Twenty-four

Posted on 28 May 2011 under Journal/Life Updates

Twenty four hours to go. I have a bit of flair for the dramatic; bear with me. In about twenty-four hours, the plane will take off from the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport, Hyderabad, and land at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Airport in Bombay, where I’m going to start the first phase of my work life (not [...]

Nine Hundred and Ninety-two

Posted on 19 May 2011 under Random, Rants, XLRI

Warning: This post contains a generous helping of ramble. 992. I clicked on my name on Facebook and looked at the left side of the webpage. 992 ‘friends’. Just 8 away from 1,000. One thousand friends… Holy crap! I have a lot of friends who have more than a thousand friends on facebook. But seriously…think [...]

Obsessive Compulsive about MP3

Posted on 05 May 2011 under Random, XLRI

While in XLRI, Gadre and I used to try to figure out what others used to obsess about. And just for fun, we used to call it everyone’s personal OCD. A couple of lecturers, for instance, were “OCD about time” (i.e. ensuring that their class began and ended at exactly the right time, down to [...]