Hair cut finally.....So after a long time and endless people reminding me endlessly finally got a hair cut.

My first trip to Kerala....and what a place!! That state is actually God's own country. The trip was full of anticipations, a lot of firsts...first public talk after MBA, first trip to Kerala...so after leaving reaching home at some 1130 in the night from work I prepared myself for the day ahead. The alarm was set at 0530 to help me catch the 0715 flight. As usual dad anticipated I would miss hearing the alarm and came and woke me up at 0515! So neways got up and got ready in time to reach the airport 20 mins before departure! Was a comfortable one...the view from the top was awsome during our descent. What looked like shrubs from way above actually manifested as a bed of coconut trees...and I knew I had arrived in Kerala!

My mallu and non mallu friends all had ranted unlimitedly about the food, so was really looking forward to that. There was a junior from the Admissions Team there to receive me. So she got bombarded with an early quota of Gyaan as the hotel was an hours drive from the airport. The drive was a pleasant one. The event was to start at 3 so had ample time to catch hold of the juniors one by one and give more gyaan (thats exactly they had got me there!). The event had an excellent turnout, some 170 odd turned up despite heavy rains in the city. Went of well, there was clear connect I could establish with the audience as some four years I was having exactly the same thing in the eyes about doing an MBA from a good college. Actually was amazed I could gon one for nearly half hour and then do a Q & A as well! Post that we rushed to the airport as dinner was to be taken. But alas, despite paying 400 per head all we managed was a sandwich and a couple of spoons of pasta. Two pax got complimentary thanks to fellow speaker Pradeep who happened to be a Kingfisher class member.
Once back in Mumbai at 1200, the junior girls suddenly wanted to eat Butter Chicken (despite me repeatedly pushing Mc Donalds at them )..so we began our search and after half hour of driving came across Crepe Station - a place I would definitely recomend for good grup and was amazed by the amount of nutelly Snehal and Revathi can gobble!!!!
The trip also touched another soft corner as that was conducted by the Admissions Team....ASR/Admisions Team and eveyone who is/was a part of it......we rock!!!

Back from the best tour ever in my life....feels good to see efforts get to a good start....RLH is on and here to stay....days were full of work, fun, food, booze and masala doodh....movies came and went..saw two amazing movies Chamku and Phoonk....saw an amazing movie twice...Rock on....had written an amazing review for Phoonk...bit late to post but here goes....

The crow, the toys, the animals and the spiderman....Phoonkh a review

Finally the moment of reckoning came and I had the honor of watching an amazing work of fiction called Phoonkh. So the movie starts and you are supposed to get scared. Whereever the camera goes, you are supposed to get scared. If it focusses on a painting, its supposed to scare you, if it focusses on a stuffed toy... its supposed to scare you, if it focusses on a giraffe model...its supposed to scare you, if it focusses on a smiley pressure ball..pls be scared, if it focusses on spiderman...you better be scared, if it focusses on the "Hero's" reflection in the mirror, the directors begging you to be scared!!!!!!!
So cut across to the "Hero's" home....straight out of discovery channel complete with a giraffe, monkey, paintings, artifacts, pressure ball, teddy bears and what not. Oh did I forget...the real "Hero" is the crow.....it doesnt move, it doesnt fly, it doesnt croak, doesnt even blink an eyelid...but you're suppposed to be scared if it!!! The hot bai and a tharki driver...the movie is just so perfect!!!The evil dayan....laughter reminding you of the lijjat papad bunny....Phoonk can definitely be voted as one of the worst comedies of 2008. So the black magic takes over our cute girl and the usual science vs supernatural follows...solution....Enter the Manja!! The Sultan of Contract deliveres yet another rocking performance...supposed to be the good spirit guy...looks scarier than the black magic evil forces!!
Ram Gopal Verma was wrong in declaring 5 Lakhs as the prize, either it should have been 50 lakhs or we should contribute Rs 5 per ticket to "RGV Pension fund" wishing him a happy retirement.......

The disappointment of Phoonk was more or less topped up by Chamku...a work of Fart.....but then came Rock on.......man just wish Farhan Akhtar makes or acts in more movies....an amazing movie..saw it twice..listed to its songs non stop ever since.....rock on guys..me will be back!