Bangalore ahoy !!!

The next chapter of my life moves to Bangalore. Will begin work soon in an HR consultancy there.. but before all this, need to zero in on the den.



Bangalore is one of those places where finding a home is as easy as pie, courtesy the insane number of software professionals working there. I'll hit bangalore sometime this week hoping to find a 3 bhk apartment, fully furnished somewhere near Frazer town for around 15k.



"Dude, I have one for now for around 17k."

"17K!!!!! thats a little too much, don't you think??"

"But split 2 ways??"

"Hmmm... fair enough, considering we can afford to spend so much now"

"Cooke town, Puravankara, swimming pool, Tennis court and the likes"

"Go on.. .its sounding better now"

"3 kms to where u work and 5 kms to my office"



"Can we keep a labrador? A black one?"

"Who takes it for the poo poo? and worse... what if it does it all over the room"

"What about a day care centre for the puppy?"

"Hmmm.. worth a look. There should be one right? considering its Bangalore"



"Forget that. What about the maid?"

"I'll bring a chottu from Mirzapur. He'll stay alright"

"Mirzapur??? In bangalore, There is a system of a cook coming in the morning to get your grub ready."

"Theek hai. So I tell mom to stop looking for chottu??"



"Thats like almost 2 lakhs in advance. We don't have that much money. We'll get a CLA from the company. Don't worry!!! Trust me, I've lived in Blore for 4 years before XL"

"Chup be...the old man paid for it then."

"4 bedroom penthouse in malleswaram for 12k.. those were the rates back then. It could not have gone much higher....."



Will know soon...meanwhile, I'll continue plotting the way to office on google maps.

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Now that the Yearbook is out...

I would like to make some clarifications, now that the yearbook is out.

The yearbook looks good in real. There have been a lot of work put in the yearbook and lot of work discredited as well.

Just to get down to more specifics. More Courtesies and credits.

The Photos on the Front Cover - Vishesh Puvadi
Brilliant shots of the academic block (aka Learning centre) taken by Vish from his room. There were several brilliant pictures of XLRI in his collection. Of the lot, it was a mutual agreement between us that these 4 deserved the cover in that, it captured fleeting moments of our stay at XL.

Negotiations with the Printer - Tuhin Jain :)
After..... all the hard work on the soft copy. There was still the small issue of getting the hard copy made. Fortunately our maxi chief held a lot of goodwill with Mr Krishna, and was able to pull off a brilliant piece of negotiation to get the entire yearbook done in colour for around 75% of the initial quotation. It might not sound like much. But folks, remember we are dealing in lakhs here.

300 Character limit - Sunil Koul
Our very in house Java god helped me out with nifty coding to put in the 300 character limit on the comments box in the yearbook site. Some of you went the extra distance to hack the system. If you did, Congrats and remember next time you might not be so lucky !!! :)

Collages - Hrishikesh Godbole
Our man was responsible for the beautiful collages in the yearbook (Between both sections) I would like to apologize as well here, as there were 4 more which did not make it to the yearbook. There was a lot of confusion in the last week of making the yearbook that we lost track of four of the collages he had made. It took him an entire night to make the collages.

Committee Writeups and Photos Collation - Arjun Srinivasan and Naqi Abbas
During the last week of compilation. The work piled on us from all sides. And we were sent help in the form of Arjun and Naqi who went about bringing order to the chaos. Scouting the huge database for photographs, articles and classifying them in order. It required several buzzes from their side to get some lazy Secys to send in their committee articles and photos.

Signature Hunting - Ashish Agnihotri
We were in need of signatures for getting the funding from the caution deposit. Agnihotri came forward to scout around collecting signatures from the junta in GH-3. It might sound small but to us that day, he was a life saver.

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Things gone wrong

I would like to apologize on behalf of the yearbook team for any of the following errors.

• Comments not being printed in the ranked order
  
• AIS photo being put up in profiles (We tried hard to squeeze in time for shooting the better ones, but we had a manpower and time crunch)
  
• Lack of enough collages in the yearbook. (As mentioned earlier, we lost them in the crowd of pictures.)

The descriptions were supposed to be a fun read. There could be some who found it offending or rather impossible to show it to their parents. Our apologies to them as well.

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