Week 5 Term 2

This is the so called POM (practice of management) week on the full time MBA. The week was allocated for the various personality development and recruitment related -skills enhancing workshops. I am not going into the details of any of this because of the simple fact that I wasn't on campus, instead I chose to spend the week with my family at Ilford.
I left last friday, the 1st of feb 2008 early in the morning at around 6.30 AM to catch the Megabus ( a popular and cheap inter city bus service). En route to London I met another Pakistani guy in the bus, he is doing his PhD from Warwick University, in Linguistics-effect of cultures on the growth of the English language. For reasons that should be self explanatory, we ended up discussing the Kashmir problem, I must say he was surprised and rather stunned by my views about the role and say of India and Pakistan (if any) over Kashmir. I could see, he was a bit disappointed since he couldn't get a straightforward answer from me and especially one that would have been to his liking. But we both acted mature gentlemen and said our goodbyes at the Victoria station London.
I was too eager to use my newly purchased Oyster card and was happy I didn't have to wait in a queue to buy a ticket. The journey was smooth and rather quick than I had anticipated, but the surprise was awaiting me at the Ilford station. The oyster didn't work as I tried to get out of the final station of my trip and I quickly learnt from the staff present that I was a perfect candidate for a fine of £20 since I didn't have a valid ticket for travel. Turns out that there are some train stations at which the prepaid Oyster cards don't work and Ilford is one of them. Anyways I tailored my own happy ending in this case, I pleaded ignorance and offered to buy a new ticket just to get out of the station and because I am a student, they agreed and I live.
During the first three days of my stay, I helped my family in moving into their newly rented flat but unfortunately for me, I fell ill the third day and spent the rest of the week lying on the couch, watching TV, surfing the internet and every bloody unproductive work I could think of. But then again lazying around for me is a bug luxury these days and I am not that disappointed.