I'm going home in about nine days. I love that city -the people, the weather and the nostalgia. It's a laid back Mumbai. Nobody is ever in a hurry. And everyone has time for good conversation. You get Carslbergs there, and the water tastes like wine.
Folks there are a little spoiled though. It's 24 degrees at this time of the year, and people are whining. Ahmedabad climate annoys me. It is humid and scorching hot 9 months of the year, and unbearably cold for 2.5 months. There are two weeks in October when you can venture outdoors. Today, I went to watch The Expendables in a theatre at the other end of town. And it was in Hindi! This would never happen in Bangalore. Hell, we'd probably have riots if something like that happened. And they'd beat up all the Tamil speaking people again. Anyway, we eventually found a PVR that was screening it in English. And the movie was incredible -there was enough testostorone oozing out of that screen to turn MJ into a man. Brainless mindless action + cliched oneliners from the 80s = 10 on 10 in my books.
I've been meaning to put in another entry for 1,266 days now. Chemical Engineering makes you become lazy and procrastinate. It is 4 years of learning one equation: in - out + generation = accumulation. There are different ways of writing this equation, and that's what the four years are for. With a little bit of integration and differentiation, you can turn that innocuous little equation into
Once upon a time, people could get PhDs for stuff like this.
Second year of MBA is very very relaxed. I have finally gotten time to do all the stuff I have wanted to do for years, but haven't really had the time for. Sikkim is an idea that might happen next term. Right now, I've backlogged way too much work, though. To get started on studying, I glugged down a Red Bull, saw a scene from 'Remember the Titans' to get pumped up, and sat down to read 'Nagle & Hogan'. No use. This book is a horse tranquilizer.
Folks there are a little spoiled though. It's 24 degrees at this time of the year, and people are whining. Ahmedabad climate annoys me. It is humid and scorching hot 9 months of the year, and unbearably cold for 2.5 months. There are two weeks in October when you can venture outdoors. Today, I went to watch The Expendables in a theatre at the other end of town. And it was in Hindi! This would never happen in Bangalore. Hell, we'd probably have riots if something like that happened. And they'd beat up all the Tamil speaking people again. Anyway, we eventually found a PVR that was screening it in English. And the movie was incredible -there was enough testostorone oozing out of that screen to turn MJ into a man. Brainless mindless action + cliched oneliners from the 80s = 10 on 10 in my books.
I've been meaning to put in another entry for 1,266 days now. Chemical Engineering makes you become lazy and procrastinate. It is 4 years of learning one equation: in - out + generation = accumulation. There are different ways of writing this equation, and that's what the four years are for. With a little bit of integration and differentiation, you can turn that innocuous little equation into
Once upon a time, people could get PhDs for stuff like this.
Second year of MBA is very very relaxed. I have finally gotten time to do all the stuff I have wanted to do for years, but haven't really had the time for. Sikkim is an idea that might happen next term. Right now, I've backlogged way too much work, though. To get started on studying, I glugged down a Red Bull, saw a scene from 'Remember the Titans' to get pumped up, and sat down to read 'Nagle & Hogan'. No use. This book is a horse tranquilizer.
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When is the next one coming?? :)
It is odd that you speak of procrastination in your post. :-) But awesome to have you back, and hope second year gives you way more free time to actually write in this thing. :-)
I am one of those leisurely blokes who love meandering pieces like the one you've just written (or rather...typed).
Frankly, Ye started with Bengaluru and ended with a Chemical Engg. equation! But yeah! How the heck does it matter anyway? :-)
And being a fan of those 80's mindless action flicks, Expendables went down well with me too... Kickass!And again, what gun was that that the dark chap was mowing chaps down with? Any idea?
Now what else do I say here? Hmm.....when do we have our debate? :-P :-P
I'll write more this year. :) My next term is even lighter than this one.
Seetha, it's happening on September 12th and 13th, tentatively.
And that gun was out of this world, na? It had the frequency of an AK47, the precision of a sniper gun and the power of a rocket launcher!
Hahaha. WHY don't you write more often! =) =D Fun post! Makes me want to visit your city sometime. =)
i wish people would beat up gujjus instead of tams - u ppl are all over the world ...
imagine americans mistook the word patel to mean motel in hindi !!!
If they banned beer in your state, would you migrate out to the outside world too?
You said you blog. This is like two posts - worse even than me. :P
You've started blogging again! Awesome. Can't wait to read more.
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