Author: Ramkumar R

  • A day in heaven

    One of the places on this planet which could qualify as heaven for employed youth is the Infy campus at Mysore. Our batch of B-School grads who joined Infy this month went to the Mysore campus for a day to participate in a session on team building and needless to…

  • ISB Alumni Meet

    ISB alumni in Bangalore met over lunch on Sunday. The alumni from our batch outnumbered the alumni from all the other batches. We primarily exchanged contact information with alumni from the earlier batches and came to know a bit more about those who were present there. I think the interactions…

  • Venice of India?

    Thats what you would probably call Bangalore if you are present in the city just after a 10 minute downpour. Even a prolonged drizzle is enough to convert the roads in the city to waterways. The consequences? Of course, traffic jams everywhere (they would be there even without the rains),…

  • Found a house at last

    After searching for a house for nearly everyday after office hours along with two of my batchmates, I have managed to finally find one and shift in. I will be posted in Bangalore, at least for some time to come. The stop for the office bus is at a manageable…

  • Life these days

    Here is how a typical day of mine looks like these days: 5:45AM – Wake up 7:00AM – Catch the bus to office 8:30AM – Induction starts after a good breakfast. Go and SIT (Sleep In Training) 12:30PM – Time for lunch 1:30PM – Post lunch session start 5:30PM –…

  • Looking for South Indian food in B’lore?

    If you are looking for some really good South Indian food in Bangalore then come over to MTR. Ramki took me and two other friends to Mavalli Tiffin Rooms (or MTR in short), a very old restaurant located near Lalbagh, just a few feet away from the Lalbagh-Fort road today…

  • Some observations

    * The number of ants in the office campus seems to be much less than the number of employees 🙂 * The time taken to return from office is more than the time taken for a class at ISB to finish (2 hrs+) * The number of one-way roads in…

  • First day of work post-MBA

    Nothing special .. just the typical formalities and a few presentations. Arrived in Bangalore yesterday … found the city real crowded with lot of traffic problems and pollution ….. yet to explore it much though I did roam around with Ramki and Rajani, my batchmates from ISB who are also…

  • Kaun hai woh karorpati?

    I had ordered an external hard disk from a Hyderabad dealer just a few days before the orientation week for the new batch came to an end. This is how the initial part of the conversation with the guy (HDDwala) who came to deliver the hard disk went (just imagine…

  • Snaps from outbound activity

    A group of students from our batch (including me) went for an outbound activity at the beginning of last week to Greenfields, located at the outskirts of Hyderabad, near the Usman Sagar lake. We had two full days of fun, fun and just fun. We played a lot of games,…

  • Sample gyaan

    Here is a sample gyaan given by one of my batchmates during orientation: “Your mobile phones should be switched off when you come to class. Else you can use your vibrators” 🙂 🙂 Most activities planned for the orientation week have been completed. Some of us left yesterday to go…

  • Alum life during orientation week

    This is how a typical alumnus, if you could think of one, would spend his day at ISB during the orientation week: 9:30AM – Get up wondering if it is already past 10AM and if breakfast would have already been over (Sarovar closes breakfast session at 10AM). Happy that it…

  • Orientation Time

    Its orientation time for the new batch here at ISB. Till now they have been tortured with all the official presentations and they are spending most of their day in the auditorium here. We had the treasure hunt and some of the student club presentations today. The presentation of the…

  • Back at ISB

    Yaahoooooooooooooooo ….. I am back at ISB. Had a wonderful view of the campus at night from the sky just before landing at Hyderabad ….. could clearly see the main building, the SVs, the road to the main gate, the campuses adjacent to ISB etc. The ISB swimming pool was…

  • I m home

    Imhome. Reached here yesterday afternoon and since then have been sleeping and eating home made food for most of the time. Spent the day watching India get thrashed by England in cricket. Got a call from KP yesterday just a few minutes after I arrived here and it felt really…