First week at ISB

Day two :

Started with the Dean giving doing the opening honours, followed by ARang, asking us to take charge. It was inspiring, and then the HCV ( honour code violation ) syndrome started. Time and again , everyone standing at the lectern gave us more "gyaan" about HVC. It is almost a dreaded term now. I feel that such a thing is nothing new in education, after all one was debarred from college in Engg/Elsewhere if found cheating.

Then came the handover sessions, and loads of gyaan. The profile of 2007 ( with all the star chefs and gold medallists, basking in glory).

Then we had the welcome dinner, althougth the food was ossum. Nature played spoil sport, it started pouring cats and dogs, the atrium just could accomodate all of us without getting wet.So had to get back to our GOEL hall. Was fun all through, felt reassured when the alums told us that the welcome party was still ON.

We had the party at SV3 at the mirror pool, althought it was raining, the "spirit" of ISB never stopped flowing. The music was good, the crowd was good, the rain gods bestowed their blessing and lo...the party was on till 3 am. Then the came out the funnel. STOP.

Day three :

Loads of sessions, the PGP structure, ethics, CAS, CCA, counselling and finally the dos and donts of media communication. Although not very enjoyable sessions, was vitally important for our stay at ISB.

The next event was the "treasure hunt", although the clues were easy, it needed a lot of running and the aim was to get accustomed to the various offices/places at ISB. Had fun here, Pinku and Surya were the start of the show, literally running from Pillar to post.

Then the gyaan sessions started, one after the other, Consulting club, Marketing Club, Finance club and not but not the least the Bhakti club by ATA.

Also had the mock GMAT test, and my sec the samrtied smelt if from a mile and paid the price, least points on this front.

Day Four :


Bind Unwing : This was a team builging activity and was hosted by Sushma ( bangie ). Was fun, had the three legged race, came up with a trush game. Came up with a name and theme ( and presented it). Ours was called Biryani.

The chinese knot was ossum, although we never got around solving it. Then came our engineering gurus who designed EGGITAL which was designed to hold an egg thrown from the 2nd floor.



Day five :

Had our section gyaan, by AnMenon. Came up with our war chant...F...U....N. Found it cool. Then had some to do's and loyalty/legacy gyaan. Cricket was in the volley ball court. Found the rules really strange. Neways, we had our first match against GoDGo. We lost by 6 runs, but I felt we were the better team, just if we hadn't given all those extras. Then we had mixed results in Frizbee...lost the first one and won the second. Neways, had some really good fun with the games and finally had my first dip in the pool.

Had more gyaan at night.

Day six :

Nanhi Kali. Had to do some community service, so headed to First Lancer school in Humayun nagar. But as these guys were having their exams we had to go to another school. Had a good time playing with the kids. Neerja anchored this NetImpact initiative and it was awesome.

Played, Follow the leader,kho-kho, dog and the bone and our very own Hyderabad express. The kids were very very energetic and were almost at a frenzy on meeting us. Distributed some biscuits to the kids and left feeling satisfied about brining some happiness to many a kid.


Day seven :

Learnt more about art. Careers and had the awesome talent night. Must tell you folks that the amount of talent my class has is truly amazing.

Saturday night was fun. Went to TDS , had my first hookah. Had a good time, had my first 3 am dinners by the pool ( with Mani )

Sunday morning...the circket was good, although my mis-fieldings showed the number of years I was away from cricket.

Have a great week ahead folks.

HMTG.