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
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
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!
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!
Sunday, January 20, 2008
... and kicking!
Ok,
I was wondering what movie I should watch today and suddenly drew a blank. Usually (and many others who know me can second this) whenever I meet you or call you, I was in the middle of something when I called/met up. Planning my MBA, planning a trip, writing an essay, preparing for a presentation, making a painting etc etc.
Now get this - after wondering for a substantial time and debate on ' What movie do I want to watch today '(in the very irritating windows 98 OS tour that once was. I know leelay would remember this. Microsoft was running some where do u want to go today?' campaign with their Windows 98 product. Like it was a very happy roadmap to a whole new dimension.
When you are in 10th grade, trust me, was either it was too hot outside (so I really am not interested in seeing vast white fields in any sort of campaign on the computer), or NFS had just been released, or someone had traded in a new floppy disc with two full pictures of Pamela Anderson.
Fact: I remember in school one guy was the proud owner of a 5 minute long porn movie in 3 floppy disks. One floppy to load the viewer, the two other had gritty pixelated looping GIFs. You should have seen the pride on his face. It was as if he had a nuclear warhead in his backyard) God bless miss Anderson for giving so many mediocre confused teenagers a big ego boost - if you had already seen her latest photo (not necessarily recently published - just recently available in the circuit due to the booming invasion of cheap floppies and phenomenally slow internet dial up connections), you were cool, if you were a proud owner of one - you were hep. This person from school was a god!). Anyway, I digress.
So I was thinking what movie I should watch - Al Pacino - ish / Robert De Niro -ish / Bruce willis -ish and I came up with Gene Hackman-ish. now dont get me wrong this guy is a splendid actor. But can there be any such thing as Gene Hackman -ish movie? I spent a few more minutes trying to fully comprehend what kind of movie I wanted to watch and then I was lost again.
I just realised tha my head is still not as clear as it should be - I thought I'd rather blog?
updates:
1. Been a reasonably good 2007
2. Still recovering from my expensive tours and travels (financially ;o))
3. MBA application costs are insane for US BSchools, somebody should do something about it
4. Plan to get back to painting (read: more constructive ways of biding time, cheap entertainment)
5. I really shouldnt buy yet another set of speakers
6. Need to call and catch up with a lot of friends
7. Have to upload all the snaps
8. Need to start visiting the gym again
9. Need to arrange my music collection (maintenance work)
10 Summer 2008 is already looking good. Anyone joinin gin for Euro 2008 and a tour of Austria and Switzerland simultaneously?? :o)
11. will apply to the UK universities for MBA programs - they usually invite prospective students for an interview at their campus - another cheap excuse to visit more places ;o)
12. More blogging
SK
PS: I wonder whether the last post acually put off or offended people??
I was wondering what movie I should watch today and suddenly drew a blank. Usually (and many others who know me can second this) whenever I meet you or call you, I was in the middle of something when I called/met up. Planning my MBA, planning a trip, writing an essay, preparing for a presentation, making a painting etc etc.
Now get this - after wondering for a substantial time and debate on ' What movie do I want to watch today '(in the very irritating windows 98 OS tour that once was. I know leelay would remember this. Microsoft was running some where do u want to go today?' campaign with their Windows 98 product. Like it was a very happy roadmap to a whole new dimension.
When you are in 10th grade, trust me, was either it was too hot outside (so I really am not interested in seeing vast white fields in any sort of campaign on the computer), or NFS had just been released, or someone had traded in a new floppy disc with two full pictures of Pamela Anderson.
Fact: I remember in school one guy was the proud owner of a 5 minute long porn movie in 3 floppy disks. One floppy to load the viewer, the two other had gritty pixelated looping GIFs. You should have seen the pride on his face. It was as if he had a nuclear warhead in his backyard) God bless miss Anderson for giving so many mediocre confused teenagers a big ego boost - if you had already seen her latest photo (not necessarily recently published - just recently available in the circuit due to the booming invasion of cheap floppies and phenomenally slow internet dial up connections), you were cool, if you were a proud owner of one - you were hep. This person from school was a god!). Anyway, I digress.
So I was thinking what movie I should watch - Al Pacino - ish / Robert De Niro -ish / Bruce willis -ish and I came up with Gene Hackman-ish. now dont get me wrong this guy is a splendid actor. But can there be any such thing as Gene Hackman -ish movie? I spent a few more minutes trying to fully comprehend what kind of movie I wanted to watch and then I was lost again.
