Shades of today...

This one's for all those who feel Buster's house will never be the same again

... from the warmth of yellow to the comfort of blue and to the safety in pink and death in black. Some days just come to make you realize how fragile we are... I will miss B for ever... but I am thankful that M could meet him the day before. I am thankful that he saw 596 16A reasonably constructed. I am thankful that he had an uniterrupted good night's sleep. I am thankful that he enjoyed more cuisines than some humans do. I am thankful that he could give the young Mr Boots a fight and a fright at 91. I am thankful that he came into our lives in the July of 1994 and gave us so much to smile about.

And for all of you... Buster's house will always be the same

Those Significant Others

3:01 PM, 40 degrees centigrade, Behavioral Finance, AC 4 LT

Those Significant Others

An Absurd Gentleman

So estranged from all that is life, lives in opposition to all creation... Can find specks in voids... Heart of 24 carat gold... and the purity doesn't end there... My Bumble Bee...

The Eternal Optimist

While not blogging, she spends most of her time in and out of love... her latest is likely to feature in all Business Channels next placement season... Doesn't give up and refuses to crib... My Crisis Resolver

Tonto and the Lone Ranger

Faithful companions... He just comes through when you need him... Even the Lone Ranger needs Tonto by his side... My Kemo Sabe...

Iso Metric Intellectual

A series of short run curves define the long run curve, don't try and draw the long run curve... let it happen... 32... Love his prescriptions... My co-Dark Horse...

Inept Wile E. and his struggle with Road Runner

Distracted but obsessed... his classic luckless chase formula is in need of urgent modification... and now he is often found taking prescriptions from my co- Dark Horse before he sets foot on Goan shores... a little goofy... always a cent percent hilarious... My 'Tell me why?' live source... tells you how the rain comes, how the motor works, the fridge cools...

The Thompson Twins

United in their vision of hatred towards 'Class Participation' grading, Teaching Associates and all the tenets of Murphy's Law which leave the duo aggreived... They are often found looking for food and coffee in the Student Villages at 4 am... Classically academically inclined... Mostly perturbed... Sometimes Aggravated... but always there... My 'Comical' Colleagues

Just some of those who make a difference...

... Or forever?

The terms whizzing past me... Can't believe it's final week... Am excited about baking in goa but I am so gone miss some people here... But a regret will remain... If only I had been a little more responsive and responsible the current wouldn't flow that way... Again... The fatalist in me tells me that it's better this way... But I'm finding it hard to convince myself with this excuse...
Would it ever have been any different? I don't know... And now I never will...

On brighter notes... One of my close friends just got the shift he was looking for and will be re-locating to his favorite city soon... Guess good things take time... And something's forever and a little more...

Sizzling Brownie Sundae

Been an awfully strange week after all two people acting strangely makes for very strange situations... but today seems better and brighter... am going to buy Dad a gift... haven't bought a present in ages... except for of course that thing I can't own up to... lol...

So here we are... last 2 weeks of School... then it's Goa for some (us), Kerala for some, Bangkok for some others all in the name of some serious dis-orientation...

Had a sizzling brownie sundae after long yesterday.... piece of heaven for Rs. 129... has an amazing ability to make everything right... :-)

Can Eyes Be So Big?

Can eyes be so big? I guess when they want to say more than words, see more than now, dream more than the real, feel more than they deserve and hold more than what is theirs'... The answer is Yes... For some the answer will always be yes... you might not get to the perfect time space co-ordinates and the 'yes' might never manifest, but it doesn't change a thing...

My World

A trip to Food World add strawberries, cooking chocolate, fresh cream, vanilla extract, fruit cocktails, raspberry jelly, custard and frozen yoghurt add Two and a half hours in the kitchen add eight hungry souls = One happy Simran
Could have done with some thank you's, but then that's not what friends are for...
P.S.
New season on wisteria lane... Something to keep me going till Sunday...

Stories of ISB, Hyderabad and beyond...

