1..2..Term 3! Here Already! July 22, 2009

Before I could blink and rub my eyes, I have reached term 3 here at ISB! Its amazing how time just zooms past you. So what’s been going on so far???

To start off, term 1 was interesting. I was overflowing with child-like enthusiasm to be doing something other than “coding” . I thought every subject was “interesting” and so much better than subjects during my engineering days. I did most of the pre-reads, read cases with fervour , “mulled” over them, discussed it with my quaddies and I even opened my mouth occasionally for the only CP (class participation) course we had. At the beginning of term1 accounting was my favourite subject, microeconomics was very interesting, marketing was “not really a faff” course and stats was not tooo bad..well..okay stats was never on my “like” list! But by the end of term 1,  I was just about beginning to ask myself  “Hmm So Is MBA really my calling” ??? Accounting became a “well its not so bad that I don’t want to go into FIN” sorta subject , micro economics would have been interesting if It was taught around 100 times slower, marketing became better with John Zhang’s classes although my CP came down to zilch and stats (and those horribly dreaded quizzes) well just plain sucked! One interesting quality I discovered about myself was this latent ability to party till the wee hours of the morning! I never considered myself a “party-animal” but after coming here, I have been telling myself “what the heck..I DESERVE to parteh the hell outta today” !! . On the extra-curricular upside, My badminton totally picked up and I was going for it pretty regularly and was loving it. So overall term 1 wasn’t too bad. I still thought I learnt something in that 1 month

Then came term2 ! To add to the miseries of having 2 CP subjects, we had morning classes now. Our body clocks were tuned to sleeping really late and getting up even later and now we were being forced to make it to class during our “REM” time : 8:15!! Suddenly there was no time to pre-read or do the cases. Mornings were spent in half-slumber, mostly trying  to stay, forget trying to do CP. . I slowly stopped doing cases or reading the pre-reads, somehow the afternoons whizzed by without telling me. By the time  I actually sat down to do something constructive, it was 2:00 in the night and I had to get up early in the morning, so well that was that..Markstrat and DMOP became the buzzwords of the campus. The DMOP assignments and Markstrat ate up most of our time. But to say the least,Markstrat was the only thing about term 2 I liked. The wait after we submitted our decision was extremely excruciating for me. I used to keep refreshing the mailbox to see if the results are in and once  they were, a 2 hour discussion would follow about what went right and what went wrong and how others did and what we should do the next time and etc etc! It was especially fun naming all our products.Fortunately we were firm “A”  and that gave a lot of scope to get creative with the names. We came up with so many cool filmy names for our products – from SAMA to SALA to SALI to SAAS and SAZA!! We even had a VADA and VAFA.  Wish there were some points for getting creative with names. On the other side, the less said about DMOP the better. This was one course which wouldnt have been half as bad if it was taught over 2 months instead of 1. Comp Strat sucked for me personally mainly because I din’t do the pre-reads and the tension of not doing CP in every class just got to me. So put together all the assignments we had to submit and all the CP I could have done but did not do, all the markstrat decisions we had to spend all that time on, all that DMOP which refused to enter what I used to call my “brain”, the ultimate key takeaways from this term? Hmm ..Rising Alchoholism!!

Now we are in term 3 ..bleddy 3 CP courses..a minimum of 4 assignment submissions every week and 3 days into the term and I have slept after 5 am on all 3 days. So all in all an interestingly busy start to the term..lets see how this one goes..

I know what I Don’t want to do April 22, 2009

I entered ISB a completely aimless person (I must have repeated the word “clueless” so many times in my blog, it must be getting irritating so changed it ). I chose to do a MBA because I thought there will be something in the course of my study will direct me towards my “calling” in life (Whatever THAT is!)..After spending around 10 days here,  listening to alums talk and listening to club presentations,I finally have some clarity in my life. Hurray for that.. I am very focussed now about what I do NOT want to do in life. and that would be Finance and Consulting! I don’t want to join their overcrowded clubs or  maaro desperate CP in class or work 20 hours a day.I don’t want  that “dog’s life” that the fin/consults alums keep promising us about.(Wait a minute, why do they call it a dog’s life anyhow. All the dogs I know are really chilled out in life man..They eat,sleep and play! Maybe it should be Donkey’s life).Anyhow what I am saying is I want to live MY life not some burdened animal’s sad life.I want to be cool..chilled..bindaas..the whole work-life balance thingy.Too much to hope for after giving 20 lakhs I guess???  I know this still leaves me with some 7-8 options but well I am atleast 2 down!  

