This too was a golden period ...

I rolled off from GGSRL project today .. The mail I wrote to Piush and Sohini ... More on this later

Hi Piush & Sohini,

Just wanted to say thanks for the wonderful time that we have spent together on this project.

What began as just a project in the dingy UCO bank office turned out to be one of the best times that I have ever spent at work, both professionally and personally. Thanks for supporting, developing and sometimes protecting me.

Will cherish fond memories of our now famous potty jokes, joe pjs, all sorts of cheap talk (which includes "peeche se" and "beach mein"), our animal farm (goggi, doggi, hippo, rhino, kitty cat), the insignificant others (uncle bum, chuha, toothpick, tina, sita and the frustrated gang), our special capabilities, the daily hogging (of all paranthas, samosas, mad angles and the current hot favourite pass pass) and and the constant cribbing and bickering about anything and everything on earth!

Hope we will get a chance to work with each other again in near future! Wishing you both a great luck for all your future endeavours!

Warm Regards
Gautam

"We part only to meet again!"

Memories from the golden years from my life (15)

The few of those who do take the pains of reading my blog must be pissed with the gory details of my foot infection going on and on since the last 3 blogs. No more of it. I'll come back to campus life. I have already spoken about three of my subjects and their professors in first term viz. Manac, BIO and COM. Let me put down a few words about the other three before I go on to describe the Mid terms. The other three were QAM, ECO and LAM.

Ok ... now QAM and MANAC are considered to be the two most painful subjects in IIML. for the simple reason that these subjects can earn you what is commonly known as a "Dhaka" or "Fucka" any time! More so because of their professors. Well strangely enough, I found the QAM professor to be really nice - Abhijit Bhattarcharya. He knew his subject really really well. But we were like all scared of him as he had given a lot of Fs last year and was (as we had heard from seniors) a demon in disguise. Anyways .. I like to form my own opinions and I found him to be really good. The less we say about his counterpart "NKG" the better ... Kyun Manish? We had also come up with a name for him ( do you remember Manish? .... put it down in comments :)) His famous "Oooouunn .. I dont know any exampules" was repeated by us many a times during lighter moments. Manish and I had did not even have one professor in common .. While we had some oldie (whose name i cant remember) for LAM (Legal Aspects in Management) .. Manish's section had the pleasure of studying from Mr. LAA (with whom Manish shared a very "special" relationship in second year :) )

The third one was Eco. We had an excellent prof. whom i will respect through out my life .. it was really a pleasure studying from him .. Rest in next blog!

Memories from the golden years of my life (14)

I have always heard ... that there is a lot of strength in your parents blessings. And it was proved this time ... once again. I had told mom dad about my feet .... and it did make them worry like anything ... to the extent of finding unknown relations in Lucknow! However, thankfully i did not require to use those relations. There was a girl (rather an auntie would be more appropriate) called Mukuli in my class. She was about 32 years old, had about 7 years of experience and looked absolutely stupid (well ... it all changed later :) .... i think ill dedicate a full post to her sometime later). Now Mukuli was suffering from fever from sometime .... and she had a doubt that it was jaundice .... she appeared to be scared to death ... and wanted to get her blood test done .... and apparently there was no facility in campus for the blood test to be done .... and that day we were discussing about our own problems ... when she said that she wanted to go to hospital to get her tests done but was scared to go alone. Now even though i was dying with my feet in that condition ... being a man .. i offered her my help (of accompanying her) ... Now let me make it very clear ... that the help was offered with no wrong intentions in mind :) ... Actually I wanted to show my feet to someone ( as none of the medicines were having any effect whatsoever) ... and I had no clue about medical facilities in Lucknow. This was not an easy decision for me ... as my first mid term exams were just 5 days away ! ... and I guess only Manish would know what wasting one full day in those circumstances in first term would mean ... but i had little choice so i went with her after BIO class...

The hospital was first of all not at all difficult to reach. We had taken campus bus which dropped us till 3.4 .. and from there we took one of the vikrams (pooled autos) .... Well the hospital looked as if it would fall anytime ... I had my doubts if this would be of any help ... still we paid 50 bucks each for check up ... and went to our respective doctors ... Now this is one lady to whom I will be indebted for life ...We have such wrong impressions about govt. hospitals ... tell you what .. the kind of treatment this lady doctor gave me .. even the most qualified professional doctors would not be able to give ... may be this was because of the fact that i was in IIM... which had a real huge prestige in Lucknow ... Anyways ... she removed puss from my blisters .. which were all over my feet .. applyed betadiene ... bandaged my feet .. and with all the bad puss gone properly .. i was feeling very much better .. she also wrote a few medicines ... some of which were available from the chemist outside the hospital and the rest i had to get from purana chauraha .... finally mukuli also had her tests done and we came back ... and i then knew ... i had seen the worst as far as my health goes for years to come .... and things would start becoming better now .. God bless that lady doctor ...