Jam session

Had a jam session today in the boy's hostel from 2 AM to 4 AM. Most of the guys were completely drunk. Some snaps:

Photoshopped - I

Was trying my hand at Photoshop today. Here is my first work.

Basketball Court

Finally, the college's basketball court is ready for playing. Hope to spend some good time there!

PS: The length of the writeup reflects twitter effect.

Karma Yoga Project

We've started working on the Karma Yoga project. We need to work for three hours every week in a village. The initial few visits require us to survey a village and identify the problems to work upon. Needless to say, we are thoroughly enjoying the serene beauty and the laid-back village life. Some snaps:

End of first term

With a series of exams in the last few days, we've finished our first term. This week has been particularly hectic. We'd to work on one book review, one assignment, one presentation, and three end term exams. I've slept for hardly 10 hours in the last 72 hours.

Anyway, I'm 1/7th MBA now (assuming I get thru all the courses). Celebrations are already in the air. Everyone is planning for the coming long weekend. I'm planning to go to Mumbai, if things workout.

Officially blogger

We've a formal blogging committee that maintains the college blog. My SOP for the same, which was supposed to be as casual as possible, read something like:

The most obvious response would be something like:
“I want to be a part of the college blogging team so that I can be of help in creating a better brand image of the institute in the virtual world and taking it to newer heights.”

But, that didn’t impress me itself, leave alone the reader. Then, the usual thought of Googling for a SOP came to my mind, but that’s what we usually do for all the assignments. So, for a change, I thought to be original this time and started to think for something creative. Alas!

Now the problem with the creative portion of our brain is that the moment you are in need for some ideas it starts sending the signs of its non-existence (Can something really send signs of its non-existence could be a topic of empirical research though).

While engrossed in my thoughts, I looked at the word count and realised that I’ve already crossed the prescribed limit of 150 words. So, here I’m, in this hot and humid summer afternoon of Chennai, sweat flowing all thru my body, still waiting, for my creative juices to flow.

Till few months back, I used to visit this blog to know more about the college. It feels great to have my name as one of the bloggers on the same blog.

Please click here to visit my college's blog.

Life at Great Lakes - I

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My first speech in MBA

This was a part of Business Communication course where-in we'd to give a speech of two minutes on any topic. Since delivery was more important than the content, so I chose what I like most about Mumbai.


Hi Friends!

I am Shobhit and today I am going to talk about what is considered to be the life line of Mumbai – the local trains.

First, let me share with you some of the facts about Mumbai local trains. There are three different lines of local trains in Mumbai: the Western Line, the Central Line and the Harbour Line. Among these three lines, the Western line is considered to be the most important and most crowded one. It runs from Churchgate to Virar and covers some of the most famous stations of Mumbai such as Mumbai Central, Dadar, Bandra, Andheri, Borivali etc.

The local trains carry around 6.5 million commuters daily and run for almost 24 hours a day.

The local trains have a life of their own. The early morning trains are full of fishermen and newspaper hawkers. Between 6 to 10 in the morning, the trains are full of college and office goers. After that comes the turn of Dabbawallas. These Dabbawallas pick up lunch boxes from the homes of people and deliver the boxes in their offices at lunch time. As you all know, the functioning of Dabbawallas is a case study in itself.

In the evening traffic increases again, but in the reverse direction. I have read an interesting observation somewhere. It says that during peak hours, the density of people inside a local train is more than anywhere else in the world.

In the end, I’d like to say that if you get a chance to visit Mumbai, please take a ride in local trains and experience the fun.

Thanks. Have a nice day!


PS: The speech went well and people were interested in knowing more about Mumbai local trains, so the discussion about local trains was continued in the class.

Washroom humour!

Just after writing the Group Dynamics exam, I was talking with one of my friends in the washroom. As after every exam, we're totally frustrated.

Our Economics Prof, who is considered to be one of the most ferocious Profs, entered the washroom. I wished the Prof, but my friend, who was standing facing the other side, didn't see him.

My friend: "Saale ne bola tha movies se question aayenge..."
The Prof hearing this smiled and gave me that so-this-is-going-on look. I wanted to let my friend know about the Prof's presence.

Me: "Sir, the paper was very tough."
But, my friend didn't listen and continued.
Me: (trying harder)"Sir, the paper was really very tough."
But, of no use.

I started laughing by now, knowing we are screwed.
Prof: (Smiling and speaking in Hindi)"Tum log khud kuch padhte nahin ho aur phir exam ke baad faculty ko gaali dete ho."
My friend turned back and realised what'd just happened. The Prof still smiling went ahead. We were looking at each other, thinking what to do next.

My friend: "Sir, it was just frustration coming out and not our intentions." (waah! some damage control).
Immediately the Prof turned.

Prof: "Tum log mujhe to bahut gaaliyan dete hoge?"
I don't know what was going into my mind,but I replied within a split second.
Me: "Sir, abhi apka exam nahin hua hai."
I still can't believe I said that!

Within few hours everyone in the college knew about the incident. Later in the day, we'd a Eco lecture. We were really scared, but the Prof didn't point us for anything.

We hope he took it as just another incident. We are now waiting for our final grades to confirm that!

Main campus

A view of our college's main campus - consists of amphitheater surrounded by academic block. Click on the image to see the enlarged view.