PGPX in remission!!!

After 5 months and two terms of mindless rigor the first break finally arrived, giving me a chance to transport myself from Gandhi’s own country to God’s own country. And let me tell you folks. It is right what they say. God is great indeed. And then there was light!!!

As can be figured from the picture, there were certain new bottlenecks that I could introduce to form part of my solution to overcome my persistent dryness problems. Soon things started working out so smoothly that I almost ended up becoming part of the problem, because of the overuse of the solution. All this happened in the famed Poovar Island resort where the Neyyar River meets the Arabian Sea and more importantly the pool side bar and dedicated servers allows C2H5OH to meet with you, while you are swimming in a pool of H2O.
http://www.poovarislandresort.com/
This can make you feel larger than life. Almost god-like as can be seen from the next picture…

As I was busy vacationing away, one of our professors did try to throw a spanner in my works by mailing us our grades for one of the exams that had just gotten over. It was no coincidence that this professor taught us ‘Setting and Delivering Service Levels’. But for no apparent reason other than as a cruel joke, he conveniently took a very bad occasion to practice what he preached, ignoring the most sanctimonious rule regarding service levels – “Never give customers what they don’t need…especially during vacations…and that too in GOC”.

But luckily he threw us a bone, by naming the email subject appropriately with words like ‘SDSL’, ‘Course Grade’ etc, and I was more than happy to read and interpret these as what our Nitin would refer to as ‘NNTO: No need to open.’ and treated it like mails which have abhorrent and repulsive subject lines like “Nude pictures of Kournikova”. Believe me such mails mostly end up crashing your faith in electronic mail, not to mention the software powering your hardware.

All in all it was a very relaxing and invigorating vacation indeed; something which I am sure will prep me up for rejoining the rigor scheme of things come Monday; a surreal experience that sent a nerve tingling jolt of excitement right through my spine. But as my worst luck would have it, I got a little over enthusiastic and ended up opening a mail from the PGPX office titled, titled Term III schedule.

I guess I will never learn the art of being responsible with my mail. Currently eagerly looking forward to my next break…

T-Nite draws to a close: With Salsa Caliente!!!

Before the flags went down on T-nite 2007, I got just enough time to slide in one more performance. This time it was some Suave (smooth) Salsa!!!

Un momento caliente en mi experiencia de PGPX!!!

Overall, the event ended in bit of an anticlimax for us. Even though we went into the final day with a sizable lead, a bad day at the office together with some unexpected glitches with the music system during our performance, made it a narrow loss for us, pushing us to the second spot behind PGP section C, who delivered a rocking performance to snatch a sweet come-from-behind victory.

There was a lot of soul searching done and innumerable lessons learnt, to be passed on to PGPX-III. But nothing could drown the sorrow of being so close yet so far from winning it all. The perils of performing in a perennially dry state!!!

IIMA Talent-Nite: Swing is in the air!!!

Couple of snaps from my swing dance performance in T-nite!!!

The PGP II junta was right there to pronounce the verdict:

And yes, the writing was on the board!!!

We currently have a sizeable lead over our PGP brethren in the overall standing, with two more days of competition remaining!!!

Bracing ourselves for that final onslaught!!!

PGPX delivering some breaking news!!!

If you thought that this is me and my homies going for news paper delivery in the morning, then you have been had my friend. On the contrary, it happens to be a snapshot of the PGPX-brigade that is out to deliver the bad news to all sections PGP…C, B, D, A.. Whatever!!! Things ain’t going to be that easy anymore my dear fellows!!! Because PGPX is here and if you watch closely you can read the newsprint in our hands. Yes it is breaking news indeed!!! Breaking all PGP hopes of winning anything that is worthwhile, over the coming T-nite week-end!!!

The tide was turned in the opening event itself, the PUBRUN, which marked the beginning of the annual Talent-nite 2007, at IIMA. To say that we beat the crap out of the PGP sections, decades younger than us, is just an understatement. We ended up wining the bellwether event with more than a clear 20% points lead. Our captain Rajeev did such a phenomenal job that most of the bed sheets in IMDC, has ended up, stuck up on the mess walls, as placeholders for PGPX posters, with the result that most of us are currently sleeping sheetless!!! But I say it is only a small price to pay for scaring the SHEET out of our esteemed PGP competition.

Now let me disclose some trade secrets to engage my impressionable readers. We have been getting queries from our younger PGP brethren as to the secret behind our spectacular runway success in this event, and I think it’s about time that I spilled the beans on this one. To be honest, it had all to do with the dryness of our current state. In fact, some of our guys were so incredibly thirsty, that the mental picture of a cold one, painted using the fake-o-nym PUBRUN, was enough to send their pulses racing and they ran. With everything that they could gather; newspapers, pillows, bed sheets, coke bottles, glue sticks, whatever….And the rest as they say is history…

But now it turns out that, this whole PUBRUN stands for some sort of ‘publicity run’ and needless to say, our runners are pissed…, and that too way beyond pacification. The last time I heard, they are getting their tiger war faces painted on… with the intent of revisiting the mess and sending shivers up the spines of all the fresh ones that we recently admitted to the hallowed portals of WMIWI. Hold on to your SHEETS guys, because it might all be coming off pretty soon…

Don’t say that we didn’t warn you!!! And not that it’s going to help, but anyways….