In no particular order...an MBA, 2 cities, amit, shandy, a hairline fracture, gym, amazing appetite for PJs, plenty of weight gained, lost, gained and lost again, macdonalds at midnight, lotsa late night walks in dubai, CS, bonds, derivatives, pool, swimming pool, CNN, galaxies and magnums everyday, US general election, RR, 2 and a half men, shandy's (farty) slippers, backstabbers, macdonalds at 2am, sunday biryani at the canteen, Jurong medical center, friends, amit's prim and properly wrapped clothes in the cupboard (and then....they stank!), dubai academic city, subway sandwitches...for months on end, macdonalds at 4am....and the guy who's been through it all with me....aseem, life's been quite a roller coaster ride!
Day 1 -- aseem and i landed in dubai and somehow my visa document had not reached the airport. We waited for quite a while before it was found and then we got out. Zi was there and then we decided to use the college van to reach the hostel. It was a different feeling as we were to settle with different roomies. Took a while and the journey turned out to be great! Especially the pool games the 4 of us used to play -- Bombay vs Delhi! I was unbelievable at snooker. Unbelievably terrible, that is:-)
Singapore - amazing city! I love walking and this city has forests trails all over the place! Too bad i broke my leg...:-) I still can't forget aseem having fun pushing me around the hospital on the wheelchair the first time I had the cast on....
Shandy and I were unbelievable in crapping out PJs!!! That was an amazing collection we had. Amit and Aseem would just disown us. Especially aseem...he would just switch on his ipod and stare at his laptop while shandy and i would be rolling on our tummies laughing at our crappy jokes! Amit.....well, he would enjoy them provided he was awake...:-)
Most importantly....we had these great debates....from vegetarians vs non-vegetarians (aseem in one corner, shandy, amit and I in the other) to the future of the financial world and how the whole collapse was the revamping of the economic order.
Fast forward to right now...sitting in my bed, watching Spy Game, I decide to blog. This is my first blog since i joined back Hewitt. 20 months in the wild. Back at the same firm, same house....and what do you know...even the same interviewers! Though it seems that time stood still for all this while, I seem to have come to a completely new place. The challenges are quite different from the ones I had faced in my earlier stint and that makes it all the more....fun! How am i doing? Donno. It's just too early to take a call. I am yet to come into my 'element', still a little rusted, a little slow. But I am moving...
Life's come a full circle. It's time to work.
This is ibrahim 2.0 signing off.
