathon chess games went on. played from 9:30 till 2:30.

Day 364: Sept 16,2010

Just woke up 5 mins b4 the class. Rushed to the R&S class. Being the first class, the prof made every student share his expectation from the course. It was a quite a creativity test, for students to come up with new expectations which they wouldnt have thought of before. Then had BE class. Today, we comparing the growth of China & India. Few facts were interesting like India gets the maximum FDI flow from Mauritius. After BE, we had MCT class. We had 2 readings to read, i had read one reading. Fortunately, the discussion went on discussin about the changes which companies face. Wanted to go for swimming, but remained in room and did some exercise. had a Just tea meeting at Midnight. Then started with the first episode of BBT season 3 and then watched a KungFu movie. Slept by 2:30.

Day 363: Sept 15,2010

Today's R&S class was cancelled, so woke up aaram se at 11:30. Had BE class. The prof was very nice and went about explainin the basics of BE and the course outline. Then after lunch, the MCT class started. The prof had done a detailed backgrnd research on each student and went about discussin the expectations from the class. She had made the people specializing in Strategy as the groups coordinator. So i was made responsible for one grp. The sec 'C' junta - Me, James, Sahil, Mukesh formed a group. After snacks, went to Swimming. It was refreshin to swim after a long time. Spent close to 1.5 hrs. read the intel novel till dinner. Then, had some JustTea work. Slept by 4:30.

Day 362 : 14th sept 2010

Got up Just in Time to attend the class. Had plenty of eco concepts being taken up in the Applied theory in Strategy class. After Lunch, Uday caught up to work on his Mahindra form. So it went on, me lying in the bed and suggesting ideas,while uday customizing it. Had a 2:45 class, so went off for that. Class was as it had been yesterday,more generic & less subject related. We had a management consulting workshop starting at 6:30. when it started we came to know that it was a 3 hour session. It was a fun workshop, meant to simulate the various work done by consultants. We had few learnings at the end. thgt will get more idea on actual work style of consultants, but this one was more about the kind of work they do. Was feeling very sleepy, so after having dinner, came back and hit the sack while watching BBT.

Uday woke me up around 2am, had some index work to be done. Got busy with it and the tradition of sleeping early goes on...