term break.....YAWN!

Alloha.....!!
am back....:)..the only reason why i could not blog for all this while was that the net connection at my residence in virugambakkam, was VERRRRRRYYYY slow!! so i had just about enough time to check my mail and thats that!

Well....first things first....BELATED birthday wishes to 'Thalai' ....YES! it was Rajni Kanth's birthday yesterday (December 12th)....and believe it or not...I sent out an SMS to one of these shoddy tam channels that was claiming that all these SMSs would be viewed by the MAN himself! talk about the heights of being gullible!:)....but the all that mattered was I managed to send out a message to HIM! whether he read it or not is besides the point.......also watched four of his movies....wow! what a day!:D "Naan oru daravai sonna (swish!swish!) nooru daravai sonna madiri!(swish!) btw...the swish is that of his finger.....(Dada..get a load of this!)

Abhijit is at Mumbai...having a ball at his sister's wedding...aaarrrggghhh! and I am at home doing nothing (except yesterday)......He hardly calls and whenever we get to talk it's more like
"hi"
"hi, just finished shopping for my sis" or "just finished shopping for my mom" or " just finished shopping for my dad"
"ok!"
"ok gotta go now...have to shop some more...bye"

OK! shopping is MY turf (and I am very protective about it)....and he is not helping by telling me that he shops everyday..... so now I am in the mood and I walk up to my mom and tell her
" Ma! I wanna shop for stuff"
"what stuff ?" BIG mistake (evil laughter!)
and I have a list ready in no time (sometimes I wonder how I do that!)......So my mom listens and listens and listens till I stop 'coz I am outta breath.....

Tomorrow I am going SHOPPING! (hurray!) Sheetal and Sid I am sure are pointing their fingers and fists at me....(they think I shop too much! but how much shopping is too much???)...sorry guys...it's an addiction!:)

So as of now...those are the going-ons in my life.....will post again....till then...cheerio!

We studied (and we have the proof!)

Hurrayyyy....(I jump around the place) ...my exams are OVER.....(technically) though the quarter is yet to come to an end....but its nice to think that my exams are over!!!! wait...before that let me give you a glimpse of my life one day before the Brand Management exam.....

Date: 29th November 2005

Time: 8:30 pm

Status: Studied for brand management - null, nothing, zip, zero!!!!!Can't feel my arms after two days of filling up 20 odd sheets with strategic management and TQM....ran out the ink completely from two ball point pens!Suffering from a severe cold......
Motivation to study BM - ZZZZzzzzzz!

Arise, awake and move forward....and suddenly, I am this soldier who wants to FIGHT ! fight it out with HLL, P&G and the likes that define brand management.
and so I tell Sheetal (my buddy who you all are well acquainted with by now)...."We are going to study till one, I don't care"...

she gives me a hesitant "hmmmm...".....

We start with Brand Evaluation from a book written by Kapferer...Man! if that guy can make Brand Management this boring...I can imagine if he had written a book on Microeconomics or something! (Could develop alternative uses and users for the book - Cure for Insomaniacs, the perfect book to balance on your head if you want to learn to walk straight...etc.)

And by eleven thirty, we are both drowsy and yawning .....I still am not ready to give up so I tell sheetal " Let's go down to Gurunath for a cup of coffee"......Awaiting response-NONE! and I realise..she has decided to call it a day....I follow suit.....

Luckily, the marketing paper the next day is as general as it can get....and I manage to again fill up 20 odd sheets....
They say...."when one door closes, another opens"....but what if the other one is jammed??
I wonder......