I just realised tha my head is still not as clear as it should be - I thought I'd rather blog?
updates:
1. Been a reasonably good 2007
2. Still recovering from my expensive tours and travels (financially ;o))
3. MBA application costs are insane for US BSchools, somebody should do something about it
4. Plan to get back to painting (read: more constructive ways of biding time, cheap entertainment)
5. I really shouldnt buy yet another set of speakers
6. Need to call and catch up with a lot of friends
7. Have to upload all the snaps
8. Need to start visiting the gym again
9. Need to arrange my music collection (maintenance work)
10 Summer 2008 is already looking good. Anyone joinin gin for Euro 2008 and a tour of Austria and Switzerland simultaneously?? :o)
11. will apply to the UK universities for MBA programs - they usually invite prospective students for an interview at their campus - another cheap excuse to visit more places ;o)
12. More blogging
SK
PS: I wonder whether the last post acually put off or offended people??
Monday, July 23, 2007
Monday, July 16, 2007
Jazz
Jazz - Anticipation,
The wise double bass - elderly yet playful
knowing
he knew you would be there that night...
like the father of a grown man
you're still his child, you know.
The cymbals and the brush..
they're not your game
making love - still flirting with your wine glass.
They conspire.
The piano - an out of place ballet dancer..
speaks some other language..
she doesnt know their dialect..
but she was always a star
she's here to perform.. she has another show elsewhere..right after this
The sax..
The norweighan scream of silence..
the scream of the butterfly?
or a thick glob of violet, pouring out into your glass
is that what you drink?
why do you come to meet these well known strangers.. why do you want to know how they know you?
does it matter?
she's sitting right before you...
is that why they had come too?
I was hoping...?let it be ?
does it seem like i'm looking for an answer to a question i cant ask?
SK
The wise double bass - elderly yet playful
knowing
he knew you would be there that night...
like the father of a grown man
you're still his child, you know.
The cymbals and the brush..
they're not your game
making love - still flirting with your wine glass.
They conspire.
The piano - an out of place ballet dancer..
speaks some other language..
she doesnt know their dialect..
but she was always a star
she's here to perform.. she has another show elsewhere..right after this
The sax..
The norweighan scream of silence..
the scream of the butterfly?
or a thick glob of violet, pouring out into your glass
is that what you drink?
why do you come to meet these well known strangers.. why do you want to know how they know you?
does it matter?
she's sitting right before you...
is that why they had come too?
I was hoping...?let it be ?
does it seem like i'm looking for an answer to a question i cant ask?
SK
July
A cup of coffee; drops of monsoon rain
Come crashing down heavily on the window panes.
Strange emotions follow that we cannot explain;
'Tis just another day in July.
The horizon sports all shades of grey,
And though there's sunshine somewhere along the way,
The brightness - will it be here to stay?
Meanwhile - we are as melancholy as the sky.
Thanks to the rain, 'tis muffled, unclear
But still suddenly the radio catches your ear
-A nostalgic melody that you overhear;
There's a giddy feeling inside you can't deny.
Thoughts of different genres stringed together
With imaginary threads that withstand the weather,
All unique yet similar, like birds of a feather,
Come into view; you breathe a heavy sigh...
An awkwardness follows, which you tacitly condone;
You are neither joyous, nor sad - in a twilight zone.
Are you searching for someone or would you rather be alone?
Mysterious contradictions - you are left wondering why...
And yet, relentless, defiant - the rain will march on!
Perhaps till the scorching summer memories are gone.
But will our vibrant Sun resurface at dawn?
'Tis just another day in July.
SR
Come crashing down heavily on the window panes.
Strange emotions follow that we cannot explain;
'Tis just another day in July.
The horizon sports all shades of grey,
And though there's sunshine somewhere along the way,
The brightness - will it be here to stay?
Meanwhile - we are as melancholy as the sky.
Thanks to the rain, 'tis muffled, unclear
But still suddenly the radio catches your ear
-A nostalgic melody that you overhear;
There's a giddy feeling inside you can't deny.
Thoughts of different genres stringed together
With imaginary threads that withstand the weather,
All unique yet similar, like birds of a feather,
Come into view; you breathe a heavy sigh...
An awkwardness follows, which you tacitly condone;
You are neither joyous, nor sad - in a twilight zone.
Are you searching for someone or would you rather be alone?
Mysterious contradictions - you are left wondering why...
And yet, relentless, defiant - the rain will march on!
Perhaps till the scorching summer memories are gone.
But will our vibrant Sun resurface at dawn?
'Tis just another day in July.
SR
Tuesday, June 5, 2007
Leaning out from an airplane window
Surreal.
Multiple levels of a world well-known.
Pacifying colors and burnished serrations with blinding centers.
now convex, now concave fractals of mercury.
flakes of life and dirt on the finely striated moltenness.
wrinkles on the old, blue-tinted man's face.
Flocks of angels kneeling for the friday evening prayer.
A puncture-hiss of white above all.
Static.
-- RS
Multiple levels of a world well-known.
Pacifying colors and burnished serrations with blinding centers.
now convex, now concave fractals of mercury.
flakes of life and dirt on the finely striated moltenness.
wrinkles on the old, blue-tinted man's face.
Flocks of angels kneeling for the friday evening prayer.
A puncture-hiss of white above all.
Static.
-- RS
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