A Day in My Life

0530 hrs: My new Red Merc is cruising beautifully along the Spanish coastline....!! Sylvia, my Spanish secretary…is smiling…saying something…cant hear her properly…someone honks…honks again…
0630 hrs: No.. its not a honk its my alarm bell.. Grrr.. I immediately shut it down.. the Spanish islands reappear… although intermittently.. like a flickering TV..
0700 hrs: Bell rings louder now....I wake up again.. look at the time and go back hoping the islands will come..shucks…no more Spain coming…Background sound.. “Papa… Utho papa Utho...Chai tayyar hai.....”
0715 hrs: Wife gives last call for making it to 0815 class…!! Good God.. cant a man sleep for a few hours peacefully…!!!
0725 hrs: Sleep walk… to living room… say hello to wify and kiddo..!! Sip tea… check out news..
0735 hrs: Have had a 10 minute boxing fight with my two and half year old who is busy watching CN....! Of course he does not like my intruding his very important ‘Pockeymon’ show and changing channels to news ones..
0810 hrs: Ready for the day…Corp Finance Class at 0815.. dash across the campus for making it in time.. “these watches are all going wrong.. only my watch is correct and there is still 37 seconds left..!!!”
0814 hrs: Excited and all ready for a new class.. Prof looks eager to take the class.. smiling…. more smiling… am thinking …“why is he smiling.. is there a surprise coming up.. am I adequately prepared.. ?” TA as usual is at his politest best.. deciding whether to distribute the slides or not…. junta is turning in bleary red eyed…. with coffee and water in hand.. “Shucks…why cant we have afternoon classes…huh..!!!!!”
0845 hrs: Class is touching crescendo.. and my attention level is starting to bank on the leeward side of the normal distribution curve now.. going down fast….have caught a few other people dozing off too.. Prof is still at his enthusiastic best.. orchestrating the case discussion like an artist..
0910 hrs: Finally.. the much awaited coffee break..!! While the learned few decide to pounce on a visibly exhausted prof for a ‘insightful’ chat just to ‘show off’ their tremendous international consulting experience… and ask ridiculously absurd questions… the lesser mortals like me… gather outside in the balcony.. cursing the world…!!
1015 hrs: Class is over.. am in some kind of a mental trance.. still in my seat.. wondering… what exactly did he teach and who in the world is going to help me understand all of that… someone shakes me.. “Cmon Man. Time to go to the next session..!”
1045 hrs: One more quick coffee down, plus financial times, economic times skimmed through in LRC…run for next class.. “Operations Management”.. “God..!! when will I ever learn which side is AC2..??”
1115 hrs: Am day dreaming about my venture… amidst class discussions..!! Done a few ‘seemingly important’ Class Protocols (CP’s)..so am now relaxing… very satisfied with myself and my class participation.. !!! Something wrong with my ears… cant hear properly what he is saying…!!
1245 hrs: Done with lectures for the day.. deciding whether sleep is better or shall I start pre reads for tomorrow or shall I continue research on my business plan..?? Decide to research.. so googling away to glory….
1345 hrs: Met with a few friends at the atrium.. discussed the deeper meaning of life.. about our existence @ ISB .. why CP is good and why it is not good..!! PaEV / ELP… the new Prof and his teaching style.. blah blah blah..!! Had my fill of small talk for the day.. so headed back for SV..a happy man!!
1600 hrs: Lunch done.... made ‘boats’ and ‘planes’ with paper and scissors with my son.. he is super-excited.. running all over the house with his new plane that Daddy dear has made…!! Its raining outside..!! Still deciding on whether I should start with pre reads…!! Naahhh.. there’s so much time left…before tomorrow’s sessions..!!!! Decide to have chai pani with biwi bachhe in the balcony..!!
1700 hrs: Finally hit the books..!! Gotcha finish something before the 7 pm speaker series club session.
1900 hrs: Guest Speaker session in AC4 LT: Talk on “Mergers and Acquisitions – The Indian Perspective” by a US visiting Professor. Went on till 2030 hrs..!! Realized my utter lack of in-depth knowledge on the subject.. mental notes to read up more on this…!!
2200 hrs: Somehow finished reading 2 articles.., 2 chapters.., spammed the batch…, made case notes.. highlighted each paragraph of the book yellow… and now its time for dinner..
2245 hrs: Dinner done.. caught up with wife on day’s events.. and was adequately ‘informed’ on how little I am a help with chores in the home.. Time for some friendly gapshap.. so hop over to neighbours place.. to discuss gyan… and plan out the movie that we are shooting on campus for which auditions are underway..!
2400 hrs: Went through the script of the movie.. its coming out great!! But.. oh God!! Already Midnite..!!! 2 assignments yet to be done..!!! Where is my study group..??? Why haven’t they called yet?? Frantic phone calls.. helter skelter…pandemonium..
0245 hrs: Somehow completed the assignment….thinking now… ‘if only I could have devoted lil more time…the assignment would have been so gr8!!!”
0300 hrs: Orkutted.. Gmailed…Yahood…Xtra Googlied… and finally crashed..!! (ohh forgot.. alarm set up for early morn… tomorrow 30 mins extra of sleep as class starts at 0845 J ..) Bye bye isb world welcome virtual world…so.. eh… which island in Spain where you talking about?? What..$12m..?? Make it 8 and u have a deal.. ok……………….?