tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-131579702011-04-21T22:06:20.868-07:00what am i??? a basketball playing, food loving, movie crazy, person who is supposed to study management for the next two years...without a clue as to how he's gonna manage to get through them without getting out of the comatose state the last five years of study have left him in...Burrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09168018739426788618noreply@blogger.comBlogger71100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13157970.post-1119862954731332042005-06-27T02:02:00.000-07:002005-06-27T02:02:34.736-07:00shocking as it may seem to people.... i'm finally joining iim-b...<br />no they're not taking back the admit they've given....<br />looking forward to it...though with some trepidation... i mean it is two years of really hard work...supposedly...<br />got my room... some nice one in an executive block...coz there's too many students in the batch..<br />i get the huge room with attatched bath... :D<br />thank you pgp 2005-07...<br />only bad thing(or is it a boon in disguise)<br />there's women in the floor above me... i wonder what that means for my studies...<br />no more on this point... my girlfriend is here...shooting daggers from her eyes....<br />it seems that the senior batch is trying to rag my batch...<br />seeing im atleast the age of half of that senior batch... i wonder what will happen when they try...<br />anyway... all the best to all the ppl joining various mgt courses all over...<br />boski, glen, kuchi, anoop... and most of all.... ME....<br />more later... have to go and work myself up to a new height of nervousness....<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13157970-111986295473133204?l=shankarburra.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Burrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09168018739426788618noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13157970.post-1118898440327099202005-06-15T22:05:00.000-07:002005-06-15T22:07:20.330-07:00read the stuff at this link<br /><a href="http://homepages.nyu.edu/%7Eamw243/diaries/">The Secret Diaries of Cassandra Claire...</a><br />Found it in this other blog...<br />absolutely hilarious...<br />a bright spot in a reasonably dull day today....<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13157970-111889844032709920?l=shankarburra.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Burrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09168018739426788618noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13157970.post-1118732352034222592005-06-13T23:41:00.000-07:002005-06-13T23:59:12.040-07:00ok...here goes...<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Total number of books I own:<br /></span>anywhere between 6 and 700... but when your dad has a collection of almost 7500 + maybe even 10... its hard not to get into the habit.<span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"> <span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />Last book i bought:<br /></span></span></span>hmmm... other than that engineering text book ;)<br />The Ashok Banker Ramayana Series... quite good... waiting for the next installment here too... like harry potter...<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br />Last book i read:<br /></span></span></span>if something i read non stop from start to finish, without deviations like work... "Snapshots from Hell" - Peter Robinson...<br />Managements equivaent of 5 . someone... except for a persperctive student...scary as hell...unveiling the realities of life in a management school.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Currently reading...<br /></span>Just started reading the last book in the foundation series, Asimov...<br />quite nice... so far...<br /><br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Books that have had an impact on me:</span><br />Tough one... would have to say "Letters from a self made man to his son..." a book my father gave me when i was in BITS... some obscure author... but very enlightning about the relationships between a father and a son.<br />Also... "The other side of Midnight" - a Sidney sheldon novel i would noy recommend the suicidal read...<br />it would definitely push them over the edge...<br />and something this girl in class 10 made me read... "Love Story" - Erich Segal... had to read it...she was my girl friend then... reaction... aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa...<br />Kill me now...<br />but other than that...not too many others...<br />Also all my EEE text books... which made me realise how much i hated being an engineer...<br />and Economics by Samuelson...helped me find what is now a passion in life... Economics...<br /><br />and now the cynically evil and sadistic part...<br />mishra, nair, sankey... the notorious msn...which i found out today...<br />sethu, vivek mohan... TAG....<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></span></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13157970-111873235203422259?l=shankarburra.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Burrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09168018739426788618noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13157970.post-1118730275648385852005-06-13T23:15:00.000-07:002005-06-13T23:24:35.653-07:00Went and saw the movie with bindu yesterday. Piece of advice...not a movie to see with your girl friend... Angelina Jolie was astoundingly hot in the film... the first time you see her is ok... and then the flash back starts... she's like lara croft, the game character - not her in the movie, was to adolescents when the game first came out.<br />brad pitt seems to be like an extra... but then i never really concentrated on his part in the movie...<br />the movie as a whole... i'd give it 3.5/10...<br />more for her than the movie that too...<br />the storyline was more like a comic books....<br />and they end off on a slightly abrupt note... but then i heard that the director never recovered from angelina jolie telling him she would work nude for the "scenes" and do whatever was necessary...<br />more that anyone had asked her to do infact... can't blame the guy can you????<br />no wonder jennifer aniston started to have doubts... whatever the papers say... if brad pitt managed to control himself throughout the movie, and that too with her being ready to do "all that's necessary", the man is a saint... or gay... one or the other...<br />plans to see h2g2 today.... i have a huge feeling that the actress there is gonna be a major let down after this...<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13157970-111873027564838585?l=shankarburra.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Burrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09168018739426788618noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13157970.post-1118412507220913672005-06-10T06:57:00.000-07:002005-06-10T07:08:27.223-07:00After today i have only 5 working days left...<br />5 days which will signal the end of my bitsian life....<br />which were 5 of the most memorable years of my life. I still remeber driving up to shankar bhawan( and thats something i didn't live down for a year..."shankar from shankar")<br />my first bout of jaundice keeping me out for all of the first month of classes...<br />my first bitsian crush.... all the fun i had during 5 different oasis with lights... just about the best thing that happened to me in BITS was lights...<br />and ofcourse those amazing trips that were taken with friends...<br />will miss the place more than i realised i would...<br />looked forward till the day i would leave that "hell hole" as we called it in ,y psenti sem...<br />and now i'm getting nostalgic...<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13157970-111841250722091367?l=shankarburra.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Burrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09168018739426788618noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13157970.post-1118383403260592012005-06-09T22:54:00.000-07:002005-06-09T23:03:23.263-07:00in deference to the wishes of one vivek mohan...a man who is so bad at what he does, that his ps station didn't want to risk giving him any work to do.... my new post...<br />have been very tardy about posting these days...will have to improve on that...<br />finally finished my final seminar at ps...and that means i have no work to do...i'm coming here everyday purely for the free chai and the chance to heckle all my friends who are still working on their projects and reports...<br />saw revenge of the sith for the 4th time yesterday...being a star wars junkie is getting to be expensive....<br />the only thing i didn't like about in the whole movie was the was anakin went over to the dark side...<br />it was almost like...<br />sidious: "yo machan...come to the dark side..."<br />anakin : "wokay da...no problem.."<br />other than that...brilliant movie....<br />finally bought a laptop...for all of you ppl who read this...don;t try to buy a dell one on the net with your credit card...it will just cause pain and suffering...<br />stick to cheques and dd's...much easier....<br />and one last thing... nitish nair...you are one day going to regret that bit of maligning...:)<br />and for all those who are interested...the new girl is richa sharma...an iit-d chick who is totally besotted with him...<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13157970-111838340326059201?l=shankarburra.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Burrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09168018739426788618noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13157970.post-1117009909030002232005-05-25T01:31:00.000-07:002005-05-25T01:31:49.030-07:00it's been about a month since i've found out that i've gotten through iim-bangalore...<br />heady month it has been...<br />lots of partying, drinking, and doing just about anything that doesn't involve me being sober...<br />looking forward to joining iim-b...but with some nervousness...afterall...peter robinson rightly called a mgt education as two years from hell....<br />and with the huge contingent of bitsians... its gonna feel like a mini pilani for all i know...<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13157970-111700990903000223?l=shankarburra.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Burrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09168018739426788618noreply@blogger.com1