RIP dear friend

Jojo

5 May 2001 - 30 April 2011

Jojo died today morning. He was suffering for the last few months from chronic renal failure. His condition had worsened over the past week or so and it was in his best interest that he be put to sleep. We buried him at an animal rescue centre near sector 94. There were loads of dogs around. I am sure he'll be happy and must have already made friends with them.

Rest in peace dear friend,. You were always there when others weren't. Your unconditional love and brotherly affection always gave me strength whenever I was down. I will miss you.

PwC it is!

A lot of water has flown through the drains of ISB after my last post. We had our day 1 and day 2 of placements, over the past few weekends. So yeah it has been a stressful time to say the least. Day 1 was disappointing for me, got dinged in the two interviews after round 1. I probably was way too excited after getting the shortlist in both the cases, so messed up my interview.
Day 2 was draining, both physically and mentally! I had four interviews lined up and the process spilled over to the next day. Finally got the offer on evening of 30th January - Senior Consultant at PwC ! Sweet.
Location will be Mumbai in all probability. I'll be heading down to the office to meet the partner sometime next week. So, yeah the consulting dream finally comes true!

Boka in Joka

Ok, so finally an ego booster - we won a case competition at IIM Calcutta (or Joka as any IIM C loyalist would call it), to top it all McK was the organiser of the event . yippeee

Guess, what made the victory sweeter was the fact that we won it against all odds (in the hindsight all wins seem like that, but still)

• I and S didn't feel like submitting it in the first place, for us drinking at Solistice was more important - we only did it coz P pushed us - though she did a fab job I must say
• We had completely forgotten about the event - the shortlist came as a mighty suprise - 8 teams out of 197. Nice!
• We headed off to Kolkata amidst the gloom and doom of getting dinged left, right and centre
• We reached IIM C with a half baked presentation, only to discover that they had arranged for a dingy room with 6 mattress strewn over the floor. As S put it 'even Bunto (his dog) would be ashamed to sleep on them'. and they won't let P stay with us because it was a 'boys hostel'. At ISB such terms are archaic.
• So, we somehow finished our presentation, met up with a bunch of DCEites (they seemed to to be all over IIM C), shivered all night (thanks to the razer thin blankets they provided us).

So, what about the final presentation, well except 1-2 hiccups it went like a charm, P again did a fab job with the layout and structure and of course made the two lazy bongs work (ok so it was Cal, I am a bong there).

Impresssions about IIM C- beautiful campus - loved the lakes, dilapidated buildings, chilled out atmosphere - loved the concept of GGP

So here's to Team 'Matrixed' - consulting cos are you listening