Another thing I like about being here is that classes have started. No I don’t like the fact that I have to go for classes, but I like that there will be subjects which you can relate to or atleast think, oh yeah this happens in real life.I mean compare it  to my engineering days, when I either slept in my room and missed class or slept in the class and things like Electromagnetic engineering and RFs and Analog communication totally went over my head,I can actually ”understand” the accounting I am being taught. Or maybe  since this is the LKG waala Accounting class,I find it interesting and relatable. Plus Atul is my MBA guru who I am counting on to give fundas and crashers and drill things into my head (He better since I already hold a grudge against him for not doing it in Kharagpur!! ) Time will tell how much I can relate to courses like “statistical methods of decision making” and those type of courses, but for now, all’s well.

I have finally escaped the “coding” world :) ..(I hope!!) April 20, 2009

It’s funny how life turns out. Two years back I couldnt even have dreamed of going to ISB , more so when I got married I never thought I could take a decision with my “head” and not my heart (poor atul!) , and today here I am sitting in my SV on my newly formatted laptop in ISB a week after joining it! The first week was Orientation Week thankfully, so you sorta get to know people before you are pushed in the whirlpool of academics with everyone. I have had such a  good time  that I wish the whole year had such fun activities.

We started out with treasure hunt on day 1 which was, to say the least, the most “sun” I’ve  had in the last 4 years . My group was pretty chilled out so I had a pretty goood time. But trust me when I say this, the burning hyd sun is no fun and roasts you like a chickun (waah waah for my rhymes ) . So anyhow, other than the treasure hunt, day 1 and 2 were pretty daunting for me.I was meeting all these sooper accomplished people (atleast they all say they are ) who were all so confident and dominating and talked too much (or so I felt then, now probably people think that about me too ) .Being a slow starter, I was totally intimidated and kept thinking Nobody will be my friend..(The song that kept playing at the back of my head —> Lonelyyyyyy…I am so Lonelyyyyy…I have nobodyyy ..I’m on my ownnn..eeee)sniff…I think I totally Psyched my husband out by sobbing on the phone to him about how lonely I was here..hehe..But now I have seriously warmed up to the place and the people. My quaddies (with whom I’m sharing a flat) are great and our wavelengths match, so atleast I am comfortable and happy coming back “home”. There is a good chunk of people who hate the most overused, sooper abused word “networking” (Thank god for small mercies!!) Apart from the whole socialising thing, We have also been having loads of presentations and some serious gyan overload, right from ASA to CAS to finance club to the flying club to CCA (Yup, I’ve become good at the TLA’s now — which is Three Letter Acronyms for the uninitiated ). After all that, I am completely confused with regards to what I should do, which club I should join and all that. Every  club presentation I listen to, I suddenly have the urge to go into that field. So as of now I am interested in Energy, Infrastructure, Marketing, Social Sector and Media!! Good to have diverse interests I suppose?  Three Cheers for everlasting confusions!! hip hipppp hurray

The most recent activity we had was the talent nite, which was sooper fun. I was first trying to get away from doing nething since Atul will be down here that time, but somehow ended up being part of the funnest,most energtic TAM song , Appadi podu podu…After which I got a kutti role in the fashion show too, which involved playing twinkle khanna and pulling ”akshay kumar”’s nada..okay weird thing to say so I am shutting up!! I was afraid someone will file a obscenity case against me tooo haha. Least to say, this whole week’s been one huge awesome party and I’ve had a blast.

Speaking of parties, it’s just been 8 days here and we have already had 3 of those famous ISB page 3 parties ..Page 3 because of all the PYTs (I am just continuing to show off my TLA knowledge )  who make an appearance there! I feel old, fat, ugly and overdressed in these parties. Ofcourse nothing the vodka doesnt take care of.  ..Also we have all heard the saying “There’s no such thing as free lunch”. ISB epitomises that. We have to buy the booze with coupons you get by standing in queues ..Hehe.Not that I expect the institution to pay for my drinking, but I’d have been happier if they just cut if off our mess bills or watever..But the mantra in ISB when it comes to spending is  ” I have paid 20 lakhs already, a few hundreds pale in comparison”

Time to wrap up, pre-terms are starting today. I am feelin sad that orientation is over and I actually have to study, but as my husband says “Shut up and study, you’ve not paid 20 lakhs to party!!” ..That sword will forever( 1 year i.e)  hang over our heads and force us to study I guess.sighhhhh

Ciao

Stories from my childhood March 25, 2009

Its good I wrote this 25 random things about me. It’s given me so many topics I can post about. Anyhow, so I wanted to elaborate more on my #12. I can’t lie, not with a straight face atleast ! I could never play pranks on people because of this..Even for harmless lies, I break into giggles …Although before the age of 10, it was the opposite (All those who know abt my slightly “psycho” past will vouch for this ) Okay calling myself “psycho” is not exactly very flattering, so let me change that into my “attention seeking behaviour” durin my childhood .And it lasted for around 3 years while we were in Coimbatore.

