Valentine's Day

February 14th Valentines day, Like the past 22 years even this year I was single on Valentines day. I have no regrets what to so ever about it. But this year my friends made it special for me.

There was lot of apprehension about V-day celebration in Manipal because of the Moral policing activities in Mangalore and Karnataka overall. They had claimed to move in city with priests and marry any couple they find in park, pub, streets,etc. My friends were wondering if they should go out that day with their guy/girl and risk getting married. LOL.

This theme I have classes even on saturdays, and as it would be I spent the first half of day in college attending lectures. Had dinner at college mess and Watched "how I met ur mother-Season 3, episode 16 to half of episode 20". Why would someone watch only half of season finale of HIMUM? Well as it was to be my friends were waiting down at hostel for me. I forgot we had planned to go out for dinner. But it was only 6.30PM!!! As it was to be they had planned something more than dinner.

My partners in crime today and as always were Anshul(I call him Zorro), Jai Todi ( All call him Jodi) and Neha. Off late we four have hit off well and hang out a lot, especially at COX and MOX which we call "CNM" and call ourseleves CNM Gang.

In no time I am ready and down meeting them. We first move to China Valley, the only place which serves HOOKAH at Manipal. This is first time we I have had hookah in Manipal. Though the flavour was not very strong, Hookah rocks any given day. We spent the next one and half hour smoking hookah and eating snacks. When we four are together there are some secrets revealed and some stories shared. And today was no unusual. Of course we had planned to take Jodi's trip today. But as always Jodi was very calm and composed, and his stories very lame.
Neha and me had more fun pulling Zorro's leg, teasing him about his latest crush in college.

As expected the CNM was jam packed, with people standing on road and on pavement on opposite side. Seemed like the best people of Manipal had come down to CNM, and we only added to the cause. We four did our ritual work at CNM, in CNM style. We wanted to dedicate a song to CNM Gang, and my suggestion was sealed- Yaaron dosti,badi hi haasen hai (RockFord).
We sang out loud, with Zorro literally dancing. Truth or Dare game bought out more secrets. Was surprised to know that one amongst us was committed and another was single while I thought the other way around.

As we have been doing more often recently, we parceled food at Parata point and went back to college. On the way back stopped at Peacock point. Spend around 15 minutes there chatting with seniors and admiring the view.
We had food at "TAPMI Greens", sharing food of 4 amongst 10 others. We never say no to anyone, in fact it is fun sharing and eating. Had a walk after food and I was back in hostel soon after.

This day was special and will fall short of words describing it. Or should I say some things cannot be explained in words. Yet another glorious day in Life at TAPMI.

UnLuckybychance

What a way to celebrate the end of exams. Nutin can beat watching "Luckbychance". I dunno whose crap idea was to travel 10 odd Kms after exams to watch this movie. I had given 7 papers in 4 days before this movie. This explains how tired, exhausted and stressed out i was. I had plans to sleep for the rest of day( to make up for derprived sleep during the week ) or go to beach with my pals. But it was not to be. Some 30-40 from my college went to the movie. Shows hows desperatly we needed a break from books and how happy we were to finish another theme at college

I became a fan of Farhan Akthar after his debut movie "Rock on". Absolutly love his voice and delivery. Guy has a great attitude and style. Of course his singing in "rock on" did rock.
The movie also had Konkana Sen, another favourite, I like her off beat roles.
And lot of expectations were associated with Zoha, the director.

But the movie turned out to be a total thumbs down. The start did look promising, but it just fadded out. They lost the plot totally. One of Rishi Kapoors and juhi Chawlas worst performances. Screenplay and direction was sad. Farhan and Konkana were good, more could have been got out of them..

Anyways I would rather suggest you to sit at home and watch some TV soap than "LuckByChance"

Exams and vacation.

Well my second post within the first month. I am doing good here.

I had not written anything about me in the first blog, so here I go.
My name Ankit R Gulechha ( Naam toh sunna hoga :-p ). My sunshine being Aries, which makes me creative, passionate, adventurous, romantic, bla bla.. Currently doing my post graduation in Business Administration (ie; MBA) from T.A.Pai Management Institute, Manipal. First time hosteling here during my course. Away from home, missing the love,affection and moms food back home.

Since my last blog a lot has happened. I had Alumni meet in college, Exams and a short vacation.
Starting in reverse order. The one week vacation split into two events- outbound program from college and holiday at home. The two day outbound included trekking and other activites through which managerial learning and skills are imparted. Communication, interpersonal skills, working in team, adjusting to change, etc. The two day event was totally fun filled and quite a learning. Was at home for 5 days. This was my first break from the college rigour and tight schedule in 3 months. To be honest was feeling very jobless initially. Not much to do apart from watch movies and TV series on my laptop. Friends were busy at office during the weekdays. Wat really kept me busy was my mothers dentist visit where I had to accompany her. Things got better on friday evening and the weekend was simply awesome. Hanged out at places where we normally do, went bowling, watching cricket at friends place, late nights..
But one event during this trip has changed the way I look at relationships now. I will never forget the moment when my friend revealed a secret which he/she has kept for 4 long years. Please dont ask what.
The trip back to Manipal from bangalore was brilliant.was made to change bus midway at 4.00Am and again at 7.00Am. Sleeping in the bus passage with people kicking us around, stinking socks and shoes, uukkkkk.. But in the company of Anshul and Arghya it was total fun and masti.

Now the exams. Lets not talk bout it, they came they went. End of story.
Alumni meet was a good learning experience. The idea that management education is not bout books and grades but about managing yourself and ppl around you and keeping yourself updated with the lastest in every aspect of life was over emphasised again and again. And that is one reason why I no more bother about my grades. Met alumni from TAPMI's first batch. The knowledge sharing was so enriching. Was lost in thoughts like what I would be doing when i come back here after two years. Alumni meet is one of the most awaited events at any B-schools. It is the first level of interaction wth the industry with the freedom to be very casual with them as they are from same college.

I had started writing this post to emphasise on fact that I really did not have much time for my second blog. Glad I did it asap.