Home in 2 days :) - Deepavali Greetings

Our Deepavali vacation just around the corner – yes folks, SPJIMR is gonna be quiet without the usual hustle - bustle of students between 15th and 29th October. I will be off to my hometown ‘Namma Bengaluru’ – the best city known to me in India :) Hoping to spend quality time with family, meet a lot of friends, spread the awareness of PGDM programme to atleast some people who matter ;), celebrate Deepavali in grandiose and have home-cooked meals almost everyday!:)

BTW, am not really sure if I will be able to blog while in Bangalore, so you will mostly see/hear more from me in November. So wish u all a very Happy & Safe Deepavali :)

Woodlands Hotel in Juhu, Mumbai

Y’day, Vinaya, Darshan n I decided to dine out after a heavy day. We thought of going to Utsav on Juhu road. The autowala just stopped abt 100m further away from where we asked him to stop. As soon as we got out, I was pleasantly surprised to read ‘Woodlands’ infront of me. I wondered if this belonged to the famous south-indian Woodlands chain. We decided to check out and were sure that it belonged to the same chain as we found a typical ‘south-indian brahmin’ drawing near the reception!

We had south-indian economical thali – 3 big pooris < or chapathis> two sabjis, a cup of hot thili saaru , sambar, plain rice, curd rice, hapla and gulab jamun!
It was yummmmy although it didn’t exactly taste like that you will find in the Woodlands, Bangalore. It was definitely a welcome-break from the usual north-indian style of food that we get to eat here.

For those who want to check this place out – it’s a lil further ahead from ‘On Toes’ pub towards the petrol bunk on the same side of Juhu road.

WWW and Flavors!

Over the last few days, have watched ‘What Women Want’(WWW) and ‘Flavors’ on my lappy. Am sure most ppl wd have watched ‘What Women Want’. It’s a funny movie in which a guy can read women’s thoughts/mind n what he gains by it – obviously a quick fling with a hot chick, entry into a woman’s heart, his daughter starts liking him and he even rescues a loner gal.

‘Flavors’ is all about desis abroad – their behavior, typical pink-slip woes, few trying to ‘patao’ someone, etc all rolled into a hilarious comedy. I watched it in the middle of the nite <2 am – 3.30 am>, alone on my lappy n still found myself somewhat amused laughing aloud! This one's a must-watch.

Geeta Shibir - enriching eh?:)

Writing after a long time…..life has been very hectic, caught up between project works, assignment submissions, end term and the dreaded comprehensive exam nicknamed ‘compre’! Its such a relief to be done with all this and now we are in the middle of the ‘specialisation’ module.

Have watched quite a few movies since the last time I blogged – Naksha < timepass, remake of ‘Welcome to the Jungle’>, Pyaar Ke Side Effects , Shiva .

We had been to something called ‘Geeta Shibir’ for a couple of days n returned y’day morning. Sadly, it was not a good experience. Leave alone the unkept guest rooms, toilets, the ghee-some food, and only-dhokla breakfast, the sessions were unimpressive too. After attending a couple of sessions, Vinaya n I were happy to stay off and instead relax – we slept n slept n slept for abt 9 hrs extra over the two days, something that was a luxury with our hectic schedules!

Some swamy gyan:
The swamy < I wd have used a capital S if I really appreciated him> spoke a lot abt ‘happiness, unhappiness’, ‘all of us are selfish’, ‘realistic n unrealistic expectations’,‘the tea was drinking the swamy, so he left drinking it’..< the gist of the tea stuff -> the swamy never used to drink tea in his childhood. When he started working, he fell into the habit of drinking tea 4 or 5 times a day. Once, while working on a weekend, he did not drink tea at the usual time…so he developed a bad headache, nausea, stomach ache n even vomited – u get that???? So after becoming a swamy, by chance he did not have tea at the usual time due to a logistics problem and it seems he did not get the much-awaited headache….so he realized that he had won over his habitual tea-drinking sickness! Lol> and some supposed joke of counting 1 thru 10!
It seems that the swamy doesn’t like the life in East – he said that its only here that we find a servile environment, In the West, ppl are independent. But I guess he forgets to correct this when his staff hold an umbrella everytime he walks out, show him the way by holding a torch at nite and even fan him while he happily lunches! The swamy doesn’t seem to understand animals too. He said that animals act on their basic instinct alone and never think….At another instance, when some of our folks were thoroughly bugged and were whispering something, the swamy lost his cool and told them not to ‘chit-chat’ atleast when he could see them….hmmmm, I agree that the boyz should not have done the supposed chit-chat, but the so-called swamy could have been calmer or maybe the ‘anger is still drinking him’. Reportedly < I was absent> at another instance, while explaining abt ‘satisfaction, dissatisfaction n related anger’, the swamy visibly was unimpressed with his diminishing audience and cleverly put the blame on the profs by saying ‘many chairs are empty, but I should not be dissatisfied. It was the duty of the faculty to take care of this’ Our profs would have felt bad for sure , but I hope they realize the reason for the diminishing audience.


I remember that the swamy said that we should tell the truth in a pleasing manner, sadly I cant be diplomatic. Maybe there were a few good things the swamy talked of too like women should more economically independent. If anyone else has anything to share, plz feel free to comment. Geeta Shibir – wat an enriching experience:)