Cry Wolf?

We had an interesting excercise in Soft Management Skills today - everyone was supposed to find their own power animals in the lecture room. Imagine 130 human-animals trying to find their respective flocks, herds, packs, pride... and all this while imitating animal sounds/movements.

I took to the task quite excitedly of course, howling loudly (when you get through a 5 hours lecture in statistics - that too, coming back to school after four long years - its not so difficult!). A few other co-howling wolves showed up. Thankfully the instructor didnt mind when I made a wolf-shadow on the screen using my hand right in front of the projector and summoned my pack to let otu a bone jarring howl amidst the monkeys, cats, dogs, bears, lions and tigers.

Pete started out great when explaining why our group had chosen the wolf. 'We're like the dogs but better..' :o).

Beyond having an element of mysticism, the wolf is just as comfortable in packs as he is being the proverbial lone-wolf. Also, unlike the cat family (with all due respect to the tigers, lions and cats reading this...) The wolf seems to have a very keen sense of duty and it amuses me that there is an agreed chain of command in packs - a kind of best man for the job consensus on issues which blends in with the concept of getting-the-job-done priority.

Pete won a bottle of wine at the end of the Soft Management Skills lecture (Yes, all Manchester Business School MBA aspirants - you get to win alchohol in class !! :o)) - but he should be warned, that this Wolf takes his wining as seriously as his dining and while the brotherhood of the wolves operates within a value system, when the stakes are raised (one of my perpetually famished connoiseur friends came up with -'razed the steak', a gastronomic extension to the prior expression) you got to watch out for this one.

Have a long evening ahead. Heading back to the gym to do some serious training (ON MY NEW MOUNTAIN BIKE!! :o) -(next upgrade has to be a Lamborghini I have promised myself)). I'll try to put in some thoughts from Stats classes (mostly boring, but some interesting insights) next post.

Meanwhile readers, adios!

Surya

A Fresh Start

Ok! This time its real!! :o)

I'm back to blogging with a vengence. The routined life has been canned. I'm back to being a poor student. It's ironic how although I'll be having the least time on my hands now with all the MBA assignments and projects - but then how many times does one get to start things from scratch? Besides theres tonnes of things raging in my head, starting right from statistics to club hopping with my batchmates from over 40 countries of the world - and this experience should be documented!! and so it shall. Amen!