Mumbai Milan - II

Sorry for coming a little late on this one since lately and in an uncanny way, after resignation work has surprisingly doubledp. Anyway, this is Prakriti reporting for the Mumbai people who got together for cutting chai ki pyali last Sunday.

Moment: 1800 hours by the Indian railway time..

Setting: Mocha, by the dusk ,by the Juhu beach…and I don’t call it the best Mocha for no reason. It has got the talent to enthuse feelings of camaraderie into people who gather in its precincts for chai-coffee & sheesha.

So much for the setup. I will not make it more dramatic. We were eight people who turned up. The chitter chatter started and before we realized, the conversation had reached a full fledged chum talk. People who showed up were Kaustubh – our organizer, Abhinay- the only one to reach by the Japanese standard time, Yours truly- delighted to meet everyone, Aanchal- most chilled out and had the privilege of being in the first meet as well, Manisha – splendor with brains, Sriram – the finance whiz with an amazing sense of humor, Jayathi- the space wont be enough to write about her,basically as diverse as one could get,Sneha- my lovely IT comarade .So a great gang.

Got down to discussing personal to work related to general stuff. To put it as Kaustubh mentions in his write up about the meet on the forum thread the consesus is that:



“1. ISB meets dont have to revolve around placements , faculty and laptop configs. Infact they shouldnt.
2. All of us should really make the best outta this year ahead of us . I can vouch for the fact that the hostel life is awesome and gives you a hangover for life .
3. The profiles of the entire batch will be as diverse as one can imagine ; between the 8 of us we had IT profs , Bankers, Ppl from the financial sectors , ex models and doctors...not to mention Oil and Gas Engineers.
4. Lets all meet up on a more regular basis . “


-Kaustubh : Mon Feb 5, 2007, 14:21


I left the meet with a feeling of elation knowing that the next one year, its gonna be great with all these fantastic people.

Eight Pyalis of chai : 260/- and 2 hours;
Knowing the guys : Priceless.

Shall keep reporting.

P.S: the thoughts presented above purely belong to the innovative brains of yours truly and may or may not be representative of the entire set of people present on the occasion. This is jst a disclaimer can also be ignore because in her heart your truly knows that they all enjoyed it just as much.