A Rendezvous with business world!

Two long days… Hmm actually 1.25 looong days of B-plan presentation and I feel I’m already a graduate of business administration!! :D Elaborating on that, we were asked hmm actually ordered to go and attend the Business plan presentation session, it didn’t matter if we didn’t listen but we were the official bell girls, who at the end of 12 and 15 minutes had to ring the bell. And yes let me give a slight insight into the people who were giving the presentations, women of all ages, from girls who have just graduated to women with over 20-30 years experience in a particular field. Here we could see ladies from all walks of field, there were these young pretty gals who had just graduated and had already started and are extremely enthusiastic about their project, there were IIT, NIT, and all US college graduates, housewives who just realized their potential and found this to be an excellent medium to tap it too, there were even various crooked minds who have come with glamorous B-plans to swindle cash out of unsuspecting tourists and foreigners. ;) Oh come on! After all why does someone start a business, to gain profit! And after all this there were even people who came up with absolutely philanthropic ideas too, there was lady who came to present about a garbage disposal system, and when questioned she was like I’ve just come to educate more people and not for any swanky B-plan submission, and their ideas are so altruistic with almost nil gain for themselves, while on the other hand there were ladies with plans helping them earn in millions!
Initially we were just awe-struck with the confidence shown by the women and their ambitious plans and there were even spread sheets with their whole finances chalked out! Man for a common man err woman to do this requires total commitment and dedication. They had great plans for future; it seriously looked as if the future will be definitely dominated by women entrepreneurs. Go girl!! But after sometime as the sessions were divided theme based listening to similar ideas over and over again kind of got boring. But then there was a point when about 3-5 people had like almost the same business plan in the session but the way these girls planned to execute them! Whoa! They were totally different, still we after waking up early to turn up for this were pretty sleepy ringing the bell here and there: D sshh secret ;) :D
And yes our duty as a lady called us the “bell-gals”, we were living an almost non-existent existence there, our bells were completely ignored. And as its said only when you make a mistake the world notices you, there were times when our dear bell just rang off or the times when the fascination of the working mechanism got over us and we had to ring it too see whether our theory held good!! :D
But then after listening to all of them speak it was like we knew so much, actually we just picked up some hi-fi sounding words and kept using it around to give the know-it-all air :D Great fun it was but did make us realize one thing every business however miniscule it maybe the work involved is seriously mammoth!

The journey!! :)

Bangalooru or the anglicized version Bangalore was where we were headed just as our exams ended. But the excitement knew no bounds and started man way before! Since we realized we were going to do a project in IIM B our day-dreaming sessions were never-ending. We even went to the end of googling up Bangalore whenever possible to see what all we could do. Bangalore is a great place whose history runs for more than 1000 years back! This place has received it name from its ancient name Bengaval-uru or the City of guards. Even now this place acts as the guard of the unlimited dreams of many! ;)
Back to our trip, which I would was one of the most memorable ones I have had. Maybe because I haven’t been travelling much lately either. As the last exam ended, actually left way before it ended, just couldn’t write any more stories ;), I rushed out as I had chalked out my plans for the whole afternoon. We had to evacuate our rooms, which was the top on my list. For the endless amount of stuff I owned and the nostalgia attached that I couldn’t ditch any either. After 4 to 5 hours of intense packing, running around for packing tape, packing for Bangalore and interspersed moments of interesting gossiping session (come on we wouldn’t be able to do this face to face chat for the next 2.5 months!!), I was literally drenched in sweat. And then I started numbering my cartons which I believe ended with 8! The worst task was coaxing my roommate to help me transport these 8 cartons, 4 suitcases and other minor stuff to the dump room some 10-12 rooms apart! But the senti worked and thanks to her I got a decent corner in the room to stuff my goods!!
And now for the journey.. Train was around 8.somethin, train that night but none of us knew the timings: D Decided to leave at around 6.30 but as such packing, bidding farewell to the seniors jus went longer than expected and we at last managed to leave ravenous around 7. Once in the cab, well seated all of us were busy keying our text adieus to our friends. Managed to make it to sangeeta’s our regular food destination while travelling home, but there the cab driver refused to wait till we finished hogging! As I don’t know how it happened but I was the only Tamil speaking person in the whole group and had to do all the haggling: D maybe because my bargaining skills are exceptional B) or they couldn’t bear my Tamil , anyway we immediately got what we asked for :D Had to rush through dinner but no we were slowly eating enjoying savoring the taste and by the time realization struck we just had to rush to the street with our million bags and start hailing a auto. I don’t know how but some 10-15 pieces of baggage easily fit into an auto!! Hail autos! But their pricing, leaving me alone again to fight with him and next with the porter! It was a great time we had with the porter as all this luggage had to be moved till platform no: 2 on a single big trolley with bags falling down at every other moment, and when we had to go down a slope and pull it up the other man, serious work there! And whenever any train wailed we were like, gone is our train! We like walked till the end of platform no: 1 and reached platform no: 2 from there dropping everyone at their respective compartments, and lo! Ours was s11 the last compartment, we broke into a run at last. Hurriedly threw all pieces of luggage inside just to realize we had one of our friends ticket, and she was happily just searching her name on the list, ran back again and as we got jus settled in the train, there came heavy rains! Whoa just saved and there at last our train wailed and off were we! :)