My antics have ranged from telling the girl sitting next to me in class that I am related to Aamir Khan (Yea Seriously!!) to Hiding my dad’s shaving kit in the mornings to borrowing my brother’s glasses so that i can show off at school!

My earliest memory of this “attention seeking behaviour” of mine would be from my 2nd standard — wearing my brother’s glasses to school and acting like it was mine. I don’t know why but I thought wearing glasses would shoot me to instant coool-dom . (okay I confess I used to think this till the time I was forced to actually wear glasses every day ..i.e last year!) So there I was walking half blind in school just so that people think I am cool..lol..ofcourse I didnt do this very often since well..u know..seeing through them was a problem..:)

I also used to , at times, take random pills from the medicine cabinet and take them to school, acting like I needed to take those pills..I somehow don’t remember if I popped them all into my mouth, but I definitely used to show off the multicolored pills in my lunch box..(Mom-Dad if you are reading this, no cause for alarm, I am normal now! ) I have no inkling why I thought being blind and sick and all that would make me famous

So apart from pretending I was half-blind and  a perenially-pill-popping-sick girl, I once lied to my parents about bagging the “heroine” part of a play which I distinctly remember — “The Princess Who Wanted The Moon”. I claimed to my parents that I was the princess. They came to the show expectantly searching for their daughter – the princess and there I was sitting quietly in one corner of the stage, with not even a single dialogue to say. Infact, I was offered the speaking minister’s role but I couldn’t manage to say those 2 lines and was demoted to the mum minister’s role..sigh..My parents had a good laugh over their fibbing “princess”’s antics. One more “fib” which remains firmly etched in my memory (Thanks to my parents reminding me of that and laughing over it every now and then) is when I told everyone in class my mom just gave birth to my new baby brother…lol..I am guessing I was jealous of this other girl, who just had a new arrival in her house which promptly led me to fib. It was a very embarassing cover-up when her mom congratulated my mom for it and I had to claim that I was referring to my cousin brother! It’s funny that when we accidentally met my friend’s mom over 12 years later, she STILL vividly remembered and referred to that incident ! It was very embarassing..gosh..why why do ppl have to remember!?

Apart from harmless fibbing, I also used to hide things : My dad’s shaving kit, mom’s make up.Once I sneakily hid some guest’s  shoes in this common bathroom which was there in my building. They got out of the house to go back and couldnt find their shoes.They were searching for it all over and there I was standing looking oh-so-innocent.My mom gave me one look and figured out it was me (given my history of hiding other things .).hehee..thankfully we had a dog (a.k.a scapegoat) that time and my mom promply blamed poor Bittu for hiding it. And she had me go with the dog to figure out it’s hiding place and get back their shoes ..Phew..Am guessing those guests wouldnt have returned if they knew there was a sneaky little elf who hid things

Anyhow lets just skim over all the harmless fibbing and hiding I did and go to the grand finale : I had just moved to Riyadh to a new school with new people all around me. My first day in school, I was in 5th standard and  seated next to this girl named Ghousia (the poor unsuspecting lamb). In conversation, I came to know that her favourite actor was Aamir Khan (well, so was mine). So I let it slip in that my cousin sister is married to Aamir Khan and that I have met him and all that. She seemed suspicious at first but then warmed up to the idea seeing how earnestly I was talking. Anyhow, so I dont know what happened to me when I got back home that day, but I felt terribly guilty lying about this whole Aamir Khan business. This had never happened to me before (i.e that i felt so guilty) , so I wrote her a letter the next day — “Dear Ghousia, I am sorry but I lied yday. In truth, Aamir Khan is not related to me (as much as I would have liked him to be )”. Ofcourse after reading it she gave me a weird look and never mentioned it again and I dont remember if she continued to sit next to me either! But somehow I lived truthfullly ever after…

Analysing my behaviour over the years, I have figured out probably why I acted like that and that too only while we were in Coimbatore. So its like my parents were somehow realllly busy in Coimbatore. Dad worked soooper hard and overtime and all that. Mom used to be a teacher AND take tuitions at home in the evenings.So i’m guessing I dint get as much attention as I craved and once we shifted to Riyadh, Mom worked in the same school as us and Dad used to come back from office by 5:00 . So I suddenly got enough attention from home to not crave it from outside. Or there wasa somethiing in the coimbatore Air …All said and done,  I don’t hide things anymoree..trust me..Am not fibbingg…seriouslyyy

25 random things about me February 23, 2009

In the spirit of the tagging going around on facebook, these are 25 random thngs about me !

