Well.. Believe it or not a month has just swept past already... and it does seem at times like jus yesterday that I had landed in this beautiful, green and clean city of Singapore!!!
Still remember the first sight of the city where we were welcomed by a site unwitnessed for quite sometimes in the arid lands of the arab world... Yes.. some rainfall.. n ofcourse greenery all over the place.. yup.. tht was the first experience of singapore as the whole gang of 31 (or should i call it the Mumbai cohort paraphrasing in Dr Sethi's words:)) ppl boarded the shuttle from the airport to the campus on the 19th of November 2006..
As we arrived at the campus, we were welcomed with the curious and amused eyes of the then "Singapore Cohort"... All trying to figure out what was this force that had the potential to take over the campus which they so love and had cherished for almost 6 months :)...
Neway... at this point cant help mention our first hand rendezvous with the food at the mess at the SP Jain Campus... This was supposed to be the beginning of the roller coaster experience of satisfying our basic need to satiate our taste buds every single day... with food quality and taste that could have angered the inmates of Tihar Jail (well.. jus an exagerration... not so bad.. but yeah.. close ).....
Well.. pretty used to the food by now goin by the slight improvement in the standards after Annalakshmi food and our rebellious batch almost put the canteen caterer almost out of his business here... oh yeah we would move on to the more benevolent side of Singapore and SP Jain Singapore in my next blog...This one's just to expose the initial days where every day was an exponential step up on the learning curve....
well comin back...cant help mentioning our benediction for food being answered with the discovery of Annalakshmi, a charitable restaurant with beautiful ambience and folk music which most of the cohort frequents especially every weekend these days... of course cant miss out the arguements between friends on hw much to volunteer to shell out after the meal.. ranging from as low as SGD1 to as high as SGD 10...and the bragging post dinner on the campus about how much food was hogged at the place :)
Well well..... as I was adapting to the life in the land of Tiger Beer and vegetarian food which includes sea food (well not everywhere :)).. there were some very interesting excursions....from the first tryst with the MRT and of course the explorations to Little India or Orchard Road;)
but given the length for which I have blabbered and of course given the final lecture on IB Strategies almost comin to an end... I think I would leave it to my next blog to take you down that road....
Adios for now then!!!!!
