The vada-pav diaries

Its been little more than 10 days in Moombhai now. For the uninformed, I'm in SPJIMR (supposedly it impresses women here ahem... ahem) doing my MBA in systems.

Its my first time in a hostel, first time away from home, first time away from Bangalore, friends and family. My room is quite small (and for Sid.. no it doesn't have wooden flooring). We have an appartment system. Each appartment has 5 rooms attached to it. It even has a washing machine ... fancy eh? My roomie is from Lucknow, we've hardly interacted but he seems promising. The one hour we chatted was about religion and considering he is Muslim it was rather enlightening. We have some really interesting people in our appartment too. We have a Major (yes the army one), who has worked in the army for 7 years and he sings the national anthem while having his bath. I have my issues with it, but don't expect me to pick up a fight with a guy who can operate a gun.

The last ten days have been more about interacting with the seniors. I got ragged.. nothing serious, it was fun actually. We had a lot of presentations to make, we made a b-plan, one about an IT company in India and lodza other stuff. We had lot of quizes too, and apparently I'm the quiz stud in my class... I know its not saying much, nevertheless heartening. The sad part though there are just couple of rock lovers in my class... most of them are Hindi types. My Hindi is improving by the day (I once caught myself thinking in Hindi), esp. my Hindi swears and I'm bloody proud of it.

The course is bloody hectic, sleeping for more than 4 hours is a luxury. But so far, its been good fun. I've been working hard (thats another first) and hope to continue it. And I'm missing most of the football world cup which is a total bummer.

We had our freshers party yesterday and it was a total blast. We danced till 11 (thats another first, I danced without getting drunk for the first time), went back to the hostel drank till 3 (had whiskey ... another first) and then left for the Versova beach. Got back to my room at 6 :D. KICKBUTT!!!

The course so far has been an "out of my comfort zone" experience. In like 12 days, I've already learnt a lot and more importantly I've learnt a lot about myself.

P.S : Thats a snap from our freshers' party. I'm on the far left.

P.P.S: I miss the girls, never thought I would.