1. I am always talking about dieting and exercising but am actually too lazy to do it…
2. I still remain clueless about what I want from life..career wise. I just can’t figure out what I am good at..:) I think I should choose one profession per year and keep doing this till i find my “calling”..Although think about it, at the age of 45 if I discover my calling is gymnastics..it will be pretty difficult switching to it dont u think?

3.I am pretty “non-controversial”(a.k.a boring) and avoid confrontations like the plague (except with people closest to me..like my poor husband atul )..
4. I am just not a phone person, because of which I stay in touch only with the friends I see online ..So umm..people out there call me instead of waiting for me to call you !
5. I never changed jobs for 5 years because of sheer laziness
6. I adore dogs and dream about keeping one some day, but its such a big commitment that I don’t really see it happening. Where are all the pet care centers which were supposed to open up!??
7. I am scared that now I that I have gotten into ISB, I’ll be one of the least focussed persons in there and noone will give me a job!! ..

8. I never liked to cook, but off late I’ve realised I actually don’t mind cooking, but get bored of “normal and routine” cooking very fast. I would rather try out some new unknown cuisine’s recipe than make dal and sabji and the likes

9. I don’t like people who don’t respond to me while I am talking..

10. As I am growing older, I realise I add new categories to ‘people I don’t like” everyday. Gone are those days, when I used to wear rose glasses and like everyoneee I meet..

11. I am a movie freak and can watch ANY movie ..even if it got like 1/2 a star from the “critics”.I’d go anyway to see “HOW bad it could possibly be”

12. I can’t lie, not with a straight face atleast ! I could never play pranks on people because of this..Even for harmless lies, I break into giggles …Although before the age of 10, it was the opposite (All those who know abt my slightly “psycho” past will vouch for this ) …

13. I used to maintain a crush list when I was in 8th standard…and it was a list of all the people I apparently had a crush on and NONE of them were “real” people I knew (i.e it was a celebrity crush list) and it STILL crossed 200 or so!

14. My heart feels lighter when I go on treks and look at the greenery and nature in all its splendour. I love taking in the sights and the unpolluted air ..

15. Working from home, I don’t work all that much but feel guilty about it all the time. I can’t wait for the time when I do timepass and NOT feel guilty about it

16. I feel I am a very optimistic person except when it comes to me myself and I, in which case I get pretty negative. Yeah I think I have some sort of inferiority complex when it comes to my “work” or career or where I’m going in life. But other than that, I am little miss sunshinee…really

17. I cannot imagine what life was like before I got married anymore. Ofcourse life without Atul was difficult to imagine even 6 years back…but being married is different and awesome (for me atleast ..:)) Oh I don’t know how I will survive one whole year without him now…ughh..grrr..

18. I don’t think I can keep my house spotlessly clean ever! Somehow my standard of “neatness” never matches with neone..I always felt my room was clean but my mom used to get a fit everytime she saw it. I think ignorance is bliss

19. Coming to “ignorance is bliss”, when I go out, I choose to ignore everything thats ‘bad’, like perverts and eve-teasers and all that. I don’t even hear cheap comments (which I presume must have been passed sometime or the other in my life)..It makes life simpler and nicer!

20. Sometimes I feel I have a women’s liberation/women’s equality andolan sitting inside me. It comes out at odd moments and I am constantly surprised by how “male-dominated” our society still is.Some things will never change I guess…

21. Even though I am always sooper excited about the thought of going Partying and all that,once I do hit the disc/pub, I get bored in 30 min max and cant wait to get back home.

