Friday, July 31, 2009

Soumya Dutta aka Chameli


Here are some of the memorable moments I've shared with Chams, the biggest 'antel' of our group who managed to be the coolest of all in most situations... err, except when it came to walking in the sun, of course.


The first time I could convince Soumyo to take a local train instead of the usual express... and probably the last. He still has nightmares of the horror I put him through :D This is the very hazy photo of the same.


He could avoid local trains, but he couldn't avoid us... this is another sample of the matchmaking efforts we had put in for him.
P.S: The other persons in the above pics were as clueless about our plans as Soumyo, and I take this opportunity to clarify, once again, that none of this was directed at them.
Sorry, but I bet even you smile looking back!

This pic is another in the series of the train pics where Soumyo was the victim, but it's different as here he was not the lone victim. Ayan, aka Gini/Boto and what not, was a part of the MBA-prep trio of ours which travelled 8+ hours each weekend, and slogged throughout the week, together. This joke is exclusively for us, sorry but it has to be so.


One of the few sober pics Soumyo ever posed for, here he's seen with Souvik aka Badsha, one of the most popular guys from our batch. This is right after the campus interview of one of the Pharma Cos. which came over at GCTS and left us with not-so-good memories.

The smiles are what I remember and miss the most though...

Hoping to see you all soon again with the same warm smiles!!!

NOTE: anyone wishing to add on to this post should do so ASAP!


Tuesday, July 14, 2009

A stolen hour .... the Symbi story so far ..

Classes are over for today … this, is the one hour , in-between the drowsy last few minutes of the Sales & Distribution lecture and the Circus to follow , where the future managers will sit over a presentation due tomorrow….. The cafeteria will soon be filled up with bright sparks gelling and bouncing off each other in about as much time it takes the elevator to descend the 6 floors….The library comes before anything else but the coffee gets my preference… the Wi-Fi is amazing … but anyways the rubbish I’ve keep downloading these days , are rarely worth a second double-click…. Even as I miss my sweet-corn with hot coffee I can feel my grey cells readjusting to the AMR assignment modifications suggested last Wednesday…. and something keeps me from thinking - MJ’s demise was premature…. I am afraid that I’ve started noticing changes in just about everything that I would have called “Normal” even a month ago … even the figures that used to hover around inside my tiny head have grown into the numeric sort… I must have Hi-Five’ed and Hello’ed 30 guys since morning without even remembering their names … it rained today but there was no sign of the beautiful “Dhurba” … Kolkata is on the other side of the map …..
Wait!! There’s more to this day …. It’s finally been a month since our orientation programme, which formally inducted us into the Symbi family, ended in applause…. Every morning I manage to wake up, somehow … the bleary eyes remind me “oye!!! Life has never been so alive…..” ….. Break-fasts skipped and classes missed are a different story that I’ll tell you the day when I explain why “Symbi Rocks!!!


Ayan