How could i forgot you ...

Finally, I got reminded that I own a blog which I myself havn't visited for ages. And how could I forget that since the first time I thought about going to a bschool I so wished to have a blog which details the journey of MBA (much inspired by reading snapshots of hell long long long back). And how I used to wonder reading other mba blogs how much fun mba is. Well now I know the real story being on the other side of the road.

So where do I start. Since I left blogged, since I joined MBA, since I got married, or since I started preparing for exams (which reminds me that I don't have much time to spare, tomorrow being my first exam for the first term). I will pick the last one.

Did you know that one share of berkshire hathaway is worth like $99k and they never did a stock split. I just got to know while preparing for my corporate finance exam. And that makes me wonder (rather i would say most of my classmates as well) if only we all would have studied a little before we wouldn't be panicking now. But the best is yet to come - the exams. I wish luck to all my classmates for the last week of the first term. Oh yeah and for the exams !!

5 km run

Well what a way to celebrate sunday. The first thing one wants to do on a sunday is wake up at leisure and relax. I chose to spend it in a different way. Was that by choice ? I did burn some calories which i think are extra on my structure. I ran (most of it walkd) 5 km in the run organized by runningandliving.com. The event was well organized in the leisure valley park with goodie bags given to people. There was a good participation of people from various parts of gurgaon. I do plan t make it to the next one on oct 10th. Till then need to practice more so that i actually complete it running !!

He doesn't deserve her

It was very odd to hear this question from a lady who i thought would know least about this. I was on a bus on my way to the city of canals (venice) where in i met this very interesting English lady with Caribbean origins. She knew it all about Indian movies. She is a big fan of amitabh and her family watches one Indian movie every friday night. Her grandson and granddaughters have one favourite indian actor. She knew all about Amitabh, Abhishek, Aish, Salman, Akshay . I was amazed to hear the big encyclopedia of movies she has watched. I have not been watching many movies of late so i hardly knew the names. The conversation started from movies and went on to our stars. She asked me a very naive question - Do you think Salman will marry katrina. Well i think he doesnt deserve her.. I dont know the answer to the question she asked but it just left me amazed to meet a great fan of indian cinema who doesnt even know hindi.

The Wedding

So finally Aishwarya and Abhishek got married, which by now every tom dick and harry in this country knows. The marriage was all over the place. Every news channel was standing outside Prateeksha and Jalsa doing prateeksha for some jalwa. The irony being there were literally no photographs or clips of the couple. All they got to know standing day and night outside those two fortress was a list of film fraternity who came to give blessing to the couple.

After watching this real life wedding saga for like four days, the couple haunted in dreams too as there wasnt much pictures displayed on tv, so they directly gave sakshat darshan in dreams.

Search on Google

The most popular queries on google by indians is a proof to show the soaring popularity of Sania Mirza followed by our gorgeous beauty queen Aish. And not to be forgetten, we intellectuals indians searched for 'cbse results', 'cat' and 'icse results' the most. All this is a indication of the interests of growing breed of web surfers. Lack of any cricket icon in the list shows the inactivity on the ground.

Popular Queries India (May 2005)
1. sania mirza
2. aishwarya rai
3. cbse results
4. cat
5. kingfisher airlines
6. harry potter
7. icse results
8. john abraham
9. maruti swift
10. kerala

Harry potter mania is also evident from the queries. The sudden spurt of new airlines also figure in the list with people rushing on to book online tickets for these new low cost airlines. Our very own maruti's new release SWIFT also figures in the list to showcase the rising popularity among the masses for this great looking car.

All said and done i have become a great addict to google with the google maps and other new domains of google. Google maps is a great innovation and monsterbus.com - a project based on google maps to show bus routes for US are amazing sites to visit.
goooooooooogle just rocks..

Recent Movies

I am bak ... Saw couple of movies recently. First one is ZEHER which according to me was pathetic movie. I wasnt even able to see the entire movie. THough the actor looks good better than the last movie with mallika. Though the songs of the movie are just too good. I am a big fan of them. So it is day and night only - 'Agar tum mil jao' and 'Woh Lamhein'.

Million Dollar Baby also a good one. THe movie is an excellent piece of art portraying passion of people towards their goals. Clint's visiting of church shows the faith in god inspite of so many failures. Though i dont like boxing and other such violent sports but the movie shows the ups and downs of the life of a sportsperson. For one person's success there are dozens of failures. People who are disabled for their life and live rest of their lives on machines.

Watching the movie gave me such a positive attitude towards life. And brings back to mind Gandhi's Talisman which was there in all the school books and has always been my support whenever in doubt or sad.

Gandhi's Talisman :

"I will give you a talisman. Whenever you are in doubt, or when the self becomes too much with you, apply the following test. Recall the face of the poorest and the weakest man [woman] whom you may have seen, and ask yourself, if the step you contemplate is going to be of any use to him [her]. Will he [she] gain anything by it? Will it restore him [her] to a control over his [her] own life and destiny? In other words, will it lead to swaraj [freedom] for the hungry and spiritually starving millions?
Then you will find your doubts and your self melt away."

- One of the last notes left behind by Gandhi in 1948, expressing his deepest social thought.

Source: Mahatma Gandhi [Last Phase, Vol. II (1958), P. 65].

More Sidhuism..

Here i got some more famous quotes of N Sidhu. As soon as a series start all the channels make a beeline to get him on their show. It seems that he changes studio quicker than we change channels on remote . :)) ..

So here goes some more of his quotes..


a.. A girl born beautiful is half married

b.. The Indians need to behave as if they are in a boat with a hole. There is no team co-operation

c.. His slower ball was so slow that my mama can run faster than that.

d.. The world is all about mind and matter, i don't mind and u don't matter...

e.. In London they drive on the left, in India we drive on what is left!

f.. Still waters run deep. The Indians were so still in the 3rd test that they ran into deep oceans

g.. Ganguly moves so slowly on the field like jack of jack n jill who goes to fetch pail of runs for the opposition...

h.. Umpires are like traffic police -the techniques they use to give a decision are outdated

i.. Flip the coin and there is no head or tail. (India plays the cricket without any aim)

j.. Harbhajan could be a windmill with a single blade during a hurricane, when batting

k.. Strutting around wicket as proud as peacock

l.. A barking dog better than a sleeping Lion So go on Indians Bark aloud and let everyone hear you louder!!!

m.. The dog that barks last, barks best

n.. SUCCESS HAS MANY FATHERS .... FAILURE IS AN ORPHAN!!!!!

o.. S.Ramesh's running between the wickets is like a snail going slow!

p.. He is like an indian transistor which does not work until you give it two slaps.

q.. If u r trying to beat india in their home you are you trying to get milk out of an ox.

r.. Indian team is just like indian monsoon.you just cant predict when there will be flood & when drought.