22. My “calling” in life keep changing. For eg, After Chak De India, I wanted to be a hockey player. Watching “Scrubs” makes me feel like I would have been a good doctor..Watching good Ads makes me think I should be into advertising..Reading good books makes me want to be a writer..ahem…(Also refer to #2)

23. I’ve always had “best friends” at every stage in my life, in every city that I moved to, and surprisingly am in touch with all of them from Primary school. although not TOO much in touch because of #4

24. I need variety in my life, be it soaps, shampoos, perfumes, food.. I can’t use the same thing for too long, it actually bugs me (But not very surprisingly, I am extremely loyal, and have been in love with the same guy, Atul for 8.5 years now..touch wooodd ).

25. I actually thought I was too boring to have 25 things to “write” about and now can’t believe I actually came up with 24 things. When at #10, I was actually thinking of making this a “10 random things about me” post..

My eternal quest to find an aerobics class in kolkata! February 5, 2009

It’s funny how all these “fitness” classes in Kolkata go out of the way to proclaim that they are “NOT” aerobic classes. It’s like doing Aerobics here is unthinkable..some sort of “sacrilege”! Soumen’s Workout gloated “No no this is NOT aerobics..This is much better”..Another class I joined at solace also gloated “Aaha..You are lucky you came here and not to some “Aerobics” class’…I wonder why…maybe it doesn’t suit the bengali physique? Aah..god knowss..

Anyways continuing this “journey” of mine —– Soumen’s workout din’t really work out for me ..I went for 3 weeks that too with a lot of self-motivation because those classes just couldnt do enough of that!! It was slow,boring and repetitive and To add to all this, they hardly ever put on the music..I can’t workout while hearing ek-dui-tin-char—-aat–ulti di –saat bla bla…To their credit, they did switch on the music system once in while..and It would repetitively play Michael Jackson..Beat It and Heal The World..LoL! Try exercising to Heal the world and see how far you get!..So yeah that led to the demise of “soumen’s workout’ for me..

I took a break for 2-3 months before I started my search once again. This time I landed up in Solace Day Spa and Wellness Center (in Sunny Park, Ballygunge) , this high-end place which looks all swanky and nice..Although on google it said “aerobics in solace”, when I went there I found out they DONT offer aerobics but something called “body balancing and Pilates”. I decided to try out for it and see what they got. I signed up for a 8 classes ka package, 1400 Rs for that (10 Classes – 1600 Rs, 12 Classes a month – 1800 Rs).Its taken by this very lithe lady, a fitness instructo, Mrinalini Mukherjee who looks and is as flexible as a 25 year old (But is more than a decade older)..I got motivated to sign on just by looking at her! ..She had an awesomely clear complexion , not to mention the fact that she looked fit and toned! Anyhow moving on to WHAT she teaches,it was basically like an advanced yoga class. Warmup session in the beginning included doing “Surya Namaskars” around 5-6 times and I was surprised how sweaty THAT got to me. With that done, she followed it up with the “body balancing” routines, flowy moves designed to improve your flexibility and strengthen some parts of your body. This just proved to be further testimony to my “unfit” body — I couldn’t balance myself on my 2 hands and 2 legs without them buckling under all that weight ! I was discouraged but the other girls in the class said things will get better with time and it DID..The next class I was successful in supporting myself but just BARELY !! My hands and legs were involuntarily trembling like a 90 year old woman’s! After 2-3 classes, I started feeling better about myself although there were some moves Mrinalini used to do which had me just gaping at her not having the guts to even attempt! She used to balance herself on one hand and one leg…with the other leg in air..lol…no can do that! Sadly after 5 classes, I had some guests and then had to go out of station, so that was the end of my tryst with “body balancing”. I loved the class but feel that to really get the benefits of this class, you should already be fit..This class cannot make you fit from a completely unfit chump, but it can help you be fitter and reach the pinnacles of fitness ONCE you are half way there!

So I’ve had 2 half hearted attempts at “working out” in Kolkata.Both interrupted by my travel schedule (1st year of my marriage and all that!). Once you are out of the “groove”, its very difficult to go back to it ..Anyhow I begin my 3rd attempt tomm with Indira Anklesaria’s Calorie Burn Center (Lovelock Place) (I do wish they had a nicer cooler name though, but what’s in a name huh?:))..I finally found someone who said “We do aerobics” without feeling apologetic about it!! Phew. I like the flexibility they offer in terms of number of classes you choose to come (The rate is around 200 Rs per class). Let’s wait and watch how this one turns out.. Wish me luck..

To a THINNER and FITTER new ME …Cheers

What Should I Blog About? :D January 9, 2009

Hello there! I noticed there’s this new thing I can do on WordPress…Opinion Polls..