Week 1 is over... well almost... I still have class in the afternoon. In a way I am glad that the year is coming to an end as I really feel the need to move out of this simulated environment... It gets stifling after a point...

These words might be harsh but nevertheless, all of last week after screaming "grow up" for the nth time... I realized that an MBA can get you so far... and some of the abysmal maturity levels have me and a certain friend genuinely concerned... but then again... I guess there's nothing new about these revelations, they've done ok so far... and hopefully will be with those who understand them in the future in places life takes them beyond these four walls....

Simply Brain Dead

Brain dead... Term 8 is so very boring and my schedule of 2:30 to 7 doesn't help... Need to bid for a few courses tomorrow to complete my credits and can't seem to work out the clashes...
Have finished jhumpa lahiri for the week and have graduated to rowling... the only thing am looking forward to is the break where some of us are headed to Goa...

For my friend

It's been a week of trashy movies, great dinners, long walks to the jungle in the scorching sun, endless cups of elaichi tea courtesy sarovar and some jhumpa lahiri...

Feel a lot better about a lot of stuff... one agenda remains unfinished... Guess good things take time... some need to wade through 500 yards of shit to come out clean on the other side... apologies A.D.

Chin Up...

Placement season's in full swing... Great to see the buzz on campus... If everything wraps up by Friday... can head outta town... Took some time off... caught a movie, some chaat and bought a book... It's amazing to realize how crucial others' happiness is to us... but there are perhaps even more crucial things... like keeping your chin up...

Comfortably Busy

Life's really gotten too hectic with placement prep, cases, revisions and the dirty pink paper... So here we are... 350 people... on a random walk through jobmathics... But, I'm coping far better than I thought I would... I'm actually sneaking in fun... The pace actually makes me forget the facts of the case... comfortably numb to all that should really matter... There's really two eventualities, one that I will be so far away that the facts will blur and fall into the redundant and immaterial... the other that I will feel so far away and not me but the facts will stare back... but for now... it's all good... I'm busy... I'm happy... and even a bit excited...

Biggest Gift

Life in the past three days has been so hectic, so tiring, so much fun, at times exhilirating... at times sad... but above all real... Said two goodbyes with a very heavy heart... got some good news... got a reality check... got some perspective...

As I said good bye today, I realised, I will always suck at them... life will always teach you things but there are somethings you just don't get better at... Tonight feels weird... just like last night... but, it will get better... and one day you wake up again 'alive' and that's when you do justice to your biggest gift.

Of the Cinderella Hour

One day... 10:00 am - Pricing Exam, 3:00 pm - Lunch and obedience, 6:00 pm - Did it actually happen... Accept it for its 'glam' appeal, 8:00 pm - Amazement does not cease... neither does the homesickness, 10:00 pm - Safety Inventory, Cycle Inventory, Set Up time... give it to me as long as its not graded, 12:00 am - Cinderella hour, Cinderella indulges in CSR with a mission... Mission Impossible... nah... 1:00 am - Fervent chatting with quadmates with coke and full-house, 2:13 am - pleasant interruption... Amazement does not cease... Just of a different kind...

New Years! 

Wisdom enough to manage thy neighbors affairs...

Last night was a repetition of three weeks ago... I cussed, I screamed and behaved like a total brat... But, none of that bothers me... What does... Is the fact that I let insignificant people get to me... Everything people weigh me in normative scales and issue judgments I get so bothered... As the mercury rises, I know it's not worth it... But I still do the damage... In many ways the year here has been a great experience... And I guess this is a part of it... But I can't help missing my old friends... As N would have put it... It's jealousy with a halo... Be with you soon... Maybe even Feb...

girls slumber party 

break from elp... 

Vasant Valley 

Blue Eye Make Up! We have our days... 

Forbidden

There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable - Mark Twain

You know it's not for real... you know it shouldn't be... you do whats the easiest to do... live in the gray areas... rationalize and justify... but savour the moment... each and everyone. They all make up the landscape that is you...