Half an MBA - 10 months effort

Aii Karamba!! Already one year since i left my job casting aside all apprehensions, the economic downturn, following the hunch that 2 in 3 young fellas between the age of 23-25 follow, better life awaits post-MBA. Frankly there couldn't have been a worse time to take the plunge and looking at the job market just reaffirms all my doubts. Just the day before I was checking out the day zero video of our super seniors, the offers, the jubilation and best of all the sense of satisfaction and achievement and yesterday I bid adieu to our senior batch, their frustrations, the disappointments but their was still optimism in the air and thats what gladened me. They were all confident that the brand SIBM will fetch them plum offers even outside campus and they were still more hopeful for us signaling that much better things await us. Starting in bad times with a lower than avg package will have its implications way into the future. The quantum jumps won't be so easy to come by and people starting later will take the leap faster and zoom ahead. I met an old school buddy in Apache after 7 long years, he was in SCMHRD and though we had been talking on phone we hadn't got the chance to meet even after staying one yr in Pune, finally just before me leaving for home and he leaving Pune for good, it was a must meet situation and what better setting than our good ol' Apache. I was very proud of him for securing a PPO in Heinz and that too at a very lucrative package, we sat together for some time reminisced about old times n old friends, it was every bit as exciting as it could be. I wish him all the luck in the world ahead.

In the pic are two of my seniors who i was the closest to, our Admissions Team S-team, Pranav n Joey.

Pranav I wud see in a few year coming to meet us in an Audi Q7, probably running his own startup successfully while Joey a.k.a Joyita wud be the VP-HR in a big firm, with the kinda skills n capabilities these guys had there would be no stopping them once they're out of here. All the best folks, do us proud!!!

Well half an MBA done and I feel a bit wiser, a little foolish too, things seem different now, more reality is acceptable and God willing our batch will pass out with flyign colors and outrageous salaries, me included insha-allah!!!

My pic in the inset shows my 'Farooq Abdullah' topi, quite a rage in J&K and good stuff to battle Delhi's cold, I last used in my final days of Engg as the bugger Satish had lost my other cap, Found it recently when packing my stuff, my bengali roomie hadn't seen anything like it and i offered him my cam to snap it up with a weirdo expression, I was wondering how n where i shud put it up and then eureka!!!

I have to join for summers on 12th in Chennai, its gonna be a different Chennai than when i was there last, its gonna be work and only work. Have to finish the li'l red book in 9 days starting today, let get going then...