Fumes @ Great Lakes Institute of Management, Gurgaon

Exams nearing. Nail biting. Spine tingling moment here at Great Lakes Institute of Management, Gurgaon.

And to top it off, we got our results. Lets not talk about it for now. Actually, lets not talk about it. Ever! haha.

A few students however, booked their tickets to go back home after the exams (Coz its a long weekend). This was after they rescheduled the damn thing four times already because of the change in schedule. Just when they thought that they've rescheduled their flight tickets so many times that they could've bought a round trip for me to go home as well, the time table changed again.

One can only imagine how everyone was fuming. Phew!

As intense it was was. It was also funny. For me. Me alone because I was sitting back and watching this all happen.

*Eats pop corn*

Cheers!

-Yogesh Babu

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Stuff you relate to when @ Great Lakes Institute of Management, Gurgaon

There I was, limping around Gurgaon with a busted ankle when suddenly I bumped into an article written long ago by Rohit Venkatesh, a friend of mine. And could relate to it perfectly.

It goes like...

CHRONICLES OF THE FRACTURED FOOT

By Rohit Venkatesh

A guide of possibly useless tips and questionable insights of navigating through a life experience

Fibula Oblongata –

‘TIS WISE to note that a broken leg has a mind of its own. So whatever designs your overzealous sense of will may have, your leg most probably has other plans.  Eg.

• Beating your sister to the remote
• Answering the land line in time
• Walking your beloved dog etc.

Dialogues of Disaster –

Should you happen to be the victim of said unfortunate scenario, ‘tis wise not only to exercise caution over the movement of your leg, but over that of your tongue as well. A carelessly dropped phrase could result in you being the subject of many a curse, the butt of many a joke and the target of the occasional flying shoe. This in turn remarkably affects recovery time, state of mental well being etc.
For your ref.- Some tried and tested dialogues to be avoided:

• “I’ll be down in a minute…”
• “No problem, I’ll take care of it...”
• “Sure! What do you want to draw on my cast…?”
•  “Oooh…what does this button do…?”

Conversation Jumpstarts-

The sight of a known face hobbling around pitifully in a crutch and cast usually inspires a torrent of curiosity to bubble forth from the onlooker. But every now and then you come across the odd concerned bloke whose creative interrogation refuses to go beyond “So how are you feeling now…?” The vast awkward silence that follows the cursory “Much better now, thanks.” is rather uncomfortable. Fear not. If hair can have extensions, so can this conversation- 

1.      Since the poor chap has run out of questions from his not-so-abundant repertoire, drive the conversation by conducting an inquisition of your own: “So have you ever broken your leg?” If he has, you’re in luck. The conversation continues for another 5 mins. If not…

2.      Puns. A conversation about the subject of a busted leg gives birth to many a pregnant pause. Mostly because you are wincing and cringing at the multitude of bad puns the situation breeds.  

“…can put your best foot forward (followed by smug guffaw)”
“…when I said break a leg, I didn’t mean literally go and…(followed by smug guffaw)”
“…costed you an arm AND A LEG…!!(followed by smug guffaw)” 
Horrible as these may be, it’s not as bad as the ocean of awkward silence. Indulge in the pun theory and you will survive the ordeal with merely a slightly swollen forehead (from facepalming).

To be continued…

Coming up next:
The Sympathy Milkshake – How to milk the situation, and have your boss get YOU copies and coffee.

Varun Methil, Rohit Venkatesh and Yogesh Babu - The Good Life!

-Yogesh Babu

(www.fb.com/yogesh87)

PS - You're welcome.

The Trip - by Great Lakes Institute of Management, Gurgaon.

When I was in Bangalore, long before I stepped foot into GLIM, we received an email saying that we're going for a trip to Rishikesh. Considering that its land that I've never been on, I decided to go. Moreover, only the stupid would say no to river rafting and rappelling?

Come 24th May, 2013 (Happy Anniversary Mom & Dad), we were scheduled to leave Gurgaon. We did, in most congested thing that was claimed to be a bus. My Dad was in the travel business, I don't know what that is called but it sure wasn't a bus. A little box which was the only negative of the full trip. Undoubtedly, the guys sitting in front of me weren't comfortable as well.

After a tough night (negative connotations unintended), we reached Camp Alpinestar where we had a tiny trek just to enter the place. Just when we were wondering about the place, we saw the Ganges (Popularly known as Gangaji or Ganga)flow right in front of us with our tents by the riverside. Yes, it was awesome.

We were split into two groups with three teams each. Group one (with me) went for rappelling and Group two went for rafting.

Wow! where do I start about the trek? I'm contemplating on whether to start with how unfit we all were or how super fit the guides were. With temperatures burning your face off, we started climbing from some random point on the way up. a few minuted into it we were like "Dude, this is not a trek. This is easy." Clearly, we spoke too soon. It was like in the video games. It got tougher and tougher and TOUGHER on the way up. Long breaths, frequent breaks, gazillion liters of water later, we reached or destination. Instantly, we jumped into the icy water. "The climb was worth it", we said while the guides were setting up the stuff for rappelling. It took us close to two hours to finish the rappelling. The most difficult part of rappelling was the start. After that, it was a (not so gentle) breeze. I enjoyed every bit of it. Then we headed back to the camp to grab some lunch and prep up to river rafting.

On the way to Rappeling. Rishikesh (25th May, 2013)

Stepping out right after lunch. A difficult choice to be made but that was our only choice. We were off for rafting. As we were closer to the evening, the currents were pretty fast (that would make us go faster \m/). After the safety speech by our very own "fake Brit accent Rishikesh guide", we had the time of our lives. Strong rapids, continuous rowing and a dip in the Ganges. It's something one has to do before they get old and start having joint issues. FACT!

Just before Rafting. Rishikesh (25th May, 2013)

"Bunta", a popular drink in the region was available everywhere. Its basically masala lime soda in Bangalore but had a slight twist to it. A must have if you go to Rishikesh.

Rohit, Yogesh, Abhinav and Bunta stand. Rishikesh (25th May, 2013)

A night that ended with a lot of laughter with our very own guitarist Tiwari who had some fantastic chords to play is a born entertainer. We called it a night where we did not have to switch off lights or switch on the cooling as there was no electricity. You read it right, no electricity. We survived on the full moon and few torches in the darkness.

6 AM, a refreshing meditation session by the Ganga was much needed. If you did'nt get up by then, you surely missed out a great deal. Prof Palhan explained to us the benefits of meditation and I said to myself "Eight minutes a day can give you this much?! Let me do it everyday". We moved on to a few really fun team building exercises. Although "The Phoenix" did not win anything, we sure had spirit."PHOENIX KA TEMPO HIGH HAI!! PHOENIX KA TEMPO HIGH HAI!!"

We left to Gurgaon at 12:30 pm to hit the God of all traffic jams. It took us over twelve hours to travel 300 kms. Go figure!

Reached my room at 1am. YOGESH BABU. OUT!

-Yogesh Babu
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