Well.. the most striking event that comes to my mind after the previous post was the New Years' bash at the Siloso beach, Sentosa... Wow waht an event it was!! The most fantastic crowd I have seen and one of the best rain dances you can ever witness... It was an experience to behold!! Alright, alright before you guys get your imagination running wild, nothing wild happenend to me that day.. No hooking up, No getting sloshed!!! :) .. was
quite in control of myself at 3 am on the 1st of January, 2007 trying to stop a cab at teh Harborfront MRT after the whole party.. But as always, in the city blessed with one of the best public transport, there's this surprising problem with cabs always.. and so was it that night as well.. especially wid Mr. BG with us with a sprained knee, limping all his way!!! When v did manage to stop a cab, 5 of us managed to stuff ourselves in it, under the pretence that BG was an injured patient and v were his friends taking him back home... hehehe.. What an adventure that was!!!Well.. The next exhillarating experien
ce that comes to my mind were the visits to the zoo night safari and Bird Park.. Coming face to face with a Cheetah (at a distance of jus 15 feet) when the beautiful and ferocious cat is roaming around freely was one of the highlights of the whole experience.. Of course what cannot be counted out was the desperate ducking under the swooping Birds of Prey at the Bird Park as a wake-up call at 10 am.. Well that was something to behold!!Well.. I am goin on talkin of the fun we had all this while and now u must be wondering (if u know me).. wasn't this an MBA program that I had gone for? :) .. well of course it was.. and that's where I would be mentioning about the stressful, anxious and challenging days during placements..Now.. SP Jain did not have a stereotype placement week like the one we have in B-schools back in India (given the so-called logistics issue.. hehehe ).. so. v had to go through the anxiety of getting a job not for a week, but almost for a month. I had the dubious distinction of being one the only person initially to have gone through 5 interviews without converting.. yes.. through all the posible finance profiles from equity research to Relationships Manager.. and somehow I couldn't convert ne.. I was like one of the most experienced people with interviews at that time.. well.. eventually made it back to TCS only on a consulting profile .. yeah yeah not hard-core finance.. but I guess something that would do justice to both my past and present education qualification (;))...And of course, my dubious record was broken by many others later on!!!!:)
On the whole, a scintillating one year did finally come to a sudden end on the 14th of April 2007.. After the royal villa experience of Dubai, the closely-knit hostel environment of Singapore, the experiences of living in starkly different cultures of 2 financial hubs and of course, the tremendous exposure to finance for an engineer like me, I returned back to Mumbai to await a so-called relaxing phase of a month and a half at home before entering the corporate wrestling ring once again...
Hoping to embark upon an interesting and exciting career post my MBA, I sign-off right now only to return with the experiences of the notorious corporate world very very soon!!!!
Sayonara people...!!!