So Ofcourse I am doing it …

And have decided to JFK(Just for Kicks ) put up a poll :

PS Update : After the initial slow response (Just 1 vote in 2 weeks — coincidentally that one vote was from me!!), I dint bother checking the polldaddy very often, but today accidentally clicking on results,I saw 22 votes for Momta Didi! Lucky her ..wait for a post on her soon…

What has marriage done to me? December 20, 2008

The title is not a hair-pulling frustrated rhetorical “WHAT has marriage DONE to me” but a nicer happier actual query “what has MARRIAGE done to me?”

I have no idea what’s happened to me after I got married..I could very well see that I have put on weight like crazy but it was a revelation to me that I have become completely unfit ? (Those two you think HAS to be related but I always nursed the thought I was fat but fit ) Beat this : I played table tennis for 15 minutes with Atul the other day which included the normal bends to pick up the ball whenever it went somewhere, and VERY surprisingly the next day I was groaning in pain -> my whole body was aching right from my neck to arms to my bum to my legs.I never thought the day will come when TT will be more strenuous for my body than my normal “sitting in my rotating chair” routine. I’d understand if it was badminton but TT!! Hell I am unfit.I’ve also found from my “general” survery that women lose all forms of self-control once they get married atleast for the initial 7-8 months.Take for example.ME : I have always had a fascination for pastries and chocolate mousse and the likes and there were so many days in the past (before wedding) when I had the “mousse craving” and I used to satisfy myself just looking at pictures of it on google images. But Google images just don’t do enough for me anymore! Looking at those pictures has the opposite effect on me now. It pushes me towards the oh-so-delicious blackforest cake at the nearest Kookie jar or the yummy chocolate mousse at Biscotti forcing me to buy it and PUT it in my mouth at once…Aah thats heaven..you know just writing about it is making me want one real bad…But I wouldn’tt blame “marriage” as such for putting on weight. It’s just the consequent effects .Like I moved to Kolkata after marriage and have been working from home. In Bangalore, I used to end up walking around a km or so everyday because I NEVER got autos easily, which turned out to be a good thing actually! Plus I had no life really other than office and home where I had “trained” my grandma to make oil-less food .Here since I work from home, every 40 minutes I get bored and I EAT when I get bored..PLUS I used to go for aerobics regularly..AND this city of “joy” somehow doesn’t have an aerobics class (More on THAT later! ) So there, maybe it’s not marriage per se , just all the circumstances surrounding it..Whatever it is I’ve resolved to become fitter in 2009

Another change which has come about is my “blogging” perspective. I used to be so happy writing about obscure topics but now I search for something “informational” to write..So I have written movie reviews, a post on the new bangalore airport, that post on soumen’s workout , then I had something on Durga pooja, then DDA results..See the whole “I give information” thingy going on? Oh gosh. Or maybe I am just growing old.Even when the blogging bug bit me this time,I started with “hyderabad international airport”! And just to counter this whole new ‘funda giving’ me, I wrote this one finally ! Umm Yayy I guess? ..

DDA Housing Scheme 2008 Draw Results December 17, 2008

The wait was finally over yesterday. 5 lakh applications for 5000 flats. I knew chances were slim that I make it into the list but I was pinning my hopes on my husband’s “pet” name being LUCKY! ..Seeing how That dint really work out, I also realised there are reservations for these DDA Flats too!! Some 20% is for SC/ST , 5% for physically handicapped, ex-army men, and war widows. Man I so don’t get the point of having SC/ST reservation here.If you can afford a house worth 45 lakhs, you aren’t in dire need for extra help from the Delhi Development Authority are you!? Anyhow so yeah, we will try next year again or since real estate prices are going down, we might just get that DLF house for cheap! ..

Am posting the list here, since the stupid Official DDA site is STILL not opening up. After getting around 150 crores as interest, the least they can do is host the file on different servers..Bleddy buggers!

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Don’t Give Terrorists a Human face December 9, 2008

I am sick of TOI giving us front page news about the lone captured terrorist. I don’t want to know what this creature likes or dislikes. I don’t care a damn whether he likes movies or not. I am least interested in whether he gets his food or not. All I want to hear is that he’s being tortured and being made to pay for the deeds he did! Why is media giving the “devil” a human face? They don’t deserve it. Pls stop it!

The international media is doing a great job as far as I’m concerned. Some of their articles are surprisingly intuitive and very intelligent. Here are some links..

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/08/opinion/08kaplan.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/08/opinion/08french.html?emc=eta1