We finally had the Bangalore meet of Co2009 on the 26th of Jan. I was the first one to reach Airlines Hotel. Thankfully I didn’t have to wait for long as people started trickling in from 4:30 onwards. There were close to 15 of us in all. We had the customary rounds of introductions and most of us were from an IT background. But I guess being in Bangalore and expecting anything else would be a folly :)
But the group was a diverse one ranging from people with a little over 2 years of work-ex to folks with 10 years of experience. We discussed various issues over some coffee and Idlis. The topics ranged from the Laptops to telecom spectrum issue in India!! The table then broke down into a lot of small groups with the smokers preferring to form their own cabal. It was interesting to meet up with prospective batch mates and discuss issues and concerns with them. Unfortunately, we didn’t have a single alum attend the meet this time. It would have helped to clarify some of our doubts.
After more than two hours of conversation and a couple of rounds of photo shoots, it was finally time to leave. Paras was generous enough to pay the hotel bills on behalf of all of us. (I really hope he continues with this generosity in ISB too :D)
A few of us decided to hang around for a while. We walked down the road to the HardRock café. After all, what is a Saturday evening without some booze! We continued our debate on ISB V/s IIMs with some Floyd playing in the background and the notorious ‘Hydrocarbons’ in hand. Finally we bid our adieus and headed home.
Looking forward to the next meet sometime in Feb and maybe we’ll have the R2 admits as well.
P.S: Prashant and Suman, where are the snaps?
2 comments:
snaps are on the way.. i am back in kolkata and it will take sometime for snaps to reach bangalore :)
Pics uploaded...it sometimes takes a lot of time within the same city :)
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