A Fresh Head Ache!!

"you are the only one, I have seen since morning who doesn't look stressed", my irish friend on the MBA cohort tells me as I was returning back from the groccer with a bag full of stuff to eat over the weekend. Now this is something I wasn't certainly feeling inside and definitely not even expecting to be told. Not that I was stressed or something, but I did have a headache which isn't still going away. Many of my friends have this ailment these days, especially as the exam dates are coming closer, generally due to sleep deprevation (most people have 3 hour nights and the rest is day for them). My reasons were different, it seems I have been oversleeping this entire week, yes!! over sleeping, not 4 or 5 hours when I average is 3, but a full 10-11 hrs and I have this special marketier friend who just told me that, this is precisely the reason for my headache...

But let me tell you straight headache or no headache I can't live with less than 8 hours of sleep and thats my sense of self, my self identity (thats how we are supposed to speak in Organisation Behaviour terms).

First Night Out In UK

This had been coming for a few weeks now but none of us had been pushing the plans ahead until yesterday.
My friends and more importantly Dinner-Mates (from the plain logistics of where we are) had decided that we need more canned food to sustain us until the end of our Term 1 exams, so all of us had been suggesting the idea that we should go to FolesHill to buy some inventories. FolesHill particularly not because we have a love of that place, but because its the only nearby place from where we can buy any decent food that we are used to (rice, cooked canned vegetables not boiled stuff that is so easily available from Tesco or Costcutter).
I had been reluctant initially, don't ask me why, because I don't know myself-just didn't feel like. Anyways I realized soon enough that my friends wanted to go and my hesitation would have been an obstacle since there was a lot to buy and not many hands to carry the stuff. So I pushed ahead with the idea of the trip to FolesHill and it was all decided in 15 mins.
The idea of the trip was nothing more than buying groceries, but new plans started to merge with it, and yeah they turned out to be rather welcome. Dinner at a restaurant and a movie at the cinema, yes we went to the cinema with all the bags.
I had expected that Om Shanti Om (the Indian movie) would be a complete time pass and lots of fun- yes I was wrong! It was emotionally very overwhelming, I was taken back in time and soon forgot where I was. Sharukh Khan's acting was brilliant and so was the new actresses', I can't remember if I have seen a better performance from him till date. The desperation in the scenes and the struggle was brilliantly performed, I could feel the pain, the struggle within me.
The movie turned out to be a mixture- a mixture of humour, emotion, thrill and yes horror.
We returned back at around 12.30 in the night and yeah, the trip was well worth the time and money spent.

Good Day After A Tough Week

Yesterday was the dooms day, the day to present our analysis of samsung as a success story. It was a marketing analysis assignment and although we as a team had full seven weeks to research and analyse the subject, not much progress had been made till week 6. This was the time we decided that 10 people was just too big a team to have a focused approach to the assignment, so we decided to split into two teams of 5. Yes a bit too late for such a straightforward decision which could have probably been taken long time ago.
The tensions were high and we didn't have a clear idea of how the presentation would be like, yes until the morning of the dooms day. We practised our first real presentation at 8.30AM yesterday, yes just 1.5 hrs prior to the actual thing.
I was impressed with a couple of presentations in terms of content and delivery. Although one presentation was very flashy and graphical but somehow the idea didnt come across as brilliantly for me.
Our presentation was simple and to the point (thats the feedback we got) I would have however wanted to have more graphics in it. Yes one thing worth noting was, we were the only group who finished in the allowed time frame.
I will like to believe that we did a good job, from the position we had put ourselves in.