Friends & Partners

Hi.
I have missed the chronological arithmetic progression (AP!!) of my last two posts. To say that it was due to the pressure of the academe would be only gloating on a known issue. So I thought that let me talk about the friends I have made and come across in this vibrant melting point. And this week was also a one of the most significant week in my whole life. But of course that has got nothing to do with the academics.

But then comes the biggest dilemma as to whom do I mention and whom do I not? I would definitely not miss Ashish from Tata Steel with his fantastic knowledge of all details of all prime ministers of India from Allahabad and around. And then comes my close partners in fun: Hiren Patel, a Gujrati but uses marathi as a mother tongue, and came back from US after almost 6 years to do this course. He can be found eternally into chatting on google with his American cronies. And then is my bong friend Sumanta, one of the most down to earth guys I have ever met and Hemant, quite a senior guy from Reliance - very well read and someone with fantastic knowledge base. But I would be doing gross injustice if I don’t mention guys like the ever smiling Vivek Kapoor, from Delhi who has been a strong inspiration for making me sit down to write this piece of junk. Guys who know him can vouch that he can give AK (Akshay Kumar for the ignorant) a good run for his money. Johnny baby (Abraham) can start working out more.

The course has a wide variety of people from distinctly different demographic backgrounds and rich and diverse professional experience. An excellent attribute of such fast track, high value courses is that it brings together people of excellent professional experiences – professionals ranging from 3 years of experience to 15 years of experience. We have people from some of the best Indian and multinational corporations. And then there are some bright and smart alecs who constantly keeps us on our toes.

This week is also the culmination week of the foundation course – the learning of the basic management tenets for further studies. So we have been swamped by some excellently obscure terminologies like NORMSDIST and NORMDIST and have been guessing what a big difference the S can make and whatever happened to the big ‘O’. And ET (Economic Times, Yaar) referrals has become de rigueur along with a generous sprinkling of terms like CRR, SLR (not Self Loading Rifle for a change!!) and OMO. And the fun part is it is all damn exciting. As you say in the armed forces, “Sunny boy, when R@#$ is inevitable, you better start enjoying it”. And then we got the news that term exams have been scheduled on Tuesday afternoon and whole of Wednesday. But you know what is great? It is that we have classes till Tuesday morning!! But as I told in my last post, teachers are always great people at heart (and I seriously believe it). And they have told us that they will exclude Tuesday’s teachings and sermons!

So all of you who wasted their time, on going through this nonsense jabbering, thank you for giving me the inspiration. I will try to be back. “Till then, Shabba Khair and do take very good care of yourselves” (Remember Kavya Viswanathan??)

Into the second week

Guys,
Its into the second week now and it seems worse than boot camp. My days at the Naval Academy seems to be almost at par with all the extreme "stress". It is just that here it is all mental. The Professors would perhaps make for excellent Gunnery Instructors in any military academy. Fantastic people and great human beings, but very tough nuts to crack. That is guys what we refer to as 'appearences are deceptive'.
Day starts at 0630 and continues well into the "very" late hours. I should say going to sleep at 0200 hrs is perhaps de-rigueur. The washing machine is a great indicator. One can see it churning on even at 0230 hrs.
Yesterday (05/05/06) we were given the "nice" news that today we are going to have two surprise quizes (which weighs highly towards the final credit) and followed by preparing a presentation for the communication class.
The school has now moved into full session classes till 1700 hrs and equally heavy load of "homework".
Looking forward to more challenging days.