Yearbook

Incedently, I ended up working for the college yearbook. This is online software, so no time spent on creative layouts and stuff. The work was prettly much limited to selcting and uploading the snaps while being creative within limits. It was great fun to go through the snaps of moments through out the year. Seven of us worked on this. Here are few snaps for yearbook 'staff'

from left, Prashanth, Sirena, Maren, Will, Katy, Alok...

Lazy Week Busy Sunday

The week was spent in regular SCP / VISA / JOB struggle. Nothing remarkable and hence wasn't really willing to update the blog. Spend Saturday resting, watched movie August Rush, which by the way is not as remarkable as many other had said, and was reading Marquez's 'Love in the Time of Cholera'. Enjoyable book. However my stamina of reading the book is hampered. Now I can't finish books over-night... Guess need to work out in this area :)

Nonetheless, first Sunday of August, Friendship day. Here is one old snap of Friendship day where three of us, the roomies, invited the friends in Pune for Dinner. Good Ol days.


So went Punting with remaining MBAs in Oxford. We spent 3 happy hours Punting, eating grapes and drinking Pims. What a great way of spending Sunday Morning. Really had a great time.

Really Enjoying :)

Thatz me and grapes... :-)

And to make the day the perfect, had TT and fantastic Indian dinner at Naveen's house. Me, Sudipto, Sachin and Naveen, just four of us. We had a great talk, ambrosia food cooked by Rashmi, Naveen's wife and one more cool round of talks and dessert. Wow, what a Friendship day Sunday. Couldn't ask for more.

So Guys. Happy Friendship day. Enjoy.

Trinity Term Results

Results came out about 5 mins ago. Being in school was able to collect it very fast. Well, passed in all subjects with between 60-65 in all. Which means I have passed three terms of MBA in plain Vanilla manner without flying colors or falling down....Boring ride.....but glad that it didn't turn in wrong direction either....

Windsor Castle

After a long time! I was planning to update on Friday. But the keyboard of my laptop, that had troubled me multiple times before, had officially gave up after a small accident. So....

Nonetheless, after gruelling boredom of week end aggravated by visa problems for scp work and hence due lack of any activity, I didn't expected the week end to be any better. So out of sheer lack of anything happening, I decided to go to Windsor Castle, a weekend of of Queen. Old pal from John Deere, Hari, benignantly agreed to accompany me. So spent quarter of Sunday waiting for Hari on different train stations (don't ask), quarter in the castle watching King's and Queen's rooms (they have seperate bedrooms - I thought that was my original idea :-( ) quarter watching the movie 'The Dark Night' in Slough (which by the way is a decent movie worth watching) and rest quarter travelling. At least I got a required break, had nice time catching up again with Hari and got couple of snaps to upload here. The next episode of the 'series of unfortunate events' was the camera going all crazy. So half of the snaps have gone bad. Here is what I have got...

Blessings of Ra

Those who don't know ancient history (or those who don't play Age of Mythology, for that matter) Ra is Egyptian Sun God. Now why not Hindu Sun God Surya-Dev or Greek Sun God Apollo? Well, Surya is limited to India as mythology says, he travels in his chariot everyday and I guess doesn't work extended hours as in UK. And Apollo is not really-completely-dedicated Sun God as he shares the place with Titan Helios. I don't know other Sun Gods. So only Ra seems to be free.

Free for what? Well, to bless a sunny day in England. Actually today wasn't exactly the bright shiny day, but I got couple of warm hours and enjoyed them in SBS garden. Nice day to do nothing but relax and watch movies. The relaxing was concluded by nice and heavy dinner at Utkarsh's place, cooked by his wife Swati. May Ra bless them :)

SCP

Going fairly nice with the SCP. Right now the work load is not too much. Still in order to get things accomplished, three of us, Me, Pranjal and Huan-Yi, who are in Oxford meet (or rather sit) in library everyday from 1000-1600. While the fourth Member Nilanjana joins virtually from Reading. Right now we are in process to make the future plan. So no firm plan of action right now. Just making peace with peaceful life.

Preparing mind to start working


Preparing body in the pose of working

Hard working :)

Gayatri Mantra and Giorgio Armani

The new spring/summer 2009 collection for Giorgio Armani is displayed on their website in a video of a fashion show. The interesting thing is, for the background music they are using Gayatri Mantra...
http://www.giorgioarmani.com/ga_menu/EN/home.html

Just don't ask me what I was doing on that site :)

Coincidence is that today I found my fav add on youtube. That add uses couplets written by Saint Kabir as a lyrics of its Jingle. Interesting to have the spiritual and commercial world interlinked like this...