4-3-2-1

Enthu rises in wild waves and crashes against the shores of realities. Aah the moment just before one goes for the 90 degree bent on the path of life. The allure of the yonder, the draw of the unknown !! Somehow I feel something huge is about to happen. And finally the boat falls over. A crash.. a bang... it twists and turns and swerves for a while... and then slowly settles back. And then you realize few things have changed... but quite a few have not. The physical, the external changes.
The location changes - now you are in Delhi, now you are in Hyderabad,
the activity changes - now you are a coding now you are studying,
the focus changes - now you are waiting for the pay-day now you are waiting for the grades-day
and more....
but YOU don't change... others don't change... and the connection between you and the others doesn't change.
You still like the kind of people you liked before...
You still talk the way you talked before...
You still look the way you looked before...
But then, what change is more important ? Answer is obvious.

Let me start by saying that I love ISB. What I love most is the lack of structure. YOU are ISB - ISB is YOU. There is no other campus (that I know of) where this reflexivity is more true. Kudos to the founders and everybody who have kept things this way. I am sure the next year would be the best of my life. Dean Rangnekar made three points in his opening address to the Co2010 -
1. Look in the mirror and ask - "What am I here for?"
2. Answer the question honestly
3. Stay TRUE to that answer forever
As for me - I am here to challenge myself to the point where I am fully exposed to myself. I, like most of other people, have always had opinions about this and that. For once someone says to me - "Ok dude. So how would you do that ?". And in the next 51 weeks I want to provide my answers for things I have always felt could be done "better". Beyond this time I lose the right to complain that I didn't get a chance to do this because of my health or my family background or my height or my *(#@*(#.... NO EXCUSES @ ISB... if I have not done anything here, it will be all because of me and nothing else. I LLLOOOVEE this point-blank responsibility :-)

As for the crowd I met with @ ISB, I have a mixed reaction. While all of them are one of the best among their former peers, a few of them seem a little hyper-active. I'd grant them the benefit of the doubt that maybe I am a tad boring :-) but I think people could go a little slow on this whole initiative and leadership *hit, because honestly it destroys the fun for a lot of other subtler and quieter people. But then again, at a certain level it is amusing as well to watch people pour their hearts out (and go "all-in" as we say in poker) to live their lives as-if it is the last chance they'll ever get.

All hail the funky chicken !!
Has-ka-lakdi-kalakalakalakala- Hoo Haa Hoo Haa
4-3-2-1... section F is number ONE !!