And so it begins ...

Summer's back! And all the boredom in the corporate cubicles of an iit-ian is filled invariably with one past time - blogging. Hell, so here's The Dude's version ...

Some say dropping an intern at IBM is not a move a sane man makes. Hello ... I chose MnC with AIR 670; I could as well have chosen CS and tried to change the world from my compu using C++ and JAVA. I chose MATLAB and Bloomberg instead and I'm sticking to that ... well atleast now I am.
Well, my intern's started off like any desi industry intern ... instead of all the boring details, lemme share a few standout experiences here ... IBank Intern Funde ....

1. BEST suxx man ... Matter-of-fact, Mumbai traffic suxx man. The moment you enter the city the first thing that stands out about Mumbai is the amount of fly-overs in the city and the traffic congestion, inspite of them. It took me 3 hours to get to my office in a bus !!! and hell i wasn't even living in the farthest parts of the city!!!

2. (1) => Local trains ... And man, they are awesome. Get a first class pass and then the travel's just cruise mode ...

3. My office's filled with football fans .. I mean there were discussions about Paul Scholes and Munaf Patel, Liverpool and their title draught,et al.. And seriously, does anybody out there like Chelsea except Usha Kiran?

4. Bloomberg's legen ..... dary !!! I mean you feel like the God of the Financial World sitting on it.Every single piece of info including the address of Paul Scholes is in it!!! The analysis and the freedom it provides is mind-blowing. Figure this, my first day at the internship. A nervous bloke, who just spent half an hour outside the building to put on his tie walks in.

Guide: "Hi maan"
Bloke: "Good morning, sir"
Guide: "Yaar aaj HR waale nahin hain. So, here's Bloomberg and Reuters ... Fiddle around with them!! Chill maar yaar"
Bloke (in his mind): Wtf .. Hell yeah !!!

5. Well in an Asset Management Centre where crores are hedged everyday, phrases like "I don't give a f%$#", "Chutiya", "Gaand maar le", "Chillax dude" aren't as uncommon as they seem to be ... :P

6. Had lunch at INOX foodcourt for a week (which is just next door, btw) and then corn maggi at the canteen. Corn maggi ... who the f adds corn to maggi? Dumbass ...

More to come as the days go by ... Well, the work's cool and have a bunch of IIT-ians beside me.

PS: Read "The Witch of Portobello" by Paulo Coelho .. a nice read if you have a day to kill and are in a mood for a bit of senseful arbitaapa.

PPS: Check this out -
Office 7:30 - 8:30 13 hours
Sleep 11:30 - 6:30 7 hours
That leaves me with (24-20 =) 4 hours in which I have to eat, bathe, wear a formal dress and figure out the intricacies of tieing a tie knot!!!! Insane maaan ...